The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145831 Message #3376109
Posted By: Jack Campin
14-Jul-12 - 10:18 AM
Thread Name: Seek Recording: Carnival Barkers, Vaudeville, Etc.
Subject: RE: Seek Recording: Carnival Barkers, Vaudeville, Etc.
One kind of announcement I always found mind-blowing was the chanted race commentaries you got on the radio in New Zealand (and probably other places). The commentators had discovered you could convey the progress of the race faster if you delivered it in a kind of high-speed plainchant. The only other place I've heard words come out at a similar speed is in some kinds of Koran recitation.