For people like you....people who do...like Jingles!

As we are a day or two away from Canada Day (Happy Canada Day BTW...it's like July 4th in the US, only a bit more polite with no guns and a dreamy head of state!) I'd thought I'd post a jingle package/commericals from a canadian retail icon, Canadian Tire. This year it celebrates 90 years of giving canadian's a variety of goods that really has no comparison. Think automotive/hardware/paint/lifestyle store and you might come close. If you ever come to Canada, check one out.

I just noticed that this is the 90th post on the Jetsam.....coincidence? You may think not, but it is! YAY ME!


This package gives you a 30 and 60 sec donuts along with some idea of what they sold in 1979, one item of which is music. That is no longer is the case, so this is a bit of 70's canadian nostalgia to hear that, besides the fact that the music spot on this package is rather campy "I'm the kind of dad that is a friend of my kids" feel out of a coming of age movie. Some of the items are also nostalgic for the 70s (remember those big wheel plastic bikes?) so while I suppose it's not exactly a full jingle package we commonly post here, it's still fun to hear. This jingle's lyrics i'm hummed for years, I know jingle lyrics more often then commerical songs, I remember growing up with this jingle when I was a kid, so I acted like a kid with a bit of excitement finding it many years later in a box of tapes at a local radio station I worked. Remember, these tapes are often erased. Who knows, maybe this is the last known tape of this package.

Of special note, a couple of these spots feature former CFRB Toronto Sportcaster Bill Stevenson who was on the station for 4 decades and passed away in 2014 more HERE I will have to say I am not absolutely sure it's the sportscaster, I cannot find any audio samples of his work for comparison, but I'm guessing it is. if anyone can confirm this, feel free to post below.

Also this month, Sam's bringing us with a couple more tanner production lps from the 3300 series. Box, inserts and Lp labels from the audio are below. Enjoy Your Month!!!


Canadian Tire May Radio 1979

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TTS 3302-Side One

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TTS 3302-Side Two

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TTS 3314-Side One

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TTS 3314-Side Two

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Not skatin around the issue...been busy.

With me, it can be feast or famine sometimes. Too much stuff I want to do, or too little....in the last few months it's been too much. My internet stream acquired a new to me 12 channel audio console from a commerical radio station last year. so after the months of prep to set it up, the install came at the end of march, and time tweaking things since. Things are finally calming down to get the jetsam back on track again.

Speaking of skating (wow....how well did I plan that one!) did you ever go see or did the Ice Capcades every appear in your town? It was usually a big deal when they did. I never did see them myself, but certainly knew it when they came to town, as radio and TV got the ad blitz to promote them. It was so intense, it was almost like aliens were here to meet the leaders (chances are they'd be disappointed if they actually did meet the leaders if social media complaining is any indication) but then you KNEW the Ice Capades were HERE! so it was effective.


Wikipedia says that ran over 50 years, starting in 1940, until about 1991 and then called Dorothy Hamill international from 1993-1995, which isn't really as a catchy name, so maybe that's why they closed down, who knows.

The ET posting for this month's exhibit is a diac a lot of stations got for the 1976-77 year of the Ice Capades, featuring Karen Magnussen for that season it seems. The wiki on Karen is HERE She certainly has some impressive credentials.

I've also included the script for the live tags for the "west" version of the spots, as is came with the disc. the odd thing is, the is no copy on the actual scripts that goes with this jingle. Just other versions. Maybe the rest of the discs got lost, who knows. It's about a 15 second ending so, there's one :15 sec copy you can probably use if you want to create your own vintage ad.

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Out of our contributor Sam's library, we present more TTS and Total Tanner Sound Library discs....

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It was 30 years ago this month.........

...that you found these US radio ads airing nationally on the air.

It's been too long since I pulled more US jingles from my collection of "Dick Clark's Rock, Roll and Remember" shows. almost 5 years in fact....I said I was going to do it more....guess I didn't. Let's do it now shall we?

Here are 6 spots, with various degrees of "jingle" associated with them....from full sings to donuts with announcer, but still a fun look at the 80s nostalgia that is often forgotten about. One actually has a "before his career took off 90s artist". Well, we think anyway.

Avis :60




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Campbells :30




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Greyhound :30




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Hershey :30 (announcer tag by the late Canadian VO artist Alan Bleviss)




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Lipton-America's Cup :30 (This sure sounds like Michael Bolton!)




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Miles-Alka Selzer :30 (announcer donut by David "bosley-charlie's angels" Doyle)




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BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!!!!!!!


Our contributor Sammy bring us more TTS generic material with the pics to match.

TTS 3136-SIDE ONE

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TTS 3136-SIDE TWO

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LYRICS:

FINALLY.....

After some time spent on the older posts, I can now say that all the exhibits from the start to the latest posting are HMTL 5 friendly, which means no automatic playing of audio once you land on the page. I say this as to the best of my knowledge. If you find one of the pages still playing the audio when you land on it, let me know. I like to get it right, but the work being tedious, it's easy to miss things.


Enjoy!

some tanner.......some wine.........oh so fine.......then a little coffee to recover from it.....

I'm lacking in creative titles for this month's exhibit. Let's leave it at that I guess.


A bit of a different take to start off 2018, with some commericals/spots from a pair of 1960s "ET's" which are electrical transcriptions. That term dates back to the 1930s when the failed experiment for putting sound to film evolved into the 16 inch radio transcription which was in the pre tape era of radio recording. the electrical in the term refers to the use of electrical record equipment used from about the mid 1920s on to record and make records. The previous way had a singer sing loud into a big horn, or likewise for a orchestra, they had to play loud. that was called "acoustic"

By the 1960s though, the term was a bit outdated. The LP was well known (the 12" version of the transcription, with "microgroove" grooves as they called them for a period of time) and often agencies would press their commericals onto vinyl because the sound was felt to be better to play off a record on the air then the fairly new broadcast cartridge tape format (grandfather of the 8 track!)

Eventually, the broadcast cart won out and was widely used until computer automation took over in the 1990s, commericals from the mid 1970s on where primarily tape (as proven here in the jetsam with pics of the tape boxes) but thankfully, we have some of these commericals because of the ET aspect of it. Here's two of them for you. Not all of these are jingles, in fact there are no full sings here, but still some neat nostalgia to serve up.

Hills Bros Coffee-Repeat Reheat 1965




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Monarch Wine-One Minute Announcements 1968






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Also this month, our contributor Sammy brings me TTS 3004 to post this month, after talking about it briefly last month. It's dated like all of the jingles of this sort, but there's still a charm about it. Now we just need some campy ad copy to go with it and y'all be all set YEE HAH!

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The Tanner 3000 Series...IN STEREO! WHOH!

We have contributor Sammy Reed bringing you the existing sounds of the Tanner 3000 series this time around. This is good, as I don't have these, and the times I came across a Tanner disc that said it was "In Stereo" it wasn't...strange really. Nevertheless, these are campy like a lot of the other ones.

Sammy Writes:

This is the first record of the Tanner Total Sound Library, which later became New TTS.

A short, incomplete history lesson about the 30xx category ("Business Commercials", later "Specific Businesses"): At first, they devoted a whole side to jingles for one type of business (Side 1, autos, side 2, banks). 3004 is entirely farm equipment, with a "hick" music style (I think that's gonna be the next one I want to send). It was in 3005 - after the 1st 3 jingles which were all for drug stores - when the jingles started being for different things.



Let's hope we can get some more here......especially 3004.....YES, send that one my way soon....YEE HAW!!!!...OK, wait a minute, I suppose we should do in it order if we are going to. I can wait if I have to.


As for me, i'll see if I can get something out Christmas related before Christmas, but the reality is, i'm tapped out, short of just Christmas production music beds from some of the libraries I have. No real jingles to the point where there's a whole album or even a side really. I think I have a disc of combination which includes 1 or 2 christmas, end of year, January stuff, so that's likely as close as i'll get to anything like I have posted in the past, but we'll give that a try.

In the meantime, enjoy disc 3001 from the Tanner Library.

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Delivered...in an Instant! and a new contributor! We're starting to hit the big time! YAY!

Some time ago I believe someone posted in the comments asking me if I had any of the Tanner Instant Service Discs.....I said I didn't....

Until Now!!!


Funny enough, about a month ago, I came across one in a thrift store for $1. I bet no one else knew what the hell it was. Serendipity is a fun thing when it happens. it occasionally does with me. It's seen better days, and a little NR software cleaning certainly helped, but it's not perfect, it's just....right!

Campy as hell (I still can't believe stations would pay for this stuff) and in all it's aural glory, we bring you a Tanner Instant Service disc.

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Sammy Reed, a watcher of this humble blog, wrote to me back in September with a relevant submission to the Jetsam Cause. he writes:

" I don't know if you have Creative Sales Service 5311, but I'd like to submit mp3's and label scans from my copy to the Jetsam if you don't have it. This has orchestrated news themes using the same 4-note motif as side 2 of 5321, which you have here. As I say in the comment I just put up, the "School / Teen News Intro" has to be heard to be believed - and you probably still won't. Please let me know what you think."

Well, his pics and audio are below.....let him know what you think in the comments below.

Happy Listening to all the jingles in your head!


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Fun for the whole jingle family--local and some generic tanner stuff.

It's been a busy and roller coaster 2017 so far, but I have come out alive with a new and better work enviroment, less stress and more time so say "hey, let's post something on the jetsam" I'll never be as consistent as when I started on this blog in 2010. It really comes down to material. I guess I have posted most of the "good stuff" Still, it will be when I feel a need to post something, I will. That will keep it going for the long term, which is the important part.

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One of my projects recently on the jetsam is something you won't necessarily realize. Last year, I was made aware of some pages playing all the audio simultaneously. I have discovered that my old audio player coding in the pages was not up to HTML 5 standards, causing this issue. Newer posts included the newer player coding which seems to resolve this issue, but until recently the problem still exists in the older posts. I have now UPDATED ALL THE POSTINGS EXCEPT FOR THE YEAR 2010 with the new player. Given there are 29 posts for that year, it might still take me a bit of time to update, but it WILL be done in the near future. Gotta fix what's broken.

THE LOCAL STUFF-This time FURNITURE RELATED

We continue with material from my local area of the Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada region where I was working in the radio production side of a local radio station through the 1980s and 1990s. I tended to take dubs of jingles or tapes being tossed out home, because, well, I liked them, and my hoarding/pacrat tendencies of yesterday met my wife's thoughts of what you can do with them today in 2010 and you have this blog. makes sense doesn't? The world of commerical is very much a throwaway culture, and only survives in the world of you tube far too often. This is why the jetsam exists as you probably know, but has only focused on the local stuff recently.

Here's TK's Carpet from the mid-late 1980s....as far as I know, the company has been long out of business, but thanks to some blitzed to death radio and TV ads in the 80s seen my impressionable young teenage and adults minds alike and a catchy jingle, it's still findly remembered. This is the rarely heard FULL SING with complete lyrics (without announcer)

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This next full sing for Gallery One Furniture was also played heavily on the air in the late 80s, early 1990s. Produced by Seacoast Sound in Victoria, BC, while the company has moved on to other advertising styles, this jingle still motivates you to sing about the company brand in such a "group hug" kinda way, don't ya think?

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Finally for local, we have a local moving company (they MOVE furniture!!!) Hoyt's Moving and Storage, who celebrated 40 years in the business when this jingle was produced. I remember they were a sponsor of the 8 am news of a local radio station and this jingle was drilled into my head on a daily basis when I was younger, so fun to have a copy of it when I am adult (yes, I am one most of the time!) circa 1979. They are still around.

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BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE-----The Generic Stuff.

I really don't think I can get bored digging into the Tanner Generic jingle LPs I have. The stuff is dated, corny and campy all at once. Exact dates are really unknown most of time, and they didn't come with documentation except for one album posted previous dates in the early 1970s, but still very entertaining in a "I can't believe someone used that" kind of way. here's two more complete albums randomly picked (I closed my eyes and just grabbed them...I don't think I have done them previously) and they certainly live up to what I have just mentioned.

TANNER 5228-SIDE 1

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TANNER 5228-SIDE 2

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TANNER 5232-SIDE 1

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TANNER 5232-SIDE 2

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Until I post again..........enjoy!