Scary Voices to Delight and Traumatise Children

About the Sonovox, and other methods by which classic children's records frightened their young listeners using horrid voices.


Clips:

The clips and music underscoring this video comes from the record this video is about, except:

Spinning record footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXUR5g...

Sparky's Magic Piano, clip and cover: http://www.kiddierecords.com/2006/arc... also on youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3etiN...

Sonovox footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-krl...

Stringy the guitar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPd9cx...

Whizzer the Talking Airplane clips and images: http://www.kiddierecords.com/2006/arc... and on youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0X4oA...

Chopin Waltz in E Minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4g9r9...

The Sparky cartoon does not appear to be on Youtube, so the clip came from a parody voiceover in episode 2 of TV Offal, and should therefore not be watched by any children you may have nearby (and not because of the scary voice either, unless you're scared by Victor Lewis-Smith, and really, why wouldn't you be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTJRsv...

Photos of clowns: www.kiddierecords.com , http://hollywoodshow.com/store/frank-... , http://illbeoutinaminute.com/2012/09/... , http://www.macstoys.nl/history%20char... , http://www.silverbox.com/krusty/

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  • Entertainment

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• Music

  • "Sparky’s Magic Piano, part 1" by Henry Blair (Google Play • iTunes)