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A booth where you record your own record
I've seen them in movies. I just took a pic of this. It is a KTV recording booth. Any idea what that record booth thing is called so I can maybe add this KTV pic to it?
Anna Frodesiak (
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02:49, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Hi
Sluzzelin.
Karaoke box, eh? Interesting. So, I've been looking here and at commons. We seem to have nothing on those booths that have been around for a hundred years. You know, you sing and it presses a record for you. I think we need an article on this with the KTV thingy as a variant.
Anna Frodesiak (
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03:21, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
So what would a search engine want to help find this? Maybe Library of Congress or the like might have an old pic. What were they called?
Anna Frodesiak (
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03:29, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Hi
Sluzzelin. The pic above is some sort of booth. You go in. Pay. It plays a video. You sing. It records. It gives you your voice and their instrumental track as a recording to....a cloud where you can get it? A CD? Not sure how they give it to you.
Seriously, if we can get a name rather than a brand name for those old singing demo record booths, then that would be great. We could have a shot at an old photo and google books ought to have content on it. It's not looking good at the moment, though.
Anna Frodesiak (
talk)
04:21, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Now I remember, was there a movie about Loretta Lynn or someone with that Men in Black guy. They made such a recording, I think. I'll dig.
Anna Frodesiak (
talk)
04:23, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Conclusion
I'm giving up. I'll get a better pic to upload for
Karaoke box. Thanks for finding that for me.
Darn, blogspot is blocked here in China. Anyhow, we were close! And I realize now that in Coal Miner's Daughter, she recorded at a studio, I think.
Anna Frodesiak (
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04:49, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
That is a shame. I guess I shouldn't post the entire text, but it mentions Amusement Equipment Company Ltd's "Voice Records" machines introduced at the 1935
Olympia radio show. ("Anyone could cut a 78 rpm disc for just 6d in department stores, at the end of piers and railway stations").
Later (1960s), the "Calibre" Auto Recording Machines by the British Automatic Company, with the slogan "make your own record in 3 minutes" on the booths. ("For half-a-crown (2s 6d) you could now make your own unique, one of a kind, 45 rpm disc.")
The blog also mentions the "Fono Post" service in the Netherlands of the 1950s, using the same or similar booths as the Voice Records machines imported from the UK. ("The idea was that the user would purchase a special token, and could 'Step Up To The Mike' and record a personal message at their local participating Post Office. Judging by the scarcity of the Dutch 5" aluminium discs, the service was neither successful nor long lasting.") Our article on
Fonopost is about a similar service in Argentina where they used "special mobile recording vans". ---
Sluzzelintalk05:15, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
I definitely think it's worth a whole colorful article! (and thank you for bringing this fascinating yet neglected topic to our attention) but we'd need
reliable sources covering the variety and history. Unfortunately I suck at photos and copyright and all that. ---
Sluzzelintalk05:27, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Okay, well let's give this post a few days and maybe others will find some good google books sources and content. As for pics, I'll look. If they're old enough, they may be fair game.
Anna Frodesiak (
talk)
05:36, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
More of a sidebar than any real help; but in searching for stuff about this, I happened on a newspaper review of
Voices (1979 film), according to which the film's opening scene features the Michael Ontkean character making a recording at a coin-operated booth of the sort in question.
Deor (
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16:47, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
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June 9 Information
A booth where you record your own record
I've seen them in movies. I just took a pic of this. It is a KTV recording booth. Any idea what that record booth thing is called so I can maybe add this KTV pic to it?
Anna Frodesiak (
talk)
02:49, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Hi
Sluzzelin.
Karaoke box, eh? Interesting. So, I've been looking here and at commons. We seem to have nothing on those booths that have been around for a hundred years. You know, you sing and it presses a record for you. I think we need an article on this with the KTV thingy as a variant.
Anna Frodesiak (
talk)
03:21, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
So what would a search engine want to help find this? Maybe Library of Congress or the like might have an old pic. What were they called?
Anna Frodesiak (
talk)
03:29, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Hi
Sluzzelin. The pic above is some sort of booth. You go in. Pay. It plays a video. You sing. It records. It gives you your voice and their instrumental track as a recording to....a cloud where you can get it? A CD? Not sure how they give it to you.
Seriously, if we can get a name rather than a brand name for those old singing demo record booths, then that would be great. We could have a shot at an old photo and google books ought to have content on it. It's not looking good at the moment, though.
Anna Frodesiak (
talk)
04:21, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Now I remember, was there a movie about Loretta Lynn or someone with that Men in Black guy. They made such a recording, I think. I'll dig.
Anna Frodesiak (
talk)
04:23, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Conclusion
I'm giving up. I'll get a better pic to upload for
Karaoke box. Thanks for finding that for me.
Darn, blogspot is blocked here in China. Anyhow, we were close! And I realize now that in Coal Miner's Daughter, she recorded at a studio, I think.
Anna Frodesiak (
talk)
04:49, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
That is a shame. I guess I shouldn't post the entire text, but it mentions Amusement Equipment Company Ltd's "Voice Records" machines introduced at the 1935
Olympia radio show. ("Anyone could cut a 78 rpm disc for just 6d in department stores, at the end of piers and railway stations").
Later (1960s), the "Calibre" Auto Recording Machines by the British Automatic Company, with the slogan "make your own record in 3 minutes" on the booths. ("For half-a-crown (2s 6d) you could now make your own unique, one of a kind, 45 rpm disc.")
The blog also mentions the "Fono Post" service in the Netherlands of the 1950s, using the same or similar booths as the Voice Records machines imported from the UK. ("The idea was that the user would purchase a special token, and could 'Step Up To The Mike' and record a personal message at their local participating Post Office. Judging by the scarcity of the Dutch 5" aluminium discs, the service was neither successful nor long lasting.") Our article on
Fonopost is about a similar service in Argentina where they used "special mobile recording vans". ---
Sluzzelintalk05:15, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
I definitely think it's worth a whole colorful article! (and thank you for bringing this fascinating yet neglected topic to our attention) but we'd need
reliable sources covering the variety and history. Unfortunately I suck at photos and copyright and all that. ---
Sluzzelintalk05:27, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Okay, well let's give this post a few days and maybe others will find some good google books sources and content. As for pics, I'll look. If they're old enough, they may be fair game.
Anna Frodesiak (
talk)
05:36, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply
More of a sidebar than any real help; but in searching for stuff about this, I happened on a newspaper review of
Voices (1979 film), according to which the film's opening scene features the Michael Ontkean character making a recording at a coin-operated booth of the sort in question.
Deor (
talk)
16:47, 9 June 2017 (UTC)reply