Moog Indigo

Moog Indigo is the seventh studio album by electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey. It was released in 1970 on Vanguard Records, In the early 1970s, after from the album "The Happy Moog" in collaboration with American composer Harry Breuer, and the album "Switched-On Santa" with Sy Mann, (both made by the Pickwick label). Return to France, composing songs for the album "Moog Indigo", released that same year.
Production and composition.
Recording.
The album uses the Moog synthesizer, a Electronic Music instrument named for its creator, Robert Moog, the synthesizer was used on previous albums like Kaleidoscopic Vibrations from 1967 (Perrey's first album to use the synthesizer that I record together with Kingsley) or The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey from 1968.
Music.
This album contains a total of 12 songs, half of the album tracks are versions and musical arrangements of songs, both from Classical music (4) and Popular music (2) like: The fifth track, which is a version of the interlude Flight of the bumblebee by the Russian composer Rimsky Korsakov. Perrey for this version used sounds of Bees, being arranged and modified in a way for the song, According Perrey about 46 long hours. "Gossipo Perpetuo", which is a cover of Moto Perpetuo written by the Italian composer Niccolo Paganini. 
"The elephant never forgets", which is a version of the "Turkish March" belonging to the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (all of these cited themes were composed by Perrey, along with xylophonist Harry Breuer and Gary Carol). a composition by Ludwig van Beethoven in B flat major and in tempo vivace, whose original version belongs to the group of musical pieces "6 variations" from 1806, later he put himself back together for the play The Ruins of Athens. "18Th Century Puppet", composed by Breuer and Pat Prilly based on a tune named "Romance Andante" by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The eleventh track, which is a version of the version from "Hello Dolly" composed originally by Jerry Herman, and the last track "Passport to the Future", what is a version of the 1967 song "Seuls su Monde" by Mireille Mathieu. composed by Perrey and Badale.
Reissues.
The album was released in June 15, 1970 in various countries such as France, (Perrey's native country) United States and Canada on Vinyl format. The album was reissue several times by Vanguard or other labels, among these re-releases include: the reissue from 1996 distributed in UK by Ace in May 13 and by Vanguard in July 23, on CD format. The reissue from 1 January 2006 by Vanguard on Digital, and the reissue from 31 March 2017 in U.S.A. by Vanguard on Vinyl format.
Lawsuits.
The song "The Elephant Never Forgets" was the subject of a lawsuit in 16 Nov 2009 against Mexican and American medias Televisa, Univision Communications, Inc., Galavision, Inc., Xenon Pictures, Inc, and Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc, who was forced to pay to the Vanguard label and the French composer Perrey in 2010 for the use of the song for several years with neither royalty payments to Perrey and Vanguard, nor permission for its use. However Chespirito was not directly involved in the lawsuit.
Samples.
"E.V.A."
"Hello Dolly"
"Gossipo Perpetuo"
Use in media.
Five songs from this album were used in Chespirito's TV series, one of them, titled "The Elephant Never Forgets" that was used as the main theme of the Mexican program " El Chavo del Ocho", gaining popularity in much of Latin America. four themes taken from the album were used as background theme in some episodes and Sketches of programs by Chespirito, examples of this include:
The song "The Elephant Never Forgets" also was used as Canadian program The Buck Shot Show's main theme. In 2004 a Zelnorm commercial, which showing women lifting their shirts to reveal writing that mentioned their IBS symptoms, used the song "E.V.A.". more specifically the remix of Fatboy Slim. The track "The elephant never forgets" in 2003 was used in chapter 11 of season 1 titled "The leak", of the series 31 minutos. The final credits imitate the musical credits of El Chavo del Ocho. "Gossipo Perpetuo" was used for the intro of the Swedish comedy program Anders Och Måns, a series that aired on television between 2003 and 2004.