Off the hook alert

[Rob Milburn]

Hello All,

We received this in the rehearsal notes on a production of AMERICAN BUFFALO we are working on:

Sound: The Director would like a sound cue of the tone you get when you pick up the phone but don’t dial followed by the operator’s voice saying “If you’d like to make a call...” or whatever would have been the announcement would have been in 1975

Anyone remember if there was an announcement in 1975 - or was it just the alert (perhaps Sir Paul's inspiration for HELTER SKELTER?)? 

We have the audio files for each but are interested in the historical accuracy.

Many thanks,

Rob Milburn

Milburn/Bodeen Music & Sound Design

milbomu...@mac.com

[John Leonard]

Your best resource is here:

http://atcaonline.com/

Someone there should be able to supply the info you need.

Regards,

John

On 25/11/2009 19:18, "Rob Milburn" <robmi...@ameritech.net> wrote:

[RickB]

This site has all kinds of phone messages.

http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds.html

Kirk Longhofer wrote:
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> Pre touch tone, and pre-AT&T breakup, you would have gotten a very loud “fast busy” tone after several minutes of unused dial tone. At some point, you would also have had a three tone warning, followed by “If you’d like to make a call, please hang up and dial again” from a very pleasant female voice.
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[Ray Gibson]

No clue about historical accuracy, but while we're on the subject
here's a wonderful archive of recordings of many of the original
announcements:

http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds.html

I have caller ID routing through my phone system at work, and I
typically send persistent unsolicited numbers
*cough*billcollectors*cough* to the "We're sorry, you have reached a
number that is disconnected or no longer in service..."

Good luck,

RG

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