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Martin Fischer

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Nov 28, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/28/95
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Hi folks,

does anyone know who provided telephone voice in the song "Uncle Albert",
recorded by Paul McC. and Wings? It sounds like the actor from
Monty Python (John Clees? [spelling?]) to me...


just curious,

Martin Fischer
e-mail: m.fi...@psych.umass.edu

Michael Richardson

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Nov 28, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/28/95
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i've always thought that it was paul, with some effects
on his voice.

Jennifer Beth Nichols

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Nov 28, 1995, 3:00:00 AM11/28/95
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I think it was Paul- sounds like him at least! He likes to do that with
his voice seems like (change it) and if you notice, the whole song he is
singing with a different kind of accent (or however you want to describe it).

Beth Nichols
jni...@emory.edu

Teck admin user (Dennis Alstrand)

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Dec 1, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/1/95
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Martin Fischer (fis...@titan.oit.umass.edu) wrote:
: Hi folks,


: just curious,

: Martin Fischer
: e-mail: m.fi...@psych.umass.edu


That was definitely Paul using some studio techniques on his voice to
get the telephone sound. It's also him making the little telephone
noises leading up to that.

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Richard Matheson

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Dec 1, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/1/95
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tec...@rose.hp.com (Teck admin user (Dennis Alstrand)) wrote:
>Martin Fischer (fis...@titan.oit.umass.edu) wrote:
>: Hi folks,
>
>: does anyone know who provided telephone voice in the song "Uncle Albert",
>: recorded by Paul McC. and Wings? It sounds like the actor from
>: Monty Python (John Clees? [spelling?]) to me...
>
It's John Cleese..And I beleive it's Paul..

Richard Matheson


Adam Bernardi

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Dec 3, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/3/95
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In article <49f6tk$3...@nic.umass.edu>,
fis...@titan.oit.umass.edu (Martin Fischer) wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>does anyone know who provided telephone voice in the song "Uncle Albert",
>recorded by Paul McC. and Wings? It sounds like the actor from
>Monty Python (John Clees? [spelling?]) to me...


Hmm, I always thought it was Paul....

DoctorFang

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Dec 4, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/4/95
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fis...@titan.oit.umass.edu (Martin Fischer) wrote:

>does anyone know who provided telephone voice in the song "Uncle Albert",
>recorded by Paul McC. and Wings? It sounds like the actor from
>Monty Python (John Clees? [spelling?]) to me...

I'm not sure what you mean by "telephone voice" (possibly the bit that ends
"the butter always melts, so I put it in a pie"?), but the voices in "Uncle
Albert/Admiral Halsey" are those of Paul and The Lovely Linda.

Docto...@interramp.com

David J. Coyle

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Dec 5, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/5/95
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Whoever originally posted this was talking about the part where the verse
is spoken rather than sung ("We're so sorry, Uncle Albert, but we
haven't done a bloody thing all day...the pot is on the boil and we're so
easily called away...").

Whatever it's called, it's the same effect used on CCR's "Suzie Q" and
the BeeGee's "Craise Finton Kirk's Royal Academy of Arts." It's processed
as if it's being sung through a megaphone or through a phone receiver...

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Jocelyn Gramlich

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Dec 6, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/6/95
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I have no idea who did whose voice on that song, but I think
the "telephone voice" he means is the line that starts "We're

so sorry, Uncle Albert, but we haven't done a bloody thing all
day..."

-- Jocelyn

Jeff Mills

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Dec 6, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/6/95
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Isn't this ADT? Maybe I'm wrong. I think George used the same
process on "Piggies" in the middle eight.

Alan V. Karr

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Dec 13, 1995, 3:00:00 AM12/13/95
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yeah, they're all like WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL,
by the New Vaudeville Band (1966, Fontana)
which was supposed to emulate Rudy Vallee
singing through a megaphone...vo doh de oh doh...
regards, Al (a...@vnet.ibm.com)


toppy...@gmail.com

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Nov 16, 2016, 6:16:57 PM11/16/16
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On Tuesday, November 28, 1995 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Martin Fischer wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> does anyone know who provided telephone voice in the song "Uncle Albert",
> recorded by Paul McC. and Wings? It sounds like the actor from
> Monty Python (John Clees? [spelling?]) to me...
>
>
> just curious,
>
> Martin Fischer
> e-mail: m.fi...@psych.umass.edu


Security was tight, and each day Paul and Linda would come up the back elevator with their kids and a playpen, which we set up in the front of the control room. I was a part-time nanny since Mary would often be crawling around the console and sitting on my lap! The interplay between Paul and Linda was sweet, especially when they were on-mic. Linda actually came up with some parts on her own — the entire backing vocals on Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey consists of the two of them — but when she needed a hand, Paul was great with her.

We used a combination of U87s — if we were working on something smooth — and Shure SM57s for the rockier stuff throughout the album. Paul didn't care what mic you put on him, although he did like the U87. He's such a great singer. I know that the vocals they cut over at CBS are Paul singing live right off the floor with the rhythm section into an Electro-Voice RE20, which was a relatively new mic at the time. They recorded the telephone section over at CBS, as well. That character voice was also Paul, with a simple highpass filter engaged to give the telephone effect.

Tim Geelan, studio engineer
Mix magazine


P-Dub

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Nov 17, 2016, 7:58:34 AM11/17/16
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On Tuesday, November 28, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Martin Fischer wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> does anyone know who provided telephone voice in the song "Uncle Albert",
> recorded by Paul McC. and Wings? It sounds like the actor from
> Monty Python (John Clees? [spelling?]) to me...
>
>
> just curious,
>
> Martin Fischer
> e-mail: m.fi...@psych.umass.edu

It's awesome that this info is available.

Thanks for posting.

Stephen X. Carter

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Nov 17, 2016, 8:17:53 PM11/17/16
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 04:58:32 -0800 (PST), P-Dub <pwol...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Even if it takes TWENTY ONE YEARS for the follow up posting! (All but
ten days!)

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Nov 23, 2016, 6:29:44 AM11/23/16
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I think it's John Lennon. :-)

thoma...@gmail.com

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Oct 25, 2018, 7:09:36 PM10/25/18
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Yeah I absolutely thought it was John Cleese. There’s only a few times were doesn’t sound like him but the majority of the “telephone call” totally sounds like Cleese

Nil

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Oct 25, 2018, 8:09:35 PM10/25/18
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It all sounds just like Paul to me.
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