Human Beatboxing – Jimmy Castor?

Back in the old days of Radio Lancashire’s “On The Wire” programme (see earlier post), Steve had lots of carts (Wikipedia, Repflug, The Cart Guys) with sound effects, drops, fillers, jingles, theme tunes and other such radio audio paraphernalia.

For years and years through the 80s and 90s they were stored in a large box in the studio with a bit of paper plopped on top of them “On The Wire carts”.  I last worked on the programme regularly in 1999, and before I left I took copies of most of them, which I transferred to minidisc.  At some point after then, I think, the box was lost or whatever, and times change and in this digital age the studios don’t even have physical cart machines of the like of the Sonifex any more (although the ancestry remains in the digital replacement: the computer application often presents a “cart wall”).

Anyway, back to the matter in hand.  Many of the drops were taken off records, and there was one in particular I asked Steve about one time.  It’s a human beatbox thing, that goes on for about 40 seconds.  Now Steve reckoned it was from a Jimmy Castor record, but if it is, I haven’t found it yet.  But at least one other one that we used certainly was: the intro to Bertha Butt Boogie (“Bom bom, bobba-dom, baaaa bom-bom bom, bobba-dom”).  If you listen to some of the other track excerpts on Jimmy Castor’s discography website, you might recognise several others: King Kong, It’s Just Begun, and so on.  Many are listed on the web pages.

But I’m still stuck on identifying my 40 seconds of human beatbox.  A dirty copy of it is here.  “Yam *phh*-*phh*, yam *phh* *phh*; Yam *phh* *phh*, yam *phh* *phh* …)