[Tony MullinsMember]

I was reflecting this week how we will probably not see station songs again, but it’s lovely to look back!

What are your favorite station songs?

Here are 3 from where I live; Peak 107fm from North Derbyshire, High Peak Radio and Moorlands Radio (I wrote the lyrics for the last one).

I would love to hear any ‘station songs’ you have in your collection or indeed any you wrote or had produced! Please share if you can!

[IainJohnston]

Question is – who was THAT “Peak” one produced for first?
Peak or Kingdom?
:^)

[Tony MullinsMemberAuthor]

> @IainJohnston said:
> Question is – who was THAT “Peak” one produced for first?
> Peak or Kingdom?
> :^)

Not heard the Kingdom version – do you have it? (it’s the one I had re-sung for Moorlands in 2004!)

[IainJohnston]

Have it kicking around on a CD (somewhere!)
Will post it later.

In the meantime, a short but nice one from “the cassette days”…(and its a DIFFERENT “Fife”…)
:^)
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/ij-fifeshirefm-nelson-nz

[IainJohnston]

NOT the Steve England Kingdom one (still looking…) but the TM one from 2010…
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/ij-kingdomfm-fifepromotion-tm

[IainJohnston]

OK, the Steve England Kingdom FM one, from Steve’s ID Collection Vo2 track22 the “Get Real” demo
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/ij-kingdomfm-stationsong-steveengland-getreal

The Peak 107 version is the first cut on track 5 of that CD.

[martinlesterMember]

> @IainJohnston said:
> NOT the Steve England Kingdom one (still looking…) but the TM one from 2010…
> https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/ij-kingdomfm-fifepromotion-tm

I always Liked that Song from TM I thought the Vocals from Annagrey was spot on

[IainJohnston]

At the time, Martin,2010 (?) someone asked who the distinct “new” male vocalist was on that.

Don’t know if have heard him since, at least not on solos?

[GrahamCollins]

For me it’s the first Capital Radio Main Theme from 1973 produced by George Martin and featuring the London Symphony Orchestra plus Blue Mink:

https://youtu.be/sSXjd3kJssE

When you heard this you knew something had gone wrong !

[IainJohnston]

The Kingdom TM “”We’re for Fife” business/promotion big cut…
…possibly got a mixout turned into a resing for WBZZ B94New Kensington (Pittsburgh) PA.

Audio credit for my extract here is to NealB – though the original audio is somehow tagged as RW not TM?
Either that, or there’s some other “link” between the music composition/production?

https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/wbzz-b94-pittsburgh-reelworld

PS – I know there’s various mixouts etc of the full TM version and they’ve been embargoed for all of
these 10 years…but should anyone just happen to have a copy of the full set just “accidently lurking”
somewhere…..?
:^)

[IainJohnston]

From a demo cassette I mooched from EMIson in 1976 (!), this one’s for Big Dave…
;^)
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/radio-hallam-sheffield

[IainJohnston]

Since its still raining, might as well….

https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/ij-brmb-emison-1974

[ntcarver0Member]

> @IainJohnston said:
> The Kingdom TM “”We’re for Fife” business/promotion big cut…
> …possibly got a mixout turned into a resing for WBZZ B94New Kensington (Pittsburgh) PA.
>
> Audio credit for my extract here is to NealB – though the original audio is somehow tagged as RW not TM?
> Either that, or there’s some other “link” between the music composition/production?
>
> https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/wbzz-b94-pittsburgh-reelworld
>
> PS – I know there’s various mixouts etc of the full TM version and they’ve been embargoed for all of
> these 10 years…but should anyone just happen to have a copy of the full set just “accidently lurking”
> somewhere…..?
> :^)
>
>

Apologies if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure this cut is ReelWorld rather than TM, as the same cut appears in a RW demo that I have for B94.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/boa89xg5ltrl6jt/ReelWorld-1999-B94-Pittsburgh.mp3?dl=0

[IainJohnston]

OK, indeed Noah – “Ramp #1”.

1) laughed (?) at the “intro vox-pop girls wording” – sounded like a send-up of the old poor PAMS Series 45 (or whatever it was) demo.
2) if ever a female vocalist sounded plain drunk or even stoned, those dire “slurred” enunciation shouldn’t have have got beyond the front door,
even if it was considered “the style of the time”.

All “In my personal opinion”, that is…

[rakMember]

Has to be the PAMS song for Metro Radio late ’74/early ’75. Len Groat did a top job with the lyrics for this, getting around the locations in the patch and selling the station. Still sounds good after 45+ years.

https://soundcloud.com/colin-n-ridley/metro-radio-solid-rock-song-nov-1974

[IainJohnston]

By Gawd, the Metro one sounds damn good in headphones!

:^)

Anyone care to post the Irish resing?

And in the meantime, by the technical miracle of (my dodgy) digital editing, something that doesn’t
get heard this way very often…
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/ij-gemam-solidrocksong-but-different
:^)

[Tony MullinsMemberAuthor]

……and of course the new version I had made in February 2020 for Solid Gold GEM AM! (love this song!)

https://soundcloud.com/tony-mullins-1/solid-gold-gem-am-solid-rock-song-tony-mullins-february-2020

[Tony MullinsMemberAuthor]

> @IainJohnston said:
> By Gawd, the Metro one sounds damn good in headphones!
>
> :^)
>
> Anyone care to post the Irish resing?

This one? https://soundcloud.com/tony-mullins-1/solid-rock-song-irelands-2fm

[UKJinglesMember]

Note the “sing this in an Irish Accent Please” Noticeable on a certain word 5 seconds in!!…
Forgotten how good this resing was! 😉

[Tony MullinsMemberAuthor]

> @petewilson said:
> Note the “sing this in an Irish Accent Please” Noticeable on a certain word 5 seconds in!!…
> Forgotten how good this resing was! 😉

Pete – Just played it to my other half….. she having been subjected to my own version for months (poor lady), and she noticed the Irish pronunciations straight away.

[Tony MullinsMemberAuthor]

Talking of GEM – Just remembered this from Trent 301

[martinlesterMember]

> @IainJohnston said:
> The Kingdom TM “”We’re for Fife” business/promotion big cut…
> PS – I know there’s various mixouts etc of the full TM version and they’ve been embargoed for all of
> these 10 years…but should anyone just happen to have a copy of the full set just “accidently lurking”
> somewhere…..?
> :^)
>

Or Maybe TC would consider putting this on a Basics Collection??

[IainJohnston]

1) Great version Tony :^)
2) 2FM – I’m sure on a previous JM discussion, it was said that that version was recorded in ROI with Irish singers?
3) Kingdom – MPF Basics – would be nice, but suspect at 2010 its too “recent” to be in the category that TC is permitted to release

[IainJohnston]

From a cassette sold by the now-long-gone station for £8.99 or whatever…Lantern FM Devon
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/ij-lanternfm-alfasound

PS – its weird to listen to the 1:10 long acapella mixout!

[IainJohnston]

From the land of “FurryBoots”…
https://soundcloud.com/allthebestjingles01/ij-northsound-stationsong-tm-mmi

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