If I get drunk, and listen, I have more fun!!!

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From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: Slowing down Christmas songs


>I sometimes do that with the stream and a talking book.  Makes the reader 
> sound quite drunk!
> Lou Kolb
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 1:29 PM
> Subject: Slowing down Christmas songs
> 
> 
>> Yesterday I was playing a bunch of Christmas songs through my
>> system using the PlexTalk and slowed Elvis singing a Blue
>> Christmas down far as the PlexTalk would allow.  Wow did that
>> ever sound BLUE! It was terrific to a point with a lot of songs
>> but a little goes a long way.  Jim WA6EKS
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Lou Kolb <[log in to unmask]
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date sent: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 13:08:27 -0500
>> Subject: Re: VGS-1 Speaking Rate
>>
>> Don't know which CD that is but it sounds like Bob Rivers, who
>> did many
>> Christmas parodies including one called Flu Ride instead of
>> Sleigh ride.
>> The lyrics are funny but even better is the spot-on Karen
>> Carpenter
>> impression.
>> Lou Kolb
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>> From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]
>> To: <[log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 12:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: VGS-1 Speaking Rate
>>
>>
>> Yep, he saved Liberty Records from bankruptcy with the Witch
>> Doctor which
>> was number 1 for three weeks in the summer, and then that
>> hoola-hoop song
>> which was number 1 for four weeks.  I think it got released
>> December 7th
>> and
>> sold four million copies by Christmas.
>>
>> By the way, does anybody have that Christmas Humor CD from 2003
>> that is no
>> longer in print?  It has songs on it like an Elvis Presley
>> immitator doing
>> Return to Santa.  If anybodey does, let me know; I can't find
>> that album
>> since it is out of print.
>>
>> Steve, K8SP
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]
>> To: <[log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 11:04 AM
>> Subject: Re: VGS-1 Speaking Rate
>>
>>
>> Indeed, John.  In fact, David Seville did all the chipmunk
>> voices.  They
>> are
>> exactly doubled, as I discovered when I slowed my old talking
>> book
>> machine
>> down to 16 and 2 thirds rpm with a chipmunks album on it.
>> Dave's
>> speaking
>> voice was nearly impossible to understand but he sang Simon,
>> Theodore and
>> Alvin in perfect 3-part harmony.  At 16, It was easy to tell it
>> was him
>> doing the singing.  He got a lot of milage out of that chipmunk
>> idea.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]
>> To: <[log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 9:58 AM
>> Subject: Re: VGS-1 Speaking Rate
>>
>>
>> Wasn't the way that whole thing was started when Dave sped up
>> his own
>> voice
>> for a song he did in the 50's?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]
>> To: <[log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 9:31 AM
>> Subject: Re: VGS-1 Speaking Rate
>>
>>
>> Good way of putting it, Howard.
>>
>> I still remember when I was a kid, and one day, I played a
>> Chipmunks
>> Christmas song from a 45 RPM record at 33 RPM, and suddenly
>> figured out
>> that
>> the Chipmunks were really men whose voices were just sped up to
>> play
>> the
>> part.
>>
>> I don't know how many kids I told that to, after it was
>> discovered, but
>> to
>> this day, I sometimes feel a bit guilty about how many
>> children's
>> ilusions
>> I
>> shattered.  (smile)
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>>
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>> On Behalf Of Howard Kaufman
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 3:39 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: VGS-1 Speaking Rate
>>
>> Yes it is.  Silly engineers.
>> Its like an old record player.  Remember playing the 33's on 45,
>> or say
>> even
>> earlier, the 45's on 78?
>>
>>
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