I love this!!! I was fascinated with these recordings when I was a kid! I still am! I used to deliberately dial a wrong number or dial a digit half way on a rotary phone so that I could get to listen to one of these recordings. The 80's had the best phone recordings!
I remember these recordings, reminds me of being home alone and playing around on the phone. I think they've all been retired though with everything digital now, I was playing around on my cell a few months back trying to hear a weird sound or reach a cool intercept recording, it wasn't the same I kept getting the same message no matter what I dialed. Cool flashback 😎😁😎
The second intercept recording with the male voice is John Doyle, a former Atlanta weatherman who also worked for Audichron, which produced intercept and time of day equipment. Doyle's voice was favored by independent telephone companies, whereas female intercept announcers (Jane, Pat, etc.) were favored by the Bell System. Doyle's voice was heard across places like central Florida (813/904) (old GTE/subsidiary territories) and western New York -- Rochester (716) Telephone (later Frontier Communications).
Phillip Dampier Hmmmm, I used to here him when we were still a part of Mountain Bell, he would be on our pay phones saying the call requires a 25 cent deposit, and rare recordings about carrier access codes or instructing us to check our instruction manual or to call repair service, I really got into the intercept recordings after hearing Joanne Daniel's especially when she would say, if you need assistance you may stay on the line, etc. Then US West came in and they had some new very boring recordings, so I would call random toll free numbers just to hear recordings of Joanne, that's when I first heard Jane Barbe which I never really found her voice interesting, Then when phone companies started running out of phone numbers and states started implementing new area codes, Pat Fleets voice seemed to take over everywhere, I always thought she sounded like a goof, so then I lost interest in recordings, picked up the pieces and moved on with my life...lol
No idea what her name is, but from listening to Evan Doorbell's tapes I recognize her as the voice of IBM's Semi-Automatic Intercept System (SAIS), a little-used 1960's predecessor of the AIS system. In the SAIS, an intercept operator had to key the nonworking number in manually and the machine would look it up and generate an announcement. New York City had an SAIS in the '70s which features in Evan's "panel pulsing" and GEdney-9 tapes.
Back in the 70s I used to think she was saying "if you feel you have reached this recording in air" until I asked my sister if that's for the people making phone calls from air planes...
I love the Pat Fleet recordings. I hear you have a John Leatherman one also. My favourite VO artist doing switch recordings was Erika Dawson, though info about her is hard to find. I uploaded a couple of hers on my other channel.
lol this was all a few years before my time, I was born in 1989. I remember how, as a little kid, I'd play with my grandpa's answering machine/speaker phone thing. I always wonder when and where these messages were recorded. were these recorded on a cassette tape? These messages are strangely relaxing, lol. I could listen to these all day. haha. One other question, are they recordings? ;)
There was this number I called a while back.. It sounded like this: *Crack*....*Crack* *static* Woman: CHECK THE NUMBER AND DIAL-.. Man: S0- 402 D- *audio cuts out*
Back in the 80s, I used to dial a strange number, I dialed 123456789*0#, I got recording of a male voice saying something like, "The number you have dialed, 234-5678, is a test. Hang up now, otherwise billing will be arranged for this call", and it charged to the phone bill... Sometimes when I would call it, it sounded like a female voice miming a busy signal, and sometimes a scary alarm!! I remember hanging up and not being able to get the dial tone back for like 5 minutes or so. Does anyone remember that??
I love this!!! I was fascinated with these recordings when I was a kid! I still am! I used to deliberately dial a wrong number or dial a digit half way on a rotary phone so that I could get to listen to one of these recordings. The 80's had the best phone recordings!
Me too, I wanted to make these recordings when I grew up lol
@@jonnaking3054 awesome!! I thought I was the only one!
I remember these recordings, reminds me of being home alone and playing around on the phone. I think they've all been retired though with everything digital now, I was playing around on my cell a few months back trying to hear a weird sound or reach a cool intercept recording, it wasn't the same I kept getting the same message no matter what I dialed.
Cool flashback 😎😁😎
I love this! Thank god these recordings exist. Brings me back.
Being born in 1992, I hardly remember these recordings. I'm so glad to listen to them more clearly today.
1994 for me.
The second intercept recording with the male voice is John Doyle, a former Atlanta weatherman who also worked for Audichron, which produced intercept and time of day equipment. Doyle's voice was favored by independent telephone companies, whereas female intercept announcers (Jane, Pat, etc.) were favored by the Bell System. Doyle's voice was heard across places like central Florida (813/904) (old GTE/subsidiary territories) and western New York -- Rochester (716) Telephone (later Frontier Communications).
Phillip Dampier
Hmmmm, I used to here him when we were still a part of Mountain Bell, he would be on our pay phones saying the call requires a 25 cent deposit, and rare recordings about carrier access codes or instructing us to check our instruction manual or to call repair service, I really got into the intercept recordings after hearing Joanne Daniel's especially when she would say, if you need assistance you may stay on the line, etc. Then US West came in and they had some new very boring recordings, so I would call random toll free numbers just to hear recordings of Joanne, that's when I first heard Jane Barbe which I never really found her voice interesting, Then when phone companies started running out of phone numbers and states started implementing new area codes, Pat Fleets voice seemed to take over everywhere, I always thought she sounded like a goof, so then I lost interest in recordings, picked up the pieces and moved on with my life...lol
No idea what her name is, but from listening to Evan Doorbell's tapes I recognize her as the voice of IBM's Semi-Automatic Intercept System (SAIS), a little-used 1960's predecessor of the AIS system. In the SAIS, an intercept operator had to key the nonworking number in manually and the machine would look it up and generate an announcement. New York City had an SAIS in the '70s which features in Evan's "panel pulsing" and GEdney-9 tapes.
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS
Many of these recordings still remain on there switches and are still active.
I remember a lot of these error recordings.
Back in the 70s I used to think she was saying "if you feel you have reached this recording in air" until I asked my sister if that's for the people making phone calls from air planes...
0:20 sounds scary something like sleep paralysis
Or it sounds like a gunshot or something else in the background.
The sound of my childhood.
Jane Barbe sounds like she's suddenly about to lose her temper at about 4:12 lol
I love the Pat Fleet recordings. I hear you have a John Leatherman one also. My favourite VO artist doing switch recordings was Erika Dawson, though info about her is hard to find. I uploaded a couple of hers on my other channel.
Whats your other channel? Is love to listen
@@dave019222 th-cam.com/video/lgjJCcP3fiE/w-d-xo.html Thnk you. It's called MoronicArts because that is the name of my comedy blog.
Super !
I'm scared
The phone police are coming for you
They never found me back in the day 🤣
lol this was all a few years before my time, I was born in 1989. I remember how, as a little kid, I'd play with my grandpa's answering machine/speaker phone thing. I always wonder when and where these messages were recorded. were these recorded on a cassette tape? These messages are strangely relaxing, lol. I could listen to these all day. haha. One other question, are they recordings? ;)
There was this number I called a while back.. It sounded like this:
*Crack*....*Crack* *static* Woman: CHECK THE NUMBER AND DIAL-.. Man: S0- 402 D- *audio cuts out*
area code 713
Back in the 80s, I used to dial a strange number, I dialed 123456789*0#, I got recording of a male voice saying something like, "The number you have dialed, 234-5678, is a test. Hang up now, otherwise billing will be arranged for this call", and it charged to the phone bill... Sometimes when I would call it, it sounded like a female voice miming a busy signal, and sometimes a scary alarm!! I remember hanging up and not being able to get the dial tone back for like 5 minutes or so.
Does anyone remember that??
is there a recording of the “alarm”
there was a version of the SAIS that could be converted to a full-time AIS so i think thats what that is.
What kind of recording cylinder are you talking about at 3:45?
spershall they used a cylinder to store all recordings and like an 8 track, the play head would play the correct track on the cylinder.
Ahhhhh!!!!!!! Very scary
So you actually recorded error messages in the '80s and saved them? ;)
That's precisely what I did.
@@dave019222God bless you for that. 🙏🏻♥️
magnetic drum.
as in (713)-000-0000