[Barras]

Rick,

that “pull up a chair” cut is from the launch package of jingles for Metro Radio, not sure who sings that cut (Len might be able to shed some light on name of the singers).

Thought you would like to hear the “chair” jingle in full and in stereo too.

http://www.davidbarras.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Metro_Chair.mp3

David

[radio_blokeMemberAuthor]

Cheers david,

I cam across another reel that was marked as metro yamco/rose

I think the cuts are the other way around.. yadda yadda
any chance you could confirm?

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1209978968_11954_FT61322_metro_jeremy_rose-yamco.mp3 filename:metro_jeremy_rose-yamco.mp3

[GlennaMember]

Thanks for the Country High.

[enerjee]

Wixy1360 wrote: The Beacon lot is the UK YAMCO MU-approved “re-production” of TM's You – but I must say that
the instrumentation is a damn sight more faithfull to the Dallas TM backing tracks than the dire efforts to re-create PAMS tracks for Orwell!

Yeah, the Beacon “You” package aired in 1978/9 (but produced in 1975/6 at the same time as the first “Sunshine Music” package based on WMGK jingles). It's debatable whether the “You” jingles were really sung by UK singers! The MD and PC at the time had some very good contacts in the US and they pushed IBA rules right up to the boundaries and beyond. The first long jingle (“We Live Where You Live”) was never used on air, though there were more in that package that were used extensively.

[enerjee]

LenGroat wrote:
The new auduence figures ~ Radio Today reports:

'Listening to the BBC now accounts for nearly 57 per cent, compared to commercial radio listening which has dropped to 41 percent'

Well of course it does because they're not chasing an ever decreasing portion of advertising revenue due to increased competition. I'm surprised it's as high as 41% actually. Commercial radio was far better and more creative in the UK when it had no other direct commercial competition and was restricted by needletime.

I used to live in the Midlands and I listened to Beacon and Trent mostly. I regularly tuned into you in the late '70s especially on the mid-morning show and on Drivetime. Mark Williams and Chris Harper didn't mind.

Good memories Len, thanks.

[ratnobMember]

Interesting. I've listened to those cuts over many years (and lived in the Beacon area when they were first aired). I never believed they were made in the UK. Is there a conspiracy theory brewing?

[Barras]

Radio_bloke wrote:
Cheers david,

I cam across another reel that was marked as metro yamco/rose

I think the cuts are the other way around.. yadda yadda
any chance you could confirm?

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1209978968_11954_FT61322_metro_jeremy_rose-yamco.mp3 filename:metro_jeremy_rose-yamco.mp3

No problem Rick…always pleased to help when it comes to Metro Radio/Metro FM jingles !

The package of jingles you`ve posted with the company title of Yamco is incorrect, as far as I know those jingles were recorded by a jingle company called Cloud Nine Productions. I was sent a dub of those jingles on cassette by a friendly tech-op who worked at Metro and he wrote on the cassette box “Cloud Nine Productions”. Subsequently, I`ve never heard of Cloud Nine productions since then and I`m not 100 % sure they were by that jingle company, they sound more like singing from a company called The Operators, who recorded a package for Hereward Radio.

Just for reference Rick, I posted a chronological list of packages used by Metro, if you click on this Jingle Mad link and scroll the page down to the 12th post, you can read my Metro list.

http://jinglemad.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?59506.0

David

[IainJohnstonMember]

“David Lloyd calculated I had spent £250,000 on jingles”

Len – no wonder GWR Group had to replace them with £5-a-cut Greg MArsden sweepers!

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