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 Hank Aberle, a member of the Glitterhouse writes about the contribution that the he made as a Glitterhouse member to the movie soundtrack:

My name is Hank Aberle and I was a member of the Glitterhouse and sang
on the soundtrack to the movie. I would be happy to answer any
questions you might have about that experience.

I would be happy to recall my experiences with the Glitterhouse in relation
to Barbarella. At the time we were under contract with Bob Crewe as a
performing and recording band, and actually we were offered the choice to
work on one of two movies, the other which we rejected by the advice of our
manager Marty Erlichman, was an early movie by Brian DePalma called
"Greetings". The music was actually composed by Charles Fox with three
members of the Glitterhouse helping with the vocal arangements; myself,
Mike Gale the lead singer and main songwriter of the group, and Al Lax. By
the way, the other members of the group were Moogy Klingman of Utopia fame,
and Joel "Bishop" O'Brien of Flying Machine fame as well as many Carol King
recordings. The Barbarella soundtrack was recorded at A&R Studios in NYC,
engineered by Tony May and produced by Bob Crewe. I can recall that Bernard
"Pretty" Purdie was on drums and Vinnie Bell with his many guitar
inventions. At the last minute Bob Crewe actually substituted his voice
with Mike Gale's on "The Angel Is Love".
Bob Gruen was our friend, roomate and photographer but he didn't do the
Glitterhouse album cover. That was taken by some well known album cover
photographer of the time who's name escapes me.

Submitted by Mad Modeler

Trivia: The Black Queen's voice was dubbed by the same woman (name?) who
did the PA announcements on the cult classic TV show "The Prisoner".  

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