Aqua Marina

Album: Stingray (1964)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a love song addressed to a mermaid! Stingray was a futuristic children's TV series produced for British independent television; it ran from October 1964 to June 1965. The first series to be made with Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation, it featured an eponymous submarine, and a side character named Marina - which was actually modeled on Brigitte Bardot. Marina has a most alluring and uncharacteristic quality for a woman - she never speaks, although her thoughts are voiced by Sylvia Anderson. She is actually a slave of Titan who escapes and becomes a member of the crew, and by implication the lover of the vessel's captain, Troy Tempest.
  • Stingray was introduced by an instrumental theme which contains a one word lyric "Stingray", but was played out with "Aqua Marina", which was sung by Gary Miller. The song, which was the program's end theme, was composed by Barry Gray, who wrote much of the music for Gerry Anderson's TV series.
  • Although mermaids are traditionally beautiful, most are not as benign as Marina, as for example "Die Lorelei," or the Wishbone Ash version. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England, for all above

Comments: 4

  • Tina B from FloridaI wish I knew what the lyrics really are in Stingray - the end chorus part where the song goes out with "Stingray! Stingray! Make Way!" This is what it totally sounds like to me but my husband says they are just saying Sting ray the whole time. I dont believe this to be true.
  • Stangya Sorensa from EnglandGod, this song was as cheesy as gorgonzola! I could NOT be in the same room as the tv when it was playing!
  • John Doughty from BedfordshireThis was the theme tune for Stingray.
  • Borges from South AmericaI was seven or eight years old and I used listen to "Thunderbirds" on TV and this movie was part of my childhood. I never forgot this music dedicated to that little mermaid. I don't know if she was mute. At that age, I didn't understand english and I always wanted to know the meaning of the lyrics. Here I am and at last I understand. Congratulatios to all of you by publicate this beaultiful and unforgetable music that makes me remember my childhood.
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