[jonnoMember]

A throwback to the 70s here – Radio Clyde 261 jingles (text edited in the light of Iain’s comment below)

[IainJohnston]

………(*Ahem*)…

Jonno, these are the 1978 ( 77 ?) EmiSON re-hashed ones based upon the original 1973 EmiSON launch package.

Have you got more of those? And stereo?
The quality seems to be “less mushy” than the couple of dubs that I have.

This package also “featured” the most uselessly-used BIG news jingle in the history of ILR (IMPO).

PS – the “24 Hours” etc male acapellas seem to be the same “vocalist(s)/production” as the Radio Tees custom of about the same time.

[mbMember]

not heard some of those they sound quite nice and much better than the earlier package.

[IainJohnston]

“much better than the earlier package”

“Popular music” had evolved a bit since 1973 – lots of string synthesisers (remember them!!!)
and the “Steve Wonder frantic electronic organ” sound on some of the cuts.

Used badly (IMPO) on the air, but Clyde quite frankly never really seemed to “understand” jingles very
well until the AM/FM-split MMI stuff, then they really did it all much better with the JAM 1993 composite.

Anything before that, including some of the Standard Sound earlier Muff Murfin offereings and so on,
got more or less used as “buffers” around advert breaks.

Very much (I think) due to the persons in the post of “Head of Music” (a very Auntie BBC phrase)
in the first two decades of the station (I won’t say names), compared with someone who came
along later “from the East”!

[PKMember]

I definitely remember hearing that news jingle on holidays on the Isle Of Skye back in 77, 78 & 79.

[IainJohnston]

Aye, PK, but did your hear the “tingly news jingle” as in its “suite” as provided…
or the hard-brass instrumental thing they chopped up and used instead?
(…because no-one seemed to have the slightest clue how to use the “original” in
any shape or form live, or even to edit it into some kind of functional “tool of the trade”).

PS – technically you shouldn’t have been able to hear “261” as far away up towards
the Islands by day (by night, no problem), but the original TX was a belter!

Note:- some of the post-EmiSON, pre-AM/FM-split era Muff Murfin customs are STILL
on my Grails List.
But not really the “261 Thistle Power” package that was between the 2 EmiSON “proper
jingles” productions – one to “hear but avoid” as an example of….something indescribable.

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