RA Aircheck -2NX Ultimate Stereo 02 1975

Here’s the lowdown on Ultimate Stereo

The music is just a generic track from a non-copywrite package designed for commercial use.  I used it as a standard music bed behind the script. It struck me that the last few notes seemed to fit the call sign so I got Jim Pike to sing the station logo.  I think he wrote the rest of the lyrics to fit the music and we ended up with a full 60second jingle.  Maybe cheap to do but it turned out pretty well.

 

All the singing is multi tracked Jim Pike recorded on a 4 track machine.  At the time he was part of the breakfast team.  (He was the voice behind breky character Uncle Walter – as seen on the 2NX one dollar note for 2NXchange).   He is an extremely talented stand up comedian, comedy and story writer, singer and consummate character voice actor.  As proof the spaceman promo is all Jim.  He did the three voices.

 

Jim currently has his own band and is regularly heard as the promo voice for Foxtel TV-1.