Lots of people
know about the company’s famous custom packages such as Solid
Rock, Tuned Young and Smart Set. Even more know the numbered
series like Series 18: Sonosational, Series 27: Jet Set and
Series 29: Radio a Go Go. But few know about these "lost" items
unearthed by Ken Deutsch and the crew at JingleSamplers.com.
These are some of the items from the PAMS Secret Closet, where
you never know what you will find.
This is Peyton
Park (pronounced "Parks") singing a PAMS disclaimer for series
43, "The Textures." Only a little bit of this made it to the
demo, but here is the whole enchilada, recorded in 1972. The
instrumental track was originally written for a PAMS retail
client, Herbst.
1964 was the year
of the Beatles, and this was one of many similar jingles
recorded that year by PAMS. The client may have been WABC, but
we’re not sure. You probably will be able to guess the song that
served as inspiration for this: "Please Please Me," an early
Beatles hit.
In the early
1970s, Rick Sklar, program director of WABC, asked PAMS to
create some special material to play at closed meetings of the
ABC managers. Jon Wolfert was involved in some of the
production. There are two versions: the first is sung by Dan
Alexander and Chris Kershaw is the vocalist in the second.
Dennis Meeks
(Bill's son) says: "The following music, lyrics, orchestrations
and copy are the exclusive property of PAMS Advertising Agency,
Incorporated of Dallas, Texas. Copyrighted 1961."
Northwest Suite is
a record-length song created by PAMS. I don’t know much about
it, other than the fact that it was designed for KIRO(AM)
Seattle and that it features some of the best soloist and group
talent at PAMS including Chris Kershaw and Dan Alexander. (It
might have be inspired by Cashman & West's 1972 Top 40 hit
"American City Suite.")
