From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V13 #47 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Saturday, August 15 2009 Volume 13 : Number 047 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Story behind WOTF air-traffic control recordings? [Beth Meyer Subject: Alloy: Story behind WOTF air-traffic control recordings? Hi, folks; I have a question for our knowledgeable group members. My son, who is turning out to be quite the TMDR fan (big shock there) is also an aviation nut. I had "Wreck of the Fairchild" running through my head the other day and it occurred to me that young Eric might really appreciate that song, what with all the recordings that sound like an air traffic controller talking over the radio to a pilot. (Helps that Eric goes to a bilingual school and he is pretty good with Spanish.) So I told him about the song, specifically mentioning those recordings, and that I didn't know exactly where they came from. My husband pointed out that the recordings of the radio chatter had to have been recorded just for the song, because the official language of air traffic controllers and pilots over the radio is English. But I'm a little dubious. Does anyone know where the ATC/pilot recordings came from? Thanks, Beth ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:40:28 -0400 From: Russell Milliner Subject: Re: Alloy: Story behind WOTF air-traffic control recordings? The only blurb I've see is on Thomas' Blog at http://blog.thomasdolby.com/2008/11/an-astonishing-find/ Where he mentions: "For a start, the tape included Sale Of The Century which was the forerunner to Wreck Of The Fairchild, but it had a full vocal and lyrics. I never liked the words very much, which is why I ended up making it almost all instrumental, oh with just some Argentinian air traffic control chatter thrown in for good measure." The lyrics/words are also available here: http://www.thomasdolby.com/GAOW/lyrics/lyricsGAOW.html#wreck - -russell milliner milliner@pobox.com http://www.tmdrfan.com/russell/ On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Beth Meyer wrote: > > Hi, folks; > > I have a question for our knowledgeable group members. My son, who is > turning > out to be quite the TMDR fan (big shock there) is also an aviation nut. > I had "Wreck of the Fairchild" running through my head the other day and > it occurred to me that young Eric might really appreciate that song, > what with all the recordings that sound like an air traffic controller > talking > over the radio to a pilot. (Helps that Eric goes to a bilingual school > and he is pretty good with Spanish.) So I told him about the song, > specifically mentioning those recordings, and that I didn't know exactly > where they came from. My husband pointed out that the recordings > of the radio chatter had to have been recorded just for the song, > because the official language of air traffic controllers and pilots over > the radio is English. But I'm a little dubious. Does anyone know > where the ATC/pilot recordings came from? > > Thanks, > Beth ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V13 #47 ***************************