Jetsam Offerings for February 2012-drinking beer can have meaning besides getting wasted...and generic station promo jingles...

Beer....it has emotional meaning....well besides getting a buzz on and hurling in a toilet when you so totally wasted you can't stand up straight. No really, say it...MEANING. Put some nice music behind a guy with some echo and a strong "God Bless America" style voice and you take what amounts to a 2-4 to a whole new level. Go on to sing about a "Western Man" living life his own way, and you'll buy into the beer marketing techniques of the 70s instead of the more modern Swedish bikini team style marketing of the 80s, 90s and today (hey, sex sells!) To me, it's just a lot of BS...but still worth a listen.

76 General Radio Busch Beer (US 60 sec radio)

1. Sing Your Own Song



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2. Western Man



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3. Agent


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With the Generic jingles this month, we dig out the station promo LP. This is SOOOO dated, it's delightful to remember a time when commercial radio wasn't the 500 music jukebox universe that it is now. It was important, weather, news, entertainment, it was all there in our ears, without the shock value of Howard Stern. It had class.

Enjoy the jingles.




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Borrowing money can be this happy.......according to Superman....

You don't see money loaning agencies doing this much of a soft sell these days.

From late 1979, with such a 70s MOR non disco feel to it, comes a series of jingles and spots from the Household Finance Corporation or HFC. Instead of the "if you need cash NOW come here" in your face type style, this is more of a "hey, we're in the neighborhood, and we're here to help, so if you need money come on by" type of approach. That's more my style if I need your services.

The voiceover talent is very interesting here, if you know anything about VO talent. It's Danny Dark!. Yes, that's the name he used in the industry. In addition to doing network TV promos for NBC and voiceover work for Keebler TV commericals in the 70s and 80s, he was also the voice over "Superman" throughout most of the 70s "Superfriends" Saturday morning cartoons that ran on ABC and produced by Hanna Barbera (and at least some of them are now on DVD). His deep baritone with a macho feel certainly fit that role quite well.

It's all the more reason to listen to the Christmas spots on this package. Danny doing a warm and fuzzy type read on "Peace" "Sharing" and "Sounds" really doesn't work in my mind, as he doesn't do warm and fuzzy well. It's just bad casting, but he probably had the contract, so you do what you can.

You can read more about Danny on his page at Wikipedia HERE! OR HERE but if not, enjoy the spot. Some fun 70s nostalgia.




From September 1979, Household Finance Corporation
4th Quarter English
From Tape MCS-32521 (Media Communication Services)
7x60 Various cuts (as below)


# 794-60-1 "Jogging"

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# 794-60-2 "Resolution"


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# 794-60-3 "Music"



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# 794-60-4 "Energy Saver"


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# 794-60-5 "Peace"



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# 794-60-6 "Sharing"


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# 794-60-7 "Sounds"



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Christmas Jingle Offerings for 2011....

Tis the time to trim the tree, sing carols, and just run around with your ass cut off getting things done for Dec 25th. Oh the needless stress of it all. This year we have those more militant then ever to keep christ in christmas instead of saying happy holidays? Who really cares. It's suppose to be a fun and joyous time for peace on earth and good will towards men. I suppose commericalism and whining kids taught by their parents that material things matter come christmas time take all the fun out of that thought. The parents aren't much better then the kids now are they?

For those like me who will say christmas and happy holidays in the same sentence. This stuff is for you. Here's 3 LP's full of christmas related material dated late 1960s-early 1970s from my Pepper-Tanner production music material for radio stations. Yes Virginia there was a time when people said christmas with foolish resentment and being "politically correct". I just shake my head at all this crap and lets move on to the jingles...

Given the number of jingles here, I have posted an mp3 for each side of the albums, I'll leave it up to you to cut them up. Audacity is a wonderful audio editor, and it's free and will import mp3s, so it's easy to cut it down to what you want.

Regardless of how you spend the Holidays, enjoy the jingles and best wishes for a fantastic 2012, with more to come from the Jingle Jetsam.

Disc 5203



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TM Jingle Demos........

A first time on the Jetsam, posting vintage jingle demos from TM, certainly a major player in radio station jingles for decades. I just happened to find these tapes around and thought i'd post them. The "Sounds Like" package was actually used at a radio station I worked with either in the late 70s or early 80s, hence why I have the tape. The other is so dated for the 70s, it's campy.

Just a brief note on an issue that happens now and then. I occasionally get emails asking what jingles I have and do you have this or that and would you like to trade. The funny thing is, I really am not a hard core jingle collector. Yes I like jingles, they are part of the advertising medium and radio stations, but I don't collect one thing over another. While I welcome people emailing to ask if I have something they are looking for, I am not looking to trade whole packages or do a massive dub of everything I have to trade. You are certainly welcome to anything posted here, and time permitting, can dub any specific material on a case by case basis, but I have other projects I do. Please consider this if you want to email me. If you also have the "Solid Gold Saturday Night" package from the mid-late 80s (a syndicated show from the United Stations Radio Networks) that's something different.....

But back to the demos....

All I will say is......ENJOY!






Date Unknown, TM-Sounds Like Jingle Package Demo



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Date Unknown, TM-The Producer Demo



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Brushing your teeth is HOT!

How's your Love Life?

The power of advertising over the decades is that they can sell anything to almost anyone...with the right motivation.

In other words....no matter what decade, SEX SELLS!

True the standards change over the years, getting more and more risque these days, compared to say, 1974, but it hasn't changed in 100 years (or more) we guys are such suckers for a pretty girl, you can put slime in her hands and as long as she looks good, we'll buy and buy and buy.

Ultra Brite toothpaste was big on sex selling in the 70s. Anything that starts off with "How's your Love Life?" isn't going to be too wholesome, but like those Axe Body Spray TV ads of today, this ultrabrite Toothpaste radio spot of yesterday takes a comic spin on the sex side of things, as that way, they can get away with it without much flack from a broader audience.

It must have worked....the product is still around, though it's not as easy to find as some of the leading tooth pastes.

If you want sex appeal today....choose suggestive clothing, or you can track down a tube of Ultra Brite and let your imagination run wild. God, wouldn't it be nice if some of the world of advertising was actually reality?

From 1974, Ultra Brite Tooth Paste
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It's Coming.........

Well....last we left things, I was getting ready to move, to somewhere, and we had a deadline to move quite a bit of electronics vinyl, CD's and of course, the tapes that you hear on the jetsam. I'm glad to report that the move went well over 3 days and 5 17 foot cube van's full, but it was done on time.

Now the fun started...sorting, finding where to put stuff and finding stuff to begin with. The biggest challenge was assembling the main production facility where I dub the tapes to the computer. We are back up and running!

Over the next couple of weeks, watch for a new post here on the jetsam. I'm planning for the end of September if all goes well.

This is just a post to say, HI...we're here! It's not a dead blog and stay tuned.....

Summer Break for the Jetsam so I can chew my gum away.....

Well......sorta.

I've decided to take a break this summer with the jetsam. The main reason? I'm moving. I have a LOT of stuff. Only a fraction of it is heard on the jetsam. radio shows, a large vinyl and CD collection, studios for both production and my internet radio stream, all with vintage broadcast gear and computers, you can see where this is going. It takes time to pack and tear down and unpack and rebuild. The weekly radio show "Cheeze Pleeze" (www.cheezepleeze.com) and the stream (timecapsuleaudionetwork.tripod.com) will be given a bit of priority to be up and running and then the jetsam will be back. I thank you for all the letters and support i've had over the last year with this project, and want to stress, it's isn't permanent, it's just a break. we'll be back in the fall sometime.

Let's throw in one more exhibit before we start the break. Circa 1960s Wrigley spearmint gum jingles from another ET record that had me stand up and take notice when I saw the label. It's from the Universal Recording Corp in Chicago. It's a legendary studio in the city from the 1940s onward started by a man who pioneered numerous recording techniques and tricks and moved to hollywood in the late 50s to start yet another legendary recording studio of his design, Bill Putnam.

You can read more about Universal on the wiki HERE

Well, I suppose records didn't just pay the bills alone...commerical jingles certainly helped too.

I've put all 8 60 sec spots on one mp3 file.

Enjoy! and have a great summer!


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