Pirate Fm Song

Pirate Song - No Vocal

It is a malicious rumour that DJs are unintelligent ....... but they do have to be shown how to use the news jingle.
When Metro launched its new sound for the 90s in January 1990, they bought some new jingles from JAM Productions of Dallas. I knew they were coming (friends in high places) , so I sat there with my radio cassette awaiting their arrival.
Metro produced a demo tape for the benefit of its DJs instructing them how to use the jingles. The most amusing part was the "Mary Wimpress bit".
Russ Williams did the narration on the demo but he found things didn't always go to plan on air . There was the annoying moment when he used the correct words but the news jingle wouldn't play.
Enjoy some 27 year old highlights..... plus a mickey take on the end :)
I even bought that news jingle myself.

1990 Metro FM launch / New JAM jingle package

In 1979, TM Productions (Dallas) sold a package of radio jingles to KYGO-FM, Denver.  The station opted for the "L.A. vocals" by the Ron Hicklin Singers.  The jingles came from TM's "Winning Score" and "Fusion" packages.
Since I was then living in L.A., TM asked me to record and mix the jingles, along with Program Director John Driscoll.  It was October 10, 1979.  We did the vocals at Bell Sound Studios (Dick Hart engineered), then had to leave with the master 24-tk because the session ran long and Orson Welles had the studio booked after us,  (Sadly, we didn't get to meet him.)
We went to Crimson Sound, where I mixed the package, then to the Village Recorder for editing.  
Here's the package, which I dubbed to CD years later.  It's in stereo, and the track list is on my Facebook page. 
Hope you enjoy it!
(The pic here is me at the TM Studio A board, with Ken Justiss over my shoulder showing me where to spill the Diet Dr. Pepper...!)

1990 Metro FM launch / New JAM jingle package

Colin N Ridley

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