[topcat]

Three years ago I tried to transfer a DAT I'd made at WTIC-FM in 1998. The digital dropout was massive. I wanted to extract WTIC references I'd dubbed at the station. I never finished copying all of their reels before they moved their studios — and then it was too late. Their jingle masters were “lost” in the move.

I shelved the project because it was becoming too tedious digital editing every cut. But — the materials didn't exist elsewhere and I was determined to rescue as many cuts as possible.

Guess what last night's project was? I present for your listening pleasure selected cuts from the WTIC-FM jingle masters as dubbed in 1998. This is a cross section of a few TM Production packages from the seventies and eighties. THE ACTUALIZERS package later became known as HOT HITS. The rest you can sort out for yourselves.

WTIC-FM Hartford, CT – Misc TM Package Cuts

WABC had a custom package done at one point by Frank Gari Productions. While cleaning out reels at the station, a 4-track sub-master of the package was discovered. How could I resist taking the original mono package and remixing it, as best I could, into Stereo. Here are a couple of cuts from that session.

WABC New York City – Frank Gari Productions – Stereo Mixes

I hope you all enjoy this stuff as much as I do.

[LenGroat]

TC

Thanks…. I missed these great selections back in March…(great quality!)

Len

[TaterStud]

Tracy –

AWESOME mixes, but it is blasphemy (is that spelled right) to hear the WABC call letters not being sung to the “correct” logo. Wow – that is something I never thought I'd hear in my life.

I'm truly shocked…but yet I'm listening over and over!

~Roth

[topcat]

The Frank Gari cuts are rather unique, Chris. Instead of being transitioning cuts for music, they are promotional story cuts meant to invoke a positive “feeling” for the station's talk format.

Were they affective? Hell… I don't know. But I do notice that additional cuts weren't purchased from the company, which might be some kind of indicator of how management perceived them at the time that they needed to be updated or replaced. Than again, that might have just been a budget thing. (grin)

Best…

[topcat]

As I continue to transfer TM Century references from 1989-1991, here is a quickie sampler for your listening pleasure.

A QUICK TM SAMPLER

[TServo2049]

Judging by the melody line, the Gari WABC jingles were also used on WXYT in Detroit (after it changed its calls from WXYZ). KYW-TV in Philadelphia also used them for a TV image campaign, as did KTVI in St. Louis.

I am pretty certain that they were NOT created for WABC.

Then again, they may simply use the same hook melody…

[brandashq]

Do you want to re-upload The WBZ Package demo from TM productions for me please?

[TServo2049]

Here's a great TM TV campaign, “Get to Know Us”. I'm sure Tracy has the masters to this somewhere:

WUTV 29 Buffalo
WVTV 18 Milwaukee
KMPH 26 Fresno

TM demoed this campaign for WBAL, a network affiliate who never used it, but it became popular among UHF indie powerhouses like these three.

[topcat]

It's been a while since I've posted new goodies…. so this morning, let's go Canadian………..

Let's Go Canadian Sampler…. eh?

[topcat]

I think I should add to this thread at least once a quarter. Here are a couple of items that might be of interest………

1. KYGO Denver, Colorado
TM Productions WINNING SCORE and FUSION
Produced by John Driscoll 10/10/1979 at THE VILLAGE RECORDER in West Los Angeles

2. WRCQ Hartford, Connecticut
TM Productions YOU I and YOU II

[GlennaMember]

Good stuff Topcat!!

[ejjeffMember]

TC, Great stuff. WTAE-AM in Pittsburgh bought You II in March 1976. You can hear it on my WTAE website. Here is the link to the jingles page. http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/taejingles.htm

Jeff Roteman

[topcat]

While combing through some reels, I was listening to a couple of old PAMS items with logos that were out of the ordinary. Hopefully you'll enjoy them too!

WHEN Syracuse, NY – PAMS Composite

WPGC Washington, DC – PAMS Series 42A

[topcat]

I'm house cleaning… Too many CDs… too little time.

WHYN-FM JAM RB#1 Promo Song (Aug 1983) STEREO

[Barras]

Excellent TC, thanks for posting…wasn`t that jingle-song originally written by Hardy-Kirk ?

[IainJohnstonMember]

“I'm house cleaning… Too many CDs… “

Well, if you're throwing out surplus jingle CDs TC, you know where we all live!
(…and it would solve the problem of what to give for Christmas presnts this year!)

[topcat]

Barras wrote:
Excellent TC, thanks for posting…wasn`t that jingle-song originally written by Hardy-Kirk ?

Indeed, David… This was part of the package written in 1974 for KJIM in Fort Worth. For further details check out… http://www.reelradio.com/production/index.html#hardykirk74

Best-TC

[topcat]

Wixy1360 wrote:
“I'm house cleaning… Too many CDs… “

Well, if you're throwing out surplus jingle CDs TC, you know where we all live!
(…and it would solve the problem of what to give for Christmas presnts this year!)

I have a couple of refugees comin' across the pond for a visit shortly. They get first crack at the duplicates! It's a first come, first served kinda thing around here.

-TC

[topcat]

While Mr. Barras and Mr. Bowden were visiting last week we transferred 100+ TMCI reference DATs to the hard drive. Here is a quick sampler of some of those transfers and some I've done after their departure….

Quickie TM Century Sampler – November 2009

[tyty21]

good thing I grabbed while the gettin's good! i had no idea that TM got a crack at WOGL in phillie before they went to the top dallas powerhouse! as usual, good work TC! never been to longmeadow, but will get there soon! that WOGL cut, was that from rock and roll classics? I know that was a custom for KYA FM in San Francisco, which I heard in the 90's, because i had a cousin living up there. a weekend's worth of drive, and my preset on my little radio i had!

[mhanna]

The Jingle Man just beat me to it…I've been listening to WOGL since it began and I don't recall that jingle. Do you know when it payed and are there more in the series? Thanks, Tracy, for posting!

[topcat]

Actually, that was the only cut for WOGL on the DAT, so I presume they either only purchased the ID or it was on spec to see if they would purchase the rest of the package.

[tyty21]

thanks for the info, Tracy!

[Barras]

Just wanted to publicly state that a week booked via Carman Jingle Airtours is one of the best holidays (sorry, vacation !) I`ve ever had – you even get a crock-pot ham roast thrown in. Thanks to Tracy for a superb jingle week spent in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA. The majority of Jinglemadders reading this will not know that TC has just started to develop the “jingle warehouse” with bigger storage space housing racks and racks of jingle reels and from a “jinglemad” collector`s point of view, it was absolutely fascinating seeing the jingle warehouse and all the reels of jingle history stored in the warehouse. The amount of jingle audio that the Media Preservation Foundation has in its archive has got to be seen in reality, to be believed….absolutely amazing. Furthermore, the collection of TMCI reference DATs – wow !

Thanks again Tracy…

[topcat]

Since you've pointed it out, I'll announce that MEDIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION is moving into a larger, cleaner, climate controlled facility. As part of this process, shelving has to be built from the ground up and ALL of the archives moved over (which has been an experience, since the movers didn't bother to take things off of the old shelves organized as they said they would).

A few pictures of the new facilities… a work in progress… are below to give you a feel for what we're working with.

Thanks to Doug Thompson, Neal Bowden and David Barras for pitching in to help schlep reels from the old place to the new. The fun has just begun…

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