Jingles and Imaging
Listed alphabetically by call letters
Jingles, theme music collections, breakers, liners, bumpers and assorted in-house imaging and promotional spots produced by various sources for Bay Area radio stations. PLEASE NOTE: Exhibits are being added on a regular basis. Only exhibits currently available online are cataloged here.
Some jingles are copyrighted by and presented with the kind permission of PAMS Productions, Inc. The Bay Area Radio Museum thanks Jonathan Wolfert of JAM Creative Productions for his generous assistance in allowing us to bring these wonderful classic jingles to you, and Tracy Carman of the Media Preservation Foundation for assisting in identifying the sources of many of the jingle packages presented here.
| KABL | KBLX | KCBS | KDIA | KEWB | KFRC | KGO |
| KHTT | KLIV | KMEL | KMPX | KNBR | KNEW | KOBY |
| KSAN | KSFO | KSFX | KSOL | KTIM | KYA | KYUU |
KABL
KABL Station ID Samples (September 1960):
KBLX
KBLX “Quiet Storm” TM Century, Inc., Demo (Undated):
KCBS
KCBS-FM “FM 99” PAMS Custom Jingle Grid (1971; 5 minutes)
KCBS-FM 98.9 PAMS Jingle Audition Series (date unknown; 36 seconds)
KCBS-FM (97K) “CBS Series” TM Production Showcase (c. 1978)
KDIA
KEWB
KEWB – Johnny Mann Custom Jingles
KEWB – “You’ll Hear It First” Jingles (Open & Close)
KEWB – “Color Radio” Jingles (Chuck Blore Productions)
KEWB – Boss Radio Rock-A-Pella Jingles
KFRC
KFRC – CRC Series 11 and 13 Jingles (Circa 1960-1964)
KFRC – “Big 610” Drake Series I with Acapellas (1969)
KFRC – Drake Series 2 (Undated)
KFRC – Johnny Mann/Joseph P. Cuff Custom Jingles (Undated)
KFRC – PAMS “Energy I” Jingles (Circa 1974)
KFRC/TM – The “You” Jingle Collection (Circa 1975)
KFRC/TM – “Rhythm Of The City” Theme Package
KFRC “Magic 61” Imaging Excerpts (1993)
KGO
KGO 810 Dolphin Ross Jingle Package Sampler, Circa 1960
KGO-FM 103.7 Stereo Jingles, 1967
KHTT (1500 AM, San Jose)
KHTT Jingle Series (1984)
KLIV (1590 AM, San Jose)
KLIV PAMS “Bandapellas” Jingle Demo (Circa 1965?):
KLIV PAMS Series 27 “Jet Set” Jingles (1965):
KMEL (106.1 FM, San Francisco)
KMEL “Camel 106” Breakers, 1978¹:
KMEL In-House “Camel Stuff” Spots, 1978¹:
¹ — Featuring the voice of KMEL production manager Terry Fox, presented here with special thanks to Rick Reed.
KMPX
KMPX Big Band 99 Stereo Jingles, 1982
KNBR
KNBR “Tuned Young” and Series 17 & 18 Jingles (1967)
KNBR Custom Jingles (1973)
KNBR Custom Jingle Demo (1974-1975)
KNBR Custom Jingle Remixes (1974-1975)
KNBR “Good Times” Custom Jingles (With Narration, 1976)
KNBR Carter B. Smith Jingle Package (1983)
KNEW
KNEW 91 Custom Jingle Package (1970):
KOBY (1550 AM, San Francisco)
IMN Productions “W-Series” KOBY Jingle Demo (Circa 1958):
KSAN
KSAN 1450 “Most In Rhythm & Blues” Jingle, c. 1958
KSFO
KSFO: “The Sound Of The City” Collection
KSFX
KSOL
KTIM
KTIM Promo Collection – Part 1 (1977) Courtesy of Robin Spalding
KTIM Promo Collection – Part 2 (1977) Courtesy of Robin Spalding
KTIM Big Band Imaging (Circa 1985) Otis Connor Studios; Courtesy of Bob Gowa
KYA
KYA Series 31 Jingles – “Music Explosion” 1965
KYA Series-33 Jingles – “Fun Vibrations” 1967
KYA Grid II-A Jingles (Stereo), 1969
KYA Custom Jingle Package, 1971
KYA “Golden Bells” Promo Jingles, 1971
KYA “Great American Music Machine” Jingle, 1974
KYUU
Ah, the good old days….this brought back a lot of memories for me. Thank you!
WASSUP PEEPS!!!! Maybe you guys should put some old KLOK Radio promos and jingles on this site!!!! 🙂
Hanky,
We’d love to post more items from KLOK – if you know anyone who has some, please let us know!
D.J.
Thank you for the KHTT jingles.been looking for those. I need to find the K HIT 15 jingles that fallowed.
How about the late 70’ KLIV jingles especially the top of the hour DJ talk over.
Tell me how to get them to the site / i have toh talk over kliv san jose remastered in stereo and kara 80s package in stereo
Tell me how to get them to the site / i have toh talk over kliv san jose remastered in stereo and kara 80s package in stereo. Give me your email and i will send mp3 of each. My email is 1600kliv@gmail.com
Beazie, we’d love to feature them here – I will contact you directly. Thank you!
D.J.
I would also like to hear jingles from KARA in Santa Clara.
I would really enjoy hearing some jingles from KOFY-1050 in the mid 80’s. Just loved the 50s-60s rock n’ roll format and the jingles. DJs were great too. Good times and fond memories.
Joe, those were re-sings of an old PAMS package. I heard them on WABC growing up, and loved playing them on KOFY.
Glorious! It has been excellent to hear PAMS packages in good quality. In 1974, our national easy listening station in the UK bought many cuts from the KNBR custom This is San Francisco but they weren’t a patch on the originals.
I have some jingles and station IDs for KFOG, KYUU, KXXX (X100), and KITS (LIVE 105) and KOME.
How can I contribute?
Larry : When you find out how to add in some cool contributions Let me know I have a lot myself to add , Thanks Larry ; RodneyAndregg@ymail.com
Rodney,
We have a contact page on the website. You can send us a message through our contact page.
Looking forward to what you have to share!
– BARHOF
I enjoyed listening to these jingles. I wanted to ask if anybody had all the jingles from 96.5 KOIT “Love songs After Dark” show 2000-2006? I believe KOIT was owned or run by Bonneville during that time. The jingles I remember played in between songs/commercials from 8:00PM-12:00AM weekdays. Thank you.
KGO RADIO JINGLES! It’s so nice to hear the old KGO jingles pre-Dunbar and the news/talk format. The jingle song was actually the ABC signature which was used on the network trumpet ID and also on the national news intro. I’d never heard this KGO jingle package before. Thanks!
Trying to remember a San Francisco radio station (KSFO?) morning show jingle from the 70s that I heard often when my mom drove us to school. All I remember is the jingle includes the phrase “good morning” in different languages, e.g., “bonjour bon ami”. Can you help refresh my memory?
LA,
I believe that was Jim Lange’s daily ritual on KSFO – you can search him up here on the website.
(If I’m wrong, somebody please correct me!)
– DJ
I left the Bay Area, SJ in 1980. The places have gone, but the sounds from the past stay .
In the Great NW now
http://WWW.SwitcbackNW.com
I was a winner of the KFRC or KNBR contest. It was called NAME THE MYSTERY SOUND for 4 days and 3 nights at The Princess Kialoni hotel. It was close to the end of my pregnancy with daughter born 1-11-1982. The trip was March or April 1982. I found ADs for Matthew’s stereo – top of the hill Daly City during that time period, but nothing about the contest. I’m sure the hotel sponsored the contest. Please provide any info.
What a rich history USA radio has. I spend a lot of time playing US music on my History Of Rock and Roll radio show on a Public Radio Station in South Australia inserting various jingles into my show. The USA has always had great production and mainly terrific voiced (the yelling screaming jocks were always infectious (Wolfman Jack, Alan Freed, The KJ Jocks and Boss Radio, I could go on. American Radio is my passion,g and exciting as were gimmicks and sound effects) It would be nice to return to those days) I know how to download radio station jingles and purchase CDs of jingles. Just pop over an email on top of the Pacific Ocean.K
Some of this collection made it to air recently when KEXP launched a new service on 92.7 KEXC Alemeda. Here is an air check of the stunt: https://www.mixcloud.com/Jamesington66/san-francisco-radio/