Pete Drake and the 'talk box'

[Jeff Spencer]

My apologies if this has been posted before but I found this really interesting.
https://youtu.be/_R9an8AU3No

[Joachim Kettner]

How the talk box came upon a 1967 album by the Who, I have no idea. It has been discussed before here, but I can't remember the name of the thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TorwkR_cYZU

[Jack Hanson]

The "Wonderful Radio London" jingles on The Who Sell Out were reportedly produced by PAMS (Production Advertising Merchandise Services) of Dallas, Texas. The steel player was the great
Alvin McBurney, better known by his stage name of Alvino Rey.

[Russ Wever]

The "Wonderful Radio London" jingles on The Who
Sell Out were reportedly produced by PAMS (Production
Advertising Merchandise Services) of Dallas, Texas.
The steel player was the great Alvin McBurney, better
known by his stage name of Alvino Rey.

Not Alvino Rey . . . it was Ray Hurst,
who was one of the staff writers and
musicians at P. A. M. S.
~Rw

[Jack Hanson]

Not Alvino Rey . . . it was Ray Hurst,
who was one of the staff writers and
musicians at P. A. M. S.
~Rw

I will defer to you, Russ, as you undoubtedly are more knowledgeable than myself on the subject. My sincere apologies, as I am not attempting to mislead.

From Wikipedia:

"Around 1959 to 1960, Rey collaborated with composer Euel Box of PAMS Productions of Dallas to bring his distinctive pedal steel guitar sounds to radio jingles. This jingle package was part of the new Top Forty radio format and was heard on such innovative radio stations as K-BOX in Dallas and W-FUN Miami. Rey is also credited with inspiring the later, ground-breaking "Sonosational" PAMS Jingles Series 18 in 1961 which featured the talking or singing instrument effects of Rey's "sonovox"."

"Many of PAMS jingle packages were used exclusively in the 1960s and early 1970s by stations worldwide, including WABC in New York City, WLS in Chicago, UK offshore pirate radio station Wonderful Radio London and BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 in the United Kingdom."

[Russ Wever]

Jack . .
Shall we defer to each other? . .
I hadn't seen the wikipedia entry, I was going by
the information on the P. A. M. S. website, along
with two books on the history of radio jingles,
'The Jingle Book' and 'The Hits Between The Hits',
both of which are written by jingle producers, one
of them being the current owner of P. A. M. S..
Perhaps it could have been that they firstly
contracted Alvino Rey to come in for the first
series (18) and then had Ray Hurst play subsequent
series(?).
Thanks for pointing out the wikipedia entry, I wonder
where their info is gotten from, as I don't see any
footnotes for that info . . .
~Russ

[Glenn Suchan]

Alvino Rey and "Stringy" - an early (if not the first) example of talking steel guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hzDbJHLUK8

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn