Futursonic’s “Days Of The Week” was written by Jodie Lyons and produced in December 1960 in Los Angeles. This demo includes KLIF, WKMH, and CHUM. It featured 4 vocal styles: Kirby Stone Four, Hi-Los, McGuire Sisters, and Four Freshmen. These were later heard in PAMS famous Jet Set, Go Go, In Set, and Music Explosion packages. These were among the biggest and best known packages PAMS ever produced. Jodie Lyons was one of the writers for these and many other PAMS packages.
Short versions of the jingles, known as “KWIK IDEEs” created an additional 21 cuts with alternate lyrics. Nearly 200 stations had this package on the air. An example of the “Kwik IDEEs” is included in Mike Larsen’s 1962 KROY aircheck in the Repository.
The vocals group was also referred to by Jodie Lyons as The Versatiles. It was 5 singers who created all four vocal styles in addition to Futursonic’s distinctive trademark vocals. The group was Lyons, Brian Beck, Libba Weeks, Jerry Whitman, and Judy Parma. (See picture, above.)
Jodie Lyons has retired from University teaching to move to Georgetown, Texas. He is working on a new textbook titled Scoring for the Vocal Ensemble, writing some things for publication, performing with a guitar/woodwinds/vocal duo, playing golf every chance he gets and seeing a lot of his grandkids.