Twilight zone songs1/29/2024 ![]() Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 1st 1980, the Manhattan Transfer performed "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'.I’m guessing it’s either a jazz singer (like Glenn Miller, mentioned later, was a musician), or a famous psychic. Mark Wilson from Eldersburg, MdWho is the “unpretentious girl from Memphis” who saw the future through her “third eye” supposed to be?.from Portland, Or The latter, "Hearin' the Twilight.Twilight Tone".That was a lot of work, and I humbly state I did a good job." (read more in our interview with Jay Graydon) And of course Janis (Siegel) had to sing it, because it had to have that R&B edge. I remember the chart being pretty long, because there was a lot of sections. And pretty much I had to write everything out. This was a very difficult piece, there was a lot happening. I basically wrote the arrangement as I was going. And in the meantime I wrote the chord changes and most of the melody. Then I gave the stuff to Alan and he worked with the intro, which speech to use from which version. Well, it was right in the beginning of VHS video home recorders, so I recorded the show every night until we got all of the three themes. There was an original, and then they changed it twice. I loved it when I was a kid, and watching the stuff, I was thinking, what would it be like to take the Twilight Zone theme and turn it into another song? There were three different intros to The Twilight Zone over the years. The song was inspired by the famous TV show. The band has already shared the album singles ‘Vapor’, ‘Sacrificial Lamb’, and the Julien Baker-featuring ‘Neil Young On High’.Jay Graydon produced the Extensions album and wrote this song with Alan Paul of The Manhattan Transfer. The Ophelias’ Crocus comes out September 24 via Joyful Noise. Andrew projected video of us through an aquarium and onto rippling fabric, which gave the images a refracted, unearthly feeling. We made the visualizer with our friend Andrew Skalak, using a technique they used in special effects before computers called a “cloud tank.” Everything in this video is done practically (meaning in-camera, in real life), nothing computer-generated. It’s been a couple years since I wrote it and things have changed even more since then. It’s always a little strange to hear my words backed by a band, but this was extra surreal as it grew and grew. Andrea added the high, cinematic violins (and the midi boys choir, which sounds silly in concept but added the perfect texture!) and it was suddenly huge. It grew from there too – Coltan Foster added bassoon, which John and I were so excited about that we copied one of their later parts and pasted it into the intro. I wrote the horn and additional strings parts at home, then brought them in and asked Peter Boylan (horns), Kate Wakefield (cello), Nina Payiatis (violin), and Anissa Pulcheon (viola) to play. I knew I wanted horns on one song on this album, since I had been listening to and inspired by The Verlaines and Jay Som. We recorded the basic tracks and I had an idea for a big outro. ![]() ‘The Twilight Zone’ was a song that grew in-studio. Vocalist/guitarist Spencer Peppet said of the new single and video in a statement: The track arrives with an accompanying video, which you can check out below. The Ophelias have shared a new song, ‘The Twilight Zone’, lifted from their upcoming album Crocus.
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