I wondered that too. And really, they just used a few of the cuts over and over with the only variation being in the instruments used to play the call letters melody line. I can only assume though- these were the only Series 18 jingles I had amongst all the WABC Jingle CDs I have. Did WABC order other cuts from Series 18 and I just don't have them? Maybe someone more knowledgeable will chime in.
I think so- these were probably just before WABC went full out with the newer sounds of the Top-40 format. Definitely, these are NOT jingles you'd hear being played between records by The Beatles and James Brown! Reading things here and there, I get that a lot of stations were broadcasting the old line, "Full-Service" format and then Rock-N-Roll came on the scene. It's fascinating to read how many stations were faced with how rapidly things were changing in radio. Top-40 was quickly becoming the money-maker for broadcasters.
@@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles Got ya! It sure fascinates me: I can remember as a kid laughing when I heard a 500 watt daytimer play an Animals record right after their livestock report :)
@@jackallen6562 Wow! I'd love to hear a station like that. Some of those daytimers could be really interesting to listen to because you never knew what was going to happen.
@@jackallen6562 In fact, when I was 18, I almost had a job playing records at a daytimer here. There was a DJ, Steve Coch (pronounced Coke) who was really impressed that I knew all this music from the 60s. He had me come down to the station that was housed in an old theater. He put me on the air, just us chit-chatting between records, and afterwards asked if I would like to do the show a couple days in the summer. He'd train me. I couldn't believe it! But before it could happen, he got fired. The station was running a rigged contest as well as committing a few infractions concerning the FCC. The DJ told the station owner to clean up or he would report everything. The day I showed up to the station, the news director told me everything. I was out of a job but the station was off the air about a month later anyway. Oh well!
