[IainJohnstonMember]

Hard to believe that these are close on 35 years old now…
Custom produced by EMISON of London (with possibly just more than a little help from the then TM Productions of the day) in 1975 for Swansea Sound in South Wales…

http://www.4shared.com/account/audio/oVZR1CWi/Wixy1360-ClassicILR-SwanseaSou.html

Fans of good stereo sound imaging may prefer to listen via headphones – the “image spread” (and especially the “layering”) of the vocals are something sadly rarely heard on many 21st century jingles, and 128k MP3 doesn't do the cuts the justice they deserve!

[dianablanton1984Member]

Not bad at all. Thanks for sharing, Wixy1360!

[IainJohnstonMemberAuthor]

Thanks Diana – I know that a lot of Collectors outwith of the UK don't often get a chance to hear heritage material that was made in the UK during the years of Musicians Union etc blocking of imported radio production material.

[TheBigCheese]

Also (check it out elsewhere) this would appear to owe some of its dues to the first few bars of The O’Jays track — For The Love of Money.

[IainJohnston]

Good grief!
I’ve not been in those old 4S folders of mine for yonks!
I’m surprised they’re still “live” and not cancelled due to the old “90 days rule”.
IJ

[LenGroat]

Hi Iain, an old topic maybe but still very pertinent.

I was in Swansea from ’68 to ’74 and almost turned down my job at Metro in ’74 to stay there to be on SS – when it launched 80% of the DJ’s were from the Swansea Hospital Radio Service -they ALL knew about radio/ music/ jingles, and it had an incredible weekly ‘reach’

The jingles were superb, and the result of Terry Mann pushing EMISON all the way. I had a copy of these just days after they were delivered

Serie 2 was put together by the same team but Terry had most of them re-sung as he was not happy with the vocals, and they never again got the same vocal sound as series 1.

Terry Mann could tell you a lot more about it all… He’s still in radio, running a community station in the Welsh valleys in South Wales.

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