The first ever vinyl reissue of an extraordinarily-unique space-age educational LP. Includes the oft-covered “A Shooting Star Is Not A Star” and “Why Does The Sun Shine?” Featuring Leo Leonni cover art and taken from the original atomic-era 1959 master tapes. Written by Hy Zaret and sung by Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans. Zaret (co-author of “Unchained Melody”) turned his attention to educational children’s music in the late 1950s, collaborating with Lou Singer on a six-album series called “Ballads for the Age of Science.” Space Songs stands alone as the most essential volume in a series that also featured songs about energy and motion, experiments, weather, and nature. Space Songs contains “Why Does the Sun Shine" (aka “The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas”) and “A Shooting Star Is Not a Star” which were more recently popularized by They Might Be Giants.
"… delightful and instructive. As a science teacher, I see in these records a most potent force for improving the science literacy of our nation.”
--DR. MORRIS MEISTER, President, Bronx Community College
on red vinyl.
| A1 | Zoom A Little Zoom (Rocket Ship) | ||
| A2 | What Is The Milky Way | ||
| A3 | Constellation Jig | ||
| A4 | Beep, Beep (here comes the Satellite) | ||
| A5 | Why Does The Sun Shine | ||
| A6 | What Is A Shooting Star | ||
| A7 | Longitude and Latitude | ||
| A8 | It's A Scientific Fact | ||
| B1 | Ballad Of Sir Isaac Newton | ||
| B2 | Friction | ||
| B3 | Why Are Stars Of Different Colors | ||
| B4 | Why Do Stars Twinkle | ||
| B5 | What Is Gravity | ||
| B6 | Planet Minuet | ||
| B7 | Why Go Up There |
