Intergalactic Touring Band

Intergalactic Touring Band Album Cover

The Intergalactic Touring Band (IGTB) was not an actual music group but rather a science fiction pop music concept album released in 1977 by the now defunct Passport Records in America and Charisma Records in England. The ensemble album featured many star performers from progressive rock and other genres, including Meat Loaf, Ben E. King, Larry Fast (Synergy), Percy Jones, Annie Haslam, Rod Argent, Peppi Marchello (Good Rats), and many others. The songs are loosely held together by an epic theme of multi-generational space travel and human space colonization.

Fictional band members

• Hope Larson — Lase Keyboard Panel
• Ixol Phaane — Computerized Keyboard Synthesis
• Justice Conrad — Globe Lase Base
• Krys — Holographic Percussion
• Raif Reed — Lase Guitar

List of songs and performers

Approach (Overture)

• Members of the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Harry Rabinowitz
• Orchestral arrangement by Wil Malone
• Synthesizers and Mellotron: Larry Fast

Silver Lady

• Lead vocal: Rod Argent
• Acoustic and electric guitars: David Scance
• Fender bass: Peter Sobel
• Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Synthesizers, Mellotron and vocoder: Larry Fast
• Effect vocal: Irene Conrad
• Silver Lady vocal: Marge Raymond
• Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson, David Scance, Marty Scott, Peter Sobel
• Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone and Stephan Galfas

Universal Zoo/Why

• Lead vocal, "Universal Zoo": Arthur Brown
• Lead vocal, "Why": Joel Krantz
• Electric guitars: David Scance
• Fender bass: Peter Sobel
• Fretless Bass on "Why": Percy Jones
• Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Primitive percussion: Paul Marchetti, Marty Scott, Peter Sobel
• Synthesizers and vocoder: Larry Fast
• Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
• Additional vocals: Marty Scott, Peter Sobel, Bill Guerra
• Orchestral arrangement: Danny Beckerman
• Effects vocal: "The Boss"

Starship Jingle

• Lead vocal: Peppi Marchello (misspelled Pepe in album credits)
• Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
• Electric Autoharp: Marty Scott
• Fender bass: Peter Sobel
• Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Synthesizers: Larry Fast
• Flutes: John Zangrando
• Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
• Prepared effects: Larry Fast, Marty Scott, Peter Sobel
• Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone, Stephan Galfas

Heartbreaker

• Lead vocal: Dave Cousins
• Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
• Bass guitar: Peter Sobel
• Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Synthesizers: Larry Fast
• Flutes: John Zangrando
• Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
• Orchestral arrangement: David Bedford, Stephan Galfas

Reaching Out

• Lead vocal: Annie Haslam
• Members of the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Harry Rabinowitz
• Orchestral arrangement by Wil Malone
• Acoustic guitars: Anthony Phillips and Peter Sobel
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Tympani: Mighty Young Joe Intile, B. E.

First Landing

• Lead vocal: Steve Barth
• Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
• Bass guitar: Frank Prescod and Peter Sobel
• Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Additional percussion: Mighty Young Joe Intile, B. E.
• Synthesizers: Larry Fast
• Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone and Danny Beckerman
• Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
• Additional vocals: The Passport Munchkins

Space Commando

• Lead vocal: Mr. Snips
• Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
• Bass guitar: Peter Sobel
• Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Additional percussion: Marty Scott
• Synthesizers: Larry Fast
• Orchestral arrangement: David Bedford and Stephan Galfas
• Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson

Robot Salesman

• Lead vocal: Jim Cuomo
• Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
• Electric guitar: Ryche Chlanda
• Acoustic guitar: Peter Sobel
• Bass guitar: Frank Prescod
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Synthesizers, Mellotron and vocoder: Larry Fast
• Orchestral arrangement: Stephan Galfas and Brian Cuomo

Love Station

• Lead vocal: Ben E. King
• Electric guitars: John Tropea
• Bass guitar: Frank Prescod
• Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Additional percussion: Peter Sobel
• Synthesizers: Larry Fast
• Saxophone solo: Clarence Clemons
• Guitar solo: John Tropea
• Orchestral arrangement: David Bedford, Stephan Galfas and Brian Cuomo
• Background vocals: Janice Pendarvis and Friends

A Planet Called Monday/Epilogue

• Lead vocal, "A Planet Called Monday": Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt
• Lead vocal, "Epilogue": Jeffrey Leynor
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Synthesizers: Larry Fast
• Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson, David Scance
• Orchestral arrangement: Danny Beckerman
• Electric guitars: David Scance
• Bass guitar: Peter Sobel
• Keyboards: Brian Cuomo

Keeper Keep Us

• Lead vocal: Meat Loaf
• Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
• Acoustic and bass guitars: Peter Sobel
• Fretless bass: Percy Jones
• Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
• Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
• Synthesizers: Larry Fast
• Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
• Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone

Discography

• Intergalactic Touring Band — Intergalactic Touring Band — Passport Records (U.S.) — 1977
• Vibra Corporation (aka Intergalactic Touring Band) — "Snow White Rock Christmas" b/w "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" — Passport PSC 7910 (U.S.) — 1977

Promotional-only 12" disc released during the holiday season.

External links

• Steve Douglas Huddleston's IGTB Tribute Site
• SciFi.com review (This direct link has disappeared, but a copy may be found on the Internet Archive)
• Tentative Review
• Song samples at eMusic
• MP3 Sample of "Keeper Keep Us" at Meat Loaf Lyrics Site. This direct link has disappeared, as did a copy [1] that had once been found on the Internet Archive.