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WKRP custom Jingles

kennyboy

kennyboy

I've heard through the grapevine that the WKRP sing jingle was customized for other stations call letters and cities.
Any truth to this and if so where would one find the stations these custom sings were done for?
 
It was sent on a five inch reel to the station from the record company with the edited ending. Only the last line had "WKRC" sung.
 
Didn't MTM "give" the jingles to WKRC to head off any legal action due to WKRP being only one call letter different and easily mistaken for WKRC. I doubt the FCC would at the time approve WKRP in the Cincinnati market with WKRC all ready in the market. Also the mythical station was in the low dial position 500's too.
 
What 55KRC did was over dub WKRC over WKRP with a lady's voice from the office. There was a lady in the office who had a nice singing voice and they had her sing with the TV theme song.. I have a copy of it. I'll try to get it up on the web and give you the link.
 
secondchoice said:
Didn't MTM "give" the jingles to WKRC to head off any legal action due to WKRP being only one call letter different and easily mistaken for WKRC. I doubt the FCC would at the time approve WKRP in the Cincinnati market with WKRC all ready in the market. Also the mythical station was in the low dial position 500's too.
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Actually it was when a station in Georgia acquired the call letters WKRP when the show debuted that MTM attempted legal action. It was the FCC that told MTM that they didn't own the call letters so they had no say to prohibit a license broadcaster from using WKRP. The issue on call letters in Cincinnati did happen years later and revolved around 96.5 acquiring WZRQ for their Z-Rock format. The owner of Q102 (WKRQ) did cry foul due to diary confusion.
 
radiotrumpet78 said:
What 55KRC did was over dub WKRC over WKRP with a lady's voice from the office. There was a lady in the office who had a nice singing voice and they had her sing with the TV theme song.. I have a copy of it. I'll try to get it up on the web and give you the link.
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That's how I remember it. by the way, The other song which had customized lyrics was Talkin Baseball by Terry Cashman. He did do a Reds version and for every MLB team.
 
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Radio Trumpet, I have the five-inch tape from the record company at home. Jan Ellig sang several intros over songs in 1976 and 1977, but not the WKRP edit.
 
Station I was working at in Akron at the time also had a "WKRP" jingle cut for it, replacing the "WKRP in Cincinnati" with our call letters and city. Sure sounded to me like it was Steve Carlisle who sang the "WKRP In Cincinnati" theme.
 
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