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Enchanted KSFO Sound of the City Jingles, 1960s (0:02:37)

Golden Gifts
… The sound of the city, the sounds that I heard in San Francisco …
[Description by Uncle Ricky] Part of Norm Gilbert’s gifts to REELRADIO several years ago included a reel of jingles from KSFO in San Francisco. The marvelous and historic Mel Torme jingles featured on this site were among these. Norm’s extensive contributions included cuts from what we thought were a PAMS series titled “Enchanted City”, (but boy, did we ever get beat up on that, see COMMENT) and instrumental and acapella cuts from another series, which we suspect was custom material from L.A. via Johnny Mann. So, the comment lines are open to correct any misconceptions for these TWO jingles for KSFO in the ’60’s – *NOT* PAMS Enchanted City (featuring Trella Hart) and the classic Sound of the City all male acapella from … Johnny Mann? Thanks to those who have corrected the content of this exhibit with their COMMENTS (below). Our goal is to have the full participation of all those who can help establish the facts for all of our exhibits.   MORE GOLDEN GIFTS Reel Top 40 Radio Repository ©1996-2002 REELRADIO INC.

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