20 Million Miles to EarthA US rocket returning from Venus crash lands off the Italian coast, bringing back with it a strange creature that quickly begins to grow to terrifying proportions Clearly indebted to King Kong, and employing that film's empathetic approach to it's 'monster' (a trope that Harryhausen would continue to employ throughout his career), 20 Million Miles to Earth is a terrific slice of fifties sci fi. It boasts some of Harryhausen's finest work of the

Crudup signed a contract with Fire Records in the late 1950s and issued several 45rpm singles

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Paul Takushi (drums) and Cary Rodda (bass) build a corral for Guy Kyser's overheated acoustic guitar and Johanna Kyser's rumbling keyboard

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on par with past Corea high points

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Lit by thunderclaps & lightning MOTU inhabits a sonic landscape of death

he fled to America shortly after the 1959 embargo

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A rare gem from '69

Atmospheric and lush

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