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Subject: PAMS WESTERN CANADA JINGLE MONTAGE
Stations: Various
Dates: Various
Time: 14:10

Throughout most of the 1960’s and into the mid ‘70’s, well over a hundred radio stations across Canada aired jingles created by PAMS of Dallas. PAMS was hot all over the Great White North, but especially in the Western provinces. This montage contains various PAMS jingles from stations starting in Winnipeg (CKY, CKRC, CFRW), moving through Regina (CKCK), then a quick trip over to Moose Jaw (CHAB), up to Saskatoon (CKOM), back down to Lethbridge (CJOC), stopping briefly in Calgary (CFCN, CKXL), north to Edmonton (CJCA, CHED), then out to Vancouver (CFUN/CKVN/CKLG/CJOR) and winding up in the beautiful city of Victoria (CKDA).

This audio trip back to yesterday features the distinctive voices of Trella Hart and the late Peyton Park (who sounded black, but was actually a white insurance salesman in the Dallas area). Another ‘neat treat’ is the CHED 2½ minute jingle/song “I Had A Ball in Big E”.

NOTE: CFUN and CKVN were actually the same station. In 1968, the station changed owners, who switched to an all news format and changed the call letters to CKVN (Voice of News). They later dropped news for a Top 40 format. CHUM Ltd. bought CKVN in 1972, and a year later, on September 30^th, 1973 brought the CFUN call letters back.

Hear the PAMS Western Canada Jingle Montage here.

Produced by Doug Thompson

(The Doug Thompson Collection)

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