You know guys know how to party when they break out the Songs Of The Humpack Whale album. It has been discussed in earlier posts that I have a certain fascination with Sound Effects. I had collected a couple albums that I may or may not have mentioned. If I didn’t, it was merely due to oversight and not embarrassment.
Most of my sound effects records had to do with ghostly, haunting types of sounds. Others included airplanes and trains. Most of my old vinyl sound effects records simply aren’t available on Compact Disc and thus have been lost to the juggernaut of technology.
I don’t remember exactly where the Songs Of The Humpack Whale album came from. It had to be Bennington. I’m sure that I saw that and thought that it would be cool. We heard about whal songs in school now I had two sides of whales to listen to for nearly a full hour. It was cool and we did listen to it.
At one point a couple of the guys had those Beta fish on little glass bowls. One evening on Space Mountain we turned off all the lights except a little blue buld which we put behine the two bowls of beta fish. We listened to the whales sing and watch as these fighting fish just floated around in their bowls completely ignoring each other. We were told that if we put the bowls next to each other the Betas would see each other and put on this amazing display of aggression. Either our fish were near sighted or just pacifists. If it weren’t for the amazing whale song album the night would have been a total loss!
Songs Of The Humpback Whale