Jingles

Below you will find recordings of radio station jingles and examples of programming formats which have been submitted to us over the years.

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We also provide some recordings to listen to online here and here.

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Please follow the following link for a list of archived NCRM (National Commercial Radio Movement), CIB (Campaign For Independent Broadcasting) and related documents.


Drake-Chenault
1973 March, Drake-Chenault Demo Promotional 2-disc album, .mp3 92 mins.
You can view graphics of the album sleeve including the front, the back and the album contents list, as well as an accompanying letter from D-C’s Executive Vice President, Pat Shaughnessy. This double album includes demos for the automated radio station format that arguably helped ruin music radio by eliminating the personal touch between the DJ and his/her listener. Details…
Side 1: Stereo
“Hit Parade” format for WLCY Tampa, Florida.
“Solid Gold” format for KXOA Sacramento, California.
Side 2: Stereo
“Classic Gold” format for KRTH (K-Earth) Los Angeles California.
“Great American Country” format for KRSI Minneapolis.
Side 3: Mono
“History of Rock’n’Roll” program feature.
“Golden Years” program feature.
Side 4: Mono
“Top 100 of the 60s” program feature.
Drake Jingles: Series 1.
Drake Jingles: Double A.

PAMS
1964-1968, Pams jingles for WABC, New York City and KLIF, Dallas, .mp3 29-1/2 mins.
This set of PAMS jingles includes the following:
1964, series 27 “Jet Set/Action” for WABC, New York City.
1965, series 29 “Go-Go” for WABC, New York City.
1967, series 32A “Swiszle” for WABC, New York City.
1968, series 35A “All Sound” for KLIF, Dallas.
1972, Pams series 43 “Textures” for WABC, New York City, .mp3 11 mins. View box.
1973, Pams “Custom ’73” promo, .mp3 8-3/4 mins. View box.

Radio Caroline
1968, Radio Caroline South jingles, .mp3 6-1/2 mins.
On 3rd March 1968, both radio Caroline ships “Mi Amigo” and “Caroline”, were seized and towed to Amsterdam by the Wijsmuller salvage company to secure unpaid servicing bills. The mv. Caroline was scrapped but in 1972, the Radio Caroline South ship, mv. Mi Amigo, was sold at auction to Gerard van Dam. Some of the Mi Amigo’s studio equipment, including this Ampex tape recorder, a Spotmaster cassette player and some tapes, were purchased by free radio enthusiast, John Ker, who subsequently very kindly provided these few remaining 1968 recordings dubbed direct from the Spotmaster to the Ampex tape recorder. The recordings include:
1. Johnnie Walker announcing the Andy Archer show with theme tune “Flamingo” by Herb Alpert. (2’14”).
2. Announcement for the Henry Morgan show with theme tune “Sucu Sucu” by the Laurie Johnson Orchestra. (2’20”).
3. “Headline International News” jingle. (7″).
4. “Caroline the sound of the nation” jingle (no vocal). (5-1/2″).
5. “Sounds fine it’s Caroline” jingle (vocal). (17-1/2″).
6. “Boing” sound. (5″).
7. “This is the Spangles Muldoon lunchtime show”. (3″).
8. Advert. for Crosse & Blackwell chicken soup. (27″).
9. Advert for “Motorcycle” magazine. (17″).

William B. Tanner
1973, Demonstration tape for “Mini-Hits” jingles, .mp3 8-1/4 mins. View box.
1973, Demonstration tape for “Creative Sales Service”, .mp3 17 mins. View box.
Bill Tanner created the William B. Tanner Company in 1972, but earlier, from 1957 onwards the company was known and run together with John Pepper and Floyd Huddleston as Pepper Sound Studios and from about 1967 was known as Pepper-Tanner. The company was sold in 1982.

TM Productions
1973?, Demonstration tape for “Propellants” jingles, .mp3 13-1/4 mins. View box.
TM stands for Tom Merriman who, with Jim Long, founded TM Productions (later known as TM Communications Inc.) in 1967. More…

Radio Caroline 50th Anniversary News Roundup

With the 50th anniversary of Radio Caroline starting broadcasting from the m.v. Caroline, 5 miles off the Harwich coast on Easter Sunday, 29th March 1964, here is a quick roundup of what the media have to say…

Tim Muffet for the BBC introduces a short 3 minute video about Radio Caroline’s first 50 years. It includes Simon Dee, Tony Prince and Tony Blackburn. You’ll also find another short video and report from BBC Essex here. Plus there’s a report by Laurence Cawley about the the Swedish guy who first pressed Radio Caroline’s ‘on’ button to start the UK’s music radio revolution.

ITV have compiled a three part video series about Radio Caroline to commemorate its 50th anniversary since its start in March 1964. The first part is presented by David Johns and includes contributions by then BBC Director General, Frank Gillard, DJ Keith Skues, Paul Graham, Roger Day and then Postmaster General, Tony Benn. There’s also an illustrated article here and we certainly agree with Peter Moore’s view:
The UK radio industry does a brilliant job of serving its shareholders but it’s so corporate they seem to have forgotten that the end product is the listener…”. The full version of ITV’s Radio Caroline Birthday Feature by David Johns is now here.

Also on the ITV website is a video interview with one of the very first Radio Caroline DJs who is now a Conservative MP, Sir Roger Gale.

Under the title: “How a radio ship and 7 men shook up Britain in 1964“, Colin Morrison traces in fascinating detail – some of it little known – Radio Caroline’s launch and the people behind it, including some figures who preferred to remain in the shadows.

The Liverpool Echo and Wirral News both report plans to celebrate the anniversary with broadcasts from The Mersey Bar Lightship, berthed at Liverpool’s Canning Dock.

The Daily Telegraph interviews one of Radio Caroline’s best remembered DJ’s, Dave Lee Travis with some of his experiences while on Radio Caroline South in the 1960’s on board the m.v. Mi Amigo.

Interesting illustrated article by Dominic Midgley of the Daily Express under the title: Radio Caroline was the boat that rocked the music business.

Nicola Jordan in Kent Online wishes Radio Caroline Happy Birthday with a fascinating illustrated article.

In the Lincolnshire Echo former Radio Caroline and Radio City DJ Tom Edwards recalls his pirate radio days.

The Orange news site has an interesting article by an unnamed personality who used to work both for Radio City and Radio Caroline back in the 1960s.

Dmitry Vostok’s article in The Voice of Russia has an interview with Peter Moore, the current manager of Radio Caroline online.

And Paul Riismandel’s RadioSurvivor.com also provides some useful info on upcoming Radio Caroline celebrations.

If you’re interested in a time-line of 1964-1965 events in offshore pirate radio history then you’ll find it at OffshoreRadio.co.uk. The list of events covers not only Radio Caroline, but also the comings and goings of other offshore stations… Radios Atlanta, Sutch, Invicta, Noordzee, City, Syd, London, King, 390, Tower, Essex and Radio Scotland.

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