DUH! Been too long since I’ve seen/heard “War of the Worlds”.
In the early ‘70s, I found an album at a flea market that was a recording of the original radio broadcast. If you didn’t hear the very first few seconds, you didn’t know it was Wells’ production. I could see how so many people freaked out when they heard it that night.
I wish I still had it. I don’t know what happened to it. Moved too many times and it got lost in the shuffle. :-(
It looks like clouds are moving in wherever NASA’s telescope is. I hope they don’t get any thicker than they are right now.
I had that album, too. There audio CDs available now on Amazon, and probably elsewhere.
We lucked out in So. Cal. and got clear skies. Cool, though, so I watched the later part on a stream out of an observatory in Prescott, AZ.
In 1978, Jeff Wayne composed a rock-operaish version of War of the Worlds. It’s a remarkable work, with Richard Burton doing the narration, and Justin Hayward. It’s still available on CD, and on youtube. Here’s a taste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSifCF8k27A
Burton’s narration gives me the same chills I had listening to the recording of the original broadcast.