[MartinS]

Thanks all, these are all great! I will try and compile a list in a while, in a slightly more creative way than I’d first thought of.

Something this morning made me think of another one though – Jingle Requestor.

Are you a jingle requestor? Perhaps this is just a symptom of Jingle Addiction? And I don’t mean contacting stations asking for copies of jingles. Yes, have you ever phoned, text’d or written to a radio station requesting a jingle be played on air, rather than a song?

Now… other than myself I know of at least 2 examples of people here who have done just the above, otherwise I wouldn’t have mentioned it. However I’ll let people come forward themselves though!

My example….. The time was summer 2002 as the Commonwealth Games were just about to kick off in Manchester. Feeling disgruntled at having to go to London for three days I text’d Nicksy on Galaxy 102 breakfast asking for a particular “Galaxy 1-02 Man-chesteer” cut. And… he played it, more than once in fact – without any use of words such as ‘anorak’ or ‘sad’ – how obliging! The only ‘sad’ thing is that I text in as Neil (totally random) rather than Martin!

The particular cut, by French company Freeway, seemed to really sum up the feeling and great atmosphere in the city on that hot summers morning. Unfortunately I’ve never heard it in either the Freeway demo, nor in any of the many montages of these jingles kindly posted/linked to by other members.

The example I heard today…. Listening to a Yorkshire breakfast show – the presenter read out a text message (from a female judging by the name!) saying “You don’t play any of your jingles anymore… please can we hear some”. After which the presenter replied “What are you talking about? Yes we do”! Listeners were then treated (depending on your views) to four consecutive cuts from Reelword’s excellent Kiss 108 Boston ’03 package! The word ‘sad’ was mentioned, only jokingly! Who cares though – I enjoyed ’em.

Would be good to hear any other examples. It’s a lot easier now with the text messaging than it was back in the 70s, to write in, or phone in and risk being laughed at!

[MartinS]

Thanks all, these are all great! I will try and compile a list in a while, in a slightly more creative way than I’d first thought of.

Something this morning made me think of another one though – Jingle Requestor.

Are you a jingle requestor? Perhaps this is just a symptom of Jingle Addiction? And I don’t mean contacting stations asking for copies of jingles. Yes, have you ever phoned, text’d or written to a radio station requesting a jingle be played on air, rather than a song?

Now… other than myself I know of at least 2 examples of people here who have done just the above, otherwise I wouldn’t have mentioned it. However I’ll let people come forward themselves though!

My example….. The time was summer 2002 as the Commonwealth Games were just about to kick off in Manchester. Feeling disgruntled at having to go to London for three days I text’d Nicksy on Galaxy 102 breakfast asking for a particular “Galaxy 1-02 Man-chesteer” cut. And… he played it, more than once in fact – without any use of words such as ‘anorak’ or ‘sad’ – how obliging! The only ‘sad’ thing is that I text in as Neil (totally random) rather than Martin!

The particular cut, by French company Freeway, seemed to really sum up the feeling and great atmosphere in the city on that hot summers morning. Unfortunately I’ve never heard it in either the Freeway demo, nor in any of the many montages of these jingles kindly posted/linked to by other members.

The example I heard today…. Listening to a Yorkshire breakfast show – the presenter read out a text message (from a female judging by the name!) saying “You don’t play any of your jingles anymore… please can we hear some”. After which the presenter replied “What are you talking about? Yes we do”! Listeners were then treated (depending on your views) to four consecutive cuts from Reelword’s excellent Kiss 108 Boston ’03 package! The word ‘sad’ was mentioned, only jokingly! Who cares though – I enjoyed ’em.

Would be good to hear any other examples. It’s a lot easier now with the text messaging than it was back in the 70s, to write in, or phone in and risk being laughed at!

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