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Televised Childrens' show "Space A-Go-Go" WSB Atlanta 1966

AHunter3

AHunter3

I'm here, specifically, because of a search result on this page:


This vintage-2014 thread posted by Ccook55 has a specific mention of the show whose theme song I'm trying to track down.

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I am trying to track down the theme song (audio, ideally also video footage) of a children's television show that aired every Saturday morning 1966-1967 at 7AM on WSB Channel 2, titled "Space A-Go-Go".

Here's a screen shot of a TV Guide or equivalent showing the entry:


The show itself was a mix of cartoons and live entertainment footage (Flash Gordon etc); the opening them song I'm referring to featured young women dancing in what appeared to be aluminum-foil skirts, with outer-space motifs of some sort. And the music was...



My pathetic attempt at reproducing the song:
 
I've written to them, at [email protected], awaiting a reply. Meanwhile in another forum area, I received this response:

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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I worked for WSB for a number of years and am about as close as there is to an expert on the station’s archives — and there’s not a ghost of a chance this exists.

I do remember the song, actually. I was 10 in 1967, and watched it pretty religiously— especially for “Flash Gordon” — and I can hum the tune but no lyrics except the words “Space, Space A-GO-GO. In fact, at the moment, it’s stuck in my head, playing over and over. So, thanks for that. LOL.

The transition from film to videotape wasn’t until 1975 — and even after that, the station didn’t slavishly record and save much of anything except individual news stories (very few entire newscasts survive). To make room on the shelves, WSB donated its entire film archive to the University of Georgia Libraries, which are searchable online but you won’t find this because it was never saved. (Interesting, the other stations in town simply carried all their old film out to the dumpster.)

Trust me, people have agonized over far more important things than “Space A-GO-GO.”

In 1986, WSB won a Peabody Award for its rather expensive local production of an original drama, “The Boy King,” about the childhood of Martin Luther King, Jr. — and about 20 years ago my boss, who had a hand in making that show, wanted to update it with a more contemporary score. Unfortunately, there is no clean copy — that is, the only copy that exists has a flat track with the old music married to the dialogue and other audio. No original footage, no outtakes, nothing.

It’s all like that.
 


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