Radio Station ID Jingle

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My interest in radio station jingles started in 1962. Our family from Ohio to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1962. I was in my early teens and was just getting interested in Rock and Roll music and listening to the radio. By far, the best station for Rock and Roll in South Florida was WQAM. One thing I noticed right away were the unusual (to me) jingles they played. They had this weird voice singing the station's ID, "Wonderful WQAM". I was fascinated. I called the station and asked how they made that sound. I wasn't aware that those jingles were used on stations all around the country and the world. The DJ explained to me that the sound was produced by a Sonovox. The singer held "speakers" against his throat while a musical instrument played the station's id through the Sonovox. He then sang the lyrics and the sound of the instrument, piano, sax, trumpet, guitar, anything, came out of his mouth producing the "weird" sound I heard. I found out that those jingles were made by a company in Dallas named PAMS. The name of the jingle package in question was "Series 18 Sonosational". From then on I was hooked. I wanted to know everything there was to know about the jingles. I bugged the DJs with request for jingles instead of records. I listened so often that I memorized the sequence the jingles played in the Mackenzie Repeater that WQAM used to play them and was able to predict the next jingle that would play. When WQAM got a new jingle package, I listened every possible minute I could to hear them all. At night, when WQAM broadcasted the boring Alan Courtney talk show instead of playing music, I scanned the radio dial listening to stations all around the country to hear their jingles. I heard the same jingles WQAM used on stations like WABC, KAAY, WLCY, WLS, WTIX, KXOK, etc. After graduating college and started working full time, jingles took a background position in my interests. Sometimes when I made 8 tracks or cassettes of music to listen to in the car, I'd mix in a few of WQAM's or PAMS demo jingles but never really thought about collecting them. In the early 90s, my interest was rekindled. I wanted a complete collection of WQAM's jingles. I found a radio chat group on the internet and asked if anyone knew where I could obtain WQAM radio jingles. The answer was to try Ken R in Toledo. I found out Ken R had thousands of jingles from PAMS and other companies. Unfortunately, he didn't have many of WQAM jingles. I found other people who collected jingles and started trading. Now, I have amassed a huge collection of jingles from radio stations all around the world. But I still haven't found all of WQAM's jingles! Please visit these pages: Jingle Trading, My Personal jingles PAMS Numbered Series Samples

WQAM Jingles Needed I am desperately looking for the following WQAM jingle packages: • Ullman “One-derful” Series • Pepper Fun Series • CRC Series 34 Holiday Series • Futursonic Time and Temperature Jingles • PAMS Series 25D “Cheerleaders” - Male Vocals • PAMS Series 17 and 18 - Instrumental Cuts • A 1963 package by a group called the Skipjacks It was a complete set of jingles including new time and temperarure jingles. They were sung to the theme of “Ten Little Indians”! • All jingles prior to 1962 If you have any of these please contact me: wqam@560.com