OT: Re: Wonderwall music (Monkees v/s The Doors v/s Perry and Kingsley)

[Rev Fever <revfever@ubergadget.com>]

On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Bill Fox wrote:

samba - wrote:

Yes I got it when it came out,great stuff.Some of the earliest use of a Moog in pop music. Bernie Krause claims George ripped him off though.

The FIRST use of a Moog in pop music was by the Monkees in 1967 on two songs on the Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones, Ltd. album.  This was before the Moog's (arguably) most famous use in 1968 by then Walter now Wendy Carlos on Switched On Bach.

Cheers,

Bill

Actually, The Doors were the first pop (or pop-rock) group to use the Moog synthesizer on their album 'Strange Days' which was released in September 1967.

That album by The Monkees came right afterwards in November, along with Mort Garson's 'Cosmic Sounds by The Zodiac' also released in that same month.

It could also be debatable if it was Jacques Perrey & Gershon Kingsley as to who were first to use the Moog on a pop record, with the 1967 release 

of their 'Spotlight On The Moog' (Kaleidoscopic Vibrations), and P&K were certainly a recognized "pop" group by 1967 (and previously) and played on AM radio,

even if they were of a "pop" genre that was really all their own. However, I do not know the exact month in 1967 that they did this?

All the best

Rev Fever

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