Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970- #8 “Theme Music For The Film ‘2001 A Space Odyssey”- Berlin Philharmonic. January 3, 1970.
- Single: “Theme Music For The Film ” 2001 A Space Odyssey”- Berlin Philharmonic
- Record Company: Polydor
- Genre: Classical
- Written by: Richard Strauss
- Time: 1:38
- B-Side: Elvira Madigan Theme From Piano Concerto #21
- Album: 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Grade: A
- Peaked at #90 4 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100.
Conducted by Karl Bohm. This was the only Hot 100 entry by the Berlin Philharmonic.
It’s one of those songs the moment it starts playing you can’t mistake it.
Wonderful film… seem to recall seeing it in Cinemascope at some cinema in central London way back when!