I would like to know who was the Voice that said the Phrases on these Toys. On another Talking Toy, the Animal Yacker Larry the Lion, i read that it was the Voice of Bugs Bunny - Mel Blanc, but who voiced all the other Toys...
Cool idea. I tried to do it a few years ago with one out of a tweety bird toy that "talked" from when i was a kid. finally have a turntable without automatic return. time to try again i think.
I found a See n' Say at the local Value Village last year. Amazing to see that still works fabulously after about 20 years! The vintage See n' Says use little white plastic records (as seen in this video). They can be immersed in water, put in a bath, and even dropped down from a high distance and still work fine afterwards! Nowadays See n' Says are electronic - they are very unlikely to withstand abuse.
yes i knew this for years. matter of fact, i have a toy payphone with no record in it. I also had a record for some toy that laughed, but the record played at 78 rpm on a manual turntable. I wish i still had this stuff ( I wonder if my cousin...) but these would onoy play on manual turntables....also you may, if you take the record out of it, the grooves are multiple grooves, spaced apart, may not play on manual turntable....
@pencildives,I wasn't talking to you but since your defending men with long nails you must have them too. I bet you use them in your mothers Vag every night.
it sounds to me like when they made the record after they recorded all the sound effects they cut out the bass during editing then they put it on the record I guess to save space. that would cool but weird to hear a song as if it were played back on one of these things.
I wonder if it's too much to ask from the company that makes that thing to use actual animal noises, and not some idiot doing an imitation. The others were tolerable, but that cat noise was just ungodly.
Oh, yes! It certainly is! I am completely obsessed with these toys and have been ever since I was a very small boy. I do NOT like the new ones at all--the sound quality sucks on them because of the digital compression of the recordings, not to mention that they're fragile as can be.
lol, classic geek fingernails, not burning, its just every geek frend of mine has long nails.
thats a pretty sweet discovery, amazing engineering for a child's toy. with the centrifugal speed control, and the belt drive, and all with a pull string, jeez thats some sweet inventiveness
Did you ever have one of those "bag of laughs" novelties that were popular in the early 80's? They also had a mini record inside. I seem to remember that the "B" side had bird calls recorded on it. Would love to find one of those again.
id like to hack one of these into an amplified speaker so when you turn it on the arrow thing spins like it normally play but instead of the cow says moooooo, it plays your ipod music. get 2 of them and do this and get stereo sound lol
CassetteMaster how do you hook up your record player to drirect hookup does your camera have a line in? ive done this via line in on my pc but im limited i cant do live like you can, well maybe i dunno, my camera is the canon powershot a560 and im limited to prerecorded wavs i have to record the sound wave and i guess i could just sync it, ive done this with a video ive done on my PDA with the jackass golf airhorn video and my PDA has no sound so i synced it with an mp3 of the audio
cool id like to do that but i dont have that cable and my camera doesnt have a mic in its just a digital still camera with movie mode kinda the same as your old camera i think, what was your old camera model
Very interesting hack. I don't think they still make the See n' Say today, do they? One thing I'd like to know is how all the tracks fit on the record. Are they interlaced like on the "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" record, or was some other method used?
Thanks for the info. It always seems to go that way, doesn't it?- They take a few steps forward with technology, while at the same time going backwards.
i think they are arranged concentrically which means one sound track is next to a different one on the record, if you look up on how stuff works how see and says work marshal brain took one of these apart as well and there are some nice shots of the record disk
this was awesome i want to do this and record all the tracks as mp3s and then make a flash version of a see and say or stitch all the sounds together into 1 long mp3, i think Damusician wanted to do this but you beat him
WOW! It is amazing the engineering that went into the "See N Say", and kudos to you for figuring out how to play the record on a regular turntable! Why didn't you use the turntable's tone arm though? I'm not clear on why you needed two record players. Thanks for showing the mechanism!
Dude! I was so intrigued as a 6 year old with one of these (I mean how can it make sound without batteries I wondered) that I took it apart, took the little record out and tried to make it play, but my record player didn't have 78 rpm. I has the one with just the pull string before the 90s when people were paranoid that kids would hang themselves on it..I mean COME ON I'm still here aren't I?? LOL and yea I tried so hard to put it back together... I was 6, but still you know, it's impossible.
@gbnnn Yes, And the lever one requires 9-volt batteries. I used to have the lever version of See 'N Say The Farmer Says and See N Say The Zoo Keeper Says. I used to remember when it went "Battery low!" It was an alert sound to alert kids to please replace the battery. My See N Say toy (the lever one) required 9-volt battery. And pull string was suspended in 1983.
That's very ingenious how you figured out how to play that record. I remember taking one apart but never figured out how to get the record to play on a standard machine.
This is a great post. When i was a kid during the 70s, i drove the entire house crazy with this toy. That and the 'flippity flier' .. oh what memories. I remember i had a disney oriented one with the the pull string.
I guess "bingfan21" hasn't seen it yet! How about the Disney's "Wonderful World of Color" See n' Say, that would do better. Go to "bingfan21's" video on the See n' Say collection.
Dude, after about 20 years of wondering how the sound works in these toys, you've finally answered my long-standing question. And now it's time to get the duct tape and put it together for your kids, and when they ask about the duct tape, you can show them your video of you taking it apart.
wow that is awesome! there's a little record inside it! awesome how you played it on a normal turntable! that is awesome! I always wondered how those things worked.
I had one before! I used to make it make noise just to annoy my parents now I do that with my 35 watt per channel kenwood receiver and brand new sony speakers!
I think I still have a few see and says laying around! they last a long time too!
dude, that was awesome! so that's how my childhood worked! XD. that record has pretty bad quality :P. but it's a child's toy, so, i guess they needed money, lol.
The Buck Goes...Where my doe's att?!
Z24CavalierFan 2 months ago
Creepiest sounding toy ever made
Figlitiblitification 3 months ago
That better not be your kids.
SpecializedChild462 7 months ago
Um, when you played it on the normal record player , it was too slow.....
electronic4evr 7 months ago
the guy that did the audio must have been glack1 his voice is deeper the james earl jones lol
whysoangry11386 8 months ago
This video answered a question I've had since I was 5 or 6. Thanks you sir.
jafizzle95 8 months ago
lol 8:12 ripper rrip fart
vftdhys 9 months ago
That sounds creepy when the speed is slow
Figlitiblitification 11 months ago
"the rrrooosssssttteeer says"... i lovr that part
angelpichu1 1 year ago
the cow goes SHAZOO!
gbnnn 1 year ago 5
god your voice
it is so soothing
boysonlyteaparty 1 year ago
Awesome technology for its day. Great vid
75capriceconvertible 1 year ago
amazing!
RaymondTVinyl 1 year ago
wow just plain simple work. i always wanted to know what worked on the inside.
bradmann85 1 year ago
I would like to know who was the Voice that said the Phrases on these Toys. On another Talking Toy, the Animal Yacker Larry the Lion, i read that it was the Voice of Bugs Bunny - Mel Blanc, but who voiced all the other Toys...
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Wilton4381 1 year ago
Cool idea. I tried to do it a few years ago with one out of a tweety bird toy that "talked" from when i was a kid. finally have a turntable without automatic return. time to try again i think.
burrexkeefAGAIN 1 year ago
I found a See n' Say at the local Value Village last year. Amazing to see that still works fabulously after about 20 years! The vintage See n' Says use little white plastic records (as seen in this video). They can be immersed in water, put in a bath, and even dropped down from a high distance and still work fine afterwards! Nowadays See n' Says are electronic - they are very unlikely to withstand abuse.
OldMusicOnVinyl1 1 year ago
yes i knew this for years. matter of fact, i have a toy payphone with no record in it. I also had a record for some toy that laughed, but the record played at 78 rpm on a manual turntable. I wish i still had this stuff ( I wonder if my cousin...) but these would onoy play on manual turntables....also you may, if you take the record out of it, the grooves are multiple grooves, spaced apart, may not play on manual turntable....
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
Is there any way to get one of these apart and then back together? I love scratching on these and it would be so cool to add an output jack.
pencildives 1 year ago
I love YouTube. You can find anything.
lemonrind 1 year ago
no wonder those toys sound like crap! it's a record!
gbnnn 1 year ago
The sheep sounds like Yoko Ono.
shibbyguy101 1 year ago
Dude,cut your nails! seriously.
beckigreen 2 years ago
@beckigreen Prick alert.
pencildives 1 year ago
@pencildives,I wasn't talking to you but since your defending men with long nails you must have them too. I bet you use them in your mothers Vag every night.
beckigreen 1 year ago
@beckigreen Mom jokes aren't funny, prick.
pencildives 1 year ago
it sounds to me like when they made the record after they recorded all the sound effects they cut out the bass during editing then they put it on the record I guess to save space. that would cool but weird to hear a song as if it were played back on one of these things.
coondogtheman1234 2 years ago
I can see it now, some DJ making beats with a See-N-Say record on their turntable
NLind 2 years ago
This record is bad! Why was he so darn? (serouius)
devanwolf1 2 years ago
I wonder if it's too much to ask from the company that makes that thing to use actual animal noises, and not some idiot doing an imitation. The others were tolerable, but that cat noise was just ungodly.
wilkes85 2 years ago
"The cow goes... SHAZZOOOOOOOO!"
"It most certainly does not!"
Quatermass64 2 years ago 4
@Quatermass64 the rooster goes "kikikiriii"
PivotMasterAX 1 year ago
amazing sound quality for a toy
windoes98se 2 years ago
Oh, yes! It certainly is! I am completely obsessed with these toys and have been ever since I was a very small boy. I do NOT like the new ones at all--the sound quality sucks on them because of the digital compression of the recordings, not to mention that they're fragile as can be.
bingfan21 2 years ago 2
i agree the old ones are durable as hell but dont drop the new ones b/c they break. and the sound quality sucks on the new ones.
coondogtheman1234 2 years ago
Dude, I want to hang with you! This is awesome.
Yarkie 3 years ago
lol, classic geek fingernails, not burning, its just every geek frend of mine has long nails.
thats a pretty sweet discovery, amazing engineering for a child's toy. with the centrifugal speed control, and the belt drive, and all with a pull string, jeez thats some sweet inventiveness
2toncaprice 3 years ago
So that's how they worked! Interesting.
Did you ever have one of those "bag of laughs" novelties that were popular in the early 80's? They also had a mini record inside. I seem to remember that the "B" side had bird calls recorded on it. Would love to find one of those again.
The new ones are all electronic now of course.
NardDogz 3 years ago
id like to hack one of these into an amplified speaker so when you turn it on the arrow thing spins like it normally play but instead of the cow says moooooo, it plays your ipod music. get 2 of them and do this and get stereo sound lol
coondogtheman1234 3 years ago 2
CassetteMaster how do you hook up your record player to drirect hookup does your camera have a line in? ive done this via line in on my pc but im limited i cant do live like you can, well maybe i dunno, my camera is the canon powershot a560 and im limited to prerecorded wavs i have to record the sound wave and i guess i could just sync it, ive done this with a video ive done on my PDA with the jackass golf airhorn video and my PDA has no sound so i synced it with an mp3 of the audio
coondogtheman1234 3 years ago
My camera has a mic-in, and I used the attenuating cable.
CassetteMaster 3 years ago
cool id like to do that but i dont have that cable and my camera doesnt have a mic in its just a digital still camera with movie mode kinda the same as your old camera i think, what was your old camera model
coondogtheman1234 3 years ago
cassettemaster you should hook a motor or a set of earbuds to that cone and see if it plays audio hook the motor to a stereo
coondogtheman1234 3 years ago
Very interesting hack. I don't think they still make the See n' Say today, do they? One thing I'd like to know is how all the tracks fit on the record. Are they interlaced like on the "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" record, or was some other method used?
onehundredthree 3 years ago
they do still make see and says but they use the silicon chips and they dont last for nothing like these old ones do
coondogtheman1234 3 years ago
Thanks for the info. It always seems to go that way, doesn't it?- They take a few steps forward with technology, while at the same time going backwards.
onehundredthree 3 years ago
yeah sometimes old technology is better than new, analog records vs computer chips
coondogtheman1234 3 years ago 2
i think they are arranged concentrically which means one sound track is next to a different one on the record, if you look up on how stuff works how see and says work marshal brain took one of these apart as well and there are some nice shots of the record disk
coondogtheman1234 3 years ago
Thanks!
onehundredthree 3 years ago
this was awesome i want to do this and record all the tracks as mp3s and then make a flash version of a see and say or stitch all the sounds together into 1 long mp3, i think Damusician wanted to do this but you beat him
coondogtheman1234 3 years ago
WOW! It is amazing the engineering that went into the "See N Say", and kudos to you for figuring out how to play the record on a regular turntable! Why didn't you use the turntable's tone arm though? I'm not clear on why you needed two record players. Thanks for showing the mechanism!
clydesight 3 years ago
Dude! I was so intrigued as a 6 year old with one of these (I mean how can it make sound without batteries I wondered) that I took it apart, took the little record out and tried to make it play, but my record player didn't have 78 rpm. I has the one with just the pull string before the 90s when people were paranoid that kids would hang themselves on it..I mean COME ON I'm still here aren't I?? LOL and yea I tried so hard to put it back together... I was 6, but still you know, it's impossible.
coolbluelights 3 years ago
Yeah, even at 17, or any age, it's impossible to get this back together!
CassetteMaster 3 years ago
@coolbluelights
hang themselves? THATS A NEW ONE!
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
@coolbluelights they switched to a lever because some kid went blind after the string snapped off.
gbnnn 1 year ago
@gbnnn Yes, And the lever one requires 9-volt batteries. I used to have the lever version of See 'N Say The Farmer Says and See N Say The Zoo Keeper Says. I used to remember when it went "Battery low!" It was an alert sound to alert kids to please replace the battery. My See N Say toy (the lever one) required 9-volt battery. And pull string was suspended in 1983.
BuddyBoy600alt 8 months ago
@BuddyBoy600alt no, not all lever versions. only the new ones i think
gbnnn 8 months ago
That's very ingenious how you figured out how to play that record. I remember taking one apart but never figured out how to get the record to play on a standard machine.
retrochad 3 years ago
It's amazing that a centrifugal clutch governed record player can work at all let alone reliably. Mattel got it going on.
TonofRecords 3 years ago
Very interesting, and very clever how you played it back.
I did a similar thing with some kind of Action Man radio thing.
wisteela 3 years ago
Yes it does sound way better.
flingladybug 3 years ago
This is a great post. When i was a kid during the 70s, i drove the entire house crazy with this toy. That and the 'flippity flier' .. oh what memories. I remember i had a disney oriented one with the the pull string.
Discotized 3 years ago
This was a later generation see n say with the crank handle (operative word WAS!!). The one I had a kid had a pull string to activate the mechanism.
WillWatchAnything 3 years ago
I guess "bingfan21" hasn't seen it yet! How about the Disney's "Wonderful World of Color" See n' Say, that would do better. Go to "bingfan21's" video on the See n' Say collection.
BrooklynMouse 3 years ago
Thanks for solving that enigma of how the tracks were laid out on the record. I also had no idea that the speed was a standard 78 RPM!
chameleonday 3 years ago
Dude, after about 20 years of wondering how the sound works in these toys, you've finally answered my long-standing question. And now it's time to get the duct tape and put it together for your kids, and when they ask about the duct tape, you can show them your video of you taking it apart.
JBlair1982 3 years ago
Uh....putting it back together is impossible now! I might find another one, though.
CassetteMaster 3 years ago
I remember the See & Say since I was a kid. Thanks for putting those up.
BrooklynMouse 3 years ago
wow that is awesome! there's a little record inside it! awesome how you played it on a normal turntable! that is awesome! I always wondered how those things worked.
wilkes85 3 years ago
that was awesome! i need to find a see n say in the trash someday. i see u got out of school. in jersey school ends this month.
damusician 3 years ago
Did you get out of school, Ricky?
SuperMatch2007 3 years ago
Yes. I LOVE summer!
CassetteMaster 3 years ago
I had one before! I used to make it make noise just to annoy my parents now I do that with my 35 watt per channel kenwood receiver and brand new sony speakers!
I think I still have a few see and says laying around! they last a long time too!
raymondleeleggs 3 years ago
Ha! I always wondered what they used in those toys to produce sound without electricity.
Trance88 3 years ago
wow, it's amazing!
Giammarcuzzu89 3 years ago
Very Cool!
AllAmericanFiveRadio 3 years ago
dude, that was awesome! so that's how my childhood worked! XD. that record has pretty bad quality :P. but it's a child's toy, so, i guess they needed money, lol.
lmull3 3 years ago
Very cool!!
spatsbear1 3 years ago
Awesome Zenith Record Player! Can it be battery powered?
Nokorola 3 years ago
Yes.
CassetteMaster 3 years ago