I guess I started taping pop music off-air when I was about 13 or 14 years of age. I still have some of those early tapes. About a year later I became fascinated by the bits in between the records – the jingles. I started recording Radio 1 and Radio 2 jingles in 1976 – in the dying days of their use of PAMS jingles - as well as some off Radio Humberside and Radio Tees. Those early recordings were of variable quality, literally a mic stuck in front of a radio. But once I got my radio with built-in cassette I was away. Some of those jingles have appeared on this blog and my small Radio Humberside collection made it on-air last month as part of their 40th birthday celebrations.
In the programme you can hear what inspired some British collectors to start their jingle collecting. It all sounds unerringly familiar to me though I was never as serious about it as these guys are.
Radio 1 Traffic News
You could never get a ‘clean’ recording of this off-air of course.
Viking Radio Opening Song
The best full-on orchestral opening jingle until Chris Moyles’ show openers.
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I used to love the Beep Beep Yeh traffic news Radio One Jingle as a small boy. It was years later I realised it was obviously inspired by The Beatles Drive My Car!
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