[JingleMadMember]

hey pete.
i`m sure a treat it is but i can`t open the file for some reason—-Any Ideas Why?

[ratnobMember]

Opens fine for me. I’m assuming you’re joking, Pete, that these are favourites. Some of them are AWFUL! Thank God JAM, Alfasound and indeed anyone rescued ILR from this kind of thing. That said, Emison did produce some good stuff for Beacon, DBS aand others.

Geoff Barton
http://web.mac.com/geoffbarton/iWeb/Jingle%20Blog/Blog/Blog.html

[UKJinglesMemberAuthor]

ratnob wrote: Opens fine for me. I’m assuming you’re joking, Pete, that these are favourites. Some of them are AWFUL! Thank God JAM, Alfasound and indeed anyone rescued ILR from this kind of thing. That said, Emison did produce some good stuff for Beacon, DBS aand others.

Geoff Barton
http://web.mac.com/geoffbarton/iWeb/Jingle%20Blog/Blog/Blog.html

Absolutely…well Sarcastic to be exact! 😆

[ratnobMember]

Phew – that’s a relief, Pete. It would feel like some kind of parallel universe where someone found this stuff good!

Geoff Barton
http://web.mac.com/geoffbarton/iWeb/Jingle%20Blog/Blog/Blog.html

[DavidHemsley]

That’s all very well and good, Ratnob, but to me, R1’s roadshow just wouldn’t have been the same without that first cut – AND they were still using it well into JAM’s tenure with them.

For the time period – EMIson did some remarkable work. UK jingle history just wouldn’t be the same without them. And I think that if they had survived, the material would have developed and been as good as anything Alfasound or LBS, etc, could have churned out. Probably even better as I think they would have got more of an American sound instead of the martini-ad-style that the rest of the UK producers were producing at that time.

[ratnobMember]

Yes – agree about the roadshow cut: it’s a gem. But like pearls in oysters you have to have a lot of sand and muck to produce them. Emison proved that.

[DavidHemsley]

ratnob wrote: Yes – agree about the roadshow cut: it’s a gem. But like pearls in oysters you have to have a lot of sand and muck to produce them. Emison proved that.

well they can’t have been that bad, otherwise the stations wouldn’t have aired them – all jingle companies have an archive of muck somewhere, even the great and almighty JAM have a vault that is keyless and sealed for eternity.

[ratnobMember]

Except that this was the early days of independent local radio and stations weren’t allowed to use American jingle producers. The pool from which they could draw was therefore very limited. So the fact that people used Emison doesn’t actually mean that they thought Emison were brilliant. There simply wasn’t much else around in a fledgling radio industry.

Bob Dinan’s jingle podcast:
http://web.mac.com/geoffbarton/iWeb/Jingle%20Blog/Blog/Blog.html

[DavidHemsley]

I have to say that thankfully ILR were forced to use UK companies, otherwise the likes of Alfasound wouldn’t have appeared and developed and we would have had Big Macs on ever station. No thanks.

The british jingles i heard on the stations I was listening to late 70’s to mid 80’s still stand my hairs on end listening to them after all these years much more than the stock R1 & 2 stuff from JAM from that era ever will. I suspect many others here will feel that way too.

[ratnobMember]

Well, we may have to agree to disagree on that one! They made hairs stand up on my neck mostly through cringing.

Bob Dinan’s Jingle Podcast
http://web.mac.com/geoffbarton/iWeb/Jingle%20Blog/Blog/Blog.html

[UKJinglesMemberAuthor]

Ok the BFBS stuff is certainly “iffy” But the Radio One Roadshow Cuts
I think were quite good (different singers?)
Yeah I’m glad we had those draconian rules about Jingles back in the 1970’s…..
Although I’m a great fan of the Dallas Sound I think some of the early
UK Productions were great……Capital Radio as an example!

[Spoons]

Haven’t listened to the mix yet – but just on the EMIson stuff, I personally love some of it – even though I was a bit young to remember it originally being aired.

Trent’s first package and Pennine 235 were certainly fab.

I think a lot of the time jingles make your hair stand on end when they remind you of a golden era in your life. The Radio One stuff of the mid 80s-early 90s has that effect on me – as do packages like Cath Baxter’s Viking, LBS’ 86 package for Viking, Muff’s Aire 87, Alfasound’s Hallam 86 package, the TM Chiltern packages of the mid-late 80s… etc, etc I could go on!!

[ratnobMember]

Agreed – nostalgia and jingles are a heady mix. With me it’s the Beacon “Sunshine Sound” (Emison) and “You” cuts from 1976-9

Bob Dinan’s Beacon Blues:
http://web.mac.com/geoffbarton/iWeb/Jingle%20Blog/Blog/49A4DD97-4831-4063-9273-0B72AEE53323.html

[Inferno]

I liked the first ones and the “sun “jingle at the end. The others are’nt bad but great to hear. Radio Wales had some roadshow jingles in the 80s but i’m not sure who did them? Could be Pams or EMIson but they were good as well. They were only jingles Radio Wales had back then too!

[IainJohnstonMember]

knocker wrote: hey pete.
i`m sure a treat it is but i can`t open the file for some reason—-Any Ideas Why?

Not opening for me either Pete ! Any alternative link, or can we
download direct from your website?

[Bigdave]

Not forgetting EMISON’s work for Radio Hallam, Swansea Sound and BRMB too…

When I get 5 minutes,I’ll post some of them here…

[UKJinglesMemberAuthor]

wixy1360″ wrote:

hey pete.
i`m sure a treat it is but i can`t open the file for some reason—-Any Ideas Why?

Not opening for me either Pete ! Any alternative link, or can we
download direct from your website?

I’ve tried uploading it to Jinglemad but fails each time!
So maybe someone else who has downloaded it could try?

[UKJinglesMemberAuthor]

Bigdave wrote: Not forgetting EMISON’s work for Radio Hallam, Swansea Sound and BRMB too…

Also BBC London,BBC Medway,Radio Clyde,Radio City,Plymouth Sound,Radio 210,Radio Tees,Radio Forth,UBN,LBC…..
Thinking about it they were the biggest before ALFASOUND took off!

[Spoons]

Bigdave wrote: Not forgetting EMISON’s work for Radio Hallam, Swansea Sound and BRMB too…

When I get 5 minutes,I’ll post some of them here…

Of course! The Hallam cuts… and the Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…. RMB! cuts!

Quality.

[Barras]

Don`t forget about us geordies up in the North-East ! 😉 EMIson did a great package for Metro Radio (the same Sunshine package for Beacon).

http://www.streamload.com/davidbarras/Emison_MetroRadio_1977.mp3

David Barras

[DavidHemsley]

Yes EMIson did some GREAT packages . . . . .

[GrahamCollins]

OK you EMIson lovers, what’s ‘Studio G’ connection ?

I happen to have an email from Johnny Beerling no less stating that he remembers that these early roadshow cuts came from an outfit called Studio G. Did they become EMIson or is the story more convoluted ?

Incidently, I have about five other ‘Studio G’ cuts recorded personally off-cart in 1979 from the studios at BFBS-UK, near The Houses of Parliament at the time. They are definitely from the same company who produced the roadshow jingles.

Answers please………….I may have someone to enlighten !

[Barras]

Now this is getting interesting !

There is a mention of Studio G on Norman Barrington`s website and I quote:

EVANS & MARTIN were up and running before EMISON – Studio G had been on the scene for a long time plus a number of outfits making programmes for 208 and of couse the IBC studio. But in some ways I think EVANS & MATIN BROADCADST PRODUCTIONS can lay claim to be the first outfit in the UK set up to produce packaged station ids and syndicated features – although we were going out of business before the third ILR had even gone to air

The other thing is, people keep printing EMIson, instead of Emison (myself included) – we all know Emison was owned by the record company EMI, however, on the reel-boxes it is printed as “Emison”. A few years ago Ratnob sent me some original reel tapes from Emison – seems like the “EMIson” title is something that has been added a long the way…

David Barras
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YOU can download my JINGLE LIST from here…

http://www.davidbarras.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/barrasjinglelist.doc

Get in touch via this addy…

davidbarras@blueyonder.co.uk

[UKJinglesMemberAuthor]

Chalks wrote: OK you EMIson lovers, what’s ‘Studio G’ connection ?

I happen to have an email from Johnny Beerling no less stating that he remembers that these early roadshow cuts came from an outfit called Studio G. Did they become EMIson or is the story more convoluted ?

Incidently, I have about five other ‘Studio G’ cuts recorded personally off-cart in 1979 from the studios at BFBS-UK, near The Houses of Parliament at the time. They are definitely from the same company who produced the roadshow jingles.

Answers please………….I may have someone to enlighten !

Mmmmmm…We certainly need a Jingle Book (Bible) UK-Style!
The only Studio G that I have ever heard are the BBC Radio Northampton cuts in 1983 with which the singers sound completely different!
Maybe Studio G came from the remains of EMIson like YAMCO?
But they certainly sound “EMIson-ish” in the singing

[UKJinglesMemberAuthor]

Barras wrote: Now this is getting interesting !
people keep printing EMIson, instead of Emison (myself included) – we all know Emison was owned by the record company EMI, however, on the reel-boxes it is printed as “Emison”. A few years ago Ratnob sent me some original reel tapes from Emison – seems like the “EMIson” title is something that has been added a long the way…

David Barras
_________________
YOU can download my JINGLE LIST from here…

http://www.davidbarras.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/barrasjinglelist.doc

Get in touch via this addy…

davidbarras@blueyonder.co.uk

Or……all in Capital Letters! 😆

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