Your favourite radio jingle
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Here's a thread that does exactly what it says on the tin. I'm sure this had been debated at great length, but I'm been unable to find a thread on the Forum relating to it.
So, what is your favourite radio jingle, past or present? I am really liking the current Smooth Radio package, it is such an improvement on their old set, even though it was just a minor tweak on the last note and a different chord sequence.
I also really liked the last lot of jingles used by BBC Radio Suffolk before they were dragged kicking and screaming into the Mcasso ones. Fortunately most of this package live on at the S2Blue website.
I listened to a lot of Classic FM in the 90s, and have a soft spot for those jingles too. I don't know if they are online though I'd like to think they were.
And finally... the dubious prize of my least favourite jingle goes to BBC Radio 2. This has been consistent for many years and I know I'm not alone in thinking the nation's favourite station has terrible jingles. The latest update recently was a mild improvement, but certainly not a refresh. They need to go back to the drawing board in my opinion.
So, what is your favourite radio jingle, past or present? I am really liking the current Smooth Radio package, it is such an improvement on their old set, even though it was just a minor tweak on the last note and a different chord sequence.
I also really liked the last lot of jingles used by BBC Radio Suffolk before they were dragged kicking and screaming into the Mcasso ones. Fortunately most of this package live on at the S2Blue website.
I listened to a lot of Classic FM in the 90s, and have a soft spot for those jingles too. I don't know if they are online though I'd like to think they were.
And finally... the dubious prize of my least favourite jingle goes to BBC Radio 2. This has been consistent for many years and I know I'm not alone in thinking the nation's favourite station has terrible jingles. The latest update recently was a mild improvement, but certainly not a refresh. They need to go back to the drawing board in my opinion.
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Best would have to be Radio London (Big L) with Radio Caroline next and Radio North Sea, Swinging Radio England up there. They all had good jingles including some not so good to be honest. Radio 2 is much better now that those stinker jingles have gone where they just sang out names in the same style that sounded like they had people trapped in a lift and refused to get an engineer out if they did not do them a favour and sing out names from some list.
Got all nostalgic and looked it up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkkoevdqyM0
totally agree - legendary
I know some of them are on Production music CD's but darned if I can find them!
Some of those big instrumentals and stingers for Essex, GB Radio etc appeared on at least one Carlin Production Library CD but these are tightly controlled and licenced so rare to find any leggally but ocasionally strange things do appear on e&ay or by plugging the right words into google
:rolleyes:
1980s Saxon Radio 96.4 Bury St Edmunds.
"....Viiiiking FM......oh yeah, yeah, yah, 96.9...ah ha..Viking FM"
Ash
I have access to most of them at work, but searching is quite the task and David Arnold comes up in a helluva lot of CD's! I found them by accident about 10 years ago & kicked myself for not sorting it out then!
http://www.radiojingles.webspace.virginmedia.com/audio/beacon_1978/sing_song_male.mp3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iL5RvzXIuM
Hear his music grow
on the Tony Blackburn show
* or other DJ's name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IVGUydfKyU
Unfortunately the Greatest Memories Latest Hits package, which succeeded Great Music Radio and was the last package to be used by Forth prior to the split in 1990, was memorable but for the wrong reasons. The key problem for me was the use of song clones for the bulk of the jingles. Done well they can work, but they weren't in this case and were virtually blatant rip-offs of the songs they were based on. The package would have worked a whole lot better without the clones. It wasn't often that Sound House churned out dud efforts, but this was one of them.