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NelsonPinta Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: Oct. 2010 Posted: Oct. 29 2010, 21:22 Classic single released in 1977 played in 33rpm. A curiosity!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhtfWHUi3tU Back to top

Herod Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 30 2010, 03:07 What's curious about it? Anyone with a turntable can do this... I've done lots of that... in my teens -------------- The last 80 seconds of 'Amarok' are one of the reasons for being happy to live in this planet. Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Oct. 30 2010, 03:42 Now warm and lovely - like a childrens' lullaby tune - lulling you to sleep. -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Oct. 30 2010, 06:54 Of course, as I pointed out to Bassman some time ago, the piece is actually by the late sixteenth-early seventeenth century composer Praetorius. One of the few occasions where Mike's version is inferior to the original. Back to top

Milamber Group: Musicians Posts: 2275 Joined: Feb. 2010 Posted: Nov. 01 2010, 20:24 Quote (Herod @ Oct. 30 2010, 17:07) What's curious about it? Anyone with a turntable can do this... I've done lots of that... in my teens I remember my parents did the same thing (by mistake) with a 12'' of The theme from Local Hero. When I came home and heard it played at the wrong speed I thought it was Pink Floyd, no joke try it Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Nov. 01 2010, 22:27 Quote (milamber @ Nov. 01 2010, 20:24) Quote (Herod @ Oct. 30 2010, 17:07) What's curious about it? Anyone with a turntable can do this... I've done lots of that... in my teens I remember my parents did the same thing (by mistake) with a 12'' of The theme from Local Hero. When I came home and heard it played at the wrong speed I thought it was Pink Floyd, no joke try it In an episode of Rising Damp Rigsby put on a record by Matt Monroe to please Miss Jones. He said it was "delightful",which annoyed Miss Jones,as it was being played at the wrong speed! Back to top

spark Group: Members Posts: 152 Joined: June 2009 Posted: Nov. 02 2010, 08:20 Shouldv played it at 16 speed , now that would be scarey Back to top

CJJC Group: Members Posts: 210 Joined: Aug. 2010 Posted: Nov. 05 2010, 11:57 I know this sounds like an obvious joke for an Oldfield forum but I got all the way through side one of Oxygéne on 45 RPM once and didn't realise until turning to side B and hearing the familiar Part IV. -------------- IMHO Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 05 2010, 19:35 @ nightspore: Prætorius didn't write this, the YouTube tag is wrong. He wrote "In Dulci Jubilo", whose original version (if you want, I may upload it somewhere) is, of course, much slower than Mike's cover. "Cuckoo Song" is a traditional tune from the 1500s. Regarding this 45-to-33 experiment, to me it's no more curious than "The Chipmunk Song" slowed down, which shows very clearly that David Seville (a.k.a. Ross Bagdasarian) was doing all of the three Chipmunk voices as well, of course, as his own (there are better versions of this clip on YouTube, where the "David" character sounds normal as well). Hearing the same thing on "Cuckoo Song" almost makes you think for an instant that this is the way in which the song was originally recorded - of course, except for the fact that, as we all know, Les Penning and Mike are so good that they could very well play the song at its original speed without any need of such "tricks". Also, the bell tree (the Christmas-ish percussion) sounds very strange here. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 05 2010, 20:06 A better version of the Chipmunks clip... A better version of the Chipmunks clip. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Nov. 05 2010, 20:26 Quote (Ugo @ Nov. 05 2010, 19:35) @ nightspore: Prætorius didn't write this, the YouTube tag is wrong. He wrote "In Dulci Jubilo", whose original version (if you want, I may upload it somewhere) is, of course, much slower than Mike's cover. "Cuckoo Song" is a traditional tune from the 1500s. Regarding this 45-to-33 experiment, to me it's no more curious than "The Chipmunk Song" slowed down, which shows very clearly that David Seville (a.k.a. Ross Bagdasarian) was doing all of the three Chipmunk voices as well, of course, as his own (there are better versions of this clip on YouTube, where the "David" character sounds normal as well). Hearing the same thing on "Cuckoo Song" almost makes you think for an instant that this is the way in which the song was originally recorded - of course, except for the fact that, as we all know, Les Penning and Mike are so good that they could very well play the song at its original speed without any need of such "tricks". Also, the bell tree (the Christmas-ish percussion) sounds very strange here. I don't know about the Youtube tag, Ugo - I'm going from my LP, which contains a suite of six dances by Pretorius. One of the dances became the Cuckoo song. It's possible that Praetorius reworked an earlier dance, but the LP says merely that the dances are "a tiny fragment of the works of the son of a Thuringian pastor". The suite is dated 1612. Back to top

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