[ratnobMember]

I like (arrogantly) to think that I was one of the first people in the UK to notice that there was a new station in New York in 2007 with fresh new jingles – produced by JAM. I spotted it on the JAM site, and then I listened online to that station. The distinctive ramps and donuts, the DJs talking less and just using their first names [“Hi, this is Dylan”}, the clever mix of contemporary sounds and familiar radio formats – I loved all of this.

And so did New York.

I especially like the top-of-the-hour jingle, so earlier this year I asked Jon Wolfert about having it made as a personal jingle.

The original singer had moved away, he said, but they were working with a new voice. She sang my ‘Hey Geoffy B’ mantra and, of course, I was transfixed – except that I then asked whether the ramp might have some lyrics added over the top. The idea was to use the singers playfully to sing ‘Hey Geoffy B’ overlapping. I sent Jon a homemade example of what I meant … and, lo, here we are, with a great jingle for one of New York’s top stations quirkily resung for little old me.

Here’s the jingle’s history.
http://www.geoffbarton.co.uk//files/_IDs/Hey%20GB/Fresh-story.m4a

I couldn’t be happier or prouder of this amazing bit of JAM dedication on my behalf.

Ratnob.

[LenGroat]

Gosh I came on to post our most recent new JAM cut (which is old) and you post a SpArKlinG re-sing of a new JAM cut!

I love what you thought of for the pad – and the singers and Jon have really made something ‘fresh’ and new out of it _GREAT VOCALS

Brilliant !!

[mbMember]

Its a great cut and lovely package

[bossjockMember]

That is a beautiful resing – jingle craftmanship at its best. And I love the sound of that “new voice”. Well done Geoff and JAM

[IainJohnston]

Excellent!
From an audio engineering point-of-view a nice exercise in good-old pan-pot stere-oo-oo-ooo too :^)

And a VERY “Fresh” voice indeed – and something that shows a “younger-orientated” vocal sound CAN be achieved
without simply just plastering “more mature singers” with buckets of “hip” over-processing as has been discussed
often before.

PS – don’t suppose there’s any “joint order” Personal Cut plans about in the run-up to Christmas like last year
for those of us on a limited budget?

[tyty21]

amazing cut!

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