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FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: January 24th, 2020, 10:48 pm
by Alex Newborn
I remember my neighbor Earl telling me about some Ghostbusters phone line back in the day, but he didn't remember the number, and I wondered if he might be pulling my leg. When I got a copy of Making Ghostbusters in the late 80s and read Michael Gross' description of the 'junk buy', I realized Earl wasn't lying, and I've wanted to hear this ever since. I even did a My Ghostbusters Pet Peeves video about it two years ago.

I was floored today when I was scrolling Facebook and saw a post by Dylan Griffin sharing the Southland Ghostbusters' new video.

https://www.facebook.com/SouthlandGhost ... 562216990/

This gives me new hope that perhaps someday we might yet discover the origin of the other audio obsession of mine... the Mystery Voice in the Sedgewick.

Alex

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: January 25th, 2020, 2:32 am
by mrmichaelt
Wicked. Thank you, Southland Ghostbusters!

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: January 25th, 2020, 10:33 am
by Peter Venkman Jr.
A big thank you, to the Southland Ghostbusters! Just like Alex, I have wondered for years what the 1-800 recording sounded like and now I know.

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: January 31st, 2020, 11:12 pm
by 910dohead
Hey guys, this was my find. Found it in a torrent supposedly from MTV, but the clip itself is a news segment that actually came from CNN. The video that we posted wasn't what I found. The audio/video was really rough. I went frame to frame from what was shown and matched it up to the blu-ray. Plus, the audio is cleaned up as much as it could be. It was slightly worse. I somewhat remastered it. The font I used is also the same. I can post the actual clip if you like?

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: February 1st, 2020, 12:12 am
by 910dohead
Remastered:


Full:


Raw + Interview:


Also, I don't know why BBcodes don't work for me, but if a mod can fix the links I would appreciate it.

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: February 1st, 2020, 2:29 am
by Kingpin
Neat in a way that we got to hear it.

Although, in the hindsight of 35+ years, it comes across a little on the creeper side.

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: February 1st, 2020, 5:44 am
by deadderek
This is an amazing find, and it's great that nearly 4 decades later fellow fans are still uncovering new content!

Always awesome to hear Venkman and Stantz. :D

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: February 1st, 2020, 12:50 pm
by 910dohead
Thanks, but it was totally by accident. I was looking for the Night Flight fan club commercial and stumbled onto the recordings. Oddly, they were uploaded in 2016 by a user named auburn3020, so it's been out there for a while. However, they uploaded an improved rip as of November of last year. All credit goes to them as I am just a middle man. I actually didn't think it was a big deal as I thought the material was already out there. Certainly didn't realize that it was a rediscovery. Our group has a chat we use on our phones which I posted these too. One of our members posted it to our facebook and as of yesterday, didn't realize it was lost for all this time. The response was surprising but I am just glad its out there and people are getting to hear/see it and are enjoying it.

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: July 5th, 2020, 8:46 am
by Dr.D
On the subject of audio ads, has anyone re-discovered the two short radio spots for the first movie where its Dan doing a sort of local business ad for the GBs? They even interview fake customers, one of whom is played by Edie McClurg.

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: July 5th, 2020, 12:47 pm
by Alex Newborn

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: August 31st, 2020, 3:27 pm
by JA Slow
I thought posts couldn't be deleted because of coding methods or whatever. I made a post here with some greasy humor that was apparently too sensitive. Didn't hear anything about it.

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: August 31st, 2020, 4:21 pm
by Kingpin
JA Slow wrote: August 31st, 2020, 3:27 pm I thought posts couldn't be deleted because of coding methods or whatever.
There is (or was) a restriction on users deleting their own posts, put in as a measure to prevent people vandalising their own topics, or hiding evidence if they'd been involved in a flame war.

There's no such restriction when it comes to Moderators removing posts.
The Mods aren't obligated to inform members that posts have been removed - but for clarity, I removed it, and I did so because the remark you made in regards to the 2016 movie was entirely irrelevant to the subject of the recorded message.

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: September 3rd, 2020, 6:14 pm
by JA Slow
Kingpin wrote: August 31st, 2020, 4:21 pm
JA Slow wrote: August 31st, 2020, 3:27 pm I thought posts couldn't be deleted because of coding methods or whatever.
There is (or was) a restriction on users deleting their own posts, put in as a measure to prevent people vandalising their own topics, or hiding evidence if they'd been involved in a flame war.

There's no such restriction when it comes to Moderators removing posts.
The Mods aren't obligated to inform members that posts have been removed - but for clarity, I removed it, and I did so because the remark you made in regards to the 2016 movie was entirely irrelevant to the subject of the recorded message.
In other words, censorship.

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: September 4th, 2020, 5:02 am
by Kingpin
JA Slow wrote: September 3rd, 2020, 6:14 pm In other words, censorship.
In other words, keeping the topic on-topic.

Re: FOUND! The 1-800 audio by Dan and Bill from 1984!

Posted: September 4th, 2020, 9:14 am
by deadderek
Alex Newborn wrote: July 5th, 2020, 12:47 pmhttp://protoncharging.com/audio/Ghostbustersad1.mp3

http://protoncharging.com/audio/Ghostbustersad2.mp3 (Edie McClurg)

Enjoy!

Alex
Holy crap that is cool. Just when I think I've seen and heard about every random clip....