Telco intercept recordings 1980'
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2025
- This is a long lost recording of several phone company intercept recordings. some are rare, and some you can still hear today. Just take a nostalgic listen to the voices of our past. We have all heard these at one time or another! You will hear Jane Barbie and Pat Fleet among many others. This is the chorus of the 80's phone system. Enjoy.
Back when I was a kid, I used to spend hours on the phone dialing random numbers back in the early to late 1980s hearing telephone recording errors, and a few would even say for an example "This is a recording" and also say the city and state where the recording was from. Some recordings will say: "It is not necessary to dial a 1 dialing this number"
OMG! I thought i was the only person who used to do that!! I was obsessed with wrong number recordings when I was a kid, back in the 80's! I remember if you dialed one number on a rotary phone half way, it would connect you to an operator and they would say "Hello, what number are you dialing?" And then they would say "Hold on" and you'd hear a click, followed by a recorded message saying 'I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service, no further information is available about 765-4321" Or if the number you gave them was a valid number, the recording would end in "Is a working number".
OMG!!! You too??!! I did the exact same thing!! I loved it! I would actually look forward to when my parents would go out and leave me home alone, so I could fool around on the phone. Hahahaha. When I lived in Maine, if you had a rotary phone, you could dial one number halfway and then an operator would come on the line and ask what number you were calling. I'd make one up and then she would say hold please, and then a recording would come on telling me if the number was working or not in service. I used to do that for hours!
@@MelissaServicePack7Lucky7 I know your comment is like a gazillion years old but I think you replied to your own comment.
There is really something unsettling about the background buzz/hum and the lower audio quality voice speaking to you. Like something from a horror movie. For children growing up with this, the landline phone was one of the main sources of comm & fun back before internet & mobile phones. So we took it seriously, and as a kid that combined with the creepy feel really made it scary. Similar to the TV emergency alert system, which was def worse
The Weatherchron AIS lady used to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid, I thought she sounded like an angry robot. The disconnected number recording was the most frightening not just because of the mechanical repetitions of the number and the ghostly looping crosstalk in the background, but also the finality of it: no further information is available. The changed number recording at least had some consolation, but the machines won when the number was disconnected.
I was not around in the 80s or 90s, and these messages scare the living daylights out of me. They trigger every flight or fight response.
me too. really wanna be creeped out? look up the tests of the "emergency alert system" that would air on TV. the electrical buzzing is twice as creepy as these. Has the same feel as this stuff, sort of
Jane Barbe was the voice of the operator that I grew up listening to all of my life with sorry your call did not go through or if you like to make a call please hang up and try again if you need help hangup and dial your operator tttttttttt tttttttttttttttttt
I always liked the Jane Barbe recordings. We had them in the Cleveland area for awhile.
2:15 always liked that buzzing sound that started before the recorded message. Almost like a band playing in the distant background like horns.. you knew it was on.
That tone always freaked me out as a kid. I was afraid of the recordings for the longest time because of that tone.
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Which recording the one where jane barbie says if you like to make a call please hang up and try it again and then you hear that tttttttttt at the end?
BEEP BOOP BEEP!
Back in the 1980s I was a tsps operator for Diamond State Bell, a baby Bell that no longer exists. When you would stay in a hotel and needed to place a call I would handle the time and charges of a call or person to person calls as well. Back in the day getting a job with the Bell system was a dream, well paid, very well trained and often a career.
At 2:53 "New York Guy" is Audichron's (and The Weather Channel's) John Doyle.
Back in high school, when I had my first telephone (a red rotary just like the one in this video!) I remember once trying to call a friend of mine, and apparently misdialed, and got a recording I had never heard before, nor since: "We're sorry, the number you have reached is not accepting incoming calls." No matter how many times I tried to recreate that misdial, I never managed to get that recording again.
Have you ever heard it? Got a copy? I'd love to have it, for old times sake.
You probably called a private pay phone, as in a pay phone that is operated by a company other than the local Telco. They usually lease lines that are outgoing calls only. Very rare and very cool.
@@dave019222 Man, I've wanted to find that recording and put it on my cell phone as the "answering machine" message. If you've got a copy...
@@lancer525 I'll have to see. I think I do. I kept all unusual recordings. I'll let you know.
yep, Jane Barbie on our little system in SC back in the day
@revision2011 Joanne Daniels is at 6:56, she worked for weatherchron, an audichron competitor in Atlanta. As for 8:40, used to know but can't recall...
6:56
6:25
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Blast from the past.
8:16
Gotta love Jane :)
If you call the weather number in Cincinnati (513) 721-1700, they use the NOAA Weather Radio forecasts, but the menu selection voice is great! If you don't make a selection, she says, "Hello! Are you still THERE?" 😂
The number still works but I don't get the "Hello! Are you still THERE?" anymore... :(
8:46 i'm almost certain this is the same phone company recording used by the replacements in the song "answering machine"
9:13 - recording I believe applies to payphones only
Love it
What text is in 9:13 recording?
The recording states "your call cannot be competed from the phone you are using...." so I ask, what's wrong with the phone I'm using? 😅
I wish the audio wasn't so distorted
I agree but that's exactly how each recording would be heard when dialing. These days error messages are digital and clear, but far more boring lol
Jane Barber's son is a musician
Is that a payphone in this 9:13 recording?
Yes, it's one of those coinless pay phones that used to be adjacent to coin operated pay phones
this is a recording 619 244 is what jane barbe would say after all the intercept messages in Victorville, CA before the area code change in 1997 to 760
Pat Fleet was formerly Pat Trumbull
SBC bought AT&T in 2005, therefore AT&T is no longer the original AT&T.
I sometimes miss those days.
i HATE the voice on the weatherchron AIS machines its just so clunky compared to Jane...
When were these voice recorded?
I recorded these around 1984 but the telco made them years before that in most cases
Anyone remember dialing 123456789*0#??
That's a great way to get random recordings
What text is in 3:34 recording?
The call you have made requires a25 cent deposit. Please hang up, listen for dialtone and try your call again