"PAMS Radio Jingles" "WABC Series 33 Experiments"

[@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles]

"No. I didn't intentionally repeat certain jingles several times in a row. You'll hear this as it is on the CD. Possibly different mixes were being compared on some of the jingles here, but there are also jingles that were being tried out and worked out. Some made it to the final Series 33 package, while others maybe never made it to air. I know there are those who are more knowledgeable about these things than I am- so if you know more about this, please feel free to jump in!"

[@tcarman]

Some of these ARE pretty pathetic, but historic. That's Dan Alexander doing the sonovox cuts, by the way.

[@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles]

Ouch! "pathetic" is a pretty strong word. Most of these seem to be variations of the jingles that made it to the final package; we get to hear how the producers often tweaked these and tried all sorts of things to get the cuts just right. Bill Meeks had the reputation for having off-the-wall ideas but that's what helped PAMS to create innovative jingles. Now, if you want to talk about pathetic jingles, how about 25D, Cheerleaders? Adults trying to sound like teenagers. Oh Lord.

[@ProdigyBowlersTour]

Some elements made it into other Series packages. But I've been listening to PAMS jingles since the '60s, and most of this I've never heard. Some of it was repurposed and had been previously included in Series 29.

[@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles]

I'll always be grateful for Ken R. producing these jingle CDs. There was plenty to discover and he was fantastic in sharing. I thought this would be something of interest to other fans of PAMS jingles. Provides a window into the process of developing a jingle series.

[@ProdigyBowlersTour]

@@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles -- Oh, I have no complains about this material going up on KZbin. I agree that it's historical and deserves to be shared and preserved. Maybe not radio's greatest chapter, but certainly a significant one. I have pretty much all the PAMS Series jinglles -- the ones sung for WHB/Kansas City -- which are pretty special to me, as they are from the station -- and the time -- I grew up listening to the radio and getting hooked into working in radio for most of my adult life. I do find it interesting that scattered bits and pieces of this package found their way into different jingles (and more than one Series) that was used by WHB. But not quite like this.

[@oldtatshow]

I am so grateful to you for all the PAMS jingles you share. Thanks!!

[@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles]

You're welcome! I have several years of buying CDs from a man who was selling these by mail years ago. Ken R. I've only recently started getting into these jingles again and it's nice hearing from others into the classic PAMS jingles. I'll be sharing more from time to time.

[@DonDonP1]

Hello. So rare. Thank you for sharing.

[@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles]

You're welcome, Donny!

[@kefas2playpama04]

@Motown Deep Cuts, PAMS Jingles & More with Tomovox I agree to say that the jingles here, starting with these ones one at 10:53 were the most funniest of them all! Don't you think? I never heard someone laugh so much like that in a radio jingle like that before!

[@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles]

Yeah the laughing cut is pretty unusual but fun! Trella Hart has one of the best laughs ever! I wish radio today had enough of a sense of fun and play to air something like this now. But that era is gone.

[@petesmith8886]

I've wondered how they got the echo type effect on the word fun...anyone got an idea

[@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles]

I play and record music and have learned some of this stuff along the way. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in but there are effects you can easily purchase and they create all kinds of echoes, reverb effects and such. I have a very basic device, an effects pedal used for guitars. You literally plug your guitar into it, turn a couple knobs and it'll give you a repeating effect very close to the one used on "FUNNNN.". However, I also believe in some cases, the sound engineer would splice the recording tape and my some means create a repeat effect as well. In this case, you'd clip the last few seconds of the "n", and through some means create the repeat effect onto a master tape. But as I said, hopefully someone will chime in who knows the whole story.

[@petesmith8886]

@@Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles Thanks for that. I had the feeling it was some sort of effects pedal. It still sound amazing to this day.

[@anthonyv1971]

The fact they were able to do such a cool effect like that before computers were capable in the 60s & 70s is awesome, wish today's top 40 would do something similar.