Thursday, September 19, 2024
Amazing what you can find on old Broadcast Carts.....
I have 100s of these things and the machines to play them on. The grandfather of the 8 track cartridge, celebrating 65 years old this year. I have music, PSAs, music, and old commericals on these things. If you ran a radio station from the 1960s into the mid 1990s, you bought into this format. They were replaced by computers, but the format was so prominent, the software was designed to look like a cart machine to assumingly making it easy to make the DJ's understand the computer. Who knows
The funny thing with this one, i'm amazed that this 37 year old spot never got erased as it was traditionally a format to air the spot for the specific dates then erased. In this case, it didn't and that's a good thing.
The narrator was Canadian Actor Percy Rodriguez which was an in demand voice over artist for Movie promotion in the 1970s and 1980s, besides his on screen roles in movies and television. He did the original Jaws trailers and promotion...yeah, we'll being him back for the sequel.
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Sunday, May 26, 2024
All Good Things.....30 years later.....
This little nugget was saved by me in 1994 when the local TV station would periodically buy time (or was it barter?) to promote various programs. Often it was news shows, but in this case it was a big deal. After 7 years, the show was ending and it was good to promote it. Paramount had the audio promos produced no doubt for this reason, to cross promote each ep on radio. Shipped on a reel to TV stations, it was tagged by a local announcer.
Sadly the 30 sec promo was lost, but the 60 sec remains and WOW, a lot is going on, but still very listenable. Voice by the king of the movie trailer's himself Don Lafontaine, it was slickly produced and after having it for so long, it's time to share here. The TV station slapped a local TV station label on the box, but I managed to get off a lot of the label to see it was marked for wiping before the spot was sent to the radio station. A dang shame
Enjoy what we have here though.
Star Trek The Next Generation EP 747 "All Good Things".... :60 audio promo with slate
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Joseph Flaherty RIP
We start our first post of 2024 on a sad note, with the passing of Joe Flaherty veteran comic actor and comedian for decades but is probably best know for his characters on SCTV , including Big Jim McBob (of Farm Film Report fame), Count Floyd/Floyd Robertson, and station owner/manager Guy Caballero, who goes around in a wheelchair only for respect and undeserved sympathy.
It is with the Guy Caballero character that we are going to look at on the Jetsam. The canadian movie channel First Choice, brought back Guy for a series of radio spots (and maybe TV? i'm not sure) to promote it's free preview in early 1991. They were so well written that maybe Joe or the SCTV crew were involved as it really went with the rather greasy nature of Guy on SCTV to promote something TV related. It was a great match really, and we are glad to have these spots live another day, despite the timely reason.
So enjoy these great pieces of comedy as they are part of a comedic icon's body of work for those of us that are a certain age. We visited the SCTV cast on a regular basis in the world of Melonville and will continue to do so. Thanks Joe.
2. Hot Movies-FC-R-31-90-30E
3. Dirty Movies-FC-R-29-90-30E
4. Magic Fingers-FC-R-27-90-30E
5. Cabin Fever-FC-R-28-90-30E
6. 1-900-FC-R-30-90-30E
Friday, December 22, 2023
Fun For The Whole Family This Holiday Season......though a bit violent apparently...
5218 Side 1
Also there's "Tales Of Christmas" and it appears I missed this one from previous posts intentionally or unintentionally i'm not sure. The stories strangely enough seems to be rather violent, so no warm and fuzzy here. Makes you wonder if anyone used these on the air. The narrator is so casual about it, it's kind of funny. Those where the times apparently.
5221-S7 Side 1
5221-S7 Side 2
Hope you have a great Christmas and Holiday Season and you'll hear from me in 2024!!!!!
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Happy Halloween.....and a bit of inflation relief to listen to...chain restaurant fun.
30 second version
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60 second version
DOWNLOAD Finally a pile of Ponderosa Restaurants from 1974, which will make you want to be able to go to a restaurant for these prices again. Ahhhh, we can listen and hope can't we? Ponderosa though has always had mixed reviews for me when I was a kid. It was something my family could afford and it was a night out to eat and it wasn't really that bad. just remember the $$$ you saved right?
Save Money
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Dinner At Home
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Grocery Bill
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Coffee Pot
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Cleaning Crew
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Rare Steak
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First Family Night
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Second Family Night
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Lunch # 1
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Lunch # 2
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Enjoy!
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Forgotten Flotsam-The Soap and Smoking Edition
In February 2023, Canadian TV Reporter and Broadcast Personality Helen Hutchinson passed away. She was a pioneer for women in Canadian Broadcasting. I think comparable to Barbara Walters in the US. She did everything she could, host a national TV morning show, investigate reporter, sports commentator, it seems she could do it all. More about that HERE to get an idea of the extent of her career.
What seemed to be lost to time though, is the one commerical that I know of that she lent her personality to. ABC Laundry Detergent is a brand of detergent in Canada that has been around for decades, but Helen did the first campaign for it "Can't See a Difference" in the late 1970s. I was surprised not to find the TV ad online for this really, as it was really played to death in the era and even subsequent years later as the campaign did so well. It was recycled into the late 1980s, but without Helen. One can assume at that point in her career she didn't want to hawk laundry soap, but in any event, it was so set on my brain over the years that I was gleeful when I found a original tape of the radio ad (which took the audio from the TV ad and put it on the air) destined for the tape eraser. Obviously, it made it past getting wiped and up here to present to you as a piece of canadian flotsam
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Suddenly It's the 1970s, chain smoking the cancer sticks of tobacco in a high stress job is commonplace and a concern even then. We've come a long way since then, but endorsements from big time TV celeb Ed Asner who admits in this spot he had those days to come on and try to lay off the smoking for a day certainly were a reality then and who knows, maybe some people quit because of this campaign. We will never know, but let's look back 45 years to a simpler, more second hand smoking time with this exhibit.
1-Smoking Is Bad
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2-Don't Panic
Finally, it's the 1980s and one hot Canadian artist is Corey Hart who impacted the 80s teen culture with his hit "Sunglasses At Night" and many more in Canada and beyond throughout the 80s. Last I heard he was touring still off and on. He was a great influence to try to get kids from even starting smoking as we hear this 15 second PSA from the mid/late 80s.DOWNLOAD
Until Next Time
Sunday, November 13, 2022
It was 50 years ago today..........
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