“I bought this copy a few years ago in another record fair bargain bin purely for nostalgic purposes, and it was a delight to listen to again. My first encounter with it would have been back in 1990 when I was 17 and my brother and I were attempting to record an album in his bedroom in the half-term February week on the school’s knackered Tascam PortaOne 4-track cassette recorder. One of the tracks didn’t work, so we were down to only 3 and there was a fair amount of track bouncing going on. Having discovered this record via my extensive searching and borrowing from Norwich Music Library we used track 22 to provide some suitably portentous tolling of bells to accompany some dire sixth form poetry I’d written for a song called Ode to Oppenheimer. Delighted with the effects, we also whacked on the morse code at the start. Portentous and pretentious. . There are 89 sounds on here, grouped by type, and some with wonderfully descriptive titles such as Church – Evercreech: Ringing To End Of Grandsire Caters; Footsteps On Gravel – Man Starts Off, Walks, Stops; Sirens – Ship Answered By Tug; Wind – Eerie Or Sinister. There are six different sounds for a Wolsley 1660 Motorcar and four for Trains (Steam – British Rail South Eastern Region). The record is not just an excellent resource of sound effects but a historical artefact for the sounds of a bygone age...” . FOR FULL REVIEW & PLAYLIST CLICK LINK IN PROFILE: https://randomrecordreview.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/88-bbc-sound-effects-no-1/ . #bbcsoundeffects @bbcsounds #soundeffects #soundarchive #vinyl #norwichmusiclibrary #tascamportaone #vinylcollection #recordcollection #nowplaying #nowlistening #randomrecordreview https://www.instagram.com/p/B2gZF9ZpElS/?igshid=hmeguh3hqyss
