A Checklist of Sun Ra's
Compositions
ð Please note that citations within parentheses are later appearances of an earlier recording.
ð Also, compositions not by Sun Ra may appear in the listing beneath. Please contact Saturn's Web Master if you discover any.
-=A=-
Abstract "I" 29
Abstract Eye 29
Adventure in Space S11
Adventure-Equation 23
Adventures of Bugs Hunter 44
Advice to Medics 5
Africa 11
Aiethopia 11
Alabama (posthumously attributed to Sun Ra; composed & arranged by Jothan Callins [jlm]) 126
All of Everything, The 41
Alone In The Park part 1 30
Alone In The Park part 2 30
Alone Together 124
Along Came Ra 52a, 105 (CD only)
Along the Tiber 76
The Alter Destiny 32
Always on the Blue Side G7
Amen Amen (Amen, Meni, Many Amens) 70
An Unbeknowneth Love 77
Ancient Æithopia 7
Ancient Ethiopia 45
And Otherness 23
And This is My Beloved 16
Angel Race 119
Angelic Proclamation 48
Angels and Demons at Play [co-composed by Marshall Allen, Ronnie Boykins, & Sun Ra –jlm] 4
Ankh 6, 16, 17
Ankhnaton 13
Another Shade of Blue 52
The Antique Blacks 64
Approach of the Eternal Tomorrow 92
As Space Ships Approach 110
Astro 79
Astro Black 53, 61, 119
Astro Vision 33
Atlantis 35
Aurora Borealis 93
-=B=-
Back Alley Blues 100, 109
Bacon And Eggs 30
Bad and Beautiful 16
The Ballad of Smokey Joe G9
Barbizon 104
Bassism 15
The Bat Cave G8
Batman and Robin G8
Batman and Robin over the Roofs G8
Batman and Robin Swing G8
Batman Theme G8
Batman's Batmorang (should read: Batmarang) G8
Batmobile Wheels G8
The Beginning 15
Between Two Worlds 4
Beyond the Purple Star Zone 94
Beyond the Wilderness Of Shadows 112
Big City Blues S12
Big Time Baby G3, G4
Bimini 35
Biosphere Blues 38
A Bird's Eye View of Man's World 41
Black Forest Myth 48
Black Magic 71
A Black Mass 37
Black Myth 47, 48, 52a
Blackman 52, 52a
Blithe Spirit Dance 83
Blue Delight 120, 122
Blue Differentials 32
Blue Intensity 98, 99
Blue Soul 41
Blues at Midnight 5, 7
Blues on Planet Mars S14
Blues Ra 105
The Blue Set S12
Brainville 2
Brazilian Sun 21
Bridge on the Ninth Dimension 76
The Bridge S13
Bye Bye S3
Bygone 124
-=C=-
Call for All Demons 2, 4
Calling Planet Earth 21, 52a, 59, 127
Calundronius 33
Can This Be Love? 1
Can You Take It? 119
Carefree 127
Cascade 66
Celestial Fantasy 22
Celestial Love 98, 99
Celestial Realms 96
Celestial Road 89
Children of the Sun 106, 109
China Gate 15
Chromatic Shadows 34
Circe (sometimes misspelled Circle) 21
Cluster of Galaxies 17
The Code of Interdependence 40
Cogitation 32
Constellation 76, 77
Constructive Neutrons 79
Contemporary Currents 15
Continuation 38, (42)
Continuation To 38
Contrast 39
The Conversion of J. P. 43
Cosmic Chaos 28
Cosmic Echoes S1
The Cosmic Explorer 46
Cosmic Forces 52a
Cosmo Approach Prelude 119
Cosmo Dance 85
Cosmo Energy 95
Cosmo Enticement (Earth Primitive Earth) (42)
Cosmo Journey Blues 110
Cosmo Rhythmatic 68
Cosmo Song (Face the Music) 122
Cosmo Sun Connection 110
Cosmo-Darkness 49
Cosmo-Earth Fantasy 65
Cosmo-Extensions S18
The Cosmo-Fire 53
Cosmo-Media 60
Cosmo-Party Blues 109
Cosmonaut Astronaut Rendezvous 110
Cosmos 67
The Cosmos (Same composition as above?) 27
Cosmos Rendezvous 104
Cosmos Swing Blues S23
Cosmos Synthesis 63
Crystal Spears 54
Cymbals 55
-=D=-
D. 27 (Discipline 27) 105
Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie S1, S2
Dance of Innocent Passion 95
Dance of the Cosmo-Aliens 78
Dance of the Extra Terrestrians 114
Dance of the Language Barrier 124
Dance of the Living Image 41
Dancing in the Sun 27
Dancing Shadows 21, 31, (101)
Dark Clouds with Silver Linings 42
Dark Lights in a White Forest 84
Dark Myth Equation Visitation 49
Dawn 102
Dawn Mist G5
Dawn over Israel 26
Days of Happiness 83
Demon's Lullaby 4
The Design – Cosmos II 39
Destination Unknown 122, 127
Detour Ahead G7
Dig This Boogie G1
Dimensions in Time 21 (CD only)
Discipline (Discipline 15) 61
Discipline (Tall Trees in the Sun) 119a
Discipline 2 50
Discipline 8 50, 58
Discipline 27 49, 61, 105, 107
Discipline 27-II 58
Discipline 33 52a, 57
Discipline 99 53, 63
Discipline No. 1 124
Discipline No. 11 51, 52a
Discipline No. 15 51, 61
Disco 3000 78
Disguised Gods in Skullduggery Rendez-vous 91
Distant Stars 13
Distant Stars (different composition than the one above) 85
Door of the Cosmos 87
Dorothy's Dance 14
The Double That... 104
Dreaming S2
Dreams Come True 1, (101)
Drinking by Myself G2
Drummerlistics 109
Duo 85
Duos 48
-=E=-
Earth Primitive Earth 38, (42)
Easy Street 32
Echoes of the Future 127
Ecstasy of Being 22
Egypt Strut 102
Egyptian Fantasy 108, 123, 125, 127
El Is a Sound of Joy 5, 6, 66, 124
El Viktor 6, (9)
Encore 1 66
Encore 2 66
Enlightenment [composed by Hobart Dotson, words by Sun Ra –jlm] 7, (8), 46, 61, 74, 108, S16
Eve 9, 10
The Ever Is... 104
Everyday I Have the Blues G7
Everything Is Space 119a
Exotic Forest 31
Exotic Two 16
Extension Out 60
-=F=-
Face the Music 122
Face the Sun G10
Fall off the Log 2
Fate in a Pleasant Mood 13, 100, 105, 106, 109,/A>, 110, 126
A Fireside Chat with Lucifer 97
Flamingo 82
Flight of the Batman G8
For the Blue People 122
For the Sunrise 66, G10
Fragile Emotions Blues 109
Friend and Friendship 75
Friendly Galaxy 18, 78, 121, 125, 126
Friendly Galaxy Number 2 47, 49
From Out Where Others Dwell 66
Future 2
-=G=-
Galactic Synthesis 85
The Galaxy Way 32
God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be 83
Gods of the Thunder Realm 66
Gods on a Safari 26
The Golden Lady 11
Great Balls of Fire (NB: This is not the Jerry Lee Lewis hit from the Fifties.) S7
The Grid G10
-=H=-
Halloween in Harlem 72, 74
Happy New Year to You! S4
A Helio-hello! and Goodbye Too! 91
Heliocentric 27
Hidden Fire 1 116
Hidden Fire 2 117
Hidden Fire 3/4 117
Hidden Spheres 53
Hiroshima 103
Hole in the Sky 119a
Holiday for Soul Dance 14
Horizon 50
The Horo 75
Horoscope 7
Hot Skillet Mama S8
Hours After (Not the composition by E.J. Turner (qv S7) 114
A House of Beauty 28
House of Eternal Being 66
How Am I To Know? 63, 74
-=I=-
I Am the Alter-Destiny 52a
I Am the Brother of the Wind 52a
I Am We Are I 69
I Dream Too Much 113
I Wish I Had a Wishing Ring S15
If This Is Life 52a
I'll Get By 71
I'll Never Be The Same 112, 124
I'll Wait for You 70, 89, 119
I'm Gonna Unmask the Batman S15
I, Pharaoh 90
The Idea of it All 22
If You Came from Nowhere Here 119
Images 7, 57, 74, 90, 112
Imagination 31
Immortal Being 94
Impromptu Festival 41
Impulsively 29, 53
In a Blue Mood 52
India 5
Infinity of the Universe 17
Inside the Blues 88
Intensity 95
Intergalactic II 40
Intergalaxtic Research 38
Interplanetary Concepts 64
Interplanetary Music 10, 12
Interpretation 45
Interstellar Low Ways 12, 67, 98, 112, 119, 127
Interstellarism (actually Interstellar Low Ways) 98
Intrinsic Energies 88
Intro Percussion 126
Introduction 119
The Invisible Shield 19, 20
Invitation to the Blues G3
Irregular Galaxy 68
Island in the Sun 19
It's After the End of the World 48, 52a
It's Christmastime S4
It's Raining Again G7
-=J=-
Janus 19
Jazz and Romantic Sounds 42
Jazz from an Unknown Planet 67
Jazzisticology 81
Jet Flight 15
Joker Is Wild G8
Journey among the Stars 67
Journey Outward 42
Journey Stars Beyond 96
Journey through the Outer Darkness 61
Journey through the Outer Darkness Sky 47
Journey to Saturn 63, S16
Journey to the Stars 39
Journey Towards Stars 121
Jukin' 20
Jupiter Festival 38
-=K=-
Keep Your Sunny Side Up 14, 19, 63
Kingdom of Not 5
Kingdom of Thunder 13
Kohoutek Intro 61
Kosmos in Blue 17, (42)
-=L=-
The Lady with the Golden Stockings 11
Land of the Day Star 1
Lanquidity 80
Legend 44
Lemuria 35
Life is Splendid (from the Space is the Place Suite) 56, 61
Light from a Hidden Sun 91
The Light Thereof 49
Light Years 79
Lightning Struck the Poorhouse G1
Lights on (or of) a Satellite 13, 17, 42, 59, 66, 74, 125, 126
Looking Outward 15
Love in Outer Space 18, 41, 42, 52a, 61, 91, 105, 112, 121, 125, S17
Love is for Always 65
Love on a Far Away Planet 114
Lullaby for Realville 2
-=M=-
The Magic City 29, (42)
Magic City Blue 83
Make Another Mistake [co-composed by Micahel Ray & Sun Ra –jlm] 70
Makeup 97
Manhattan Cocktail 82
Manhattan Undertone Symphony L3
Manhattan Undertones L3
Mayan Temples 81, 88, 90, 124, S16
Media Dreams 77
Medicine for a Nightmare 4, 5, (S6)
Melody (They will Come Back) 126
Message to Earthman S8
Mr. Blues Is Coming to Town G2
Monorails and Satellites 32
Moon Dance 23
Moon People 75
Moonship Journey 67
Mu 35
Muck Muck S8
Music from the World Tomorrow 4
My Baby's Barrelhouse G2
My Brother the Wind 40
Mysterious Crystal 52a
The Mystery of Being 76
The Mystery of Two 67
Mystic Prophecy 112
Myth versus Reality 48
The Myth-Science Approach 48
Mythic 1 125
Mythic 2 125
-=N=-
Nameless One #2 98, (99)
Nameless One #3 98
Narrative 41
Nashira 120
Nashville Jumps G1
Nature's God 49
Nebulæ 27
Neo Project No. 2 67
Neptune 58
Neverness 121
New Day 15
New Horizons 2, 10
New Planet 38, (42)
New Steps 75
Next Stop Mars 22, 31, (42), 122
Nidhamu 51
The Night of the Purple Moon 41, (42)
The Nile 21
The Ninth Eye 33
No Energy Crisis 53
Nothin' from Nothin' 113
Nothing Is 31
Nubia 11
The Nubians of Plutonia 11
Nuclear War 97, 99, 106, (S18)
-=O=-
Oblique Parallax 96
October S11
Of Heavenly Things 27
Of Invisible Them 121
Of Mythic Worlds 88
Of Other Tomorrows Never Known 81
Of Sounds and Something Else 15
Of the Other Tomorrow 66
Oh Babe G2
Ohosnisixaeht 69
The Old Man of the Mountain G9
Ombre Monde #2 (Shadow World) 59
Omniscience 93
Omnisonicism 95
Omniverse 84
On Jupiter 86, 91, 122
On Sound Infinity Spheres 66
On the Blue Side 16
One Day in Rome 76
Only Time Will Tell G11
Onward 12
Opus (in) Springtime 124, S22
Other Planes of There 24
The Other Side of the Sun 82
Other Voices, Other Blues 76
Other Worlds 27, 42
Otherness 39
Otherness Blue 39, (101)
The Others in Their World 13
The Others in Their World (different composition than above) 85
Out beyond the Kingdom of 63
Out in Space 48
Out of Nowhere 120
Out There a Minute 42
The Outer Heavens 17
Outer Nothingness 27
Outer Reach Intensity-Energy 104
Outer Space Employment Agency 61, 63
Outer Space E.M. (i.e., Outer Space Emergency) 61
Outer Space Plateau S19
Outer Spaceways Incorporated 31, 34, 36, 39, 45, 52a
Outside the Time Zone 41
The Overseer 52a
Overtones of China 6, 9
-=P=-
Pan Afro 58
Paradise 6
Pathways to Unknown Worlds 60
The Penguin Chase G8
Penguin's Umbrella G8
Penthouse Serenade 74
The People Are 66
The Perfect Man S15
Perspective Prisms of Is 33
Pharaoh's Den 110
Piano Interlude 1
Piano Intro 66
Pictures of Infinity 36
Pin-Points of Spiral Prisms 91
The Place of Five Points 84
Planet Earth 6, 9
Planet Earth Day 125
Planetary Search 94
Pleasant Twilight 39, (101)
Pleasure 24
Pleiades 72, 125
Plutonian Nights 11
Pork 'n' Beans G5
Portrait of the Living Sky 5
Possession 2
Prelude 66
Prelude to Stargazers 124
Priest 119
Primitive 43
Prophecy 79
Provocative Celestials 91
Purple Night Blues 121
Pyramids 45
-=Q=-
Quest S19
Quiet Ecstasy 93
-=R=-
Ra Rachmaninov 93
Ra to the Rescue 100
Ra to the Rescue Chapter 1 100
Ra to the Rescue Chapter 2 100
The Rainmaker 21
Rays from the Outer Tomorrow 99
Realm of Lightning 44
Rebellion 76
Reflections in Blue 6, (9)
Reflections in Blue (different composition than above) 113
Reflects Motion 18
Retrospect 97, 99, 116
The Riddler's Retreat G8
The Ridiculous "I" and the Cosmos Me 64
Riverboat G6
Robin's Theme G8
Rocket Number Nine 12, 26, 57, 94, 112, S13
Romance of Two Planets 68
Romance on a Satellite 94
Rome at Twilight 75
The Rose Hue Mansions of the Sun 92
Rough House Blues S18
Rumpelstiltskin 90
-=S=-
Salutation from the Universe 59
Satellites are Outerspace... 19
Satellites are Scanning (s.b. Spinning) 127
Satellites are Spinning 34, 37, 44, 52a, 74, 108, 127
Saturn 6, 7, (9), 36, S6
Saturn Moon S13
Saturn Research 77
Saturn Rings 122, 126
Say 89
Say It Isn't So 113
Scene 1, Take 1 45
Sea of Sounds 57
Search Light Blues 16
Second Stop Is Jupiter 38, 122
Secrets of the Sun 18, (42)
Seductive Fantasy 86
Seen III, Took 4 44
Selina's Fantasy 30
Seven Points 85
The Shadow World 21, 29, 31, 34, 46, 50, 59, 72, 112, 122
The Shadows Took Shape 47
She Only Fools with Me G3
Silhouettes of the Shadow World 91
Sketch 24
Sky and Sun 69
Skylight 32
Sleeping Beauty 87
Soft Talk 5, (S5)
Solar Boats 33
Solar Differentials 18
Solar Drums 17
Solar Ship 63
Solar Ship Voyage 49
Solar Symbols 18
Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue 71
Somebody Else's Idea (aka: Somebody Else's World) 39
Somebody's in Love S3
Sometimes the Universe Speaks 72
Somewhere Else 39, 119a
Somewhere in Space 12, 42
Somewhere Out 85
Somewhere There 36
Song No. 1 64
The Song of Drums 65
Song of the Sparer 36
Song of the Stargazers 85
Song of Tree and Forest (aka: New Planet) (42)
The Soul Vibrations of Man 72
The Sound Mirror 81
Sound of Joy 6
Sound Spectra (b) Spec Sket 24
Southside Jazz G6
Space Aura 12, 18
Space Chants 122
Space Dance 79
Space Fling 82
Space Is the Place 50, 52a, 57, 61, 64, 78, 82, 105, 106, 112, 122, 126, 127
Space Jazz Reverie 15
Space Loneliness 10, 12, S10
Space Loneliness No. 2 51
Space Mates 13, 26
Space Probe 43
Space Shuttle 109
Space Towers 32
Spectrum 44
Spiral Galaxy 24
Spontaneous Simplicity 36, 47, 59
Springtime Again 87
Springtime and Summer Idyll 76
Springtime in Chicago 5
Star Time 11
Stardust from Tomorrow 124
The Stargazers 46
Stars that Shine Darkly (parts 1 and 2) 103, 104
Starships and Solar Boats (aka: Kosmos in Blue) (42)
Starwatchers 50
State Street [Chicago] 19, S10
State Street Chicago (same composition as above) 113
Strange Celestial Road 89
Strange Dreams 48
Strange Mathematic Rhythmic Equations 108
Strange Strings 25
Strange Strings (featuring lightning drum) 25
Strange Strings (featuring vocal by Arthur Jenkins) 25
Strange Worlds 45, 48, 52a
Street Named Hell 2
Sub Underground 65
Sub Underground series 19, 34, 43
The Sun Man Speaks S9
The Sun Myth 28
The Sun One S9
Sun Procession 125
Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space 31, 34
Sun Ra Blues 126a
Sun Song 2
Sun Steps 75
Sun Thoughts 39
Sun, Sky, and Wind 76
Sun-Earth Rock 41
Sunnyside Up 14, 19, 63
Sunology 5
Sunology, part II 5
Sunrise 120
Sunrise in Different Dimensions 91
Sunset on the Night on the River Nile (i.e., Sunset on the Nile) 124
Sunset on the Nile 124
Super Blonde 5, (S5)
Super Sonic Jazz 5
Super Sonic Sounds 5
Swing a Little Taste 2 (CD only), 3
-=T=-
Taking a Chance on Chances (should be Chancey) 73
Tapestry from an Asteroid 10, 15
Temple U 65
Tenderness 83
That's How I Feel 80
Thataway 30
Theme of the Stargazers 31, 50, 108, 124, 126a, 127
There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) 80
There Is Change in the Air 64
They Dwell on Other Planes 120
They Plan to Leave 100, 109
They'll Come Back 44, 108
Third Heaven 72
Third Planet 50, 78
This Song is Dedicated to Nature's God 64
This Strange World 47
This World Is Not My Home 116
Thither and Yon 23
Thoughts on Thoth 69
Three Little Words 69
Time after Time 19 (2 versions), 124
Time for Moving G7
Tiny Pyramids 4
To a Friend 68
To Nature's God (instrumental) 40
To Nature's God (space chant) 49
Transition 2
Trio 83
Tristar 119a
21st Century Romance 41
Twigs at Twilight 77
Twin Stars of Thence 80
Two Tones 6, (9)
-=U=-
UFO 86
Under Different Stars 52a
Under the Spell of Love 101
unidentified blues 116
unidentified improvisation 116
Unity 74
Universe in Blue 52
Universe in Blue, Part I 52
Universe in Blue, Part II 52
The Unknown Factor 52a
Unknown Kohoutek (i.e., Love in Outer Space) 61
Untitled (Echoes of Spring) 127
untitled blues 106
untitled improvisation 72, 106, 107
Urnack 4, (S6)
Utopia 79
The Utter Nots 45
-=V=-
Variations of Kohoutek Themes (i.e., Discipline 27) 61
Velvet 7, 10
Visions 79
Visitant of the Ninth Ultimate 84
Visits Planet Earth 9
Vista Omniverse 96
The Voice of Pan 26
Voice of Space 23
Voice of the Eternal Tomorrow 92
-=W=-
Walking on the Moon 39, (101)
Wanderlust 20
Watusa 11, 52a
Watusi, Egyptian March (i.e., Watusa 48
We Are in the Future 15
We Live to Be 70
We'll Wait for You 52a
We're Living in the Space Age 52a
We Travel the Spaceways 10, 21, 34, 52a, 66, 106, 112, 115, 122, 126, 127
West End 84
West End Side of Magic City 84
What's That? 15
When Angels Speak of Love 22, (42)
When Lights are Dark 100
When Spaceships Appear 109
When Sun Comes Out 21
When There Is No Sun 72, 75
Where is Tomorrow? 15
Where Pathways Meet 80
Why Go to the Moon? 49
Why Was I Born? 119
The Wind Speaks (i.e., Somebody Else's World) 34
The Wind Speaks (a Moog solo) 39
The World of Africa 65
The World of the Invisible 1
The World of the Lightning 47
World of the Myth "I" 39
The World Shadow (i.e., Shadow World) 26
Worlds Approaching 25
Would I for All That Were 64
-=X-Y-Z=-
Yera [sic; should be year] of the Sun 77
You Never Told Me That You Care 8
Your Guest is as Good as Mine 120
Yucatan (Saturn version) 35
Yucatan (Impulse version) 35
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