Non-musical sounds used in AT40 songs

[80sat40fan]

It might be fun coming up with a list of all the different sounds used in AT40 songs over the years. The sounds could kick off a song, be featured in the middle of it or end the tune. A few that come to mind:

• Coins and cash registers are heard opening up "Money" by Pink Floyd
• A rooster's "cock-a-doodle-doo" intros "Early In The Morning" by The Gap Band
• A school bell kicks off "High School Dance" by The Sylvers
• Bicycle bells are heard midway through "Bicycle Race" by Queen
• A car crash is heard in Janet Jackson's "Control"
• Bubbles are heard in The Jets' tune, "Rocket 2 U"
• A telephone ring is featured in the introduction of ELO's "Telephone Line"
• What sounds like a hammer, anvil and shoveling gravel all start off Wings' "Silly Love Songs"
• A quitting time whistle kicks off "Allentown" by Billy Joel
• A passing truck is heard in "Keep On Truckin'" by Eddie Kendricks (interestingly, it's only heard in the single version)

What are some other sounds heard in AT40 songs over the years?

[djjoe1960]

A door bell opens Let 'Em In by Wings.

The sound of a gunshot opens Wild, Wild West by Escape Club.

[trekkielo]

"Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" and "The Empire Strikes Back (Medley)" by Meco has sounds from their respective films.

"Theme from Close Encounters" by Meco has sounds from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

"Themes from The Wizard of Oz" by Meco has sounds from The Wizard of Oz.

"Pac-Man Fever" by Buckner & Garcia has Pac-Man video game sounds.

"The Curly Shuffle" by Jump 'N the Saddle Band has sounds from The Three Stooges.

"Mr. Blue Sky" by Electric Light Orchestra makes prominent use of a cowbell-like sound, which is credited on the album, to percussionist Bev Bevan, as that of a "fire extinguisher".

"Don't Bring Me Down" by Electric Light Orchestra ends with the sound of a door slamming. According to producer Jeff Lynne, this was a metal fire door at Musicland Studios where the song was recorded.

"Allentown" by Billy Joel has factory sounds.

"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" by Sugarloaf has telephone dialing sounds.

[jlthorpe]

The typewriter sounds in Dolly Parton's "9 to 5".

Prince's "Batdance" and Meco's two "Star Wars" songs from 1977 and 1980 have sound clips and sound effects from "Batman" and the "Star Wars" films in them.

Regina's "Baby Love" has the generic baby noise in the background that you often hear in commercials.

Andrew Dice Clay's "OH!" in EMF's "Unbelievable".

The sound clips from "Full Metal Jacket" in 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny".

The sound of glass breaking at the beginning of Billy Joel's "You May Be Right".

Motorcycle sounds and dialogue between Vince Neil and Tommy Lee in Motley Crue's "Girls Girls Girls".

[mkarns]

The explosion in the Bee Gees' "Tragedy".

Several sound effects, apparently supposed to simulate gunfire, in Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust", which were run through a harmonizer.

The telephone dialing in Love Unlimited's "Walking In the Rain With the One I Love"; that phone call was answered by Barry White, who produced it.

[slf]

A car or motorcycle engine is rumbling in the midway point of Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime".

At the end of the first verse of "Girlfriend" by Pebbles, you hear a very short, clipped bark from a dog.

And, of course, LOTS of songs have rain or thunder sound effects; some real, some artificially created.  My favorite example of the latter occurs several times towards the end of the Bee Gee's "Tragedy".  I once saw on a YouTube video Barry Gibb cupping his hands to his mouth in front of the microphone, then opening his hands while simultaneously blowing into the mic to simulate the thunder sound effects.

[chrislc]

Camera in Freeze-Frame
Phil Rizzuto in PBTDL
and on a related note the girl in Hungry Like The Wolf

(maybe the OP meant non-human sounds - if so forget the last two)

Seagulls in Cherish by Kool and the Gang

[at40petebattistini]

Here are a few more…

*water splashing in Ernie’s “Rubber Duckie”

*a child’s bicycle horn in Slave’s “Slide”

*a dial tone and telephone rotary dial in “Just Seven Numbers” by the Four Tops

*bombs detonating in Edwin Starr’s “Stop The War Now”

*children playing in “Remember The Days Of The Old School Yard” by Cat Stevens

*a ship’s bell in John Denver’s “Calypso”

[lasvegaskid]

Birds in Minnie Ripperton's Lovin' You and crickets in Johnny Rivers' Swaying To The Music

[trekkielo]

"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney

The song is notable for its sound effects, including the sounds of a thunderstorm, with rain, heard between the first and second verses, the sound of clicking from a telephone dialing and then transitioning to an answering machine (both actually McCartney's voice), where the sound of McCartney's voice, with a "telephone" effect, is heard after the second verse, and the sound of chirping sea birds and wind by the seashore.

"Riders on the Storm" by The Doors has thunderstorm and rain sounds.

[at40nut]

Bombs or machine guns in Duran Duran's "New Moon On Monday"
The sound of flames at the end of Def Leppard's "Rock Of Ages"
A phone off the hook at the beginning of Midnight Star's "Operator"
On the album version of Def Leppard's "Rocket", you hear a rocket launching after the backmasked line of gibberish. Incidentally, if you play it backwards, it sounds like a bomb launching and detonating with the gibberish line that says. "we're fighting...we're fighting... we're fighting with the gods of war".

[djjoe1960]

Riders On the Storm by the Doors has the sound of rain and thunderstorms throughout the song.

In Rockwell's song Obscene Phone Caller are several phone sound effects including someone hanging up a phone at the song's end.

[80sat40fan]

Here are a few more sounds from songs on AT40 shows from the first week of September:

• A cheering audience is heard towards the end of "Guitar Man" by Bread
• A ship's bell is heard a few times in "Calypso" by John Denver
• A heartbeat introduces "Daisy Jane" by America
• A duck quacking is heard at various points in "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees
• A person whistling is heard near the end of "Jungle Love" by The Steve Miller Band
• A person screams in Barry Manilow's "Copacabana"
• Sirens are heard towards the end of "Kids In America" by Kim Wilde
• People walking (shoe/boot sounds) kick off "Rock Me Tonight" by Billy Squier
• Beach waves and seagulls start "Cherish" by Kool & The Gang
• There's the barfight scene inserted in the middle of "Pop Life" by Prince

I didn't include sampling such as audio from the movie "Batman" in Prince's "Batdance".

[trekkielo]

"Convoy" by C.W. McCall has CB sounds.

[johnnywest]

During the Top 100 of 2003, Casey noted that there were back-to-back animal sound effects. You can hear an elephant in Missy Elliot's "Work It" at #53, followed by birds chirping in "I Miss You" by Aaliyah at #52.