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Angry McPisseron
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Posted: 10 Sep 2014 at 1:59am |
Does anybody remember the radio station ID jingle from radio stations you listened to when you were young?
I remember one in particular, from radio station KJNO in Juneau AK. USA. It goes: Sixty Three Kay-Jay-En-Oh, Jun-eau! This was a music & talk station that broadcast at 630kHz on the AM dial. Now it's a news & sports station.
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Jimbo
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WKKO 860, Cocoa Fla.
Dou-ble-U-Kaay-Kaay-Ohhh, Eight-Sixtyyy!!! Oh geez... I cannot believe I found this on YouTube... Damn, what memories this brings back!!!! I lived just a couple of miles from the station back when this was being broadcast. |
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Not necessarily a jingle but a sound from WTIC News Talk 1080. Heard it all the time when my grandfather was listening to the radio. It went like this:
Dut dut dut dooooooot Another one I remember is WDRC FM before they blandized themselves. I miss it dearly. One Ohh Two Point Nine W-D-R-C FM Newwwwww Britaaaaaaaiiiin Haaaarrrttfffooorrrdd! |
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Thor
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Around 1965, the Four Seasons did a jingle for the greatest DJ ever on the greatest AM station ever---Cousin Brucie from WABC Radio. Can't you hear that groovy beat now, baby... |
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I remember well, the call letters, not really the jingles.
WLS-Chicago- I have no idea what they play now, but they were a very powerful AM station, I could pick-up even in Indianapolis. Larry LuJack, funny guy. I was living in northern Indiana through Jr. High, just as I was really getting interested in music. WOWO-Fort Wayne- Another AM pop station with farm reports, some school buses had radios. WRBR- South Bend- A more progressive rock station, not just top 40 all the time. WNAP-Indianapolis- Nap town. And it was just as I started high school. WFBQ-Indianapolis- They were a lame station with computer like DJ's giving just band names and song titles. Then some 20+ years ago, the duo of Bob and Tom came to town. Now syndicated nationwide and on the Armed Forces Network. Some very funny stuff over the years and they have donated millions through their charity work. |
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Jimbo
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Did anyone listen to a few minutes of the video I posted?
Some great random chatter & jingles from the late 60's & early 70's. That was the local station I grew up listening to on my Toshiba transistor radio identical to this one... ...which I still have, BTW. And which still works, too. |
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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
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aka ron
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I did recognize Shirley Temple singing there. The radio voice, from back then, really cracks me up because I hear current radio people making fun of it.
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insanity213
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Oldies 94.5 KLDE. Their jingle is in the first 15 seconds of this:
The station begin in the late 80's (so it's not really from my childhood youth, more preteen years) and played nothing but oldies. My dad especially loved the station since the 50's were his teen years. It was probably around the turn of the century when they changed frequencies from 94.5 to 107.5. About 7 or 8 years ago they became a classic rock station (The Eagle), which is now the only classic rock station in Houston after 93.7 The Arrow was converted to hip hop trash. |
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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
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Jimbo
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I could a sworn we were roughly the same age there, old fellah. And yeah, that's the way radio DJ's spoke back in dem days. |
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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
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Thor
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I can still name many of the DJs on my radio station (WABC) in the 60s: Cousin Bruce Morrow Herb Oscar Anderson Scott Muni Harry Harrison Dan Ingram I recall one of the DJs got fired for playing the station's little "Happy Birthday" ditty on the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. When I drove to Florida for Spring Break in 1977, I was still able to listen to WABC outta NYC down there. Strong signal. |
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aka ron
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I'm just guessing, but those real strong stations, on the AM band, must have had towers on top of skyscrapers.
Over that distance, I would think one would lose the signal due to the curvature of the earth.
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Jimbo
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The reason why AM signals travel so far is because they follow the curve of the Earth, whereas FM signals travel in a straight line, thus losing strength as the Earth curves away beneath them. That's what I heard/read somewhere. |
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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
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Thor
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Here's the Hiroshima thing I mentioned earlier. I was wrong; the song they played was 16 Candles. The Hiroshima thing is followed by a "Paul McCartney's dead" thing that got another DJ fired a few years later. |
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timdubya
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I sometimes like to listen to these old radio jingles on YouTube. I can't find those I'm familiar with though. Here are some I remember from Nebraska and out-of-state clear channel stations:
KRNY Kearney, 1460 (now KXPN): Where the music is! K-R-N-Y! KUVR Holdrege, NE 1380: K-U-V-R, Thirteen-eighty in Holdrege! Personality Radio! KMMJ, Grand Island 750: Light & Lively! K-M-M-J! WOW Omaha 590 (now KXSP): Fifty-nine! W-O-W! KQKY-FM Kearney 105.9 aka KQ106: (79-84) Your Favorite Rock, K-Q One-oh-six! (mid-80s) The Midlands' Hit Rock! K-Q One-oh-six! KHAS Hastings 1230: Twelve-three-oh, K-H-A-S! KFRX-FM Lincoln 102.7 (now 106.3): (1980s) One-oh-two-point-seven K-F-R-X Lincoln, Nebraska! KOMA Oklahoma City 1520 (now KOKC): K-O-M-A Ooooooooooooooklahoma City! (1970s) |
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