104.3 K-Hits JAM Montage

Well Done Jeffrey…Those “Boners” in the suits need to be eradicated from this planet…
But a great montage nevertheless!

Ha! Great story, and glad that you managed to dub the Jingles off anyway. Good stuff. That reminds me, I have a task to do at work…

The “art” of the breathlessly-paced jingle montage is alive and well! TQs Jeffrey!

“on Wolverhampton’s Beacon Radio”

And here in Scotland on Glasgow / West Central Scotland’s Clyde One FM too :^)

Jeffrey_T_Mason 6:32PM Permalink Quote
I’m sure none of you will mind that I didn’t include the Reelworld cuts. Hell, I never bothered recording…or even asking for them! LOL

OH DANG!!!! LOL

“I’m sure none of you will mind that I didn’t include the Reelworld cuts.”

Do ‘Reelworld’ make jingles ?

BEAUTIFUL JAM jingles…thanks for sharing. – MC

A pal of mine works in commercial radio in the UK. Their cuts are recorded for free but the jingle company makes money when they’re played during a PRS sample period. The station doesn’t have to pay a large sum of money to have them recorded but they get an inferior product (in my opinion) and they wonder why their audience isn’t singing along with the jingles anymore. “Er, they’re not memorable!”.

I remember doing a roadshow event in the mid 90s, we played music and JAM jingles through the loud speakers during the warm up and it was amazing how many people sang along- we didn’t ask them to. They knew the lyrics, they enjoyed the melodies and remembered our station name. Isn’t that worth paying for??

Jeffro: “Be our pilot station and get the package at zero charge”

That reminded me of the 80s – when I was one of the first customers of Alfasound. With a ton of hard work and creativity we created Trent ‘1’ to ’14’ (though in truth some were track re-sings and I think the last one was more like ’12’ !?

Alfasound developed into what was to be THE dominant British company for many years (though they always acknowledged exactly WHO was their inspiration!) Various other companies sprang-up and sent me demos – some custom, but none had a writer as good as Alan Fawkes, or a true ‘jingle man’ like Steve England. I think the worst demo I was sent was by Airforce, the best the Sue Manning Viking Radio package, the strength of which was some very well produced and played tracks, and the fact they ‘borrowed’ Alfasound’s Steve and Sheila as main singers in their vocal group.

At one stage the MD at Trent (NOT a ‘jingle man’) suggested it would help keep the costs down if we used another company (he’d been approached by one of the other companies) – but I said if they did I would not be involved with it – the MD changed his mind, but goodness knows how we would have sounded if he had not !

Here’s a theoretical one : if ‘Big L 266’ had not closed in 1966, might they have eventually used a British jingle company? Or would it have been glorious in the 70s with cuts from Priority 1, Dimension Two et al !?

Jeff, now you know me, if I were the PD, and we signed the contract, the jingles are the first thing we’re going for! We got one Chicago station down outta my list, now for that ever so Illusive Kix Country resings. speaking of Jam in Illinois, the 2 border areas are big on that! near the Illinois WI border, and Rockford. WEKZ, WBGR, WFPS, WQLF, WDKB, all jam clients!

“if ‘Big L 266’ had not closed in 1966, might they have eventually used a British jingle company”

They actually did once – I think its been posted here before at one time – fortunately they scrapped them
before coming on air, and the legendary PAMS Series 18 sonovox / composite was the result.
:^)

Just to say that all of this is fascinating.
GB