Wendy Carlos

WENDY CARLOS
 
 
Wendy Carlos  (born Walter Carlos; November 14, 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician.  Carlos first came to prominence in 1968 with Switched-On Bach, a recording of music by J.S. Bach assembled phrase-by-phrase on a Moog synthesizer, at the time a relatively new and unknown instrument.  The album earned three Grammy Awards in 1969.  Carlos later began releasing original compositions, including the first-ever album of synthesized environmental sounds, Sonic Seasonings (1972) and also in film music, notably writing and performing scores for two Stanley Kubrick movies, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980), as well as Walt Disney’s Tron (1982).  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
But I likely will keep putting out what I call the “Story of the Month” (I have my web pages broken down into short “Items” and longer “Stories” on whomever or whatever I am talking about) that I uncover as I load up the web site. These Stories are on well known (well, better known anyway) songs and albums and rock bands and other topics that are not of the Under Appreciated variety. I started those last year and meant to list the ones in my year-end post last time but forgot, so here is that list from the past two years:
 
December 2013The Standells 
 
January 2014 – (skipped)
 
February 2014Hasil Adkins 
 
March 2014Bobby Darin 
 
April 2014Nuggets 
 
May 2014The Nerves 
 
June 2014The Outsiders (American band)
 
 
 
September 2014The Piltdown Man and Brontosaurus 
 
October 2014Walter/Wendy Carlos 
 
November 2014The Trashmen 
 
December 2014John Birch Society Blues 
 
January 2015John Mellencamp 
 
February 2015Child Is Father to the Man 
 
March 2015Dion DiMucci 
 
April 2015Scotch and Soda 
 
May 2015Stiv Bators/Greg Shaw 
 
June 2015Walk on the Wild Side 
 
July 2015Lola
 
August 2015Bob Dylan the Protest Singer
(Year 6 Review)
Last edited: April 8, 2021