Pink Floyd - Isolated Phone Call from The Wall

Just an isolated recording of the phone call heard as a transition between Young Lust and One of My Turns.

[@CrueLoaf]

Genuine call!! They duped the operator and here it is!! Like all the sound effects on the album...it's burned into my consciousness!

[@2000freefuel]

Ah good ol Multi frequency in band signaling.

[@kernow9324]

I was an operator at one of the international exchanges in London when The Wall came out. This call is burned into my consciousness too. I don't remember the exact phrase we used for collect calls, but it would have been something like: This is the United Kingdom (I know, all of it!). Mr Floyd is calling Mrs Floyd. Will you accept the charges? Understandably people were sometimes reluctant to pay and would hang up immediately. On those occasions I really wanted to say: "He hung up. Is it your residence, sir? Well I wonder why he hung up. Is there supposed to be someone else there besides your wife, sir, to answer?"

[@CrueLoaf]

@@kernow9324 Awesome!!

[@alex5824]

how?

[@CrueLoaf]

@@alex5824 I think the producer made the call to one of his friends and recorded it.

[@ezHiker35]

A little bit of techno geek stuff about this call... This is a good example of what a long distance call sounded like back 70s. In the 1970s, long distance calls used in-band signaling to send the dialed numbers over the line. The tones you hear is the operator sending the phone number the equipment on the UK end of the call. The beeps you hear are called supervision tones that told the equipment that one of the parties had hung up and the long distance truck was available for more calls. You can also hear a lot of background noise because the connection was all analog. You don't hear any that stuff anymore because everything is digital.

[@MsAussie83]

"Truck"? I think you mean "trunk".

[@meffffy]

Thanks this is pretty much exactly what wanted from looking for this tone.

[@stephensalex]

2600 to sieze, MF to listening register. Love the sounds of the old PSTN, it was alive back then!

[@ShineOnYouCrazyPiper]

You Should Try And Isolate the different sound effects on the album like the WSWDN scream and the hammer chant

[@cai3886]

hah! I knew I recognized this sound in the Mandela catalogue

[@k0n158]

Where can this be heard in the Mandela catalogue,?

[@cai3886]

@@k0n158 previous comment got deleted for links, I think, so; The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 1, at 2:55

[@albertocodina623]

1983

[@soonerscooter3249]

Sounds like Syd answering the phone 🤫

[@chicoravelli5703]

Well, I think Syd’s voice has a higher pitch.

[@joes0406]

‘This is United States calling’…

[@despacitodaniel801]

See he keeps hanging upp

[@SurprisedDodoBird-gy8en]

Lmao

[@SurprisedDodoBird-gy8en]

It happens experienced

[@felipemcarullo1556]

i have just set this as my ringtone

[@Mr.Timwell]

that would be hilarious

[@felipemcarullo1556]

@@Mr.Timwell it is perfect

[@glenhaven721]

These beeping sounds haunt my nightmares.

[@undercover5238]

I had trouble sleeping because I have heard the beeping sound

[@glenhaven721]

@@undercover5238 same

[@williamcarmack7438]

almost 13 years and those same sounds scare me every night when i`m alone and it never goes away never never goes away the fear will be there forever DO...NOT listen to this at 3 in the morning while the door`s fully opened and it being so damn dark in the house

[@MartNM]

​@@williamcarmack7438bro what its the wall are you ok

[@williamcarmack7438]

@@MartNM hell no i`m not ok

[@pojack9979]

Has the operator ever been identified? I wonder if she realized she was on an iconic rock album.

[@selfesteem3447]

This is the United States Calling, are we reaching ? Nope !

[@rinotuccini7052]

Obra maestra del rock mundial

[@LARRYANIEL-dz9zz]

❤ aniel Larry conscripted by A shrink

[@markd9105]

The younger generations wouldn't understand that part they don't know what an operator was.

[@ray.blusterzerodiary4422]

in the second 11 i hear an additional voice in minor volume

[@AdamTheDroog]

I listened to it loud with headphones on. It sounds to me like a T.V. program in the background. You can hear it cuts into the voice mid sentence when the guy picks up the phone.

[@kaelhooten8468]

It’s never been said so well, before or since

[@Ms.SullenRiot]

It's A K0N