Comments on: THE STARGAZERS - “I See The Moon”

By: Jeff M

Jeff M — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:04:27 +0000

When this record was released I was just an infant. I remember my old man playing it a lot. My dad was a de-mobbed sailor that escaped WW2 with enough skill to become a pretty capable electronics repair man in civvy street.
This stuff pre-dates all of the material we fondly remember as ‘anarchic’ comedy, like Goons and Python.
I consider myself very lucky to be able to still listen to it. It’s timeless and priceless.
Jeff

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:43:56 +0000

Knowing the title from Guinness I’d stoopidly always had this filed away as How High The Moon. If only the charts had started in ‘51 - coulda been the first 10!

Quite possibly I’m the only person who’d even think of looking this stuff up, but a copy went on ebay in 2006 for a surprising amount…

http://popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=190031242680

Records from this era on 45 are very hard to find (Broken Wings was only on 78). And I’m guessing anyone with a 78 of I See The Moon would, after two or three listens, have broken it over their own head while singing the raspberry solo from the Ying Tong Song.

By: intothefireuk

intothefireuk — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:38:46 +0000

If you let the singles chart be your guide then the early 50s seemed a desperate time to be around. Rationing still in force and truly hideous records like this around (another reason to never let the Stargazers cross my path again).

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:08:57 +0000

Spike Jones, Stan Freberg and Goons to thread (though I note that the Stargazers were kicked off the Goon Show in 1954!).

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:02:59 +0000

just think how i fell 150 years later!

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:23:15 +0000

the sort of comedy committed to record dates really fast. someone reviewing the record 4 or 5 years later may well have felt just as appalled as Tom does 50 years later

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:39:27 +0000

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/02/connie-francis-carolina-moonstupid-cupid/

I liked Connie Francis lots!

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:22:20 +0000

The point of LOYC of course being that we’re not.

In 2007 I find it quite endearing.

By: Mick Norman

Mick Norman — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:01:56 +0000

Tom: you may find this ‘irritating and embarrassing’ in 2003 but something must have attracted (say) 250,000 people to shell out their hard-earned back in the winter of 1954. For me it is the product of a gentler, more innocent age and I actually find it quite charming. The production’s not bad either.

Much more significantly, the great Dennis Potter saw fit to choreograph this as a backdrop to Colonel Bernwood’s struggle with dementia in ‘Lipstick on your Collar’. But I don’t suppose you’ve much time for Connie Francis either?

Still, we’re all a lot wiser and more sophisticated now, aren’t we?…