Biography
The Electro-Sonic Orchestra was a project of Dick Jacobs. He is primarily remembered now as an A&R man who helped Jackie Wilson, Buddy Holly, Bobby Darin, and others bridge the gap between pop music and rock-and-roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but in between his other work, he created a few items of special interest to space age pop fans.
He dabbled in the possibilities of the newer technologies being introduced into the studio, and recorded the one album space age pop fans should look for, The Electro-Sonic Orchestra on Coral. One of the earliest popular recordings to use electronic instruments, The Electro-Sonic Orchestra went beyond the theremin and added the ondioline and modified tape playback effects to spice up a set of pop standards.
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