Over the years Ken
R LLC compiled and sold 14 "Pro-Pak" volumes. Each CD contained
99 tracks of generic (no call letters) material produced by
PAMS. Included were jingles, shouts, sonovox cuts, stagers,
sounders and more evergreen elements suitable for enhancing
oldies-formatted radio stations and DJ shows. Most vocal cuts
featured the original PAMS Dallas singers, while others were
sung by Ken R's Toledo group.
While the Pro-Pak CDs
are no longer available for purchase, we thought the Pro-Pak
demos and Ken's original disc descriptions deserved a place on
this website as a part of radio jingle history. Enjoy! (You
might be interested in the
Power-Pella Demos too.)
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Pro Pak I is actually two CDs, each with 99
cuts. They are all in mono and come as a set only.
Disk A has the following: superhit countdowns from
1-10, "the most music" sung in three tempos, a
chime, three sung "fun" a capellas, a laughter
jingle and 7 top of the hour stager beds. It also
contains the following generic cuts: Good Morning,
Mother's Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Father's
Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Happy New Year,
Happy Valentine's Day and Merry Christmas. It has
the following group shouts: yay, boo, ahhh, awww,
oh, well, hmmm. It has the following music-related a
capellas: music time, time for music, music 5
minutes sooner, music a additional stingers and gold
intros, a "let's go" bed and 9 news sounders. Disk B
has a weather jingle for each day of the week and
about 30 a capellas for various groups (The Mamas
and Papas, Elvis, The Beatles, etc.). Then you get
about a dozen Sonovox wild lines including the days
of the week. Those are followed by all time hits
weekend, all hits of all time, number one (fast and
slow versions) and Sonovox years 1955-1970. Then
you get sung years 1955-1974. It ends with Superhit
1-9 countdowns (different from Disk A).
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Pro Pak II is a single CD in stereo with 99
cuts containing countdown numbers 1-20, 5 oldies
intros (golden, heavy gold, yesterday, etc), three
weather intros and three news intros. Then you get 4
summer jingles (sun-surf-sand-and, summer music,
etc). These are followed by two Christmas jingles
and 5 Sonovox features (twin spin, double play,
triple play, etc). Next come about a dozen general
cuts such as hit after hit, music radio, all oldies
all the time, good morning, good afternoon, happy
weekend, fun time, music power. These are followed
by the sung golden years 1955-1975 (different from
other disks). There are two top of the hour stagers,
one of which ends with now here's much more
music…the other says another hour of music power.
Then you get a contest section of 7 cuts including
stagers, nice try, we have a winner and a hooray
instrumental. The CD finishes with 8 misc. cuts
including countdown hit, several rim shots for
jokes, touch tones, instrumentals, etc. The last cut
(cut 99) is a not-for-broadcast group of "behind the
scenes" outtakes from Ken R. Inc.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Pro Pak III is a single CD in stereo with 99
cuts. There are 7 "more music" cuts in various
tempos, including back to back, double play, twin
spin, etc. Then you get 12 general oldies type
jingles including music power, all hit music, it
pays to listen, the beat goes on, good morning,
music sounds best etc. There are 14 gold cuts
including double yesterday, double golden, oldies
radio, solid gold Sunday, flashback, etc. There are
ten stingers which are short and punchy, several of
which use the "WABC melody." Then you get 9 weekend
cuts including million dollar weekend, soul weekend,
summer weekend, etc. There are 7 instrumental beds
from the go-go era. There are 4 holiday cuts
including Christmas, New Years and Happy Holiday.
There are two contest cuts, followed by the sung
golden years 1976 through 1996 (all different from
the other disks). We conclude with three goofy
Sonovox cuts: that's right, wrong and far-out.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Pro Pak IV is a single CD with 99 cuts. We
start with 13 :60-second beds in various tempos but
mostly from the 60s era. There is a jingle for each
day of the week. Then you get more than a dozen
general jingles such as good morning, welcome,
powerhouse, fun, golden, souvenir, chime time, etc.
There are holiday cuts including happy holiday,
Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween,
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Then you get
about 9 various more music jingles in varying
tempos. Next you'll get about 15 music features such
as hitbound, million dollar weekend, exclusive,
weather, etc. Then 7 playin' jingles including music
power play, playin' through, music comes here to
play etc. The next section includes 9 Sonovox drop
ins including back to back, ten in a row, olé, wow,
cool, etc. The CD ends with ten stager beds.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Pro Pak V "The Last Dance" is another 99-cut
stereo disk. The first ten cuts are hit numbers
(different from other disks), then cuts 11-18 are
stager beds. Cuts 19-31 are gold intros such as
yesterday, 70s gold, psychedelic 60s, Motown memory,
the most oldies etc. Cuts 32-39 are seasonals
including Christmas, endless summer, school's out,
Groundhog's Day etc. The next 6 cuts are
phone/contest bits such as here's how to reach us,
call now, who's on the phone, etc. Cuts 46-50 are
news sounders, cuts 51 and 52 are weather intros.
Cuts 53-59 are feature cuts such as happy birthday,
car tunes, mid-day café, Beatle spectacular, etc.
Cuts 60-76 are golden years ("we salute the class
of…1960" etc). Then cuts 77-83 are formatics
including more music, go go, reveille, the music's
on us. Cuts 84-90 are long instrumental beds and
cuts 91-97 are short stingers and tymp stagers.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Pro Pak VI "Never Say Never" is another 99 cuts
of wonderful PAMSness. You get sung numbers 1-10,
eight different Top of the Hour stagers, 19 show
open beds and 10 various music slogans. You also get
a 60s kit… everything you need to sound like 1963!
It includes authentic news opens and closes, story
separators, fanfares, time tones and much more. Also
included on this CD are 6 formatics for weather,
etc…sung gold years 1960-1979, six solid gold
intros, four :60 second promo beds and three special
occasions.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Cuts 1-10 are countdown numbers Cuts 11-21 are
all in the solid rock style for those doing 70s
shows and mobile parties. They include instrumented
cuts singing soul, more solid rock fast, more hits,
yesterday fast and slow, #1 yesterday fast and slow,
#1 fast, medium and slow and more solid rock medium.
Cuts 22-25 are Heavy Gold 2, 3, 4, and 5 in a row.
Cuts 26-28 are gold intros including playdate,
weekend and harp flashback signature. Cuts 29 and 30
are top of the hour stager beds. Cuts 31-33 are a
capella countdown numbers repeated with Leslie
effect. Cuts 34-40 are "four non-stop hits," "five
non-stop hits," etc. Cut 41 is a "super sound number
one" jingle. Cuts 42 through 48 say "two in a row,
"three in a row," etc. Cuts 49 through 64 are
various music intros including all hit fast and
slow, most music, muuuuuusic, fast and slow music
shotguns, by request, 3-2-1 music, and a couple of
Sonovox cuts. Cut 65 is a personalized DJ cut just
for you! Cuts 66 through 70 are feature intros
including news, sports and weather. Cuts 71 through
80 are Sonovox countdowns from 1-10. Cuts 81 and 82
are misc. jingles including a Hollywood intro and a
sports intro outtake. Cuts 82 through 90 are general
stuff you can use including good morning, let's go,
personality, nite trippin', stereo, dynamite, go to
the church of your choice and winter. Cuts 91
through 97 are logotronics including more hits
on…gold, have a fun fourth, summer fun, summer
weekend, Christmas and happy holiday. Cuts 98 and 99
are short instrumental bumpers.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Cuts 1-10 are "Superhit countdowns" #1 through
#10. Cut 11 says "Superhit countdown" but there is
no number. Cut 12 is designed for oldies shows and
mobile music events where requests are taken. This
cut has a Sonovox saying "Request Machine," which is
followed by a very long synthesizer pad for talkover.
Cuts 13 through 24 are what we call the "Good Guys
Grid." These cuts feature punchy instrumental tracks
with the following lyrics: music pow pow pow power,
good guys radio, music power, fun lovin' good guys,
yesterplay, 50 thousand pow pow pow powerful watts …outta
sight, fun music, music power, music (fast), music
(slow), all summer long music power fun weekend,
good guys radio with music power. Cuts 25-27 are
special lyric Series 18 cuts including: Lots of
records were sold…this one's solid gold, number one
you all say it…now we're gonna play it, and we think
you're tough… couldn't love you enough. Cuts 28-46
we call "Brass-tacular." They're very upbeat, bold
cuts with lyrics such as: music power, power play,
number one, golden weekend, more hits more often,
happy holiday, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, more
music, all hit music, solid gold, double yesterday,
weekend gold, million dollar weekend and now another
winner. Cuts 47-56 are formatic elements. They
include: have a happy day, he's been looking to
entertain you here on your radio…curtain's going up
on (blank) now let's go, he's in…he's on, fun radio,
you're having fun in a winner's wonderland, what the
good guys have is the power of love and the best
sound around. You also get a birthday song, the
actual WQAM 1967 time tone and a PAMS tymp roll.
Cuts 57-61 all say number one radio, combined with
these phrases: music, more gold, number one record,
weekend weather and time and temperature. Cuts 62-69
are service jingles. You get four different news
intros, a sports jingle and three weather jingles.
Cuts 70-85 are music intros. Lyrics include: Top 30,
#1 music (in two tempos), pow power, All American
hitline survey (with pad), fun vibrations…most
music, weekend fun, music hit to hit, more music,
the beat goes on, more hit music, non-stop music and
all-hit music. You also get two music to music tempo
transition jingles. Cuts 86-93 are gold intros: All
American classic (with pad), remember when weekend,
supergold (fast and slow), superstar, do you
remember it too? memories are made of this (with
chime), solid gold weekend (with chime). Cuts 94
through 96 are top of the hour stager beds. Cuts 97
through 99 are long instrumentals. The first two are
each :60, the last is :30.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Cuts 1-15 are misc. formatic jingles including
another hour of music pow pow power, Sonovox
musicdrop ins, now here's____ insert DJ name here),
all hits of all time, boss music, gold, weather, a
four-part Sonovox stager, weekend warrior showtime,
the most music (slow), two PAMS group drop-ins and a
blast from the past shout. Cuts 16 through 28 sing
"1956, it was a very good year…." Etc. You get all
the years 1956 through 1968. Cuts 29-37 are various
Sonovox "cool" drop ins. Included are cool, cool
baby, that makes you cool, cool winner, it's cool,
cool Motown Monday, cool weekend, that's cool and
real cool. Cuts 38 through 43 are Sonovox lines
omitted from Pro Pak 1 because we ran out of room.
You get in, on, boing, zip, yeah yeah, and neat.
Cuts 44 through 46 are long (more than :60 seconds
each) moog instrumentals in varying tempos. Cuts 47
through 50 are "Q" stagers. These are all
instrumental in the following configurations: medium
tempo short, medium tempo long, slow tempo short and
slow tempo long. Cuts 51 through 54 all use the
phrase "sun fun city," including weather, more
music, memory and a top of the hour stager with room
for announcer at the front. Cuts 55-74 are slow year
sings with a Sonovox music on the front. They cover
the years 1955 through 1974 and the CD index
corresponds to the year. Cuts 75-78 are short "fun"
a capellas in varying styles. Again, these were
omitted from Pro Pak 1. Cuts 79 through 99 are all
the sung group names not heard on other Pro Paks.
You get Dean Martin, The Troggs, Bob Dylan, Herb
Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, The Ventures, Jack
Jones, Roger Miller, Trini Lopez, Dusty Springfield,
Tom Jones, The Cyrkle, Nancy Sinatra, Manfred Mann,
The Byrds, The McCoys, The Syndicate of Sound, Tommy
James and the Shondells, Tommy Roe, The Standells,
Barbara Lewis and Joe Tex.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Cuts 1-3 are "Boss Radio." You get an up-tempo
cut, a down-tempo cut and a male a capella. Cuts
4-11 sing "the continuing history of rock n' roll…
1964," etc. You get all the years 1964 through 1970
as well as a "blank" year. Cuts 12-22 are new and
interesting cuts to use on the weekend. You get
number one weekend, souvenir year weekend, Elvis
Presley weekend, $ million weekend, British-Beatle
weekend, love and marriage weekend, superstar
weekend, four-day holiday weekend, a cut urging
people to attend church this weekend, solid rock
weekend and a rather strange electronic-sounding
generic weekend jingle. Cuts 23-32 are gold and
general music intros. PAMS must have recorded a lot
of these because we keep finding new ones! You get:
join up with the good guys, the hits come on and on,
power hour, solid gold rock, house of hits, twenty
minutes of music, oldies, rock n' roll, the giant
jukebox and the big music machine. Cuts 33-41 are
used for news, sports and weather. Included are two
instrumental news logos originally used on WKNR,
Detroit, all American news, news comes first,
weather eye, weekend weather, generic weather with
chirps (you gotta hear it) and all American sports.
Cuts 42-48 provide yet another variation on the days
of the week. Each one has a quick moog logo, then
"Monday hits….hits…. hits…" etc. One for each day of
course. Cuts 49-53 fall into the misc. category.
They include chime time, chime temperature, chime
traffic, a "here's what's happening" :30 jingle and
even a :60 contest donut which sings "contest
information" at the front and "we hope you win it"
at the back. Cuts 54-72 are new "gold years." The CD
indexes each correspond to the year. The 1954
through 63 cuts are taken from WCBS-FM's PAMS
material…and 1964 through 1971 are from PAMS Series
37. All are up-tempo. You also get a blank year.
Cuts 73 through 78 are drop-ins from Trella Hart, a
female with a beautiful voice and an amazing laugh.
She now becomes your own personal studio guest
whenever you want with various comments and
break-ups. Even when your jokes are bad, Trella will
still laugh! Cuts 79 and 80 are for Cash Call… a
normal and a "second chance" cut. Cuts 81-85 are
taken from PAMS Series 49 and sing "the best music,
good time oldies." Cuts 86-89 are seasonal a
capellas. Cuts 90-93 are wonderful Top 40 jingles
from PAMS 33 and 34, but they don't have any words!
Cuts 94-97 are short instrumentals and included is
the WCBS-FM Goldmine top of the hour stager. Cuts 98
and 99 feature an announcer over two different PAMS
beds saying "Good Times, Great Oldies," followed by
an unpleasant cough. No kidding. Great put-on!
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Pro Pak XI Cuts 1-10 are Power Plays. Example:
(with band track and male singers) "Power Play
1,1,1,1,1" . Cuts 11-18 are gold intros including
time tunnel, hall of fame, do you remember, reliving
the best times of your life, Elvis Presley, grab a
flashback from yesteryear, million dollar music from
yesteryear, and here's a golden oldie. A good
variety of fast, slow, short and long cuts. Cuts
19-37 are general formatics including radio on the
go, listen and win, more fun in the sun, 'tis the
season, surprise, best music, all hits, hit after
hit, fun yes indeed, fun in the sun radio, marathon
of hits, full hit power, double play, triple play,
more music, much more music, now sound, music power,
more music. Cuts 38-43 are news, weather and sports
including: check the forecast and the meter
readings, next news on the hour, news logo,
community stinger, instrumental news close and vocal
news close. Cuts 44-48 all relate to the weekend
including souvenir (fast to slow), souvenir (fast),
groovin', outtasite and beach weather for the
weekend Cuts 49-54 are all "Good Guy" jingles
including double golden, home of the good guys
(medium and fast tempo), more music with the good
guys, here's one of the good guys, the good guys
love you, etc. Cuts 55-71 are all golden years. The
1955 through 1962 cuts sound like "Sha Boom" by the
Crew Cuts, the rest are from WLS. All are with band
tracks. Cuts 72-78 are Swiszle jingles including
classic hour, gold star classic, morning, time
tunnel (with pad), plays more, weekend and more
music. Cuts 79-89 are various types of countdowns.
Cut 79 says the Top 1000, Cut 80 says Top 1000
continues. The rest do not refer to top 1000 and
include, on with the countdown top 10, on with the
countdown extra, etc. Cuts 90-99 are all summer of
___ covering the years 1963-1972.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Cuts 1-14 are fast solid gold intro jingles
taken from Series 15, 18, 20, 27, 29, 31, and 37.
We've actually sung generic versions of the cuts you
remember. Some even use Sonovox, but most are sung
with mixed group or all guys. Cuts 15 and 16 sing
"more solid rock," one of which is fast; the other
is slow. Both use brass. Cuts 17-24 are just like
the first 14 cuts, but these are slow using tracks
from 30, 31, 33, 34 and 37. Cuts 25-29 are weekend
cuts including weekend music (fast and slow
versions), 24 hours a day, summer gold weekend, hit
music/golden weekend, etc. Cuts 30-38 are bold and
brassy grid cuts with various lyrics including "superhit
satellite… back to more hits," some weather jingles
and various generic music cuts you haven't heard
yet. Cuts 39-54 are slow year intros. They say "it's
1956 again…" with flutes and strings. The years 1956
through 1971 are covered. Cuts 55-60 are top of the
hour stager beds including a great one from WCFL in
a moderate tempo. Cuts 61-73 are year sings done in
solid rock style. Years covered are 61-72 and cut 73
is a blank year. Cuts 74-80 are the pre-records from
the Go Go Series 29. They are a bit longer with room
for talkover in many cases. They include lake
report, let's go fishin,' beach report, skiing,
let's play go go and #1. Cuts 81 through 90 are
instrumental jingles taken from Series 18 and 29
featuring flute, sax, strings, steel, etc. Cut 91
has a weird bed and then an end sing "heavy
underground" with distorted voices. Creepy! Cuts
92-93 are countdown cuts. One says countdown time,
the other says fun, good guy countdown. Cuts 94-96
are newsy sounding beds. One is all moog, the other
two are from Series 29 pre-records. Cuts 97 and 98
are just for fun with lyrics like "more jingles all
the time' and "remember these jingles." Cut 99 is a
medium length stereo version of Auld Lang Syne.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Cuts 1-10 are mostly instrumentals from Series
26, the All-American package. They feature guitar,
bike horn, organ, boom bams, a Dixieland band, etc.
One of the cuts says "double play" at the end. Cuts
11-21 all say "jukebox gold." Lyrics include:
remember the original, let's go go, leader of the
past, the songs you grew up with, etc. Cuts 22-25
are various news sounders using electronic and
orchestral instruments. Cuts 26-34 all use the
phrase "music people," in varying styles. These were
recorded in the early 70s by PAMS and come in
differing tempos. Cuts 35 and 36 are weather
jingles. The first says "weather watch," the second
says "what's it like outside?" Cuts 37-44 are oldies
intros and use the phrase "gold hits radio,"
unforgettable, supergold, etc. There is also a
Beatles jingle in the group. Cuts 45-54 are the "no
words" cuts. You get several brassy stingers, a
chime logo, three cuts which sound like the Tijuana
Brass, a fast and slow "Drake-style" instrumental,
and more. Cuts 55-62 are "old gold" years sung in
the style of the Platters singing "Great Pretender."
Each year matches the CD index for easy cueing. Cuts
63-75 are music intros in varying tempos and styles,
recorded mostly in the late 60s and early 70s. Cuts
76-87 are just called misc. cool stuff. They include
seasonal jingles, a drunk jingle band, time to call,
in touch, soulful, for lovers, exclusive,
personality plus and your own PAMS copyright notice
from 1961! Cuts 88-99 are taken from a fast-paced
custom grid. Lyrics include now, boss radio, where
the hits happen, breakaway, more music, music comes
here to play, your music station, sports in action,
we think we're going out of our heads (?!?), and
other neat items.
Ken R LLC CD
Description: Cuts 1-10 are brassy countdown numbers. (Cut 11
is the brass without the number!) Cuts 12-27 are all
instrumentals of varying short lengths. Perfect for
top of the hour stagers or in one case, a contest
underscore. Cuts 28 and 29 are New Year and
Christmas. Cuts 30-45 are general music intros
including: the lively one music power, here comes
the top 10, nothing but hits, the super radio sound,
more power more hours, always playing favorites,
another hit, we are having a sneak preview, first on
the dial, good times and more music, just for fun
too much, etc. Cuts 46-53 are gold intros including:
there's a lot to remember, a dusty golden,
yesterday, good as gold, another gold, yesterplay,
remember (with a talkover bed), etc. Cuts 54-61 are
"fun." Includes: more fun more music, fun, a goofy
fun medley, a :57 fun song, a silly march, a short
stripper jingle and a fun phone bed. Cuts 62-71 are
playback cuts for the years 1963-1971 and one is
left blank with no year. Cuts 72-74 are either
double play or three in a row. Cuts 75-80 are
station services. There's a time and temperature
donut (short), a long and short traffic intro, metro
weather, all the weather (with pad), short brassy
weather jingle, etc. Cuts 81-90 sing "superhit
number ___. These are not the male shouts which were
on previous Pro Paks. Numbers one through 10 are
provided. Cuts 91-92 are serious jingles about going
to church! Cuts 93 and 94 are sung "we've got a
winner" jingles, and cuts 95-98 are weekend jingles.
Cut 99 is a rainy day jingle ("tuned for a day like
today") with rain and thunder effects.
