Telstar - Kevin Romang - 'Tornados' cover
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- 'Telstar' was released in 1962 by the English band 'The Tornados'. It was written by production genius Joe Meek and was a massive hit at the time. It featured an early synth (most likely) a Clavioline for the lead. I used a 'Stylophone' with added effects for this cover as both instruments sound quite similar. Hope some might enjoy my version! (I created the backing track using the Tyros 5 arranger keyboard)
This is one of the very few covers that actually managed to recreate the clavioline sound.
Covers are not meant to be copies.
@@thursoberwick1948 that's true, but many Telstar covers are just copies with a bad keyboard sound.
@@SolarisUrbinoFanAgree.
Most of the Shadows hits that are covered are as near to 'copies' as possible with everyone trying to get every nuance to replicate Hanks sound! I gave up!!
Great to see a left handed player, gives hope for the rest of us.
I used to believe it was kinder to leave left-handed babies out in the snow and not feed them. But I have to say, this video does make me think we may have been a bit harsh
And me as a lefty.
Well done 😅 sound great. You make 76 years old very happy.
Well done, thank you! One of my favorite songs. I remember when this first came out. It was a song of hope, we Americans were on the ascendancy. Pres JFK aimed for the moon literally, WW2 was over, economy was soaring, lots of jobs and everyone around the world admired us. Sadly, next year our president was murdered and everything changed. So this song for so many of us then was one of hope but also later on of sadness. This song always brings back those memories for me.
Same in the UK, 240 pennies in the pound and great music.... LOOK at it Now !!!
Joe Meek would be proud mate Best regards Andrew :)
Stylophon ein Teil meiner Jugend das hatte ich auch einmal.👍
Well played. The original record turned me onto loving pop music back in the early sixties.
Very nicely done , my friend ,all credit to you , well performed, , truly inspirational,, loved your rendition, very clever,
This cover is OUTSTANDING!!! Great work! Just as good as the original!
I used to play this all the time on the stylophone when I was a kid, it was like it was made for it.
An excellent performance. The Stylophone sound suits Telstar perfectly.
Beautiful music never gets tired of listening over and over 😊
Wonderful. Splendid melody. You´re a brilliant musician.
i remember getting one of the stylophone they was the thing to have as a kids in the 60s
If the Shadows and Tornados had collaborated on this track it would have sounded like this. Very good. Sounds great.
That old Stylophone sounds amazing for this great tune. Great production Kevin.
This is GREAT! Also one of my favorite songs.....
This is glorious!
Superb sound, and playing -quite similar to the Claviolline, although a more limited range and played with the stylus rather than fingers. Much better than some of the re-recordings made under the Tornados name.
So very well done thank you!….you captured the thrill and beauty of that wonderful song.
Great Cover of a classic, Really good and you you make that guitar tone sing man, Well Done.
This was my dads favourite song, He heard it when it first came out on the radio but didn’t know the name of it, he sang it over and over to himself and stayed awake all night until he could get to the record shop the next day and sang it for the girl behind the counter, she then told him what it was and so he bought 2 copies of it just in case one got damaged.
Wow! You’ve got the sound just perfect. Very nostalgic melody.
You pretty much, nailed it, SIR ! KUDOS'........HI 5's all a r o u n d......
Oh you absolute genius you!!!! Even though this was before my time, I grew up in an era where just because something happened before I was born, I was still inquisitive enough to want to know about it! This has to be the very best cover version of Telstar I have ever heard!
Well i would never have known it was a Stylophone Kevin.
Superb recording and very much enjoyed my friend.
Cheers!
Geoff.
Cheers Geoff....I had to use many effects to get that sound, but in the end I got to work!....take care...
Beautiful 😍
im shocked!!!
Fantaboulous
Did Rolf Harris star in the Stylaphone sdverts way back when-I must say this sounded so good :-}
Stupendous version! Stylophone? I never even hoid of it!
Telstar is still waiting in the skies? I think that blows our minds! Let all the children boogie
Excellent cover! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hi Kevin,
This is an excellent version of a great old tune ... I really enjoyed it. Congratulations on your mastery of the Stylophone and thanks for your terrific upload!
Cheers, James
Thanks James!.....I remember first using my teachers original stylophone as a boy many years ago... as our class toured the streets playing Christmas carols!! I had numb fingers from the cold lol!....take care....
I remeber those stylophones from (I think) the 70's - and actually, it's not massively different from the original tone - well done!
Very cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well that was great!😃😃😃
Excellent cover, lovely to see a Stylophone fully used!
What an amazing cover!!! Well done! A pleasure to listen to!
When I saw the Tornados at Portsmouth Guild Hall, back then, it was played on a Vox 'Continental' organ! I do like a good rumba... the back bone of most popular music over the years!
Loved it. My brother bought this record when it came out. One of my favorite songs.
Sublime, I love it and listen to it weekly - thanks for sharing!
A superb rendition,you have created an amazing sound from the Stylophone I would never have thought it was possible.
Fantastic
Yes!!!! So good
Wow ! What a wonderful idea ! Base on the theremin ! Nice work ! 🥅👍👏👏👏
Truly superb. Well done! 👋😀
VERY nicely done !
I was actually wondering if the Stylophone was used at the time. I had no idea an instrument like that existed, and I played synthesizer back in the 70s. On a side note, there was a company called PAIA back then and they offered a kit called The Gnome, very similar to your Stylophone. I bought and built one, but alas, I didn’t like it. I had an ARP 2600 at the time and the Gnome was just something to mess around with.
Wish I still had my 2600 though !
Genius!
A brilliant cover - as usual, Kevin. I'm sure Joe is looking down and smiling at your talent with the Stylophone. I had one back in the day, but was not in your class with the stylus!
I just watched a film about Joe on youtube......very interesting....he was ahead of his time for sure....take care
Class !!!
they don't make them like that anymore! Brilliant.
1st keyboard(?) of Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran fame! BTW fantastic cover!!
Very cool!
wunderfull playing Kevin ,Thank you greetings Maria
A great version of Telstar Kevin, you have so much talent, take care! 73
thanks for listening Dennis.....take care....es 73
LOVED it!!!
Ralph Harris would be so proud of your interpretation of this classic, also my mother god bless her in heaven could play this note-perfect on her Yamaha organ, love you mom miss you but still got the memories
Fabulous rendition. Well done! 👍
Wow !!! Beautiful
Many thanks Danie.....
absolutely brilliant!
This is amazing!!!!
I'm impressed!
Eine sehr schöne Coverversion🤗
Ich mag das Stylophon; kommt ein wenig an mein Theremin ran.
Fantastic work. Loved it 👍👍
Fantastic!
Hello Kévin
excellent version with the sound that goes well!
Great this little pen
Paul's friendships
Thanks for listening Paul....take care...
wonderful. Precioso
Marvellous
Excellent sound...
Brilliant
Bloody great
Awesome cover sir!!!
The famous Indian pianist V Balsara also used to play this instrument... Stylophone.
Regards,
Aranya
Hi Kevin, Absolutely fabulous. You are a fabulous musician. Best regards Mick Grant.
Thanks for your kind words Michael.....take care..
GREAT !
Hi, that was absolutley superb and very well done.
Amazing
Great playing and sound!! I recreate Clavioline sounds with my old analog Casio CT410V, the only one model with VCF/LFO sliders on the panel. No digital samplers or VA/FM synths can do this sound ;-)
Well done!
WOW. What a nice upload. Very well played. Liked it very much. All the best/Kjell 🎸 🎸
Thanks for listening......best wishes to you....
I love "The High Chaparral" theme!
Great!
Ma è incredibile...pensavo fosse un giocattolo..Geniale!!
many thanks Giovanni!
Love It
Wow that’s brilliant ... I’ll bet Rolf Harris would be very pleased with that effort... PS can yer guess what it is yet?
Incredibile sound!! Fantastica performance!! 👍👍✌️😊
Many thanks for your comment!
Well played Kevin that was brilliant ...Mike.
Thanks for your nice comment mike!
Good job, sounded great!
Isso está muito bom mesmo!! Parabéns!
Amazing new instrument. Kevin. Good sharing.
Many thanks Sandy!.....best wishes
Stylophone sounds cool and the Strat too! What effects did you use with the guitar part? Classic!
Great I still have a Rof Harris Stylophone
I've still got my stylophone I'm going to have a go and see if I can play Telstar
Excellent job Kevin ! welldone ..
Amazing 10/10
Thanks for your nice comment Roscoe.....
Hi Romang, A Great idea and A great playing, congratulation
Cl@ude ♫
Thanks a lot Claude....best wishes
ESTÁ DEMASIADO GOOD
👏👏👏
Hermoso
Hi Kevin, nice one, sounds great
Cheers, all the best...................Mick
Thanks a lot Mick!
So very cool!jk
Brill 👍🏻 ☺
Génial !
Many thanks for listening!