[UKJinglesMember]

Whilst on our little holiday to Oz a couple of weeks ago, We used the Sydney trains to go places and between each station you would get this “3 note logo” followed by a live announcement informing you of the next stop…….
Listen and tell me what station logo comes into your head first…Obviously I sung “Pete Wilson”
But before I was escorted off the train I managed to record it with the voice recorder on my mobile!

https://soundcloud.com/ukjingles/sydney-trains

[Sean MartinMember]

Pete, that’s a tough one

NBC ?

I guess they knew you were coming

[PKMember]

Those 3 notes made me instantly think of the old 3 note NBC logo used on the JAM 66 WNBC New York “Only One” package that was also used over here on BBC Radio WM and County Sound!

[UKJinglesMemberAuthor]

Exactly what I thought (Slightly speeded up)

[UKJinglesMemberAuthor]

Incidentally I did a scan of the FM band whilst over there (via my phone) and didn’t come across many stations playing Jingles…
Triple M seems to be the most popular (No Jingles)
There was another (oldies?) station that had a few Jingles..But they were so bad I can’t even remember the name of it!
Does anybody have in their collection any compilations of Sydney area Jingles from the last 50 years that they could post please?
I’m sure PAMS did a lot back in the 60’s and maybe JAM in the 70’s?

[PKMember]

It was said a few years ago when there were Aussies involved with the old GWR radio network that you could loosely blame Down Under for some of the way British radio has gone and sounds now with jingles generally not as great as they used to be.

[jonnoMember]

I was thinking Gladys Pugh.. Hi-de-hi! LOL!

[amigoMember]

The theft alarms at Walmart have the same sound (the ones by the door). Every time I hear it I sing the NBC logo for the rest of the day.

Amigo

[michiMember]

I remember when I was visiting the UK and heard The Only One on County Sound with the NBC logo.. Too strange.

On J1, we did the opposite. We took the tune that is played in the Tokyo train stations for announcements, sampled it, looped a song by techno-group Super Bell-Z and we came up with a neat travel bed with two-punch.

https://soundcloud.com/michelle-bradley-3/jr-yamanote-line-tone
(Original tone played in the train stations first, then the J1 travel bed…)

[Sean MartinMember]

Pete-
Did you stop-by the JAM STUDIOS in Sydney? I also spotted a retail outlet called JAM in Sydney (not selling anything to do with breakfast!) with a similar logo to the Dallas studio! It’s not there anymore
Cheers mate.

[IainJohnston]

“Does anybody have in their collection any compilations of Sydney area Jingles from the last 50 years that they could post please?
I’m sure PAMS did a lot back in the 60’s and maybe JAM in the 70’s”

Pete, a LOT of PAMS stuff is on KenR CDs and mp3’d dubs thereof – e.g. 2UE had Series 34.

After the early 70s, various Oz producers started doing their own stuff – and with a few exceptions a lot of it in the 70s, 80s, and since is (IMPO) absolutely and utterly naff.

Most of the tapes I scrounged from Australia over the years were from other places than Sydney, but if you’re up for an “Australian Stations Retrospective” in the light of not much current product of interest “out there” at the moment, I’m we could all dig out a selection or two ? :^)

[IainJohnston]

Sydney jingles Pete…
I posted these (quite) a while back…
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles/wixy1360-classicoz-2ws-westsydney-2010wma

From a 7&1/2 IPS reel I got from them back in the 1980s.

[UKJinglesMemberAuthor]

Thanks Iain and N0 Sean only visited the “normal” Tourist Attractions!

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