No YouTube channel called Radio Jingles would be complete without this recording of The JAM Song!
Irish pirate radio station Radio Nova played this track quite often - mostly because Radio Nova is mentioned in the list of radio station jingles on the track.

Because of the airplay of this track on Radio Nova in the 1980's, listeners to radio in Dublin became aware of the fact that there was a company in the USA and all they did was produce radio jingles and station I.D's.

That company is called JAM Creative Productions, Inc.; an American company that produces radio jingles, promo music for television, and commercial jingles for advertisers. It has made more radio jingles than any other jingle company and has become part of American pop culture. (Wikipedia)

Founded: 1974
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, United States
Type of business: Producer of jingles and other music for radio and television
Founders: Jonathan M. Wolfert, Mary Lyn Wolfert

The JAM Song history:

1985 was a very busy year for JAM. There were several CHR and A-C formatted stations competing in almost every city, and JAM did the jingles for most of them. Countdown shows abounded, and you could hear JAM on one after another. To take a "snapshot in time" of that moment, we wrote and recorded The JAM Song.

In order to create as accurate a time capsule as possible, each station's logo melody was correct (as of the day we recorded it) and each station's call letters were sung by the same combination of singers who sang their most recent JAM package. This required lots of research and many different recording sessions which spanned about three weeks.

We originally pressed The JAM Song onto a 7" record at 33 1/3 rpm, and mailed it out as a promotional item in September 1985. The back of the record jacket contained the song lyrics and credits, and identified the location of each station mentioned. In 1994 we digitally re-mastered The JAM Song from the original 30 ips master tape and released it on our 20th anniversary commemorative CD, "The First 20 Years".

The JAM Song takes a whimsical look at what we do, and predicts a time when you'll hear JAM jingles coming from other galaxies. There's even a brief aircheck of an intergalactic station whose legal ID is "Zorp Furble, Andromeda". It shows that despite language differences, radio and jingles are truly universal.

Many formats and call letters have changed since 1985, but it's still fun to look back. We hope you enjoy "The JAM Song".

The lyrics for "The JAM Song" were written by JAM founder Jonathan Wolfert, who was also responsible for the concept and final mix. The music was written and arranged by Bruce Upchurch, who was a JAM staff writer and vocalist at the time.

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