| Back in August 1980 when Commercial FM radio began in Sydney, there was 2DAY FM. Brought together by John Laws, Mike Willesee, Graham Kennedy. At the time, these three men were quite successful Australian media/entrepreneurs. The format was MOR, Adult Contemporary music, Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, etc....lot of West Coast sound and a laid back chatty presentation. Then there were the epic Australian produced Jingles, that actually worked and set the tone of the station at 2-3 min song length, sometimes with a lush, easy sound. One noted Australian jazz vocalist who contributed vocals to these narrative themed jingles, was Kerrie Biddell, Cut 2 here. These examples were mastered from a DBX noise reduced cassette, unfortunately I had no access to DBX playback so, even played off a Nakamichi cassette player ( I tried Dolby, didn't work) they sound a bit thin & crisp but hey, you can still hear it without too much audio pain. These were dubbed from cassette to 15 ips Revox B77 reel, using a BASF tape, which had its own top end properties, then dubbed to CDR in 1997. I wonder if you played these back through DBX, if they'd replay correctly with the right emphasis ? If you're aware of the production house that compiled these or have a complete master tape lying around, let me know. |
