Re: [Kraftwerk] First vocoded lyrics?

Glenn Folkvord (Hyperion Media) schrieb am 30.07.2003 17:23 Uhr:

Hey gang,

Now that Kraftwerk is becoming hot again, I wonder what the first known case of vocoder lyrics would be; not just weird abstract sounds but vocoderized recognisable lyrics in music. Any ideas?

Probably it was a stage music in the USA around 1940: a witches choir from "Macbeth", made with the first existing vocoder from 1939. (Meyer-Eppler: Elektrische Klangerzeugung, Bonn 1949) Jan