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Futursonic
All
jingles below are copyrighted by Futursonic.
Year |
Package
Name |
Length |
1959 |
Futursonic
- Pacemaker |
? |
Futursonic
was formed when three employees at PAMS
left to form their own company. Their first package
in 1958, 'Pacemaker',
was in use on WPGC in 1959. 18 cuts were produced for
the demo which was distributed on 12" vinyl insted
of tape.
Among
those also using the package were WCAO in Baltimore,
CHUM in Toronto and WGH in Norfolk. The latter is of
interest because future WPGC Program
Director, Dean
Griffith #1 (Dean Anthony) had been playing
jingles from Futursonic for some time at WGH before
his arrival in Washington, perhaps explaining his ordering
of the packages below.
Futursonic
offered the package via barter to stations in exchange
for airplay of commercials. PAMS
had initiated the barter process earlier and sued Futursonic
for one million dollars claiming barter of airtime for
jingles was proprietary. A judge in Dallas however ruled
against PAMS,
citing herself as an example - she had bartered airtime
in her re-election campaign that year!
Thanks
to contributor Lee Whitney
for the above two compilations, who writes:
Time
Sings:
The "Please What Time Is It" donut is probably
Futursonic, but I have no idea
what package. I've never heard it elsewhere. Too bad I cut
out the open middle because the jock talked over it.
I'm
pretty sure all the minute cuts are Futursonic
"Time Chex" done in 1960. They were
the lower priced competition for CRC's
"The Singing Clock." These were
professionally done, but were generic with no call letters
and cuts only for every five minutes. CRC
had undertaken the ludicrous task of customizing 720 jingles
per station--one per minute for 12 hours (AM and PM shared
the same cut).
Weather
Cuts:
"Weatherweatherweather" appeared on WPGC
in 1960 - first the generic version then the "Big
PG" version. "Here Comes the Weatherman"
was old when Jerry G
started using it - probably from 1958 or 59 when the station
was the 'New WPGC'. They often in-cued it to "From
the 1580 Weather Tower."
"Mr.
Weatherman, What's The Weather Gonna Be?" is from
PAMS Series 9. "Mr.
Weatherman What's The Score" appeared about 1961.
"Come In Mr. Weatherman" is older but I
don't know how old. "Will it be warmer"
was also heard on other stations, maybe WKBW / Buffalo.
I would guess that all the jingles except the known PAMS
cuts are Futursonic, but I
don't know for sure.
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