Countdown 1959 (?)

[Ed Keer]

There is a show on a free-form radio station out of
Jersey City, NJ called the Audio Kitchen. The DJ,
called the Professor, plays amateur found recordings.
The web page for the archives is here:

http://wfmu.org/playlists/AK

A recent podcast, available here:

http://podcast.wfmu.org/

has a use of a countdown by  kid. It's about 15
minutes into the show. The recording is said to be
from July 4, 1959. The kid is pretending to be on the
moon and launching his rocket to get back to earth. He
counts down from 10 and then yells "blast off!"

Obviously not an antedating, but interesting evidence.
In general, this stuff seems like a nice resource for
dialect examples.

Ed

watchmesleep.blogspot.com

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