Lost in the Ozone

Commander Cody | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002PD3
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,663 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #9 in Music > Country > Western Swing

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Media Type: CD
Artist: COMMANDER CODY
Title: LOST IN THE OZONE
Street Release Date: 12/07/1987
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Acapulco Gold standard of hippie country and swing, May 15, 2000

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost in the Ozone (Audio CD)

It's difficult to remember how we took this music when it was originally issued in the early 70s. Many of us were busy listening to the last remnants of 60s guitar rock morphing itself into the overblown stadium prattle that would hang on for several more years. So how did we end up listening to stone country, boogie-woogie and jump blues? It can all be pinned on Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen.

The wedding of hippie sentiment ("Seeds and Stems") with country, rock and boogie-woogie classics ("Hot Rod Lincoln" "20 Flight Rock" "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"), backed by the stellar playing of everyone concerned, and topped off with Cody's incredible showmanship (both live and on LP) was a package destined to gather up a lot of new ears.

This is the band's debut LP, and though they'd record many more excellent releases, I'm not so sure they ever topped this one as a statement of just who they were. A stone classic, so to speak.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Unique Music From The 70's, June 11, 2003

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Stephen Arnade "sarnade" ("") - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost in the Ozone (Audio CD)

stephen arnade palm bay-florida
This is an outstanding first album from a new band. The hit song "Hot Rod Lincoln" is on this album. Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen throw away the normal formula for music that so many bands did back in the 1970's. The music created a new type of sound called "Truck Stop Rock", with their emphasis on the truck driving culture. The music is combination of; Texas Swing, Boogie-Woogie, Country Rock and Rock-And-Roll. While so many bands/musicians created over-produced formula music, Commander Cody created a honest new sound. The Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen maybe the most original rock-and-roll music from the 1970's. The first album show their unique style and the albums that followed kept the formula going.

The Commander Cody has this great "deadpan" style voice and great boogie-woogie piano playing he is a gem. With Billy C. Farlow singing lead on songs also, it just makes for a unique band.

Bill Kirchen, was in the band and went on to become a star in his own right. Bill Kirchen did his own career after Commander Cody band broke up, and was a big hit in his own career. Producing "rockabilly" to "Country-Rock" to "dieselbilly/high-octane country", to playing "smokin' Telecaster" music.

This band was full of incredible talent !
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best hippie rockabilly record ever made, June 4, 1998

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[e-mail] (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lost in the Ozone (Audio CD)

I had the pleasure of being in Ann Arbor, MI in the late '60s and early '70s, when Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen were regulars at bars and coffeehouses around town. This CD reflects their earliest (and best) original compositions and covers, and very much captures the ambience which accompanied their live performances.

If the only Commander Cody you've ever heard is "Hot Rod Lincoln," then you don't know the band... that was their "novelty" song "rapped" by George Fraine (the Commander). The best stuff was sung by their lead singer, Billy C. Farlow. The guys in the band, somewhere along the way, also learned how to play saxaphone and trombone, and this CD has several cuts featuring them on those instruments (besides their guitars). The peddle steel work is especially sweet.