[Barras]

Apologies if this has been mentioned before on JM – I`ve just spotted some jingles for the USA President on the M-Edge website, I think this is the first time in jingle history, having sung jingles for a President, check them out here…

http://www.m-edgeproductions.com/tracks-obama.html

Barras

PS – George “W” had some liners made for him and they were used on the JACK FM stations…

[Rik Scott]

Hey Barras, not quite. PAMS did an accapela for Richard Nixon.

[IainJohnstonMember]

You must have a good memory Rik!!!

“Respecting the Majesty of the White House – SeventyTwo WNIX”
or something along those lines possibly? :^)

[topcat]

Yup. Those Nixon jingles were done for a David Frye comedy album entitled Radio Free Nixon. Classics!

[IainJohnstonMember]

Thanks TC – I'd a feeling that you'd know that one! :^)

And the “Seventy Two” would have been the year of the particular
presidential campaign, rather than the 720 kHz frequency of course.
Was there ever an actual WNIX (as opposed to KNIX in Phoenix)?

[Barras]

Thanks guys for letting me know about the Nixon stuff…I wasn`t aware of those jingles but this has prompted me to post th following infamous audio !

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1232989546_3680_FT68753_richardnixoncrook.mp3 filename:richardnixoncrook.mp3

Barras

[GlennaMember]

I've got the album in storage.

[GlennaMember]

WNIX AM 1330 GREENVILLE MISSISSIPPI.

[Barras]

Beaver205 wrote:
I've got the album in storage.

Can you get it out of storage Glen and post stuff here please ?

Barras

[topcat]

Barras wrote:

I've got the album in storage.

Can you get it out of storage Glen and post stuff here please ?

Barras

You've never heard the jingles, David?

[Barras]

topcat wrote:

You've never heard the jingles, David?

Don`t think so TC…I remember an Army or “services” package by PAMS – not sure if that`s got anything to do with it but never heard any “Richard Nixon” sung jingles…please enlighten me !

Barras

[jr2479]

Those Obama cuts are pretty lame…thanks for the link David

[Simon_Fex]

…more than 3 years later…
I’m not sure if these jingles were ever posted on JM. I couldn’t find them. I recently listened to the album: a classic indeed

WNIX [PAMS] for David Frye’s Radio Free Nixon by Simon Fex

[kolossMember]

Jeez where have I been hiding; I’ve never heard of this company. Listened to some of the packages; they sound a bit like Reelworld, but you can understand the vocals-
The KDWB 2009 is kinda dull; and a liner at the end makes a reference to soiling oneself–ahh demos are not like the old days.
The Obama cuts are unique though-not sure where those would fit in a format.

[bobgreenradioMember]

perhaps obama better focus a bit more on the state of the economy…gas prices for a start…

with that said; nixon was late to the party.

there was a set of jingles in the 50’s singing “i like ike”.

anybody know of anything earlier?

as for nixon? his media claim to fame was the guest tv shot where he did the “sock it to me” bit.

awww; anybody got a clip of the queen chanting “sock it to me”?

[IainJohnstonMember]

Haven’t heard the “72, WNIX” cuts in donkey’s years – thought back then they were PAMS – so another “history lesson” for me!

“gas prices for a start…”
Bob -nothing to do with whatever President is in charge at any particular time.

If the denizens of the USA knew what everyone else in the world has to pay for “gas” (petrol, diesel, etc), you’d all get the fright of your lives. The USA has been pampered with extremely cheap “gas” since the “automobile” was invented, and when the oil runs out (we’re already past “peak oil”) its all going to get to be very unpleasant.

“And now back to our regular programming…”

[bobgreenradioMember]

“ive got a tiger in my tank…vroooom!” was the esso/exxon jingle once upon a time.
you know, its not that were pampered on fuel rates; its that governments find that this stuff is very easy to tax. no arguement elsewhere is paying staggering amounts for their fill up…in taxes.
were not running out of the stuff. the planet keeps making it out of that hot rock below (not dead dynoguts). what is happening is the ‘plastics’ problem. not just recording tape is plastic, or that takeout food fork, your underwear is too! infact, little isnt plastic today. we need to salvage that waste stream for an energy source. and yes, the president here does tamper with the cost of gas. a half a buck drop in the past few weeks per gallon? anybody smell an election ahead??
maybe if the oil guys got a good radio run going, gave away coke glasses with fillups again and had a cute jingle we would forgive their gouge at the bump….maybe.

[Duncan]

I first heard those played on Radio 1 during Adrain Juste’s Saturday afternoon show

[teachercreature]

Bob…couldn’t agree with you more. Hardly anyone thinks about the enormous amount of crude that goes into plastic. With a Masters Degree in geology, I have to take exception to WIXY’s assertion that the world’s oil supply is heading down. Fracking old fields and oil shale extraction alone will produce enough crude to last centuries. And with the promise of converting our abundant U.S. natural gas reserves into petroleum….our price at the pump will, I think, continue to be affordable. (CAVEAT) …… (If we have a president and a congress willing to go “all in” to go get it.) And now back to the jingles.

[bobgreenradioMember]

i have no earth science degrees. i did have an interesting elementary and high school education (jr high was a waste). working off the basics learned in school, i figure it this way.
they claim this planet was a cast off of the sun. here we are; spinning like hell and dont realize it, standing on a hot glob, and dont realize it. mineral oil is the earth core under pressure/melting conditions being spun to the surface. its that simple.
we will run out of oil when the planet fully empties out…and the million or billion years into the future when this happens will not be of any concern to ‘us’ but, when that time arrives, this rock were standing on will crumble away. nothing we can do about it, its the way it is…so? whats the problem? well have been dead for ever.
were not running out. we never will run out.
we do waste like hell (plastics) however, and should address this better.
nuff said.
prove me wrong

[IainJohnstonMember]

Fascinating side-discussion gentlemen!

As a keen astronomy buff (Nooo, NOT ASTROLogy…!), I can say that Bob’s version of planetary geology is a bit off! The “crust” we live on is very thin indeed.

As for “fracking” – they’ve tried it in the UK – and it triggered small earthquakes over hundreds of miles – including an area where the “wise-fools” want to create a 3-mile deep dump for all of the UK’s nuclear waste! Not a good move that!

Remember, here in “Sub-Tropical Scotland” we’re sitting on just about all of the oil, natural gas, shale, etc thats left in Europe this side of the Urals. Yet the UK IMPORTS vast amounts every day or the country would come to a complete halt in less than 2 weeks. All thats really left is either in a very sandy part of the world, or in places where the “locals don’t like us”.

And if the US has so much of the stuff – why are you raiding the Canadian tar-sands instead of using your own “bountiful” supplies?

PS – apparently this week, some Louisiana schools were teaching their children that the (Scottish) Loch Ness Monster actually exists -in order to present THEIR particular slant on a certain very-American (and totally silly to the rest of the planet) debate, but we won’t go there!

Sorry! all a bit sideways! I’m sure we can all beg to differ…
JM now returns to its normal schedule…

[bobgreenradioMember]

yes. there is a spot or 2 on the planet that isnt very fond of ‘us’. they DO like our money though.
heres the thing; you dont hit water everywhere you dig either. there are regions or areas rich in ‘stuff’, be it water, oil, or green tomatos.
the thinking that were rapidly running out of the stuff, oil, i cant agree with. were not running out of it. earth keeps producing the stuff. we may pump a pocket dry, sure. so go pump elsewhere.
why is the u.s. buying canadian? well; cant use the exchange rate arguement any more can we? without question, americans are oddly lazy. i lectured a cop a few weeks ago about his abuse of parking. he put his police car in a handicap space so he could walk across the street to a gym. huh? the lazy slug couldnt part in the public lot 200 feet away?? what the hell? hes there to exercise!!! whe walk will kill him? grrrr….he moved the car.
the other thinking i was told, is that the u.s. plans to use none of its reserves and will continue to buy until that source, for 1 reason or another dries up. the old, we got ours thinking i guess?
nonetheless, theres no shortage of the stuff, just a variety of unreasonable obstacles, economic and political, that drive availability and price. and lets not forget the taxman that always manages to get in line first.
as for that pond monster? vermont claims to have one too. great for tourist traffic!

the deep south is another place altogether. great jack daniels, but i pass on the fried snake, coon, mudbug, well…you get my point.
blame france.

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