The WTBS Beatles Station ID: A Production Marvel
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The most amazing piece of production work ever. At WTBS, Cambridge (then the MIT FM radio station, now WMBR). John Kosian found phonemes from Beatles Songs that spelled out WTBS, thus creating the WTBS/Beatles Station ID. With today’s technology, quite easy. Using razor blades to cut magnetic tape to assemble this amazing piece of work seems like nothing less than a miracle.
Here is the ID by itself
Here is the jingle, placed in context by a voice familiar to WTBS staff from the early 70s, who will also recognize the parody.
Paul E. Schindler Jr.
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