# LP ID: Old record for children about the solar system **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-id-old-record-for-children-about-the-solar-system/314735 "2005-07-29T14:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-id-old-record-for-children-about-the-solar-system/314735/1 "2005-07-29T14:21:04Z")
I had a record when I was a kid, about the solar system. It was full of catchy tunes like _The Wandering Stars_ (which my older sister _hated_ because I played the album so much – but which helped her out on a science test because the song was stuck in her head!), _Meet Space Pilot Jones_, and another song about satellites. **The Wandering Stars** Mercury Venus Earth and Mars Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus Neptune and Pluto! The Wandering Stars! **Meet Space Pilot Jones** Meet Space Pilot Jones His body, it looks like a barrel… **(the one about satellites)** Is it raining in Paris? Will it snow in New York? I found this LP online months ago, and I e-mailed a guy who had it in his collection to confirm that this was the album I remembered. Unfortunately, I lost my e-mails when I changed my hard drive. I don’t remember the name of the album. I thought it might be something like _A Children’s Introduction to the Solar System_, but I’m not getting any hits on google under that name. The cover is largely black, with a big orange planet and a white space ship – if I remember correctly. The title, IIRC, is in yellow across the top of the cover. Can any of you music sleuths help me find the proper title to this album? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-id-old-record-for-children-about-the-solar-system/314735/2 "2005-07-29T14:26:59Z")
The Sun is a mass of Incandescent gas, A giagantic nuclear furnace. where hydrogen is turned into helieum at a temperature of millions of degrees. sorry no help for ya but it sounds like the same album They Might Be Giants used to have as kids, they covered that song. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-id-old-record-for-children-about-the-solar-system/314735/3 "2005-07-29T14:30:31Z")
Found it! [A Child’s Introduction To Outer Space](http://www.ele-mental.org/%7Eecc/exo/exotica/outerspace/childs%20intro..jpg) Got some of the cover details wrong, but here it is. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-id-old-record-for-children-about-the-solar-system/314735/4 "2005-07-29T16:08:02Z")
Just don’t forget Interplanet Janet. She’s a galaxy girl. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-id-old-record-for-children-about-the-solar-system/314735/5 "2005-07-31T00:03:37Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > sorry no help for ya but it sounds like the same album They Might Be Giants used to have as kids, they covered that song. Nope, that one was entitled [Space Songs](http://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/). (As a semi-hijack, anyone know the name of the public domain song that’s the source for the tune of that song? It’s stereotypically connected to me with that guy playing the fife in the “Spirit of '76” painting.) As for the solar system miss from a future world **Bryan Ekers** mentioned, she, for those who don’t know, comes from the classic ABC _Schoolhouse Rock_ interstitials. ---
**Author:** ![paulmarkj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@paulmarkj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulmarkj)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-id-old-record-for-children-about-the-solar-system/314735/6 "2016-01-03T19:33:03Z")
I remember this, in fact, I have been searching on and off for a long time. The lyrics and tune I remembered were “Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars…” but it was useless to search because the lyrics are so common! Thanks for finding it. The other lyrics I remember is: “Seven miles a second Seven miles a second A rocket ship could make the trip in Seven miles a second” I found it at [A Child's Introduction To Outer Space (Side 1) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eliDhERy3E) and [A Child's Introduction To Outer Space (Side 2) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwmGiPvEWbA) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lp-id-old-record-for-children-about-the-solar-system/314735/7 "2025-10-04T04:28:22Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Just don’t forget Interplanet Janet. > > She’s a galaxy girl. A solar system Miss from a distant world. Wait… That was _Schoolhouse Rock_. Edit: > [@mobo85](#): > > As for the solar system miss from a future world **Bryan Ekers** mentioned, she, for those who don’t know, comes from the classic ABC _Schoolhouse Rock_ interstitials. Beaten by 20 years. > [@paulmarkj](#): > > I found it at [A Child’s Introduction To Outer Space (Side 1) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eliDhERy3E) and [A Child’s Introduction To Outer Space (Side 2) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwmGiPvEWbA) Again, 9 years later… Thanks for the links. The link I posted in 2005 is now dead.