I use to wake up specially in the morning here in the uk to catch those start up jingles, wow what memories they brought back. Jam really made some amazing jingles,
4.35 MW transmitters switched on at reduced power, FM transmitters switched on with test tone, 4.45 MW transmitter power increase, 4.50 test tone potted out with beeps, 4.55 jingle montage to on air at 5am
Remember this . Had digital alarm clock radio for xmas about that time . Used to set it wen R1come on in the morning listen to the jigles.. i used compare AM/FM. On it thought AM sounded better not realizing at the time ... 🤣
1:54 The closing theme to the Radio 1 Top 40 show from October 4th, 1987 to September 25th, 1988. "That's it this week. The chart has compiled by Gallup and produced for the BBC by Jo Ann Nadler..."
@@paulsimpson6899 This is the daily opening jingle montage that would open the station every morning in 1990 five minutes before the radio station starts the day's programmes.
Great what changing a few notes in the tune so that like in the words of an Austin Powers movie "Oh, it sounds like Footloose", "But due to copyright reasons, it isn't!" 🤣😉
Radio 1 used to officially start at 5am I think. But at 4:45am after a bunch of test beeps they used to play 15 minutes of jingles. It felt like the entire collection of jingles they used. Is this what this video is? I’d love to know why they did that. It seemed an odd thing to do every single morning. Not many people up at that time but as a 10 year old kid i remember discovering this when I couldn’t sleep and would listen on my headphones.
The opening R1 jingle montage was actually played at 4.55 am not 4.45 am. At 4.45 the MW transmitters would have their power increased with the 440 Hz test tone (the FM tx's would already be on full power with the test tone from 4.35am) and at 4.50 the test tone would be potted out to short beeps on AM and FM for 5 minutes before the R1 jingle montage would be started.
I used to get up specifically to hear the jingles run. Back then the jingles were on tape cartridges; so I think the idea was to test the carts were working.
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I use to wake up specially in the morning here in the uk to catch those start up jingles, wow what memories they brought back. Jam really made some amazing jingles,
4.35 MW transmitters switched on at reduced power, FM transmitters switched on with test tone, 4.45 MW transmitter power increase, 4.50 test tone potted out with beeps, 4.55 jingle montage to on air at 5am
anthony perkins Yes I remember that, I wondered what all the intermittent beeps were for following the test tone
Brings back so many memories. I can only imagine the vibe in the R1 studio back then as the final 10 seconds kicked in 👌🏻
brought back memories...I used to compose my own jingles, these were my inspiration along with radio 2 segues.
Footloose jumpscare at around 4 mins
Remember this . Had digital alarm clock radio for xmas about that time . Used to set it wen R1come on in the morning listen to the jigles.. i used compare AM/FM. On it thought AM sounded better not realizing at the time ... 🤣
1:54 The closing theme to the Radio 1 Top 40 show from October 4th, 1987 to September 25th, 1988. "That's it this week. The chart has compiled by Gallup and produced for the BBC by Jo Ann Nadler..."
‘The official top 40 was computer compiled by Gallop and produced by ...’
This is all done by Jam In Dallas, TX
I like the Christopher Cross Sailing style bed
Yay me to, You just totally new that was what it was inspired from, even if the chord sequence was a bit weird but still really nice
Never heard them play that one to be honest, maybe they did but not at times I was listening. Great cut though.
@@paulsimpson6899 This is the daily opening jingle montage that would open the station every morning in 1990 five minutes before the radio station starts the day's programmes.
Great what changing a few notes in the tune so that like in the words of an Austin Powers movie "Oh, it sounds like Footloose", "But due to copyright reasons, it isn't!" 🤣😉
These are proper radio jingles, not like the spoken rubbish we get nowadays
Radio 1 used to officially start at 5am I think. But at 4:45am after a bunch of test beeps they used to play 15 minutes of jingles. It felt like the entire collection of jingles they used. Is this what this video is?
I’d love to know why they did that. It seemed an odd thing to do every single morning. Not many people up at that time but as a 10 year old kid i remember discovering this when I couldn’t sleep and would listen on my headphones.
The opening R1 jingle montage was actually played at 4.55 am not 4.45 am.
At 4.45 the MW transmitters would have their power increased with the 440 Hz test tone (the FM tx's would already be on full power with the test tone from 4.35am) and at 4.50 the test tone would be potted out to short beeps on AM and FM for 5 minutes before the R1 jingle montage would be started.
I used to get up specifically to hear the jingles run. Back then the jingles were on tape cartridges; so I think the idea was to test the carts were working.
It was actually used to warm up the transmitters…
Egton House where These Radio 1 Jam Jingles came from in 1990