Pamela, Lucia
Entry updated 6 March 2024. Tagged: Music, People.
(1904-2002) US singer and bandleader. Her only album, Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela (1969), on which she played all instruments (including piano, clarinet, drums and theremin), mostly in an old-fashioned swing style, was purportedly recorded on the Moon. The album begins with Pamela offering readers to take a trip to the Moon, where we meet Moon people and animals, and is bookended with "spacey" electronic sounds. Disappointingly, the songs in between mostly ignore the album's premise and have little sf content. The exception is "In the Year 2,000!!!", when living on the Moon will be the norm. Pamela later wrote and illustrated a space-themed colouring book to accompany a 1976 re-release of the album: Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela in the Year 2000 (graph 1976). Stereolab paid homage to her with "International Colouring Contest" on the album Mars Audiac Quintet (1994). [CWa]
Lucia Pamela Angelo
born St Louis, Missouri: 1 May 1904
died Los Angeles, California: 25 July 2002
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