[Vintage-Audio] Re: Vintage-Audio Digest, V27#1- Morse in Songs

[Phil Barnes-Roberts [WA6DZS]]

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> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:16:05 -0400
> From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
> Subject: [Vintage-Audio] Morse Code In Songs?
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> Hi All,
> 
> Have you ever heard Morse Code in any music selections played on commercial 
> radio? Probably, even though you may not have known it at the time.
> 
> I was remastering old Ray Stevens material and happened upon a song that had 
> Morse Code in it! The background singers are doing a word, then the organ at 
> different times does the CW. After discovering this quite by accident, (as 
> Lee can testify to: sometimes you have o listen to one track for ever! So 
> you hear things you normally gloss over.) I listened more closely and Ray 
> Stevens even gives the word that is in CW!
> 
> Before I let the secret loose, do any of you know what song this is?
> 
> Does anyone know of other songs with Morse Code in the background?
> 
> I half expect to get an e-mail from Robert, W9RAN, as if it is little known, 
> he is the man who somehow knows it!
> 
> Back to doing this Master one more time -
> 
> Duane W8DBF 
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While it's not on commercial radio, but PBS-TV, the theme music for the 
BBC Mystery series 'Inspector Morse' does a rhythm that spells out 
MORSE; KD6JOU, bassist Robert Russell, turned us onto that, and now we 
can't watch a BBC Mystery without looking for something of the sort.

--
73, Phil Barnes-Roberts WA6DZS < Mailto:pbarnrob at acm dot org >
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains
seemingly unchanged.  And it is in such twilight that we all
must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we
become unwitting victims of the darkness.
  --Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)