Page Updated May 16, 2018
(Thanks to Steve Dennis for sharing with us the specially prepared Christmas reel box provided for him for WIEL Christmas production,
as well as employee comments about the Christmas Jingle #1!!)
Liners from March 1989-the Pure Gold era!
| Russ
Martin #1
(:06) |
Russ
Martin #2
(:05) |
John
Michaels
(:06) |
Jerry
Thomas
(:05) (w/AM effect) |
Jerry Thomas (:06) (w/AM effect) |
| Jim Zippo
(:05) |
Mike
Preston (:06) |
Stan
Robak (:06) |
Stan
"The Man" Robak
(:05) |
*Merry Christmas Jingles!*
| WIEL Christmas Jingle 1
(:31) |
WIEL
Christmas Jingle 2 (:10) |
WIEL
Christmas Jingle 3 (:08) |
| WIEL
Christmas Jingle 4 (:09) |
WIEL
Christmas Jingle 5 (:07) |
WIEL
Christmas Jingle 7 (:11) |
| WIEL
Christmas Jingle 8 (:09) |
WIEL
Christmas Jingle 9 (:09) |
WIEL
Christmas Jingle 10 (:09) |
| WIEL Christmas Jingle 11 (:09) | WIEL
Christmas Jingle/Bed (:32) |
|
Staff comments on Christmas Jingle
1:
Deanna Pozesny writes: "That has to be my
very favorite of all WIEL
Christmas jingles! I'm keeping it!!! I
had to listen to it
several times over and it brought back so many
wonderful memories of my
first and best years at WIEL. We were such a
close knit group, so
enthusiastic about every facet of radio...with
so much pride of
creating the best spots, promos and
programming in Elizabethtown and Hardin
County... and
that dedication has carried many of us far
beyond those boundaries.
That was also the Bi-Centennial era and we
celebrated it with gusto,
even planting our own WIEL time capsule, to be
opened in the year 2076?
Christmas time was as fun and exciting
as it was exhausting.
Somehow we all got through the heavy
advertising load without missing a
beat. And that required extra effort from EJ
and Bob, aka Santa and
Sparky, because they had the additional
challenge of hosting the Santa
and Sparky Show - an hour long dally broadcast
for kids of all ages,
which often had everyone rocking with laughter
as naughty elf Sparky,
along with other visiting station elves, gave
Santa a hard time while
he tried to tell lovely Christmas
stories and take special orders from
area kids. I was so PROUD
of our production staff! Bob, EJ and
Steve each had his own
special skills and delivery, and whenever
possible, I tried really hard
to match our spots to their talents.
Thank you Max, for
once again connecting the
WIEL family and for giving us this opportunity
to share some wonderful
memories!
Thank you Steve for
your sweet memories of
me and for keeping that tape box! I wonder if
you remember giving me
your little E.T. who sat on your mike stand,
and your "Steve Dennis
Oldies" sign when you left. I still have
them, along with all of
the letters and cards you sent me after you
left the station to go to
California. I have memories of you dancing
around the control room
singing, and still have a cassette of you
singing "Act Naturally"
and
another one of your final hour on WIEL. There
was nothing "cowardly"
about this lion! You bravely carried through
and did what needed to be
done - very often staying late to record the
last spots turned in and
written that had to be on the air in the
morning. You got me
through some tight spots!
Thank you E.J. my
"tin man", for the
thoughtful greeting you sent and your support
through some tough times.
I remember your hearty laugh and you in
your cowboy hat on
Saturday mornings when some of us had to work.
I remember the little
"name that tune" game we played with your
oldies stack. Remember when
we all went to see "Close Encounters" and all
the UFO stuff? By the
way, I don't have your WKMO contest box
anymore, but I cut out the
"WKMO Country" fabric from it, and it's alive
and well in one of my
WIEL/WKMO scrapbooks. You were determined to
make me like country music
- and now I do.
Thank you Bob, my
"scarecrow" and dear
friend, for being the fastest production man
in history! I can still
see you walking down the hall with a stack of
20 carts, all done to
perfection in about an hour. When Bob was in
production, everybody had
better get out of his way! Thank you for
keeping me in music,
playlists, and detailed reports on every facet
of building the WKMO
side while I was in Colorado. It was you who
inspired me to come back
to the station and you have remained my friend
through all these
years.
Thank you Daryl, for
being the brother I
never had.
We will miss Ron
Boone and Dick Curtis in
our Christmas
wishes this year, but something tells me that
they both know how much
they were admired and appreciated.
Forgive me for
taking up so much space here,
but I get all teary-eyed in the jingle and the
memories. Merry
Christmas to all!
May God bless each
one of our WIEL/WKMO
family with fond memories, good health and
happiness this
Christmas - and may we all meet here again
next Christmas to count our
blessings.
Peace and Love,
Deanna
EJ Clark
writes:
Thank
You
So Very Much!Many of us played that very jingle
during our shows at Christmas on
WIEL. It was part of the Jams package from Dallas.
That was "top shelf"
production "back in the day" and it still sounds
Great in 2010! WIEL
always had a quality jingle package and I for one
used to love to talk
over some of the music beds on some of em'. By
the way...you can credit Bill Walters for buying
that package, which I
think, was new in 1976 or so?
Thanks
for the Memory! Merry Christmas ...to One
and All
...from "Santa & Sparky"!!!
EJ Thank
you so much for sharing another "jewel" from the
WIEL vault! Like E.J.
Clark, I had the pleasure too of playing this jingle
on the air around
the Holidays in the mid-70s. I agree with E.J.
- the production
values on this and all the jingle packages
(including the WLS "Music
Radio" package) we had were top of
the line. And
quite a luxury at the time! Anyway, the sound
of this jingle has
brought forth so many happy memories for me...
E.J. Clark and Bob
Craft as Santa & Sparky (the kids and moms
& dads LOVED
that show!). Bob Craft put his heart and
soul into programming WIEL -
especially at Christmastime - gathering all the
"Christmas Classics"
for us to play.
I
remember, too, one Christmas
(probably 1976) when
Deanna Pozesny, our Copywriter/Continuity Director
presented Bob, E.J.
and me ( the 3 of us shared the WIEL Production load
) with a specially
wrapped box for our Christmas Productions.
This festive box
contained a fresh reel of recording tape ( Deanna
knew we would need it
to handle the extra "holiday" load of commercials )
and our names were
lovingly written in gold on the top of the box.
This little box
was a treasure, Deanna - and I still have it today.
As you can
see from the the 2 photos, it got a LOT of use!
Thanks Deanna for
making Christmas so special that year. That
box you created for
us was a little thing - but it was crafted with
great love and it meant
so much to me. It is a true treasure!
I
was so lucky to work with such a great group of
professionals - I
learned and grew so much just being around you guys!
Bottom line
- we got the job done AND had a LOT of fun! It was a
joy working with
such caring, friendly people - WIEL is a station
with a heart... a BIG
heart!
I
wish you all a very Merry
Christmas Season
and a Happy Healthy New Year!
Peace & Love,
Steve Dennis
Wilmes
1975-1978
Eric Harlan
writes:
OMG!
It's been
25 years since I last played that jingle, and I
still remember the
point in the sung WIEL when you would flip the
switch on the board to
start the next Christmas song
in the rotation,
making sure you didn't crash into the end of the
jingle nor have any dead air!
THANKS FOR
THE MEMORY!
Eric Harlan, The Original Weekend Warrior |
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