The Tornados - Telstar

[@TolworthFencing]

I’m going on to 75 years old ,these were the best days of my life great music great people, miss it all.😢

[@drevakelemen52n92]

I ALREADY LOVE YOU ❣️❣️❣️. Dr EVA FROM AUSTRALIA 🦘🦘🦘

[@brennenlancashire2465]

Well I’m 73yrs old and remember listening to this record, as you say it’s a record of its time, and you’re right we were privileged to have grown up in the best music era 🎵 music as always been a massive part of my life, every record brings back memories of people and places, I had a terrible childhood 😢 so music was my escape. And thanks to KZbin we can connect to others of our generation all over the world and watch videos and listen to the best music of all time 🤘🏼🎵💕

[@garyfrancis6193]

Me 2

[@fionadavies1105]

I'm 73 too....and they certainly don't make tunes or songs like they used to.

[@robertb7918]

This piece of music encapsulated the feeling of optimism and excitement about the future. It has all gone so wrong...

[@timthetoolman5522]

Every generation says that about those that follow. Wild changes are coming, and hopefully for the better.

[@VonRyansExpress-v3r]

Yes - I was there so can agree with your memory of the era and its optimism - its not right to dismiss those feelings as simply a generational cycle . . . .

[@arthurmee]

@@VonRyansExpress-v3r I think this generation, and I count myself as a member of it were blessed with a special sense of optimism given to us by a the generation before who had lived through a dark period of war and a bankrupt Great Britain as a result. Money was tight for many, bombed cities, and a need a need to rebuild. The new generation though, was given the message that our furtures would be bright, with new technology, the Space Age and so on, not to mention the swinging cities, . . . .

[@VonRyansExpress-v3r]

@@arthurmee I think that is spot on . . . Plenty of jobs, rising wages, the beggining of the exciting consumer society, television, mobility through car availability, a flourishing of the arts, scientific breakthroughs and progress, better health care, a falling crime rate, social and cultural cohesion at a peak. . . We'd never had it so good . .

[@kittybeck151]

It pulls at your heart strings, God and our true home, Heaven, no matter how disappointing here.

[@lintym]

I'm 80 years old, I heard this in my youth!!!!

[@drevakelemen52n92]

THANK YOU 😢😢😢... love 😘 DrEva from AUSTRALIA

[@manchild3479]

My dear sir i am 74,and still remeber this .........................

[@MxWolvie]

I just learned about this song today!

[@SamsonDalila]

1963

[@TimothyWiley-r2b]

Great song, it makes you want to listen, I'm going on 70 , geeze it is 60 years....

[@spotsdetrainsidf1270]

Ça fait Mal 😵 Une super époque, notre adolescence 👍🤗

[@stephenAl143]

I remember that song when I was in elementary school in the .60s. I'M just like Tim,, going on to my 70s

[@mabeldurocher2258]

When I was 15 years old this was a very popular tune .. especially at thr roller skating rink .. Friday was very special to me …almost 60 years ago !! And this is still a great tune !!!

[@mstonebr54]

Where has the time gone?

[@benswithen236]

It seems like it'd be great to skate to.

[@SteveMeiers]

This was played at every roller rink I ever visited, too. Obligatory! We were roller-akating into orbit. It WAS the dawn of the space age. Humans were taking their first rocket rides into the cosmos. That feeling is long gone. The Kennedy years, going to the moon. Surfing. Surf guitar. Hell, even country music wanted into the moxy and adopted it, too. From Bonanza to 007, everybody gone space surfing! Never again, sadly. There are no world class leaders any more. It was the Kennedy moxy that had us all going. It was a happy place, a better world coming.

[@jaimehudson7623]

Yes, it was played at the roller-rink I went to during high school in So. Cal.

[@chriskinkead9045]

Still enjoying this wonderful music. Am near my 80s. .never tire of our beautiful music from younger years. Its. Oct. 24. So grateful to them.

[@nezblanc]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@RichardLopez-fr7xh]

Bring back precious memories for me when I was a teenager 1963😢

[@paullittle5200]

They would always play this at the local football stadium with my two uncles.....memorable 😊

[@ratmonger305]

The Space Age! All things were going to be possible! Fabulous song!

[@stevielease7952]

Countdown. 4, 3, 2, 1. Blastoff!!! Awesome on steroids!!

[@GeorgiaPeach-b9o]

I WAS 10YRS.OLD WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS SONG , I IMMEDIATELY LOOKED TO THE NIGHT SKY. IT WAS THEN I BECAME FASCINATED WITH ASTRONOMY . GREAT MOTIVATION . ALWAYS LOOK UP. IT'S FREE AND AWESOME.

[@jeffreyfitzgerald1779]

I can still see the front of the house I grew up in as if I was there now. The astronauts had just entered the orbit of the moon. It wasn't dark yet, but the moon was out. They said you wouldn't be able to see them, but I could. Anything was possible then. Music like this was the anthem of a time of hopefulness that had not been seen in the 20th century and hasn't since. I wish I could communicate to younger people how it felt. It might take some of the cruelty of these times away. RIP Joe Meek, you suffered a lot to bring us this and died without knowing it would touch someone in 2025.

[@GeorgiaPeach-b9o]

@jeffreyfitzgerald177 🌌🌌🪐🪐❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Thomas828]

It all looked and sounded so futuristic at the time, and it still does!

[@deanmontreuil1988]

Anyone who grew up at this time knows real music this is fantastic

[@manchild3479]

you do not have ANYTHINGHT that is as good today....

[@SuperDino2222]

I passionately love this piece, after all these years it’s still a futuristic sound, how I miss those days

[@jglee6721]

Maybe it's the sound of Clavioline.

[@manchild3479]

cannot get better...............

[@sandmboy1]

Today, when its possible to send a message from London to Sydney in a second, its difficult to imagine what a pioneer the Telstar satellite was. But its great that it got this magnificent tune to memorialise it. a happy, upbeat and technological tune. It was the first song by a British group to reach number 1 in the US. AND WAS NUMBER 1 IN BRITAIN FOR AMONTH AND SOLD 5 MILLION COPIES. Telstar the satellite, enabled the first transatlantic showing of TV pictures and transatlantic telephone calls. Telstar still orbits the Earth although its long been disused

[@darxcyber]

This was my nans favourite song. She recently passed away and we played this at her funeral. Growing up she would play this on her stereo and tell us about her younger days and how she loved to dance. RIP Nan, I’ll keep playing this in your memory

[@jaimehudson7623]

She's dancing up in Heaven to this song.

[@khaosmilenko]

This was my grandads favourite, and it also played at his funeral. I’m sure he and your nan are listening to this together now

[@picachu4386]

It's my go to song 🎵 when I am down and it's uplifting

[@tunetownmusic-l2f]

Bullsh*t 😂

[@rowley1950]

Joe Meek was a musical genius! Tragic life ending though, but thanks for all the brilliant music you left us with Joe. R.I.P God Bless

[@TuvRaz]

agreed

[@redmgbgt1]

When my parents immigrated to New Zealand in 1964 my younger brother had this on a 45. My parents were invited to a party next door with mainly NZ Broadcasting people, someone wanted to buy the record, but we declined. Subsequently someone stole it at the party!

[@ArminsLichtblicke]

I was born in these day. This is a timeless tune ❤

[@fordsrestorations970]

A STRAIGHT MASTERPEICE , people do you understand what you're watching in that video ? This song and about 3 others was the initial infancy the early Atomic modernism movement of Design Technology Aerospace and music Industrial arts !!! Look at all the bands that came from this one song ☝

[@SasankaChandra]

Get a grip

[@SasankaChandra]

Get a grip

[@stephenfernald2490]

Agreed. Would love a recommendation for some books on this topic

[@RobertWilliams-kw5dl]

Probably inspired me to become a rocket scientist

[@fordsrestorations970]

I think there's probably maybe a thousand books on this topic. You can start with art deco, modern Deco,and industrial art deco , Atomic art deco, 50s and 60s design also the X-15 and don't forget all the legendary famous Dragster racers. Telstar was the beginning of innovation and Communications around the world and the possible Communications with other planets

[@Geordievinylrecords]

Never ages, ans somewhat sad about how life is now compared to those simpler happier times.

[@gkmmlc]

School skiing holiday in Zell am Zee, Austria in 1971. This was the only recognisable piece of music on the hotel juke box. Played it to death. Great memories.

[@jmsmaxwell]

As 83 approaches fast I am glad to have heard some of the great3st music of the ages. BRINGS BACK MANY MEMORI9ES

[@itz_mxxri]

In 1962 the Bell System launched Telstar, the first telecommunications satalite (with a built-in TWT amplifier). This instrumental was the number one hit in late December, 1962 - when I was born! Ironically, in early '63 my dad went to work for the Bell System!

[@ianhibbert2881]

Great production from Joe Meek, absolute genius.

[@EJP286CRSKW]

Great melody too. Don’t forget the actual music.

[@EdBenji]

This never gets old!

[@Isochest]

It never does.

[@glennhand4053]

My dad remembers hearing me singing this tune while I was sitting on the toilet. I was about 4-5 yrs old.

[@dorisehmel722]

Fantastisch gespielt bin beeindruckt... Wünsche euch ein frohes, gesundes Neues Jahr 2025 bleibt alle gesund LG von Doris 🥰 😘 💋 💖 💟 🤗🙋🏼‍♀️🫂🎊🎈🎉🎈✨🧨🎇🎈🎇🎶🎤🎼💯👍

[@silkEluv]

When this song came out, I think I was about five or six years old the first time I heard it. I remember hearing it at the National City Swap Meet my mom took us to near San Diego. It was blaring over the loudspeakers. It is etched in my brain and I'll never forget it. Brings back fond memories and makes me a bit teary-eyed to think of how simple life was back then :(

[@dagnabbit6187]

Sounded futuristic back then and it still does !

[@frankblues9214]

thats cause our future is fu*t

[@stevielease7952]

The song is too short. I wish it was longer. Add a couple more verses.

[@manchild3479]

@@stevielease7952 not sure on that.

[@fitness338]

My Dad grew up in the '50s. Introduced this to me as a kid in the '70s.

[@MegaOccasions]

i can listen to this tune endlessly brings back so many memories of my childhood. thankyou

[@TIME42]

I'm 69 years old and I always listen to this song on KZbin. It makes me think of the dreams of space in the 60's, but now it makes me feel a little melancholic.

[@stuart2010ification]

1956 you born , me born 1955 - makes me sad too.

[@Ruczewski]

This sound gave way to what became electronic music in the 90s.This band were the pioneers of future music.

[@markbeames7852]

yeah, no electronic music in the 70's. Like Tangerine Dream, or Kraftwerk....gtfo

[@thomashernandez8700]

I Feel Love by Donna Summer in 1977. Most pop music of the 80s had synths.

[@tonystephen6312]

This song sounds like Bolero rhythm. Early dance.

[@naradaian]

Its really the producer who was responsible - Joe Meek - a sadly troubled guy who died in a gruesome scenario that probably wouldnt have happened a decade later. He was under appreciated, gay and lonely and bust but a real talented sound electronic engineer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Meek

[@SteveMeiers]

No Telstar, no Daft Punk.

[@elizabethdavie7874]

Bought this on release in the UK. Still have the original 45, at 79, my favourite instrumental record of all.

[@manchild3479]

on decca.i was to young to buy it at the time.

[@danielorlando8172]

I dare ANY radio personality to play this in REAL TIME on the air, and describe the song before you hit the play button. Long shall he live Jerry Blavat who was a walking encyclopedia of American music. I am sure this track was at the top of his playlist

[@armchairguy1638]

British numb nuts!

[@70tezskin]

This is probably the Geatest Instrumental ever recorded in the History of music . Groundbreaking music from a bygone era.. Seems like yesterday. Truly .Incredible. Yesterday I was 16 . Today I am 70 ..

[@USCG.Brennan]

I bought this as a single back in the day and I still have it. Great old song!!

[@215Gallagher]

My first single, a present Christmas 1962 when I was three.

[@stoobydootoo4098]

That was a past Xmas!

[@PeterKelly-gg9mx]

Wasn't born in 63 when this was popular but what a tune liked it ever since

[@manchild3479]

dont worry.i was was born in 1950.....................setember.

[@axiomist4488]

Beautiful ! The bass is great.

[@elcerlyc]

So is the bass player , 👀

[@ArmyJames]

@@elcerlycI couldn’t tell if he was playing the bass, or having sex with it.

[@raymondziminski8568]

I WAS YOUNG THEN BUT I AM OLD NOW.

[@Barry65_UK]

Your not alone

[@adyg5402]

Yes, and we had the BEST music ever!

[@martinwyatt6390]

Raymond, dont talk rubbish ur still young and still with us

[@70tezskin]

Yesterday I was 16.. Today I am 70....

[@guyluck9253]

Me too 😂😂

[@neilmillward3980]

Doesn't remind me of anything except I remember this tune as a kid. I'm 66yo now, still fresh like I heard it yesterday

[@meropale]

Beautiful song. Very haunting.

[@KevinArmitage]

in the 60s we had the best music

[@EJP286CRSKW]

Every time I hear distorted guitar I think why are they still doing this 60 years on?

[@TonKonincks]

After all these years this recording is still magnificent, thank you

[@renateotto-ruf6444]

Dankeschön,ich könnte euch ständig hören meine lieben Tellstars❤😂🎉😊

[@stevedaszko1649]

Such a great tune, I never tire of hearing this.

[@terryodams2244]

I Remember when I was 16 in 1977 First time I heard this Classic.

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

Loved this l was about 4 memories of my beautiful dad

[@pamelliott9475]

Love this brings back some lovely memories

[@GeraldParchester]

This was the first organ I ever heard. At 7 years of age. An incredible sound. I now play on my own gear today...

[@philipdawson2637]

If my memory serves me correctly, this song was released in 1962

[@andrevandinther3981]

I used this tune in the time I played with FM radio casting (almost legal 😊) as a teenager together with a good friend and my brother I think in 1974. Nice memories!

[@juerv1]

Incredible space age masterpiece!

[@roberteckhardt6653]

There's something very emotional about this tune

[@ellysee-t1o]

Wow...loved this sound...when we all thought we had a future....UK riding high in everything...probably rose tinted glasses but there was hope in the air back then. How times have changed! Nice to see 'sting' at his first gig!!!😂😂😂

[@stoobydootoo4098]

The Police were after him at that time!

[@juanletona3546]

Vaya melodia Telstar una verdadera obra maestra de The Tornados, saludos desde la ciudad de México 🇲🇽👍

[@florencehodges-moore2909]

Saw them live when my dad run the club’s fantastic seams like yesterday ❤

[@paullacey3946]

I'm nearly 70 and this still gives me shivers. It's worth following the story of this single and also that of Joe Meek, producer of this record.

[@philatelian]

I don't mind the poor picture quality or sound quality at all. Thank you for uploading the atmosphere of the passionate performance back then!!

[@AndrewBooth-q8j]

This is my all time favourite instrumental. It says it all.

[@notaparkingwarden]

Still stands up as a fantastic piece of music.

[@Nupnonada]

They look like they’re all dressed for the office. How time has changed!!!

[@manchild3479]

better

[@manchild3479]

better than the scruffs we have today,at the so called music festival's

[@Nupnonada]

@@manchild3479 🙌

[@markbeames7852]

@@manchild3479 get over it Boomer

[@manchild3479]

@@markbeames7852 my dear friend.I never will.....

[@autowerkstatt1aautoservice471]

Ich hab das Lied im Bauch meiner Mutter gehört und habe bis heite Erinnerungen im Kopf.

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

The so called ''British Invasion'' really started in 1962 with ''Telstar'' and ''Stranger on the shore''

[@gabrielezambruno1049]

MERAVIGLIA!!! MI HA RIPORTATO INDIETRO DI SESSANT'ANNI!!! LA MIA GIOVENTÙ!!! GRAZIE!!!

[@patriciajones4732]

Saw Heinz Live At The Gaumont Doncaster, he came on in a red military jacket trimmed with gold, he is absolutely stunning, Fabulouse night, was my Daddy’s work’s party.💯😜😜😜❤️🐈‍⬛💪🏿🙏🙏🙏

[@Thunder_6278]

Came out the year I was born, such an optimistic song. The future was bright. What the hell happened.

[@saxman1969]

Communism wasn't stopped, and we got infiltrated just as JFK warned us about (oh yeah, and McCarthy too LOL)

[@Isochest]

Globalisation. Takeover by criminals rather than decent folk dedicated to enlightenment through science. Science was our hope then and will remain. The future can still be bright!

[@GT-fi4sk]

politicians

[@Isochest]

Despite Politicians we still look to the stars. I talk to my friends on Ham Radio and I use centimetric wavelengths. I chat a lot on 1.3 GHZ to my friends in Manchester and around

[@manchild3479]

Back then life was better.just has gone wrong.

[@cheongjames]

ONE OF THE BEST OF THE OLDIES GUITAR MUSIC OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS...NOT LESS THAN THE SHADOWS.....

[@sharonb8652]

Great memories of my Mom, she loved this song!

[@davidburtenshaw7251]

The greatest instrumental ever I play 2/3 times a week as a 76 years old music loving guy it has to be done

[@ShugenjaTV]

Telstar is the best football club in the world and this is their theme song. Every match it's being played in the stadium. So if you like this song you must come to see Telstar the Dutch football club! White lions forever forward lets goooooo!

[@QuiddDude]

My dream is to visit the Netherlands one day, I'll definitely go see them play since Telstar is one of my favorite songs of all time.

[@josefadario6593]

My childhood days in Angola ! 😢 ❤

[@elcerlyc]

My birth year .

[@kiloechocharlie1342]

Oh yeah, me too...pffft

[@MichaelKrahulec-f6o]

I love instrumentals like "Flight of the Valkyrie", "In the Mood", "Frankenstein" "Telstar", "American Patrol"....Well, you get the picture.

[@EJP286CRSKW]

_Ride_ of the Valkyrie

[@renateotto-ruf6444]

Phantastisch bin hin und weg❤❤❤❤😂🎉🎉🎉😊😊

[@КонстантинПопов-щ5н]

Очень приятно было видеть это супер просто прекрасно супер 🎉Константин

[@liamryan6546]

I was 4, telstar, fireball XL5, those were the days sigh.

[@hifiwizard]

When i was around 10 years old (around 1970, I had on old organ you'd pump with your feet. I'd sit in the hall, learning songs like this by ear. My family split up shortly afterwards, I don't remember what happened to that organ. Those were happy days, although they just seemed like average days at the time. I've had a lot of heartache since those days, so i miss them, & wish i could go back again!!

[@EJP286CRSKW]

Harmonium

[@Blahbevava]

Miss my WW2 generation... Grandparents...makes me cry

[@abuelita-lucy]

Gracias ayer pedi esta cancion pues a mis queridos nhermanos nos gustaba lindo recuerdo👍☺️💕

[@jeanbrown2351]

i am 72 and remember it well still love it just cant dance as much now

[@Daindrais]

This music always makes me feel like I'm eight years old again. It was written at the time of the first Telstar sateliite "launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed. Telstar 2 was launched May 7, 1963. Telstar 1 and 2-though no longer functional-still orbit the Earth." (source Wikipedia)

[@johnhanley5293]

1962 , I was 14 years old!!!!!!

[@carolynzaremba5469]

Same here.

[@manchild3479]

and iwas 11..................

[@barrymillward7443]

1962, i was 12, great song/ music/ tune, can listen to it over & over ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@heikoendter9099]

Absolut musikalisches Kunstwerk bzw Kulturgut der Instrumental Musik!!!👍👍👍

[@billhaleyrock2471]

Aber ganz sicher.

[@heikoendter9099]

@@billhaleyrock2471 👍🙋‍♂️

[@martinerlach5184]

Ja , Heiko - Sie ( Du ) hast vollkommen recht , und das absolut 👍 😂😅 ! Meine Güte , lange lange her - wie die Zeit vergeht - grausam ! LG Martin

[@timothyfalk5231]

If you were alive before the JFK murder, there was such a feeling of hope and optimism in America, and so much of it seemed to die when he died and when we were betrayed by our government in the war in Vietnam. This song reminds of that pre-war feeling of hope and optimism and sense of pride in America.

[@NicolasbassonThiart]

Wow absolute wow I heard this year's ago and that was called classic country It so beautifull thank you.

[@carolh8825]

Love this song! Thanks ⭐️ ❤

[@littlebritain64]

The countdown in the beginning of the song!

[@masahitotsuji1975]

今どきのワケわからない音楽よりこういう曲の方がストレスを感じずに聴けますね❤

[@patriciaschuster1371]

This is the first 45 record I ever bought. Still love it as much today as back then. How the space race influenced iur lives.

[@renateotto-ruf6444]

Dankeschön wie wundervoll ihr seit Spitze! 🎉🙏❤️✨️🎸🎸💋

[@MichaelKrahulec-f6o]

I was young then, not so young now but I'm still gonna sit back and E-N-J-O-Y💋

[@alanwilkinson9487]

Lovely album.. Got this when it first came out.. After that became a carpenter fan... Still am.... What memories..

[@Ray-t5l]

I had this 45. ❤️

[@michalsliwinski6627]

Nikt nie gra lepiej tego utworu .

[@TiborSzilagyi-e8f]

My brother died when this music was playing on the radio. October 15, 1984.16 .55,in heart attack.He was 19 year old.😢

[@EdgyShooter]

Bloody hell, I'm so sorry, but you keeping him in your memory all this time is what keeps someone truly around

[@jungletiger1900]

So sorry.

[@version736ha2]

Was he a fan of the record?

[@dawndawn6604]

😔

[@drevakelemen52n92]

I ALREADY LOVE YOU 😢😢😢... Love 😘 DrEva from AUSTRALIA

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

This song always makes me feel sad. Like an old Scandinavian folk song.

[@giselalulsdorf7860]

Eine schöne Erinnerung . ❤

[@thevelvetskyandstars]

George Bellamy the rhythm guitarist is the father of Matt Bellamy, Muse lead singer.

[@MrSirMang]

You can definitely tell how much this song influenced Matt on Knights of Cydonia.

[@billhaleyrock2471]

Das ist noch Musik.

[@glennhopkins2643]

It is the first British pop song to reach #1 in the USA.

[@lauren578]

Beautiful! Absolutely Beautiful ❤

[@katiedid1851]

@glen Good to know. This music makes me feel good. I love the smiles on the band-members faces.

[@EJP286CRSKW]

Fourth after Vera Lynn, Laurie London, and Acker Bilk.