[78-L] Buzzer at the beginning

[David Lennick]

Decca used 4 EMI tracks to fill out the disc, on the grounds that they were by 
"one or more" Goons. Though claiming Eric Sykes is a bit of a stretch..he wrote 
but wasn't a performing Goon (here's where somebody will prove that he might 
have filled in on Series XVC Episode 99, rehearsal segment transmitted only to 
Basutoland). In any case, it's nice to have these all in one place and without 
the horrible phase-reversed fake stereo Decca inflicted on "The World Of The 
Goons" on LP, where the only playable cuts were Rhymes and The Raspberry Song. 
The buzzer is definitely part of the effects.

What's with these +AD4 and +ACI insertions?

dl

On 3/17/2011 1:28 PM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 13:11 -0400, David Lennick wrote:
> +AD4 Just found a recording where the buzzer is heard at the start as part of the
> +AD4 whole production..The Goons' +ACI-Unchained Melody+ACI, on a couple of late CD issues
> +AD4 including Decca 984 162-7. (Remarkably unfunny, by the way..I don't blame Frank
> +AD4 Loesser for refusing to let it be released at the time.)
> +AD4
> +AD4 dl
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> It's on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v+AD0-XqqNsyHajb0
>
> Strikes me as odd, though+ADs this is on Decca but I read that George
> Martin did the Goon Show records for Parlophone. EMI wasn't using
> audible buzzers in the tape era, but rather a red light. No idea what
> Decca did, but the buzzer sequence at the beginning of the selection
> sounds rather Victor-ish. I'm guessing the buzzer was intended as part
> of the cut.
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> MS
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