The stardust trail, Leading back to you…
You all know that David has no less than three covers on ‘Heathen’, The Pixies’ ‘Cactus’, Neil Young’s ‘I’ve Been Waiting For You’ and a truly magnificent version of The Legendary Stardust Cowboy’s ‘I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship’.
David has dropped the name of ‘The Ledge’ to anyone who cared to listen since the days when The Ledge’s slogan was “A legend in his own time…No other time would have him.” But, it’s taken David over thirty years to record his tribute to Norman Carl Odam, (The Ledge’s real name) and below he explains how he finally got round to recording a Legendary Stardust Cowboy tune:
“The third (cover on ‘Heathen’) is a song by my one time muse The Legendary Stardust Cowboy. He was a stablemate of mine on Mercury records in the late 60’s and I chewed off the last part of his name for Ziggy, of course. When I read on his site that he thought that because I’d borrowed his name that, at least I should sing one of his songs I got guilty and wanted to make amends immediately. So I covered one of his best songs, ‘I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship’ although he sings Spacecraft on the record.”
So now you know. I do hope to do a page on The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, including a full discography, as there seems to be a general lack of an accurate online record of The Ledge’s erratic career. We’ll leave you with the lyrics to ‘I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship’ and a great quote from when The Ledge was asked about his favourite interests:
“The Old West and Space Exploration…Everything in-between is all garbage, and I’m not interested!”
Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)
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I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship (Cowboy)
I took a trip on a gemini spacecraft
And I thought about you
I passed through the shadow of Jupiter
And I thought about you
I shot my spacegun
And boy, I really felt blue
Two or three flying saucers
Parked under the stars
The winding stream
Moon shining down
On some little town
And with each beam
The same old dream
I took a trip on a gemini spacecraft
And I thought about you
I shot my spacegun
And I thought about you
I pulled down my sun visor
Boy, I really felt blue
You jumped into your Gemini
I jumped into mine
We’ll orbit the moon
For just one time
Tomorrow night
Tomorrow night
Will you hold hands
With me in the moonlight
I took a trip in a gemini spacecraft
And I thought about you
I shot my spacegun
And I thought about you
I took a walk in space
Boy, I really felt blue
Well, I peeked through the crack
And I looked way back
The stardust trail
Leading back to you
What did I do
What could I do
What did I do
Well??
I thought about you