Bell Telephone Laboratories, Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet
A 1963 oddity from Bell Labs. (This is a single-sided 7-inch, about five minutes long—not an LP.)
A mellifluous announcer introduces us to some early, very raspy synthesized speech—created by feeding punch cards into some hulking IBM mainframe. Most notable is the finale where the computer sings "Daisy, Daisy"—a demonstration which so impressed IBM visitor Arthur C. Clarke that he worked it into the scene in 2001 where HAL 9000 gets deactivated.
In 2009 this recording became one of only 400 (so far) inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry. A version of the same recording with most of the announcer's introductions edited out is the last item on this page.
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet
A 1963 oddity from Bell Labs. (This is a single-sided 7-inch, about five minutes long—not an LP.)
A mellifluous announcer introduces us to some early, very raspy synthesized speech—created by feeding punch cards into some hulking IBM mainframe. Most notable is the finale where the computer sings "Daisy, Daisy"—a demonstration which so impressed IBM visitor Arthur C. Clarke that he worked it into the scene in 2001 where HAL 9000 gets deactivated.
In 2009 this recording became one of only 400 (so far) inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry. A version of the same recording with most of the announcer's introductions edited out is the last item on this page.