[jonnoMember]

Thought I’d montage up another cassette of local off-air recordings. This from 1989.

https://soundcloud.com/jonno-9/power-fm-ocean-sound-and-southern-sound-off-air-clips

Embedded at home.recnet.com/soundcloud

[RobinBlamires]

Ah lovely! I was actually working on my second series of off-air compliations just last night. Should be up next month though probably won’t be as good as this.

[IainJohnston]

Excellent Jonno! Hazy memories of years of summer holidays “Down South”, IoW, and over on the Channel islands…

Reception of so many damn good stations receivable from Pompey – Power, Spire, Ocean, Southern… and even
the odd bit of bleed/lift from over La Manche (e.g. Opalis) and every one seemed to have utterly brilliant jingles :^(
…JAM/Alfa, AJ (especially superb Power and Spire), David Arnold, and even French JAM/TempleOfTune(?) in the case
of Opalis… all now sadly gone and replaced by … “fully-compliant with UK tax regulations financial vehicles”…

Must really get “round tuit” and digitize some of the drawer-full of similar cassettes here!

[jonnoMemberAuthor]

Thanks for the kind words Robin and Iain.

Whatever happened to Chris Kelly after he left Power FM?

[PKMember]

Ahh that Dave Arnold Southern Sound jingle that so blatently copied the TM Synchronism Cut 8 jingle that the Chiltern Network used at the Top Of The Hour!

[IainJohnston]

The various David Arnold customs are big gaps in my collection – his “product” seemed to be very big below the Humber-Severn line and never reached anywhere near Scotland.

Only in recent years have I been able to definitely identify his work to relate to some of my old aircheck cassettes from that era.

Quick question for Jonno:- did Power FM actually have a JAM KIIS package at one time, or was it AJ Productions doing a very good impersonation of JAM vocals? :^)

[RobinBlamires]

Was definitely a resing of “KIIS 90” circa 1992/93. Was used in tandem with a TM Century KIIS package and contained that amazing part-home-grown top of hour. John will probably have even clearer memories.

[IainJohnston]

Thanks Robin
Must have been strange for a station to use 2 “competing” producers similar packages at the same time!

I still have a good dub of that TOH, but only low-q Mp3 bits of what I’d thought were AJ JAM-like cuts

[jonnoMemberAuthor]

Here’s a fast paced montage of the TMC jingles

https://soundcloud.com/jonno-12/tm-century-jingles-for-1992-power-fm

Embedded at home.recnet.com/soundcloud

[jonnoMemberAuthor]

and the TOH you refer to Iain

https://soundcloud.com/jonno-12/power-fm-toh-1993

Embedded at home.recnet.com/soundcloud

[IainJohnston]

“fast paced” – on helium or the 5%-speedup often used by stations on “records” to make them sound “brighter” :^)

That “sound FX of breaking bottles and smashed windows” urban-style package (or some of it) appeared in Edinburgh when Forth “RFM” dropped the “R” – either it “didn’t work here” or they’d no idea how to “use ’em” – they disappeared. And the station has had very few sung jingles ever since :^(

For some reason I’m still convinced Power had AJ cuts at some stage?

And to this day that “in-house” compiled TOH/news sequence is utterly one of the best on-air I’ve ever heard :^)

[PKMember]

Power did have AJ cuts, I remember hearing them on the station in April 1989.

[mbMember]

Power launched with AJ Jingles

[rakMember]

Great stuff, jonno. My 1996 aircheck (I was staying in a hotel for work, and would leave a cassette running while at breakfast/dinner etc) is still on Soundcloud. Probably worth skipping past the first 2 or 3 minutes https://soundcloud.com/davidfurness/power-fm-aircheck-1996

Grooveaddicts jingles, BJ and McKenna sweepers. A great sounding station at that time.

[jonnoMemberAuthor]

Think I must have missed that first time round David.. good stuff!

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