Here's an album a bit off the beaten track for me. When stores wanted to advertise on television or radio and couldn't afford to have a professional group write a jingle for them, stations could use a sort of "canned" jingle for them that they would get from a record like this (or actually, like these since I've combined two different albums here). You get a generic jingle about how great your barbershop, clothing store or furniture store is, and somewhere in there a local announcer would give the name of your store. It's sort of the best of both worlds here. I'm not exactly sure when this came out, but it has a very sixties feel. Anyway, I think this is a lot of fun, and I hope you do too!
Here's the track list:
- Insects
- Self Service Laundry
- Car Sales
- Money Loans
- Phonograph Records
- Car Service
- Beauty Salon
- Body & Fender Shop
- Boating
- Barber Shop
- Bottled Gas
- Drag Races
- Butane Gas
- Mens Clothing
- Candy
- Ride the Bus
- Ride the Bus 2
- Moving Trucks
- Moving Trucks 2
- Loans
- Furniture
- Portraits
- Tire Company
- Tire Company 2
- New Homes
- New Homes 2
- Gardens
- Gardens 2
- Auto Road Service
- Pizza
11 comments:
I LOVE this! What a find. Thanks for posting. It's a lot of fun.
I can't find out anything about this material. None of the titles match anything in the ASCAP or BMI databases.
I've been having fun with this music trying to remember If I'd heard it back in the 70's.
Thanks!
This is a fantastic album, thanks for recording it. Keep up the great blog!
man, what a find! thanx so much for sharing! and remember- "dead bugs are living proof!"
AARRGH!! Why couldn't this have turned up while I was still producing radio!? I did use a couple of similar canned 50s jingles as IDs for KPFT's HD channel, but these are far superior.
Wow Junk! This is one is a lot of fun. Thanks buddy!
Your pal,
Doug
Thanks for this -- I am SUCH A SUCKER for old commercials, and the cornier (like this bunch) the better. It was a lot of fun.
I like dropping in here from time to time, just to see what strangeness you've come across.
Thanks for all your efforts.
Next time I need to find just that perfect song about bottled gas, I know just where to go! Thanks!
Seems to me the Mars series came out in the early '70s.
I worked with a couple of other Pepper-Tanner libraries in my production days. They supplied similar donuts for programming elements as well.
Hi. I've got one of these but it's christmas jingles for stores. 16 tracks. Vocals. Same sleeve, numbered H909-S7 xmas shopping. What's something like this worth?
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