[GreenKeys] TTY machine in music

[Charles Ring]

On 3/3/2014 1400, Jack Hart wrote:
>
> Before I moved from NY to Kansas City, I had license plates
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> on my Hummer (H1-the real thing) that said "TELETYPE".  I was at the 
> recycling center
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> one Saturday and a guy came over and asked me about the plates.
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> Seems he was one of the backup singers on Don Henley's
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> "DIRTY LAUNDRY" and he remembered them simulating the sound
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> of a Teletype in  the background (I don't think it was a real TTY).
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> By the way...the song "EASIER SAID THAN DONE" by ESSEX
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> was based upon the "beat" of a TTY switching center where the
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> singers worked when they were in the Army.
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> Jack K0TTY
>
> NNNN
>

Navy, on board the USS Essex aircraft carrier.

-- 
*Charles Ring W3NU*
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