# Songs and their sound effects
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 28, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748 "2010-01-28T08:22:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/1 "2010-01-28T08:22:49Z")
In the Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black,” there is an odd bit near the end with a “bwoop” sound that is repeated four times in alternate bars. Is this a riff played by the bass guitarist (Keith Richard?) or did Charlie Watts (who had enough to do in this song, goodness knows!) make it with some exotic instrument?
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/2 "2010-01-28T14:07:26Z")
Bill Wyman was the Stones’ bassist back then - Keef is the rhytym guitarist. I can’t listen now - I just boarded a plane - but I think it may be Wyman hitting a chord on bass up the neck…
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### Author:  [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/3 "2010-01-28T16:22:03Z")
It’s Wyman sliding a note up the neck of a bass.
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/4 "2010-01-29T08:36:22Z")
Thanks. One of the guitars in that song sounds like a sitar.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/5 "2010-01-29T13:02:03Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#):
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> Thanks. One of the guitars in that song sounds like a sitar.
It is a sitar, played by Brian Jones.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/6 "2010-01-29T13:22:17Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> It is a sitar, played by Brian Jones.
Yes, before he was murdered. 😉
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/7 "2010-01-29T13:25:51Z")
How did the Beatles do the sound in the opening of Come Together? You know the one I mean, it sounds like “shhhhhhht-kuh”
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/8 "2010-01-29T13:40:54Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> How did the Beatles do the sound in the opening of Come Together? You know the one I mean, it sounds like “shhhhhhht-kuh”
It was John Lennon making the shhhhhhhh sound and then clapping into the mic and over-saturating it, or whatever the technical term is.
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/9 "2010-01-29T13:49:01Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> It was John Lennon making the shhhhhhhh sound and then clapping into the mic and over-saturating it, or whatever the technical term is.
Lennon is saying “Shoot me”.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/10 "2010-01-29T13:58:06Z")
Thanks, I never would have guessed it was actually a vocal sound.
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2010, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-their-sound-effects/526748/11 "2010-01-30T07:18:54Z")
“Come Together,” like “Deep Purple” by Tempo & Stevens, plays poorly on many phonographs.