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A siren was used in Bob Dylan's classic album, Highway 61 Revisited. One is also heard in Stevie Wonder's song "Sir Duke" just before the second chorus. Dan Zanes also uses a siren in his version of "Washington at Valley Forge." Acme is the trade name of J Hudson & Co of Birmingham, England, who developed and patented the Acme siren in 1895. It ...
The sirens are also heard during the instrumental section in the middle of the song. At the climax of the song, soon after the narrator has sung, "Red lights are flashin' around me,/ Yeah, love, it looks like they found me," and the chorus, a voice on a bullhorn is heard, commanding: "This is the police. Give yourself up. You are surrounded."
In popular music, sirens have been used in The Chemical Brothers' "Song to the Siren" (1992) and in a CBS News 60 Minutes segment played by percussionist Evelyn Glennie. A variation of a siren, played on a keyboard, are the opening notes of the REO Speedwagon song "Ridin' the Storm Out". Some heavy metal bands also use air raid type siren ...
"Sound of da Police" is a song by American rapper KRS-One. Recorded at D&D Studios in New York City with production handled by Showbiz , it was released in December 1993 as the second and final single from KRS-One's debut solo studio album Return of the Boom Bap .
The use of flashing lights and sirens is colloquially known as blues and twos, which refers to the blue lights and the two-tone siren once commonplace (although most sirens now use a range of tones). In the UK, only blue lights are used to denote emergency vehicles (although other colours may be used as sidelights, stop indicators, etc.).
CBS News said in their caption that the sound was so accurate that some officers thought that their vehicles' sirens might have been faulty. Inspector Simon Hills described the mimicry as “so ...
Although the song was recorded in 1981, Sting wrote it in early 1977 around the time of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, prior to the formation of the Police. [8] [9] An early demo of the song can be heard on the Strontium 90 studio album Strontium 90: Police Academy (1997), which Sting recorded entirely by himself while the song was still fresh in his mind (according to Mike Howlett ...
"Police Check Point" by Harry Betts (from the film Black Mama White Mama) – heard briefly in the House of Blue Leaves battle. "Yagyu Conspiracy" by Toshiaki Tsushima (from Shogun's Samurai) – background music for "You're My Wicked Life" "Funky Fanfare" by Keith Mansfield – heard as the logo music for the Our Feature Presentation film snipe.