Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

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Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen is a rock band formed in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The band's name was inspired by 1950s film serials featuring the character Commando Cody and from an episode of another serial entitled "Lost Planet Airmen". The band's founder and leader, George Frayne, took the stage name Commander Cody.

After several years spent playing in local bars, core members of the group migrated to San Francisco and scored a recording contract with MCA records; the group's first album release, titled Lost in the Ozone, arrived in late 1971 and yielded the group's best-known hit, a version of the country song "Hot Rod Lincoln" which reached the top ten on the Billboard singles chart in early 1972. The band released several moderately-successful albums through the first half of the decade before Frayne disbanded the group in 1976.

Retaining his stage name of Commander Cody, Frayne had a mostly-obscure solo career, touring and releasing albums sporadically from 1977 to the present day; some later albums were released under the Lost Planet Airmen name, though seldom were original group members involved. Recent releases have been under the name The Commander Cody Band; in addition to Frayne, current members of the band include Steve Barbuto on drums, Mark Emerick on guitar, and Rick Mullen on bass.

See also

Cody (disambiguation page)


Discography

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

  • Lost In The Ozone (1971)
  • Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers' Favorites (1972)
  • Country Casanova (1973)
  • Live From Deep In The Heart Of Texas (1974)
  • Tales From The Ozone (1975)
  • We've Got A Live One Here! (1976)
  • Sleazy Roadside Stories (1988) (recorded live in 1973)
  • The Tour From Hell - 1973 (1996) (also recorded live in 1973)

Commander Cody

  • Rock n' Roll Again (1977)
  • Flying Dreams (1978)
  • Lose It Tonight (1980)
  • Let's Rock (1987)
  • Aces High (1990) (As Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen)
  • Worst Case Scenario (1994) (As Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen)
  • Live At Gilley's (2000)
  • Command Performance (2002)
  • All the Way Live from Turkey Trot (2005) (As The Commander Cody Band)