Edouard Leon Scott de Martinville sings Jingle Bells (1860)

For your amusement, hear Edouard Leon Scott de Martinville, inventor of sound recording, sing Jingle Bells (first published in 1857) in this specially-made EDIT of his 1860 VOCAL SCALE recording. Special Thanks to FirstSounds.Org for the raw audio !

[@Mr.Obongo]

This dude doesn't know the lyrics

[@clawcross]

Well he was French

[@zussman_]

He singed beauty when he said "pfffffddddt" speaked all of us 😔

[@KeonGarrett-zu2gp]

Plus that was old so he sang it a different way

[@zussman_]

He singing beauty 😭 when he "pfffddddddttttt" speaked for all of us 😔

[@Typicalgamer654-]

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was friend with my great great great grandfather

[@HBC101TVStudios]

One of the hundred recordings made by Leon Scott. The hundreds and hundreds of Leon Scott's recording is in restoration, though.

[@jaxnean2663]

Was he a fly?!

[@TheWarrior9921]

Jax Nean man,you made my day XDD

[@Jeff-fp8qx]

@@JetFlyingRuby and that mic sucks. It Sounds like the mic my class mates use *"useless"*

[@jawwwp428]

Jeff correction it sucks ass. You are welcome

[@Jeff-fp8qx]

@@jawwwp428 thank you. But I am too lazy to embed it in the right place

[@mediocreweirdo]

this was a recording of himself after landing on his corpse in 1879

[@Ericaobviouslyx3]

This is not him singing jingle bells. Especially since he was French and did not speak or know he French language. This was him doing a vocal scale.

[@RetroFan]

It says, for your amusement. Haha

[@MrPillowStudios]

You mean English?

[@Ericaobviouslyx3]

@@MrPillowStudios yes lol oopsie daisy

[@MrPillowStudios]

@@Ericaobviouslyx3 change it please.

[@Ericaobviouslyx3]

@@MrPillowStudios lol I don’t have to change it just because you want me to lmao if people can read they saw the correction 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jimretzer3125]

BRILLIANT! One minor technical detail, though. You have him singing the modern version. The original arrangement of Jingle Bells as published and sung between 1857-roughly 1880, had more of a descending chord on the "jingle all the way" line. There are historically authentic "period" performances out there you can reference. But a HUGE bravo for just doing this in the first place. I am definitely adding this to my Christmas oddball playlist.

[@graceamodeo1587]

Wow. I guess I learned something new today. Whoever modified the tune really simplified it.

[@Alan2.1]

The hat though😂

[@graceamodeo1587]

I was actually expecting a clip of him singing that was mistaken for jingle bells. This though, is even better.😀

[@chesteranderson8437]

Edouard: Buur Burr Buur Buur Burr Buur Me: Your voice is the creepiest out of all of them

[@tasosmitskopoulos7748]

It's the longest phonautogram I've ever heard! Where did you find It!

[@cheesemanthe2nd]

It's edited

[@DiamondFireball]

Double r/wooosh lol

[@igvmyslf1000ptss]

Best singer! Bravo!

[@soumilghosh5156]

Thats the clearest singing i have ever heard

[@fablhing214]

i love the end bit its just TOOOO cute

[@gamerawesome64dd91]

Bee celebrating Christmas in 1860

[@ravkoleavikk8577]

this is fucking terrifying

[@gamerzooh1081]

this is rare i will play this on christmas

[@erdoganefeguner4981]

This is the best song for thousand years ago

[@Typicalgamer654-]

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

[@ROxxAN22]

aterradoramente brillante

[@G809]

Now I gotta load this into a sampler

[@internallyscreaming89]

Its just a pitch edit of Scott singing "Claire De Lune" recorded in 1860

[@danielcarneiro5483]

it's not a pitch edit. He made many recordings and this is one of them (he wasn't singing Jingle Bells tho. He was doing a vocal scale test)

[@raymondkitchen6137]

Sounds uncannily like Nico. Early Velvet a underground demo?

[@djmutt2000]

Whales during Christmas:

[@Prototypetronic]

la mosca al lado de mi oreja:

[@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui]

Best at x2

[@jacquesdeladurantaye9513]

i feel sorry for every one who thinked it was true

[@gamerzooh1081]

well if you wanna hear the jingle bells melody put this video on 2x faster

[@luongthanhhuyen4600]

Sounds like the mosquito in my room at 2 a.m.

[@KaciCooperations]

Use 2x speed

[@stonerjesus7494]

come to brazil

[@soumilghosh5156]

Thomas Edison's Mary had a little lamb is much clearer but at least i know audio existed in 1860

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

The original 1877 Edison recording of 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' was not saved. The version that exists today was a re-recording made on the phonograph's 50th anniversary in 1927.

[@bryantfloyd7471]

This sound like something other than Jingle Bells but, I can't make out the word's but, this is definitely not Jingle Bell's.

[@raymondkitchen6137]

Sounds uncannily like Nico. Early Velvet Underground?!

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

+Raymond Kitchen Both Scott and the Velvets were true originals in their times

[@THEScottCampbell]

The world's first recording artist and singing star was named SCOTT! If only he had figured out how to play it back. He still sounds better than Rod Stewart.

[@ferociousgumby]

Well, this sounds about as good as Au Claire de la Lune,and much more festive. From the beginning I was sure this whole Leon Scott thing was a hoax, as I'd heard a story years earlier claiming someone had found an ACTUAL recording of Chopin playing the Minute Waltz! This was supposedly retrieved from a glass globe with soot on it, with tracings made by a stylus, a technology developed in the 1840s, 20 years before Leon Scott de Martinville. I remember hearing the recording on the radio and thinking - could it be? Turns out the whole thing was a hoax (the CD was included in the April 1 issue of a classical music magazine). Nevertheless, the glass globe technology _did_ exist at some time. No word as to whether anyone has actually found any of this and can get music out of it. But calling this "music" is really a stretch.

[@pianosbloxworld4460]

I’d really like there to be an actual recording of Chopin playing anything

[@coinboy1998]

Haha!

[@InsideoutJoy]

I am too scared to even listen.

[@rorshi89]

He should’ve used Autotune.

[@revistahenadas]

For your amusement haha

[@itzl2124]

Actual lyrics: Buoww Buowbuowww Buoww Buowbuowww Buowww BWAAAAAA Bbbbbbbb Buuuughh Bwoow Wooooow! Wooooow! Wooooow! Wooooow! Wooooow! Wooooh Bwooooh Bwowwh Whaaaaaaat Whaaaaaaat Wooow Brrrrrrr Bzsszzzz Ooo!

[@liamgabrielnadal325]

0:17

[@raymondkitchen6137]

Sounds like Niko. Must be early Velvet Underground.

[@QUIAPOPOWERPOINTMASS]

It's not to scary I laugh at his voice saying HEY

[@user-sz8xf5bj1u]

Real?

[@jayatissa6028]

I think this is the old Mexican version

[@fontz379]

sounds a lot like rappers now in days, you cant under stand them

[@williampalenik7306]

OK I heard of this guy but thanks to Edison though

[@Samspringtrap]

XD

[@lo-filiooo378]

Damn is dis lil pump?

[@marwwa56]

wtf

[@titangamingbot2521]

?

[@kellycoleman715]

He wasn’t much of a singer. But better than Wayne Newton sings now anyway.

[@cheesemanthe2nd]

Try singing into a phone during a blizzard and see how good it sounds lol

[@MrPillowStudios]

Fake.

[@KeonGarrett-zu2gp]

How