I've always listened to various jingles of radio stations, and whenever I hear them, I hear the barbershop-quartet-like group sing most of them. Do they have a name or something, or do they remain secret?
Johnny Donovan seems to be the voice of WABC, that would make sense since WABC is the flagship station of many talk shows like Rush Limbaugh and he is also the announcer for Limbaugh's show.
@sctvhound This jingle was actually recorded during a talk show...I wasn't usually able to pick up WHAM very clearly so I don't know if they still played any music or not.
love the WSM jingles. if possible, you should do some fm stations as well, i know koma was an FM station, but try and do more. i can't get enough of those am/fm oldies stations, especially some that use the drake series 76 top of hour stager. and the jingles that go along with it. they make it feel like you just time traveled. i'm more partial to 80's/90's jingles, i was born in 1989
The radio jungles are fun to listen to. I use to have a jukebox exactly like the one you have pictured. I am curious about the conole tv in the left hand corner. It looks similar to my grandmother's old tv It was Motorola. I only have the cabinet., I am not sure what happened to the chassis.
Hi, thanks for your comments! The jukebox is a seeburg LS-2, we had to completely disassemble it to get it up the stairs and then re-assemble it. The TV is a General Electric from around 1956...I put in a new CRT and replaced the capacitors...I need to make a demonstration of it sometime.
Those are some sweet samples you got posted there. Chuck Gatiga or something like that, wasn't he a weather caster out of Detroit? And was sunny 95 an am station or fm? I know that many am stations used to just announce the first 2 numbers of their frequency to almost sound like fm stations or due to the fact that many older am recievers just had numbers like 55-60-70-etc printed rather than 530-600 and so on.
Sunny 95 actually was (is still?) an FM station in Columbus, Ohio which had a translator in Athens, Ohio...that translator was later replaced by a full-power religious station.
I have another jingle which is on the KJBC video of KYXX, 920 AM, Odessa, TX. which uses the slogan 92 Texas Country just like you were saying. On this video they say "84 WHAS" but I think they later went to calling themselves "840" because of the increased use of digital tuners.
.. WCBS calls themselves "Newsradio 880" or "WCBS-880" now but.. NY Gov. Patterson in a live interview a few months ago called them "Newsradio-88"... A wise person calls the station what the listeners do... and not so much what for some reason sounds hip. I laughed out loud when I heard Gov. Patterson call it Newsradio 88.
I think its more of a habit if someone listened it for decades. I don't think 880 would sound "hip" - most CBS stations had the zero on their stations for a loooonng time (KNX, KCBS, WBBM), etc. I thought a Pataki interview a few years ago referring to "[W] CBS 880" was even worse!
I've always listened to various jingles of radio stations, and whenever I hear them, I hear the barbershop-quartet-like group sing most of them. Do they have a name or something, or do they remain secret?
jjkaraokepro 2 months ago
That radio used to sound very good before IBOC destroyed it.
RVDMISSISSAUGAKID 1 year ago
Was this recorded in Texas??
RVDMISSISSAUGAKID 1 year ago
@RVDMISSISSAUGAKID No, these were recorded in Ohio.
retrochad 1 year ago
Johnny Donovan seems to be the voice of WABC, that would make sense since WABC is the flagship station of many talk shows like Rush Limbaugh and he is also the announcer for Limbaugh's show.
OlegKostoglatov 1 year ago
Did WHAM still play music that late into the 90s?
sctvhound 1 year ago
@sctvhound This jingle was actually recorded during a talk show...I wasn't usually able to pick up WHAM very clearly so I don't know if they still played any music or not.
retrochad 1 year ago
love the WSM jingles. if possible, you should do some fm stations as well, i know koma was an FM station, but try and do more. i can't get enough of those am/fm oldies stations, especially some that use the drake series 76 top of hour stager. and the jingles that go along with it. they make it feel like you just time traveled. i'm more partial to 80's/90's jingles, i was born in 1989
funtyrone 2 years ago
This is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!
Robbyjean 2 years ago 2
Bong.....da da DA da daaaaaaa. :-)
darthchaosofrspw1 2 years ago 8
The radio jungles are fun to listen to. I use to have a jukebox exactly like the one you have pictured. I am curious about the conole tv in the left hand corner. It looks similar to my grandmother's old tv It was Motorola. I only have the cabinet., I am not sure what happened to the chassis.
maynardcat 2 years ago
Hi, thanks for your comments! The jukebox is a seeburg LS-2, we had to completely disassemble it to get it up the stairs and then re-assemble it. The TV is a General Electric from around 1956...I put in a new CRT and replaced the capacitors...I need to make a demonstration of it sometime.
retrochad 2 years ago
Nice!
spatsbear2 2 years ago
Thanks Spats!
retrochad 2 years ago
This is a wonderful montage of radio jingles and IDs. Looking forward to part 2.
DerrickLee2006 2 years ago
Thanks!
retrochad 2 years ago
I remember the jingle that WATH had.
Righty736 2 years ago
Those are some sweet samples you got posted there. Chuck Gatiga or something like that, wasn't he a weather caster out of Detroit? And was sunny 95 an am station or fm? I know that many am stations used to just announce the first 2 numbers of their frequency to almost sound like fm stations or due to the fact that many older am recievers just had numbers like 55-60-70-etc printed rather than 530-600 and so on.
Great video - 5 stars!
traxonwax 2 years ago
Sunny 95 actually was (is still?) an FM station in Columbus, Ohio which had a translator in Athens, Ohio...that translator was later replaced by a full-power religious station.
I have another jingle which is on the KJBC video of KYXX, 920 AM, Odessa, TX. which uses the slogan 92 Texas Country just like you were saying. On this video they say "84 WHAS" but I think they later went to calling themselves "840" because of the increased use of digital tuners.
retrochad 2 years ago
They still call themselves 84 WHAS
wtvg1 2 years ago
.. WCBS calls themselves "Newsradio 880" or "WCBS-880" now but.. NY Gov. Patterson in a live interview a few months ago called them "Newsradio-88"... A wise person calls the station what the listeners do... and not so much what for some reason sounds hip. I laughed out loud when I heard Gov. Patterson call it Newsradio 88.
moosewelch 2 years ago
WCBS / WCBS-HD / New York: WCBS Newsradio 880
wtvg1 2 years ago
I think its more of a habit if someone listened it for decades. I don't think 880 would sound "hip" - most CBS stations had the zero on their stations for a loooonng time (KNX, KCBS, WBBM), etc. I thought a Pataki interview a few years ago referring to "[W] CBS 880" was even worse!
chyrongeek 2 years ago
Very cool. Is this AM or FM?
rulebritannia1991 2 years ago
Thanks! These were all AM stations except for Sunny 95 which was FM.
retrochad 2 years ago
Trance88 is right, some of those really sound very '70s or '80s!
wilkes85 2 years ago
Sounds like the jingles are from the 70's and 80's.
Trance88 2 years ago
Yes especially the WATH and WAIS ones they most likely are but they were still being broadcast in the mid-90's.
retrochad 2 years ago