Friday, October 8, 2010

The strange universe of science fiction novelty records - Doctor Who


Amplify’d from io9.com


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Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee put out a song called "I Am The Doctor," in which he sort of raps about being an ageless time traveler, over the show's theme tune. Including the all-time great line, "Through cosmic waste the TARDIS flies/To taste the secret sauce of life." What??? It's pretty classic stuff:



But also, the Second Doctor's most faithful companion, Fraser Hines, put out a couple of Doctor Who-themed records in the 1960s: "Who's Doctor Who" and "Time Traveler." And Roberta Tovey, who played the companion in one of the 1960s Peter Cushing films, put out a record called "Who's Who."


And then Doctor Who stars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant took part in a "We Are The World"-style group performance to help save the show when it was nearly cancelled in the mid-1980s, called "Doctor In Distress." We covered the sheer horror of that album here.


Read more at io9.com



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