[Vintage-Audio] Morse Code In Songs?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

I knew that Robert would come up with something! This guy would smoke me in 
the Oldies ID contests, and I am good, but he just may be better! I got 
banned from answering Oldies song titles and/or artists by the DJ who did 
the custom/Original vintage car shows! It got to be a regular joke, but I 
did not mind as how many chemically treated feather dusters for cars can one 
guy ever use? (LOL!)

The song by Ray Stevens is "Save Me From Myself". It is not a funny song, 
but has a serious message. Part of it sounds like a Southern Gospel 
convention in high gear! I would not be a bit surprised if this one was done 
at the RCA Studio B in Nashville. The give away may be the really low bass 
singer, as he is the same one that was with the Anita Kerr Singers on Al 
Hirt's album "Honey In The Horn". It has that distinctive sound of 
Nashville. If you do not have a copy, I can send you one, for CW practice, 
of course.

Duane W8DBF

P.S. I discovered it among my collection while putting together my second 
"Greatest Hits" album for Ray Stevens. The commercial one, on CD, and 
several vinyl, leave off some songs. Not the fliip side of a hit, but ones 
that were big. The first album ended up with 20 tracks and the second one 
with 22. What a talent! It sounded mighty fine on the H.H. Scott LK-72B with 
Paradigm Monitor 9S and the Marantz 95 watts per side driving the six way 
JVC twin columns for the 'R+L center channel'.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nickels" <W9RAN at oneradio.net>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Morse Code In Songs?


> Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>> 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!
>
> Well, since Duane has such high expectations of me, I hate to disappoint!
>
> The first song that came to mind was the Five Americans song, "Western 
> Union" where the singsong "da da da da da" chorus was meant to sound like 
> Morse, but even if you stretch a point and say they were singing "dah di 
> dah di dah, it doesn't make any sense.
>
> A few astute AM radio listeners may remember the NBC "Monitor Beacon" 
> where the letter "M" in Morse is superimposed over the electronic beeps 
> and boops, but that was an ID jingle, not a song as Duane specified.
>
> So, while it's not by Ray Stevens, I'd have to say that pop song that most 
> prominently features Morse is "YYZ" by the Canadian rock band Rush, where 
> those three letters are "sent" repeatedly in the intro with both 
> percussion and then by guitar and bass.  The inspiration was the Toronto 
> International Airport beacon, whose Morse identifier is "YYZ".   Guitarist 
> Alex Lifeson held a private pilot license and must have thought the 
> identifier had a good beat!  (Dig out your musty old scratched-up copy of 
> "Moving Pictures" if you don't believe me!)
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
>
> PS:  The doowop group The Capris did put out an album called "The Morse 
> Code of Love" but I don't know if the song by that name contains any 
> Morse.  The title track "There's a Moon Out Tonight" pretty much stole the 
> show...
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