Music: Luniversal Hit

"We interrupt this record," says a breathless voice after only a few bars of music, "to bring you a special bulletin. The reports of a flying saucer hovering over the city have been confirmed." So begins a record called The Flying Saucer, released five weeks ago on the "Luniverse" label and now one of the big off-beat hits in the jukebox trade.

The record gives an amusingly phony account of an invasion from space ("We switch you now to our on-the-spot reporter downtown . . . Take it away, John Cameron Cameron"), with rock-'n'-roll overtones. In a...

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