Thunderbirds Are Go – F.A.B. (1990)

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Additional information about this, F.A.B. vinyl art.

F.A.B. Featuring M.C. Parker – The Artist/s

The F.A.B. Featuring M.C. Parker are an English electronic music group who gained success in the UK in the 1990s with the novelty RAP / House Song ‘Thunderbirds are Go’. M.C. Parker being the Rolls-Royce driving chauffer of Lady Penelope from the Thunderbirds TV series.

Thunderbirds Are Go – The Song

‘Thunderbirds Are Go‘ is a novelty Rap single by F.A.B. Featuring M.C. Parker. It was written, arranged and produced by 3 To The Power for the Brothers Organisation, Rod Anderson & Jason Mayo, with original material by Barry Gray. It was released by The Brothers Organisation / Telstar records in 1990. The song features samples from the original Thunderbirds theme as well as songs by James brown and Lyn Collins. The original Thunderbirds theme song ,samples of wheich were taken for tis song was originaly composed by Barry Gray. Barry Gray (born John Livesey Eccles; 1908 – 1984) was a British musician and composer best known for his collaborations with television and film producer Gerry Anderson.[

Thunderbird 2 – The Shape

This record has been modelled into the silhouette of  the Internal Rescue Vehicle Thunderbird 2 from the 1960’s TV series Thunderbirds. Thunderbirds is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It was made between 1964 and 1966 using a form of electronic marionette puppetry (dubbed “Supermarionation”) combined with scale model special effects sequences. Two series, totalling thirty-two 50-minute episodes, were filmed; production ended with the completion of the sixth episode of the second series after Lew Grade, the Andersons’ financial backer, failed in his bid to sell the programme to American network television. Set in the 2060s, Thunderbirds is a follow-up to the earlier Supermarionation productions Four Feather Falls, Supercar, Fireball XL5 and Stingray. It follows the exploits of International Rescue, a life-saving organisation equipped with technologically advanced land, sea, air and space rescue craft; these are headed by a fleet of five vehicles named the Thunderbirds and launched from the organisation’s secret base of operations in the Pacific Ocean. The main characters are ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy, leader of International Rescue, and his five adult sons, who pilot the Thunderbird machines. 

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