A Little Flying First then Cock a Doodle Doo!

You don't necessarily expect a well known Hollywood composer to create jingles for an airline, but that's what happened in the early 70s. From the sounds of it, he also acquired the services of an 80 piece movie style orchestra to go along with it. Lotsa $$$ for this campaign, and it seems Eastern Airlines was so proud of it, they decided to release on a small 7" record which is presented here.

More about the late composer Maurice Jarre on his wiki page HERE
He did the "Ghost" and "Lawrence Of Arabia" music? WHOH!

I might add doing a little research on this music, I discovered on you tube, but as I have cleaned up the noise on the audio, I like to think it's at least a bit cleaner then what else is out there. Apparently some of the cues for this campaign went on a 4 CD set of Maurice's film music, but apparently the stuff off this record didn't. All the more reason to put it on the jetsam. This stuff really shouldn't be tossed away. It's elegant.

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This is really cool, from a blues point of view. The Listerine "Foul Mouth Blues". This is so well done, you really it want to be a song, but alas it's only a 60 sec spot. Shame. Still, download and play it on your mp3 player and enjoy! It's likely forgotten by most everyone else. That's what we try to specialize here at the Jetsam!


From 1993, Listerine "Foul Mouth Blues" # R-5668-60
Produced by J. Walter Thompson Toronto
From Tape SI93-1850
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Til Next Month

Back to the glory filled 70s.....rent a car, grab a beer and you're in advertising bliss......

These days though, remember not to drink and drive....

I doubt of you would ever think of these too products together in your head, unless you are reading this post. I thought I would start off 2014 on an odd combination note. Why? oh, I don't know, I just found the tape, thought of the 70s, and it just came together. A good enough reason now isn't it?

The rental car industry seemed to be tough in the 70s. AVIS "tried harder". What the heck does that mean? Does that mean they fail harder? Do they not succeed? Makes you wonder if that positioning statement would work today, but it did in the 70s it seems. It also seems that some of my questions are explained in this full sing jingle in this month's exhibit.

This is quite a package, full sings, donuts and even instrumentals. You can even do your own 70s style radio ad with the AVIS jingle music. I do like to be complete.

This seemed to be a couple years before OJ Simpson ran through airports for Hertz. Maybe they should have sent some AVIS spokesguy to chase OJ out of the airport in some fight to the death match to see who was the better car rental company....oh wait, I suppose that's more of a concept of today then the 70s. Oh well.

Enjoy the package. You find a link below to just the full sing Cut 1 on the package and the entire reel.

And speaking of OJ....here's a Hertz TV spot on your tube from 1978 just for fun OJ SIMPSON HERTZ TV SPOT

Hard to believe it will be 20 years this year that the whole "Trial of the Century" circus started. I'm getting old.

From 1976, AVIS Rent a Car System Inc.

Cut 1-ITAV-R-6116 Full Lyric R 1 :60




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Here's more of the beer spot reels I have from the US. I posted the last reel almost 2 years ago in February 2012. I got a great email from a person looking for these jingles, mainly because Glenn Yarbrough sang those. The previous reel is HERE if you are curious.

It's interesting to see how much emotion they are trying to push into these ads. Trying to connect with the everyday joe to buy the product. My first though is, as i'm not a drinker, does anyone really give a you know what about emotion when you want to relax with a cold one, possibly get loaded drunk stumbling down the street or hanging off a cabbie who takes you home and you crawl into the door preparing to puke in the toilet for a "time"? I never got that connection with alcohol. There's more to it they just getting a buzz if you believe these ads.


Enjoy and til next month...I might have a foul mouth jingle for ya.....

From late 1977, Anheuser Busch-Busch Beer 1st Pool 1978

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Yes, More Lang Worth Christmas.....and some Christmas stories from the generic jingle folks.....

Here at the jetsam, we focus on jingles. Afterall, we are the JINGLE jetsam. It's really a no brainer. I suppose this is why I have resisted these discs until now, because they aren't really jingles. Still, I know some of you hard cores are looking for Christmas material to complete your compilations, play in the background while you trim the tree, drive through a snowstorm in the car with (drive safely), whatever you want to do with the material to enjoy the holidays, so let's bend the rules on this post with some unique material from the past, likely the 1960s. ]


This first disc pretty much sums up everything Christmas I have from Lang Worth and has been posted on the jetsam. It could be called a radio show I suppose, as a few interesting tidbits from an announcer mixed in with very short versions of Christmas carols that sound older then Alastair Sim's version of "A Christmas Carol" in fact they'd probably fit in nicely in that film. Fun stuff for a compliation/mp3 player.


Carols For Christmas Side One

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Now, we have from the Pepper Library what appears to be a generic feature that you can easily customize for a local advertiser called "Tales of Christmas" This disc comes complete with 6 stories each running around 4 minutes, and even the music theme bed to customize it with your local announcer for Joe Dry Cleaners, Barry's Locksmith company, or any other advertiser who wants to buy time to make themselves look good. Funny Thing is, to me, these stories have a cartoon feel to them in the production side of things. These remind me of the old 60s cartoon "The Mighty Hercules" where the voice actors tended to go a bit over the top because it's a kids cartoon. This is what these stories sound like. Not that's it's a bad thing, it's sort of adds to the charm of them. It's a bit less warm and fussy, and more over the top. I always expec Newton the Centaur from hercules to pop up on these somewhere. Enjoy.

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Enjoy these exhibits of a holiday nature and have a great new years eve 2014. We'll be back in the new year, maybe with some 70s beer spots, but time will tell.

Also, those who enjoy Christmas programming, check out my internet radio stream TCAN-The Time Capsule Audio Network, as we are playing some unique shows that we only play once a year. here's the link:

TIME CAPSULE AUDIO NETWORK

Check out the schedule page or either the flash or HTML websites for details.

Have a great Holiday Season.

Contract Obligatory Link

Yes Virginia....there will be Christmas Jingles!

Tis the Season!


Happy US Thanksgiving by the way.


I cleaned out a lot of the readily available Christmas material already posted here in the Jetsam. It caused me to dig a bit deeper and a little stumbling on some tapes when I was looking for something else certainly helped also. It's the serendipitous voyage that it seems is my life now and then. Not always, because if it was, I'd probably have a few million bucks in the bank by now from lottery winnings, but enough to say...that's freaky!


While we mainly focus on national material here, Christmas gives me an opportunity to dip into my local/regional side of my collection from my area here in Atlantic Canada also know as "The Maritimes". You may not know the advertiser, but it's still a memorable christmas jingle created to show up on the air just in time for the holidays....imagine that! yeah...amazing how all this christmas stuff happens just in time for the holidays...like it's holiday magic or something.


That's a lead in to the first jingle, 20 years ago, from 1993. The local franchise of IGA came up with this jingle for their chain of stores called "Holiday Magic" featuring local musicians. It's a funky, upbeat original jingle that is also a full two minute song you ca mix in with the christmas traditional material you play every year.

Holiday Magic (1993) full two minute version




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Holiday Magic (1993) 60 second version with IGA mention.





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Next we have another regional business, Irving Oil. You can sort of argue that they are beyond a regional business I suppose, having expanded into the US state of Maine, but still a big part of the region, with service stations in all 3 martime provinces, home heating and a different division for forestry. It's a big company, with a nice message for the radio listeners 30 years ago this Christmas. This was a dub from a radio station from the company home town of Saint John, NB.

Irving Oil (Christmas) 1983 2, 60 second spots..jingle with announcer.




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Finally, let's dig out some vintage somewhat dated Christmas production music from the late 70s. As usual, I just transferred both sides of the vinyl LP, and let you cut it up. These discs suffer from abuse in a radio production studio, production does that, but still survive to see an appearance here. I've cleaned them up a bit, but still a bit of nose if you listen closely. It will saty up here until the ceast and desist copyright orders come in.

The Production Source Disc CL 17 (Commerical Length disc 17) (1979)

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More posts, time permitting next month, but at least we have a few.

Ohhhhh...Alright, guess no more Blockbuster nights!

No, I haven't abandoned this blog, just sporadically posting exhibits when I see fit. I want it to continue, and it will continue, as I find material or the urge strikes me. You can centainly enjoy the previous material between the posts.

I see in the US that technology finally deals the final blow to a brick and mortar video store staple and probably the last national holdout to the wave of movies available digitally, Blockbuster Video. Here in Canada, Blockbuster closed up shop a couple years ago, but finally the last remnants stateside have decided to close. Shame really, but netflix and even not so legal downloads are a lot easier then hauling your ass off the couch and into a video store to grab a DVD. Technology advancements and convenience win out. Who knew we would be nostalgic to the famous "be kind, rewind" slogan encouraging you to rewind you VHS and betamax tapes so some poor video store schlub wouldn't ahve to do it when it came back, and hey, those mistracking nightmares with our VCR. Everything is too perfect these days. I almost miss lines running through the screen. The key word is ALMOST. I don't think it's enough to want to open a small nostalgic video store and rent VHS tapes and VCR's to people who are nostalgic, but it's a fun thought now isn't it?


Still, may Blockbuster RIP, and here's a jingle you can play if you get nostalgic. "Spend the Night Out In" from 1995.



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It's Summertime......with Sun Safety and Food on the Brain!!!!!

Since it is summer, I thought I'd pull a few from the 80s and 90s with a summer theme or what aired in the summertime based on the dates on the tape boxes. We get rather Canadian focused for the most part, but funny thing is, 2 of the jingles cover American classic hits. I have made a single mp3 file for each reel tape this month, as it's just easier for me to deal with.

The Canadian Cancer Society in the summer of 1995 rewrote "Little Deuce Coupe" by the Beach Boys into "Slip Slap Slop" and created an effective way to remember to put on some sunscreen and stay out of the sun at certain times of the day. It's very memorable, and almost 20 years later, still effective. Just goes to show you how good song writing just seems to last forever. These aren't "full sing" jingles, there is people on these spots, but still fun to listen to for the entire spot.


Canadian Cancer Society-Sun Sense Radio Announcements (1995)


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Speaking of the Beach Boys, which even the thought of them instantly transports you to a summer on the beach, the canadian burger chain "Harvey's" (since 1959) turned out this "Beach Boys" full sing jingle in the summer of 1986. I think it's safe to say it wasn't the group, or even one of their songs, but this sound alike is catchy, sticks in your ear and really makes me think of a fun summers day...though not necessarily eating burgers, unless your hungry of course...maybe that was the idea. Hungry? Harvey's!



Harvey's-Beach Boys (1986)



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Also on the summer menu is "The Keg" a Canadian Steakhouse restaurant chain founded in 1971 in Vancouver BC. Simply called "summer" I get the feeling this full sing jingle wants you to drop in when you have a chance and get a "taste of summer" which obviously includes steak. hell, beats cooking on a hot day.


The Keg-Summer (1990)




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Finally, Mcdonalds in Canada can't be left out. 20 years ago this month, they were promoting their Chicken Fajitas as a menu item by rewiring the classic hit "La Bamba" to their use. I really forget if they still have the product, I'll have to go look the next time i'm there, but don't go and expect the promotion price....You're about 20 years too late...:)


McDonalds-La Bamba (1993)




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More Lang Worth Generic Jingles and production stuff from the 1950s.....

Just a little late with my monthly post....which will likely be more occasional as we move forward. work on other projects and yard work this summer might slow me down to post on the jetsam over the next few months. It makes more sense to me to just post when we have something to post. Stay Tuned.


More from my small collection of Lang Worth Program Service 10 inch records. You see these on ebay now and then, usually at somewhat ridiculous prices. Some people think when it's old it's "collectable" and sometimes they see $$$ in their eyes. Truth is, price is only as good as what someone is willing to pay for it. For this stuff, the demand isn't that high, unless you're someone like me, who likes this stuff. If you're also like me, you collect on a budget, so the lower the price the better....

Here's two discs from the late 50s. One of the sides are various vocal chorus type sings, someone are just intros to have the announcer come in afterward, but still kinda neat to listen to, and maybe you can use these in CD compilations you make just for fun.

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MP 157

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MP 161

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