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Think is a defect (bleed from tape) in the stereo master. Have the single version and can't hear it.
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has anyone on this board been obsessive enough to try to reverse it and slow it down to see what is being rewound?
I think it comes out of the left channel only and is actually forwards. It's actually at twice the pitch and so would have been recorded at 7 1/2" IPS instead of 15 IPS.
The words I can make out are:
Voice #1: Something I can't quite make out, possibly "Read the contracts."
Voice #2: "Another one?"
Voice #1: "Sorry about that. Can we start again?"
Voice #2 sounds like Eric Tomlinson to me, the engineer who recorded the early Bond scores. Voice #1 might be George Martin, who I understand produced the recording.
Now, to try and nut out that first line properly!
Chris Malone
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Now, to try and nut out that first line properly!
Chris Malone
"Paul is dead?"
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I never noticed it before, but there it is.
I'll bet they were re-using the tape and the erase head cut out for a few moments due to an electrical fault in the tape deck.
Or maybe it was accidentally composited in from a tape they thought was blank, and they had put some short bit of musical sweetening on that reel, without going far enough to erase the talk, and played the whole length of supposedly "blank" tape into the master recording.
What a strange little find.
My hat is off to Chris Malone for the reverse engineering!
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My hat is off to Chris Malone for the reverse engineering!
Now, if we could just get him to work on the crashed saucer from Roswell!
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Can anyone tell us if the defect is also heard on the original LP?
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Can anyone tell us if the defect is also heard on the original LP?
Yes, that is where I first heard the anomoly decades ago. And it, of course, appeared on every LP release of the song.
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I think it comes out of the left channel only and is actually forwards. It's actually at twice the pitch and so would have been recorded at 7 1/2" IPS instead of 15 IPS.
The words I can make out are...
On the following website I found something about this strange occurence:
http://www.nuvs.com/jbond/sounds/
Go to page 2 and check out the part called "Chipmunk in From Russia With Love?"
That's what they say there (that article is actually nearly 10 years old, by the way):
"Chipmunk in From Russia With Love?
Sent in by alert visitor Nathan Sturtevant. While listening to the title song from FRWL on the 30th Anniversary Bond CD, Nathan thought he heard a chipmunk speaking in the background. Upon further inspection, he found that this "chipmunk" was in fact someone speaking!
From: William R. Stotler, wrs125@psu.edu
Date: 9 Nov 97
I downloaded the .AIFF Chipmunk sound clip and listened to the file. I noticed immediately that the chipmunk "voice" sounded like voices recorded at 3 3/4 inches-per-second (ips) speed on a reel- to-reel recorder, but played back in the final cut at the higher-quality, higher-rate speed, 7 1/2 ips.
I dubbed the .AIFF clip onto my reel-to-reel at 7 1/2 ips speed and then played it back at 3 3/4 speed--slowing the speed down. After adjusting the EQ and listening repeatedly, I discovered that what is being said is being spoken by, probably, one studio sound engineer (Voice 1) to another (Voice 2).
They say:
V1: Sound check.
V2: I want [Two words garbled]
V1: What was that again?
Perhaps another fan with a reel-to-reel resource could verify my findings."
End of text.
And yes, as I've been told also, the Single Version of the song from various compilations, most notably "Themeology" from Barry is another take of the which of course misses the defect...
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