Peg O’ My Heart
- Artist: The Harmonicats
- Label: Vitacoustics
- Year: 1947
- Engineer: Bill Putnam, Sr.
- Studio: Universal Studio, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Notes: Widely considered the first ‘creative’ use of artificial reverb. It is certainly a strong use of chamber reverb (the men’s bathroom) for an ear-grabbing effect, not to simulate a realistic space.
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