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I am leaving soon and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The Earth is one small planet and the universe is infinite, and yet in this time you call 1951 you remain fearful and fractured. A very short time has passed since many of you died in a terrible war, yet you have again divided yourselves and are building weapons so destructive that to use them would be to end your species.
I have listened to your transmissions. Voices teaching you how to eat, how to behave, how to improve your personalities, how to teach your birds to speak, stories of creatures trapped by social expectations they cannot escape, fascinated by novelty, haunted by guilt. In your cities, new rhythms rise from your places of dance, urgent, electrified, restless. Your young adult creatures seem unmoored, ready to change, yet your institutions are fixed upon aggression and destruction. Let them be free to roam your planet, you have much to learn from each-other and yet everywhere you put up walls.
I came here to give you the facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your planet, but if you continue on this track this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple. Join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We will be waiting for your answer.
Tracklist
(Clip from Dimension X)
(Clip from The Day The Earth Stood Still)
(Clip from Pen Point Percussion)
(Clip from Westward The Women)
00:00:47 Big Jeff – Step It Up And Go
(Clip from How To Teach Your Parakeet To Talk)
00:03:22 Roy “Bald Head” Byrd And His New Orleans Rhythm – Hey Little Girl
(Clip from Wanna Buy A Record?)
00:06:21 Margaret Whiting – Good Morning Mr Echo
(Clip from Good Eating Habits)
00:08:57 Lord Kitchener – London Is the Place for Me
(Clip from Hank Williams interview by Mack Sanders)
00:11:22 Hank Williams – Ramblin’ Man
(Clip from Hank Williams interview by Mack Sanders)
(Clip from The African Queen)
00:14:19 Johnnie Ray – Cry
00:17:19 Louis Jordan – Lemonade
(Clip from Wanna Buy A Record?)
00:18:13 The MGM Studio Orchestra – An American In Paris Ballet
(Clip from Career of A Salesman)
(Clip from Philip Larkin – Latest Face)
00:23:37 Maro Ajemian – Fourth Interlude
(Clip from Anti Drugs PSA)
(Clip from Othello)
00:25:06 Orchestra Conducted by Frederick Dvonch – March Of The Siamese Children
(Clip from This is Korea)
00:28:06 Unknown Artist – Kopacka Igra
00:29:44 Johnny Otis – All Nite Long
00:32:12 Roy Milton – T-Town Twist
(Clip from Good Eating Habits)
(Clip from Improve Your Personality)
00:34:52 The Pinetoppers – Mockin’ Bird Hill
(Clip from Dimension X)
00:36:47 The Soul Stirers (Sam Cooke) – Jesus Gave Me Water
00:39:14 Elmore James – Dust My Broom
(Clip from Interview with Dr. James Ritchie and Peggie MacGillivray about children’s game songs)
00:41:58 Sevlievska Troika – Razdelyane Na Bulkata S Maika I
(Clip from The Browning Version)
00:45:07 Les Baxter – Quiet Village
(Clip from Interview with Kate Nicholson about milking songs)
(Clip from Dimension X)
00:48:21 Nat King Cole – My First And Last Love
(Clip from Wanna Buy A Record?)
00:51:39 Pia Beck – Flight Of The Bumble Bee
(Clip from Survival Under Atomic Attack)
00:54:44 Joe Liggins – Little Joe’s Boogie
(Clip from BBC News Report)
00:56:54 Jimmie Dolan – Hot Rod Race
(Clip from The Lavender Hill Mob)
00:59:46 Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats – Rocket ’88’
01:02:31 Sotho – Monga Kobo
01:03:39 Ndau – Samondoza Iwe
(Clip from Philip Larkin – Next, Please)
01:05:09 CSO, Kubelik – Music for Strings, Perc and Celeste – Adagio
(Clip from Detective Story)
(Clip from TS Elliot reading The Hollow Men)
01:08:28 Edith Piaf – Padam… Padam
(Clip from interview with A. L. Lloyd about The Bonny Boy)
01:11:41 Rosemary Clooney – Come On-A My House
(Clip from Interview with Calum Johnston about an unidentified song)
01:13:37 Adikwa Na Bana Loningisa Rumba – Tolingana
01:15:45 Fats Domino – Rosemary
(Clip from Early Summer)
01:17:56 Eri Chiemi – Uchi e Oide yo
(Clip from Early Summer)
01:20:01 Awaya Noriko – Kika Sete Yo Amai Kotoba
(Clip from Awaara)
01:23:12 Wanda Landowska – Prelude And Fugue No. 12 In F Minor, Bwv 881: I. Prelude
01:26:24 Oscar Levant (Piano) – Adam Cook Monologue (How Long Has This Been Going On?) (Extended Version)
01:28:03 Piano Red – Rockin’ With Red
(Clip from interview with John Strachan about bawdy strathspey lyrics)
01:30:23 Lloyd Glenn – Chica Boo
(Clip from interview with Jasimuddin about palanquin songs)
(Clip from The African Queen)
01:32:41 Louis Armstrong – (When We Are Dancin’) I Get Ideas
01:36:01 Tennessee Ernie – The Shot Gun Boogie
(Clip from Rabbit Fire)
01:37:47 Mel Blanc – I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat
01:38:57 Carl Stalling – Putty Tat Trouble, Pt. 6
01:40:10 The Griffin Brothers And Margie Day – Little Red Rooster
(Clip of John Gielgud and Edith Evans in The Importance of Being Earnest)
01:41:58 Big Bill Broonzy – Black, Brown And White
(Clip from interview with Jasimuddin about a song he composed while considering killing himself)
01:44:18 Shona – Du-Du-Du
(Clip from Career of a Salesman)
01:46:00 Thelonious Monk – Four In One
(Clip from The African Queen)
01:47:43 The Five Keys – The Glory Of Love
01:50:49 ‘Pepermint’ Harris with Maxwell Davis – I Got Loaded
(Clip from You Bet Your Life)
01:53:09 The MGM Studio Orchestra – Painting Montage (An American In Paris) (Deleted Version)
(Clip of Jackson Pollock)
(Clip from A Place in The Sun)
01:54:54 Walt Disney – The Tulgey Wood
(Clips from Alice in Wonderland)
01:56:26 Boris Karlov – Elenino
(Clip from Early Columbia Records LP Advertisement)
01:59:18 Pyi Hla Hpe – Ba Ba Win (Burma)
(Clip from Good Eating Habits)
02:02:04 Shamshad Begum – Saiyan Dil Mein Aana Re
(Clip from Improve Your Personality)
(Clip of Jackson Pollock)
(Clip from Pen Point Percussion)
02:05:02 Jerry Byrd – Over The Waves
(Clip from Pen Point Percussion)
02:07:24 Doris Day – Every Little Movement
(Clip from interview with Sean Moriarty)
(Clip from Othello)
02:09:20 Victor Silvester – Barcarole
(Clip from anti-drug PSA)
02:11:24 Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys – Uncle Pen
(Clip from Pen Point Percussion)
02:13:24 Chet Atkins – Rainbow
(Clip from Miss Oyu)
(Clip from Ace In The Hole)
02:15:53 Miles Davis – Move
(Clip from This Is Korea)
02:19:02 Elton Britt – Rotation Blues
(Clip from Douglas Macarthur address to congress)
02:21:42 Unknown Artist – Vlaškoto
(Clip from Awara)
02:23:23 Mukesh – Awara Hoon
02:24:28 Georgian State Folk Song and Dance Ensemble – Chakrulo
(Clip from The Day The Earth Stood Still)
(Clip from anti-drug PSA)
02:27:20 Alfred Hause Tango Orchester – Donna Vatra
(Clip from Diary of A Country Priest)
(Clip from speech about Verdi’s Othello)
02:30:14 Conny Froboess – Pack Die Badehose Ein (live radio)
02:33:35 Nat King Cole With Les Baxter And His Orchestra – Too Young
02:36:53 Spike Jones and his City Slickers – Too Young
(Clip from The Day The Earth Stood Still)
02:39:29 Ella Johnson – No More Love
(Clip from Wanna Buy A Record?)
02:42:40 Frank Sinatra – Farewell Farewell to Love
(Clip from The Browning Version)
(Clip from You Bet Your Life)