# Tiny voice in "Close Encounters"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-voice-in-close-encounters/805866>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 4, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-voice-in-close-encounters/805866 "2018-01-04T20:23:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-voice-in-close-encounters/805866/1 "2018-01-04T20:23:19Z")

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When theme music for \* Close Encounters of the Third Kind\* was played on radio in the late 1970s, there was a child’s voice saying “bye!” or something like that at the end. Is this available on YouTube or anywhere else online?

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-voice-in-close-encounters/805866/2 "2018-01-04T20:37:52Z")

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God help me, it’s got to be [Meco’s “Theme from 'Close Encounters…,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFwRSGLT_6M) which was even worse than his disco “Star Wars.” (The voice is at 4:06)

You owe me big time.

[John Williams’s jazzy version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn62rCVyNQk) was infinitely better.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-voice-in-close-encounters/805866/3 "2018-01-04T22:44:14Z")

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> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> God help me, it’s got to be [Meco’s “Theme from 'Close Encounters…,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFwRSGLT_6M) which was even worse than his disco “Star Wars.” (The voice is at 4:06)
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> You owe me big time.
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> [John Williams’s jazzy version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn62rCVyNQk) was infinitely better.

I just listened to it…that was a delight. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-voice-in-close-encounters/805866/4 "2018-01-05T15:20:43Z")

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Memory is a funny thing, but I could have sworn that I heard Casey Kasem in is AT 40 broadcast say that the “child’s” voice was vocalized by [Kvitka ‘Kasey’ Cisyk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvitka_Cisyk), who is obscurely known as the vocalist dubbed the song “You Light Up My Life” for Didi Conn in the movie of the same name. But I can’t find anything to corroborate my memory.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-voice-in-close-encounters/805866/5 "2018-01-05T15:29:43Z")

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I just assumed (from reading the OP and never having heard the music) that it was s sound clip of the lit’lst abductee from the movie. Having listened to the end of the music, that view hasn’t changed.