Yup, but (apparently), it’s mainly gibberish:
http://www.aesham.com/fun1.html
(Of course, the rest of the tune has a serious meaning, even if the allegory is a bit obvious. Of course the trees are red. The air is pink, for God’s sake.)
Bowie’s original demo for “Space Oddity” fades out with the guitar playing S-O-S. Can’t remember if the produced version has it too.
There was a very popular TV comedy in the UK from 1973-1978 called “Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em”, starring Michael Crawford (just say “Ooooh, Betty” in an effeminate voice to a Brit).
The title music was “some mothers do ave em” spelt out in Morse.
S.O.S. (. . . - - - . . . )
I love it - the song fades out and it’s like a mayday call from a sinking city. It really fits in with the song thematically, rather than just being a neat in-joke.
No it wasn’t. Oh, and by the way, there never was a ‘Seaman Staines’ in Captain Pugwash either.
As a minor note, the Morse dots at the top of Spy vs Spy pages in Mad Magazine spelled out BY PROHIAS, at least until strip creator Antonio Prohias’ death in 1998.
Yep. And that’s why in Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta the fifth features so prominently. At least in the comic book.
Cowboy Mouth, in Everyone is Waiting uses the ‘SOS’ morse during the fadeout. A bit hackneyed but appropriate in context.
Rumour has it that in the incidental music of some of the episodes there are clues to the murders spelled out in morse code.
Oh yes it effing was. I noted it down and checked once.
Who said anything about Captain Pugwash?
Well, it is a reoccurring rumor. Hence the preemptive strike against your bringing it up.
Oh, and “Windpower” by Thomas Dolby has dits and dahs, but it doesn’t really mean anything, though it does include a genuine-sounding shipping forecast by the BBC’s John Marsh. (Thanks to Andy J for the info.)
And here’s proof.
Joe Walsh’s first solo LP/CD, “Barnstorm” (actually very nice, but it is evidently no longer available in the US) had Morse Code in one song. I think the song was “Giant Behemoth”. The code translated to “Register and Vote”.
morse for M is - -
morse for T is -
So one could hear two T’s instead of one M
When I learned morse the first letters I learned were eishtmo because of their pattern . … … … - – — all . and - in ascending order just a mnemonic device that is still with me today, oh and r in morse is .-. or R for Race car, silly but I still remember them that way
Three dits, four dits, two dits, dah
St. Mary’s High School
Rah, rah, rah!
Wan’t there a song Telstar in the 50’s with lots of code chatter?
In the 1997 Broadway musical Titanic, there’s Bride’s Song, a duet in which a marriage proposal is sent by wireless. It’s a lovely song but somebody more expert than me needs to tell whether or not the dits and dahs spell anything. If they do, I guess it would be GMOM or GNOM (Good Morning/Night Old Man).
FWIW, Jack Phillips, Harold Bride’s colleague, didn’t survive the disaster and is on the Wireless Operator’s Memorial in Battery Park here in NY.
Really? The symphony was first performed in 1808, and Morse Code wasn’t developed until the 1830’s.
The BBC also exploited the Morse code V in Beethoven’s fifth - the four notes were used to introduce their World War Two broadcasts, representing V for Victory.
I see the connection now. Sorry.
Really. I didn’t say it was deliberately written that way, did I? Nevertheless it starts with dit-dit-dit-dah, and as Usram expounds this was picked up on and used by the British in WWII.
- extraneous apostophe removed. I’m sorry, I can’t help myself.