Hi there folks. Well, today I am ABSOLUTELY ELATED! Unfortunately Christmas day was a very sad and lonely day for me, and the only family member that I have, my younger sister is not too happy with me at the moment because she sent a package from Massachusetts up here to me in Canada, and I ended up having to pay $60 duty on it because of the price value that she put on one of the items in the package on the custom form. Anyway, man oh man, this makes up for it. joemarine, you have no idea how totally blown away and happy I was to discover that you had actually found that famous Whitings eggnog jingle anywhere on the net. I actually discovered your entry about this last Saturday night. As I think I've mentioned before, I am totally blind, which means that I need to use a screen reader to navigate around on the net, and in my case, the software package that I use is called Window Eyes produced by a company called GW Micro in Fort Wayne Indiana. Now, most of the time screen readers cause few problems and I can access most websites with no problem at all. Unfortunately though, this Bob and Ray page wouldn't open for me at all, and in fact the link you provided actually made my computer totally freeze, and I completely lost the
Window Eyes voice so I had to reboot, but then it happened again! But I knew there must be some way for me to gain access to this Bob and Ray December 23, 1950 show so that I could download it. Well, by Sunday night I had managed to download the html page but still, when I tried to open it with my browser which by the way is Internet explorer version 8, again my computer froze.
Well, over the next couple of days I ended up uploading a lot of special Christmas programs to my Audioldies website so I just didn't have time to mess around with this html page. But I've been looking for this Whitings eggnog jingle for so long, that I was not going to let anything even an annoying glitch stop me. I was bound and determined to find a way to access this Bob and Ray show and download it. Suddenly just about an hour ago, I got the idea to add the .txt extension to the html file which made it a text page, and I had to wade through a whole lot of stuff on the page, but at least that way I was able to find the actual links that would allow me to download the show in question, and again joemarine, I have to thank you so incredibly much for making this Whitings eggnog jingle available through the link to this Bob and Ray show on the Radio Echoes website.
Well, I am going to make this jingle available to all of you via my own website in two versions. One version will be just the jingle and the second version will include the Bob and Ray tag after the jingle. You even get to hear the old Whiting milk company phone number the way those numbers used to be given beginning with those old exchanges. Anyway, click here to
download just the Whitings eggnog jingle
or if you prefer,
click here to stream the jingle.
Now, if you want to hear the Whitings eggnog jingle complete with the Bob and Ray tag, then
download it from this link
or
stream it here.
By the way, Artspooner, MHB and oldbones, I too remember very well, the catchy little jingle that WBZ used to play a lot back in 1964 for Child Mild gem franks which had only one ounce of pepper in every five thousand franks. By the way oldbones, you mentioned in your post not ever seeing any Child Mild Gem Franks up in north central NH. I'm just curious to know where you lived at the time. If you don't feel like volunteering that info with the entire forum, please feel free to shoot a PM to me. I'm just curious because I love the granite state and have so many fond memories of visiting a friend's cottage up in Moultonborough, and then just a couple of years later, my dad's parents moved from East Providence up to Bartlett and that's how I became familiar with Skip Sherman, Joe Dodge, Jeff Hall and Peter Derkey at WBNC in Conway. Sure wish I could somehow get even one aircheck of WBRL in Berlin from the sixties or early seventies. Anyway, I do have some other Boston area commercial jingles, and as I find them, I'll post them for you folks if you're interested. I certainly remember that jingle "There's something about a Muntz
TV" very well. And how about this one? "They treat you right at the blue and white, Bay State stations." That was for a local Massachusetts gasoline called Bay State gasoline. And how about the jingles for Suffolk Downs and the Charlestown Savings Bank? Ah, those were the good old days.
Sam
