The Making of WABC
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2012
- This is a behind the scenes look at the creation of a new jingle for WABC radio in New York by JAM Creative Productions in Dallas. It follows the progress of one particular jingle (#121) which was produced along with many others, and became part of our "Top News" package. The recording sessions shown were held in November 2005.
This is a condensed version of a similar documentary we released on our "Jingles With Vision" DVD, which is available on our website via The JAM Store. JAM has done jingles for WABC since the 1970s, when it was still a music station. Today WABC broadcasts news and talk programs. 
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As WABC’s Senior Production Engineer at this time, I was the first one who got to process this jingle, after Johnny Donovan had taken care of our local production on it. My job was to check for quality, time it, and load it into WABC’s ENCO digital storage system for air play. I truly have to say that your WABC #121 (or as we called the finished production, the Top Of The Hour ID) combined with the ABC Network News Sounder was the most memorable lead into ABC news that I remember in my 40 years at WABC Radio! Bravo to you and to the one and only Johnny Donovan!
Well, you're exactly the person I wanna say this to, then.
Cart #77.
Well played.
People just don't realize how much work goes into what we hear on the radio. This is absolutely AWESOME. Thanks for this!📻🎤🎧🎙🎶
Wow it’s so amazing how talented these musicians are. Jobs like this have to be so far and few between nowadays
I know right? These days it’s very rare to find something like this even for one like a radio station.
I remember this jingle from about 07/08 when Imus moved over. When they played it before the noon hour (I think)... They plugged the big names of the station over the beginning of the jingle. It was something like "Your home for Sliwa, Harvey, Gambling, Rush, Hannity and now... Imus in the morning..." And then the singing part of the jingle, followed by the news.
I think this must be THE best news jingle ever made by JAM - we bought it for our internet station Solid Gold Gem AM in November 2012 and the re-sing is SUPERB.
Fab station
JAM / PAMS makes the best jingles. European radios have been trying to copy them for decades, always failing to get the sleek awesomeness that you guys make! Making radio awesome for over 50 years!
Only Radio London and Radio England had em, but this was in the 60's.
I have been in radio for 35 years, and i am still amazed at the work and detail it takes to put these together, this vedio is fantastic, thanks for posting this. Michael Burns - Boston, MA
It's 2AM and, as usual, I am up in the middle of the night. I refreshed my RUclips home page and there is Jon staring at me. I thought of 1969 and one day when I wandered into WNTC at Clarkson and Rick Glasby introduced me to Johnny Jingle as we got to know him, a soft-spoken student from Long Island. A few weeks later, I figured out why his nickname was Johnny Jingle when I saw him behind a Revox B-77 and listened to the jingles that he put together in his spare time while still going to class and doing all the things that Freshmen at Clarkson did. It was great to see your face again--it was just like meeting you for the first time all those years ago!!!
Thanks for an amazing behind-the-scenes look at an easy sounding, but extremely difficult procedure with something that turned out absolutely perfect!
Gotta agree -- JAM and PAMS -- fantastic. That WABC "signature" has been around since the rocker days of Dan Ingram and Cousin' Brucie.
"77, WABC" Go Go.
My little dream was.. I wanna be one of the singers....
Always want more and more and more for JAM's jingles!
So glad they brought a modified version of this back. Feels right for 77 wabc
great stuff. Was a big ABC listener in their Top 40 days. Actually got to sit in on Cousin Brucie show 2x as a 14 and 15 year old.
Love this! How the sausage is made. JAM, PAMS, all gems of the trade. I could watch videos like this ("the making of ____'s jingles") all night. This one is exceptionally well put together, telling the story. Great job, JAM!
I love this, simply amazing 👍👍👍!!! Since I was a child I used to pay attention to the radio and this beautiful little songs that identify the radio station from USA, greetings from Tabasco México.
this is why jam is top class when you want jingles, done right!
Thank you, Jon Wolfert, for writing my "Remembering the 70s" jingle for my Saturday night 70s show. My listeners LOVE it, and so do we!!
Rick Thomas, PD
95.7 KAPM-FM
Carmichael, CA
wow! What a discovery!!! Hi Jon!!! You used to do all our music beds for Air Force Recruiting...would love to hear a few if you ever have a minute --- an amazing work of wizardry -- blending popular songs of the 80's when I was there -- Axel F, Whitney Houston et al, with the Air Force theme song!!! I'm still amazed 38 years later on how you did it!!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!!
Please bring music back to your WABC,, That is what you all need more than just good jingles!! Used to be the greatest!
Nothing like back in the Music radio days. But I am a boomer and love the reverb and processed sound by JAM for Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie, Ron Lundy and all the others, way back.
You guys ARE radio jingles!
WABC has brought back this jingle at the top of the hour, but it's a resing that says just "New York" instead of "New York City" at the end. Not sure why they made that change, but great to hear it anyhow.
So awesome. The musicians and vocalists look like a bunch of squares, but they DEFINED what was popular and cool for an entire generation.
There is so much work that goes in to these jingles.... ❤️
They cost a lot to produce and the Radio Stations are billed accordingly.
Amazing!
What a Masterpiece !!!!
And completely hooked on on the Solid Gold Gem AM version
Best jingle Best JAM,from Brazil.
+Rednose 79 I am brazilian too.. Man... That was great!
Fantastic behind-the-scenes at how a 23-second bit of music is made. Incredible attention to detail. To me, it's marred by the voice-over when its actually aired (FROM New York... etc) but I suppose they have to have that. The lassie at 2:02 on the right though - it looks like someone's just poked her in the bum when she sings "C"! And the vocalist with the wobbly hair makes it sound so much better. hair
This is my favorite video on the whole internet, ever....!
Happy Birthday JAM!
The Best In The World. JAM.
every time i watch this, i see/hear more. a brilliant little documentary, as good as the jingle it profiles!
Wow that’s totally cool and awesome. They’ve always had the greatest sounding jingles with the most talented musicians and any station that has used jingles from them always made the right choice. These teams for jingles are simply the best and there’s clearly no one or nothing else like them. I’m from the New York area so I clearly know all about the station that’s being demonstrated in this video and am also aware of them using these jingles along with other local stations that I’ve heard playing and using them too.
I love this sort of thing… It is so cool!
My daughter plays the violin in that school orchestra it has been full for two years now… Next year my son will be old enough and he wants to play the viola… I like showing them different things where instruments are featured and how things like this are mode so they can see all the different ways that music touches everything
Excellent advice!
At 1:53, I’m pretty sure that the male section of the singers from left to right: The Bass is Jeff Oxley, The tenor is Bruce Wermuth, and the baritone is Steve Haas.
Wow , Amazing work.
Loved it ... The Jam is the best producer in the world jingle. I am a hardcore fan. Congratulations to all. We Brazilians admire you.
Beatiful and great Jingles, I like you work ; congratulations, greetings from Guadalajara
that was great
There are earlier WABC jingle making sessions that used to be on YT, maybe still are. WABC used PAMS of Dallas first then JAM later.
this is great. Jonathan is a master at jingles. Great to see the process.
Hey Jon. This is brilliant and very insightful. A next step up from your 20 Years of JAM CD when you explained the method of jingle making on there.
I think though the "dislike" was probably someone from Reelworld :)
I would think so as well, or at least coming from someone that’s a fan of them. They’re just mad and jealous because they’ll never have jingles that sound the best with a bunch of teams including musicians with natural talent like these guys do here!!!
That was excellent. A Dallas jingle company called PAMS did the first ones.
Yes. And as of 1990, we are PAMS too. www.pams.com
Fabulous and fascinating!
I like this sound so much...thanx for posting..greetings from The netherlands
What a difference stereo/mono makes for this jingle.
Great point! The broadcast sound would be mono, with little top end, plus 2024’s inescapable electronic noise. Sadly, AM signals and their audiences are withering away.
3:42 Here’s where I dream about being in the audio booth at this moment. WABC is iconic!!
I really enjoyed this interesting video 👍
Thanks for all the WFAN66 jingles you guys had created
GREAT work!!
Wow! Great video. Great jingle company. Takes a lot more work and bodies than I ever imagined. Awesome! God Bless! :-)
3:54 - "RADYO NATIN, NATIONWIDE!"
Jam = Perfection ;-)
Absolutely amazing ! More like this please :)
Amazing! Love it. Greetings from London :)
Stellar
Love this.
very nice! But I still think some of the trickiest, but most enjoyable productions were the slow, painful, yet inevitable transformation to all talk. That would be the "Listen to New York......excitement in the air, you can hear it everywhere....." Damn, I can still hum that with the best of Bachrach or Holland-Dozier-Holland.(even though I know it was signaling the end to an era.). Wish you had some of the backstory and history for this moment
Too bad these big jingles seem to be fading away. More and more stations are NOT using them. Not sure why as they add a certain comforting element to a depressing news/talk format of late. Some music stations still are buyers, but even they seem to be fewer and fewer. Could be budget issues, but sad for radio in general.
ジングルの制作過程が映像で見られるのはかなり貴重かも。Good Job!
Love that CELLO & violins!
Just WOW
very good
Sensacional 😃
They are the best at what maximum jingles ...
JAM,the biggest and best in the world is not for anyone
Hah! I forgot about Chaney shooting that dude
I got some WIKY 7” reels on ebay years ago with the JAM label from 1979-1984. Not much info but love the format and would like to know more
WOW!!!
Cubase..i love it!
Actually, it's Nuendo 6. :)
It's Amazing How JAM Puts Jingles Together
Layer one (rock band), layer two (strings), layer three (percussion), layer four (vocals), layer five (brass); Mix it all together to make one awesome sound (I would use Adobe Audition)
I would make my news themes the same way, but with Adobe Audition helping me
Amazeing story
Quality... Jam should be used more in the UK .. the bbc should be forced to give Jam a chance and not always use WISE B on most projects
Agreed! The early Radio One and Radio Two jingles were amazing!
@@paulm.7422 I agree, - when you listen to it now, it sounds like you're stepping back in time to the eighties!
Nice video! But, can you please upload too the condesed version of "Consistently Coast" video documentary which was included in "Jingles with Vision"?
This must have been done in late 2005 or early 2006. Dick Cheney shot that guy (4:11) in February 2006.
It sounds fantastic, except for the New York City piece at the end sounds like it drops down a little bit almost could use some more boost like the beginning, overall a great Jam though
0:24 Even by 2005 that logo looks a bit out of date, if you know what I mean. Unless it's two completely different buildings to the ones I'm thinking of.
cool
c'mon lets go go go with cuzin bruce
Oops! Meant to ask why there's a burp at 0:44! Does JAM own all the instruments or do the performers bring their own on hire, I wonder?
Just nothing like the old days, PAMS jingles on 77 WABC are legend. Those types need to be brought back on oldies stations, they really made it enjoyable.
I have the PAMS of Dallas demo.
@@alexkije It's high time PAMS jingles came back. Radio needs to be fun again, tired of the corporate crap. Miss the old days.
Were these jingles recorded in the 50s?)))
Did JAM evolve from PAMS. Or is it just a name change? What happened? Are they both still around?
How is it done with more slick, synth-oriented jingles like on "Z World" or "Breakthru"?
Newstalk Radio 77 WABC
I rather hear jingles like this all throughout the hour than to hear the phrase DOT COM 6 times in 15 seconds on a commercial or even better yet, the phrase DOT COM over 100 times in less than 60 minutes.
I stopped listening to radio all together for that reason and just listen to old radio shows.
No idea what you're referring to
@@jamespfitz .......... In other words I'm sick and tired hearing the phrase DOT COM whenever you turn on the radio. I've counted on some occasions that it's been said over 100 times in 60 minutes. I rather listen to radio jungles than anything that's on the radio today.
Is the 'chime' in the final jingle added in Dallas, or at WABC?
Bob Jersey i think that was done in production in studio. It sounds like the chime from their top 40 years, and they decided to use it as their time signature.
More than likely that was added by WABC. As was Sean Hannity's recording, which was because the 5:00 hour occurred during his show and 770 was his flagship then. Different stations and/or shows address time/top of the hour differently.
During Imus' program, for example, the time was announced followed by a duck quacking twice.
You got a ten-second version of that?
0:54 Is that a Yamaha Motif?
Do you guys employ full time musicians or are they freelancers?
ALWAYS a first rate production.......Too bad AM radio lost the music battle to FM.
How much can a total jingle package cost for a client?
From 2006
Anybody know the name of the board-op @3:32?
It was probably Jonathan Wolfert
Founder of JaM
3:32 is where the video switches to the WABC control room, so the black dude is a board op at WABC.
Jason Moss
@@fdthird Still working there?
@@BrianBrownDr no idea. He was working with Sean Hannity when they left WABC.
WABC = chimes !!!
it's a sick bastardization of music for commercial purposes. I hate how I love as it sounds so good and is so effective. 60 musicians and vocalists all synchronized in perfect harmony for a 10-second orgasm of aural stimulation. It's not fair, musically. It's an assault on the senses. We are mere moths attracted to a flame in its awesome brilliance, musically. Jam Creative Productions is the Pied Piper of the Radio world.
Show less.
Please show less.
"Alexa, Show less."
Oh, I see, I'm the one writing the comment.
PAMS
Skillfully done, but - you will never hear this on college radio, thank God.
why such complications. cant they just play it once or twice all together geeez . how hard could it possibly be for professional musicians to make a 15 second song
Amazing!!!!