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Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen is an American country rock band founded in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Core members included founder George Frayne, John Tichy, Billy C. Farlow, Bill Kirchen, Andy Stein, Paul "Buffalo" Bruce Barlow, Lance Dickerson, and Bobby Black. The band’s style mixed country music, rockabilly, and blues, on a foundation of boogie-woogie piano. It was among the first country-rock bands to take its cues less from folk-rock and bluegrass and more from barroom barrelhouse style boogie.
The band’s name was inspired by 1950s film serials featuring the character Commando Cody and from a feature version of an earlier serial, King of the Rocket Men, released under the title Lost Planet Airmen.
After playing for several years in local bars, the core members migrated to San Francisco, releasing several moderately-successful albums through the first half of the 70s. The group released their debut album in late 1971, Lost in the Ozone, which yielded its best-known hit, a version of the Rockabilly Hot Rod Lincoln, which reached the top ten on the Billboard singles chart in early 1972, as well as the band's live staples, "Lost in the Ozone" and "Seeds and Stems (Again)."
After appearing in the Roger Corman movie Hollywood Boulevard, Frayne disbanded the group in 1976.
Lost in the Ozone (1971)
Tracklist:
All tracks composed by George Frayne and Billy C. Farlow; except where indicated
1. "Back to Tennessee" – 2:45
2. "Wine Do Yer Stuff" – 3:03
3. "Seeds and Stems (Again)" – 3:45
4. "Daddy's Gonna Treat You Right" (Billy C. Farlow) – 3:00
5. "Family Bible" (Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Claude Gray) – 3:39
6. "Home in My Hand" (Ronnie Self) – 2:52
7. "Lost in the Ozone" (Billy C. Farlow) – 2:07
8. "Midnight Shift" (Jimmie Ainsworth, Earl Bud Lee) – 2:27
9. "Hot Rod Lincoln" (W.S.Stevenson, Charlie Ryan) – 2:40
10. "What's the Matter Now?" (live) (Billy C. Farlow) – 4:02
11. "20 Flight Rock" (live) (Ned Fairchild) – 2:57
12. "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" (live) (Hughie Prince, Don Raye, Eleanore Sheehy) – 5:08
Personnel
• George Frayne (Commander Cody) – piano, vocals on "Hot Rod Lincoln"
• John Tichy – rhythm guitar, harmony vocals, lead vocals on "Family Bible" and "Beat Me Daddy"
• Andy Stein – fiddle, saxophone
• Lance Dickerson – drums
• Bruce Barlow – Fender bass, acoustic bass on "Midnight Shift", harmony vocals
• Bill Kirchen – lead guitar, trombone, harmony vocals, lead vocals on "Seeds and Stems" and "Home in My Hand"
• Billy C. Farlow – lead vocals, harmonica
• (Steve Davis] West Virginia Creeper – pedal steel guitar
Media Info:
Bitrate: 256 kbps
Channels: stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.92
MPEG-1 layer 3
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