These are from the era when britain was at its peak. Great collection of jingles and radi pics. My Cossor Radio was in there too. The offshore radio stations were part of a revolution in the finest years and era of my life, never to return or be surpassed. My favorite jingle of all just take a lively companion wherever you go take a portable radio in there too.
Correct, a few did come from the record as it's in my vinyl collection but the vast majority came from a site called "Azanorak" it's well worth a visit for any jingle collector or fan of offshore radio, The password for any zipped files on the site is freeradio. :)
As memorialized in songs like "Roadrunner" by Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers, "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodo and "Around the Dial" by the kinks, there was something cool about listening to a broadcast from hundreds, even thousands of miles away as it was going out, along with all the noises picked up along the way and the occasional effects of shifting delay (from the ionosphere rising and falling?). The superiority of the fidelity of FM and now the internet has drawn a lot of people away from long distance radio, but it's a little colder and less direct. Even with less to hear, I still like to poke around the AM dial every now and then.
Love the static sound, listening to open mike at night, people calling with all sorts of stories... late into night... Love the AM antennas flashing red lights at night....
I have heard radio with no ID just a series of five character groups spoken by some perfect sounding adult female voice I know these broadcasts must have been recorded but no one seems to be posting them. The female voice was so perfect and nice it could all have been a lullaby,
Yes! I love this jingle. A station near me called WHTG 1410 (jersey shore) uses this jingle a lot. So does 77 WABC on Saturday nights with cousin Brucie (6pm-10pm)
The very first one was used all the way into the 2000s. It still might be, but I don't listen to terrestrial radio anymore. I know I heard it in NYC, and remember being surprised because I'd heard the same one as a kid in 1970s Wisconsin. I just don't recall the station.
'Raves from the graves' is clearly no expert ; The reason why the BBC used Pams and Jams (like the pirates) was due to the restrictive agreements the BBC had with the Musicians' Union. This meant that ANY work recorded by a UK based 'musician' could only ever be played on the radio twice, before it had to be re-recorded - to keep the musicians in work. Obviously useless for jingles, so jingles had to be produced outside of the UK. Incidentally, I know (from being an insider) that when recording 'standards' (e.g. Girl from Ipanema) used often on Radio 2 late night, that the same recording was played many more times than twice, but the musicians were still paid for 're-recording it' as it saved everyone's time 'not to bother' to re-record something again.
Hi thanks for posting this , couple in there i've never heard which was nice but also a couple of classics in great quality , hope you won't mind if i have a couple
I live in a small town about 10 miles outside Winston-Salem, NC. They have 96.3 WTOB (The Big 980) they stll have the warm staticy radio bumpers, such as the Daddy-Oh on the Pattio, and only play stuff from the 50s-70s. It's such a golden radio station
@@mickroyster6442 I frequently get their 1470 repeater signal over “Skip” at night! All the way out on Long Island in NY. Love the jingles! Same jingles as 77 WABC, who will be playing oldies in about 15 mins (6pm) with “cousin Brucie” live!
It was a big surprise to discover that American radio jingles were used in Britain. I found this out from listening to "The Who Sell Out" album in 1968 or '69. In the US, however, we pretty much only had station-specific jingles which included the station's call letters. Since radio stations in the USA start either with the letter K (west of the Mississippi River) or W (east of it), the music tracks had to be able to accommodate either letter. W is pronounced with 2 syllables and K with just one; so W requires a bit more time to sing. Also, a handful of very early stations which went on the air in the 1920s had only 3 letters instead of 4. Regardless, the producers were not going to create different music to deal with all these differences.
Production Advertising Merchandising Service, and their noble competitor Drake, typically arranged two scores for each of the elements of their jingle packages for both W and K stations. These were all performed and recorded live in-studio during the classic era. Notable exceptions were Radio London whose jingles doubled up on the W intro mimicking the phrase "wonderful radio" and CKLW whose W was at the end.
...which meant Radio One ended up using jingles that'd been played on the pirates - just with different words! Of course, they should have recorded their OWN (they HAD the damn facilities) - but instead, ARROGANTLY assumed none of their listeners had EVER listened to a PIRATE station... Berks!
Cool! I can make this jingle montage kid version, chipmunk version or in G Major version, and guess what, the radio jingles in G Major will scare everyone when you hear the jingle singers singing in demonic voices which would sound like demons from hell.
thanks bill1952 , used to know a bill who was a bit of a jingle collector when i was living and dj'ing a bit in london from crouch end anyhow thanks for the links . If you know of anywhere i'm after the radio 1 set made by audio producers to complete my radio 1 60/70's collection would also like to track down a film called Radio Onderful made in 1973/4 if you know of any links , many thanks .
Unsure about that Million Radio but I would think the fact that you pay PPL and PRS as a broadcaster this will also cover copyright on these jingles, I have used them on stations myself in the past and copyright was never a problem.
Good afternoon Billsoldies. Yes i thought that also but i just wanted to check really, it would really be great for our older listeners, and of course the younger guys who like the classic oldies. Kind Regards
Love The Hilda Baker at the end especially! I'm trying to find an old Pams Jingle, which is a variation on want you come on in The Weekend's fine. the one I want goes.. won't you come on in The Music's fine. Do you by any chance have it or a link to it.
Yes I have that and it is posted elsewhere but these are Generic so that any station can use them as there is no station ID in the Jingles. Caroline Flashback is a great jingle though and in my collection. :-)
BillsOldies I've found it meanwhile - thanks a lot; we'd only be able to listen to offshore radio at the dark hours of day, that's what I liked most about winter, fading in early and still on when I left for school, while in summer, it was 11pm - 3 am, approx; keep playing London's last hour, every now and then, taped on dutch radio in 1980
Hi can someone please tell me the legalities of all this , my brother in law owns a small charity internet radio station, is he allowed to use any of these jingles on any of his shows, i,m confused
