# Space Songs

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{{For|the 2015 promotional single by Beach House|Space Song}}
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'''''Space Songs''''' is an [album](/source/album) in the "''Ballads For The Age of Science''" or "''Singing Science''" series of scientific music for children from the late 1950s and early 1960s. [Hy Zaret](/source/Hy_Zaret)  wrote the lyrics and [Lou Singer](/source/Lou_Singer) wrote the music. ''Space Songs'' was released in 1959 by Hy Zaret's label "Motivation Records" (a division of Argosy Music Corp.) and was performed by [Tom Glazer](/source/Tom_Glazer) and [Dottie Evans](/source/Dottie_Evans).

Other albums in the "Ballads for the Age of Science" series were: "[Energy and Motion Songs](/source/Energy_and_Motion_Songs)," performed by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans; "[Weather Songs](/source/Weather_Songs)," performed by Tom Glazer and [The Weathervanes](/source/The_Weathervanes); "[Experiment Songs](/source/Experiment_Songs)," performed by [Dorothy Collins](/source/Dorothy_Collins); "[Nature Songs](/source/Nature_Songs)," and "[More Nature Songs](/source/More_Nature_Songs)," both performed by [Marais and Miranda](/source/Marais_and_Miranda).

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| title1        = Zoom a Little Zoom
| title2        = What is the Milky Way?
| title3        = Constellation Jig
| title4        = Beep, Beep
| title5        = Why Does the Sun Shine?
| title6        = What is a Shooting Star?
| title7        = Longitude and Latitude
| title8        = It's a Scientific Fact
| title9        = Ballad of Sir [Isaac Newton](/source/Isaac_Newton)
| title10       = Friction
| title11       = Why Are Stars of Different Colors?
| title12       = Why Do Stars Twinkle?
| title13       = What is Gravity?
| title14       = Planet Minuet
| title15       = Why Go Up There?
}}

==In popular media==
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The [alternative rock](/source/alternative_rock) band [They Might Be Giants](/source/They_Might_Be_Giants) recorded [cover versions](/source/Cover_version) of two Space Songs, "[Why Does The Sun Shine?](/source/Why_Does_the_Sun_Shine%3F_(The_Sun_Is_a_Mass_of_Incandescent_Gas))", and "What Is A Shooting Star?", as well as a reply to the former called "Why Does the Sun Really Shine?" which corrects scientific errors in the original.
* [Isaac Asimov](/source/Isaac_Asimov) wrote an essay called "Catskills in the Sky" which appeared in the August 1960 issue of [The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction](/source/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction). He tells an [anecdote](/source/anecdote) about his children receiving this album as a present. He liked the music so much, especially the song "Why Go Up There," that he appropriated the album for his own [record collection](/source/Record_collecting). In the essay, he gave reasons as why mankind should "go up there."

* Japanese electronic [music producer](/source/music_producer) and DJ [Yoshinori Sunahara](/source/Yoshinori_Sunahara) [sampled](/source/Sampling_(music)) "Zoom a Little Zoom" in his song "Journey Beyond the Stars", which featured on his 1998 album [Take Off and Landing](/source/Take_Off_and_Landing).

* The song "Zoom a Little Zoom" has notably been used in the popular online vlog [Rocketboom](/source/Rocketboom) as its theme song.

* On the September 27, 2005 episode of [Rocketboom](/source/Rocketboom), it featured the songs "Why Do Stars Twinkle?" and "Beep, Beep".[http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/archives/2005/09/rb_05_sep_27.html]

* In 2008, Chloé Leloup, Miss LaLaVox und [Achim Treu](/source/Achim_Treu) reworked the album under the title "The Space Songs - Ballads for the Age of Science". The album was released on the label Sopot Records.[http://www.sopot-records.com]

* The lyrics of the first stanza of "Why Does the Sun Shine?" also appear verbatim in the book ''Stars: A Golden Guide'', apart from the omission of "its core is" before "a gigantic nuclear furnace".<ref>{{Cite book | last1=Zim | first1=Herbert S. | author-link1=Herbert Zim | last2=Baker | first2=Robert H. | author-link2=Robert Horace Baker | title=Stars: A Golden Guide | year=1956 | publisher=Golden Press}}</ref><!-- Google Books does not let you search the 1956 or 1985 versions, but if you type editions:ypl_PE5Q4skC you can see that it exists. -->

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/ Information about the ''Singing Science'' series]
*[https://www.argosymusiccorp.com/Science/Science.html Ballads for the Age of Science]

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Category:1959 albums
Category:Children's music albums

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