[star tetley]

I challenge the wonderful Jinglemad family to post something that will cheer me up on this miserable day. Thanks.

[PKMember]

If I was at home and not looking at this while in a restaurant having a meal and was able to transfer a jingle from a vinyl LP I’d suggest the old dodgy East Anglian Productions Bank Holiday acapella jingle lol!

[jonnoMember]

here you go.. from Alfasound’s CBC package https://soundcloud.com/jonno-9/typical-weather-for-a-bank-holiday

[star tetley]

Thanks Jonno – that really cheered me up!

[UKJinglesMember]

If I was at home and not looking at this while in a restaurant having a meal and was able to transfer a jingle from a vinyl LP I’d suggest the old dodgy East Anglian Productions Bank Holiday acapella jingle lol!

Even I don’t remember that one!! )

[IainJohnston]

Somewhere in the disk boxes here there’s a classic Alfasound cut with something like…
“Its a typically English Summer….” in the lyrics, complete with appropriate thunder & lightning SFX :^)
But I can’t remember which station!

[PKMember]

It wasn’t Pennine Radio heh Iain?

[jonnoMember]

it was Pennine, and I think it played this afternoon on JingleMad Radio

[IainJohnston]

Thank you Gents!

It does show TRUE “jingle anorakness” to be able to actually identify the station in a single cut from a 30 year old custom package from just the words the first line of the lyric! :^)

I doubt that anything at all from “today’s product” could be “reverse identified” from their “lyrics” (….thump…”Bland FM”….).

I’m sure with more “notice” many a “summer weather” montage could be compiled…or even a few “four seasons in one day” ones – Scots JMers will understand that one…

The non-broadcast CBC cut was from a “seasons” cut (the ref tape reel is here), in the days when Alfasound especially would do cuts for each season, not just “Christmas, or all the rest of the year” as producers do now, as well as for different times of the day. Another kind of jingle “variety” sadly missing nowadays in “groundhog day” radio.

[PKMember]

The very British ‘twee’ pronunciation of the line “We’ll brighten it up on”… always makes me smile!

Often Alfasound would try to sound American in some of their vocals in the ‘then’ absence of USA custom jingles on ILR and that Pennine Radio cut sounded so very British in every way lol!

[star tetley]

Thank you Gents!

It does show TRUE “jingle anorakness” to be able to actually identify the station in a single cut from a 30 year old custom package from just the words the first line of the lyric! :^)

I doubt that anything at all from “today’s product” could be “reverse identified” from their “lyrics” (….thump…”Bland FM”….).

I’m sure with more “notice” many a “summer weather” montage could be compiled…or even a few “four seasons in one day” ones – Scots JMers will understand that one…

The non-broadcast CBC cut was from a “seasons” cut (the ref tape reel is here), in the days when Alfasound especially would do cuts for each season, not just “Christmas, or all the rest of the year” as producers do now, as well as for different times of the day. Another kind of jingle “variety” sadly missing nowadays in “groundhog day” radio.

Yes there was so much excitement. The Alfasound package for Centre Radio had lots of seasonal cuts that gave a great feel for the particular time of year. When would the summer jingle change to autumn? What would the autumn jingle sound like? It was all too much for me! Now the best we get is a few bells added at Christmas

[IainJohnston]

Now realising that the cut is from as far back as 1979 – even older than I though!

Ladles and Jellyspoons, I give you… “Typically English Summer” – and a few others from that custom – and yes, Christmas
cuts CAN have things other than (church) bells – like jingle bells and … reindeer hooves ??? (…or indeed, coconut shells…)…

[IainJohnston]

…and as a PS, with S.T. mentioning Autumn cuts appearing, here’s a quick “refresher”…

[PKMember]

Iain, that WNBC jingle between 1.25 and 1.40 minutes into your Quick Refresher montage most definitely sounds like the music on the track was lifted straight off The Carpenters single “For All We Know”…

[IainJohnston]

Aye, the WNBC cut was from the “Design” custom contract for WNBC circa 1970/71 by the original TM Productions, who of course then were heavily “influenced” shall we say by contemporary hit songs when they created MOR packages particularly.

There were of course “seasons” cuts in that custom, which was syndicated as Design 70 and then Design 72, but were both on-air in October 1971, ‘cos I mooched a 7.5 IPS dub from them back then…

[LenGroat]

And that TM ‘Autumn day that used to be’ cut ‘inspired’ a lyric for a Trent cut I wrote PRE Alfasound, recorded in London in 1978 with Johnny Arthey producing and some sessions singers who were in First Class. No audio of that but I can share the Solid Gold GEM AM version of the cut! Ours seems to have a lot more backing vocals Ian.

https://soundcloud.com/len-groat/design72-sggam

That’s our broadcast version – the singers held the last chord for 2 seconds longer- which was too long, so we cut it out.

[Tracy CarmanMember]

I always loved most of the Design packages (Design ’70; Design ’72; and Free Design). When I went down to Dallas fifteen years ago and started combing through what was left of the TM archives, I found the “sing” reels for WNBC, KLIF and a couple of other stations. I didn’t get a chance to mix all of them into stereo… but here are some of the ones that I did. To me, they still sound great after 40+ years… but let your own ears decide!

[PKMember]

Tracy, I have a suspicion a certain Peter Wilson will try to lay his claim to the second jingle in that medley lol!

[IainJohnston]

I think we must all be starting to around time-loops (Pete will know that one….), as we’ve been on this topic before…
…indeed its 6 years since I compiled the montages below, and they’ve been “Logged” over a 1000 times on S/c in the
various re-posts I’ve had to do when they went over the download limits…been my highest ever ” posting hits” on S/c…

…but to Collectors they’re still very “listenable” jingles as cuts or as the whole packages…even in “glorious” mono…
…the “real TM Productions” in their ascendency as the “new Sound of the Seventies”.

https://soundcloud.com/wixy1360/wixy1360-classictm-wnbc

https://soundcloud.com/wixy1360/wixy1360-classictm-wnbc-1

It would be truly VERY nice if some day they appeared on MPF Basics in TC’s stereo remixes format :^)

[Tracy CarmanMember]

The WNBC calls weren’t on all of the original tapes having been wiped to make room for others… so… remixing them all to Stereo wouldn’t be possible. I have remixed all of the backing tracks to Stereo from the 4-track reductions (along with several other packages)… but… obviously can’t post those.

[UKJinglesMember]

Tracy, I have a suspicion a certain Peter Wilson will try to lay his claim to the second jingle in that medley lol!

Ahhh the secrets out……my days at WNBC when I was known as “Big Wilson” and only 9 years old!!! LOL
Great Stereo compilation Tracy and I hadn’t heard that “Big Wilson” cut before only that other longer version on one of the other Design (’72?) Packages!!

[PKMember]

WNBC = Wilson (or Wycombe?) Network Broadcasting Corporation heh Pete? A new pirate station lol?

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