[mbMember]

Is it this one

I've got this down as part of the EMISON set but I did get this from Brian Jones so he might be able to confirm / deny .

[GrahamCollins]

Hi Mike

This is really close – just longer and a more full mix. The vocalist is the girl I remember. Thanks for your thoughts. I'll contact Brian…..

[Brian]

Well chasps and chaspeses, the lesson begineth (that is not meant to be me with attitude honestly). It wasn't EMISON (praise be upon high). It was a short package done back in 1974 as an addition to the Gerry Marsden package because the jocks thought that some of the Gerry jingles were too uptempo. So someone who new someone's manager asked whether their artist would do some jingles for them. that someone was……….Linda Lewis, it is her jingle package and was used from day 1.
There are 2 cuts to that jingle 1 short and the one uploaded here.
The origin of the “nitty gritty” jingle is in fact an old song by Shirley Ellis (clapping song fame) and it was called “The Nitty Gritty”.
It is thought that the Linda Lewis jingles were recorded during the sessions for her “Not a little girl” album.
Hope this fills in one of those gaps in the jingle jigsaw.

[GrahamCollins]

Thanks Brian – great facts there. If I was marking you, this is A+ information. Have you got the shorter cut ? High time we did one of those good old fashioned trades

[mbMember]

If I had less scruples I'd amend my post hahahahahaah to look very clever
But as it was in with other eMISON jingles on my track I'll use that as my excuse.
Thanks for the infor Brian – always great to know the details behind the jingles.

[JingleMadMember]

So did this linda lewis jingle and the top of the hour jingle come out of the same smallpackage

Little known fact all the pc's at city over the years held back from putting 1….9…4 radio city jingle in the bin (bad luck vibes)….and I was used as the Vo to change that top of the hour jingle more than 15 years ago “across the northwest and north wales on 194 mw and 96.7 this is ( I think we used this station name ) City Fm “

[Brian]

barry wrote:
So did this linda lewis jingle and the top of the hour jingle come out of the same smallpackage

Little known fact all the pc's at city over the years held back from putting 1….9…4 radio city jingle in the bin (bad luck vibes)….and I was used as the Vo to change that top of the hour jingle more than 15 years ago “across the northwest and north wales on 194 mw and 96.7 this is ( I think we used this station name ) City Fm “

Barry, the news intro jingle1-9-4-Radio City was from the Gerry Marsden package and the vocalist was none other than the great voiced Madeleine Bell (at that time she was just about on most ILR jingle packages). I was up in the radio City beacon in January, the photographic results will appear in my website soon, and I was speaking to Richard Maddock, the station Director and he said that when the move from Stanley street to the tower came about the jingle tapes were in fact put into a skip…..boo hoo.

[JingleMadMember]

now thats taken me back..we all got told it was linda lewis..see 30 plus years on and a new piece of radio trivia to add to our list ..

I bet you dont have the news jingle I voiced .. I had them all on tape but I cant find them now

[mbMember]

barry wrote:
So did this linda lewis jingle and the top of the hour jingle come out of the same smallpackage

Little known fact all the pc's at city over the years held back from putting 1….9…4 radio city jingle in the bin (bad luck vibes)….and I was used as the Vo to change that top of the hour jingle more than 15 years ago “across the northwest and north wales on 194 mw and 96.7 this is ( I think we used this station name ) City Fm “

I always thought that this was the first post 1-9-4 news jingles – nice bit of JAM on the end.

http://www.c1hundred.co.uk/CityNews.mp3 plus a power shot stab.

[mbMember]

Brian Jones wrote:

So did this linda lewis jingle and the top of the hour jingle come out of the same smallpackage

Little known fact all the pc's at city over the years held back from putting 1….9…4 radio city jingle in the bin (bad luck vibes)….and I was used as the Vo to change that top of the hour jingle more than 15 years ago “across the northwest and north wales on 194 mw and 96.7 this is ( I think we used this station name ) City Fm “

Barry, the news intro jingle1-9-4-Radio City was from the Gerry Marsden package and the vocalist was none other than the great voiced Madeleine Bell (at that time she was just about on most ILR jingle packages). I was up in the radio City beacon in January, the photographic results will appear in my website soon, and I was speaking to Richard Maddock, the station Director and he said that when the move from Stanley street to the tower came about the jingle tapes were in fact put into a skip…..boo hoo.

Why do stations do that – Its not like they take up a lot of space and its part of thier history!!!

[JingleMadMember]

Maybe its people who dont rate radio the way others do .. its just a job to them..But I guess they get lots of people who are so geek about jingles

I remember someone telling me the make of tape the old tapetrix company used (blue)

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