Happy 83rd birthday to synth godmother and transgender icon Wendy Carlos!

#wendycarlos #botd #transgender

Edit: I failed-ish, that was a photo of not Wendy leaning over a synth, mislabelled. I've subbed a photo of actually Wendy (I think, I trust nothing now) and placed the photo of Roger Joseph Manning Jr in the comments. Really cool that Wendy's getting so much love on Mastodon

one of the first albums I ever purchased on cassette was Weird Al Yankovic and Wendy Carlos doing a rendition of Peter and the Wolf.

It certainly wasn't the Weird Al album I was hoping to purchase, but given that I was living in an area kind of distant from decent music vendors, I was grateful to find anything at all. Moreover, I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome anyway!

https://archive.org/details/peter-and-the-wolf-wierd-al

#WendyCarlos #WeirdAlYankovic #PeterAndTheWolf #WeirdAl

Peter and the Wolf - Wierd Al : Wierd Al and Wendy Carlos : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Peter and the Wolf - Wierd Al and Wendy Carlos, CD scan and contents from 1988

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