PSYCH Outsider Bizarre LUCIA PAMELA Into Outer Space

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Here’s a very strange LP, quite possibly one of the strangest LPs ever recorded. This album, legendary amongst collectors with a taste for the bizarre, is entitled “Into Outer Space”, by Lucia Pamela. This is an original vintage pressing on the Gulfstream label. The vinyl grades VG+ to VG++ and the cover is in decent shape as well.The album is really beyond my ability to describe, so I will rely on what others have written (also check out http://www.intoouterspace.com to see a website dedicated to Ms. Pamela)… "Amazing, unfetterred, unfiltered vocal performance from Fresno, California eccentric who swears on The Bible her LP was recorded on the moon. a stone classic outsider LP with rickety cantina jazz backup band" For aficionados of Incredibly Strange Music, Lucia Pamela is a gift from God: a senior citizen who made a totally unknown, crudely recorded album in 1969 that sounded like a garage nursing-home band. Pamela was a former Miss St. Louis and veteran entertainer with several decades of "musical" experience under her belt by the time she recorded Into Outer Space, although there seems to be no reliable way of compiling accurate biographical data. Like the much more famous Mrs. Miller, Pamela couldn't "sing" well in the conventional sense, but sang with the confidence of one who knows she is one of the best. Into Outer Space sounds like a time-warp '20s swing band-cum ragtime-cum "rickety Cantina Jazz", fronted by a wedding-party guest who's downed too many stiff ones. Most of the material comes from the pen of Pamela herself, who devised nursery rhyme-like ditties about walking on the moon, Indian alphabet chants, the year 2000, and only slightly less cockeyed love songs. Pamela faded into obscurity and died at the age of 98 on July 25, 2002 in a hospital in Los Angeles. From the All Hail Pamela Lucia Website, the official story is: "Nearly 30 [Written in 1993] years ago Lucia Pamela loaded her pink Cadillac up with some musician friends, a slew of instruments, a weird batch of space ballads, and headed for the moon. Their mission? Not some pre-Apollo scientific space exploration, but rather the first, and possibly only, interplanetary recording session (unless, of course, you consider some of Sun Ra's early intergalactic jazz explorations). The product of this expedition was the now legendary Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela. Lucia insists Into Outer Space was recorded on the moon. Not only that, she's not entirely happy with lunar acoustics. "The air is so thin everything sounds different up there", she once noted in an annoyed tone. Certainly those primitive recording facilities contributed to the unique sound of Lucia's crudely recorded cult classic. How to explain the sound of Into Outer Space? For starters, one critic called Lucia the "missing link between Sun Ra and the Shaggs". That's a start, but it's nowhere near the complete story. Lucia isn't nearly derivative enough to be neatly pigeonholed between other artists, no matter how out-there they may be. Approximate the following and come to your own conclusions: Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela is the sound of a ragtime band lost in another galaxy, hopelessly whacked out on alien hallucinogens, desperately trying to pull together history's strangest concept album. Which is exactly what Into Outer Space is -- a startlingly weird concept album. The premise: Lucia pays a visit to Moontown and reports back on her findings. An Indian wedding. More oriental people than she expected. Lots of animals. No taxes. A virtual paradise. Except of course for the recording facilities. For those of you having trouble visualizing Lucia's adventure, the entire mission was documented in the extremely rare Lucia Pamela Coloring Book . INTERNATIONAL BIDS WELCOME. Drop me a message if ebay doesn’t calculate shipping for you. California residents add 8.975% tax. Happy bidding!! Outsider L'Peg