"Mr. Spaceman" #36 10/29/1966

Yep, the Sixties had some spacey songs, including this one from the Byrds. Band member Gene Clark left the group partly because he had a fear of being in airplanes. He later said, "You can't be a Byrd if you can't fly." NASA used this song at least once as a wake-up call to the space shuttle astronauts. When this record came out, their co-manager took out a $1,000,000 insurance policy against the band being abducted by aliens. Bill Lee, former MLB pitcher for Boston and Montreal, had the nickname "Spaceman" due to his out-there personality.