Various, Essential sounds of the city | |||||||||
| Category: | BBC - BBCCD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCCD cds.) | ||||||||
| Label and catalogue number: | BBC SFX - BBCCD860 | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc CDs | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| Released: | 1991 | ||||||||
| Genre: | Sound effects View all other tracks listed as Sound effects. | ||||||||
| Run-off codes: | BBC CD 860 . MASTERED BY NIMBUS | ||||||||
| Item deleted? | Yes | ||||||||
| Distributed / printed by | BBC Enterprises | ||||||||
| Page views: | 569 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 6072, rank in cds is 491. | ||||||||
| My rating: | ***** | ||||||||
| Guest rating: | ***** | ||||||||
TracksBelow is a list of tracks for this release. | |||||||||||
| Side & track | Track and Artist | Length | |||||||||
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| CITY ATMOSPHERES | |||||||||||
| A1 | City traffic and pedestrians | 2.35 | |||||||||
| A2 | City skyline - wide perspective | 2.30 | |||||||||
| A3 | Airport - exterior atmosphere | 2.28 | |||||||||
| A4 | Main line railway station - including train arriving and passengers alighting | 3.28 | |||||||||
| A5 | City street - pedestrians and traffic | 2.00 | |||||||||
| A6 | Pedestrian precinct | 1.58 | |||||||||
| A7 | Early morning - city street | 1.52 | |||||||||
| A8 | Traffic on main road | 2.02 | |||||||||
| A9 | Street with voices and traffic | 2.15 | |||||||||
| A10 | Very busy town street with passing motorcycles and traffic | 2.32 | |||||||||
| A11 | Motorway - traffic passing | 2.20 | |||||||||
| CITY ATMOSPHERES (INTERIOR) | |||||||||||
| A12 | Shopping centre - interior atmosphere | 2.15 | |||||||||
| A13 | Supermarket - customers and checkouts | 2.00 | |||||||||
| A14 | Lobby of big international hotel | 2.00 | |||||||||
| A15 | Electronic office - city dealing room | 1.52 | |||||||||
| A16 | Electronic typewriter - single | 1.22 | |||||||||
| A17 | Wholesale market | 1.40 | |||||||||
| PAY PHONE SOUND EFFECTS | |||||||||||
| A18 | BT Viscount model - 12 rings and pickup | 0.39 | |||||||||
| A19 | BT payphone - (pushbutton) call dialled (0 digits) | 0.21 | |||||||||
| A20 | Money inserted | 0.04 | |||||||||
| A21 | Receiver replaced | 0.03 | |||||||||
| A22 | Receiver replaced more forcefully | 0.04 | |||||||||
| A23 | Phone ringing in callbox | 0.27 | |||||||||
| A24 | Money inserted and call dialled - (9 digits) | 0.14 | |||||||||
| A25 | Receiver replaced and coins returned | 0.07 | |||||||||
| A26 | Phone ringing in callbox | 0.24 | |||||||||
| PUBLIC PLACES | |||||||||||
| A27 | Busy pub on Saturday night | 1.22 | |||||||||
| A28 | Busy American bar | 2.10 | |||||||||
| A29 | Library - quiet interior | 2.11 | |||||||||
| A30 | People milling about chatting animatedly at a reception | 1.46 | |||||||||
| A31 | Art gallery - quiet interior with footsteps | 2.05 | |||||||||
| A32 | Cafeteria restaurant (self-service) | 1.30 | |||||||||
| DEMOLITION | |||||||||||
| A33 | Demolition of masonry with sledgehammer | 0.43 | |||||||||
| A34 | Demolition of chimney by explosion | 0.12 | |||||||||
| ELECTRONIC NOISES AND ALARMS | |||||||||||
| A35 | Amusement arcade with electronic games | 2.07 | |||||||||
| A36 | Car alarm | 0.45 | |||||||||
| A37 | Electronic alarm | 0.17 | |||||||||
| A38 | Electronic alarm | 0.14 | |||||||||
| A39 | Burglar alarm | 0.34 | |||||||||
| HEAVY INDUSTRY | |||||||||||
| A40 | Furnace | 1.45 | |||||||||
| A41 | Steel mill | 1.55 | |||||||||
| A42 | Textile mill | 1.30 | |||||||||
| A43 | Refuse transfer plant with crusher | 1.35 | |||||||||
| Total length of media 1:02:13. | |||||||||||
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| Detail | Value | ||||||||||
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| Cover condition | Good | ||||||||||
| Record condition | Good | ||||||||||
| BBC records label code | C | ||||||||||
| Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
| What type of seller was used | Not recorded | ||||||||||
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Reviews | ||
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| My rating | 3 | |
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Further information | ||
| BBC Radio Enterprises Ltd and BBC Enterprises Ltd, predecessors of BBC Worldwide / BBC Worldwide Ltd., the BBC's commercial arm. Formed 1968 and 1979 respectively, they were a subsidiary wholly owned by the BBC and merged into BBC Worldwide in 1995. In that time, there were companies set up within or structured brands as part of the company to deal with separate parts of the business, e.g. BBC Records for recorded audio. Sometimes written as BBC Enterprise Ltd.
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