Forrest J. Ackerman Presents Music For Robots

 

Music For Robots

Forrest J. Ackerman Presents

Music For Robots

Created by Frank Coe

Recorded at Telesound Studios and Que Recorders, Hollywood, California

Engineers: Clarence Thompson, John Vincent, John Barber

Sound Effects & Percussion: Frank Coe

Robot montage on album cover courtesy of Republic Pictures, copyright 1954, from their production of Tobor The Great. 

Photo of Forrest J. Ackerman by Eph Konigsberg

Cover Designed by Frank Coe

An Ack-Coe Chamber Production

Science Fiction Records MFR-1001A

1961

From the back cover: There is no truth to the rumor that this Album has been created for People with Tin Ears.

MUSIC FOR ROBOTS (incorporating The Tin Age Story by Forry Ackerman) has been hailed as "a listening experience for young & old alike." Weaver Wright says: "There has never been another album like MUSIC FOR ROBOTS." Spencer Strong echoes: "There is never likely to be."

MUSIC FOR ROBOTS is destined to become a unique Collector's Item.

Side 1 "The Tin Age Story"-18 of the most interesting, informative, astonishing & thrilling minutes on record, replete with sound effects & percussion, narrated & acted by Mr. Science Fiction himself. Forrest J. Ackerman, editor of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND and SPACEMEN, relates to YOU the fantastic facts & fictions involving Rossum's Universal Robots, Edgar Allan Poe, Androids, Jules Verne-even Leonardo da Vinci! You will hear a robot speak ...a mechanical Frankenstein running amok... the clash & clang of a War of Automatons! You will board a Wellsian Time Machine and spiral thru space to the fabulous robotic world of 2050 AD!

Side 2 Hollywood sound experimenter Frank Coe has skill- fully created 15 of the most intriguing minutes of electronic music ever heard by human ears. Imaginative Music from the Future... Tone Tales from Tomorrow! You may recognize such robotic themes as "Tobor the Backward Robot," "Lever Come Back to Me," "The Transistor's Sister," "When Rossum Played Possum" and "The Anti-Rust Twist"-but don't depend on it. You can count on the most curious, stimulating quarter hour of electronic melodics ever assembled on vinyl!