The song Space Is The Place was Sun Ra's signature composition and as close to his theme song as anything. It was also the name of his one and only motion picture. Filmed in Oakland, California in the early 70s while Sun Ra was teaching a course, The Black Man in the Cosmos, at Berkeley, the film Space Is The Place couldn't have been more a product of its time. Here's a short segment featuring the song Outer Spaceways Incorporated.
In case you want to hear the song without all of the dialog interruptions, this is from the soundtrack LP:
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