60s Radio Jingles

Radio Jingles have changed quite a lot over the years, nowadays all you get is the station indent repeated over and over by voices that range from a Barry White sound alike to a small choir boy on helium.

But in the 60s and 70s you got a full American Barber shop quartet singing the introduction to the weather report in what now sounds quite kitsch. The only thing that ever came close to those over the top produced jingles from the past were the home made ones by Kenny Everett. I have some of those on tape somewhere as well and if i get chance to transfer them over onto MP3 i'll bore you all with them.

I have no idea where this record came from (honest) or why I have it in my collection, but these classic jingles crack me up.

They remind me of Radio One, Radio Caroline, Radio Luxembourg, and many other 60`s and 70`s radio stations of this era
Favourite of the bunch “Drive carefully, ‘cause we love you”
Bring back jingles like this, that’s what I say, they jolt as many memories as the records played between them.

The Big Pink Dominos

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Believe it or not these men were pop stars

Adams Ants in weird pants. It all seemed quiet "cool" back then. Slightly outrageous, perhaps a bit odd, but i don't ever remember looking at the sleeve and pissing myself laughing like i did tonight. Just think, the chances are that at least one of these men is a grandad now...

Sunset

I'm quite proud of this picture.
It's just a shame there is no-one in it that i know. But it does prove that point and click cameras can produce just as good an image as big expensive ones.

Don't you just love crap karaoke singers ?.

I'm not keen on those that think they are the next Mariah Carey or Robbie Williams and sound a bit OK. It's the really rubbish ones that make a karaoke night.
Luckily i had my mobile phone with me when this one hit the stage. I only wish i had caught the beginning though, it was even better than the end.

This is a mistery woman murdering a Queen classic. You may also notice that the pub was fairly empty for some reason, funny that, eh ?.

Why did i buy that record ?

If you have been collecting records as long as i have the chances are that there will be the odd one or two amongst of them that are slightly embarrassing and perhaps make you wonder what the hell you were doing buying them in the first place.
I have an alarming amount of singles like this. They are not even funny crap, they are just crap type crap.
Let me introduce you to some of them.
If anyone can explain to me why i bought a single by the acapella group the Kings Singers, warbling a song about the changing of BBC radio Frequencies in the mid 70s i would be much obliged. To make this ever so slightly worse, i also own another by Jock Swan & The Meters singing about the changing of Radio ones Medium Wave frequency from 247 meters to 275 & 285. I've always thought i was a bit odd i suppose, but this just confirms it.

All our yesterdays

I was in Blackpool a few weeks ago and took this picture. You may wonder why ?. Well i think it's one of those pictures that mean nothing now, but in a few years time you'll look at it and say "look at all those phone boxes!!!".
Even now i can't remember the last time i saw so many in a row. Eight of them, and all empty as usual.

I know they have been killed off by the introduction of mobile phones, but for the sake of a little nostalgia i decided to take a look inside one and was reminded of another reason why they are dying a death.
The smell of piss nearly burned my eyes out. and the type of graffiti on the windows would have made a soldier blush.
This was the cleanest, but I'm still not sure I'd use it, even in an emergency.

Dripping Blood

I know your not supposed to be taking pictures when you are driving. But on my home from work the other night i managed to snap this at some traffic lights.
I was driving behind this wagon for miles and blood kept dripping from the back.
What do you think ?. Mafia Murder or Abattoir truck ?

Pop Quiz

Name that record.....
It reached No5(UK) April 1985 and the picture on the disc might help.
Answer Here

Now Thats what i call music 4 CD

Christmas is fast approaching and I’m skint again, so it’s time to get back on eBay and start selling my life away.
I’ll never know the value of anything I put up for sale anymore. Things I thought would sell for huge amounts just sit there for a week with no one showing any interest.
But records I post for the sake of it, sell for pounds.

The first surprise this year came with this. Genesis - Tonight, Tonight, Tonight.
A CD single from 1985.
On sale for 99p, sold for £17.00 plus P&P
Why?

Well thinking about it logically, in 1985 CDs were fairly new. CD Singles were even newer. It's obvious really.

The most expensive thing i ever sold was Now That's what i call music 4 on Compact Disc. I worked in a shop at the time of it's release and had just bought my first ever CD player. This was a time when the Now series itself was a fairly new idea. Everyone bought the vinyl or cassette but nobody bothered with this weird new format that cost me £15.99 for half the album. I remember being disappointed with it myself, It only had 15 tracks on it, and most of them weren't the best off the album so what a rip off!.

I had ordered it specially as well, we only ever stocked three !!. In the end it went unplayed for most of it's life and just gathered dust on a shelf.

In 1984 there were problems securing artist rights to release their product on new formats like Compact Discs. It's what kept the Beatles entire back catalogue off the CD shelves for so many years and why Virgin/EMI couldn't release a full CD version of this Double compilation album.

Add to that the fact that it cost £15.99 for one, so imagine how much they would have had to charged for a double ?.
Anyway who would have thought that all these years later the series of Now albums would still be going. At the time of writing this post we are waiting for Now 75 and there are people who collect them all.

So imagine this, The first ever now album to be released on Compact Disc, at a time when they printed and sold very few. It's the Holy Grail of Now CDs and i owned it.
I started the bidding at £5.00, not realising. I suspected something was going on when it jumped to £40 in 24 hours and someone asked if the box had 'patent pending' stamped into the plastic (it did).
It eventually sold for about £ 350
If only i could find something else like that. It's a one off. But if you own a copy yourself i suggest you burn it onto your I-Pod, and then flog it.

Who's a naughty boy ?

I have received an email from blogger

Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog infringes upon the copyrights of others. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message.The notice that we received from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the record companies it represents, with any personally identifying information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org. We do this in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Please note that it may take Chilling Effects up to several weeks to post the notice online at the link provided........


This is a sort of slap on the wrist ‘but if you do it again we will cut off your dangly bits’ type of email warning.
Perhaps using the URL Tracklister was a bad idea after all. I might as well have called it freemp3stodownload.com.
So let’s throw them off the scent and blog about shite for a while like everyone else does.

Is this the worst commercial ever ?

Or possibly the best, dig those funky penguins