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What is your favorite recording with a quirck

I recently began to play some CD's I had stored away. Two of my favorites are "Rhapsodies" Stokowski RCA Living Stero 09026-61503-2 and Shirley Horn "You Won't Forget Me" Verve 847 482-2. These stick in my mind because they are recorded well. But also they have something quircky present.

In the Stokowski recording on track #6 Tristan und Isolde when I listen closely I hear a whirring sound like a turbine starting up. I asked a friend who lived in New York city and he suggested it was the subway underneath the building where this recording was made. Intersting I thought as my audio system could resolve and reveal this sound caught on the rcording.

Another moment of testing resolving ability was on the title track of Shirley Horn's recording of You won't forget me. During the song Miles Davis makes what seems to be a sarchastic sour note and Shirley in response whispers a**hole.

Have you any favorite quircky tests of resovling power on recordings that you have found?
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bongofury
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Speaking of U2, they completely missed the time of MLK's death in "Pride." They have King being shot in the morning; in fact, he was shot in the afternoon.

Now for some Gon trivia: And then there is the famous "f#$%en long" shouted by John Lennon during a Beatles song. Which song and at what moment. Let the game begin.
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shadorne
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Well I have not heard that Beatles trivia although I am familiar with the swearing in Hey Jude which is quite audible once you know what to look for.

When I was younger I got so used to Vinyl pre-echo that for me it all became part of the song (like it was intentional).

I still expect to hear it on the CD in the overture on Rush 2112 and find it unsettling that it is now removed...amazing how memory is engraved with these things....even the quirky mistakes.
bongofury
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Hey Jude it was. John can be heard saying "f&*$en long" in the middle of the song to Paul. Apparently it was never caught by Capitol because of how it was mixed down. You can hear it on master quality vinyl.
giglr
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It's not really a quirck, but at the time we thought it was. The Ohio Players Love Rollercoaster, there's a lady screaming at the begining of the song. We had heard someone was murdered in the studio and the scream was recorded. Being young we didn't really think, they where singing about a rollercoaster and people scream.
chashmal
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Sun Ra "Heliocentric worlds vol.1', on the original ESP record on side 1 there is very strange asian folk music in the background for a good deal of the side, very low volume. It was edited out on the CD and all reissues of the LP such as the Base records version.
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