Kathy McGinty is Waiting to Talk to You

Hamburger Records has happily made the Kathy McGinty CD available once again, which is, for the uninitiated, one of the most genius of the prank call CD's of all time, period. The premise is simple: horny guys meet "Kathy" on the internet, and are invited to call her up, but wind up unknowingly speaking to a sampler hooked up to the phone triggering some appropriate and not-so-appropriate responses to the dudes in question ranging from "you have a sexy voice" to "I'm a burn victim". Even as some guys figure out that they aren't speaking to a real live breathing gal (which often becomes evident when the sampler goes crazy "malfunctioning"), it doesn't seem to matter to them, which is one of the more disturbing aspects of this collection. The new deluxe reissue features extra tracks, liners, and a now a photo of "Kathy" (above). Thanks to Derek of Hamburger (also pictured above as the "Kathy Robot Operator") for letting us put up this MP3 (super X-rated just FYI). I'm not sure I anticipate a Comedy Central puppet interpretation on this one.

Comments

[Lipwak]

I still wonder how these things, or FMU's automatic W for example, can get all those soundbites arranged so that the operator can simply hit a button and get the one they want. It's one thing to get ANY random response but these thing aren't successful unless the operator can reply with an appropriate response. How can they do that without a large screen that displays all the possible responses, something this guy doesn't have on that little box (unless he has them on paper somewhere)?

Cheers,

Lipwak

[Derek Erdman]

I had them on a sheet of paper. Also, there was 4 banks of samples on the sampler, so I would have to switch between banks to find the proper response. After awhile I had them memorized, other times you can tell by a lag in time that I was looking for something appropriate. Plus, sometimes the responses didn't even make sense (wrong button)!

[Jeff T]

I think I'd have most of the machine memorized after a couple hours just out of personal usage.

[Lipwak]

Aha! The secret behind the magic. I thought it was done realy well (disregarding that her voice was so full of background noise; that should have cued the guys on the phone right away.) Sometimes these things aren't. The pauses worked fine. Bravo!

[fatty]

the awkward pauses & non sequitur responses are hilarious.