"One (Reprise)" Cough?

[EugLoven]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:48pm

This has been bothering me for years and I'm finally too curious to stay quiet.

On my copy of the "A Chorus Line" original Broadway cast album, I swear there's a woman coughing in the background of "One (Reprise)"

In between 0:31 and 0:32 at: "One thrilling combination" QUIET COUGH "every move that he makes."

Can anyone else hear it? Is it just my bizarre defunked copy?

And while we're on the subject, what other idiosyncracies are there are other Broadway cast albums are there?

[BtMartin25]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:51pm

Hey Eug. I just went and listened to it. I heard the second *cough*.. the first is hard to makeout with the music.

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:52pm

Can anyone else hear it? Is it just my bizarre defunked copy?

I thought I was crazy but I also heard it.

[maybethistime]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:52pm

You're not insane; I never noticed it before, but if not a cough, there's *something* there.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:55pm

I heard the cough...probably just someone in the cast.

In "Along Came Bialy" you can hear a double of Nathan Lane during "...and their prayers were heard up above."

In "I Wanna Be a Producer," at the start of the whistles, it sounds like one of the chorus girls is going to say "He wants..." because you hear a quick, high-pitched, "He!"

[JACXR71]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:59pm

There was a really interesting thread a while back about all kinds of weird stuff you could hear on recordings if you listened closely. I'll try search for it - but I remember going back and being shocked after listening to a lot of my albums after reading that thread!

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:01pm

A barely perceptible one...on the OLCR of Phantom, there is a faint, strange sound at 2:12 on "The Point of No Return", right after Christine's second "decided" and right before the drums lead into the song's chorus. Some people have said it sounds like a rubber band or a violin string snapping. I prefer to imagine that it's Sarah Brightman walking into a music stand.

[rickydrummer]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:07pm

I can't hear it, but I have the remastered version.

[JACXR71]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:17pm

Found it! Have a look, people have found some pretty weird stuff...

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=872827

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:18pm

And then of course, Company OBCR has quite a few little recording suprises.

[commasplice]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:21pm

In addition to JAC's link, another on the same topic: https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=706413#1149104

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:34pm

I can't hear it, but I have the remastered version.

Ah, yeah, the remastered version...I guess they cleaned it up. Owners of the original ghetto Polydor discs, represent. [gang sign]

[PARISinNYC]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:47pm

I have both versions and I can hear them on both. Maybe I just have fantastic hearing? But yeah. Thanks...now this is gonna drive me insane forever. Just kidding...

[jasonf]

Posted: 8/29/06 at 1:01am

I can't hear it at all...

[Dollypop]

Posted: 8/29/06 at 8:54am

Let's not forget Carol Channing's premature entrance in "Put On Your Sunday clothes". I wonder why it was never fixed when it was re-mastered?

[Petra]

Posted: 8/29/06 at 9:46am

I know what I'll be spending the weekend doing. Thanks for the links!

[mominator]

Posted: 8/29/06 at 10:38am

I always thought it was just me, thanks!

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 8/29/06 at 11:00am

I don't know if it's my weird copy, but on "Little Women," during "Astonishing":

"I thought a promise tha-that we would never change and never epart..."