[78-L] The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology

[Don Chichester]

> 
> There is a 78 from the 30s by a British vocal comedian of his vocal 
> impressions of the sounds of London. My favorite part is the tube train 
> standing in the station, and the system that kept the doors open would 
> make a vov-vov-vov-vov-vov sound that was still present when I made my 
> first trip to London in 1983. Those cars are no longer in use. Another 
> vanishing London sound would probably be the driver alert bell rung by 
> the conductor at the rear entrance to the old double-decker buses. The 
> London sound I wish would vanish would be the screeching brakes that 
> seem to have been required equipment on every black cab.
> 
> I might also recommend the Peter Sellers record "Balham: Gateway To The 
> South".
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com

Especially its colored lights.
 
Don Chichester