SOUNDS FROM THE PAST

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1. The sound of a nice old British telephone ringing.

2. "Excuse Me" - an example of the nice recorded announcements that the old AT&T used to use in the '60s.

3. The answering-machine message from the Pink Pussy Cat Club of Hollywood in 1969.  On this "sound from the past" it sounds as though they needed a new machine, or at least a new tape.  

4. The Horace Batchelor advert from Radio Luxembourg.  Horace was from K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M, near Bristol.    

5. The old UK Speaking Clock (1963 to 1985) with the voice of Pat Simmons.

6. A brief extract from the Private Eye Christmas Record of 1967.