STAN FREBERG HERE...Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone
Stan Freberg here. This month celebrates Bell's patenting of the telephone back in March, 1876. Freberg's take on that, after this. [:60 SPOT BREAK]
In my Grammy-nominated CD "Stan Freberg presents The Unites States of America, Vol. 2," I saluted Alexander Graham Bell. After I sent his assistant Watson into the next room, Bell picks up his phone for the first time, and hears a strange voice:
OPERATOR: What number are you calling? BELL: What? Who IS this?
OPERATOR: This is the operator... BELL: The operator of what? Wh-what are you operating?
OPERATOR: Do you have a first name or initial? (SFX: Hangs up phone) BELL (Under his breath): I must be imagining things...I've been putting in too much overtime... (SFX: Picks up receiver)
OPERATOR: Please deposit fifteen cents for overtime... BELL: Watson! Come here! I REALLY need you!
(SFX: Door opens)
BELL: I've been trying to call you!
WATSON: And I've been trying to call you, too--but your line was busy!
(MUSIC: Up and under)
Stan Freberg here.
(Music out.)
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