The Blue Marble (album)

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The Blue Marble
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Studio album by Sagittarius
Released 1969
Recorded 1969
Genre Sunshine Pop
Label Together Records
Producer Curt Boettcher
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Sagittarius chronology
Present Tense
(1968)		The Blue Marble
(1969)
The Blue Marble was the second (and final) Sagittarius album, released in 1969 by the newly-formed Together Records. The title song is by Lee Mallory and Gary Usher. This album is generally not nearly as highly-regarded as the previous one. Part of this is because of the usage of a Moog synthesizer throughout the record, which is arguably excessive. Another factor is that Gary Usher had a much larger role as a musician and vocalist on the album. His only vocal on the Present Tense album was on the last track, and it was heavily processed. On this album, he takes the vast majority of the lead vocals, and there are very few harmony vocals used on the album, in direct contrast to the bevy used throughout Present Tense. The record did, however, spawn a minor hit with the cover of In My Room, which featured Curt Boettcher on vocals and reached #86 on the charts.

The album was reissued on CD by Poptones, and features 5 bonus tracks. 4 of the tracks were from singles (two of which weren't included on the original release), and the fifth track is an alternate version of Will You Ever See Me. The track listing below is for the original LP.

Track listing

  1. "In My Room"
  2. "From You Unto Us"
  3. "Will You Ever See Me"
  4. "Gladys"
  5. "I Sing My Song"
  6. "The Blue Marble"
  7. "Lend Me A Smile"
  8. "I Still Can See Your Face"
  9. "I See In You"
  10. "Cloud Talk"
A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist.

It usually does not contain live recordings or remixes, and if it does, those tracks do not make up a majority of the album and are often called "bonus tracks".
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Sagittarius was a late-60s studio group devised by producer and songwriter Gary Usher. Usher had been involved with music as a songwriter since the early 60s (including writing lyrics for some of Brian Wilson's earliest songs), and soon branched out into production work.
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Sunshine pop, also known as sunshine rock, is a musical movement that incorporated much of the lighter rock music from the United States, and particularly California in the mid to late 60s and early into the 1970s.
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Curt Boettcher, later Curt Boetcher and Curt Becher (January 7, 1944–June 14, 1987), was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer from Wisconsin. His career spanned 1964 to 1983.
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Sagittarius was a late-60s studio group devised by producer and songwriter Gary Usher. Usher had been involved with music as a songwriter since the early 60s (including writing lyrics for some of Brian Wilson's earliest songs), and soon branched out into production work.
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Present Tense
(1968) The Blue Marble
(1969)

Present Tense is the first Sagittarius album, released in 1968 by Columbia Records.
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Sagittarius was a late-60s studio group devised by producer and songwriter Gary Usher. Usher had been involved with music as a songwriter since the early 60s (including writing lyrics for some of Brian Wilson's earliest songs), and soon branched out into production work.
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Lee Mallory (January 10, 1945 - March 21, 2005) was a singer, songwriter and guitarist who was part of such projects as The Millennium and Sagittarius. His most successful single was a cover of the Phil Ochs/Bob Gibson song "That's The Way It's Going To Be".
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The term Moog (pronounced IPA: /ˈmoʊg/ as in 'vogue') synthesizer can refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr.
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Gary Usher (born December 14, 1938; died May 25, 1990) was an American surf rock musician, songwriter, and record producer.

Biography

Though a musician in a number of Californian bands in the late 1950s, Usher gained notice in the early Sixties, writing and producing a
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Present Tense
(1968) The Blue Marble
(1969)

Present Tense is the first Sagittarius album, released in 1968 by Columbia Records.
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Present Tense
(1968) The Blue Marble
(1969)

Present Tense is the first Sagittarius album, released in 1968 by Columbia Records.
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Curt Boettcher, later Curt Boetcher and Curt Becher (January 7, 1944–June 14, 1987), was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer from Wisconsin. His career spanned 1964 to 1983.
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The closely spaced tracks on the readable surface of a Compact Disc cause light to diffract into a full visible colour spectrum
Media type: Optical disc
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Capacity: Typically up to 700 MB
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Poptones is a record label launched by Alan McGee after the demise of Creation Records in 1999. Named after a Public Image Limited song, it is seen as something of a return to the staunchly independent roots of Creation.
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