Hmm…what’s a radio/TV? I like 1890’s, we didn’t have those human dumbing devices then [;)].
And if i go to someones house and hear the “Brady Bunch” theme song coming out of some building on the layout, someones getting a torching!
ANTIONIO FP45 WOW What a great idea period background sounds such as tv shows .I think it would be a good idea to expermint with the sound levels such as using deflection,or maybe covering the speaker with cotton balls to achieve the desired affect.If there is a website with all those old tv shows maybe there is one some where out there with the sounds of radio before TV. Depending on your configaration and where a visator might be standing while viewing that perticular scene a few speakers wired to multi-position switch could create a very believeable illiusion.Thanks allthough now you guys have me wondering and it’s four o clock in the am,no more sleep today.It might be a good idea to copy your original post ,never know who might be reading, might save you some legal fees in the future.
I think the cool thing about this whole idea is the memories that people will remember when they here the old TV themes. I remember hearing the themes from Star Trek, Hawaii 5-0, the Sunday Night Mystery Theater (Columbo, Cannon and McMillan and Wife) Threes Company, Happy Days, The Thunderbirds etc etc. But why limit it to just the theme songs? Don’t forget commercials define an era and evoke memories just as much (Plop Plop Fiz Fiz, My bologna has a first name, I can’t believe I ate the whole thing, Two all beef patties, special sauce - well you get the idea).
Way cool idea, the key is to pull it off without becoming redundant and to the point where it becomes just noice.
Ideas are just getting better here! One question though: Where would you go to get those old television commercial jingles? Is there a website?
Nick at Nite often plays old commercials. I remember a couple of years ago a person was selling videos of old commercials on ebay. Whether or not they are pirated or actually licensed though, I don’t know. I’ve also seen old commercials used as part of several shows on the history channel.
Ooops. Forgot one. On one of the home websites of either yahoo or netscape or something like that they had video clips of the best commercials from past superbowls. While I don’t know of any websites, I’m sure there are bunches out there.
[Take this one step further by having a small tv in the layout room and play DVD’s of vintage shows. Or, just a CD playing the top 40’s from that era.
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Cool idea. Have a guy with a boombox (remember them from the 80’s, you carried them on your shoulder). Place a speaker under the figure playing a CD with 80’s tunes. Of course I’d probably end up cranking the volume - love the 80’s!
For those of you in Upstate New York, the Utica Club website has some of the old Schultz and Dooley commercials from the late 50s and early 60s. GREAT STUFF!–and not for NYC modelers.
I myself have never liked Lucille Ball. One of my favorite conservative radio commentators, Mike Gallagher once said that off camera, she was one of the most selfish, rude, egotistical snobs out there. And I believe it.
A friend of mine in my home town once knew a urologist who’s hobby was HO scale trains, and he had named his little pike the “Rawhide & Bonzana”, mainly because his daughter or granddaughter at the time could not properly pronounce Bonanza. My friend has one of the original structures from the urologist’s layout on his layout, and it’s the “Loose Stuhl Mine”!
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Well I dont know if this will help but, ESPN has a classic station on cable the broadcast games from the past in all different eras.
I saw a layout at Cypress Gardens a while back that had a drive-in theater with an angled mirror for the screen and a small tv under the layout. Might be workable as a tv in a building if the actural tv was far enough away. It would need another mirror somewhere to keep lettering from being backwards. Hook it up to a VCR or DVD and play actual vintage shows.
Oh great. Now our favorite dead thread resurrector has discovered he can sneak them back to life by editing his 2 year old posts.
How about Captain Midnight, Skye King and Jack Armstrong (The All-American Boy?) Later, Skye King turned up on the tube, a mere shadow of its radio predecessor.
There may be some truth to the opinion that my lifelong liking for classical music started with The Lone Ranger… (That’s another one that got ‘televised.’)
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)