[BC] Radio Station Jingles

[Alan Kline]

I believe Tom Merriman was the founder of CRC, one of the other real pioneer
jingle houses.  There also seemed to be a lot of cross-pollination between
competitors--musicians who'd play one session for one company in the afternoon,
then in the evening or the next day play a session for another.

I highly recommend "The Hits Between The Hits", the book published by the
Media Preservation Foundation (www.jingles.org)  It comes with a CD that 
contains some very rare materials--like jingles for "WJZ, New York...the key
Blue Network station" and lyrics like "It's 4 o'clock (AM)...Ssshh...the Axis
is listening...don't talk...WJZ, New York..."

Ken Deutsche, of "KenR, Inc." also did several very good books on the jingle
biz, but they're out of print since he semi-retired last year.

ak 

------ At 10:57 PM 1/14/2006 -0600, The Most Honourable Steve wrote: -------
>BTW Alan...did you know that it was Tom Merriman (TM) who actually invented
>the jingle in 1953? I know it's hard to believe but true. Me thinks he was
>involved with the PAMS folks or some others in Dallas in the 50's and early
>60's until TM was formed. (I read this somewhere and I think it was on the
>Tomorrow Radio LP that came out in the 70's but not sure)
>
>Thanks for the info. I just couldn't put an era to that package.