[DavidHemsley]

. . . . when jingle collecting was fun, and we did silly things to get our jingles

http://www.jingleark.co.uk/audio/teestopten.mp3

About 1981 time . . . .

[Admin]

In the days before the net, I used to write out my entire collection on reams of A4 paper and mail it out. God that was a headache!

I once remember seeing an advert in a magazine from a certain Mr Barras. I replied and we’ve been in contact ever since!

Neal

[UKJinglesMember]

Ahhh yes the good old days……
My list used to be typed on my old Amstrad “Home Computer”
I think Michael Bolton still owns a copy of it (all 30 pages)!!!
Anyway here’s my old mucker Paul Beasley Talking about the new Radio WM Jingles On-Air back in 1988.

[mbMember]

petewilson wrote: Ahhh yes the good old days……

My list used to be typed on my old Amstrad “Home Computer”
I think Michael Bolton still owns a copy of it (all 30 pages)!!!

I do!! When it first arrived – and dented my floor as it fell through the letterbox I read it and though blimey – Then set about through it with my highlighter

hehehe

[topcat]

Neal wrote: In the days before the net, I used to write out my entire collection on reams of A4 paper and mail it out. God that was a headache!

My first list that was sent out was copied on a ditto machine (thank you, grade school). Anyone remember them?

-TC

[RobinBlamires]

Like many people I was totally unaware of jingle collecting before I found out about it on the net and I would imagine that some of the most succesfull ones who have been at it for at least 15 years must have some good contacts.

This is probably a good excuse to thank a certain Nicky Schiller for starting off my collection with an MD of the Invicta FM Century 21 package which I thought was a great introduction into the jingle collecting phase. My only regret is that I haven’t been able to find any new packages to trade with him because he has made a great contribution to my collection in addition to the other members here who I have been lucky enough to trade with.

[JingleArk]

topcat wrote:

My first list that was sent out was copied on a ditto machine (thank you, grade school). Anyone remember them?

-TC

Please enlighten us!

[topcat]

JingleArk” wrote:

My first list that was sent out was copied on a ditto machine (thank you, grade school). Anyone remember them?

-TC

Please enlighten us!

What you would do is write your list (or whatever) on a sheet of paper attached to a heavy inked paper (like carbon paper). You would then peel the sheet from the backing. What you typed/wrote would be backwards on the reverse of the paper in heavy ink. That was put on a drum, which was rolled through a machine containing alcohol, which would release some of the ink to the sheet that was pressed against it. A more painful process than photocopying, but in those days… photocopiers were about the size of volkswagon and expensive to operate.

-TC

[kcmike]

Perfect explanation of the mimeograph (ditto) machine, TC

But you forgot to mention the pleasant chemical smell of a fresh mimeograph. I remember entire classrooms holding test papers up to their faces to inhale the aroma.

[JingleArk]

Ah right, we called them “duplicators” over here.

I had many lists duplicated in the good old days – not jingle ones though.

[Jeffrey T. MasonMember]

Tracy Carman, Jingle Miranda wrote: A more painful process than photocopying, but in those days… photocopiers were about the size of volkswagon and expensive to operate.

And let’s not forget that stylish shade of blue/purple print! And, how many ditto machines printed clearly? It was ALWAYS somewhat blurred.

[BrammyMember]

Oh Yes!

Before ‘Tipex’ there was a healthy amount of duplicator sheet sniffers!

I always remember them being called ‘Gestetners’ at my school.

Liam.

[JingleArk]

Brammy wrote: Oh Yes!

Before ‘Tipex’ there was a healthy amount of duplicator sheet sniffers!

I always remember them being called ‘Gestetners’ at my school.

Liam.

Yes of course . . . Gestetner was the brand name! It all comes flooding back . . . .

[BrammyMember]

My mum works at a school and they’ve still got BOTH theirs. One is electric and one you have to turn the handle manually!!

How does this relate to jingles again?!?

[m_hodgeyMember]

I deleted my original post somehow Luckily, I’ve been able to retrieve it from my internet history, so here it goes again:

Fortunately (or unfortunately I’m not sure) I have never known life collecting before the internet. In fact it was the good old net that started me off collecting seriously as aposed to merely recording ‘off-air’. You see I never even realised they’re were people as daft as me until I joined one of those jingle mailing lists on Yahoo or it’s predecessor in around 1998. I can still remember the delight of getting hold of my first full package – Radio 1 1992. The internet as been a great source for getting into contact with other collectors, the best of course, being this site!

[MartinS]

Began ‘collecting’ jingles the way many of us started (recording off radio) from turn of 80s/90s through until mid 90s.

First had access to internet at Uni in mid 1990s – which at that time was still exciting as it was still a path to discovery rather than a sea of downloadable material. This lead me to the Alfasound website and ultimately to my first two (of many) Alfasound Collectors cassettes/CDs. These were my first “proper” recordings of jingles.

Have most of the historic stuff I want now, however if it wasn’t for the internet demos then I guess I would still be willing to pay £20 a time for the non industry privilege of listening to “demo” CDs of the new stuff I like!

Mart

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