[mbMemberAuthor]

Steve Penk replied to the tread (He used to use them on his shows in the 80s)

He confirms Jimmy Helms vocals.
“They were of a time, but I loved playing these summer jingles on my show – ‘Magic Music’”

[IainJohnston]

The JAM of course was a freebie “sampler”.

I’ve a whole load of early Piccadilly stuff that someone sent me a wee while back, and I believe
they are all CCS.

If it keeps on raining, I might be able to put a small sampler or OMM up if anyone wants to hear them?
– although the cuts are “long”

[LenGroat]

I can part fill the story here…

I was on Piccadilly in 1976 and there was a mish-mash of cuts from the packages on – the summer cuts were good… but most of the DJS preferred the 2 JAM acapellas – which were heavily adapted to make into more cuts.

I used my 1974/5 PAMS namechecks from Metro including the one from PAMS Philly Story.

Steve had his classic Dimension 2 cut…

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/steve-england-dimension-2-cut

.. which he had to stop using as it was then sung (just the first 2 lines) as “Have A Nice Weekend with Us, on Radio 1”

And 6 years ago I finally got my version, which Jon (kindly) remixed from the ground upwards…

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/len-groat-60s-cafe-dimension-2

A technical note: the main studio had one good ITC 3 stack and an awful unreliable 5 stack (Spotmaster?) that often failed, or carts would start when someone turned on the studio lights!

[nleibo]

<> Sounds like a “Three Stooges” clip, Len..

[IainJohnston]

OK, next time one hears another near-identical rw-USA buzz-synth/over-folded-reverb screaming cut that
sounds like every other cut they’ve done for 20 years now, just play this…
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/ij-classicpiccadilly-ccs/s-ckR99

And PLAY IT LOUD.
:^)

{ Yes, its dated, its “not today’s radio”, it was designed for the days of “padding-out” needletime,
but By Gawd, it “SOUNDS BIG” !!! }

[pickle]

Thanks to Iain and mb for these wonderful posts. I’ve been searching for the full Piccadilly CCS packages (74/75/76 including summertime) for years! The Jimmy Helms vocals are just sublime. As a spotty teenager, I was a member of the IBA’s advisory committee for Piccadilly in the late 70’s and as such was given a personal tour of the station. The guy showing me around did a great job and I remember him showing me a carting area, popping in the final cut in mb’s post into a machine and saying this was his favourite Piccadilly jingle. La la la la la etc. I hadn’t heard it for nearly 40 years. I always wanted to work in radio but ended up as a trainee sound technician at Central TV in 1982. I’m still in TV all these years later but still have a great passion for radio.

Are any of you guys able to help me out with these full packages in the clear and in high quality? I would be eternally grateful if you could. I’ve tried sending various messages via Soundcloud and other sites but to no avail. Thank so much, Mark Pickett.

[pickle]

I think this is from the same era, and possibly from the CCS 2 package. It’s the only one I currently have unfortunately.

https://soundcloud.com/g-marketing-international/piccadilly-radio-jingle-san-francisco-1977

[IainJohnston]

Mark, have PM’d you.
IJ

[pickle]

Thanks very much Iain.

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