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Check out the latest news and read the history of significant events in the construction of this site.

26 March 2007	Spaced Out site relaunched as a wiki.
27 February 2007	Sad news: Bobby Rosengarden passes away. An obituary can be found at the New York Times and The Independent.
1 January 2007	Work begins to convert the site into a Wiki.
August 2006	I announce my "retirement" from maintaining the static web-site.
18 August 2005	Enoch Light would have been 100 years old today - happy birthday, maestro..
16 June 2005	Sad news: Don Arnone passes away. An obituary can be found here.
9 August 2004	Sad news: Tony Mottola passes away. Obituaries can be found at 7Online, Newsday, NY Times and a Tony Mottola biography at the Space Age Pop site.
July 2004	Several cover scans added to the discographies. Size style changed: text made smaller to be a bit easier on the eye.
13 July 2003	Grand Award discography updated.
12 July 2003	Check out the reissue project page to have your say on a new Enoch Light compilation project.
30 August 2002	I added a discussion forum to the site! You can now discuss Enoch Light-related topics with other fans around the world.
1 February 2002	Varese Sarabande release Heart & Soul Guitar, a compilation of Tony Mottola's Project 3 recordings - with liner notes by me again! See a list of all the Varese reissues to date on the CD page.
17 April 2001	Varese Sarabande reissue the 1974 Project 3 album Beatles Classics with lots of bonus tracks. And I wrote the liner notes! More info on the CD page.
6 December 2000	Mr F. Odder continues to show his dedication to the cause by sending in loads of cover scans. Thumb through the Command and Project 3 pages and drool over them now...
6 June 2000	You can now listen to some Enoch Light courtesy of Mr F. Odder's Friendly Persuasion internet radio show!
27 December 1999	Sad news: Walt Levinsky passes away. An obituary can be found at the New York Times.
27 December 1999	Top Rank 78 added to 78s discography and new Top Rank 45s discography added with two entries. Various other minor improvements and fixes.
9 April 1999	Top Rank 78 added to 78s discography and new Top Rank 45s discography added with two entries. Various other minor improvements and fixes.
6 March 1999	Major site redesign launched. Colour-scheme now much more readable. Shockwave Flash animations of four LP covers added to front page.
13 February 1999	Contact form added.
5 December 1998	Chris Dedrick interview added to my website about The Free Design.
4 December 1998	Sad news: Bob Haggart passes away at the age of 84 today. An obituary can be found here.
25 November 1998	Discographies for 45rpm singles hugely expanded
19 November 1998	Work on draft copy of Chris Dedrick interview finally complete. Copy sent to Chris for approval. Interview due to go live within 2 weeks.
12 September 1998	Discographies by Artist added. This feature allows you to generate discographies for all the musicians known to have recorded for Enoch Light.
22 August 1998	Set of links added to the Other Resources page enabling you to go straight to song-writers' entries at the ASCAP website.
25 July and 11 August 1998	Spoke at length to ex-Free Designer Chris Dedrick. The results of our conversation will appear shortly on the The Free Design site.
22 July 1998	The Free Design are given their own The Free Design within Spaced Out - with all the current reissue activity I thought they deserved it.
16 May 1998	Peter Hipwell informs me that several Command titles were issued in the UK by Pye! Thus began another discography.
29 March 1998	Discographies expanded and rearranged.
20 March 1998	Menubar further improved and new 'Awards' page added to the site for the accolades which are starting to come our way.
8 February 1998	'Ugly' menubar replaced with slick new-look menu-bar. Many updates made to discographies.
1 November 1997	Cascading Style Sheets applied across whole site. All main site pages now have the same look.
1 November 1997	Several new cover scans added to the Command and Project 3 discographies thanks to the efforts of Brooke Sietinsons
24 October 1997	The wonder of Cascading Style Sheets applied to all the discography "details" files to apply consistency across all these hundreds of files. Here's an example. Unfortunately, you'll need MSIE 3+ or Netscape 4+ to fully appreciate it!
18 October 1997	Interview with Dick Lieb added.
8 August 1997	List of several missing titles received from the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archive.
22 July 1997	Details of the 1997 National Enoch Light Birthday Party celebrations.
6 June 1997	Dick Lieb (arranger and Moog player on Spaced Out and Permissive Polyphonics) interviewed by phone. Results to appear on the site shortly!
29 May 1997	More work on a Java Search applet - speed and layout improvements.
2 May 1997	Major addition - Java applet which enables you to search site for artist/track titles.
1 May 1997	Site reworking continues: work started on making appearance consistent throughout (colors, fonts etc). Menu frame divider removed, thereby integrating menu with the rest of the site.
30 April 1997	Major site re-working commences, starting with a tasty new Java-enabled menu bar (be warned, this is what happens when you buy a "teach yourself Java" textbook(!) - and there's more of this to come…) .
16 April 1997	Command Japan titles entered (with thanks to Michael Toth). You simply must check out the cover art - they're a little different to the US issues!
13 April 1997	Following a search of the Library of Congress several additions made to Command and Waldorf discographies.
4 April 1997	Additions and improvements to the Command and Project 3 discographies.
3 April 1997	Waldorf Music Hall Discography expanded significantly (with thanks to Michael Toth). UK site re-established at Easynet, a provider offering unlimited FREE webspace! Expect to see dramatic expansion of the site. US site will continue to exist as a partial mirror.
18 March 1997	Pile of links added to the Other Resources page to allow direct searching of the extremely useful All Music Guide site.
4 March 1997	Additions to post-Enoch Command discography, with thanks to Brad Yost.
26 February 1997	New links added to the Internet Movie Database for Light Brigade members' TV/movie credits.
19 February 1997	New Interview - Julie Klages.
12 January 1997	The lengthy task of adding personnel details to each of the LPs commences! Command Australia and Project 3 Australia titles added.
21 December 1996	Several additions to the Command discography. New link on Links page to Chris Dedrick's (ex Free Design) homepage.
25 September 1996	Project 3 CD/cassette reissue catalogue discography added.
15 September 1996	Command Classics discography added.
22 August 1996	Enoch Light's 78rpm recordings from 1927 through to the mid50s added.
20 August 1996	This news page added. Grand Award discography brought up to date. Command discography updated. Richard Gradone's book used for both of these.
19 August 1996	Copy of Richard Gradone's doctoral dissertation receved from UMI.
18 August 1996	91st Anniversary of Enoch Light's birthday. Dick Hyman and Tony Mottola interviews go "live".
17 August 1996	Michael Toth throws Enoch Light "birthday party" in Canton, Ohio. Lem Lloyd and other Enoch Light relatives attend.
5-6 August 1996	Met up with Dick Hyman who was in Edinburgh for the Jazz Festival. He gave me his interview typed up and I gave him his first experience of the internet and showed him the Spaced Out site.
1 August 1996	Bundle of stuff received from Tony Mottola - including his handwritten responses to my questions.
25 June 1996	Called Tony Mottola - he agrees to be interviewed by mail.
March-June 1996	Requests for information from the Exotica Mailing List lead to the rapid expansion of the site.
26 February 1996	The doors open on a very basic Enoch Light site...
12 February 1996	I post the following question to the Exotica Mailing List: "And just why, if Enoch Light was such a superstar band-leader as he appears to have been, does no-one seem to know anything about him, and why isn't there an Enoch Light WWW page?! Hey, maybe I should set one up!" Thus began the adventure!
25 August 1995	I join the Exotica Mailing List.
February 1995	'Inherited' Enoch Light's "Spaced Out" and Tony Mottola's "Guitar Factory" from my mum (ie: she was going to throw them out!). This re-kindles some interest...