Thunder Jingle Demo, Just You & Me, WDRC Hartford CT (0:04:33)

… 09-03-2008 00:00 …
Big D The Way It Should Be [By Uncle Ricky] I suspect that some of the cuts in this demo for Thunder Productions, LTD. ended up in other jingle packages. I’d also bet that some of these cuts were actually used on WDRC , Hartford. And if I was pressed to guess one more time, I’d say this demo is from 1972. Whew, there we go. Wasn’t Thunder a re-birth of Tanner , in Memphis? These vocalists are very good, Dallas-Quality, and the instrumentation is first-class. This could have been a TM or PAMS package, but it wasn’t. It was Thunder. I have presented pictorial proof of this demo issued on 7.5 ips stereo reel tape. For this presentation, I removed the silence (tightened it up!) and as “demos” go – this is more like a reference dub of some of the mixes. Was this package custom for WDRC, and then made into a demo? Who was Thunder Productions, LTD.? I think they did a package called ” Shotgun Heaven “, I have a demo for that around here somewhere…
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