World's Oldest Recordings 1860 and 1877

[gerardbedecarter]

Fascinating !

[americanmonarchist]

How in the Hell can you dislike this without this there would be no You-Tube dimwits!

[MrLimeandsalt]

better than justin bieber

[caspianb132]

sounds like something you'd hear in a horror movie trailer

[M0RGaN98]

This is scaring me!! What was that??

[shaneyseano]

ONE WORD CREEPY

[SOYSOCRATES1]

PARECE QUEJIDOS DE PELICULA DE TERROR

[aayush10001]

who gargles so loudly?

[marurashi]

Lolol for some reson this is outlandishly halarious. Makes me smile real good. I can't stop laughing at the fuzzy noise xD

[Asztonmartin]

fuck! It's the strangest thing I've ever heard, now I'm listening this and btw I'm alone at home. Yh screw you World's Oldest Recordings!

[mothbits]

So fucking beautiful, Somebody kiss me before this feeling ends.

[FillionDollarSmile]

Really Scary actually :S

[Dice3000]

so apparently, Susan Boyle was alive in 1860...

[evilsmile013]

It sounds like Rattman from Portal

[SendBig]

aaannnnd why didnt they just speak into a cup and close the lid???

[BurtGoaler]

he's singing au claire de la lune

[Demendred1605]

Kinda creepy. I love it

[jackwolf131]

If edison knew he was inventing such a shitty sounding phonograph, then why the hell are we so stupid?!

[LuvMyBirdies]

kinda creepy..

[martinvoet]

I prefer DVD

[WMGsuck]

I wasn't going to sleep tonight anyways

[bobalegokid123]

sounds like a elephant farting

[StandUPcomedyGENIUS]

@bobalegokid123 true but I have 1 question, why must you call your mom an ELEPHANT

[bobalegokid123]

@StandUPcomedyGENIUS listen i was just saying thats what its sounds like and i really dont like when peoplemake fun of my mom

[Honkanen89]

@bobalegokid123 Don`t worry it didn`t make sense anyway

[pleoj]

Au clair de la la lune, mon amour j'ai perdu ! Les paroles ne sont pas tout à fait les mêmes que dans la chanson.

[jonathankeighty]

What happens if you play this backwards?

[WMGsuck]

@jonathankeighty

Well, I can't understand shit so, I think nothing

[hitlersucks101]

whats it saying?

[xxBaMaBeAsTxx]

Its still better than todays music

[MushroomedAnymore]

@xxBaMaBeAsTxx You have not heard Morton Subotnick, I presume? :-)

[Skulldetta]

@MushroomedAnymore Who?

[pictureisup1]

@xxBaMaBeAsTxx Do I rap over this

[jaymorpheus11]

Darn, could have recorded some civil war battles. 1860-65 (guns shots in the backround) "Tell my great great grandkids that I love em, i'm going to antetum right now, got mr. Lincoln at might side here, relaxing and smoking his pipe."

Just imagine little bighorn 1876 Custer: "got my trusty winchester rifle, she'll see me through, wait, I reckon something's not quite right here"(shouts/warcries of lacota and rifle blasts can be heard)

[xxpinkstrawberriexxx]

wow the beginning is hell creepy :D

[bulabula51]

I'm in awe..

[RedStateRoy]

wonder why it never caught on? lol

[wdr217]

@lbqt123np lol. go back to listening to your ipod. And thank these guys for starting the line of inventions that led to it.

[rockyfan94]

damn the second one aint bad.

[JPhil151]

@rockyfan94 Yeah i know i thought all of these are just gonna sound like buzzes

[xNoTriggerx]

@lbqt123np Yah think? i dont think they had HD phonograms back then. just sayin.

[henrik174]

The first part was kinda.. ehm.. I'm not going to sleep tonight, anyway.

[mat5637]

au claire de la lune are a song in french,i speak french, AND I CAN EAR THE LYRIC!

wow! this sound very low,but,i can understand what she say!

[lordmahan11]

The 1877 one isn't bad.

[misanthropicagenda1]

4 million wasps in a fight

[Corvastus]

@lbqt123np It was recorded 150 years ago, what did you expect?

[7Enzoo]

They used to record with Patatoes, try this at home

[PotatoHoly]

Doesn't it sound like a pigeon?

[battou66488]

Is it itrue that the voice recording was that of a guy? not female?

[VictorLepanto]

I suspect it was impossible to hear the original recording. It was justa record of sound waves. Edison no doubt heard or these experiments & came up w/ a way to play back the sound which is recorded. Edison had to "recreate" his recording b/c his original method recorded on tin foil & it was detroyed on removal from the phonograph cylender.

[mat5637]

@VictorLepanto no,this singer speak in french this is why you cant understanding what she say....

[VictorLepanto]

@mat5637: I doubt anyone heard this until it was transferred to some other medium. It was just lines drawn in carbon on a cylender.

[ThePookybear]

eymeng, the first part is the paper recording from Leon Scott de Martinville and is from "Au claire de la Lune" the second part with the singing is a more modern piece so you can hear what it is suppose to sound like. The original Leon Scott recording was just lampblack on papar. Leon Scott was doing work on soundwaves at the time and made his machine was called a Phonautograph.The last part "Mary had a Little Lamp" is a recreation done by Edison of his first recording. I hope this helps out.

[TwinMillMC]

@ThePookybear Thanks for the info! I wonder why the owner didn't post this in the description.

[LostJedi26]

I am fascinated by the history of recording. I love hearing old recordings and marveling that they were done so long ago! No words to capture the awe I feel, though. None.

[LostJedi26]

The singing at first is very wavy and distorted. Then there's a woman singing with a guitar? behind her. It sounds far too clear to be an 1870s recording. THen there's the familiar poetry reciting. Where did this 1860 recording come from? It's a piece of history, and it intrigues me.

[EyMeng]

why is everyone only commenting on the first 47 seconds? Why doesn't the description have more info? Am I hearing singing and poetry that no one else is??

[QuikdrawlMcgraw]

sounds like my cat with a hairball

[WinstonSmith6079]

[...continued, last]

I mean what did it really sound like when new, before degrading over the many years? Could that ever possibly be restored and heard again? And were there even earlier recordings that may or may not exist today, but have yet to be discovered? Or, if there are such things, are they forever lost as well? If so, that last makes me sad.

It is a good thing to record, and to keep such recordings completely preserved forever losing nothing, if it could ever be possible to do so.

[WinstonSmith6079]

The 1877 recording sounds exponentially clearer than the 17-year-older recording.

At least it sounds that way today. Perhaps it is possible that 1860 recording once sounded much better than it does now but maybe has not been as well-preserved as the greater-known Edison recording.

Wow! The thought of such technology boggles the mind! But is also a sad thought, making one wonder about what is now forever lost in antiquity.

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[Mrpotsable]

k first of all, i dont understand its sound like bee, not since 0:46

[Yazunmanto77]

I don't know what you guys are so scared of, I actually find it pretty aspiring that someone could actually figure out a way to record with a oil container, although I find it creepy that you are actually listening to a ghost...

[MichaelSarkizzian]

i wanna hear a dubstep of this!

[crazyknight2008]

a voice from the past. amazing that only her voice of her generation in 1860 would be heard again in 151 years time

[feqfg]

This is like bad dream....

I'm scared !!!

[Svartalfgeist]

It's like a haunting from the grave...

Damn right it is, goddamit...

[DAVELIGHT11]

I'm Scared :O

[Elxthalanx64]

almost shitted on my pants with the first thing ._______.

[obscurecult]

seven days...

[ZAUBERINSEL]

@obscurecult ?

[SuperLuckydream]

What an interesting video! Thanks a lot!

[leftyspade]

This should never be heard. God help us!

[ReBeLhIpI]

did they record it with a calculator?

joking!

[v1nchynoobs]

those noises at the start (0:12) was that ment to be like what?

[Andrea10143]

Crappy Microphones On That Recorder They Had Back Then.

[zbtunes]

scary as fuck

[lingy010595]

Translation: " doom is coming a evil girl is goin to be born call justin bieber be aware!

[sazuist]

Scary~

[BelchTycoon]

Old television was in black and white.

Old recordings were done in wax and cylinder phonographs.

Old pictures required hours of exposure to get a proper image.

And here, we're watching YouTube on our cell phones, where we get to record our own text message ringtones and take pictures in seconds.

... What would the good old days have actually BEEN like, anyways?

[conorzzy]

there's something haunting about this :P

[Livsangel]

Well! Old and scarysounding or not it still beats a lot of the stuff made today.

[Livsangel]

It still beats a lot of the stuff made today (smiles).

[GhostoftheGridiron]

it sounds eerie. this sounds like it can be an evp

[XxXsitarheroXxX]

shes says, " At Claire of the Moon". thats the french translation.

[pennjersey83]

Wiz fah woo fah et eh vooo....wiz fah woo et eh vooo

[Livsangel]

It sounds kinda scary and yet I can´t help but listen to it.

[PKamargo]

Sounds scary? Yes... But how did it sound the day it was recorded?

By the pictures it looks that the recording device is practically the same principle as Edison's.

[DeutscheRossiya]

hmm the french man who recorded this,made a machine that was not suitable for playbacks that's why it sounds strange.

[psycosid666]

au clair de la lune means : under the light of the moon

[psycosid666]

so that's grand pa's I -POD

[Presidentofstormhawk]

whats the name of the song at 0:58 

[skwli]

@Presidentofstormhawk

au claire de la lune

[MrmeatyJY]

lol its like they hell rap to this in their hood, hahaha

[horbergaren]

Shit thats fucking scary, I am totally going to prank someone shitless with this

[Wheelrezz]

wooouuuwwwwww..... so that's what saunds in hell...

[DeutscheRossiya]

Beautiful recording,preserving the years online,it's not creepy if you think about it,and see what we have as music now in the days

[hipeeps1103]

the second one seems to be in better condition lol

[doomfreezzer61]

it sounds like elephants jizzing

[pilotoatomico]

its in D major

[supermariosunshine64]

Man, we're really come a long way from that. Still awesome to preserve this kind of things even if they are a bit creepy.

[DarkGuitarHero]

sounds like its some reverb

[94MaverickGT]

It was the inventor's daughter who sang the 2 lines of Au Clair de la Lune so it was a child's voice. Muah-ha-ha.

[jbjindra]

I'd do her. Just kidding that'd be gross.

[hyzercreek]

It doesn't beat Edison! Stop putting this non-historical bunk on here. The recording was made into paper and was never played back until recently when computers took the ink tracing and made sound out of it. Edison invented a machine that PLAYED BACK the recordings. This 1860 machine didn't play anything back.

[ProductionsHead]

Shes French, And its really old quality so that boosts up the fail recording.

[Horserider4561]

creepy!

[Horserider4561]

sounds a little bit like miranda cosgrove's raining sunshine

[redphantom85617]

Sounds like a ghost (first recoding), scary!

[ScarlemD]

I'm so sampling this

[TamboresDeJaykub]

how weird is it to know what thomas edison actually sounds like

[TimeTravelerJK]

@ch1ldpr3d3t0r i gave the wrong expression.......what i meant is that this video is freaking freaky

[StormOfMaat]

Okay! For all of you who think it's a woman singing that little French piece, it's actually a guy. The reason it sounds like a woman is because it's faster than it should be. Look this up on Wikipedia and you'll find out it's a man.

[EricBarbera]

It wasn't a woman.

Eduard de Martinville's recording was played at twice the original speed

It's actually his voice.

[Meteotrance]

sound like a fucking creepy EVP for ghost hunting lol ^^ in fact if this french inventor used wax like edison and not paper, he could be the first inventor of phonograph.

[DanceroidCPTV]

Still beats Justin Biber :)

[SynL2010]

Sounds like evp

[jlbroich]

Goes to show you that the europeans were demonic pagans at best. Listen to the 1877 one it's normal. But the old one is not right.

[TimeTravelerJK]

this women is dead now O__O

[ch1ldpr3d3t0r]

@TimeTravelerJK dude shes been dead for like a hundred years

[jlbroich]

This is scary. No doubt about it. Who agrees looking at old things. Or pictures or anything for that matter you get goose bumps and think these people don't look right. I mean you can't tell me people in the 15 hundreths look like ghosts or corpses 0_0 everyone then were satanic....

[HerefordChris]

Don't be ridiculous - it's not in the least "scary", "creepy" or "freaky". What IS scary is the technology of changing voices so that singers can "sing" songs that weren't even written when they were alive.

This is absolutely fascinating and a worthy piece of history. Thank you for posting it here.

[dmenkhau]

O.O

That is freaking CREEPY man...

[Kaorusempai1]

This is no longer rare.

[Maymona13]

Creepy azz hell.

[sweet58441]

I THINK I PISSED MY PANTS..................YEP I DID, AND I THINK I DROPPED A DEUCE IN THEM TOO

[pleoj]

je crois qu'il dit : au clair de la lune, mon amour j'ai perdu...

[gamesDAMNED]

I will personally buy a case of beer for the first person who puts that creepy recording on their cell phone :P

[dxjohncenacaz]

@gamesDAMNED

No thank you, good sir.

[skopjemoe]

postiram pesna so neverojatna vrednost :-)) uzivjate..

[vacuumlover1]

im scared

[oscarX]

Im suprsied Im not seeing any comments about this being lady gaga's ancestor.

[guda4siempre]

this is creepy

[slymn2k7]

thia is awesome great woowwwwwwwwwwwwww

[peacemaker083]

There is a recording of an experimental talking clock from 1878.

[tinpanalley67]

@peacemaker083 No, that's not true.

[peacemaker083]

@tinpanalley67 It is true. Go to tinfoil dot com. They have a ton of recordings. Including the experimental talking clock. Frank Lambert created it. If you'd do the research you would know it..

[tinpanalley67]

@peacemaker083 I'm sorry for being so ignorant.

[JRussoBuffaloNY]

btw edison was a thief, fraud & conspirator to murder

[Perlinator67]

@JRussoBuffaloNY

I've read that Edison may have taken credit for other people's inventions, but this is the first I've heard of him conspiring to murder. Could you be specific? If it's too time-consuming to respond, could you please post a link to this information? I hope it's not true, but I will look at any evidence objectively.

[kris019940]

This is amazing, the recordings are almost 150 years old, it sounds like shit, but it's still amazing. :D

[jellyboy123]

creepy

[Pokemon978IsBackOn]

Thomas Edison's recording was of him laughing and yelling Mary Had a Little Lamb. You can hear it cleanly in Thomas Edison The Man.

[esfelectra]

its weird

you know the voices are dead

but weirdly here they are....

scary

[Ojosappo]

why scary? We also know Lennon or Cobain are dead, however I don't see anything scary about them except whether you think their music sucks. This is simply astounding and wonderful, kinda like The Twilight Zone.

[mjb784533]

The people who first played this Phonautograph recording now have done more research and discovered they played the recording twice the intended speed. The voice is a man, actually it is Leon Scott himself. The Edison recording is from a film soundtrack Aug. 12, 1927.

[OmegaWolf747]

@mjb784533 Have they tried slowing down the playback speed to the original?

[gamesDAMNED]

@OmegaWolf747 Oh, yeah! Then it would be totally "Black Sabbath" creepy. I don't know why metal bands aren't using these ancient gadgets. Just think of all the ways you could freak people out with the spooky recordings. :P

[OmegaWolf747]

@gamesDAMNED That would be cool.

[JRussoBuffaloNY]

@gamesDAMNED I know that what is most frightening is when people make recording about abusing drugs & killing police officers & other deviances etc. but the "poor" sound quality of the worlds first recording of the daughter of the inventor of this device is far from frightening.

[dpoma]

this is so creepy

[TashkentFox]

The phonautograph was invented purely as a scientific novelty to make soundwaves visible, it was not understood that the patterns made by the device were actually a recording of the sound that only needed a playback device

[thorir30]

Then we could say the first recording from 1860 was the first ever made but Edisons recording from 1877 was the first one that worked?

[DiamandaHagan]

sounds like a warped version of the dr who theme

[sharinganqueen]

Man this freaked me out. especially cause I saw this at night. o__0

Pretty cool though how much everything's changed since then. Thank God too! Can you imagine how creepy it'd be if today's songs were recorded like that? *shudders*

[va3lan]

I know It was like someone reaching out from the grave.

[dragostrance]

@va3lan they are reaching from the dead... they're dead now whoever they are :)

[Enk64]

@sharinganqueen True. Imagine recording something today, then reducing the quality by about 10'000 fold, that's about right, lol

[Imak3]

@sharinganqueen yes creepy, but i still thinks that this is better than justin bieber.

[DeutscheRossiya]

@sharinganqueen hmmmm, Today's songs are actually quite creepy as is all that dirty talk and vulgarity,to be honest that wasn't creepy at all.

[rubnaus]

@sharinganqueen I guess justin bieber would sound better this way, though

[skyarme]

@sharinganqueen dude when u said tht u made me shudder holy shit

[03mrx]

What's up with the 2 notes playing and walkietalkie sound effect after the person saying pierrot? Or was she still singing and then the recorder stopped?

[boyhey1]

you're awesome, edison. and genious!

[rturnerful]

I'm sure back then the creators thought that was really some accomplishment - and it was. Can you imagine if they could come back and see where technology is today...I'm not even sure if the word (technology) was even around then.. but golly gee wiz, look how far we've come... now That's the scary part... really!!! Scotty....beam me up now!

[TheMrGobble]

this is creepy. I wish i could see the woman doing it. she musta bin proper excited wen she heard herself back. first person ever.

[xmadteaparty]

but the thing is, that the guy who recorded it, he did'nt play it back, he did'nt even know he could, he just studied the marks her voice made on the "whateveritwas"

[jooshiscrazy]

That Edison recording isn't actually the original. The original was lost. That was Edison recreating it in the 1920s.

[Aries1slayer]

its sounds like an infant its not scary at all

[JackieMagenta]

I think it's a bit scary...I mean, I'm sure the woman wasn't scary in real life...but just the thought of her voice coming through after 149 years, all distorted and crackly and surreal, is a bit unnerving.

[RollandB]

agreed...feels like she's being brought back to life!

[leporello56]

@JackieMagenta it was a man

[levizer]

@leporello56 no, it was a women!

[PookeoResurrected1]

@levizer Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is a man AND he was the voice you heard in the first clip.. The second clip is just a woman singing but it WASN't him

[tinpanalley67]

@JackieMagenta That person wasn't woman. It was man, possibly, the inventor.

This record is double-speeded( chipmunk'd)

[742512345689]

@JackieMagenta

i kno whaha