Valentino Bull Elephant Trumpeting

This sound effect was originally part of the Major Records Sound Effects Library from Valentino, but has since gone out of print after Valentino Music shut down in the early 2010s. It is found on Valentino Vintage SFX's album "Vintage SFX - Animals". The elephant recorded for this sound was likely a captive Asian elephant in one way or another and it is unknown whether or not the elephant in the sound effect was actually a bull.

Info

• First recorded: 1958
• Creator: Thomas J. Valentino
• Owner: Major Records/Valentino (1958-1996)
• Origin: United States
• Year debut: October 15, 1958
• First heard: The Roots of Heaven (1958) (a 20th Century Fox film)
• Area used: Worldwide

This sound is likely originally a 20th Century Fox sound effect, as it first debuted in their film, The Roots of Heaven on October 15, 1958.

This sound is referred to as "The Sesame Street Elephant Trumpet" due to being used as a phenomenon in Sesame Street, often heard heavily in this show in various pitches. This sound is often used for Fluffy, the elephant that lives in Oscar's trash can. It was also used for many elephants in this show. The 1st time it was used on Sesame Street was in a high pitch in a skit featuring Grover and Simon Soundman at Charlie's Restaurant.

It was acquired by Sound Ideas in The International Sound Effects Library as ELEPHANT - TRUMPETS, VARIOUS, ANIMAL, and the Dimension Sound Effects Library as ANIMAL, ELEPHANT - ELEPHANT AT ZOO.

In 1996, it was acquired by The Hollywood Edge in Animal Trax, in which three of the trumpets were included as separate sound effects, and pitched up a semitone. Namely, those three are Elephant Single Clas AT043701, 801, and 901.

Variations

• ANIMAL, ELEPHANT - ELEPHANT AT ZOO (low quality)
• Animals-Wild, Elephants - Elephant Trumpets 2 Distorted Soundstorm - Elephant Trumpets New Soundstorm (high pitched)
• Classic elephant sound
• Elephant bull high-pitched trumpet
• Elephant bull horn
• Elephant bull trumpet
• Elephant bull trumpets
• Elephant loud horn
• Elephant Roar & Trumpet
• Elephant Rumble
• Elephant Single Clas AT043701 (+1 pitched)
• Elephant Single Clas AT043801 (+1 pitched)
• Elephant Single Clas AT043901 (+1 pitched)
• Elephant, Trumpet, Short Bursts, Horn Toot, Several Versions, Creature Vocalizations 02 (modulating pitch)
• ELEPHANT - TRUMPETS, VARIOUS, ANIMAL
• Elephant Trumpet
• Elephant Trumpet 1
• Elephant Trumpet 2
• elephant1 (single trumpet; low quality; high pitched)
• elephant2 (excerpt from Zoo - Chimps, Zebra, Elephants, Rhino, Bear; single trumpet; low quality; high pitched)
• elephant7 (three trumpets only; low quality)
• Trump Eleph Wail (very low pitched, slowed down and edited)
• Zoo - Chimps, Zebra, Elephants, Rhino, Bear (included; high pitched)

Clean, Full Length and Unedited Link to the Sound Effect

• BMG Production Music

Used In

TV Shows

• The Adventures of the Black Stallion (Heard once in "Chateau Sauvage".)
• Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table
• Calambur
• Canticos (Heard in various pitches in "Little Elephants".)
• Captain Kangaroo
• Classical Baby (Heard once in "The Dance Show", thrice in "The Music Show" and twice in "The Art Show".)
• Danger Mouse (1981) (Heard in "Rhyme and Punishment".)
• Denver the Last Dinosaur
• Dexter's Laboratory
• Eena Meena Deeka
• The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants (Heard once in "The Flustering Mindless Woe of the Flushable Memory Wipes".)
• Foofur (Heard in "New Tricks".)
• Garfield and Friends (Heard once in "Fill-In Feline".)
• Imagination Movers (Heard once in "No Noise is Good Noise" and "Treasure of the Warehouse".)
• Jimbo and the Jet-Set (Heard in "Jungle Jimbo".)
• Kissyfur (Heard in "Bear Roots".)
• Kratts' Creatures] (Heard once in "Big Five, Little Five" and "Mgobo of Baboon Mountain".)
• The Littles (Heard often in "Deadly Jewels" and once in "A Little Drunk".)
• The New Pink Panther Show
• The Oddball Couple
• The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show
• Potato Head Kids (Heard once in "One Potato, Zoo Potato".)
• Press Your Luck (3rd/6th trumpet)
• A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (Heard once in "A Bicycle Built For Boo!"; used for a take that the titular character does.)
• Reading Rainbow (Heard once in "Louis the Fish".)
• Really Wild Animals (Heard once in the intro.)
• Sesame Street (Heavy use of this sound; used for Oscar's pet elephant, Fluffy, and other elephants.)
• The Shoe People (Heard once in "Delay at Shoetown Railway Station".)
• The Smurfs
• Spider-Man (1981)
• Stanley (Heard once in "Stanley's Great Big Book of Adventure" at the end of the "Friends" song.)
• Underdog (Used often for the dinosaur in "Fearo".)
• Wibbly Pig (Heard once in "Elephant".)
• Widget the World Watcher

TV Specials

• Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (1980)

Movies

• Airplane! (1980)
• Born Free (1966)
• The Care Bears Movie (1985)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) (Used for the Watermelophants.)
• Don't Look Under The Bed (1999)
• Gorgo (1961)
• Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001) (Heard in a high pitch.)
• The Return of the King (1980)
• The Roots of Heaven (1958) (debut)
• Wild Beasts (1984)

Shorts

• The Blue Racer
• DePatie-Freleng Cartoons
• Pink Panther Cartoons
• The Wild Life (2019)

Documentaries

• The Mammoth - Titan of the Ice Age (2010)

Video Games

Arcade:

• Street Fighter IV

Minecraft Mods:

• Mo' Creatures

Mobile:

• Fun Animal Sounds
• My Talking Hank
• Jurassic Park Builder (Used as part of the Woolly Mammoth and other proboscideans special attack in battle.)
• Street Fighter IV
• Talking Mammoth (Used for the titular woolly mammoth.)

MS-DOS:

• Kid's Zoo: A Baby Animal Adventure

Nintendo 3DS:

• Monster Hunter Generations (Used for Gammoth in low and high pitched.)

PC:

• Animal Fun 2
• The Berenstain Bears Learning at Home: Volume 2 (2nd trumpet)
• Jurassic Park III: Dino Defender (2nd trumpet is used for the T-Rex.)

Online:

• British Council LearnEnglish Kids: Paint It!: Zoo Animals (Heard when the painting is finished.)
• Something Special: Mr. Tumble in the Jungle
• Street Fighter IV
• Where's Telly? (Online Game)

PlayStation 3:

• Street Fighter IV

Xbox 360:

• Street Fighter IV

Videos/DVDs

• The Animal Alphabet (1985)
• The Baby Society (2006)
• Geoffrey's Video Library: The Animal Alphabet
• Golden Book Video
• The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible (Heard once in "The Creation".)
• Laugh & Learn: ABCs (1990) (Used for Ellen Elephant.)
• Little Leaders: Little Noah (2004)
• Rock 'N' Learn
  • Rock 'N' Learn: Colors, Shapes and Counting (1997)
• Sesame Street: Learning About Letters (1986)
• Sing Hoot and Howl (With The Sesame Street Animals) (1991) (varying pitches)
• Sing Yourself Silly! (1990)

Bumpers/Interstitials/Station IDs

• Adult Swim ID - Flower
• MTV ID - Elephant

Commercials

Argentina:

• Caramelos Lick - Tarzan (1993)

Mexico:

• Panrico - Tarzan's Jungle (1980) (Heard once in a higher pitch.)

Portugal:

• Um Bungo (low pitched)

UK:

• Shreddies - Tarzan (1998)

USA:

• Cadbury Eggs: Cadbury Bunny Try-outs (1980s)

Logos

• Coliseum Films (Heard in a high pitch in the 1984 logo.)

Trailers

• The Jungle Book (1967) (Trailers) (Heard once in the 1990 theatrical reissue trailer.)

Toys

• Play: English & Spanish Speaking Learning Board
• VTech: Sing and Discover Story Piano

Books

• Cuéntame Un Cuento Miss Rosi: El Elefante Gigante (Heard at the beginning and end of the main story.)
• Ditty Bird: First 100 Animals
• Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
• Sounds of the Wild: Jungle
• Usborne Sound Books: Jungle Sounds

Other Media

• A Chipmunk Christmas (1981) (Soundtrack)

Web Originals

• Furby Cliffhanger cartoons (1999-2000)

Newgrounds Videos

• Big-Papa-Kitsune

YouTube Videos

• Animals and Sounds (high pitched)
• BabyFirst
• Boram Tube Vlog
• cp wild Lanka (Heard distorted in the intro.)
• DINOSAUR SOUNDS! (Rate How Realistic They Sound!) (Heard in a very low pitch and slowed down.)
• Disney Family (Heard twice in "Dumbo's Peanut Butter and Jelly Popcorn Balls Recipe | Inspired by Disney's Dumbo".)
• Eloise Elephant
• Garry675
• Gojirasteve 2019
• Kids Learning Videos
• Kipper (YouTube Channel) (Used once for the mammoth in "I Remade Every Mob Prehistoric".)
• KSound Kaiju (Used as Donphan's roar in in "Pokemon Roars: Johto Species".)
• Let's Learn the Alphabet (chetb838)
• Michael Vespia (Heard in "Monsters of the Past card collection with sounds"; Oddly Enough, used for the Acrocanthosaurus in a very low pitch.)
• popsfreak (Heard in "Use Your Pan Flute to Lure POPS from Hiding! Interactive Game".)
• PopToons (Heard once in "Katy Perry - ROAR (CARTOON PARODY)".)
• Pumpernickel Park
• Sandaroo Kids (Heard once in "CHUCK E CHEESE Games Are BROKEN! Kids Play at Real vs Fake Chuck-E-Cheese" from the Elephant Water Bucket Game that Ava was playing.)
• Sound Ocean (Heard once in "Elephant Sound Effects".)
• They Will Kill You Videos (Heard once in "When Animal Taming Goes Wrong".)

Miscellaneous

• Alabama Crimson Tide football (Heard whenever Alabama scores a touchdown)

Websites

• Free Sound Effects.com
• Soundboard
• Tynker (high pitched)

Music

• Hennie Bekker - Heart of Africa

Anime

• Astro Boy (1980) (Heard in "Robot Circus".)
• Fairy Tail
• Hetalia: The Beautiful World (Used once for India's elephant when it trumpets in "Gakuen Hetalia: Go Forth! Newspaper Club!! Second Half".)

Image Gallery

• Valentino Bull Elephant Trumpeting/Image Gallery

Audio Samples