Submitted by Bubbly-Incident t3_zukh8j in todayilearned
The chipmunk Christmas song is just tape speed minipulation as well
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The first time I ever popped for a ring tone it was dog's barking the Italian National Anthem. I loved that damn ring tone so much it followed me onto two more phones before I lost it in a switch over.
Still better than today's "music".
There's plenty of great music and plenty of bad music no matter what time period you're looking at. Being a curmudgeon is boring.
In 1969, the year Led Zeppelin I came out, the top charting song was “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies. There has always been horrible drivel.
Yeah, since then.
So when was there not drivel?
30s.
Here's the song
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog
Several earlier examples of a “tape-manipulated“ hit record were those recordings by guitarist Les Paul, who used overdubs, speed manipulation and effects to create many hit songs, starting in the late 1940’s. His recordings with his (then) wife Mary Ford were among the most popular, with some 17 titles reaching top ten status and a few reaching #1. The majority of their hits were recorded and released before 1955.
I remember hearing it for the first time as a kid, thought it was the greatest thing ever at the time (mid-70s or so)
One of the first jobs I had was working the holiday season at a Toys R Us where this song featured on the lineup of a 60-minute perpetually looping tape (other memorable musical interludes on that tape included All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth, Alvin and the Chipmunks singing Christmas Don't Be Late, and Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer).
To this day, Christmas music--ANY Christmas music--makes me want to grab a chainsaw and rampage.
Okay, that one just made me want to grab a butter knife and rampage. That's an improvement.
And I knew it from Dr demento, But anyways thought it was early midi. This is way more impressive
My Dad had a portable reel-to-reel we used to play with. Back in the day all the music that was released on vinyl was also released on r2r. This was before 8-tracks and long before cassettes. Splicing was routine, splicing made it possible to edit, you could make radio interviews flow by cutting out the dead space and the mis-speakings, you could edit your garage band recordings, for the first time you could record church services for distribution, etc. You could make concert bootlegs which was revolutionary. R2r was immensely important into the 70s.
Here is an r2r bootleg of the last time Duane Allman played the recently composed "Blue Sky" live before he died, no studio version with Duane was ever made but we have this.
Wish we had all my dad’s old reel to reel tapes from that era.
When I was a kid, my local radio station would play this to intro their lost pet announcements during the holiday season.
This is a song I play on very long car rides when I start to go insane.
I also didn’t realize it was that old.
Y'all never heard of Pierre Schaeffer and Musique Concrete
Replace Last Christmas with this song.
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