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Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen is a rock band formed in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The band's name was inspired by 1950s film serials featuring the character Commando Cody and from an episode of another serial entitled "Lost Planet Airmen". The band's founder and leader, George Frayne, took the stage name Commander Cody. Jump to: navigation, search 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jump to: navigation, search City nickname: A-squared, Tree Town Location Location of Ann Arbor within Washtenaw County, Michigan. ...
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Serial is a term, originating in literature, for a format by which a story is told in contiguous installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication. ...
Commando Cody was the hero in three science-fiction serials made around 1950 by Republic Pictures, and a 1952 feature movie based on the series titled The serials include King of the Rocket Men (1949) - which some call the last of Republics good serials, as this format from the...
After several years spent playing in local bars, core members of the group migrated to San Francisco and scored a recording contract with MCA records; the group's first album release, titled Lost in the Ozone, arrived in late 1971 and yielded the group's best-known hit, a version of the country song "Hot Rod Lincoln" which reached the top ten on the Billboard singles chart in early 1972. The band released several moderately-successful albums through the first half of the decade before Frayne disbanded the group in 1976. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...
The Music Corporation of America, commonly known as MCA, is a United States based corporation in the music business. ...
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Retaining his stage name of Commander Cody, Frayne had a mostly-obscure solo career, touring and releasing albums sporadically from 1977 to the present day; some later albums were released under the Lost Planet Airmen name, though seldom were original group members involved. Recent releases have been under the name The Commander Cody Band; in addition to Frayne, current members of the band include Steve Barbuto on drums, Mark Emerick on guitar, and Rick Mullen on bass. Jump to: navigation, search 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...
See also
Cody (disambiguation page) Cody can be the name of several things, including: Places Cody, Wyoming, USA People Buffalo Bill Cody, American wild west figure; Commando Cody, science fiction character; Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, and American rock and roll band led by George Frayne under the stage name Commander Cody; Commander...
Discography
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Lost In The Ozone (1971)
- Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers' Favorites (1972)
- Country Casanova (1973)
- Live From Deep In The Heart Of Texas (1974)
- Tales From The Ozone (1975)
- We've Got A Live One Here! (1976)
- Sleazy Roadside Stories (1988) (recorded live in 1973)
- The Tour From Hell - 1973 (1996) (also recorded live in 1973)
Commander Cody - Rock n' Roll Again (1977)
- Flying Dreams (1978)
- Lose It Tonight (1980)
- Let's Rock (1987)
- Aces High (1990) (As Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen)
- Worst Case Scenario (1994) (As Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen)
- Live At Gilley's (2000)
- Command Performance (2002)
- All the Way Live from Turkey Trot (2005) (As The Commander Cody Band)
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