Jack Van Impe - From Night Clubs to Christ

Jack Van Impe - From Night Clubs to Christ

This blog started off with a message by Mr. Van Impe where he discussed what hell really is. This message is Van Impe's conversion story of how he once was an inhabitant of night clubs (because his father was a night club entertainer) to becoming a crusader for all that is good and holy including ranting against rock 'n' roll and naked women in movies. This record reveals how Van Impe became the man he is today.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. From Night Clubs to Christ side 1 {28:04}

Side 2

1. From Night Clubs to Christ side 2 {29:55}

Charles Kebbe - The Harper's Bazaar Success Formula for a Beautiful Speaking Voice

Charles Kebbe - The Harper's Bazaar Success Formula for a Beautiful Speaking Voice

Written and Narrated by Charles Kebbe/Assisted by Joyce Gordon

Not only do women have to look good and be fashionably stylish, it would be nice if they have a beautiful voice to go with their fabulous good looks and fashionable style. Thank goodness this LP record came out. Released before feminism became prominent in the mainstream, perhaps the record helped the voices of Stepford wives and trophy girlfriends to sound just as appealing as their looks. The American woman is the most attractive female on Earth. The liner notes by Charles Kebbe say so, it must be true. However, Charles never says how American women are more attractive than women from all other countries or what prompted him to make this statement. It would be quite interesting to learn the reasoning behind his claim.
Charles worked for some advertising agency and he must have had a bevy of beautiful women to stare at. Unfortunately, for him, they did not sound as pleasant as they looked. So Charles wanted to do something about it. He opened a voice training workshop to coach women (and men) from all walks of life who wanted to improve their speaking voices.
Sometime, afterwards, Kebbe collaborated with Harper's Bazaar magazine to put out this record definitely aimed at the masses of American women in hopes of the female populace suddenly sounding just as beautiful as they look. To make this happen, Kebbe describes his methods:

For a long time I had been working to develop a concise, conventional vocal course, one so simple that anyone, even working alone, could use it. I know that this course would have to solve two basic vocal difficulties characteristic of most women: the tendency to speak from a constricted throat, thus producing a harsh or nasal voice, and the tendency to speak in the front of the mouth, making the voice sound thin and hard. With these problems corrected by a system I call "The Fountain," the voice becomes rounder, fuller, softer and much more relaxed. And relaxed vocal production means relaxed throat muscles and tendons. By following this method, you will not only speak better, but will also feel and act more at ease.
When, after many experiments, The Fountain technique was at last perfected, the results were truly stunning. I first began using the method with young and oh-so-pretty models but with oh-such-squeaky-and-screechy voices. What they needed, I felt, was to be taught a fast, simple method to give them more pleasant speaking voices. The amazing fact about this method was that very real results were obtained with only a few minutes' instruction. No complicated exercises; no long period of hard, boring drudgery. In fact, the system worked so rapidly that it was almost incredible.
Then I began using The Fountain method with women who were not interested in a career of any kind. And it worked just as well for them as it had for the professional models. The remarkable results were exactly the same.
This does not for one moment mean that you can work for five minutes and completely change your speaking voice. But it does mean you can learn to use this technique in an amazingly short time and then practice as much or as little as you choose.

Tracklisting:  (link will be back soon)

Side 1

1. The Harper's Bazaar Success Formula for a Beautiful Speaking Voice side 1 {19:45}

Side 2

1. The Harper's Bazaar Success Formula for a Beautiful Speaking Voice side 2 {17:34}

Drag Race Sound Effects

Drag Race Sound Effects

Not sure how much the Hot Rods post was liked, but if anyone wants more loud car engine noises, here ya go.

Tracklisting:

SIDE 1

1. Factory Experimental Class Cars {1:42}

2. Trouble Sounds on the Strip {3:42}

3. Super Stock Automatic Class Cars {2:02}

4. Roadster Class Cars {1:48}

5. Competition Class Cars {1:38}

6. Finish Lines Sounds {1:17}

SIDE 2

1. Squeal Effects at Start Line {1:26}

2. Dragsters {3:34}

3. Gas Coupes and Sedans Class {1:24}

4. Modified Sports Car Class {0:59}

5. Stock Sports Car Class {0:50}

6. Sounds on the Strip {3:05}