TL; DR: Jag kan tänka på två tidiga Science Fiction-låtar - en gjorde Hot 100-diagrammen; den andra ligger i Hot 100-diagrammen, men spelades in av en av de mest framgångsrika musikerna i början av 1900-talet. Purple People Eater av Sheb Wooley och Två små män i en flygande fat av Ella Fitzgerald.
Den här uppfyller definitivt alla dina kriterier.
No. 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14, and reached no. 12 overall.
Du kommer inte hitta en tidigare sci-fi-sång som gjorde Billboard Hot 100-diagrammen, eftersom den här låten släpptes samma år som Billboard Hot 100-diagrammen började . 1
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Well I saw the thing comin' out of the sky
It had the one long horn, one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said "ooh-eee"
It looks like a purple eater to me
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
(One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)
A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (One eye?)
Well he came down to earth and he lit in a tree
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
"I wouldn't eat you cuz you're so tough"
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (One horn?)
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line
He said "It's eatin' purple people and it sure is fine
But that's not the reason that I came to land
I wanna get a job in a rock and roll band"
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater
(We wear short shorts)
Flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me
And then he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground
He started to rock, really rockin' around
It was a crazy ditty with a swingin' tune
Sing "a boop boop aboopa lopa lum bam boom"
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater
(I like short shorts)
Flyin' little people eater
Sure looks strange to me (Purple People?)
And then he went on his way, and then what do ya know
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was blowing it out, a'really knockin' em dead
Playin' rock and roll music through the horn in his head
TvåsmåmänienflygandefatavEllaFitzgerald
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Låtenärungefärtvåutomjordingarsombesökerjorden,bestämmerattmänniskorärpsykotiskamoronerochlämnarsigsnabbt.
Two little men in a flying saucer
flew down to Earth one day
Looked to left and right of it,
couldn’t stand the sight of it
and said let’s fly away
They took a look at a Western movie,
somebody heard them say
If a horse can be a star,
think how dumb the people are
We’d better fly away
Then they shook their little green antennas,
scratched their purple hair
Said this planet is an awful menace,
let’s go back to where
we came from
Two little men in a flying saucer
just didn’t care to stay
Said it’s too peculiar here,
headed for the stratosphere
and quickly flew away
Now they took a left in Ebbet's Field in Brooklyn
when the Dodgers played a baseball game
Heard all the screaming,
said we must be dreaming
‘cause this planet is insane
During intermission,
heard a politician
making speeches as they traveled by
But they departed
faster than they started
‘cause the holler blew them sky high
Two little men in a flying saucer
flew down to Earth one day
Listened to a radio,
saw a television show
and said let’s fly away
They got their fill of commercial jingles
and they were heard to say
All the people seem to be living in a nursery
we’d better fly away
Traveled all around and once they’d seen us
said let’s head for space
We were better off on Mars and Venus,
goodness what a place to live in
Two little men in a flying saucer
just didn’t care to stay
Crossed a crowded thoroughfare,
saw the hats the women wear
and quickly flew away
And quickly flew away
Äradeanmärkning:
Tretton kvinnor (och bara en man i stan) , Bill Haley och hans kometer - 1952/1955 2
Herr. Spaceman , Byrds - 1966
I år 2525 , Zager och Evans - 1969
En rymdodighet , David Bowie - 1969
Stigningen och fallet av Ziggy Stardust och Spindlarna från Mars (album ), David Bowie - 1972
Det kom ut ur himlen , Creedence Clearwater Revival - 1969
2000 ljusår från hemmet , de rullande stenarna - 1967
Stor gul taxi , Joni Mitchell - 1970
En hård regn kommer att falla , Bob Dylan - 1963
1 Före 1958 hade Billboard sjökort av populära låtar (från 1941), men de var begränsade till den mest sålda låten i varje vecka. eftersom låtar tenderade att vara bästsäljare i många veckor, kan diagrammen för ett år innehålla så få som 3 låtar .
Jag tittade igenom bästsäljare listor från 1941 till 1957, och det finns inga låtar som tydligt passar sci-fi-kriterierna. De som kommer närmast är följande:
The Gypsy , The Ink Spots - 1946
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: En Cowboy Legend , Vaughn Monroe och hans Orkester - 1949
Swinging on a Star , Perry Como - 1944
Herr. Sandman , The Chordettes - 1954
Rudolph Red-Nosed Reindeer , Gene Autry - 1950
2 B-sidan till träffen Vagga runt klockan; kredit till användare14111 för förslaget. Singeln Rock Around the Clock / Thirteen Women släpptes 1952 med det senare spåret som A-Side; det gjorde inte så bra. När låten Rock runt klockan användes i 1955-filmen Blackboard Jungle , släpptes singeln med Thirteen Women som B- Sidan och toppade diagrammen.