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Posted on 09/04/2011 2:48:29 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
If you want to hear a much better speech, listen to Warren G. Harding’s “normalcy” speech which is also online. It contains much good sense and Harding knew how to how to deliver a speech.
Tim Conway did a skit one time with “Misses a’ Wiggins” Carol Burnette, whose character was a sexy new secretary that couldn’t do anything.
Conway’s character in that bit was a perfect ringer for Calvin Coolidge!!
It should be noted that this recording was done without the assistance of any electronic devices whatsoever. In that respect, it is impressive, but the sound quality is quite typical of any of the thousands of recordings that were done at the time. The first commercially produced electronic recordings appeared in 1925.
Mister Tudball. Some think he was a Swede, but we Norskies know better.
WOW. From 1912 to 2012. We’ve come a long way..............down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NytLXFb2Am0&feature=related
Still, I’m surprised at the signal to noise ratio, even if it was digitally postprocessed. Somehow they managed to erase any trace of periodic noise that was normally present on even most old electric-era recordings. Furthermore, the distortion is surprisingly low, and that’s something almost impossible to fix in digital processing.
I presume they put WW in front of a rather large horn to get that kind of groove modulation. Anyone know if this was a disk or a cylinder?
One can tell that the frequency response is such that the same setup when used on a musical ensemble would produce the archtypical tinny acoustic-recording sound. Not much they could do for that until electric recording, and such toys as ribbon and condenser microphones came into use.
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“3. Wilson’s accent. Although Woodrow Wilson spent his boyhood in the South (mostly Georgia and South Carolina) and never left the South until he attended Princeton, I can detect no trace of an accent in his voice. I do remember that in “How the States Got Their Shapes” it was contended that there was no southern accent until AFTER the Civil War. That could explain Wilson’s lack of such an accent since he would have been influenced by the earlier way of talking in the South (he was born in 1856).”
Sounds vaguely English, Scottish, Irish. Scotch-Irish might’ve had a blending of accents, since a lot of them were on the border of England/Scotland before they were exiled/moved to Ireland. I heard a lot of them moved to the South. Maybe initially they kind of kept or copied their parents’ accents, then over time it morphed into what we think of as a Southern Accent?
Pure guessing on my part, but it’s the first thing I thought of, I know some Scotch-Irish history. If I heard someone like that today, I’d assume he was someone from the UK, who’d been here awhile. Either that or he had a fake British accent like Madonna.
Now listen to Calvin Coolidge...
Calvin Coolidge’s Insane Last Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxwMuCOi0QY&NR=1
Good quality .... Real good. Possible it was cleaned up by archival restoration sorts ?
Even from the political message itself the so called talking points seem to be lacking as so many of todays shit’n shineola polidiots seem to spew in every rapid fire soundbite.
Cool to hear .... Thanks.
Definitely a large horn. Wilson was recorded on both disk (Victor) and cylinder (Edison). I am not certain which these are, however.
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