Shock Horror A: The origin of the dramatic “Dun, dun, duuun!”
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Dun Don - The Sound of a Shocking Moment
Since the victorian era, music directors have been using dramatic dun dun, duns to accentuate shocking moments in their productions. By the early twentieth century, these stingers were already such a cliche that they were used as gags intormediate recordings like desperate desmond. But in the thirties and forties, radiodramas like suspense took dundun don back to it sinister roots. The person who composed that recording was none other than our guest, dick walter ias.
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