[IainJohnston]

A VERY potentially deeeep topic Geoff!

Its worth remembering that TM cut was a [*cough*] “tribute” to Up Up and Away by the Johnny Mann singers
(or something like that), just as many TM Productions jingles were “by pure coincidence” similar to hits of the era.

Lots of non-lyrics abound – a quick rummage into PAMS Series 29 for starters?
Many more PAMS et all, could go on all night with examples!

However, I must admit THIS is one of my favourite “non-lyric” ones, and I’d like it resung as a Personal Cut some
day…in stereo from multi-track, with mixout layers galore…
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles04/wwdc-babbabdoowow-pams

Oddly enough it appears to be in 2 versions – demo and air maybe?

(…and I wish to Gawd JMW would TELL US if any of those many EXCELLENT non-Series PAMS Top 40 / MOR cuts
are “available for re-sing” instead of us having to blindly ask about individual items (and yes I’ve bleated about this
topic more times than I can remember! Sorry!)

[mbMember]

Love that cut Iain its nuts but lovely!

[jonnoMember]

Love that cut Iain its nuts but lovely!

ditto!

[IainJohnston]

I collected that originally in the early 1970s as part of what I think was a number of small PAMS customs for the
Avco Radio Network (e.g. WWDC Washington, KOIT-FM/KYA San Francisco). Although Avco was a finance company
they had several stations and commissioned some quite unusual (for their time) cuts from PAMS.

Some appeared as WABC items but I’m sure Avco were the original client – although I’m quite happy to be corrected
by those with much better knowledge then mine :^)

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Love that cut Iain its nuts but lovely!

ditto!

New to me and ditto again.

[PKMember]

AVCO was also the record label for The Stylistics and Van McCoy!

[IainJohnston]

“New to me and ditto again”

With the “Non-Series” thread running in a very strange direction at the moment, I’ll paste my
comment from that thread…

“So many PAMS non-Series and Customs from the early 1970s in particular before the “decline & fall”
deserve a lot more credit than they get today. Away from the Top-40-orientated “Numbered Series”
syndications that era of PAMS produced some VERY elegant MOR packages and “modern” Country
ones too”

I’d be happy to post a few further audio examples of stuff like the Avco cuts (some of which I was
sent direct from KYA all those years ago in the early 1970s in my “first wave” of jingle collecting),
but if I do I’ll be careful to NOT present them “in-the-clear” if there’s a “sensitivity” of some kind
about such material currently.

[IainJohnston]

Carefully & diplomatically keeping this away from “the other thread”…

https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles04/ij-avco-twelvesixties-wwdc-kya-pams

…a small selection of Avco 1260 AM WWDC Washington and KYA San Francisco PAMS material, much of it from
the above mentioned custom commissions. In “glorious mono”.

WWDC had Musical Odyssey, basically a 3-cut Grid Factory effort, Spring, Autumn, Summer (again a lot of grid
generated variants galore), Some Kind of Radio, and so on. The amount of cuts produced on the PAMS 10-track
system even for these two stations alone is absolutely daft!

But I’m sure it must have greatly “influenced” JMW towards the JAM “mixouts” approach to providing clients
with a “lot” of cuts for their money rather than the “traditional” just one “version” of each basic cut.

[Tracy CarmanMember]

Its worth remembering that TM cut was a [*cough*] “tribute” to Up Up and Away by the Johnny Mann singers
(or something like that), just as many TM Productions jingles were “by pure coincidence” similar to hits of the era.

Actually, it was “borrowed” from “The Jet Song (When The Weekend’s Over)” by The Groop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3kTBNsr-Gk

[bobgreenradioMember]

i recall that ‘up up and away’ thing being used by pepper. the now sound or its whats happening (?) 67? 68? and also the famous ‘up up and away; t w a’, a very classy cut indeed.

[PKMember]

Interestingly Tracy on trying to find out more information on the internet about that American band called The Groop (of which there seems to be very little info?) it also throws up an Australian Melbourne based band formed in 1964 also called The Groop which it seems were a forerunner to what eventually became the Little River Band!

[nleibo]

Re: https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles04/wwdc-babbabdoowow-pams –there’s a very similar cut for a “Learn to Play the Guitar” Company that PAMS was “bartering”-http://33revelations.blogspot.com/2014/09/learn-to-play-guitarthe-radio-jingle-way.html Audio: http://www.normanb.net/mp3/colourway.mp3

[TheBigCheese]

Nice. Very ‘of it’s time’. As also was ‘South American Getaway’ with all it’s ba-ba-ba’s

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