[MarcMannetje]

Via my friends at http://www.jingleweb.nl here’s a video interview with Jon Wolfert. The footage was taped in the 90s (and originates from Radio Today).

Maybe you’ve seen it – but I didn’t see it before… It’s great to see that young face and hear those memorable stories again!

[ratnobMember]

Great. Hadn’t seen this before. Fascinating, as ever.

[JAM / PAMSMember]

OMG, who IS that young guy?
Well, it sounds like he knows what’s he’s talking about. Whoever he is.

[glen]

Yeah what ever happened to him?

[LenGroat]

Thanks for finding this Marc!

It’s 45 years since I ‘blagged’ some demo tapes* out of Bill Meeks at PAMS for a tiny university station in Wales, 42 years since I was on the phone to Fred Hardy to order the first Metro Radio PAMS package, 38 years since I bought my first personal JAM cut, and 26 years since I first sat in the booth at JAM and delightedly saw and heard jingles being created for GEM and Trent…..

But I am still fascinated, and in awe, about the whole process. I still tread carefully with lyrics, changes and ‘musical terminology’ when I order new cuts from Jon. Us non-musical radio folk (and most of us are?) are fortunate to have had such a great company to translate what’s in our head and ears into reality.

There are fewer of us around now, so thank goodness for Jon and the JAM family past and present, who created the world’s greatest/ longest lasting jingle company. And let’s hope despite the shocking state of US radio companies the art of making great radio jingles continues…. and for all this we can never say THANKS often enough.

* PAMS Philly Story, Solid Rock, 3WE Smilin Thru’, and others that I bought 3 years later for Metro!

[ratnobMember]

But I am still fascinated, and in awe, about the whole process.

That captures just how I feel, Len.
Like you, I have been fortunate enough to visit JAM and see the process of jingles being made.
JMW said he worried that it might ‘spoil the magic’ for me. In fact, it did the reverse – made me more fascinated by every detailed stage of production.

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