[JAM / PAMSMember]

35 years ago JAM created the “You’ll Like Our Style” package for WABC New York. You can now read the background story, and hear the never-before released stereo mixes of this unusual package on the JAM website.

In addition, four cuts which were not on the original mono demo have been added (#17-20). This includes the strangest idea for a sports jingle ever: doing the “Catch The Yankees” promo in the style of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” (a song which was played at the ballpark during the games). This particular item was not our idea, but as always we tried to make the best of it! Enjoy.

You’ll Like Our Style

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[MarkSMember]

Thanks Jon! Look forward to listing to this later

[kolossMember]

omg omg in Stereo!- How long have we been waiting … btw Good Morning Ross & Wilson one of my fav cuts of all time…

Since this a good place to ask -Who were the 4 vocalists? Chris Kershaw, Dan Alexander, Johnny Hooper, Mike Collier?

[rock_n_richieMember]

Thank you for posting Jon! Cut 1 is my favorite! I remember hearing it on WABC when I was able to pick up the station here in upstate NY, and being a huge Yankees fan, even though strange, I like the “Catch The Yankees” jingles

[LenGroat]

What a treat! These great years in radio sped by so fast it’s good to now be able to luxuriate in retirement and listen to great quality versions of packages we had on cassette back then – particularly when they are in StErEo!

By complete co-incidence we recently bought #12 from this GREAT JAM package. Note one difference, a boy/girl vocal sound.

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/8000-songs-m-m

Thanks Jon and the Team at JAM

[glen]

Thanks Jon

[mjb1124Member]

Always liked this package. Great to finally see it on the JAM website, and to see it get the full treatment!

[GrahamCollins]

Fabulous – thanks Jon.

The stereo demo is very nice to hear, although a hard limiter tool at 0dB has been run over the file and it sounds overblown to my ears. Your audio is normally in plenty of headroom space to breathe !

[ratnobMember]

Absolutely love this – and I’m hearing cuts I didn’t know existed. Many, many thanks for posting on FB and the cut-by-cut format. G

[nleibo]

I’ve got to be honest –as a former New “Yawker”, Yankee Fan & WABC afficianado–with all due respect to Jon & JAM–these jingles refelected a very SAD time in WABC’s history. I listened to WABC EVERY DAY during the 60’s & 70’s–I was a WABC “freak” –writing down Cousin Brucie’s Tuesday Night Top 20 countdown, trying to record jingles on my tape recorder. I KNEW Dan Ingram’s PERSONAL “formatics” #1 hit of the week–second song of every hour–#2 & #3 hits alternated bottom of the hour–Series #30 jingle “Bom Ching WABC Strikes Gold” @ :45 past the hour–Pick Hit at :15 past…I was to say the least “emotionally invested”–so you can imagine in 1981 when WABC started playing the “You’ll Like Our Style” jingles, well not so “coincidentally” I DIDN’T like their style–or the jingles. WABC was a station of “excitement”–it felt as though someone had let the “air out of the balloon”! Again–I’m not criticizing Jon or JAM–as they do what the client wants–the powers that were at the time in charge of WABC had a good concept–“reconnecting with the audience”–but the audience grew up on WABC’s excitement–not “watered down presentations”, consisting of No Reverb, laid-back music & laid-back jingles. Some will say I’m JUST “bitching”–well, it’s not “bitching” if you offer “options”–quite frankly I would have Re-cut the classic jingles with the “You’ll like our style” lyrics–BUT I’m not on the payroll…. Thanks anyway, Jon…

[IainJohnston]

Geoff – just up the road from Len in Nottingham was…Leeds! They had YLOS cuts in one of their big composites…
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles/beeb-leeds

[gameswizardMember]

although a hard limiter tool at 0dB has been run over the file and it sounds overblown to my ears. Your audio is normally in plenty of headroom space to breathe !

The cut by cut is more pleasing though. The demo is almost maxed out throughout… (click thumbnail for full image).

[radio_blokeMember]

Possibly my fav package for 35 years, so good to hear in stereo at last.
In all that time, I did not notice it was 4 boys.

With the exception of cut 20 which sounds like the girls joined in?

[JAM / PAMSMemberAuthor]

Thanks for all the comments.

Who were the 4 vocalists?

You got 3 of them right. It was Chris, Johnny, Dan and Bruce Upchurch.

a hard limiter tool at 0dB has been run over the file and it sounds overblown to my ears.

The demo is almost maxed out throughout.

Thank you for mentioning this. You are quite right, something is completely wrong with that file. Our web audio should never go above -2db. It looks like there was an error converting the WAV file to mp3. I’ve seen this happen before and have a suspicion of the cause. This will be repaired as soon as possible. (The cut-by-cut audio does not have this problem. )

With the exception of cut 20 which sounds like the girls joined in?

Yes, that one cut was sung by a 5-voice group (2 girls, 3 boys).

[ratnobMember]

On days like today, isn’t JingleMad wonderful?

[glen]

Go to You Tube and type in WABC JINGLES and see what you get.

[LenGroat]

Yes a good discussion here and I realised I can add another version of one cut in audio that I posted on Soundcloud over 4 years ago.

It’s an alternate geographical location for the WABC # 12. It’s featured in a clip from the 1992 GEM-AM 5th Anniversary CD made for our listeners, on how a JAM jingle for the WABC’s ‘You’ll like our style’ was re-lyriced for our station in the (Great) East Midlands, Britain.

The voice at the front is the legendary John Peters, ‘the Dad of breakfast’ radio in the East Midlands on Trent, then GEM, and Saga…

And as you’ll hear I got the ‘M1’ onto our version back in 1992, and as I’ve just done, I had a boy/girl vocal group.

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/how-a-jingle-for-wabc-new-york

We had to have it re-sung with an updated lyric as ‘Solid Gold GEM AM’ as I posted earlier, as we use that full name to differentiate ourselves from our friends at GEM 106, and of course are not for ‘The Great East Midlands’ but the whole UK now thank to marvels of internet radio.

[JAM / PAMSMemberAuthor]

The problem with the full demo mp3 file has been resolved. If you downloaded it for your collection, please grab it again and keep the repaired version.

Go to You Tube and type in WABC JINGLES and see what you get.

I’m sure you’ll get all kinds of things, including overly processed, off-speed, edited, noisy and incomplete dubs. Why wouldn’t you want to come to the source?

[UKJinglesMember]

The problem with the full demo mp3 file has been resolved. If you downloaded it for your collection, please grab it again and keep the repaired version.
I’m sure you’ll get all kinds of things, including overly processed, off-speed, edited, noisy and incomplete dubs. Why wouldn’t you want to come to the source?

I must say You have some great things on the “Bits and Pieces” page Jon…..Which I never knew were there (even though it hasn’t been updated since 2014)
I can’t believe I hadn’t visited that page for that long!

Any chance of adding any “non package” BBC Radio One/Two Cuts Jon?
e.g. Radio One 15th Birthday PAMS Cut, 20th Birthday Song…..

Thanks,

Pete

[UKJinglesMember]

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[IainJohnston]

“Why wouldn’t you want to come to the source? “
“Any chance of adding any “non package” BBC Radio One/Two Cuts Jon?
e.g. Radio One 15th Birthday PAMS Cut, 20th Birthday Song….. “

Indeed! – a new (Collectors/JAM Fans) page on the JAM/PAMS website entitled…”Classics From The Vault” perhaps?
:^)

[glen]

Jon
I just threw it out there.
Ellis posted the STYLE on here before he made a video out of it.
But Yes I would rather come to the source.

[glen]

Let spill my heart on this.
Jon says why go the source.
Now first I’ve never asked JAM for anything (That I didn’t pay for )because the materials are copyrighted.
I quit going to radio stations after because the door gets slammed after they in my face.
I actually had a PD tell me that he could me jingles (that were at least 35 yrs old at the time) because they were still licensed to the station. Also they were on carts and you can’t dud off carts.
And my favorite was the guy from the station I used to work. I went to him and said can have a copy of the jingles and he said yes.
Well I asked for them he says well we just threw away.
Btw they were Jams New Tradition and TMs Rough and Ready and Sound of America packages.
What I’m trying to say is; unless from JM or You Tube I don’t collect.
I’m very appreciative of the cuts you post.
Thanks a bunch.

[martinlesterMember]

Yes a good discussion here and I realised I can add another version of one cut in audio that I posted on Soundcloud over 4 years ago.

It’s an alternate geographical location for the WABC # 12. It’s featured in a clip from the 1992 GEM-AM 5th Anniversary CD made for our listeners, on how a JAM jingle for the WABC’s ‘You’ll like our style’ was re-lyriced for our station in the (Great) East Midlands, Britain.

The voice at the front is the legendary John Peters, ‘the Dad of breakfast’ radio in the East Midlands on Trent, then GEM, and Saga…

And as you’ll hear I got the ‘M1’ onto our version back in 1992, and as I’ve just done, I had a boy/girl vocal group.

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/how-a-jingle-for-wabc-new-york

We had to have it re-sung with an updated lyric as ‘Solid Gold GEM AM’ as I posted earlier, as we use that full name to differentiate ourselves from our friends at GEM 106, and of course are not for ‘The Great East Midlands’ but the whole UK now thank to marvels of internet radio.

Yes a good discussion here and I realised I can add another version of one cut in audio that I posted on Soundcloud over 4 years ago.

It’s an alternate geographical location for the WABC # 12. It’s featured in a clip from the 1992 GEM-AM 5th Anniversary CD made for our listeners, on how a JAM jingle for the WABC’s ‘You’ll like our style’ was re-lyriced for our station in the (Great) East Midlands, Britain.

The voice at the front is the legendary John Peters, ‘the Dad of breakfast’ radio in the East Midlands on Trent, then GEM, and Saga…

And as you’ll hear I got the ‘M1’ onto our version back in 1992, and as I’ve just done, I had a boy/girl vocal group.

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/how-a-jingle-for-wabc-new-york

We had to have it re-sung with an updated lyric as ‘Solid Gold GEM AM’ as I posted earlier, as we use that full name to differentiate ourselves from our friends at GEM 106, and of course are not for ‘The Great East Midlands’ but the whole UK now thank to marvels of internet radio.

Yes a good discussion here and I realised I can add another version of one cut in audio that I posted on Soundcloud over 4 years ago.

It’s an alternate geographical location for the WABC # 12. It’s featured in a clip from the 1992 GEM-AM 5th Anniversary CD made for our listeners, on how a JAM jingle for the WABC’s ‘You’ll like our style’ was re-lyriced for our station in the (Great) East Midlands, Britain.

The voice at the front is the legendary John Peters, ‘the Dad of breakfast’ radio in the East Midlands on Trent, then GEM, and Saga…

And as you’ll hear I got the ‘M1’ onto our version back in 1992, and as I’ve just done, I had a boy/girl vocal group.

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/how-a-jingle-for-wabc-new-york

We had to have it re-sung with an updated lyric as ‘Solid Gold GEM AM’ as I posted earlier, as we use that full name to differentiate ourselves from our friends at GEM 106, and of course are not for ‘The Great East Midlands’ but the whole UK now thank to marvels of internet radio.

Yes a good discussion here and I realised I can add another version of one cut in audio that I posted on Soundcloud over 4 years ago.

It’s an alternate geographical location for the WABC # 12. It’s featured in a clip from the 1992 GEM-AM 5th Anniversary CD made for our listeners, on how a JAM jingle for the WABC’s ‘You’ll like our style’ was re-lyriced for our station in the (Great) East Midlands, Britain.

The voice at the front is the legendary John Peters, ‘the Dad of breakfast’ radio in the East Midlands on Trent, then GEM, and Saga…

And as you’ll hear I got the ‘M1’ onto our version back in 1992, and as I’ve just done, I had a boy/girl vocal group.

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/how-a-jingle-for-wabc-new-york

We had to have it re-sung with an updated lyric as ‘Solid Gold GEM AM’ as I posted earlier, as we use that full name to differentiate ourselves from our friends at GEM 106, and of course are not for ‘The Great East Midlands’ but the whole UK now thank to marvels of internet radio.

Yes a good discussion here and I realised I can add another version of one cut in audio that I posted on Soundcloud over 4 years ago.

It’s an alternate geographical location for the WABC # 12. It’s featured in a clip from the 1992 GEM-AM 5th Anniversary CD made for our listeners, on how a JAM jingle for the WABC’s ‘You’ll like our style’ was re-lyriced for our station in the (Great) East Midlands, Britain.

The voice at the front is the legendary John Peters, ‘the Dad of breakfast’ radio in the East Midlands on Trent, then GEM, and Saga…

And as you’ll hear I got the ‘M1’ onto our version back in 1992, and as I’ve just done, I had a boy/girl vocal group.

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/how-a-jingle-for-wabc-new-york

We had to have it re-sung with an updated lyric as ‘Solid Gold GEM AM’ as I posted earlier, as we use that full name to differentiate ourselves from our friends at GEM 106, and of course are not for ‘The Great East Midlands’ but the whole UK now thank to marvels of internet radio.

Yes a good discussion here and I realised I can add another version of one cut in audio that I posted on Soundcloud over 4 years ago.

It’s an alternate geographical location for the WABC # 12. It’s featured in a clip from the 1992 GEM-AM 5th Anniversary CD made for our listeners, on how a JAM jingle for the WABC’s ‘You’ll like our style’ was re-lyriced for our station in the (Great) East Midlands, Britain.

The voice at the front is the legendary John Peters, ‘the Dad of breakfast’ radio in the East Midlands on Trent, then GEM, and Saga…

And as you’ll hear I got the ‘M1’ onto our version back in 1992, and as I’ve just done, I had a boy/girl vocal group.

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/how-a-jingle-for-wabc-new-york

We had to have it re-sung with an updated lyric as ‘Solid Gold GEM AM’ as I posted earlier, as we use that full name to differentiate ourselves from our friends at GEM 106, and of course are not for ‘The Great East Midlands’ but the whole UK now thank to marvels of internet radio.

Hi Len

Can I ask what made you pick boy/girl vocal group.

As I the First Time I ordered a cut from this package I had never heard the Demo so assumed that the boy/girl vocal group was the Norm
(as Per Radio Leeds Package)

As Luck would have it Jon did agree to re do it using the same vocal charts are per BBC Radio Leeds so what made you pick this combination as Jon normally does the Re sings as per Demo ?

[LenGroat]

Hi Martin

I originally ordered this in the days when I was doing a lot of jingles for GEM-AM and Trent and was always on the search for unusual cuts – but time was always of the essence!

Having found this on a copy of the (excellent) BBC Radio Leeds package I went with the boy/girl vocals as I’d never heard the original. Having got used to that for decades when I decided to get it again for the new GEM I just asked for it to sound like the one we first did.

Now I’ve heard the beautiful quality copy of YLOS there is a cut I DO want to get with the all boy vocals – assuming the track is available!

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