Командир Коди және оның жоғалған планеталық әуешілері

American country rock band
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Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were an American country rock band founded in 1967. The group's leader and co founder was pianist and vocalist George Frayne IV, alias Commander Cody (born July 19, 1944, in Boise, Idaho; died September 26, 2021, in Saratoga Springs, New York). The band became known for marathon live shows. Alongside Frayne, the classic lineup was Billy C. Farlow (b. Decatur, Alabama) on vocals and harmonica; John Tichy (b. St. Louis, Missouri) on guitar and vocals; Bill Kirchen (Kirchen was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, June 29, 1948, but grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan) on lead guitar; Andy Stein (b. August 31, 1948, in New York City) on saxophone and fiddle; "Buffalo" Bruce Barlow (b. December 3, 1948, in Oxnard, California) on bass guitar; Lance Dickerson (b. October 15, 1948, in Livonia, Michigan, died November 10, 2003, in Fairfax, California) on drums; and Steve "The West Virginia Creeper" Davis (b. July 18, 1946, in Charleston, West Virginia), followed by Bobby Black, on pedal steel guitar. and soon got a recording contract with Paramount Records. (About a year later, Commander Cody invited western swing revival group Asleep at the Wheel to relocate to the Bay Area. "Hot Rod Lincoln", the band's most famous recording, was voted a Legendary Michigan Song in 2008. The following year Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. Members of the original group, excepting Frayne, held a 50th anniversary reunion in the San Francisco Bay area in June 2019. The band disbanded in 1977, but the name "Commander Cody" survived, being used by Frayne in various iterations in his solo career. "Frayne continued with a solo career, still using his stage name, and toured and released albums under various titles including Commander Cody, the Commander Cody Band, Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen and Commander Cody and His Western Airmen."

Retaining his stage name, George Frayne had a subsequent solo career, touring and releasing albums from 1977 on under various names including Commander Cody, the Commander Cody Band, Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen, and Commander Cody and His Western Airmen. Frayne was also a visual artist. He received a bachelor's in design from the University of Michigan in 1966 and a master's in Sculpture and Painting from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies of the University of Michigan in 1968. He taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and his art was exhibited at numerous shows around the country. He was a student of cinematography, and has a video ("Two Triple Cheese Side Order of Fries") in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent video archive. He has assembled many old movies to go with the band's music as shown on his YouTube channel. Some of his paintings are oversized; most are medium sized acrylics and present pop art images from media sources and historic photos. His book, Art Music and Life was released by Qualibre Publications in 2009 and is a mix of his best work and anecdotal comments and related stories. He still did portraits of famous automobiles for the Saratoga Auto Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he resided in April, 1997.

Influenced by the rowdy barroom country of Ernest Tubb and Ray Price, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen's style was built on the foundation of country music, which the band fused with boogie woogie, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, Western swing and jazz, which Classic Rock said resulted in "a counter cultural twist to the Nashville sound". Tinnitist called the band "one of the more interesting bands of the hippie era, fusing county, rockabilly, western swing, jump blues and more into an infectious amalgam that set the table for outfits like NRBQ". All About Jazz described the band's music as "plainly Western Swing—a musically alchemic concoction made up of equal parts country, Western, blues, big band jazz, whiskey and reefer." Pioneers of country rock, roots rock Cashbox said that Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were also "pioneers of progressive country."

Year Single Chart Positions Album US US Country AUS CAN CAN Country CAN AC 1971 "Lost in the Ozone" / "Midnight Shift" — — — — — — Lost in the Ozone 1972 "Hot Rod Lincoln" / "Wine Do Yer Stuff" 9 51 45 7 — — "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" / "Daddy's Gonna Treat You Right" 81 — — 82 — — "Mama Hated Diesels" / "Truck Stop Rock" — — — — — — Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers Favorites 1973 "Watch My .38" / "Semi Truck" — — — — — — "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" / "Rock That Boogie" 94 97 — — 99 37 Country Casanova "Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas" / "Honeysuckle Honey" — — — — — — Non album track 1974 "Diggy Liggy Lo" / "Sunset on the Sage" — — — — — — Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas "Riot in Cell Block #9" / "Oh Mama Mama" — — — — — — 1975 "Don't Let Go" / "Keep On Lovin' Her" 56 — — 85 — — Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen "Roll Your Own" / "It's Gonna Be One of Those Nights" — — — — — — Tales from the Ozone 1977 "Seven Eleven" / "Snooze You Lose" — — — — — — Rock 'n Roll Again 1978 "Thank You Lone Ranger" / "My Day" — — — — — — Flying Dreams 1980 "2 Triple Cheese (Side Order of Fries)" / "Rockette 88" — — — — — — Lose It Tonight