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Post by johnnywest on Feb 16, 2021 16:36:22 GMT -5
Prince's 1985 song "Pop Life" features sound effects from a boxing match towards the end of the song. He also has a sound effect of teardrops in "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World." |
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Post by Hervard on Feb 17, 2021 10:20:18 GMT -5
Prince's 1985 song "Pop Life" features sound effects from a boxing match towards the end of the song. He also has a sound effect of teardrops in "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World." I didn't know that teardrops made any sound. |
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Post by laura on Feb 17, 2021 11:29:29 GMT -5
He also has a sound effect of teardrops in "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World." I didn't know that teardrops made any sound. I think he's referring to teardrops hitting a certain kind of surface, like the ground or water. In that same song, there is also a ticking clock. |
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Post by laura on Feb 20, 2021 18:24:25 GMT -5
The Dream Academy's "Life In A Northern Town" had the sound of a crowd cheering when they mention The Beatles at the end of the second verse.
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Post by msp26505 on Feb 20, 2021 22:14:40 GMT -5
The sound of the Mattell Electronic football game near the end of Supertramp's "The Logical Song." As a child of the 70's who owned that game, that sound was instantly recognizable.
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Post by at40nut on Feb 21, 2021 0:39:40 GMT -5
There are some sounds in two of the darkest songs to hit AT40
In 1971, there were ambulance sirens heard in Bloodrock's "D.O.A."
In 1989, there were machine guns, bombs exploding and a helicopter in Metallica's "One"
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 21, 2021 7:39:55 GMT -5
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)". ...and that was a full year after what was probably the first use of 'touch-tone' dialing noises in a song, Sugarloaf's "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You". I remember Casey explaining what those noises were one of the weeks the song was charting--certain areas of the country (not to mention other countries) probably did not yet have 'tone' dialing. I well remember when all phones, including push-button ones, had that pulse/tone selector switch on them. A rotary phone dial and ring tone was also heard in the 1972 Love Unlimited song "Walking in the Rain with the One I Love". |
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Post by johnnywest on Feb 22, 2021 22:42:12 GMT -5
“Walkin’ On The Sun” begins with a Speak & Spell that says “good morning.”
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Post by laura on Feb 22, 2021 22:46:16 GMT -5
“Walkin’ On The Sun” begins with a Speak & Spell that says “good morning.” Don't you mean "Then The Morning Comes"? |
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Post by mkarns on Feb 22, 2021 23:08:19 GMT -5
...and that was a full year after what was probably the first use of 'touch-tone' dialing noises in a song, Sugarloaf's "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You". I remember Casey explaining what those noises were one of the weeks the song was charting--certain areas of the country (not to mention other countries) probably did not yet have 'tone' dialing. I well remember when all phones, including push-button ones, had that pulse/tone selector switch on them. A rotary phone dial and ring tone was also heard in the 1972 Love Unlimited song "Walking in the Rain with the One I Love". And it was Barry White (who wrote and produced the song) who answered the phone, putting himself in the category of artists heard on AT40 hits credited to others before scoring their own hits, which in Barry's case began a year later ("I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby", in 1973). Also, the crowd noise in Prince's "Pop Life" is not from a bar fight or a boxing match (though the bell ring may be), nor, as has often been said, from a crowd booing him off the stage when he opened for the Rolling Stones in 1981. It's from a sound effects library which contributed the same sound to a looting scene in the film "Alone In the Dark", in 1982. |
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Post by Hervard on Feb 23, 2021 10:24:37 GMT -5
“Walkin’ On The Sun” begins with a Speak & Spell that says “good morning.” Don't you mean "Then The Morning Comes"? What about the tone before that? I remember hearing that in Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time when you answered correctly in the Keaton Quiz. |
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 27, 2021 9:06:05 GMT -5
Listening to AT40: The 70's 2/27/1971, I thought I heard a brief typewriter sound effect towards the end of the Four Tops "Just Seven Numbers".
Also on AT40: The 70's 2/27/1971, "D.O.A." by Bloodrock features a police siren in it.
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Post by laura on Feb 27, 2021 14:48:04 GMT -5
REO Speedwagon's "Keep On Loving You" features what appears to be a rattlesnake rattling its tail after the line "all coiled up and hissin'".
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Post by retrodaddy on Feb 27, 2021 15:18:32 GMT -5
Ringing of the telephone in Chico Debarge's Talk To Me after he says,"Yeah, I'll call her up now."
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Post by dth1971 on Feb 28, 2021 9:57:24 GMT -5
Does party chatter noises in Marvin Gaye's 1977 #1 song "Got To Give It Up Part 1" count?
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