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# One of the nicer things…

Jingles

Welcome to the second of our Ken R jingle sampler series – my mission to get these things listened to by a wider audience. This one is simply called PAMS Sampler 806; the name may be nondescript, but this is one of my favourites:

PAMS Sampler 806 (69MB ZIP, password: kenr)

All the tracks are brilliant, but here are a few of the best. It kicks off with a montage of Series 14-44 – for background, PAMS released numbered demo packages of jingles throughout its life, which stations would listen to and choose which cuts to be resung for their station. This montage is a great trawl through American radio between 1960 and 1973:

[mejsaudio src=”https://dirtyfeed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/806/01%20Series%2014-44.mp3″]

PAMS didn’t just do radio IDs – they also did advertising jingles as well. Here’s some excellent material for Dr. Pepper:

[mejsaudio src=”https://dirtyfeed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/806/06%20Dr.%20Pepper%20(Get%20Going).mp3″]

Finally, something slightly different – two station songs. One for KGTV…

[mejsaudio src=”https://dirtyfeed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/806/04%20KGTV-TV.mp3″]

…and one for KIIS in 1970:

[mejsaudio src=”https://dirtyfeed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/806/09%20KIIS%201970%20Songs.mp3″]

Beautiful. Such a shame that the station song has all but completely died out – but that’s a whole other discussion…

Jingle compilation by Ken R. Deutsch. PAMS material © PAMS Productions, Inc. of Dallas.