Morse code in music

[AB5ID]

Kind of neat

 

[mrweather]

Was going to say "YYZ" by Rush.

 

[JDKelley]

Roger Waters - Radio KAOS. Has it in a couple of songs, as I recall. . .

 

[mgolden2]

Beethovens 5th symphony.......dit dit dit dahhhhh (which is the letter V, and in Roman Numerals the letter V is the number 5; hence, his 5th symphony)

 

[trimmerj]

Pink Floyd's Astronomy Domine

 

[JensLK]

 

[mikegilbert]

While not Morse code, Air's "Les Professionnels" has Eurosignal playing in the background.

It's such a cool nod to listening to the radio in Europe back in the day. Eurosignal was broadcast between 87.3 and 87.5, so it would often bleed into adjacent radio stations.

 

[KQ4ZVY]

IIRC The recording equipment for Tubular Bells picked up a radio station's Morse call sign

 

[PACNWDude]

Beethovens 5th symphony.......dit dit dit dahhhhh (which is the letter V, and in Roman Numerals the letter V is the number 5; hence, his 5th symphony)

....was also used in World War II for "V" for victory. Many film reels would play that sound. I use that in my work email signature block, and in six years, only one person has recognized what that means.

 

[MUTNAV]

If I remember right, the "V" stood for multiple things in the different languages of the allies.

Thanks
Joel

 

[CollinsURG]

Old TV commercial for Vanquish pain releiver.

 

[Token]

Beethovens 5th symphony.......dit dit dit dahhhhh (which is the letter V, and in Roman Numerals the letter V is the number 5; hence, his 5th symphony)

Except that is coincidental, it is not actually Morse, but rather just a short short short long rhythm.

The 5th Symphony was written before 1808, and Morse did not start until 1837, and even then did not look, or sound, like todays international Morse code. The dit dit dit dah for the letter V (in American Morse) was more or less finalized in the early 1840's, about 35 years after Beethoven's 5th was published.

T!

 

[merlin]

If I remember right, the "V" stood for multiple things in the different languages of the allies.

Thanks
Joel

"V" for victory was a D-day thing. Made for TV "V" was the same thing.

 

[Token]

"V" for victory was a D-day thing. Made for TV "V" was the same thing.

V for Victory was a WW II thing, but it predates D-Day by at least 3 years. There are pictures of Winston Churchill using it in 1941 and 1942, as well as other images / personalities.

To bring it back around to dit dit dit dah and V, there are propaganda posters from WW II that have both the slogan "V for Victory" and Morse code indicated on the poster.

Such as this one from 1941:



This one from 1942:


And this one from 1943:


With the V Mail program (Victory Mail) the envelopes and sometimes the paper could be had with the Morse for V printed on it.

T!

 

[kv5e]

Inspector Morse

 

[eorange]

 

[morganAL]

Bon Jovi - Hook Me Up

 

[K3YGX]

Iron Butterfly's first album's "Iron Butterfly Theme" had "I love you" in code at the end of the song.
skip to 4:20 to hear the code.