PAMS Power Pack Demo, 1974 (0:05:28)

… 17-06-2001 00:00 …
It’s excitin’ and diffrunt! ” The idea here is to destroy the previous key sense, and move atonally to the next record .” Actually, the idea was to sell some jingles, and this 1974 PAMS demo tries to give shotgun jingles a good kick in the butt. Putting the (very few) jingles themselves aside for now, I remember this demo as way off-target. I also doubt that the simulated station on this demo ( KHJ ) actually used these jingles. ” The Power Pack is the revolutionary evolution from the Shotgun Kick to the Sparkling New Idea .” Ouch! Hey, it was never easy to sell jingles. The final disappointment is the copyright notice on the end; instead of re-recording “Copyright, 1974”, they re-recorded just “1974”. And gee, it sounds as good as the original. Doesn’t it?

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