June 16, 1979 –
The Supertramp song Logical Song peaked at #6 on the Billboard Charts, on this date.
To accentuate the “d-d-digital” line in the lyrics, the band borrowed a Mattel handheld electronic football game from an engineer named Richard Digby-Smith, who was working next door. This device, which predated Nintendo, provided an unusual sounding, layered bleep. The specific byte occurs near the end of the song just after Hodgson sings the word “digital.” The sound itself indicated a player had lost control of the football.
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