Jingles from Tuesday Productions for Radio Luxembourg circa 1980 (last track Alfasound traffic bed)

Radio Luxembourg 1980

1985 JAM jingles for BBC Radio York - mono dub from the station safety copy (sadly the station does not have the original stereo master!)

JAM BBC Radio York 1985

A package so good they used it twice !

Launched in 1981 at the start of Radio Aire, the then IBA contractor for ILR in Leeds, then used again in 1985 after the dismal David Lowe number 1 in the county set (FYI Radio Aire was never number 1 in the county back then!)

Radio Aire 1981 Crocodile Music

composite package of jingles for Radio Sovereign in the UK - without a shadow of doubt, CPMG did the BEST pams resings after the main PAMS company went bust - no one else has really captured the spirit as much as CPMG did.

Radio Sovereign PAMS/CPMG

This file is the montage David Barras submitted for his Collectors Tale piece.

Sadly no longer with us, a jingle collecting giant has left the stage. 

Here are the notes to accompany this track.
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I`ve made a montage to go with the following text and the audio highlights jingle benchmarks of my jingle collecting life !

(1)	The start of the montage features the first JAM demo that I collected in 1977, You`ve Got It and this remains not just my favourite JAM demo but my favourite demo of all time.
(2)	WAEB was the first full package of an American radio station I collected, this dub is a JAM composite of Priority One, Positron, ProMod.
(3)	The first full package of jingles I recorded from a UK station is the PAMS composite from Metro Radio. I knew a tech-op (Tom) via hospital radio and he worked at Metro. We dubbed the PAMS  jingles onto reel-to-reel and I saved my pennies up to buy a reel-to-reel machine.
(4)	I guess the first package of UK jingles I was given was the Steve England/Piccadilly cuts by JAM, another offering from Len Groat on one of his cassette tapes.
(5)	There have been several major jingle acquisitions during collecting, one of them being managing to collect ALL  the JAM dubs for Radio 1 and Radio 2 and nearly everything from Metro Radio except, my “Holy Grail” the Lindisfarne package, hear an example in the montage.
(6)	Another jingle benchmark for me was when I first wrote a letter to Jon Wolfert at JAM  in 1980 and Jon kindly sent me some cassette tapes of the Radio 1 and Radio 2 packages at that point in time, Jon also included a demo called Image Songs, also known as WNDE songs. I`ve included one of these jingle songs in the montage.
(7)	When at school I did a week`s work experience as a “dog`s body” at Radio Tees in Stockton, Cleveland UK and actually recorded my first audition demo as a presenter in production at Radio Tees. I didn`t get the job but a man called Mark Page did ! – This sounds silly now but I was more intererested in recording the Radio Tees jingles from cart than concentrating on my DJ demo. The jingles were by Cath Baxter and remain my favourite set of UK local radio jingles, some examples in the montage.
(8)	The very first package of jingles that I worked with as an on-air presenter was in 1990 at Wear FM in Sunderland. I`ve included the main theme jingles in the montage
(9)	 My favourite jingle company of all time is JAM of Dallas and as a presenter I got to use JAM`s    Breakthrough package on-air in 1997 at Sun FM in North-East England. 
    (10)  One of the best experiences of my jingle life so far has been the “Jingle Trip around Dallas” in 2004 with Neal Bowden and Jeffrey T.Mason, we visited Thompson Creative, TM, JAM i/c THE JAM VAULT !, PAMS and accidentally drove past N2 Effect. 
   (!1)   Me and Neal visited with Tracy Carman in 2009 and saw the Media Preservation Foundation building with thousands and thousands of jingles housed there. There is more to this visit jinglewise 
but I cannot mention here, all I can say is…….thank you Tracy !




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