In my language, you can usually tell right away whether for example a political speech comes from the modern times or from many decades ago — even if the content of the speech wouldn’t reveal it. It’s not even necessarily because old-fashioned vocabulary is used, but just about the way people structured their sentences, their intonation, their pacing, and the general “rhythm” of how they spoke. So it seems kind of strange and different from todays perspective, and you think: „alright, this speech/recording must be from the 1930s or 1950s or something! This isn’t from recent times!“
Is it the same in the U.S. / english language? Did people generally spoke different in the past? Was their „speech melody“ different?