John Woloschuk: I think that the most fun was making the first album, over almost a three-year period from 1973 to - I think we did the very final mix of “Calling Occupants” in January of ’76. As sci-fi nuts and fans of the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, they decided to take their name from the movie’s immortal line “Klaatu barada nikto!” With the later addition of drummer Terry Draper, the group was complete. When turned in, John and Dee’s bedroom tracks appealed to studio owner Terry Brown. Dee had played in a lot of rock groups throughout high school and was more than happy to flesh out John’s demos. John then found a perfect musical counterpart in his electronics-factory co-worker Dee Long. He didn’t get the job he was looking for, but he was asked to bring in some song demos to go with those lyric sheets. John Woloschuk brought some self-penned lyric sheets to a 1972 interview at a Canadian recording studio. The group’s humble beginnings were, in fact, humble. And with their final studio album the subject of a reissue earlier this year (and with a live CD/DVD set on the near horizon), it’s a perfect time to reevaluate a group that so often gets marginalized as a rock history footnote. Why did everyone think that Klaatu were a reunited Fab Four? Here, you’ll hear the band tell the story in their own words. What’s worse? They had nothing to do with it. Here’s a band that Ozzy Osbourne loved, the Carpenters covered, Mick Jagger questioned, and Paul McCartney himself (jokingly) threatened. Somehow they had managed to get themselves mistaken for the Beatles. Klaatu, a trio of Canadian songwriters, worked on borrowed studio time to craft an epic album of whimsical ’60s-inspired pop music that - a year after its 1976 release - became wrapped up in a rumor so powerful, it would make them the most talked-about band in the world one month, and the most hated the next. What people didn’t know was that they were one of the best. Be sure to select the number of repairs needed for the amount of sealed tapes you are purchasing.For a brief moment in 1977, Klaatu were possibly the biggest band in the world. If you would like this new sealed tape gently opened and inspected for play-ability with a new pad and foil splice added, please go to "New 8-track tape repair" in the New 8-track tape category and we will gladly perform the work for you. Always inspect and replace if necessary those items before playing any sealed new 8-track tape, or damage to the tape and player may occur. Because this sealed new 8-track tape is very old, the foam pad and glue on the foil splice most often has a tendency to deteriorate over many years of time. Internationally, the group's pop-influenced blend of rock styles has led to them being known as the "Canadian Beatles".īecause this tape is sealed new and we cannot inspect for play-ability, we offer no warranty or guarantees on how well this tape will perform once it is opened and removed from the cellophane package. "Calling Occupants" backed with "Sub-Rosa Subway" was a minor double-sided hit and their only chart entry, peaking at No. In Canada, the band is remembered for several hits, including "California Jam" (1974), "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" (1976) and "Knee Deep In Love" (1980). After recording two non-charting singles, drummer Terry Draper was added to the line-up this trio constituted Klaatu throughout the rest of the band's recording career. They named themselves after an alien who visits Earth in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Klaatu (/ˈklɑːtuː/) was a Canadian rock group formed in 1973 by the duo of John Woloschuk and Dee Long. The ruined stone plaza features the sun image from the cover of the previous Klaatu album. The cover shows "the Lighthouse Keeper's beam". Like the previous Klaatu album, the cover was painted by graphic artist Ted Jones. Hope was remastered and re-issued in 2012 by the band's members, and was released on the band's independent record label Klaatunes. The alternate version also includes a short unreleased track, "Epilogue," which had originally been intended to be placed between "So Said the Lighthouse Keeper" and "Hope." The alternate version on Sun Set includes the complete contributions of the London Symphony Orchestra, which had largely been removed from the version released in 1977. Released in September 1977, it won a Juno Award for "Best Engineered Album" and a Canadian Music Critics award for "Best Album" that same year.Īn alternate version of Hope was released in 2005 as part of the group's Sun Set collection of rarities. Hope is the second album by the Canadian rock band Klaatu and their first concept album.
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