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Post by johnnywest on Sept 2, 2020 10:17:49 GMT -5
The sound of stormy winds at the end of Steve Miller Band's "Swingtown" More wind at the beginning of "Life In A Northern Town." |
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Post by mga707 on Sept 2, 2020 11:28:48 GMT -5
Since no one's mentioned it yet, I will: The vehicle 'peeling out' in Billy Joel's "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)". And another from Mr. Joel: Industrial sounds in "Allentown". |
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Post by Hervard on Sept 2, 2020 11:47:51 GMT -5
Motorcycle sounds and dialogue between Vince Neil and Tommy Lee in Motley Crue's "Girls Girls Girls". You can also hear a motorcyle in "She Bop" and in one song by the Carpenters, but I can't remember which one. I think it was an album version that wasn't played on AT40. "Yesterday Once More". |
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Post by laura on Sept 2, 2020 12:56:50 GMT -5
On the subject of Billy Joel, "Sometimes A Fantasy" begins with a number being dialed.
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 3, 2020 16:54:51 GMT -5
A ship's bell is heard a few times in "Calypso" by John Denver And all these decades, I thought that was taken from a cable car. |
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Post by mga707 on Sept 3, 2020 17:59:57 GMT -5
Thought of another one: The flight announcement near the end of John Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over". That one sounds so real, I've long wondered whether producer Jack Douglas sent someone over to LaGuardia with a tape recorder.  |
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Post by retrodaddy on Sept 4, 2020 8:06:05 GMT -5
Beeping sounds on the telephone line at the beginning of Falco's Vienna Calling.
Water splashing at three or four different points in the Fat Boys and Beach Boys' Wipeout.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 4, 2020 9:40:04 GMT -5
Rather than reveal all information…
Here are three distinct, paired sound effects found on singles that reached the Top 40. Perhaps this will be too easy, but I’ll let someone else identify the songs and artists.
1) a casket’s creaky opening, with the sound of boiling liquid
2) an alarm clock, and a stylus tonearm placed on a record
3) seagulls, and waves crashing on a shoreline
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 4, 2020 10:00:44 GMT -5
Rather than reveal all information… Here are three distinct, paired sound effects found on singles that reached the Top 40. Perhaps this will be too easy, but I’ll let someone else identify the songs and artists. 1) a casket’s creaky opening, with the sound of boiling liquid 2) an alarm clock, and a stylus tonearm placed on a record 3) seagulls, and waves crashing on a shoreline 1) "Monster Mash," Bobby (Boris) Pickett & the Crypt Kickers 2) "Earache My Eye," Cheech & Chong Featuring Alice Bowie 3) "So Much in Love," The Tymes Low hanging fruit, Pete. ☺ |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 4, 2020 10:08:27 GMT -5
^ doofus67, you've got 2 out of 3. The Tymes' song is a good guess. But the #3 clue pertains to an AT40 hit, during the 1970-1975 era. And it's not the previously mentioned Chicago song. Looks like you'll need a ladder for that last piece of fruit. |
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Post by mga707 on Sept 4, 2020 11:18:43 GMT -5
^ doofus67, you've got 2 out of 3. The Tymes' song is a good guess. But the #3 clue pertains to an AT40 hit, during the 1970-1975 era. And it's not the previously mentioned Chicago song. Looks like you'll need a ladder for that last piece of fruit. "Summer (the First Time)", Bobby Goldsboro, 1973. The song in which 15-year-old me, besides wishing I was the protagonist, misheard the lyric 'two lips' as 'tulips' and thought it was a euphemism... |
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Post by doofus67 on Sept 4, 2020 11:53:29 GMT -5
^ doofus67, you've got 2 out of 3. The Tymes' song is a good guess. But the #3 clue pertains to an AT40 hit, during the 1970-1975 era. And it's not the previously mentioned Chicago song. Looks like you'll need a ladder for that last piece of fruit. "Summer (the First Time)", Bobby Goldsboro, 1973. The song in which 15-year-old me, besides wishing I was the protagonist, misheard the lyric 'two lips' as 'tulips' and thought it was a euphemism... Yup, leave it to me to think outside the AT40 box, as usual. |
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Post by Hervard on Sept 4, 2020 13:05:42 GMT -5
Beeping sounds on the telephone line at the beginning of Falco's Vienna Calling. Also, the "phone off the hook" sound effect at the beginning of "Operator" by Midnight Star. |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 5, 2020 0:03:42 GMT -5
Beeping sounds on the telephone line at the beginning of Falco's Vienna Calling. Also, the "phone off the hook" sound effect at the beginning of "Operator" by Midnight Star. beat you to that one. |
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Post by at40nut on Sept 5, 2020 3:29:25 GMT -5
On the subject of Billy Joel, "Sometimes A Fantasy" begins with a number being dialed. Here's another dial tone song-The Fresh Prince's phone call to DJ Jazzy Jeff to "Not Fall Asleep" in the 1988 hit "A Nightmare On My Street". I have an "honorable mention" song from 1976 that didn't quite make the Top 40. You can hear a rotary phone dialing in the #42 hit by Charlie Ross "Without Your Love (Mr. Jordan)". |
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