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| SONGS |
Bill
Compton -- "Iron Man"
Tim Hollis finally tracked down a copy of this lost classic.
| COMMERCIALS & JINGLES |
Bargain
Town USA jingle
Extra points if you dance the cha-cha while listening.
Jack's
Hamburgers - the famous jingle, used 1961-70
(the "adjusted for inflation" version ... I've yet to come across
a good, workable copy of one with the original lyrics "for fifteen cents")
Burger
In A Hurry jingle - '60s
You'll listen to this one ... we knew you would.
Lumberjack
Cold Cuts commercial - 1963
I vaguely remember this name. I guess they didn't cut the
mustard ... or the lunch meat ... or the tree itself ... ahem ...
Downtown
Birmingham promo - 1966 (Walt Williams, WSGN)
Downtown is for ACTION people ... for people ON THE MOVE!
"The
Kaleidoscope", Bessemer - 1969 (Dan Brennan, WVOK)
That voice. There was no mistaking it. Nobody could
get you excited about a rock concert like Dan Brennan!
WVOK
"Golden Eagle Syrup" commercial - 1969 (Joe Rumore, WVOK)
Featuring music by the John Carroll High School band.
| RADIO & TV RECORDINGS |
WSGN
'City Song' - a/k/a "Birmingham, That's My Home Town!" - 1961
"Imagineered" by PAMS Productions.
This was a song featured as part of one of their jingle packages.
A station wrote the lyrics to go with the music track. Many other
cities adopted this song, and some even had 45s pressed and gave 'em away.
Incidentally, two other stations in Alabama used this song: WAPX in Montgomery (AM 1600, now WXVI) and WAAY 1550 in Huntsville (M. D. Smith IV, part of the family which for years owned WAAY, has a copy of the Huntsville version on his website)
WVOK
"Happy Day" song - 1971
I think this was a PAMS jingle, too. A companion song was
recorded for sister station WBAM in Montgomery.