For February 2013-Mixing 70's Mcd's with Moving and JC Penny gives a talk....

Just under the wire for February, we dig out a variety of different material...




Here's a complete Jingle Package for Mcdonald's Filet O' Fish advertising for 1977. That's a item that's come and gone over the years. The way McD's does things, it may be in your area, it may not, but certainly a classic up there with the big mac that has instant recognition with the chain.




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Out of the tanner generic jingles collection, comes disc 5023, Why? well, I just closed my eyes and picked it. It's a good reason as any isn't it? Side one is focused on moving and storage, while a variety of short jingles and different products take up side two.

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Finally, a bonus oddity that is advertising related. I found this at a thrift store and was amazed that it was the actual man, JC Penny giving the actual speech on the disc. An address that he gave to the Inland Daily Press Assocation in May 1953, this was likely recorded after the fact. It's actually a talk on how JC penny depends on newspaper for their primary use of advertising. Dry as hell I suppose, but hell, it's JC Penny! He really reminds me of how WC fields talked in the 1920s and 30s.


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Enjoy them all!....back at the end of March.

It's a New Year!!...you should never borrow money needlessly...

There's some great advise from the past....more on that later.

Happy 2013. It's been a busy month personally, but it's finally calmed down enough to get in this month's jetsam exhibit. I guess I think of this blog as a archives/museum type thing. It's the archivist in me. It's been there since I was a kid, along with a healthy respect for the past. The results are brought to you monthly.


I did have a few comments on some better pics of my RCA 70D turntable, so here is a few. I just put in a new on off switch for the motor that is rotary and with a vintage knob, certainly suits it better then the wall switch. I'm slowly working on trying to plug the holes and doing what I can to clean up the formica scratches. I tend to think that won't work out great based on what I found online so far, but at the least i'll try to make it neat. I don't think I will even consider repainting it, as it has the original paint and it's in fairly good shape. I'm trying to keep as much original as I can.

This is with a standard 12 inch LP on the 16 inch platter.

This is with a 16 inch transcription. This disc is actually part of this month's exhibits.


It's 1958. $1000 was a big deal. Instant cash outlets didn't exist, and one took care with borrowing money. Companies like Household Finance appreciated this, and tailored their commericals that way. These are a combination of both an announcer and jingle.

When you listen to these, keep in mind they were rather serious. You can also keep in mind those JG Wentworth 877-cash now TV commericals that are over the top and really cheesy, because the 1958 jingles today really sound like them....strange but true.

Enjoy

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Finally, we have Kmart and a jingle package from August of 1974 that could almost be used today. It's not the usually extremely dated material from the 70s...yes, no wah wah pedal. We have both the "Full Sing" and "Donut" versions of the jingle. Donut=room for the local announcer to do his thing,

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Enjoy, and see you next month. Comments, questions, email or post here and i'll do my best to get back to you.

scott s.

Cheezy and Dated Off The Rack Christmas Jingles...

From the Pepper Tanner "Contemporary Sound" of the early 1970s, I really don't know if I would air these things when they were contemporary, comes some really hokey kids jingles...funny how the song "Candy Man" was around this time, though that seems a bit more professional then this stuff. The camp factor is in high gear for these.

Posted as one file per side, everything is here, so you can create your own mock early 70s christmas commerical or run them as is. The music is here complete with the jingle also.

Have a great Christmas and New Years and see you next year (if the world doesn't end by then!)

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For November 2012...It's a Lang Worth Christmas!

Back in 2010, I posted a number of Lang Worth Feature Programs Christmas Jingles counting down the shopping days til Christmas. If you missed them, here is the LINK to download the whole bunch in one zip.

BUT WAIT THERE EVEN MORE!!! I found these discs poking around in with some other material, so thought I would include them in a Christmas salute on the jetsam for both November and December. I'll include some of that background Christmas music from some of the libraries I have and anything else I can find jingle and Christmas related.

The date on this Lang Worth disc in December 1964, obviously because that's when the station received it. It included the custom inner sleeve you see at the top of this page.

The music is basically church oriented 60 sec backgrounds you can use in various messages or commericals on the air. Still fun to hear this stuff though, as Lang Worth material is not common, much less :60 sec versions of Christmas classics.

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I also found another countdown shopping days til christmas disc, called "Christmas with Henry" from Lang Worth. It's self explanatory. Doing a quick google search, I believe It's non other then Henry Jerome, from the Hanry Jerome orchestra counting down the shopping days until christmas. The Henry Jerome orchestra did record for Lang Worth in the 40s and the early 50s, so it makes sense. Regardless, enjoy the jingles.

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More in December on the Jetsam.

75th Years Of Radio in Canada.....and 70s Jeans...

1994 was the 75th anniversary of radio in Canada, initially started in 1919 by Ted Rogers, in what would eventually be CFCF in Montreal, radio with support from the railway, would eventually go coast to coast in a matter of a few years. Rogers is still one of the biggest media companies in Canada, with roots in TV, cell phones, and of course radio. They also own the Toronto Blue Jays (at least partially)

This jingle package was created for the event. Not sure if anyone used it on the air, but you could almost use it today. It's a nice tribute to the medium with a few other spots within the reel besides jingle also. enjoy>



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We step back to the 70s with this jingle from Levis. Known for their TV commericals in the 70s and 80s, you don't hear a lot of the radio spots from that era, so here's one.


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Until Next Month.....

We're Back!!!!!!!

Fall is Here!. Hope you had a great summer. I suppose the highlight of my summer was acquiring a 1948 vintage RCA 70d broadcast turntable that was working and just needed a little TLC is getting going with a new cartridge and wiring. I only wish the tonearm was of that vintage, it's more likely from the late 60s, early 70s. Still a nice antique to obtain and with a 16 inch platter to play transcriptions. Here's a pic with new felt:

I actually had to buy machine oil and 50 weight motor oil to get it all lubricated. complete with 2 and 1/2 ft high wooden cabinet covered in metal, This beast was built to last with a solid shaft and true meaning of "direct drive" for turntables. It's a shame a lot of these got tossed into dumpsters in the early 70s (according to one blog). I'm just glad to add it to my arsenal to transfer audio. It also came with a small amount of transciption discs, including some national commericals, so look for a few here in a future post. I might add that this month's exhibits were transferred on this turntable. We're posting this month with a album I got back in maine a couple years ago. It's a demo album of award winning commericals from 1967. No doubt hard to find, you'll here some jingles in with the regular spoken word spots, including a Petula Clark coke ad on Side 1.

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This time for commerical production music we look at the series "The Director" which is another series I have and I did use professionally in the 80s when I was doing radio production. It usually consisted of cueing up the music track on the turntable, announcer in the booth, rolling a reel tape, and starting the turntable, when the music starts, so does the announcer, and eventually would be dubbed to broadcast cart for airing. This LPs often were used and abused on a daily basis, and held up well, until they were ditched for CDs. I don't think a lot of these libraries were ever reissued on CD because they were dated as hell, and production libraries were always coming out with new stuff, and often didn't look back. In any event, here's disc 2 of "The Director"

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I'm a little embarrased to say.......

Well, the summer is almost over, and it's been a nice break to take time and work on other things and think about the Jetsam. For the last few months, it's been an afterthought and chore which my wife encouraged to do. That's not a bad thing that my wife encouraged it, but it was a bit of a rush because I had other things to do. This is why I wanted a break. It's good for perspective. It's also good to read the comments that have been left. it was such a chore, that I didn't even notice people were leaving comments. Just call me dumb ass. I haven't responded or read them all, but I will. Just give me some time. So, I'll be back in the fall with the Jetsam, in other words, sometime next month. I'll set a realistic goal of 1 post/month and see what happens. This may not be an actual jingle, but some radio commerical that may include a jingle or not, or more of the "off the rack" jingles. We'll see what happens. I'll open up the floor for comments and suggestions of what you like to see here. I can certainly post some local jingles from my area of Halifax, NS Canada also. I shunned away from local/regional stuff, but that just might add to it here and make it unique. I want the jetsam to continue, but would love your input. A warm thank you to all who have posted and visited this site. In the meantime, I'm working on my other projects, my syndicated show and internet station through the summer. here are the links if you are curious: http://www.cheezepleeze.com http://timecapsuleaudionetwork.tripod.com See you In September! Scott S.