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- From: niall@verdi.as.utexas.edu (Niall Gaffney)
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- Subject: Re: The Android Sisters
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 21:53:10 GMT
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- Originator: niall@verdi.as.utexas.edu
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- In article <hal.66.725554429@radio.wkar.msu.edu> hal@radio.wkar.msu.edu (Hal Prentice) writes:
- }OK, MSTies, did you catch the reference to "The Android Sisters" in "The
- }Human Duplicators?" If they meant what I think they meant, they were
- }talking about a public radio production from 1984. Actually, it was an
- }album of songs with a futuristic bend produced by a radio commune in
- }upstate New York called ZBS. The album (which was for public radio play
- }only though it supposedly made it into the real world on LP) was called
- }"Songs of Electronic Despair."
- }
- }The Android Sisters were a pair of women ('droids?) who sang (or spoke) very
- }odd, heavily synthesized songs such as "S-s-s-s X-1" (Who's got the time for
- }relationships. This is the future. Who need's an old fashioned analog
- }lover when you can have digital s-s-s X-1), "Down on the Electronic Farm", "
- }Invasion" (o-o-o helicopters! o-o-o air strikes! It's good! It's so good), "
- }Boogie, Woogie Bugle Droid from Planet B", "Livin' in the 50's" (Look! Space
- }stations with Buick portholes, MX missiles with fishtail fins and chrome
- }nosecones!), "Robots are Coming" (Give me your job), "Macho Robot" (...most
- }of all, I love when he pounds his big metal chest), "Radio" (once I turned
- }you on and you on all day and most of the night but no more.)
- }
- }Anyway, it is a terrific album but very rare. Check it out if you dare.
- }
- }Cheers.
- }
- }
- }----------------------------------------------------------------------
- }Hal Prentice, FM Program Manager Michigan State University
- }WKAR-FM, 283 Communication Arts Bldg East Lansing, MI 48824-1212 USA
- }Internet: hal@radio.wkar.msu.edu Bitnet: hal@radio.wkar.bitnet
- }----------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Actually, the Android sisters also appeared in a radio serial program
- ZBS produced for NPR called the Adventures of Ruby. I have a copy of
- the whole thing on tape somewhere, along with the address for ZBS to
- order the second serial, but probably the best way to try to get any
- recordings which may still exist is to get in touch with the folks at
- Minnesota Public Radio (who put out the Wireless catalogue for NPR)
- which is where I originally got the tapes.
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