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mark occomore
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 Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: Music Beds |
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Don't get me wrong I do like some of Steve Wrights jingles over the years, I was just listening out of the news at 2pm, and Steve said Tar and then played that music bed then goes into his opening theme. I thought too myself what the F is he playing. What meaning do some of these music beds have?
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MIKERAPHONE
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Mark...all the music beds on Wrighty takes you back to the good old 1FM days.
That's it he's in a timewarp.
Bring back Mr.Angry to be next to Ask Elvis and you bridge the gap.
275 and 285 BBC Radio ONE!!!!!!!!
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| MIKERAPHONE wrote: | Mark...all the music beds on Wrighty takes you back to the good old 1FM days.
That's it he's in a timewarp.
Bring back Mr.Angry to be next to Ask Elvis and you bridge the gap.
275 and 285 BBC Radio ONE!!!!!!!! |
blimey 275 and 285 ............  Mr Angry is hidden away until the day he retires. 17 years time. |
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Ella Sailyour
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| MIKERAPHONE wrote: | | 275 and 285 BBC Radio ONE!!!!!!!! |
What about "247 National...... Wonderful Radio Onnnnnnnnnnnnne"!
Ella
PS: 247mw being the frequency previously (and forcibly) removed from Radio Caroline South, of course.
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SantaFefan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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course, the original Caroline was on 199... 
and that's where most of the good R1 jingles came from, the Pirates! |
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Ella Sailyour
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| SantaFefan wrote: | | and that's where most of the good R1 jingles came from, the Pirates! |
PAMS in Dallas, in fact!
As for beds, I think Wrighty should use Big Lil. It's from his era! 
Ella
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SantaFefan
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| My favourite was the "Music hour by hour, it's great, from your tower..." jingle. Something like that anyway... |
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Ella Sailyour
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| SantaFefan wrote: | | My favourite was the "Music hour by hour, it's great, from your tower..." jingle. Something like that anyway... |
Mr.S has loads and loads of pirate jingles in a box in his little cubby-hole he calls his study. They're all jolly quaint - memories of good times in broadcasting history (never to be repeated).
I think he has all the Radio London ones from the Galaxy era (1964-67). Some of them on Sonifex and Spotmaster carts (whatever they are).
Ella
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mark occomore
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| Ella Sailyour wrote: |
I think he has all the Radio London ones from the Galaxy era (1964-67). Some of them on Sonifex and Spotmaster carts (whatever they are).
Ella |
They are the old way radio stations used to play jingles. You could hear them sometimes chewing up in the machines. A few years back Steve had the R2 traffic jingle on them and it sounded horrid. I was told when he used to work for R1 the engineers used to have to add in more machines to his studio before he went to air, as he didn't have enough to play his jingles on.
http://www.jimprice.com/prosound/carts.htm |
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Ella Sailyour
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The Spotmaster 500's (pictured in your link) were used on the MV Mi Amigo - home of Radio Caroline South - and in use into the 1970s, so Mr. S. tells me (he's a bit of a radio broadcast systems anorak, you see).
| mark occomore wrote: | | They are the old way radio stations used to play jingles. You could hear them sometimes chewing up in the machines. |
I'm reliably informed (by someone who knows about these things and who is seated not a million miles away from me this minute) that chewing of the 1/4" tape loops in the carts was often due to poor maintenance and pinch rollers either slipping or misaligned.
Apparently, the Sonifex machines were more reliable in this respect.
| mark occomore wrote: | | I was told when he used to work for R1 the engineers used to have to add in more machines to his studio before he went to air, as he didn't have enough to play his jingles on. |
Studio cart machines were available in 3-machine stacks, and commercial studios often had at least 6 drives in a 3x2 configuration. He who shall be believed says he has an ex-BBC Sonifex cart machine in a box somewhere. More junk.....
Ella
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