[ratnobMember]

We'll use this thread to announce Bob Dinan Podcast updates …

New karaoke cuts now posted:

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/3/14_Karaoke_Time.html

[dianablanton1984Member]

Wow, am I seeing double? Odd…

[tyty21]

geoff, i have a question, i've been trying to here your podcasts, however, i have quicktime, but when loading, i don't know what to press to make it play! note: i don't have vision, i have a screne reader reading me what it says on screne. could you get back with me please?

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Hell, Tyrone. Well, I'm not sure what to say. Normally you'd click the image and it plays the file (usually an mp3 or m4a file). You're right that it uses Quicktime. Lots of people do seem able to hear the audio, so I wonder whether you need a more recent version of Quicktime. Sorry not to be more helpful – I'm not a tecchie!

[MikeBrown]

Yeh more jingles! Between your podcast and David's jingle news show my jingle cravings are becoming more and more satisfied!

[LenGroat]

Well spotted Geoff and Bob !

Of course there is a 'the story behind those early jingles'. The ridiculous anti-competitive rules imposed by the IBA in an agreement they made with the Musicians Union BEFORE ILR was launched prevented us from using any American jingle companies. They also forbad the singers multi-tracking the vocal into the Dallas-style block sound, or if you did that they had to be be paid 3 times 'session rate' for 3 layers!

Even before we used Alfasound I ordered 6 cuts from JAM in 1979 that our presenters paid for individually – the IBA/MU could do nothing about that…

Alan Fawkes and I spent a long time discussing tracks and instrumentation, how to capture the 'feel' of the instruments on the cuts (the main trumpet player was well over 50) but the Halle orchestra string players were always great. Steve England and I then spent hours tryng to capture the American vocal style, and I think sometimes we did. Certainly the Trent jingles influenced many of the ILR stations ~ Severn Sound, Chiltern, Viking, DevonAir, Centre Radio, and even Radio 2 (Ireland's Number One)! If you check through their packages you will find cuts (ironically) based on Trent ones…

Of course our early Trent cuts were mainly a great 'homage' to JAM and the incredibly skilled and creative writers, singers and musicians, with some 'Chris Kershaw magic' thrown in via his 'Simple & Free'.

How different ILR might have sounded in the 80s if we'd been able to use JAM (and TM) at that time…. As it was the 'golden days' of ILR (in my opinion) were to be 1988 to 1995, before the computers, suits and Australian consultants told everyone 'how to do it'.

Len

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Boring but important audio added to the Bob site:

WPLJ PD Larry Burger explains the station's format change in 1982. When they began playing Michael Jackson songs, the audience had reacted in fury. Here he justifies the station changes.

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/3/17_You’ve_Got_the_Power.html

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Podcast updated with some of the greatest home-grown jingles in the first ten years of ILR: Emison's Sunshine Sound, of course:

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/3/19_Sunshine_Sound.html

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Podcast updated with a simple question about Tanner:

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/3/24_Bitter_Sweet.html

[SeanMartin]

ratnob wrote:

Podcast updated with a simple question about Tanner:

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/3/24_Bitter_Sweet.html

Well, Uncle Bob, I think you'll find that your “simple question” has a “simple answer” – this sounds more like a TM/Tanner montage than purely Tanner work. The better-sounding cuts, as you highlight, are from TM and are still being resung today.

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

I stand corrected. Many thanks. That'll teach me not to label my jingle collection properly.

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Podcast updated: 1980 recording of Peter Young on London's Capital Radio added:

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/3/27_Capital_Nostalgia.html

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Podcast updated with some classic WIFI from 1983: http://bit.ly/dhBE5A

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Podcast updated with the start of a series: “jingles that make us think of summer”:

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/4/9_Sunshine_Sound_(1).html

Other suggestions welcomed.

[Good Time Oldie]

Geoff, this is the first I have been able to follow the links and actually hear the audio, it must have something to do with my daughter installing that bloody annoying “Quicktime” lol.

However, I am very pleased she has because you sure do have some wonderful cuts over there. I loved the “Summer” cut and nice to hear plenty of classic T.C jingles in the montages too.

In the words of The Foundations “Baby, now that I have found you…”, you have me hooked and looking forward to some more coool cuts.

Now back to the veranda and my Pina Calardo

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Mike

What a kind message – thank you. Have another sip of that drink on me!

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

As the sunshine continues in UK, Bob's podcast updated with the classic Sunshine Sound theme from a station that launched 34 years ago this month (Beacon 303):

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/4/10_Sunshine_Sound_(2).html

[AndyWaltersMember]

34 years ago on Monday. Doubt they'll do anything to celebrate it though. I gave them a load of stuff for their 30th Birthday at their request that never got used.

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Last in the series (for now) of jingles that capture the sound of sunshine:

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/4/11_Sunshine_Sound_(3).html

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

New audio added.
A Country Conundrum: Who did these country jingles for WSAN?

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/4/13_Country_Conundrum.html

[dianablanton1984Member]

Just by listening to this, it is TM's “Everyone's Coming Up a Winner” resung for WSAN.

Hope this helps!

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Aha – of course! Thanks for the quick reply.

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Bob Dinan Podcast updated:

Shotgun wedding:
http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/4/17_Shotgun_Wedding.html

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Podcast update:

PAMS Radio One cut which proclaims, perhaps a little idealistically, how Radio One is “uniting the nation”:

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/4/18_Uniting_the_Nation.html

[ratnobMemberAuthor]

Podcast update: “Happy Radio”:

http://web.me.com/geoffbarton/Blog/Jingle_Podcast/Entries/2010/4/24_Happy_Radio.html

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