Howdy,
So today I have two bits of tape from many, many years ago, both of them professional reels featuring a bit of "inside media" material. Neither needs a great deal of explanation, and both are fun in their own ways.
First up are a bunch of jingles for what I'm guessing was an MOR station, in Sioux Falls, SD, at some point, KRSD. Their slogan seems to have been "The Music Montage", and there's a moderate degree of variety between the various jingles, but all are solidly within the MOR style, with a few veering dangerously close to the vapidity of the Beautiful Music format.
Download: KRSD, Sioux Falls, SD - Music Montage Jingles
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At the other end of the media field - and on the other dial - were the newsmen of the day, and near the top of that field was CBS journalist Charles Collingworth. Here's a neat reel of tape (aside from the occasional piercing whine) in which Collingworth spends about eight minutes recording and re-recording parts of a few promos. These are the audio recordings from what were clearly filmed promos.
Download: Charles Collingworth Records a Promo
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I think you meant "Charles Collingwood" not "Charles Collingsworth". :-)
ReplyDeleteI do like the jingles...and the idea that you need to be reminded that you're listening to "music in the middle of the afternoon." Thanks for posting this.
ReplyDeleteI keep waiting, btw, for Collingwood to say, "fucking ponderous, man..fucking ponderous."
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tony. I have made the correction!
ReplyDeleteBob
I love the radio jingles...downloaded and isolated these. Then threw a couple on while on a car ride just so the rest of the family could look at me like I'm a weirdo. Just a dad doing his job.
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