This is what it was like back in the 50s and 60s. Top 40 radio was heard all over the U.S. Many of us who grew up during this time was a magical time. Most Americans traveled by car especially on vacation and we would find a top 40 radio playing these jingles and fast talking DJs. And of course, later in the day we pulled over to a A&W for a hamburger and later on into a motel where it would cost $8 a room...end of a good long day.
This is fantastic! Most jingles sound like the 93 KHJ theme and singers until a certain point which I suspect is sometime in the 1970's. Really brings back memories of the 60's with the real don steele. i never heard the tag for la's only black radio station in the 1960's, KGFJ in Los Angeles! Dude!
Thank you so much. This has been a trip. Yes, obviously the hits were outstanding, but jingles made the station, and these are so flipping wonderful. Incredible. Just fripping wonderful.
WKYC was so cool in the 60's and 70's. I was not born in that time frame, but the jingles rocked. You may have seen some of these jingles and sweepers on the the airchexx website. Thanks for posting these jingles.
Classic jingles! The ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME should give an award to PAMS for it's important roll in Top 40 Radio. How could you segue from "Love Can (Make You Happy)" into "Whole Lotta Love" without PAMS? How about a smooth seg-way from "Mississippi Queen" into "Make it With You"! PAMS is as much of the GOLDEN age of Top 40 Radio as the hit records and legendary jocks and artists. Thank you for posting this. I just wish you had WSGN 610 Birmingham.
Delightful - 29 years in radio (not at any of these) and memories of great Top 40 come flooding back, back when radio was really radio! Nice to see WMCA and CHUM. So who raided PAMS for these?!?!? Nice job!
I'm a bit taken aback, at how many AM stations were"AMAZING AM"'s,(really?), in the mid-eighties. Funnily enough, they, all, had packages, from JAM. Oh-and, this was great-thanks!
You are missing some of the big Midwestern and Southwest 50,000 watt blasters! Besides KOA, Denver and KSL, Salt Lake, there was KOB, Albuquerque, (since 1922!) and the legendary KOMA, Oklahoma City! , which pumped out enough rock 'n roll in the 50s-90s to put you in a KOMA coma! At night KOMA was heard clearly all over the midwest and rocky mountain west and KOB almost all the way to the Canadian border! How about Texas? Great ones there, esp. KLBK in Lubbock where Buddy Holly was a D.J.
Even though it's known as the KLIF sig as it should, it meshes best as KIOA 940, but I'm biased. Thanks for the Oldies 93.3 KIOA jing sung on the old sig...that one didn't get used long before KIOA changed to the WCBS sig (i never heard b4) which they kept for years. The old spoken logos from the 60s I enjoyed the most, most wonderfully crude..Thanks for the post
The funny thing is, this entire sound - and the industry that produced all these little songs - came about because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required all stations in the USA to identify themselves with their call letters at certain intervals. After starting in the 1920s with the beginning of commercial radio in the US, for years this was taken care of by announcers simply saying the call letters. In the 1950s the trend of having the letters sung got started. By the '60s the elaborate musical productions heard here were a requirement in any radio market with competing stations.
@cruisebumify I wish I could go back and live out my life "then" The Poppy Family did an album named "A Good Thing Lost". Such fun times. Life was so simple.
you're in luck, i've got WTIX AM and it's FM counterpart, 94.3, speaking of which, how's that station doing. i've never heard that station on FM, do they stream?
These vocal groups sing the most awesome chords! I could spend all day singing these jingles.
This is what it was like back in the 50s and 60s. Top 40 radio was heard all over the U.S. Many of us who grew up during this time was a magical time. Most Americans traveled by car especially on vacation and we would find a top 40 radio playing these jingles and fast talking DJs. And of course, later in the day we pulled over to a A&W for a hamburger and later on into a motel where it would cost $8 a room...end of a good long day.
Not only that, most of these jingles were all made at one studio!
This is fantastic! Most jingles sound like the 93 KHJ theme and singers until a certain point which I suspect is sometime in the 1970's. Really brings back memories of the 60's with the real don steele. i never heard the tag for la's only black radio station in the 1960's, KGFJ in Los Angeles! Dude!
Thank you so much. This has been a trip. Yes, obviously the hits were outstanding, but jingles made the station, and these are so flipping wonderful. Incredible. Just fripping wonderful.
WKYC was so cool in the 60's and 70's. I was not born in that time frame, but the jingles rocked. You may have seen some of these jingles and sweepers on the the airchexx website. Thanks for posting these jingles.
Classic jingles! The ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME should give an award to PAMS for it's important roll in Top 40 Radio. How could you segue from "Love Can (Make You Happy)" into "Whole Lotta Love" without PAMS? How about a smooth seg-way from "Mississippi Queen" into "Make it With You"! PAMS is as much of the GOLDEN age of Top 40 Radio as the hit records and legendary jocks and artists. Thank you for posting this. I just wish you had WSGN 610 Birmingham.
I'm surprised that you got the old WHB 710 radio jingle. Now it's Sportsradio 810 WHB. BTW... Kansas City is my hometown. Thanks, Chuck.
Delightful - 29 years in radio (not at any of these) and memories of great Top 40 come flooding back, back when radio was really radio! Nice to see WMCA and CHUM. So who raided PAMS for these?!?!? Nice job!
This is a cool collection. Great post.
Love these jingles. But I am missing my hometown station, KCPX 1320 Salt Lake City
I'm a bit taken aback, at how many AM stations were"AMAZING AM"'s,(really?), in the mid-eighties. Funnily enough, they, all, had packages, from JAM. Oh-and, this was great-thanks!
Simply thank you Chuck!
Great historic stuff. Amazing work. Thanks!!!
I believe that if WTOB is going to make a comeback, it will have to revive top 40 music. And music today definitely needs reviving.
Nice collection. Thanks.
This is the wildeds thing I've ever listen to a work of art I just traveled over the US and Canada but also back before my time.
Love the nostalgic sound....!
Loving the KIOA one at 4:27 !!!
1:58 is so cool.
One of the KHJ ones appears in an everclear song.
You must've had very vintage radio recordings and then arranged the jingles into a video. Very cool! The Z100 one sounded very futuristic!
great editing and production! it was awesome. keep up the greatt work!
Tom Merriman was one of the most proficient jingle writers ever. He had a hand in most all of these productions.
You are missing some of the big Midwestern and Southwest 50,000 watt blasters! Besides KOA, Denver and KSL, Salt Lake, there was KOB, Albuquerque, (since 1922!) and the legendary KOMA, Oklahoma City! , which pumped out enough rock 'n roll in the 50s-90s to put you in a KOMA coma! At night KOMA was heard clearly all over the midwest and rocky mountain west and KOB almost all the way to the Canadian border! How about Texas? Great ones there, esp. KLBK in Lubbock where Buddy Holly was a D.J.
the one ive allways loved is kpwr los angeles.72,000 watts of music Power! less talk KPWR LOS ANGELES!!!!Power 106
SErving the universe! Arbitron and berch rated number one! WHTZ! Z100 new york!
Even though it's known as the KLIF sig as it should, it meshes best as KIOA 940, but I'm biased. Thanks for the Oldies 93.3 KIOA jing sung on the old sig...that one didn't get used long before KIOA changed to the WCBS sig (i never heard b4) which they kept for years.
The old spoken logos from the 60s I enjoyed the most, most wonderfully crude..Thanks for the post
The funny thing is, this entire sound - and the industry that produced all these little songs - came about because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required all stations in the USA to identify themselves with their call letters at certain intervals. After starting in the 1920s with the beginning of commercial radio in the US, for years this was taken care of by announcers simply saying the call letters. In the 1950s the trend of having the letters sung got started. By the '60s the elaborate musical productions heard here were a requirement in any radio market with competing stations.
Is it just me, or did they all sound like "Flintstones meet the Flintstones"?
oops just noticed the same comment below...oh well..ha ha
dude your vids over 9000!
@pannoni1, i have that jingle. it's for WMEX in boston, MA.
That WAKY jingle at 0:58 made it's localized 70s 99.5 RT jingle "Metro Manila...DWRT"
How do I get some of these on my IPOD?! I love em'.
@cruisebumify I wish I could go back and live out my life "then" The Poppy Family did an album named "A Good Thing Lost". Such fun times. Life was so simple.
got WSGN 610 on my playlist!
REEEEEEEAL RADIO!
How can i do my voice like this i want my voice like that for a jingle but how did they get that jingle sound.
Why must they all sound the same... Cool none the less.
Where did you get these radio jingles? They're awesome!! :)
HA ha ha ha ! I love this, clever!
Great montage....however, not all the jingles here were ever aired....some of them came off of demo reels from PAMS and the other jingle companies...
In hindsight, WAPE sounds almost like it spells "rape" in Fuddese (as in "Elmer Fudd").
I'd like to see/hear something from The Mighty 690, WTIX, New Orleans! ;-)
I'm watching this to get idea's for a radio jungle to use in my podcast...
I was hoping for the 80's KROQ jingle to go with the old school logo at 3:08
good lord you've done your homework d='
I have to check you out on your channel hehe
where did you find those jingles?
CKLW ROCKED :>)
Gwinsound Accelerators at 1:00.
Is it the same people singing for all those jingles or what ? lol
you're in luck, i've got WTIX AM and it's FM counterpart, 94.3, speaking of which, how's that station doing. i've never heard that station on FM, do they stream?
Did they just use the same singers for about every single station here?
Or spliced up, like Z100 was for RJ 100. :D
My favorite is 0:37
1:42
And they thought the video would kill radio... ha!
No es todo! Hay muchas que son en una otra lengua...
4:44