Apollo 8 anniversary RFI: which astronaut brought along "Sleepwalk" on his spaceman Walkman?

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Because you can hear it on For All Mankind. May be a cover version with variant title "Sleepwalking." Probably wasn't Apollo 8 crew, but tonight is anniversary of first orbiting of the moon.

Rumba de Schmillsson (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link

*bump* for Genesis reading

Rastaquouere Vibration (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link

wtf, tried to google this and hit something called "7 For All Mankind Sleepwalk bootcut jeans"

Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 December 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link

four years pass...

I'm traveling over the next couple of weeks and ripped my copy of For All Mankind onto my laptop. Creatively stuck at the moment and plowing through mission transcripts will give me something to obsessively focus on without much in the balance. Or something.

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 09:04 (six years ago) link

for all mankind is so, so great

bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

I had this thread bookmarked for over a year, until I finally decided to get to the bottom of this. The version of "Sleepwalk" that you hear in For All Mankind doesn't come from Apollo audio - it's one of the few non-Eno tracks in the movie. However, one question that I did have was this: who was the first astronaut to make a road trip mix tape for space. I started digging and the research just got better and more interesting. Reporting back soon...

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 30 August 2018 04:17 (five years ago) link

eight months pass...

*bump* for update

Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link

Here is the imdb credit about the song in question:

Sleepwalking
Performed by Lee DeCarlo and Peter Manning Robinson
Written by Santo Farina (as Farina), Johnny Farina (as Farina), Ann Farina (uncredited)
Licensed by Trinity-Clima Music (BMI)

Here is a link in which it seems to be tangentially mentioned:
https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1997-09-26/518466/

Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link

As the latter link indicates, one of the artists was a recording engineer who worked with John Lennon
https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/lennons-last-session-the-making-of-double-fantasy-440

Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link

two months pass...

*bump* for update

I emailed Rusty Schweickart about a month ago. I haven't heard back - probably too much 50th anniversary stuff going on right now. I wanted to go to the Apollo 9 50th reunion/celebration at the San Diego Aerospace Museum but it was priced way out of my league.

Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 July 2019 03:41 (four years ago) link


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