Yesterday's radio commercials and related jingles are disposable flotsam and jetsam. Often rescued from the dumpster and tape eraser, here's where they live to celebrate another day, and give us a peek into the pop culture of the past. All material has been sourced from tapes or vinyl discs (records) used on the air at radio stations or dubs of said tapes, transferred for pristine quality when possible.
You probably thought the Christmas Shopping Jingles was the end...
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!!!
Let's wrap it up with one more Christmas disc from Lang Worth. I just obtained it in September with a load of discs sitting in a friends basement for years. The date is believed to be early-mid 1960s.
Some fun jingles, and classic christmas music beds, each :60, to enjoy for yourself. with the time getting closer to christmas, I didn't both cutting them into individual tracks, just an mp3 for each side. this might work for you for the music though.
Enjoy,
Hope you enjoyed what comes down to our first "Jingle Christmas" here on the Jetsam.
Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year and drop by again in early 2011.
we end the christmas shopping jingles from 1952 with the last side of 2 discs.
Just think, these almost ended up in the dumpster of a radio station I worked at for 16 years when they moved from studios for 48 years in one location! It was a mass exodus, and I loaded up the car (I was living at home at the time, and my mother didn't really love me dragging in some 300 16 inch musty smelling radio transcriptions in the place, but I did what I could, and the smell subsided!). Years later, the locally recorded acetate ones I saved were transferred for the local provincial archives to reel tape and kept by me for now. I got a few reel tapes also, but I won't go into it here. It's just funny how life works, especially with the technology that is called the internet can make it a reality to share this material that otherwise most people wouldn't have known to exist. Fascinating isn't it?
Why oh why does everything Christmas come "just in time for the holidays"? Like it was actually a coincidence, and months of planning had no factor in the remarkable timing? It's getting so bad you're having "pre boxing week" sales leading up to Christmas...but isn't that a pre christmas sale? The commericalism is getting more and more foolish and arrogant every year I expect someone to just yell on TV or radio "JUST GO OUT AND BUY A F***** GIFT FOR SOMEONE WHY DON'T YA?" Yes, really, I do expect it.
But, enough of the soapbox, and more of why you're here....
From the Mars Production Library, comes this disc of both jingles and accapella one liners to incorporate into local station productions. Not sure of the date, but I'm gonna guess mid-late 1960s. Just tag them with your stations announcer or logo.
What I found this christmas though, is when I was playing background music at a charity event off my laptop, I mixed these in for good measure. They might be fun for a Christmas CD compilation you can share with your friends or a get together to add a bit of spice to your music mix. Enjoy!
Ok...almost in the home stretch with the jingles, this is 3 of 4 parts to be posted. May you not have 5 months of bills after this years shopping trips are finally over...and that Walmart is open 24/7 in your area. It's far more fun to shop at 4 am then when everyone else is pushing through the aisles.
