Celestial Weasel (celestialweasel) wrote,
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Red Octopus

There are a number of questions that tend to occur to me whilst driving but I never remember when I am near something I can search on. One of those questions, which I eventually remembered, was 'what was Jefferson Starship's hit?'. As opposed, obviously, to Jefferson Airplane's or Starship's.
There is some rather tortuous bit of chart trivia involving Jefferson Airplane / Jefferson Starship / Starship but I can't find out what it is - something on the lines of 'longest time between hits defined in some bizarre fashion'.
Anyway, the answer to the question is that Red Octopus got to number 3 in the U.S. album chart. I had / have a cassette of it somewhere.
The tracks I remember are Miracles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBttQmhDBw and Fast Buck Freddie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chOT-4r-twg
'Jane' was apparently a single hit, from an album I don't have, in fact I don't remember hearing the track before.

Of course, 'Blows against the empire', which I have on CD somewhere was nominated for a Hugo award
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaHNAVgVkDY

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Glistening with lakes in the Jupiter starlite
Room for babies and byzantine dancing astronauts of renown
The magician and the pantechnicon
Take along the farmer and the physician"
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