[mbMember]

Or better know to UK residents as:-

CNFM
Classic Gold
Coast Classics ( not for a station I don’tt hink but a demo of classic hits cuts avaialable – at the time a lot of UK stations were looking for a second package for the aM spliters after an initial PAMs resing )
Fox FM
TFM

They are Alfasound Tracks and I think you are correct they are the Ken R singers – A number of Alfasound packagers were made available for the US market.

TFM was a classic – who could forget ninety six sixty T F eeeeMMMMMMMM

[RjM]

The LX Series 3 demo is featured on the JAM Oldies Volume 1 CD as “LX Gold”. I wondered why that package wasn’t listed on JAM’s online package index. The demo featured on the JAM CD can be downloaded from Top Format’s website http://shop.topformat.com/audio/lxgold.mp3

[martinlesterMember]

Jeffrey_T_Mason wrote: WOW. Here’s another from the chasm that I had TOTALLY forgotten existed. I received this tape probably 15 years ago from JAM. Note the conspicuous absence of any JAM logo on the cassette. You’ll also hear the JAM name only ONCE in the demo, at the VERY end.

As the demo states, it’s for smaller market stations with limited budgets. Cut lengths are specifically “satellite friendly.” It definitely is NOT the JAM vocal arrangement. Sounds like Ken R’s vocalists. Does anyone know the history of The LX Series?

Enjoy another lost jingle hit…or FIVE!

LX Series (INTRO): http://www.jeffreyt.com/audio/LX-OPEN.mp3
LX Series 1 (AC): http://www.jeffreyt.com/audio/LX-1.mp3
LX Series 2 (Oldies Based AC): http://www.jeffreyt.com/audio/LX-2.mp3
LX Series 3 (Oldies): http://www.jeffreyt.com/audio/LX-3.mp3
LX Series 4 (Soft Rock): http://www.jeffreyt.com/audio/LX-4.mp3
LX Series 5 (CHR): http://www.jeffreyt.com/audio/LX-5.mp3

The Singers are from KenR and as he is no longer in the Jingle Business
this is why they are not on the JAM website

LX stood for Less eXpensive

Most of the cuts did turn up on KenR’s Demo’s under a diffrent Name I think I even got one for myself!

At the time when JAM was charging Stations $250 a Cut ,the LX Cuts were about $50,this was long before the days of studio dragonfly so at the time offered a good deal for the smaller stations

[topcat]

Jeffrey_T_Mason wrote: Does anyone know the history of The LX Series?

Yes… I do. I was around when the project was being put together. The idea was for JAM to have a “budget line” (Less Expensive) of jingles available to the public.

Selected Alfa tracks were pulled and the demos (which you have) created. The idea was that cuts could be cranked out in Toledo for JAM (or non-JAM) clients who didn’t want to foot the tab, nor wait in the lengthy queue to have their cuts sung. However, it really wasn’t marketed by JAM… and therefore had a limited run.

Frankly, I’m surprised there are any demos of this stuff floating around at all.

-TC

[Barras]

Jeffrey_T_Mason wrote: Does anyone know the history of The LX Series?

First of all, thanks for posting the LX stuff Jeffro, I had never heard these re-sings before…

As mb mentioned earlier, some of the LX cuts (LX 5) were originally sung in England for TFM Cleveland UK. A lot of enthusiasts on this side of the pond will have heard the TFM cuts before in a montage from Steve England, from the Alfasound collector`s tapes, however, here they are for you Mr Mason.

http://www.streamload.com/davidbarras/Alfasound_TFM.mp3

Mr Barras

[martinlesterMember]

topcat” wrote:

Does anyone know the history of The LX Series?

The idea was for JAM to have a “budget line” (Less Expensive) of jingles available to the public.

The idea was that cuts could be cranked out in Toledo for JAM (or non-JAM) clients who didn’t want to foot the tab, nor wait in the lengthy queue to have their cuts sung. TC

Hi TC

I understand LX jingles were produced in 1991

Most Stations Today expect a 2 weeks Turn around but

What was the Turn arround for a syndicated Package then ?

[topcat]

martinlester wrote: Hi TC

I understand LX jingles were produced in 1991

Most Stations Today expect a 2 weeks Turn around but

What was the Turn arround for a syndicated Package then ?

There tended to be a backlog at points in time getting product out the doors in Dallas. In the case of KenR’s group, sessions were done on a weekly basis, singing what needed to be done and having it mixed and out the door the next day The Dallas companies… and I do generalize… tended to take a little longer to get the stuff sung, mixed and out the door. Also… the money involved was another incentive for stations to purchase the packages.

1991 sounds about right, as I made DAT copies of the master LX demos and backing tracks when I was out at KenR’s in Toledo. I was really out there pre-marriage… which would be 1988-96. I will have to go find them. As I recall, they are are on the DATs with the original ProPack #1… which was mastered on DAT, but sent to stations on reel-to-reel in those days. My how times have changed.

-TC

[Spoons]

Jeffro – thanks ever so much for posting these.

Fantastic to hear. I remember talk of Alfasound packages being made available to the US market when Alfa and JAM hooked up… but I never heard any examples of stations buying them so presumed it had never happened.

Great to hear these cuts again – especially seeing as I’m only used to the TFM, Great North Radio, FOX FM etc versions.

Cheers!

[UKJinglesMember]

Brilliant Jeffro…..
Something I never knew existed!
Love the LX4 Series

[bulger23]

Bravo Jeffro!
Those are new ones to me. Thank you sir.

Rich

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