Space Age Bachelor Pad Music

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Space Age Bachelor Pad Music!
What, pray tell, is Space Age Bachelor Pad Music???
Read liner notes from The RCA History of Space Age Pop.

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music on the World Wide Web is not associated with any record label.
Get the big picture...try the Space Age Bachelor Pad Table Of Contents.

TIRED
Burning Man

Michael Jackson
Tom Jones

WIRED
Combustible Edison
-Wired Magazine 4.11

Les Baxter
Martin Denny
-Wired Magazine 3.0.9

Bits & Pieces

Robert Moehle has contributed a tribute to late, lamented Paul Weston.
Liner notes and track listing from Bar/None's Esquivel release, "Merry Christmas From The Space Age Bachelor Pad" (Bar/None Ahaon-083). Download the sound sample!
Want to know what playing at the Bachelor Pad? Grab some sound samples and listen!
Check out Selected Reissues and Compilations

The Gallery of Exotic Album Covers

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music on the World Wide Web Presents...

Featuring Sound Samples, LP Covers, Esquivel Photos, Bibliography, Discography, and more!

Now includes our exclusive Esquivel Track Listing!

Your guide to Vinyl, Radio, Zines, and Lounge Culture.

Required Listening:
Selected SABPM Artists
Including Discographies of Esquivel, Dick Schory, The 3 Suns, and More!

Plus a Select List of Reissues and Compilations

Selected Pointers
to Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, Incredibly Strange Music, and Sites of Interest Around the Web.

Jeff Phillips'discography, with more than a hundred titles, including Enoch Light, The Ray Charles Singers, and the Persuasive Percussion series.
In Memoriam: Morton Gould
Gaze upon our exclusive Esquivel Track Listing, which aspires to list the title of every track El Maestro ever recorded.
Read Brother Cleve's news of the Lost Esquivel Album, "See It In Sound!"

From Joseph Lanza, author of

...excerpts from his new book,
"THE COCKTAIL: The Influence of Spirits on the American Psyche."

If you love exotica, join Lazlo Nibble's Exotica mailing list

In December of 1996, Joseph retired and passed "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music on the World Wide Web" over to Vik Trola. "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music on the World Wide Web" now continues as part of the web's swingingest lounge, Vik's Lounge. Vik's is proud to carry on the tradition Joseph established and we wish him well.

All RCA album covers are copyright © BMG Music, Inc., and are reproduced here with permission. All Esquivel sound samples are copyright © BMG Music, Inc., and are posted here with explicit permssion of BMG Music.

No compensation or fees are received from any source in connection with Space Age Bachelor Pad Music on the WWW. Graphical elements copyright © 1995, 1996 Chris Holmes.

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music on the World Wide Web is dedicated to Byron Werner and Tim Berners-Lee, without either of whom this site could not have existed.

Thanks to Scott Ulrich for the typeface used throughout SABPM (but not in the banner) -- it's Cheap Signage Standard and it's freeware! Tons of thanks to Irwin, Bro. Cleve, Jack Diamond, Chris, Steve Spain at Holy Cow Records, and all the visitors who write to say what fun they've had.

Offering the finest in Space Age Bachelor Pad Music reference since March 1995

Please contact Vik Trola with updates, information, additions, text, etc.:

viktrola@mail.caroline.com