[kolossMember]

This was brought up here a few years ago as to the origins of this WLS summer cut; without any resolve lol– running thru an old tape from June 1977 I found a TOH that I think I faintly remember; but– it sounds like a really good edit– the "chicago" is obvious; but the main vocal sounds odd–? or maybe there just was a fast and a slow. Here are both. The TOH from 1977 and the fast cut from 1981 (still using it) off air.

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spirit of summer 1.mp3 (386.8 KB) 

[Marcia]

This was brought up here a few years ago as to the origins of this WLS summer cut; without any resolve lol– running thru an old tape from June 1977 I found a TOH that I think I faintly remember; but– it sounds like a really good edit– the "chicago" is obvious; but the main vocal sounds odd–? or maybe there just was a fast and a slow. Here are both. The TOH from 1977 and the fast cut from 1981 (still using it) off air.

I think you're right about the Legal ID being an edit. To me, it sounds like the "Chicago" part that's tacked on at the end, came from either the Windy or Modulators package from PAMS. I would love to know if the "Spirit of Summer" cuts came from PAMS or who did them.

[TServo2049]

I think you're right about the Legal ID being an edit. To me, it sounds like the "Chicago" part that's tacked on at the end, came from either the Windy or Modulators package from PAMS. I would love to know if the "Spirit of Summer" cuts came from PAMS or who did them.

They're definitely PAMS – must have been a custom. In Ken R.'s last years of selling CDs, I often suggested items from his reference library to include on his compilations, and I don't remember seeing this on his ref list, at least not marked as "Spirit of Summer."

[wls890forever]

For me, this is the holy grail of radio jingles.

I first heard it on a school trip to Chicago in 1977. I'll never forget hearing this jingle and listening to jocks like John Landecker and even news reporters like Linda Marshall while riding around town on a school bus and listening to a transistor radio as I was sacking out in a sleeping bag on a gymnasium floor. I've been singing it in my head for over 30 years and have never been able to find it.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this jingle. Thanks koloss for bringing that memory to life! ratnob

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[wls890forever]

For me, this is how radio should sound.
(No idea about the origin of the cuts, but thanks for asking!)

[StarbrelzMember]

I've been working on cleaning up these airchecked versions of the 4 basic Spirit of Summers for several years (having the same luck everybody else has had with finding the originals.)

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WLS Spirit of Summer 3-pack.mp3 (313.5 KB) 

[Barras]

Good work there Starbrelz, they sound great. Here`s some more summer WLS jingles…

http://www.4shared.com/audio/lXFjkib4/WLS_LET_THE_SUN_SHINE.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/8Y-L6ti0/WLS_ALL_SUMMER_LONG.html

http://www.4shared.com/audio/51zuR6tG/WLS_SUMMERTIME.html

[patlaw]

The Spirit of Summer jingles were PAMS. Our station (WLNC) had two of them sung with our call letters. I still have them somewhere. If I had known the were going to be rare, I’d have gotten a mix with the WLS call letters when we were mixing ours. At that time, PAMS kept the WLS/WABC/WGAR call letters on the multitrack.

[StarbrelzMember]

Would love to hear those!

[teachercreature]

Please try to find’em.

[StarbrelzMember]

I tried to see if Ken R had these back when he was doing the PAMS resings, but I don’t think he responded to that question. Since it was during the waning days of PAMS, I wonder if the tracks got lost…

[DWSharp]

Hello Starbrelz… I have these cuts in the clear for WABC. “The spirit of summer” is replaced with “Seventy Seven”. Hear them in your head? same syllables.
They never used them of course. They were produced for a presentation.
Bill Meeks was trying to lure Rick Sklar back to PAMS. Didnt work cuz JAM was on fire at the time, taking over the world.

Got a bad dub of the presentation from Sklar in the 80’s. Meeks gave me a clean dub in 1989. He claimed these were from “series 50” which never really happened.

While at JAM I unpacked and inspected the PAMS multitrack masters when they arrived at 5454 Parkdale, there was nothing there in respect to “series 50”. They must live on some other multi track master tape.

The WLS “Spirit of Summer: tracks/cuts were definetly sung at PAMS sometime in the spring of 1977. Just listen and you can hear that they could be a part of series 49. I think they should classified as series 49C of 49X. After that, anything that Meeks produced outside of the building is not going to sound anywhere close to that vocal sound. It could not be replicated unless you were inside Office Parkway’s studio in 1977 using the same singers.

To edit those cuts with “series 49A” and sound that good? Screams Parkdale Drive. I will post the WABC versions when I find them.

[DWSharp]

To correct myself:

Wrote:
“To edit those cuts with “series 49A” and sound that good? SCREAMS PARKDALE DRIVE. I will post the WABC versions when I find them.”

Should say “SCREAMS 4141 Office Parkway”

OOPS, my bad

[StarbrelzMember]

You da man!

[TABrown]

Dave,
Can’t wait to hear them!

[StarbrelzMember]

Here’s hoping something of these cuts gets posted before the end of the Mayan Calendar…

[teachercreature]

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[IainJohnstonMember]

I take it no-one yet knows of any station that has ordered a mini-package
of “Happy New Bak’Tun’ # 14 !” cuts?

[kolossMemberAuthor]

I’m glad this thread still holds interest; I’d love to hear these collected.
I spoke to someone at WLS here and they can’t find them either–though they said they may have carts (?) somewhere…
A friend who was able to copy much of their library in the 80’s didn’t get them either.

[StarbrelzMember]

Your friend didn’t happen to copy the 8 Fresh Kiss cuts, did he?

[StarbrelzMember]

Following up on what DWSharp said about the WABC versions of the PAMS Spirit of Summer cuts… a portion of the PAMS presentation audio appears at the end of ‘PAMS Mosiac 16’ on JingleSamplers.com. 2 of the cuts, plus a 3rd with the front cut off. Still would like to hear these in the clear someday.

[TABrown]

Koloss, I sent you a private message.

[patlaw]

Here is the WLNC sing of one of the “Spirit of Summer” cuts.
http://chirb.it/HC5qNg

[kolossMemberAuthor]

Well that is neat to hear since these cuts are so elusive-
I wonder if that was a after-pams bootleg track re-sing (if you will) because that logo melody as laid on there just doesn’t sound quite right. Even on the WABC cut there was a pause.

[DWSharp]

Wow koloss! The elusive summer cut reappears. Thanks for the audio.
Never found that cut when looking at the PAMS Series 49 reduction master.
Must be on another tape. The version you posted is from early 1977.
Thanks mucho grande.
Starbrelz will be equally if not happier than I.
Jingle-on,
Dave Sharp

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