Please Hang Up... (Permanent Signal Recordings 1971-1983)
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- a collection of (often amusing) telephone company recordings for phones left off hook
"Cornbreath" is NOT Jane Barbe. Jane Barbe is the voice of the two recordings starting at 3:35 "Cornbreath is NOT Pat Fleet. Pat Fleet is the voice of the recordings at 4:45 and 5:51
"Cornbreath" is NOT Jane Barbe. Jane Barbe is the voice of the two recordings starting at 3:35
"Cornbreath is NOT Pat Fleet. Pat Fleet is the voice of the recordings at 4:45 and 5:51
do you have any more cornbreath recordings? is it the same set of recordings used for the 2000's cell network?
@@jolex_nerd8132evan-doorbell.com/raw-tapes-other-miscellaneous/ Tape 1146A has a bunch of corn breath recordings. It's not the same voice as a mobile network.
Is there any backstory as to why she gained the name "Corn Breath"?
I believe her name is Anna but not aware of much detail. She has done other voicemail messages.
“Please hang up, and try your call again. If you need assistance, dial your operator. Please hang up, now. This.. is a recording.” (X10 loop)
After 10x it would make a flicker sound for maybe 5-10 minutes, then go silent.
That was my standard one in the 90’s.
And there was an extremely screechy sounding three-note tone before and after that recording.
I live in Vancouver canada and I will never forget the recording we had on pay phones in the 80's, the deepest voice that sounded like a robot would say,"The call you've made requires a 25 cent deposit. Please hang up now and try your call again. This is a recording from the steveston exchange cs1" i wish i could find that exact recording!
It will likely live on only in your memory. That was probably a recording only found in certain specific places, and probably there was no one there like me to record it.
As a young geek growing up back in the late sixties and early seventies, I had my share of fun with these as you are doing now, thank you very much
i could listen to this all day......I am so fascinated with these recordings!
Ik me too. Why is that
Melissa its so strange...but i love it too
I live in the UK, and in 1994 we switched over from BT to the cable company's telephone service. After about 12 seconds of dial tone, a female voice says "Please replace the handset and try again" twice, followed by the off-hook tone. Amazingly, this recording is still in use in 2024!
Oddly calming and terrifying at the same time when viewed at night.
You must scare very easily..............look behind you !!!!!!!
@@pressureworks im like karmic i get scared easily
Yeah scared the crap out of me too
Definitely an uncanny valley feeling
A few weeks ago my cat knocked the corded phone off the wall at night, and it eventually went to permanent signal, and now my cat is scared of the corded phone
That would scare the piss out of a. 8 yr old me back in 1975. A woman saying there is a phone off the hook. I'd be terrified to ever touch a phone again. I'd think it was alive😱😱😱
Glad I'm not the only one. I was terrified
"oh no, she's going to tell my MOM"
Yeah, it was like that =P
I can top that. when I was 8-9 back in the 60's I was messing around with an extension phone in my grandma's bedroom , and a very stern Operator come on the line and said "Little Boy! stop playing with the phone!" talk about pissed pants! I thought I was going to get into trouble with my parents AND the Phone Co. 😵💫
Scared of women?
@@Blade-420haha good story!
"Ringing already? I didn't dial anything. What is this, the hotline to Hell?" at 4:39 makes me laugh.
The whistling switchman has got to be one of my very favorites!! I've been trying to find the Sperry Gyroscope motor-generator-derived 1000-cycle recording, I know it's somewhere in your vault... Thanks a million for posting these!!!
I THINK it's featured in Routings from NE4 program 1. (Program 2 is in the works btw)
@@evandoorbell4278 It was indeed on the "Routings from NE4" Program 1 recording, at about the 27-minute mark. Thanks!!!
That 1st recording used to scares me because you knew that scary phone off the hook beeping was about to start
thank you for sharing this.
I guess I am not the only one that used to play on the phone just to see how many new sounds I could summon out of it messing around. There are sounds I have not heard on your channel and I would love to know what they meant. I live in Ky and have since 1971. It sounded almost like a british police siren. Woo-woo-woo while raising and lowering it's pitch. A whirling sound I guess.
Sounds like you mean the Bell system's Vacant Level Tone. There are several of those in the first part of this program th-cam.com/video/bQbOmWUpoV4/w-d-xo.html
I used to be able to play songs on the keys. Lol! The tones were limited. But, the tunes could be implied.
@@lucycarola Check "The Phone Trips Song" on this channel
I’ve never heard such a clear recording of this.
Neither have I bc the it disrupted the trunks but not the service
If you mean the first recording, that is because it comes from a copy of the mater tape, not from the phone.
Sounds like it was recorded just today ! Great to hear a new one...
If the rule was a written rule, then it should be in the Bell System Practices
MAN that woman's VOICE around 12 minutes... High pitched Staccato speak
Hi Bob! Thanks but this isn't new; I had to repost this to remove a reference to a soon-to-be outdated link. TH-cam doesn't let us update a video'; We have to start over as if it's something new.
Gottit !
@@evandoorbell4278 did you see the video of Jane barber here on you tube on dick clark
@@evandoorbell4278 th-cam.com/video/G2YJu3i4edI/w-d-xo.html
I called England in the 80s, and the recording said you have reached a wrong number, then they kept repeating meow, meow, meow. It was strange.
I love this content ❤️
7:25 yikes that off hook tone sounds gnarly and scratchy
We still have DMS-10 offices in service still to this day...
I don't know what half the things you're saying mean, all those acronyms, but your voice is immensely pleasant to listen to. Your remind me of Night Mind.
3:30 as a kid when I heard that message, I caught a glimpse of my future self as very old guy holding the phone trying to remember how to use it. Well, I can say it has kept me very health conscious. I try to keep a good diet and exercise plus lots of things to keep my mind strong.
I recently found your video's. Brilliant ! I worked for Northern Telecom & BNR (later to become Nortel) from 1984 to 2007. By then many of the ESSs and 1A's were replaced by DMSs. I did many field upgrades to the COs mentioned in your video's between 1985-87. I must assume you worked for NYNEX or NYTEL back in the day. What did you do? Where did you work?
Never worked for a telco; I was a phone phreak. But two phreaks I knew well, Joe Engressia/Joybubbles and Bill Acker, DID end up working for Mountain Bell.
May I ask if in 1979 you had an upstairs extension off hook, could you still make a call on the downstairs extension somehow?
@@e-spy assuming you mean a residential phone extension of the same number, no.
@@markvitacco9814 Thank you!
We had the DMS 10 in North Miami beach Fl, I remember that ring for phone off the hook. If you call a disconnected number in that CO it would ring once then the recording would play. They later updated that. BellSouth converted many COs to DMS offices in the early 80’s
i got curious and tried dialing 1 on my modern POTS phone line here in Ca 2023. and then stopped .
after a 30 sec pause, I got one ring. and then it went back to dial tone. Velly Intevesting !
no intercept.🤔
Listening to that tttttttttt sound after all these years and not having a regular phone just still scares me I love Jane barber's voice
That sound made a bad jumpscare when the phone got off the hook while I was sleeping. Not fun LOL
Barbe, not Barber
Jane Barbe has a sweet voice Dick Clark interviewed Jane Barbe on his show
19:00 I believe Odessa, TX was the very last 1AESS removed from the network on 6/3/2017. Not sure when that replaced the step.
That sounds vaguely familiar.. You may be right.
The two Montreal recordings are almost certainly the same lady. Her accent in the French message is very distinctive, she sounds like she's from Atlantic Canada.
Thanks! And now that you mentioned it, that DOESN’T sound like typical Montreal French, does it?
@@evandoorbell4278 It doesn't! The Rs are harder, even by silent-generation Montreal standards, some of the vowels are a bit different, and the diphthongs are very different as well. That makes her pretty recognizable.
Does anyone remember an off the hook signal that sounded like aah, with the alternating high and low sounds. It was the strangest sound, it was in Baltimore Maryland if that helps, probably back in the '70s, I'm not real sure
You love this video!.
You may be describing The “vacant level tone,“ which was VERY widespread in Baltimore, but usually used for invalid three digit codes dialed. SOME places used it for off hook phones. There are examples of it in “supplemental sounds of step, program one“ and the Kent Connecticut program
Your phone's off the hook, but you're not.
4:47 This is the same voice that we got for many of the messages heard on landlines in Manhattan, New York City back in the 1990s when the phone company was
New York Telephone / Nynex / Bell Atlantic (now Verizon).
Makes sense. That's Pat Fleet, who started doing intercept recordings in 1981-82
this is so nostalgic even make it 2000s kid having a home phone system in the 2000/early 2010s
The First Voice AKA Corn Breath, Sounds Like Samantha From Bewitched
Where's the Weird Al recording? That one was better than any of the ones shown here!
@Evan Doorbell I wonder, do you have any high quality recordings of the coin tones of three-slot payphones? I've been collecting phone tones and recordings for as long as I can remember, and I'd like to hear some coin tones face-to-face. Specifically, I'd like to hear some three-slot and even five-slot payphones. Yes, there is such a thing.
5 slots? That's a new one on me... There ARE 3 slot coin sounds in Maryland Phone Trips, pgm 1 at about 19 minutes
10:36 "Please 'ang up" :D
Quebécers don't pronounce their "h"s
Quebecers don't pronounce their 'h's
How come on a couple of these like at 22:50 does the recording seems to fade in and out?
Fading in and out can happen with magnetic media. Either the drum machine which is playing the announcement, or the tape recorder and tape the announcement was copied from.
And somehow in the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off the hook, and twenty seconds later I heard a familiar voice. And you know what it said? I'll tell you what it said! It said, "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator."
9:52, her voice is beautiful.
Another listener pointed out that 1) she IS almost certainly the same person as the recording that follows, and 2) She doesn't have a Montreal accent; She sounds like someone from the Maritimes.
@4:40 is the one in most familiar with Houston, Texas through the 80's and 90's.
And the next two, are familiar also.
In the mid 70’s, we could call a number that made the whistle up/down sound yall were doing manually. If we had just made a recording of that. South Central Bell in 205.
Sounds like a “loop check” tone. I think Evan Doorbell has some recordings of that, maybe in his “how I became a phone phreak” series.
Re: Hez, Evan Doorbell. I watched this video. Before you heard the "Please hang up" off hook message that you first heard in 1969, you showed an example of what the phhone did when it was left off the hook. All it did was play an indeffinate tone after the dialtone. What is the name for this indefinate tone, and when did it first appear?
That was called High tone and it was a 500 Hz tone but in that office it wasn't quite correct
RE: Does anybody know when presicely they started using hightone as an offhook tone, I'm talking about before voice recordings? If you know, please let me know as soon as possible.
@@eimearslee8367 The steady high tone was probably in use in 1948 in the #5 crossbar offices. The "city ring" machine also had high tone, and far as we can tell city ring appeared concurrent with #1 crossbar. It probably goes back to the 1940's.
Thanks Evan! I heard somewhere recently that this tone first appeared in 1939. Does this sound too early, or could this be correct
It could well have started earlier because panel offices had a use for it and the older "Gedney" ring machines had an ugly sounding version of it, but 1939 is possibly right. Who said so?
I've tried emailing you several times about this. I'm searching for a recording of this type of announcement used in the 80s/90s in NY Tel/NYNEX, which uses a (frustrated sounding) male voice.
TH-cam is making it very difficult for me to reply to you. It is unlikely that I have a recording of what you’re talking about. go to th-cam.com/video/SqzxjINsbfQ/w-d-xo.html and tell me if the male voice at 10 minutes 45 seconds is the one you have in mind. if so, I can look around to see if I have the same guy doing a permanent signal recording. If THAT specific voice is not the same GUY as the one you remember, then the recording you remember was just someone in your local office, which I didn’t visit during the 80s or 90s and don’t have on tape.
I have been trying for an hour to reply to you and TH-cam is making it impossible. If you can SEE this, the recording you remember was probably a guy in your local office which I don't have on tape. The only hope (and it's just a hope) is if the one you remember was a John Doyle recording used statewide. Early 80s program 13, at 10:45 has a John Doyle recording saying "dial one first." If THAT'S the same GUY as what you remember, let me know. But it's still unlikely.
I would always call the operator and tell her hey I got recording 404865 what does that mean?
"Hightone" sounds like a hospital support machine when someone flatlines ...
Hadn't thought of that, but in a way you're right.
That's funny, for some odd reason, the #5ESS where I live will always ring before the permanent signal recording, like at 4:35
The 5E loves to do that, and it has to since the 16a announcement machine is running all the time. It’ll play ringback at you until the recording is back at the beginning, then it cuts you through.
That tttttttt sound scares me everytime I hear that
What year did that ttttttttttttt sound come out Evan was it from the 60's
There appears to be a phone off the hook, please check your main phone and your extensions is what it was saying.
I remember Jane Barbe’s recording from the 1994 film The Specialist w James Woods Sharon Stone, and Sylvester Stallone
Which recording if you like to make a call and then listening to that tttttttttt sound
@@tylerhynes0 yes. Also your call cannot be completed as dialed. Please check the number and dial again or call your operator to help you
0:00 IN ALBUQUERQUE
What was that old 80's number you called to see who last called you? I can't find it anywhere on Google.
*69?
Or you just ⭐77 and it called em back.
Did anyone know who Cornbreath’s voice is in real life. If its not Jane Barbe who could it be
She only appeared once, in 1981, in a VERY extensive set of recordings which were used by both Bell and independent companies. No one has come forward who knows who she is/was.
@@evandoorbell4278 please don’t hesitate and please keep me posted with updates if you found the answer.
@@evandoorbell4278there were a couple of recordings from her in your early 80s series programs. So you can tell those recordings were for the bell system.
CORNBREATH RECORDINGS REMEMBERED
1. YOUR CALL CANNOT BE COMPLETED AS DIALED, PLEASE CHECK THE NUMBER AND DIAL AGAIN OR CALL YOUR OPERATOR TO HELP YOU
2. WERE SORRY YOU HAVE REACHED A NUMBER THAT HAS BEEN DISCONNECTED OR IS NO LONGER IN SEVICE
IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE REACHED THIS RECORDING IN ERROR
PLEASE CHECK THE NUMBER ANDVTRY YOUR CALL AGAIN
3.WERE SORRY YOU MUST FIRST DIAL A 1 WHEN CALLING THIS NUMBER, WILL YOU PLEASE HANG UP AND TRY YOUR CALL AGAIN
4.IF YOU LIKE TO MAKE A CALL PLEASE HANG UP AND TRY AGAIN,IF YOU NEED HELP HANG UP AND THEN DIAL YOUR OPERATOR
5.IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO DIAL A 1 WHEN CALLING THIS NUMBER WILL YOU PLEASE HANG UP AND TRY YOUR CALL AGAIN
6.WERE SORRY ALL CIRCUITS ARE BUSY NOW
WILL YOU PLEASE TRY YOUR CALL AGAIN LATER
I wonder if cornbreath is a relative of Jane, like a sister or cousin - very similar. To my ears she sounds a bit older.
911, what is your emergency? That would not be cool if a phone dialed that when picked up lol.
4:38 exactly what my grandmothers AT&T line did
My favorites are
1:50
14:52
15:47
17:10
19:28
21:07
25:00
28:04
29:52
I was hoping to hear one from area code 203😏
Southern New England telephone used step-by-step Switching A LOT. Every phone tape I made from a Connecticut location was at a payphone and served by a step office, And with the exception of offices in Texas, step switching doesn’t have that kind of recording. I DO, however, have a Connecticut recording you might remember if you dialed 911 before it was valid. It’s on the Kent Connecticut and also the“supplemental sounds of step part one programs.
The Recording I tried to make from Danbury was spoiled due to a tape recorder malfunction. It too was from the step, 384. but there was a number five cross bar in Danbury which probably had a recording like that. I never dialed from it
2:08 5:00 7:25 off hook tone. I admit it drives a ton of people bonkers
I hated it when they would tell me that I had failed😢
5:50 imagine hearing this while trying to call 911 at night
I want to know who that lady doing the VO is. For the longest time I thought she was Pat Fleet using a different character voice.
I actually GOT Pat Fleet to imitate "Cornbreath" once during a recording session. She did it pretty well, but it's still recognizable as Pat.
So I'm confused. Why does everyone think the standard one at the beginning is Jane Barbe?
She did them for a long time prior to this new chick
Great Video! I have been looking for a video or website that shows or describes the automatic intercept system (AIS). Does anyone know where I might find information? I am curious about how the media was stored and accessed?
Look up AIS CROSSBAR
These were used when the passing of trunks couldn't process a number dialed from the test board
Cell phones, especially Verizon wireless ones do the ring and then say your call cannot be completed as dialed thing as well
Verizon landline phones in Manhattan, New York City used to do this....Using the same voice as well.
@@REXXSEVEN oh wow, I did not know that.
That’s Jane Barbe’s voice
Cornbreath is Jane Barbe
Not true; See my pinned comment above
12:00 the second announcement sounds like she’s mocking the first one 😂
What's a pay phone?
Are you serious with that question? What planet are you from?
A pay phone is a phone usually found on the street somewhere in a city that you used quarters to pay for minutes on during a time where life was cheaper to live your life
@michaelre3781 she might be very young. I bet many Gen Zers have never seen a pay phone.
Pat Fleet?
Sounds like Pat Fleet.
IN ALLLLLBEQUERQUE!!!
Jane Barbe
I think those were called howler tones.
No
What if someone did it on purpose like they always would?
Sounds like Samantha from Bewitched
Jane Barbe was on Donahue & Oprah once.
👍🏽💯😊
Corn breath
With smartphones you can't leave them off the hook
Isn't this "corn breath"??
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Barbe
No, that's Jane Barbe. Jane did two recordings in this program, stating at 3:35
2:08 telemarketers got what they deserved
That funny all robot recording 🤣
4:47 Minecraft silverfish telepjone company
I don’t think it was a real person. I think it was a computer generated voice.
They most likely would not have been using computer-generated voices that far back. I believe some of these recordings had been in use since the late 60s.
Interestingly enough, many of voices that we hear when we call someone's cell phone voicemail and get menu options that sound like an automated computer are actually real people speaking. I found this out.
Same thing goes for announcements heard at airports and at train stations like the New York City subway for example. You could swear that these were computer voices, but there are videos on TH-cam showing you that they're real people.
An example of this is one called:
"The woman whose voice is heard around the world." You'll be surprised if you haven't seen it already.
Computer voices weren't that good in those days. I originally thought the New York Telephone voice was a computer voice. But it wasn't.
3:36 Badrizon
Strangely scared
8:47
I wonder what Evan would have made of this...?
th-cam.com/video/1jsKfdzACRw/w-d-xo.html
...or it's more modern equivalent...?
th-cam.com/video/2cdos63bN3g/w-d-xo.html
BT have moved me over to Digital Voice now, where it's now gone. Now the phone goes from dial tone to unobtainable to just disconnecting the line. You still get the howler if you connect directly to the landline, but I get no dial tone on there anymore.
RIP POTS!
That was copied from one of my programs. I recorded that myself in Asheboro NC in March 1977. It's in one of the first 3 Asheboro programs on this channel.
17:53 died laughing
Corn breath lol