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Post by David Stockhoff on Mar 12, 2005 4:37:01 GMT -5
More or less coming from a jingle freak ;D , I was wondering if anyone can share a bit more of history behind some of the jingle packages that WAKY (and WKLO) used during there heyday, espacially during the early days ('58-'70).
I know the earlist WAKY package I can find reference to is Dramatic Signature, PAMS series 14 from 1960. As for WKLO, the earliest is series 15, Living Radio. also from 1960.
My question is, knowing the history of PAMS and the fact Gordon McLendon "fathered" WAKY, was WAKY exclusivly PAMS and if so, or if not, what other packages did they use?
I must say that I really enjoy this site and a chance to listen to these classic sounds from a gone bye era.
Sincerely,
David :0)
(Born 30 years too late)
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Post by Travis on Mar 12, 2005 13:57:45 GMT -5
One of the things that I thought made WAKY a winner was the way in which the jingles were used. Johnny Randolph believed in having jingles coming out of a tune, as opposed to going in, because he felt that the attention span was greatest during the playing of a song (naturally) rather than coming out of a spotset. During the early '70s the jingle most heard coming out of a tune was the one with the boxing bell at the end (W-A-K-Y DING!). Randolph's formatics certainly made sense, but what I believe really made it work was that some of the jocks (especially, Gary Burbank) used that particular jingle, and others like it, as a sort of rimshot at the end of their bit. They would start their bit early into the extro of a tune, deliver the punchline before the extro faded completely out and fire the jingle. They would then follow the jingle with just the time, and perhaps their name, and go directly into the spotset. Bailey, Burbank and Jason O'Brian come to mind as 3 of the jocks that really applied the jingle in that way. It's quite obvious in their airchecks. I don't know if Randolph had this in mind with that particular jingle, but it worked like a charm.
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Post by David Stockhoff on Mar 12, 2005 21:24:40 GMT -5
I see that we have WKLO jingles and airchecks now, very cool. And, I see the earliest WKLO jingle package here is series 15!
Anyways, Randolph, as Travis said, used an updated "chime time" jingle, simular to what WABC has been using for some time in New York.
I hope that the regular Sonosational package will show up in a future update. ;D That has to be my personal favorite PAMS series. I believe the Montage jingle from series 18 is where the famous "stab" jingle WKLO used during the mid-late-60's came from.
Great stuff, for sure!
David :0)
(Living large in Big Lou!)
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Post by Ben Pflederer on Mar 15, 2005 20:36:45 GMT -5
The Wacky "stinger" out of each record set, even between "Twin-Spins" before that jingle package came out was used in the mid-late 60's as I recall. Does anyone remember when the "W" got stolen around '66-67?
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