"One Love, One Station"

I hope the 2006-2007 team who ran Smoke Radio receive a writ from the BBC issuing legal action for practically stealing their slogan from Radio 1.

Anyway, asides the title of the post I've had a listen to Nicky's compilation of the last 10 years of Music 4 at Radio 1 and it's quite an interesting listen although it does bring back a few uncomfortable memories of listening to Radio 1 against my will.

Some of those included are the cuts done for Mark Goodier on the UK Top 40 making very clever use of the brass riff from "The Sign Of The Swinging Cymbal" which "Fluff" Freeman used to use on Pick of The Pops and his rock shows. Mark at the time used a rather inferior version by the Propellerheads to count down the hits at the time which replaced a short lived remix by Fatboy Slim which I thought was a lot better.

Other examples include some rather dodgy power intros (jingle accapellas mixed into song intros) from 1999 with ones such as "Red Alert" by Basement Jaxx, "Ooh La La" by the Wiseguys and "Turn Around" by Phats and Small which has to be the worst as the Radio 1 acapella is sung in the completely wrong key.

There's also the cuts done for both Zoe Ball, and Sarah Cox when they both presented the breakfast show respectively and several examples done for Chris Moyles over the years included the song he used to finish the roadshows with on his "One Big Belly" tour in 2000 and jingles for some of the special features he's done on the breakfast show such as "The Red Nose Rally" and the "Say No To Wogan" campaign.

On the day I moved into University for the first time, we were driving behind a lorry around putney that had "No to Wogan" scrawled in the dust although if you look at how successful the campaign actually was, Terry still reigns as the most listened to breakfast show in the UK.

One of my favourite jingles that Moyles had done happened to be left off the CD but I've uploaded it here, which was a cut done the morning after England were beaten
in Euro 2004 by Portugal, which is a mixture of being either very sad or really funny and summed up how everyone felt about Urs Meir's decision to not allow that goal
on the night.

However there was also a rather amusing jingle done in around 2006 which used one of the backing tracks from Vibe's Capital FM network package in 2000 which went
"Capital Radio used to be Number 1 in London, But it's not any more, 'Cause we are".

As well as that it also includes one of the early jingles that Sandy and the team did for Moyles back in 1997 which were a series of pisstakes of old JAM Radio 1 jingles.
In the example uploaded the originals are heard first, followed by Moyles' versions.

Musically I think the send-ups are punchier than the originals and the vocals are amusing, but if you take into account the whole idea and the fact they knew they were intentionally ripping off the old JAM cuts, Jon Wolfert the president of JAM very much had a right to be upset and threaten legal action.
Especially after the way the BBC disposed of JAM jingles from the airwaves after a very creative 20 year relationship.

Overall though, the compilation is one that contains a great part of Radio 1's heritage despite not really being examples of jingles that I'd say inspired me to get into radio.
However quite a lot of them are great examples of how radio IDs and comedy can be blended together.