… 07-10-2007 00:00 …
A PAMS Publication [By Uncle Ricky] YOU can play guitar the correct way – it’s the easy way to play! Get ColorWay! What the heck was it? My requests for more information on this apparently orphaned PAMS retail
product generated nothing, so let’s guess. It involved sticking “things of color” on your guitar, and it included sheet music that used color, instead of standard music notation. So, you could play new songs on your guitar, even if you couldn’t read music. That’s a guess. But I do think it likely it was offered to PAMS client stations for barter (jingles for spots), or maybe some broadcasters ran the spots for free but got a percentage of each one sold (“Per Inquiry”). What we also don’t have is sample copy of the type the local announcer would read over these jingles. I betcha the typical Top 40 jock of the period would be quite zippy and animated over these babies, unlike the “official” announcer on the tag. He’s just not having any fun at all. There are five near-60-second tracks in all, plus a 20-second quickie. These are a lot of fun to hear because they represent the best of classic PAMS! Here is the arrangement style, musicians, vocalists AND sonovox heard in those mid-60’s PAMS jingles. The fidelity is delightful, particulary if you can pull the full 96kbps stream. Thanks to Media Preservation Foundation .