Ginny Simms looks good even in black and white...damn. Awfully nice to hear a white female singer who doesn't insist on trying to be Beyonce because that's what sells.
@InsectsGalore The Sonovox of 1940 was preceded by Alvino Rey's talking guitar and Bell Labs' Vocoder, both in 1939, and both on YouTube. I think the Sonovox, modeled after Rey's, was the best version and had quite a bit of commercial success in its time. Rey used a carbon throat microphone, and Bell Labs' version was all electronic and the name stands for Voice Coder-Decoder. The talkbox was indeed modeled after the Sonovox.
I love the sound of the sonovox. autotune just sounds so...electronic..used in the way that it is. but this has a nice sound to it you won't hear anywhere else and cannot be immitated. I love old things anyway so.. :)
Interesting how the Film Distributor on the 'end page' was the C&C Television Corp. - Yet, TV really wasn't mainstream until 1947.... unless this was added on in later years.
@MisterScott99 In this case--the early '50s or so--the old C&C TV Corp. had the rights to the old RKO library, which included "You'll Find Out". That particular library has been owned since the mid-1980's by Ted Turner, and then Time Warner.
@MisterScott99 Thank you very much. Mom and I watched it again, and she remembered her name later. Pretty good memory for 80! Ginny's video with the Freddy Martin Band is another good one. Thanks again.
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@RmonSP When I was a young arrogant 13 year old adolescent a year prior to this current year, I was tempered by the fact that wealthy untalented singers were generating their income off of the general public by consuming their garbage music that was completely composed by the producers in the studio not them!!
@n64wilbert And YOU led me to this song in your channel faves when you subbed mine! DANG you've got a taste for superbly produced music! Never thought I'd have something like this for my electronica playlist. Which reminds me - I need some theramin tracks on this list, too! Added this to 1940 also in my musical time machine of playlists that cover every year since 1900! chuck
@n64wilbert lol. Did not catch in general music. However they worked great in radio stations jingles. Bill Meeks of PAMS created a jingle package around the Sonovox and it sold well. The sono voice found its voice in station ID's. Jon Wolfert who was mentored by Meeks carried on when he started his own company JAM Creative Productions.
@emocatkiller This clip is the end of a feature film about a murder at an old dark house (mansion/castle). Netflix has it, "You'll Find Out" (1940), on a DVD paired with "Zombies on Broadway."
What a treat !! Ginny,Harry,Ish,and the Ol' Professor at the top of their great game of wholesome romance in "You'll Find Out". My how things have changed in 7 Decades as unwholesome pure smut rules the roost Big Time today!!! Even ugly women in 1940 looked beautiful compared to the trollops with phoney boobs and nothing between their ears in the 21st century. God have mercy on our fallen country!!!!
Well, I suppose the dog is the hero, but it was established early in the film that the dog is Ish's, so tho he's a hero, it's not a case of the band adopting it. jeez, i cant believe Im writing this...lol...
@ShockDoc Oh, I saw the whole film and have watched this clip about 100 times. What I meant to say is the insertion of the shot of the dog with the "hero" sign was the filmmaker's way of telling the audience that the band adopted the dog, and they consider it a hero for saving the day. It's a visual message to the audience not expressed with dialog or narration. It's clear if you see the whole film (now on DVD). The dog IS the hero in the story.
@TheInflicted That dog played an important role in the story. This number ends of the movie, and the audience is being told that the band adopted the dog and thanked it for it's heroism. Any more would be a spoiler. This film is on DVD now and has many more great Sonovox moments!
Flash! The first full length (341 pages) biography on Kay Kyser is finally available. Google Kay Kyser book. Title is KAY KYSER-THE OL' PROFESSOR OF SWING! AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN SUPERSTAR. Over 100 photos, rare interviews w/ Kyser, his band, and family.
A couple years back, I mentioned this film when requesting Frampton's song over Debbi Calton's noontime request show on WMGK. I'm not sure how I'd find out if there was a bump in orders for "You'll Find Out" on Netflix.
I found a copy listed for pre-sale on amazon. Its in a box set with some other movies that I honestly could case less for. But Warner Home Pictures is putting this out so I am guessing they got the rights from RKO. We can only hope that they pulled it directly from the film instead of a copy! YAY finally on DVD from reliable source, and not 50 bucks!
I know this is the same basic technology as the talkbox but I find this much more pleasant to listen to. I'm looking everywhere to find a real old Sonovox or plans on how to make one. They sound cool.
Yes, though one device was a year earlier. "In 1939, Alvino Rey used a carbon throat microphone wired in such a way as to modulate his electric steel guitar sound. The mic, originally developed for military pilot communications, was placed on the throat of Rey's wife Luise King (one of The King Sisters), who stood behind a curtain and mouthed the words, along with the guitar lines. The novel-sounding combination was called 'Singing Guitar,' but was not developed further." (sonovox, wikipedia)
Roger Zapp was watching this film, I bet. I want one of these, I mean one from the 30's. I bet the sound on it was earth shattering in the studio, I can only imagine how one of these would sound on a big system.
Excellent movie. I used to have a copy of it and watched is several times. The Sonovox it a classic device. Ish Kabibble is a riot and Ginny is a real fox.
No. From Wiki's entry on Alvino Rey: "In 1939, Rey used a carbon throat microphone to modulate his electric guitar sound. The mic, developed for military pilots, was placed on Rey's wife Luise standing behind a curtain singing along with the guitar lines. The novel combination was called "Singing Guitar", but was not developed further. The innovation was the first known talk box experiment." The Sonovox played audio into the throat. The carbon mike intermodulated the two signals electronically.
Notice the streaking anytime a bright object moves. This was originally a television broadcast (1940). Probably either an ionoscope or image orthocon. Television must have been nice in 1940. I'd watch this any day!
This was photographed on 35mm movie film in 1940 for theatrical release. The streaking you see was from the device that converted the film to television in the 1980s, which probably used a vidicon type camera tube. That broadcast was recorded on VHS tape in a home, and that tape is the source of this YouTube submission.
@jamesdean062879 No, this was a movie made around 1940. It was broadcast on television in the 1980s, using a telecine that may have used a vidicon or plumbicon which caused the streaking you see. This movie, BTW, is now available on DVD.
When I saw this movie as a kid, the fake seance (OF course all of them are) scared the HELL out of me. Kay's music was always directed at the young folks. They didn't have Kiddie Records back in those days did they?
A few years back when I asked Kyser guitarist Roc Hillman about Kay's disclaimer at the end, where he says 'This stuff doesn't really happen, it's all in fun,(paraphrased)'. Roc told me Kay insisted on having that put in there because he was worried some of the littler theater patrons might not understand and be scared. What a cool guy. By the way-the guitar you see Roc playing in this film is a maple Epiphone. I've played that guitar.What a thrill when I opened the guitar case 1n 1998.
When I interviewed Harry Babbitt (the male singer in this post) in '96 for my (unsold) Kyser documentary, he told me he had to go to the sonovox inventor's house a couple of times to take lessons for this scene. For more on Kyser go to my myspace page officialkaykyser or kaykyserdotnet.
I hope this isnt a double post, as i replied a few minutes ago, but it hasnt shown up. Anywhoooo, I'd like to post the interview segment with Harry, and the rest of my Kyser documentary 'teaser' (13 minutes long) in sections, but I have a contingency deal with the man who shot the interview- If it's used publicly in any way, I must pay him several hundred dollars. What I will do is when (and if) the documentary sells, I'll post it here in sections. Best I can do. Thanks for the interest.
A little factoid for everyone--EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network, a experimental video/performance/musical group) sampled this, they used :37 to :43 for their track (and video for) "378".
This was probably used in 'letter to 3 wifes' in the intervals the flute in the sky 'why are you wearing the blue suit' the dripping tap 'maybe you dont have everything after all' The train tracks 'is it brad'
Yes, if you go to the Internet Movie Database it does indeed mention the Sonovox was used in "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949). A friend remembers a film that used a Sonovox on a steel guitar voicing some kind of puppet, but we haven't nailed the title. It's also used for a talking flute in the film "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" (1962).
I just watched "A Letter to Three Wives" and you can hear the Sonovox several times to express the wives' obsessive thoughts -- once making dripping plumbing under a sink talk, once a steam boat, and once with the background orchestra. However, I found it's use in this film a disturbing distraction and of only novelty value that doesn't stand the test of time.
Kay Kyser's biggest rival apparently was Sammy Kaye, both of whom used the "sung title lyrics (or random lyrics", like "The goldne years, I spend with you" in things like "Sept. Song", which would be heard in a number of major mid-1970s disco songs), and then announcing the singer du jour..yet Kaye was definitely a straight sounding "sweet msuic" big band specalizier, with much less funny stuff, though Kaye's big hits included the surprisingly medium up tempo "Daddy".
Sonovox - Just like a talkbox but with acoustic instruments instead of an electric one(and 2 loud speakers going on the throat instead of a tube going in the mouth).
You're right, they are typically used that way, however the talkbox could play acoustic instruments, and the sonovox had been used for electric instruments. I recall a movie from the 40's that had an electric steel guitar fed into the sonovox, but can't locate the movie or its title.
Gilbert Wright invented the acoustic Sonovox in this clip around 1940, but the similar all-electric Vocoder was invented at Bell Labs by Homer Dudley in the mid 1930's. I see on Wiki that Alvino Rey used a "carbon throat microphone to modulate his electric guitar sound" in 1939, but "didn't develop it further." Interesting topic.
Gilbert Wright invented the acoustic Sonovox around 1940, but the original Vocoder and Voder were invented at Bell Labs by Homer Dudley in the mid 1930's.
Good grief! Amazing! Wow! I'm completely blown away! Coolest use of Sonovox ever!! And yes, the Sonovox is ultra creepy. I'm a talkboxer, and I don't find it creepy, but for some reason the Sonovox creeps me out a little. But I STILL want one.
For good examples of 'creepy' Sonovox - check out "Sparky's Magic Piano" and Bruce Haack's 1970 album The Electric Lucifer - especially the first track.
@mootbooxle I just realized that that was, in fact, a sonovox that Bruce used. He claimed that "Farad" (as he called it) was "programmed by touch and by proximity relays", but whatever the case may be it definitely has the same core to it as the sonovox. I don't think Bruce is a fraud because of this, by the way. It was a low-tech means of modulating sounds with speech, sure, but it sounded AMAZING! I want to make one now. :P
@ALXXMaXX Oh yeah! I wouldn't call that a fraud, I'd just say that's Bruce's artistic license. The technology was so far out of the reach of the general public, who was gonna argue with him? The Sonovox, to me, has this super-saturated sound to it that you could never really get by any other means. I'd definitely like to put one through its paces in the studio.
@mootbooxle You'd think that you could just go to any old radio shack and get a pair of speakers to put up to your throat but nooooo. You need special flat disks or something, because the source in question has to actually vibrate against your throat. You'd need to hack an electrolarynx or something. Closet I've ever gotten to this sound was putting an electric toothbrush up against my neck, which, as you could imagine, was rather unmelodic. :P
@mootbooxle Wait a minute, I think I've found a lead. There are certain electronic components one can buy for about $5 which are called "surface transducers", which have the ability of attaching to surfaces and "turning them into speakers". This sounds like the basic core of a sonovox to me.
Also when I listen to this again, I think the sonovox guy's lipsyncing, and the voice you hear is of a female operator, which is not very surprising, because most users of the sonovox then were "girls".
IT is so cool. when I heard about this, for some reason I just would never want to use it because it is creepy. It grew on me though, but Ill never get one. Talkbox is awesome, and I dont find it creepy at all.
1:23 I laughed when that chorus of "That's Lovely, Jenny!" kicked in.
cadmus98 1 day ago
They should redo all this but with a '70s-'80s-style vocoder (by EMS or Korg).
ClassicTVMan1981X 1 day ago
@ClassicTVMan1981X Why should they do that?
MisterScott99 1 day ago
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It is of course easier to do than with the Sonovox.
ClassicTVMan1981X 1 day ago
Ginny Simms looks good even in black and white...damn. Awfully nice to hear a white female singer who doesn't insist on trying to be Beyonce because that's what sells.
EntropicMisanthropic 3 weeks ago
Remember seeing this movie when I was young. It was a movie the antenna channels would show on New Years eve, back when TV was TV!
jackoshaw 3 weeks ago
@InsectsGalore The Sonovox of 1940 was preceded by Alvino Rey's talking guitar and Bell Labs' Vocoder, both in 1939, and both on YouTube. I think the Sonovox, modeled after Rey's, was the best version and had quite a bit of commercial success in its time. Rey used a carbon throat microphone, and Bell Labs' version was all electronic and the name stands for Voice Coder-Decoder. The talkbox was indeed modeled after the Sonovox.
MisterScott99 2 months ago
dudes and dudettes, sonovox =/= autotune. The first passes audio through a formant filter, the other re-pitches audio.
yagodequay 4 months ago
@yagodequay that's right. I figure people confuse them because sonovox and autotune sometimes sound alike.
MisterScott99 4 months ago
I love the sound of the sonovox. autotune just sounds so...electronic..used in the way that it is. but this has a nice sound to it you won't hear anywhere else and cannot be immitated. I love old things anyway so.. :)
melek1412 4 months ago
they was gettin down back in da day...
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IamTheBeatMan 6 months ago
Used (and credited in the opening credits) on Disney's "Dumbo" as the voice of Casey Jr.
UncleAnti 8 months ago
Interesting how the Film Distributor on the 'end page' was the C&C Television Corp. - Yet, TV really wasn't mainstream until 1947.... unless this was added on in later years.
musicom67 8 months ago
@musicom67 Yes, this was added later when C&C bought some film libraries for television broadcast, probably in the 50s.
MisterScott99 8 months ago
@MisterScott99 In this case--the early '50s or so--the old C&C TV Corp. had the rights to the old RKO library, which included "You'll Find Out". That particular library has been owned since the mid-1980's by Ted Turner, and then Time Warner.
byrd56 8 months ago
ladies and gents the original T-Pain XD
TooCool1993 8 months ago
So modern! No techno! Cool!!!
DomeArmin 9 months ago
At the ebd kay says on thuesday as ussual but the broadcasted every thursdsy rightday?
Vespanius 9 months ago
Ho... ly... crap...
GVike 11 months ago
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411Soulman1 11 months ago
Can anyone tell me who Jenny in this video is? Beautiful voice, and looks pretty good too!
NcalBiker 1 year ago
@NcalBiker Ginny Simms is the lady singer in this one
MisterScott99 1 year ago
@MisterScott99 Thank you very much. Mom and I watched it again, and she remembered her name later. Pretty good memory for 80! Ginny's video with the Freddy Martin Band is another good one. Thanks again.
NcalBiker 1 year ago
@NcalBiker This movie is now on DVD paired with "Zombies on Broadway" and available on Netflix.
MisterScott99 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you realized that Robert De Niro is immortal, because I fucking swear that he is playing sax at :31 of this video.
mmmRamenNoodles 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you realized that Robert De Niro is immortal, because I fucking swear that he is playing sax at :31 of this video.
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cloudburstlenepmhq 1 year ago
l'ancetre du vocoder
DJdieSoldier 1 year ago
Mind=blown!
LuvStruckMess 1 year ago
HOW???
jkjkjij22 1 year ago
That's incredible. *shares*
CarylCake 1 year ago
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Sadsic 1 year ago
Brilliant! Only took Kraftwerk about 25 years to copy this :)
feline1973 1 year ago
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@feline1973 Yellow Magic Orchestra is the most revolutionary band in the development of electronic music in my sentimental perception.
n64wilbert 2 months ago
that's pretty fucking awesome!!!!!
XxHearse13xX 1 year ago
Does anyone know who the woman singing is? I absolutely adore her!
TinaTubeTime 1 year ago
lol, random dog.
ackers11 1 year ago
Sounds like animal crossing. Fucking awesome
pants7 1 year ago
damn fallout 3 lol
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unassuminglocal 1 year ago
AUTO-TUNE THE 40s
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i started laughing really hard at 1:48 haha i dont know why haha
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diantc333 1 year ago
Makes the singer sound like a female with a throat cancer, and it is kinda mocking people with the throat cancer. Just saying :P
KrnPrideKTB 1 year ago
too much smoking D: ----->0:44
LmarieCHAN 1 year ago
She has such a beautiful voice. You don't see that often nowadays.
iziksquirel 1 year ago
T-Pain should do a REMIX!
TheAmazingSwan 1 year ago
why dont any female singers sound like that anymore =/
kristonholt 1 year ago
Ahh Glenn Miller! <3 I love this style. Wish this kind of music was still around!!!
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cool
ladyfuzz1966 1 year ago
They used this in Sparky's Magic Piano. Amazing
Npeo 1 year ago
REAL MUSIC not auto-tune T-pain crap LOVE THE BIG BAND MUSIC
AND I"M 13
n64wilbert 1 year ago 20
@n64wilbert yay!
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n64wilbert 2 months ago
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come to think of it, sometimes the singing in this video ACTUALLY sounds like Auto-Tune lol
RmonSP 1 year ago
@RmonSP When I was a young arrogant 13 year old adolescent a year prior to this current year, I was tempered by the fact that wealthy untalented singers were generating their income off of the general public by consuming their garbage music that was completely composed by the producers in the studio not them!!
n64wilbert 2 months ago
@n64wilbert And YOU led me to this song in your channel faves when you subbed mine! DANG you've got a taste for superbly produced music! Never thought I'd have something like this for my electronica playlist. Which reminds me - I need some theramin tracks on this list, too! Added this to 1940 also in my musical time machine of playlists that cover every year since 1900! chuck
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@chkjns Yellow Magic Orchestra is the most revolutionary band in the development of electronic music in my sentimental perception.
n64wilbert 2 months ago
@n64wilbert YMO? They're alright, but they just seem to me like a Japanese Kraftwerk.
cadmus98 1 day ago
@chkjns Do you have Jean-Jacques Perrey in that list?
n64wilbert 3 weeks ago
@n64wilbert lol. Did not catch in general music. However they worked great in radio stations jingles. Bill Meeks of PAMS created a jingle package around the Sonovox and it sold well. The sono voice found its voice in station ID's. Jon Wolfert who was mentored by Meeks carried on when he started his own company JAM Creative Productions.
donmccullen 3 weeks ago
Umm? What the hell happened in the end about the murder, that was fuckin weird!
emocatkiller 1 year ago 3
@emocatkiller This clip is the end of a feature film about a murder at an old dark house (mansion/castle). Netflix has it, "You'll Find Out" (1940), on a DVD paired with "Zombies on Broadway."
MisterScott99 1 year ago
Anyone happen to know the Origin of "One Track Mind"?
BillyDukin 1 year ago
Awesome. I need a device/program like that.
zerosvc2 1 year ago
I want one... NOW!
Is there a free prgram i can download for an effect like this?
Theshiggityshwa 1 year ago
What a treat !! Ginny,Harry,Ish,and the Ol' Professor at the top of their great game of wholesome romance in "You'll Find Out". My how things have changed in 7 Decades as unwholesome pure smut rules the roost Big Time today!!! Even ugly women in 1940 looked beautiful compared to the trollops with phoney boobs and nothing between their ears in the 21st century. God have mercy on our fallen country!!!!
dholm5058 1 year ago
No idea it existed this far back-awesome stuff. :-)
IBetYouWillFemales 1 year ago
Well, I suppose the dog is the hero, but it was established early in the film that the dog is Ish's, so tho he's a hero, it's not a case of the band adopting it. jeez, i cant believe Im writing this...lol...
ShockDoc 1 year ago
@ShockDoc OK, maybe I misremembered it. Thanks for correcting me.
MisterScott99 1 year ago
Bull- Kyser says nothing of 'the band adopting the dog'. The dog isnt even mentioned in this, the film's finale. Did you even see the film????
ShockDoc 1 year ago
@ShockDoc Oh, I saw the whole film and have watched this clip about 100 times. What I meant to say is the insertion of the shot of the dog with the "hero" sign was the filmmaker's way of telling the audience that the band adopted the dog, and they consider it a hero for saving the day. It's a visual message to the audience not expressed with dialog or narration. It's clear if you see the whole film (now on DVD). The dog IS the hero in the story.
MisterScott99 1 year ago
I was there, and knew all those people! And it's all 'shopped.
No, not really. Just there's usually some jerk that has to say that.
crusader149 1 year ago
mazing 40s space age
kotep777 1 year ago
0:57 'The heck?
TheInflicted 1 year ago
@TheInflicted That dog played an important role in the story. This number ends of the movie, and the audience is being told that the band adopted the dog and thanked it for it's heroism. Any more would be a spoiler. This film is on DVD now and has many more great Sonovox moments!
MisterScott99 1 year ago
love her voice
thorwaldjorgensen 1 year ago
@thorwaldjorgensen me too
MisterScott99 1 year ago
Cool! But where's Ish Kabibble?
glimmer2158 2 years ago
Flash! The first full length (341 pages) biography on Kay Kyser is finally available. Google Kay Kyser book. Title is KAY KYSER-THE OL' PROFESSOR OF SWING! AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN SUPERSTAR. Over 100 photos, rare interviews w/ Kyser, his band, and family.
ShockDoc 2 years ago
Everyone looks terribly nervous in this video....
AndrewReeman 2 years ago
Even the dog
MisterScott99 2 years ago
A couple years back, I mentioned this film when requesting Frampton's song over Debbi Calton's noontime request show on WMGK. I'm not sure how I'd find out if there was a bump in orders for "You'll Find Out" on Netflix.
fgldnglbs 2 years ago
ginny simms has a beautiful voice,
thorwaldjorgensen 2 years ago 2
amazing! I love This movie! One of my absolute favorites and it is so hard to find a decent copy.
neverjustordinary 2 years ago
This is from a friend who taped it off late night TV over 20 years ago.
MisterScott99 2 years ago
I found a copy listed for pre-sale on amazon. Its in a box set with some other movies that I honestly could case less for. But Warner Home Pictures is putting this out so I am guessing they got the rights from RKO. We can only hope that they pulled it directly from the film instead of a copy! YAY finally on DVD from reliable source, and not 50 bucks!
neverjustordinary 2 years ago
I's so glad he told us that frankenstein and dracual aren't REALLY murderers...I was confused... People in the 40's .. sheesh
phgp27 2 years ago
I know this is the same basic technology as the talkbox but I find this much more pleasant to listen to. I'm looking everywhere to find a real old Sonovox or plans on how to make one. They sound cool.
MeatLazer 2 years ago
wow! this was simply the beginning of the talk box! right?
ingej32 2 years ago
Yes, though one device was a year earlier. "In 1939, Alvino Rey used a carbon throat microphone wired in such a way as to modulate his electric steel guitar sound. The mic, originally developed for military pilot communications, was placed on the throat of Rey's wife Luise King (one of The King Sisters), who stood behind a curtain and mouthed the words, along with the guitar lines. The novel-sounding combination was called 'Singing Guitar,' but was not developed further." (sonovox, wikipedia)
MisterScott99 2 years ago
Nice! Me like.
(i am ingej32, just got a new account)
MacJARedd 2 years ago
Sounds like a long time smoker
ghostrid3 2 years ago
Hehe exactly
MisterScott99 2 years ago
hi....!
bartolomeobertollomi 2 years ago
any of you guys remember listening to such sonovox cuts on radio? fun! had it on WABC and others!
funtyrone 2 years ago
I recall seeing this introduced in a comedy film by Bela Lugosi. I believe Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre were also in the film.
MorganPolander 2 years ago
Well, this is a comedy film and stars those three, so I think we are talking about the same film: "You'll Find Out."
MisterScott99 2 years ago
sounds like the thing my friends dad uses to talk
seizetheweakened 2 years ago
EPIC!!!
Mafkeesdejong 2 years ago 3
Sweet, me wantee.
PeeingMyOwnBlood 2 years ago
ALSOME VIDEO!! A+
DJZMANZ903 2 years ago
Roger Zapp was watching this film, I bet. I want one of these, I mean one from the 30's. I bet the sound on it was earth shattering in the studio, I can only imagine how one of these would sound on a big system.
groovechaser 2 years ago
i want a sonovox!
SirManNGedition 2 years ago
you want sonovox?...I can do it, so don`t hesitate to contact me
schmollzart 2 years ago
How Much for a sonovox ?
petesmith259 2 years ago
I'd love a Sonovox, How much to make one?
petesmith259 2 years ago
I do. So I'm not hesitating to contact.
c0rv377 2 years ago
The dog is like get me out of here
Tonzura11 2 years ago
The Grandfather of the Talk Box. lol
skrat5 2 years ago
2:30, these guys are masters of obliterating the fourth wall.
tekkentool 3 years ago
Awsome. Its like Daft Punk from the 30's.
Love it
SamTheToyRobot 3 years ago
Haha, precisely. Except it's from the 40s. ;)
SpacePirateRidley 3 years ago
I love this music.
It is all-American.
Now all we have is stupid Soulja Girl.
SamTheToyRobot 3 years ago 8
From the Sonovox of Wright, they developed the Aurex Neovox artificial Larynx....
maestroredal 3 years ago
Man she's beautiful. And another thing learned.
Zeanu 3 years ago
That's Ginny Sims.
itgirl1982 3 years ago
Excellent movie. I used to have a copy of it and watched is several times. The Sonovox it a classic device. Ish Kabibble is a riot and Ginny is a real fox.
hootinouts 3 years ago
is this the same devise Alveno Rey used?
cvwtzhaar 3 years ago
No. From Wiki's entry on Alvino Rey: "In 1939, Rey used a carbon throat microphone to modulate his electric guitar sound. The mic, developed for military pilots, was placed on Rey's wife Luise standing behind a curtain singing along with the guitar lines. The novel combination was called "Singing Guitar", but was not developed further. The innovation was the first known talk box experiment." The Sonovox played audio into the throat. The carbon mike intermodulated the two signals electronically.
MisterScott99 3 years ago
Notice the streaking anytime a bright object moves. This was originally a television broadcast (1940). Probably either an ionoscope or image orthocon. Television must have been nice in 1940. I'd watch this any day!
jamesdean062879 3 years ago 2
This was photographed on 35mm movie film in 1940 for theatrical release. The streaking you see was from the device that converted the film to television in the 1980s, which probably used a vidicon type camera tube. That broadcast was recorded on VHS tape in a home, and that tape is the source of this YouTube submission.
MisterScott99 3 years ago
@jamesdean062879 No, this was a movie made around 1940. It was broadcast on television in the 1980s, using a telecine that may have used a vidicon or plumbicon which caused the streaking you see. This movie, BTW, is now available on DVD.
MisterScott99 1 year ago
was his the Kollege of Musical Knowledge?
123BubberMiley 3 years ago
Yes
MisterScott99 3 years ago
Why, that's Peter Frampton's dad.....
orbitration 3 years ago
Truly awesome.
And Ginny Simms! Shes super hot!
rougeliter 3 years ago
Wow... she sure was...
Later to be Mrs. Henry Mancini, I believe?
rasputin63 3 years ago
Actually, Mancini was married to Virginia O´Connor. Her nickname was Ginny too, though.
rougeliter 3 years ago
Oops, OK, thanks!
rasputin63 3 years ago
thats actualy quite scary..
kivlov 3 years ago
This is so awesome I don't know what to say.
BrotherBabylon 3 years ago
When I saw this movie as a kid, the fake seance (OF course all of them are) scared the HELL out of me. Kay's music was always directed at the young folks. They didn't have Kiddie Records back in those days did they?
panzerschnott 3 years ago
I think as long as there were records there were kiddie records.
MisterScott99 3 years ago
A few years back when I asked Kyser guitarist Roc Hillman about Kay's disclaimer at the end, where he says 'This stuff doesn't really happen, it's all in fun,(paraphrased)'. Roc told me Kay insisted on having that put in there because he was worried some of the littler theater patrons might not understand and be scared. What a cool guy. By the way-the guitar you see Roc playing in this film is a maple Epiphone. I've played that guitar.What a thrill when I opened the guitar case 1n 1998.
ShockDoc 3 years ago
When I interviewed Harry Babbitt (the male singer in this post) in '96 for my (unsold) Kyser documentary, he told me he had to go to the sonovox inventor's house a couple of times to take lessons for this scene. For more on Kyser go to my myspace page officialkaykyser or kaykyserdotnet.
ShockDoc 3 years ago
I really like your web site! Would you consider putting the interview with Babbitt bit on Sonovox on YouTube?
MisterScott99 3 years ago
I hope this isnt a double post, as i replied a few minutes ago, but it hasnt shown up. Anywhoooo, I'd like to post the interview segment with Harry, and the rest of my Kyser documentary 'teaser' (13 minutes long) in sections, but I have a contingency deal with the man who shot the interview- If it's used publicly in any way, I must pay him several hundred dollars. What I will do is when (and if) the documentary sells, I'll post it here in sections. Best I can do. Thanks for the interest.
ShockDoc 3 years ago
A little factoid for everyone--EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network, a experimental video/performance/musical group) sampled this, they used :37 to :43 for their track (and video for) "378".
pvx 3 years ago
That's the lovely Ginny Simms from San Antonio, Texas singing "One Track Mind."
91Bear 3 years ago
This was probably used in 'letter to 3 wifes' in the intervals the flute in the sky 'why are you wearing the blue suit' the dripping tap 'maybe you dont have everything after all' The train tracks 'is it brad'
midguardz 3 years ago
Yes, if you go to the Internet Movie Database it does indeed mention the Sonovox was used in "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949). A friend remembers a film that used a Sonovox on a steel guitar voicing some kind of puppet, but we haven't nailed the title. It's also used for a talking flute in the film "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" (1962).
MisterScott99 3 years ago
I just watched "A Letter to Three Wives" and you can hear the Sonovox several times to express the wives' obsessive thoughts -- once making dripping plumbing under a sink talk, once a steam boat, and once with the background orchestra. However, I found it's use in this film a disturbing distraction and of only novelty value that doesn't stand the test of time.
MisterScott99 3 years ago
WHAT A GROUNDBREAKING MOVIE...not only popu-
larized the Sonovox (R); but perhaps the
only horror-comedy-musical in history
(also co-starred Boris Karloff & Peter Lorre,
if I recall correctly!)
BTW...other poster's ref to "Dallas jingle
house" must have been PAMS (Promotions And
Marketing Services)
RonaldVaughan 3 years ago
kay kyser was great. I wrote about him on my blog. I even posted a song. if you'd like to add anything else to the blog come on by and look
just copy the address below into your browser but remove the ) from the address between the traditional pop standards and the com and there you go :).
traditionalpopstandards)com/kollege-of-musical-knowledge/
traditionalpop 3 years ago
HEY FRAMPTON, GET A LOAD OF THIS!
boxpok 3 years ago
woo woo weel wike wee woo?
blazerr 2 years ago 2
Kay Kyser's biggest rival apparently was Sammy Kaye, both of whom used the "sung title lyrics (or random lyrics", like "The goldne years, I spend with you" in things like "Sept. Song", which would be heard in a number of major mid-1970s disco songs), and then announcing the singer du jour..yet Kaye was definitely a straight sounding "sweet msuic" big band specalizier, with much less funny stuff, though Kaye's big hits included the surprisingly medium up tempo "Daddy".
SteveCarras 3 years ago
Sonovox - Just like a talkbox but with acoustic instruments instead of an electric one(and 2 loud speakers going on the throat instead of a tube going in the mouth).
Anonymos25 3 years ago
You're right, they are typically used that way, however the talkbox could play acoustic instruments, and the sonovox had been used for electric instruments. I recall a movie from the 40's that had an electric steel guitar fed into the sonovox, but can't locate the movie or its title.
MisterScott99 3 years ago
Guitarist-bandleader Alvino Rey probably invented this sonovox, but I could be wrong.
panzerschnott 3 years ago
Gilbert Wright invented the acoustic Sonovox in this clip around 1940, but the similar all-electric Vocoder was invented at Bell Labs by Homer Dudley in the mid 1930's. I see on Wiki that Alvino Rey used a "carbon throat microphone to modulate his electric guitar sound" in 1939, but "didn't develop it further." Interesting topic.
MisterScott99 3 years ago
I miss the days when entertainers wore clothes and had talent.
scotsmanlerxt 3 years ago 7
Same here! :(
Why can't the good ol' dayz be back? :(
massivepwn 3 years ago
@scotsmanlerxt I do to when talent was at first with billie holiday charlie christian
Django Reinhardt NOT Justin Bieber
n64wilbert 1 year ago
THANKYOU SO MUCH for posting this video. Kay Kyser absolutely rocks and I love this track.
Please feel good for the rest of your life.
MattMoose23 3 years ago 2
The same principle is used on many radio jingles to this day in Dallas.
DaveNightingale 3 years ago
Hey the sonovox man really does that thing he's got a good singing voice without that!!!
rnbsteenstar 4 years ago
Jenny is GORGEOUS!
LairdEricW 4 years ago 3
SWEET
LairdEricW 4 years ago
That is just too hilarious! I'd pull up to a McDonald's drive through with that thing! I laugh till I cry when I see this! LOL!
ChrisWhite1971 4 years ago
What a cool sound!
PictureHouseCinema 4 years ago
i bet Bell Labs invented it
jerkrecords 4 years ago
Gilbert Wright invented the acoustic Sonovox around 1940, but the original Vocoder and Voder were invented at Bell Labs by Homer Dudley in the mid 1930's.
MisterScott99 4 years ago
Google "inart 55 vocoder" to read about Bell Labs work on it. Google "Wendy Carlos Vocoder" to read about her use of it and preferred devices.
MisterScott99 4 years ago
fabulous!!! i wish i had this on a CD!!! what amazing music!!! i love vocoders!!!
Wyrehedd242 4 years ago
Hey, The sonovox guy has a great singing voice without that thing!
rnbsteenstar 4 years ago
Whoa- a weird glimpse into the world of past musical innovations.
Hahah, look about a minute in, that dog's like "Man what! Play some Zapp & Roger."
jolive91 4 years ago
Good grief! Amazing! Wow! I'm completely blown away! Coolest use of Sonovox ever!! And yes, the Sonovox is ultra creepy. I'm a talkboxer, and I don't find it creepy, but for some reason the Sonovox creeps me out a little. But I STILL want one.
For good examples of 'creepy' Sonovox - check out "Sparky's Magic Piano" and Bruce Haack's 1970 album The Electric Lucifer - especially the first track.
mootbooxle 4 years ago
@mootbooxle I just realized that that was, in fact, a sonovox that Bruce used. He claimed that "Farad" (as he called it) was "programmed by touch and by proximity relays", but whatever the case may be it definitely has the same core to it as the sonovox. I don't think Bruce is a fraud because of this, by the way. It was a low-tech means of modulating sounds with speech, sure, but it sounded AMAZING! I want to make one now. :P
ALXXMaXX 6 months ago
@ALXXMaXX Oh yeah! I wouldn't call that a fraud, I'd just say that's Bruce's artistic license. The technology was so far out of the reach of the general public, who was gonna argue with him? The Sonovox, to me, has this super-saturated sound to it that you could never really get by any other means. I'd definitely like to put one through its paces in the studio.
mootbooxle 6 months ago
@mootbooxle You'd think that you could just go to any old radio shack and get a pair of speakers to put up to your throat but nooooo. You need special flat disks or something, because the source in question has to actually vibrate against your throat. You'd need to hack an electrolarynx or something. Closet I've ever gotten to this sound was putting an electric toothbrush up against my neck, which, as you could imagine, was rather unmelodic. :P
ALXXMaXX 6 months ago
@mootbooxle Wait a minute, I think I've found a lead. There are certain electronic components one can buy for about $5 which are called "surface transducers", which have the ability of attaching to surfaces and "turning them into speakers". This sounds like the basic core of a sonovox to me.
Also when I listen to this again, I think the sonovox guy's lipsyncing, and the voice you hear is of a female operator, which is not very surprising, because most users of the sonovox then were "girls".
ALXXMaXX 5 months ago
IT is so cool. when I heard about this, for some reason I just would never want to use it because it is creepy. It grew on me though, but Ill never get one. Talkbox is awesome, and I dont find it creepy at all.
Meta1Head91 4 years ago
Creepy in a REALLY GOOD way, yeah.
It makes me feel all warm and giggly inside. I love these dead people.
racookster 4 years ago