[MarcMannetje]

Let's start a new thread for fun:

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST, MOST MEMORABLE, CLASSIC AUDIO LOGO EVER COMPOSED?

There are a lot sonic logo's in use at the time, and a lot are very similar or even related to each other (for example, WLS was turned into KIIS FM was turned into KHTR/Hit Radio).

My favourite is the combination of 100.3 – WNIC as produced by JAM: the lyrics rhyme and so does the melody: if you only here “One Hundred Point Three” you know there has to come a second part, brilliant!

What do you think is a strong melody line? And why?

[Bigdave]

I think it has to be the WABC logo – over 40 years of use now and still part of their JAM packages. And what's more,there's a story behind it too…

Early PAMS packages featured a sonic logo using the melody of the early 60's TV Series “77 Sunset Strip”,making it an easy transition for arrangers in Dallas to alter it to “77 WABC”. But a change made by legendary PD Rick Sklar saw the station approach songwriters Rogers & Hart to purchase the rights to “I'll Take Manhattan”,paying an annual fee for it's useage and incorporating it into many classic PAMS series.

The use of an existing song though is not just a US thing. Radio 1's first PAMS package in 1967 uses “London Bridge Is Falling Down”,a popular english nursery rhyme, to sing out that “Radio One Is Wonderful”. In 1974, UK station Radio Hallam went on the air with a package with a sonic logo based around the English North Country Folk Song “On Ikley Moor Bah t'at”, and back in the mid 1980's, Alfasound's package for BBC Radio Sussex used the tune of another old song once popular in the county the station was based in ,”Good Old Sussex By The Sea”.

[passajou]

WABC and Z100.

[mbMember]

I like the Sue Manning Piccadilly logo

[MartinS]

I like the Key 103 Reelworld '06 5 note logo. I'm always whistling it, even when in the transmission areas of Key 103's sister stations!

[freq-ky]

I seem to have the early Radio Victory stuff on my mind.Probably because of the pompey chimes.

Z100 (WHTZ,NY) now there's one which has gone through the likes of JAM,TM (briefly),Reelworld,etc and still held adhered to it's style while being adjustable to other worldwide station names.

[SeanMartin]

Hot rockin', flamethrowin' . . . . . Z100.

Here's the logo sung for a station that's just as famous . .

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1168422495_6738_FT42032_c100_acappella.mp3 filename:1168422495_6738_FT42032_c100_acappella.mp3

Must admit, though, I'm pretty partial to the KissFM logo. It too is versatile and adapts easily whatever you want to throw at it, as the example below shows.

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1168422927_6738_FT42032_kissfm_logo_for_kkxs.mp3 filename:1168422927_6738_FT42032_kissfm_logo_for_kkxs.mp3

-Sean

[MarcMannetje]

Nice story about WABC-logo!

Here's what I really like about the WNIC/JAM series: they wrote a special melody for the moniker
“It's Nice In Detroit” / “Detroits Nicest Rock”.
The sonic logo was fused into a lot of cuts, very subtle: even when the slogan is not sung, you somehow know it's there. It keeps the moniker Top Of The Mind, very good.

I had the pleasure of using a lot of JAM jingles in my carreer – here is a compilation which shows how the melody was used over the past 10 years. At the end a sung syndicated WNIC-cut for the station I worked for back in 1999, in Dutch!

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1168430573_6166_FT42032_demo_its_nice_in_detroit.mp3 filename:1168430573_6166_FT42032_demo_its_nice_in_detroit.mp3

[Barras]

Jon Wolfert talked about the WABC logo/melody in the WABC Rewound radio show, here`s the bit when they mention the “Manhatten” song/melody.

http://www.davidbarras.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/JAM_JonWABC.mp3

David Barras

[MarcMannetje]

WABC is very classic indeed. I know that WPLJ (when it was positioned as the new ABC-FM Station in New York) took over the same sonic logo. TM even produced jingles which featured the '77' logo for '95-5'.

Another trivia regards another New York frequency: AM 66. We all now it from WNBC. When WFAN flipped to 66(the sports station started at another frequency, 1050) JAM used the exact same notes for “six-ty six”. I compiled the frequency sings from WNBC and WFAN jingles, so you can hear the similarity:

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1168446241_6166_FT42032_demo_66.mp3 filename:1168446241_6166_FT42032_demo_66.mp3

[JingleMadMember]

I like the current WILV-LoveFM logo by groove addicts.
another logo is the WJXA logo.

II keep listening to the current package… I think theirs a weather cut some whare…

[MarcMannetje]

The WJXA logo that Groove Addicts put out was orginally created for the German station NDR 2. If you listen closely, you can here a 4 note melody in the GA cuts, and a 5 note logo in the sequel which was custom made for Mix 929 by Reelworld.

[JingleMadMember]

Can Anyone Give me the full dee-tails of the Current WRXQ Cincinatti Weather Cut? I can't play it.

[jonnoMember]

I seem to have the early Radio Victory stuff on my mind.Probably because of the pompey chimes.

A very good logo with strong local identity … even Portsmouth's new(ish) community station Express FM use the pompey chimes logo in their news in cut

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1168455061_930_FT42032_express_news_in_new.mp3 filename:1168455061_930_FT42032_express_news_in_new.mp3

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