first recorded sound

[MrOpposite21]

Rebecca Black without autotune!

[DedCobo]

This is beautiful and everthingl.....the mechanics are miraculous

,,,,,, but i listened to it alone in my room at 2 PM....................and SHAT myself

[bean420man]

So where was the usb connection on that thing?

[SkinoReturns]

I thought the first sound was of some bees in a glass!

[urbanexplorer1996]

sleep ? what is sleep ? i dont need it !

[RafaelC457ro]

amazing thanks

[HendryWijaya95]

awesome but bad quality

[Davis2Nguyen]

"Au clair de la lune,Mon ami, Pierrot répondit (I used Google translate) *This now changed'*

"In the moonlight, My friend, Pierrot replied *a sound after that* Was that pokemon?

[sightlesssamurai]

So, I just listened to a dead person? lol

[TCfoxs]

I'm scared.

[hazzadous007]

Thumbs up if you still listen to this in 2011!

[1vas2]

Thank You, For Adding In Some History Behind The Device, I Think The Voice Is Unique & Very Different I Must Say, Even Though Not Many People Understand It, I Still Think Its Outstanding.

[shadowX50]

This is fucking creepy

[CAinfowarrior]

i just heard the dead speak.

[JOHNNYFREEDOMdaREBEL]

i think that this is just a lie.......

[iannickCZ]

What bitrate it was? 1Byte/s

[sijeii17]

Still Better than Friday by Rebecca Black.

[safiyaclaire]

scary

[frazblue2]

i remember listening to it 150 years back on my i-stone

[icerotwkvice]

@frazblue2 Love you man LOL.

[serbestcagrisim]

fucking edison...

[plantain007]

they made anything out of nothing back then

[itcomaxit]

Edison was a thief of ideas. His bulb invention was most likely based on Tesla's experiments. We of course will never find out the truth.

[boburiinchankludho]

Creepy



[cranie4]

I remember seeing this when it came out. Like bringing her back from the dead...they NEVER intended anyone to ever hear her voice..creepy and awesome at the same time.

[mrangus703]

Surprised someone hasn't said this yet. Don't ya hate it when the top two comments are the same?

[xNoTriggerx]

I want that song at the end, but I cant find it anywhere. help?

[DrWatsonPostmortem]

Lady Gaga, age 96.

[3mm44ily]

so creepy ..

[andresen3igear]

0:00 to 0:45 its look like a.................

[TheXLTE]

wow scary!

[MaroonedQc]

It's saying ''Au clair de la Lune, Mon Ami Perriot'', not ''Pierrot répondit''.

[AstonManiac]

i dont understand the creepy. and didnt tesla come up with the first lightbulb, which was LED? weird.

[Japancommercials4U2]

THAT'S OKAY, I WASN'T PLANNING ON SLEEPING TONIGHT ANYWAY

[tokeabow]

Edison was a goddamn fraud

[AlienBeliever897]

@tokeabow Damn straight. He stole most of his ideas from other inventors and patented them as his own. Especially Tesla's Flourescent light bulb.

[Finie88]

SCARY!!it's remind me of Twilight~ LOL

[PillowPillar001]

It sounds like sound track from a really old insane asylum. Just trying not to think about it right now.

[sandreasmaniac]

i heard they will release a cd remastering of this song

[2tur]

Kool.

[megacooldude099]

Think of it somebody sang this before us wow

[MegaHello202]

scary

[Tabbimura]

It's a lullaby from twilight zone.

[danielsadek30]

Why is it scary?? lol

[Loosehh]

thats scary lol!

[jwblantCU]

It may have been before Edison, but Edison's recording is muchhhh clearer.

[mookie34545]

I watched this, then my power blipped. Help

[xZippy38]

We should revert back to this. The "barely-audible" style was so badass.

[TIMOMUKKY]

i like Palaeolithic. it attracts me

[parchment52]

raping the play button

[kwiky421]

Really fascinating how clear the voice is. But I am French and what I have heard in the recording is the first verse of the song : "Au clair de la lune, mon ami Pierro...". It is more evident if you listen this at half-speed, as suggested by many one. The pronunciation of the "R" into "PieRRo" is clearly audible. For me there is no doubt.

Anyway, this is incredible and after all : C'est un Français qui a réussit à graver la première voix humaine de l'histoire !

[Xjreme18]

@kwiky421

For me, it's also scary.

o_o

[Wayavas1337]

This is very nice, its historical and it means a lot to be able to listen to this, thanks for uploading

[PedrOxt2]

Better than Junstin bieber

[TheFinlandnator]

This is not the first recording ever done. This is the second one that has been successfully made audible.

[ccoraxfan]

This recording is being played twice as fast as it should. The discoverers found other recordings that sounded way too fast... so at proper speed, it's a man's voice singing slowly. And the words he's singing (from the second verse) should be:

Au clair de la lune

Pierrot répondit

Je n'ai...

[Supduplemup]

amazing

[busterblue16]

I just woke up..i thought this looked interesting so i listened to it and now im freaked out.. XD

[DannyRebus]

I'm listening to this at 5 in the morning!

Mood: Freaked Out!

[scotfreak]

@DannyRebus whoa.... same here

[mhopps91]

Word around the street is that Blink-182's been covering this live and that it will be on their new album! Can't wait!

[sebbeas123]

how come i always watch these kinds of videos in the night? xD

[SoleCitizen33]

that man had no idea he made one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century

[JustWickedSwede]

@SoleCitizen33 Undiscovered serendipity!

[henneytampa]

Run that by me again.

[ravage657]

its justin bieber with no brain

[cyrax1311]

@ravage657 lmao what?

[Bubbiea]

this isnt creepy, pussies.

[vahahon]

Scary sound

[SpraysBlasphemy]

Someone should make techno music out of this lol

[andrewvanrhoberts]

In two hundred years if theres still people around and if they ever read these comments, it will probably creep the shit outta of them

[HaiDoggie]

@andrewvanrhoberts

You seriously think Youtube and our comments will be around in 200 years? :D

haha "last login time: "198 years ago" "age:175"

[DRSteveo44]

in the moonlight, Pierrot replied < google translate

[punctualbird]

Yeah, but it's like a French recording, so who cares? French sucks. English rules all!

[beatleforce1]

@punctualbird You got that right!!

[zzbreezyzz1]

this is so f-ing scary

[Boodro2009]

This belongs on Scooby-Doo, Fear Factor, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Lab, Ghost Adventures, X-Files, Animal X, Monster Quest, Mystery Quest, The Simpsons, UFO Files, Ghost Busters, Dragon Ball Z, Cat in the Hat, Family Guy, etc.

[itsalex95]

Still better than Beiber.

[2010PCproductions]

This scares the shit out of me.

[sodapoplv95]

Better than most music today.

[ima13u]

okay its 2 am and after reading the comments i hav come 2 the conclusion 2 wait till tomorrow morning to listen 2 it lol

[nuevamusa]

ok first saund ever invented it my saound crypy in a way but imagine if they havent invented that crepy thing maybe no one will have figured out sound and maybe we will be living in a mute world that will be even crepeer dont u think

[XxRCZ4LIFExX]

GHOST ARE REAL!!!

[gmmix]

VERY interesting video contribution. Thanks for this posting.

[DocGerbilzWorld]

after hearing it about a million times it actually sounds like the song... not just like some creepy ghost voice xD well it sounds like a creepy ghost singing the song... lol its amazing to hear someones voice from over 150 years ago... o.O

[Resurgam1901]

How would you be walking past a Cemetary at night and hearing that ???

Or coming from a Vault.

[jamapell]

How do recordings work?

[rocklee360ex]

dude that is kidna creeping me out that sound...

[rennyminou]

Go to the Wikipedia page for Martinville and you can hear the "corrected" slower version.

Creepy yet fascinating!

[goodcat1982]

ive not heard this song in ages! cheers for the upload! :)

[fuzzleteala]

HOW did they figure out it's Au Claire De La Lune!?

[gastro137]

Sounds like juston Bieber trying to sing

[xxxmastaicexxx]

motha fuck thats so motha fucking scary

[Epicfailbri]

it sounds like a pigeon.. no offense D:

[BitchinnShoes07]

Has this been transferred to vinyl yet?

[DeutscheRossiya]

is the speed being played back well? but this recording was not made on a machine for playback,that's why edison's machine was better

[TheMeGaSpIkE0]

Amazing BUT a little creepy :D

[gopalrgupta]

wow, bet he must be rolling in his grave thinkin "to hell with sound wave patterns, i should've patented the spooky sound comind out of my machine"......

[Dragonlord294]

wow thats amazing!!! its kinda cool hearing someone that lived a long time ago!

[fuzzleteala]

It's the really bad sound quality they had back then that makes it REALLY creepy!

[osspanskooranice]

Now in HQ.

[jackthayer]

yeah u don't want to hear this at night with the lights out....

[guitarwaysted]

My mother came into the room,and start singing the song,she knew the song without even seen this,she said i learned this at school when i was young,this not really spooks me,but to me its more like how can i say some melancholic feeling i feel.

[kenny10100]

so thats how people sounded back in the day........

haha jk

[JohnathanLeeSprite]

Fascinating.

[peekapoohs4life]

I learned this song in French class... 9 years ago, I think. This song stuck with me, it really really did. Every now and then I'd be humming it :)

I can't express how creeped out I am, as well as amazed; I'm hearing something that was sung 151 years ago.

Does anyone else feel as if hearing this is a special priviledge? I certainly do.

[xXTheDarkLemonXx]

if only they knew that over a hundred years later so many people will me able to hear this...its amazing :)

[fckboy96]

Better than Justin Bieber.

[jondoe8889]

Maybe we should just say 'earliest known'. There are always inventors out there, many unknown. Columbus wasn't the first Euro to find N America. But who was? The Wrights weren't the first to fly, but they did have the Smithsonian guy behind them, getting the word out.

[Dragonlord294]

it creeps me out to!!!:c

[fabianoasc]

Someone who died more than a century ago returns to life again to haunt the living ones.

[samhawas]

haunting voice from 150 years back

[Inkwish]

I can actually make it out the third time around. Around 0:06 you hear "Luuu-naaa"

And the rest is harder to hear but I could make out "repondit" near the end.

[jordo1707]

nice, whens the remix coming out?

[ZSaberToothTigerZ]

I bet the guy who sat and wrote this shit on a paper didnt know in some houndred years this would be played back on the internet!

[Dragynn999]

It feels so.... strange to hear the voice of someone that lived so long ago.

Actually it's really creepy but it's also fascinating as hell. It sound like a ghost, singing a song.

[Epicfailbri]

@Dragynn999 O: I sooo agree! It sounds like the persons dying D: 

[imapuredork]

ghost

[adeekomkolokom]

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ????????????

[IbanWisp]

Its fucking creepy

[crowbarftw]

Kvlt beyond imagination!

[Foeley]

I don't know about the rest of you but this spooks the hell out of me

[blackcerberus999]

@Foeley Actually yeah... I kept thinking this was something you would hear in a creepy movie myself lol

[shadowfan771]

@Foeley yeah, it makes feel like something is about to jump out and kill me.

[FBproductions7]

@Foeley same here

[MatthewandMario]

@Foeley same hear i not sure if that is a voice

[Salieri1791]

me da algo de miedo esto... nada más me imagino todo el tiempo que espero ser reproducida esa grabación, es como si la persona que lo grabo reviviera.. no lo puedo describir... sniff snifff

[Salieri1791]

@Salieri1791 jajajaja patético!"!!!!!!!!

[TheOriginalLolGirl10]

i translated it with french he was saying:"In the moonlight,

My friend Pierrot ... " who the heck is Pierrot? famous person,nicest person? WHO???

[Treemeadow]

@TheOriginalLolGirl10

Its a song. Duh

[Hippoclite]

@TheOriginalLolGirl10 The name "Pierrot" was choosen to make rhyme : "Au clair de la lune mon ami PIERROT. Prête-moi ta plume pour écrire un MOT." Rhyme : PierrOT/mOt : "O".

C'est une chanson populaire française, Pierrot n'est pas un personnage célèbre, ce prénom a été choisi pour faire des rimes.

[jsquad31]

I don't think it matters who came up with what device first, that is just for bragging rights. What matters is who manufactured it and made it available to the world, aka Edison. What is the point of an invention if you don't tell anyone about it?

[danMdan]

Not everything was invented by Americans, or Edison - however you guys would like it different, this IS a sound recording, and it does pre-date any other known recording.

[Films4You]

Better than some of the so called singers for these day's 1:04

[pura1998]

oh

thats not at all creepy >.>

[Hippoclite]

The world's earliest motion picture : Roundhay Garden Scene 1888 (Louis Le Prince)

The first photo : View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 (Nicéphore Niépce)

The first sound ever recorded : Au clair de la lune 1860 (Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville)

All of these inventors were FRENCH.

THANK YOU FRENCH PEOPLE ! YOU MAKE PROGRESS HUMANITY !

[sweetheartwolf]

This really is intriguing to say the least. I am astounded how they have been able to recover the sound and that it even survived this long. :)

So amazing how technology develops. However, I am not sure why people are comparing this device to a phonograph when it was never intended to record and playback sound but rather display audio wavelengths. In my opinion what mister Martinville created was much more comparable to a mechanical oscilloscope. :)

[SanderDRUMS1]

Muito TENSO essa música!! XD

[trebors69nc]

Sounds like the PA system on the NYC Subway to me.

[asopusa1029]

it was translated...TTThhhereEE wwiiLL bE aaaaa gAAyy nnAAmMed juuuUUUssstiiiinNnn BBeeiiiBBeeerr iiiNNnNn ThE yyeeeeERR 22222200011110000.lol

[twipottfan]

This is truly spectacular

[MrUbister]

Au clair de la lune, Mon ami, Pierrot, Prete-moi ta plume Pour ecrire un mot! Ma chandelle est morte, Je n'ai plus de feu; Ouvre-moi ta porte, Pour l'amour de Dieu. Au clair de la lune, Pierrot repondit: "Je n'ai pas de plume, Je suis dans mon lit; Va chez la voisine, Je crois qu'elle y est; Car dans la cuisine, On bat le briquet." :D

[dmenkhau]

@MrUbister

Wow. Nice French you got there.

xD I can't speak French. I can only speak Japanese and Polish. I know, useful right? -.-

[MrUbister]

@dmenkhau yeah, i bet you knew i wasn't French when u saw the smiley :D

[dmenkhau]

@MrUbister Yeah. xD

[callumbrowns]

who really was the first person 2 make a song any 1 no, this is gd shit tho?

[djraz22]

wow. wasnt even meant to be heard

[REALwoombath]

Blegrrrrhhhauuuubbbeebbuuaaaab­llleeeggghggbbaaubbbeeehhh.

Something like that.

[thechriswheelie]

@REALwoombath And where would you be without it? You people really are pricks.

[REALwoombath]

@thechriswheelie Translate it without lyrics then...

[Professor6871]

@thechriswheelie I agree the stupid uneducated idiots that they are.

[xxlamaxx1]

Im terrified

[kokody1995]

I'm going to have nightmares now.

[tiberianfiend]

Papery.

[1918Prod]

1860's akon. Gangsta rap for real homie.

[tassadar32]

Sounds like an alien. Don't listen to this shit in the dark...

[Scriptofmagic]

He recorded a fly.

[herremix]

hasta miedo da esta madre...

[youutoobe]

vay amına koyim bu edisonda ne var ne yok herşeyi bulmuş mına goim..

[wizzewis]

HOLY SHIT! that creeped me out O_O

[easternmafia]

americans talk about copyrights a lot... but they copy everthing!!!

[MsHoly777]

DOES ANYONE EVEN KNOW HOW TO EVEN MAKE A SIMPLE COMMENT THAT MAKES SENSE THESE DAYS. They're just saying that the recording was done before Edison's. No competition. It's just like my mom and dad was born BEFORE me....or like I got my dog doogie before I got my cat Shadow or like Prince and another lesser know group called ready for the world both did a song called "Oh Shelia" sang the almost exactly the same way.......which recording predates? Prince's recording or Ready for the World's?

[busessuck1]

@MsHoly777 What I don't understand is why youre talking about yourself, as for riginal musicians never got credit that's a bad thing, showing prejudices of the music industry.

Edison was less a "successor", more a guy who made patents on other people's ideas and took all the credit for himself, he hired Nikolai Tesla (the guy who came up everything you see in sci-fi movies), and during this time claimed to have invented the radio, microwaves, radar, the lightbulb - basically Tesla's life work

[raider8sox]

I SWEAR THIS IS HOW MY MOTHER IN LAW SOUNDS LIKE, LOL!

[onemanjazzfuneral]

edison was a douche...all he did was steal ideas from others and run a sham outfit as if he was legit....he was a crook..............

[verbusen]

That girl is over 150 years old now, and getting hits on Youtube, lol.

[Mandragara]

Beats AT&T

[OneInsaneAngel]

Very cool. But at the end of the clip when the clear song of 'Au Claire de la Lune' is played....who sung that? She has a fantastic voice!

[DerBochumer76]

@OneInsaneAngel That was recorded in 1929 by Yvonne Printemps, a famous French singer.

[cathyyyydominates]

they were french.....

[Elvarks]

Someone should autotune this after spending months on removing noise...

[Ukulelemagratt]

Dolbi Digital

[Imlaor25]

This song is SO yesterday. Just like Kesha