[Bello]

Here's a new kind of montage for you to download and hopefully enjoy…

Bit of back story – I came across an old tape of jingles and other bits I recorded off-air in 1986 – 1987 when I was a great deal younger than I am now! So I thought I'd dump a few down for everyone to hear.

Featured are the following stations…Radio Wyvern, BRMB, Severn Sound, GWR, Northants 96, Beacon Radio, Radio Trent and other stations.

Included are two station launches – Northants 96 and Beacon Shropshire.

If the link below does not work, copy and paste into your browser the following url…

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=F0C9110A3337C810

Please grab this file straight away from yousendit or else it will be gone quickly due to restricted amount of downloads and time allowed , please also note that the file has been uploaded onto the off-air folder in the 'Off-Air' section of the Download section. Hopefully this should be about in a day or so.

Please tell me what you think, if you like this kind of montage then I'll do some more.

Thanks!!!

[JingleMadMember]

Anyone Else Having Trouble With This File Or Is It Just Me?

[JingleMadMember]

ALWAYS READ FULL THREAD DESCRIPTION BEFORE POSTING A REPLY.
THAT`S MY NEW MOTTO.

[rakMember]

Thanks for that montage, Bello! I'd definitely like to hear more montages like that from the '80s. Some great TOHs in there.

Someone needed to have told John Lewis that Alfa accapellas don't mix well over the top of great Muff Murfin Wyvern jingles!!

Sounds like you were well placed in Worcester for anorakking back then – a good mix of stations. Keep the montages coming, and I'll try and dig some old off-air stuff out as well if people are interested…

[Bello]

rak wrote: Thanks for that montage, Bello! I'd definitely like to hear more montages like that from the '80s. Some great TOHs in there.

Someone needed to have told John Lewis that Alfa accapellas don't mix well over the top of great Muff Murfin Wyvern jingles!!

Sounds like you were well placed in Worcester for anorakking back then – a good mix of stations. Keep the montages coming, and I'll try and dig some old off-air stuff out as well if people are interested…

Hiya matey

Thanks for your kind words, anoraks always give mixed responses to off-air station imaging. If you have the jingle packages featured then why bother with off-air recordings and scoped airchecks.

I always think its fascinating that back twenty or thirty years ago it was hard to get hold of jingle packages, so it was easier to tape things off the radio. I first obtained jingle packages and demo's in 1987 via David Arnold Music, Alfasound and Standard Sound. Plus its quite nostalgic listening to jingles as they were featured on the air with promo's and hearing the old news intro's complete with headline tasters in some cases. I was a mere lad when I recorded those jingles!

Worcester was then and still good at pulling in stations, although things were changing quite regular due to service expansion/new relays and frequency changes back then.

For some reason Wyvern's frequency cuts had various namechecks all over them so John Lewis's Alfasound accapella was just part of the course! This of course was years before corporate branding and a single 'station sound' was incorporated into stations formats. It can be argued that back then Wyvern had no format or music philosophy and nowadays would pass off as an adequate Jack FM station!

Like I said, I have got quite a few tapes and depending on what kind of response I get, then I might do some more in the same kind of style as other posters on the forum.

Keep the responses coming

P

[ah-mediaMember]

Great montage. Works really well and excellent snap-shot in time !!!

[RobinBlamires]

I'd love it if someone made a JingleMix CD based entirely around off-air for Jingle Day Part 4! That extra bit of nostalgia!

[Bello]

Thanks for the replies folks…keep them coming!

P

[Bello]

RobinBlamires wrote: I'd love it if someone made a JingleMix CD based entirely around off-air for Jingle Day Part 4! That extra bit of nostalgia!

Thats a good thought, there's nothing quite like nostalgia….lets see where this goes and who knows!

[m_hodgeyMember]

Great montage Bello!!!

RobinBlamires wrote: I'd love it if someone made a JingleMix CD based entirely around off-air for Jingle Day Part 4! That extra bit of nostalgia!

Funny you should say that Robin…………….my brother is working on such a mix for JDP4 right now! Loads of great stuff (mainly from Yorkshire stations) including an aircheck of a certain Mr Hirst on “West Yorkshire's New Official Countdown) from October 96!
[ Edited Mon Jul 10 2006, 11:21PM ]

[ratnobMember]

Great montage. I think off-air mixes like this bring a real kind of authenticity to the jingle experience. As an earlier poster said, this is a fabulous time-pod. Keep 'em coming!

Geoff Barton
http://web.mac.com/geoffbarton/iWeb/Jingle%20Blog/Blog/Blog.html

[ Edited Mon Jul 10 2006, 10:15PM ]

[Bello]

m_hodgey wrote: Great montage Bello!!!

I'd love it if someone made a JingleMix CD based entirely around off-air for Jingle Day Part 4! That extra bit of nostalgia!

Funny you should say that Robin…………….my brother is working on such a mix for JDP4 right now! Loads of great stuff (mainly from Yorkshire stations) including an aircheck of a certain Mr Hirst on “West Yorkshire's New Official Countdown) from October 96!
[ Edited Mon Jul 10 2006, 11:21PM ]

Hiya Mark

If you need any material for the jinglemix…give me shout!

P

[Bello]

Thanks for your words folks! Keep them coming

I feel another one could be made in the next few days!

[kcmike]

Very Interesting!
I've not heard many U.K. off-airs, especially from that era.

Thanks!

[gameswizardMember]

could someone e-mail me the file cos i cant get it cos is wasnt online long enough
mike.hunt7@btopenworld.com
thanks

[Bello]

gameswizard wrote: could someone e-mail me the file cos i cant get it cos is wasnt online long enough
mike.hunt7@btopenworld.com
thanks

Hiya matey

Just checked and the file is still available, I think I got the hyperlink wrong. So I'm sorry about that.

Copy and paste into your browser the following URL

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=F0C9110A3337C810

…this redirects to yousendit and the option to download the file.

It should be okay…unfortunately with yousendit there are download limits and timespans. Sorry…no personal server space!

P

[Bello]

kcmike wrote: Very Interesting!
I've not heard many U.K. off-airs, especially from that era.

Thanks!

Thank you for your comment, glad you liked the montage!

I should be posting another montage by early next week.

P

[Bello]

As promised here's the second montage, the majority of this material dates from 1986 and consists of BBC/ILR stations in Southern England & beyond.

Please follow the following link…

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=F6DFA8AD5409AD47

Again…if it doesn't work, copy & paste the link into your browser. Just like before please grab it quickly because of limited downloads and timespans.

Also it would be nice to hear from everyone downloading it…what do you think?

[gameswizardMember]

the file has expired.if someone could e-mail (and the second one too) it me that would be most appreciated [please dont assume someone else has e-mailed it.anyone reading this just send me both of the goddam montages.thanky you].
cant get the second one either even though you only posted it at 23.01

[ Edited Sun Jul 16 2006, 11:51PM ]

[jonnoMember]

Clicking on the link didn't work for me, but copying it and pasting in to the Address box in my browser did!

There's something special about an offair montage, the far from perfect audio quality reminds you just how long ago the recording came from and snippits of DJ's and news headlines from the era add to the nostalgia.

Great montage .. particularly loved hearing the Victory, Southern and 2CR cuts. Living in the Portsmouth area at the time, I had a big aerial on my parents chimney which was great for FM DX-ing. I used to listen to Southern Sound quite a bit .. mainly Timbo and Tommy Boyd in the evenings. Thanks for rekindling the memories.

[gameswizardMember]

what i want to know is why one of you lot cant e-mail me both files i cant get?
copying and pasting does nothing for me either in internet explorer
or firefox.

[ Edited Mon Jul 17 2006, 12:53PM ]

[Admin]

For those that can't grab Bello's montage, I have uploaded it here –

[Bello]

Neal wrote: For those that can't grab Bello's montage, I have uploaded it here –

http://www.streamload.com/mp3airchecks/pt_offair_montage_2.mp3

Thanks for hosting the audio matey! Hopefully that will do the trick!

P

[Bello]

gameswizard wrote: what i want to know is why one of you lot cant e-mail me both files i cant get?
copying and pasting does nothing for me either in internet explorer
or firefox.

Hiya matey

Sorry you are having problems with the files…Neal has kindly hosted my second montage, if you have any problems downloading that file and getting hold of the first file, feel free to PM me and I'll see what I can do.

Cheers!

P

[Bello]

Okay…click here and it 'should' work!

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