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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
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Subject: Re: Science Fiction References in Music
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 17:47:14 EDT
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> There's the song "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" from a few
> years back... anyone remember the artist?  (It wasn't popular for very
> long.)

That was Klaatu, a group of Canadian studio hacks who did a mediocre ripoff
of middle-period Beatles and convinced a sizable number of gullible and/or
desperate fans that they were indeed the Fab Four, reunited under an alias.

This song was covered by (of all people) the Carpenters!  The way I heard it,
the late Karen C. believed she had had an encounter with extraterrestrial
beings and recorded the song as a result.

>How about the song with the refrain
>	
>	...A lesson to be learned
>	Traveling twice the speed of sound
>	It's easy to get burned.
>
>Or has this already been mentioned?  (I'm not sure that I would recognize
>the title.)

That's Crosby, Stills, and Nash; the title is "Just A Song Before I Go".  It's
a Graham Nash song from "CSN".

AWR