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Major Tom (coming home) clarification please!?

Can someone please help me? This has been driving me crazy! I recently heard the song Major Tom Coming Home by Shiny Toy Guns as a remake in a Lincoln car commercial. This reminded me how much I like this song, and in trying to find it I kept coming up with Peter Schilling as the artist, yet when I look for Space Oddity, the "original" major tom song, I keep coming back to David Bowie! Who's song are these anyways???! This Peter Schilling (who the heck is he?), or Bowies, or someone else's completely? Also, I really like the Shiny Toy guns version but havent been able to find it anywhere. Any help or insight would be awesome. Thanks so much.

*Meghan

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  • 1 decade ago
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    OKAY!!! I'll help ^_^!!!

    Peter Schillings sings "Major Tom (Coming Home)" which Shiny Toy Guns did a really awesome cover of for the 2010 lincoln MKZ commercial

    and

    David Bowie sings "Space Oddity" which Cat Power did a cover of for the 2009 lincoln MKS commercial

    David Bowie's song is the "orignal" major tom song but they're two seperate songs Peter Schillings didn't do a remake.

    Unfortunatly Shiny Toy Guns hasn't realised a full verison of their cover of Major Tom (Coming Home).

    I'm not quite sure about Cat Power, i think there is a full verison of their cover of Space Oddity!

    HOPE THAT HELPED!!!! ^_^

    Source(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_JGDO3X87g "Space Oddity" covered by Cat Power is the 1st link and "Major Tom (Coming Home)" covered by Shiny Toy Guns is the second link YAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_gXXv0M2fE http://shinytoyguns.com/news/major-tom/ heres another link to the Shiny Toy Guns website with the commercail on it
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Major Tom Remake

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    6 years ago

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    Major Tom (coming home) clarification please!?

    Can someone please help me? This has been driving me crazy! I recently heard the song Major Tom Coming Home by Shiny Toy Guns as a remake in a Lincoln car commercial. This reminded me how much I like this song, and in trying to find it I kept coming up with Peter Schilling as the artist, yet when I...

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  • 1 decade ago

    Get the full Major Tom story here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Tom

    Basically Bowie created Major Tom in his 1969 song Space Oddity - and that character has turned up in heaps of other songs by both Bowie and others. Pete Schilling's 1983 song retells the story and the Shiny Toy Guns cover it.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What? This question is confusing.

    Space Oddity is by David Bowie.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY

    If that's what you're asking...there you go. He sings about Major Tom in other songs, as well.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    The Peter Schilling song is a TOTALLY different song than the David Bowie "Space Oddity" Peter's song was written as a "response" to the Bowie song, it wasn't a cover or a remake.

    That should clear that up.

    The part where i can't help is that i don't know if shiny toy guns covered the bowie song or the schilling song.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I wouldn't call the police on my son trying to protect my daughter, he obviously took it to the extreme but not having a dad he maybe feels it's his responsibility to protect his sister and her boyfriend hitting her is a big deal, I would talk to him it sounds like it was him giving g him into trouble won't do a lot of help but he needs help with his anger management because this could have ended a lot lot worse and let him know how much it would hurt you and his sister if anything were to happen to him or if he ended up in jail like his dad, putting all the effort of being a single mother it hurts that you could lose him over his stupid decisions

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Major Tom was originated by DAVID BOWIE in SPACE ODDITY.

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