Top 10 Space Songs

A Scene From Peter Schilling's Video "Major Tom (Coming Home)" (YouTube)

Today is Sally Ride Day, created to honor the first American woman to go into space (which she did on June 18, 1983 as the mission specialist aboard the second flight of the Space Shuttle “Challenger”). We follow suit by honoring Dr. Ride with our Top 10 favorite songs about “space.”

10: Deodato – “2001: Space Odyssey”: space gone disco

9: John Williams and the Boston Pops – “Theme to ‘Battlestar Galactica’”: Big, bold and brassy…which is what space sounds like, I think.

8: Peter Shilling – “Major Tom (Coming Home)”: Schilling’s 1983 sequel to Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”

7: The Byrds – “Mr. Spaceman”: The original Space Cowboys….

6: Steve Miller Band – “Space Cowboy”: Not to be confused with “The Joker,” wherein he mentions “the space cowboy…”

5: Deep Purple – “Space Truckin’”: I can never resist banging my head a little to this song…

4: Billy Preston – “Space Race”: One of Billy’s hit instrumentals, from back when it took a room for of synthesizers to make all these sounds…

3. The Beatles – “Across the Universe”

2. Elton John – “Rocket Man”: Second only to…

1. David Bowie – “Space Oddity”

More of Michael’s Top 10 picks can be found here …