The In Sound from Way Out! (Perrey and Kingsley album)

Jean-Jacques Perrey, one of the members of the Perrey and Kingsley group already had a background in the field of Electronic music, whose first album was "Musique Electronique du Cosmos", which includes a primitive version of "Barnyard in Orbit", in this album was included a musical arrangement of "Barnyard in Orbit" composed by Jean-Jacques Perrey, Harry Breuer and Sam Fiedel. [2]

At that time, Perrey was experimenting with tape loops, which he had been introduced to by the French avant-garde musician Pierre Schaeffer. Each loop was a laboriously hand-spliced assemblage of filtered sounds, pitch-manipulated sounds and sometimes even animal sounds. The end result of this 1966 album combined Perrey's tape loops, and his inventive melodies with Kingsley's complementary arrangements and instrumentation and their album was filled with tunes that sounded like an animated cartoon gone berserk. Since this was decades before the advent of widespread digital technology, each tune took weeks of painstaking editing and splicing to produce.

The twelve tracks from this album, bore names offbeat such as "Unidentified Flying Object" and "The Little Man from Mars" in an attempt to make electronic music more accessible. The offbeat titles and happy, upbeat melodies added a genuine sense of humor to the tracks. Though most of the melodies were original, three tracks are arrangements of popular songs and melodies classics: "Swan's Splashdown" was based on Pyotr Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake", [3], "Countdown at 6" was inspired in the 1963 exit by Allan Sherman titled "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", (a song based on Dance of the Hours composed by Amilcare Ponchielli), and "Spooks in Space" was based in the Danse Macabre of Camille Saint-Saens [4]

The final track on the album, "Visa to the Stars" is credited to "Andy Badale", who would go on to fame as Angelo Badalamenti, arranger of the music in many of David Lynch's movies. In contrast to the rest of the album, "Visa to the Stars" is a more serious gesture and lacks the unusual sound effects of the other eleven cuts. It is highly reminiscent of the style of Joe Meek and his hit "Telstar" by The Tornados. Perrey's Ondioline carries the melody throughout. [4]

The song "Spooks in space» was used in the series Uncle Bobby, the song "Barnyard in Orbit" was used like intro from the series of Patt McCormick, "Charley and Humphrey". A part of the song "Barnyard in Orbit" was also used in the episode "Los Insectos del Chavo" from 1973 in the program "El Chavo del 8", the theme "Swan's Splashdown" was used for a sketch of El Chapulín Colorado , entitled "El conde terranova", and also in the chapter "La Orquesta" from 1973 of the series "El Chavo del 8". In a sketch on October 23, 1976 broadcast on Saturday Night Live titled "Jeopardy!", I use the song "Unidentified Flying Object" as the opening and closing theme. In 1996 the group Beastie Boys released an album with a cover and similar title, various segments made use of the music from this album in the 1970s. In fact, "Unidentified Flying Object" and another of the album's cuts, "Electronic Can-Can", became theme music for Wonderama, a Metromedia Television children's program of the early 1970s, the music of the duet Perrey and Kingsley has been played on NTS more than 10 times.[4]

Smash Mouth it was based in the theme "Swan's Splashdown" to compose for their 1997 hit "Walkin' on the Sun", [3] the song "Computer in Love" was used in chapter 22 of season 27 of the Simpsons in the chapter couch joke. In March 2020, "TurboTax" used "Barnyard in Orbit" for its commercial titled "Help".[5][6][7][8]