[ratnobMember]

You had to be a listener to UK commercial radio in the mid-1970s to realise how bad home-produced jingles could be. Here’s my top 5 classic crap jingles. Endure …

http://geoffbarton.co.uk/files/IDs/Bad_IDs.mp3

Geoff Barton

[UKJinglesMember]

Well I didn’t think they were too bad 😳
You got to remember thanks to the bully tactics of the MU….
Commercial Radio HAD to have their Jingles produced in the UK!
BTW…. Was that a very early TAPETRIX Name check of yours on the end Geoff??

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Pete! I thought you had more class than that! It’s the Capital one that particularly makes me squirm.

Yes I had a few Alfasound jingles made – including some of the Sonotronics cuts. They were from my hospital radio days.

[jlehmann]

How do you play a M4A file? It won’t play in Winamp or Windows Media Player.

[PaulEaston]

jlehmann wrote: How do you play a M4A file? It won’t play in Winamp or Windows Media Player.

I’m having the same problem – using Windows Media Player 9.

Meanwhile, here’s another couple of candidates for the naff jingles list. They’re the only ones I could find on the net from Blue Danube Radio, Vienna, who have to have had one of the worst jingle packages ever:

http://www.8ung.at/madmaxx/bluedanube-1979.wav

http://www.via.at/fobdr/wavs/swingsax.wav

PS – anybody admit to having a copy of the Viva!963 package?

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

I use QuickTime Player which is available from apple.com. It is, I thought, the industry standard for music files. If you can’t open it, email me …

[jonnoMember]

..the latest version of winamp plays m4a’s and I think real player does too

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Please note that you can now download this mix from my own webpage.

[GOGS371]

back in the late 70,s early 80,s they had some real naff idents there close down jingle was real vomit stuff ..lol Anyone got any radio forth stuff from way back then?

[freq-ky]

That Radio Orwell jingle is definately 100 per cent natural………but then, so is s***.

Now if you’ll excuse me,I’m off to drink some castor oil to get over what I’ve just heard.

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Sorry – should have offered a free Yamco sick-bag …

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

I take it all back. Now we’re talking REALLY bad jingles – a small sample of the truly dreadful PAMS sing-overs done by EAP in the early 80s. Do not dowload this on a full stomach. The file, appropriately, is called “2Bad” and is 1.2 MB m4a format.

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