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.
With halloween tomorrow, I thought I'd go a bit creepy, because, well, nothing says talking about death then a jingle, no matter how tasteful you try to make it. At least in my mind. WKRP did the wole ferriman up tempo funeral home jingle thing back in the 70s, and well they were shooting for laughs, this set of jingles was serious business. I'd love to hear the copy someone would have come up with for these jingles...It would be interesting.
That's not to say there isn't other fun stuff here, The garden side of the disc has some bad puns in the lyrics you sort of expect. Just add a hypy over the top used car salesman type announcer and you'll have a great spot.
The image ideas disc has some very generic comments about sales that you can almost use anywhere....campy as they are.
I haven't had some 1970s US Beer spots in awhile it seems....well, if I did it recently in the last year or so, I couldn't find them on a quick google search, so here's some more. From a tape collection I bought years ago off ebay, i'm still getting some mileage out of the material in it. No doubt most, if not all these reels are jingles forgotten in time.
One thing that amazes me is how hravily compressed the audio is. It was the era I suppose, AM radio was king, and everything is produced for AM Radio. Heavily compressed meant pushing out of your speakers much like squeezing a balloon and watching it bulge in certain areas. The bulge is the loudness of the audio increased. It does sacrifice audio quality though. The quality isn't much better then a black and white TV back then. It still got the message across.
From April 1976 a Variety of Jingles for Papst Blue Ribbon Beer.
Note that cut 4 on this tape was ruined by someone recording over part of it, so with a bit of editing of the :60 jingle from cut 1, I came reasonably close to the original.
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From September 1976 (based on the side label on the box) 3 version of Miller Lite Beer.
Finally, from May 1977, this really isn't a jingle, but some great creative about beer. Seems a quick google search implies the company is still around too, or maybe it's just someone else used the name for a restaurant. In any event, there's are 2 great spots.
...for Chiquita Bananas specifically, it dates back to the 1940s. In fact, here's a you tube LINK HERE to a animated commerical run in theatres in the 40s, with Carmen Miranda doing the sing for the memorable jingle.
We, however, present a mid 1980s take on the whole jingle, singing the song in various situations which reflect the titles of the versions (as noted on the box below)
Please note, the 1st cut audio I did a ok edit on, as the tape was missing the very first part of the cut, so I took the missing part from the second cut and put it on the first to make it more complete (got it? I know it's a bit confusing!!)
Also, starting with this exhibit, I am moving the source audio to Google Drive as an experiment.
THE EMBEDDED PLAYER BELOW SHOULD WORK AND CLICKING ON THE POPOUT LINK IN THE PLAYER IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER SHOULD OPEN ANOTHER BROWSER WHICH WILL GIVE YOU A DOWNLOAD LINK IN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THAT BROWSER!!!
If this works out, we'll eventually use it going forward and move everything over eventually. Enjoy!!!
Going through some of the tanner stuff I have, I found 2 5001 Lps.....apparently there was a "R" version of 5001, which I will assume is revision, despite the fact it has a totally different label, or maybe this is where the company decided to change the labels? Who knows.
So, 2 tanner Lps this month, which seems to have different jingles on them. Enjoy!
I ran across this site recently where Juicy Fruit, an iconic brand of chewing gum in North America, apparently wants to changed their jingle, so they decided to put up a website with 5 different variations on the jingle and you can vote on what you prefer.
Funny thing is though, they all still sound similar to the original that's been around since the early 1990s, so not that much of a different take on things.
Still, here's 5 different full sing versions of the Juicy Fruit Jingle to enjoy while the site is still up.
If you want to save the mp3 files, and have a web browser like firefox (which I used) right click your mouse on the page and select "save page as" make sure web page complete is chosen, and the mp3's will be saved with the rest of the page in a folder near where you saved the actual page itself, or should anyway...got it?
Oh, yeah, the page itself is HERE at juicyfruitjingle.ca
For our first post of 2019, we mix it up as I decide to just grab what I find easily in the vault of boxes where I store the commerical tapes that get posted here. There's more then a few, so I've decided to make it easy this time around with some commerical jingles and a Tanner LP of generics.
First off from 1995 is a Thruway Muffler jingle package. There are still Thruway muffler shops in Canada, though that's based on a google search, I haven't been to one myself. The "Talkin to the Boss" jingles raised an interesting angle implying that no matter who you talk to at the shop, "you're talkin to the boss" which makes me wonder if all those people are bosses, who the hell does the actual work? I ponder.
This tape is fun as it also has the french versions of the jingles...well, we are a country of french and english, but I seldom come across reels with both.
I threw this in for fun. The Bay is Canada's oldest retailer, going back to 1670 and they're still around, albeit in a limited way compared to their past, but still here in a sea of American imports floating around here. They decided to take the song "montego bay" to rewrite for their one day sale from 1993. The audio is slightly distorted, but that is the source material. Still a fun listen
HBC Media/The Bay "Montego Bay (One Day Sale) 1993
Finally, more jingles from the Tanner pile of production albums I have. Oh Boy these are delightfully dated. The "hey pretty girl" jingle...well....I suppose it may not be appropriate for 2019. Yeah...so....
