My inclination was to lie around all day today recovering from yesterday's drive home. But I wanted to feel like I was accomplishing something. Luckily the programming director had asked all the specialty show DJs to make short promos for our shows. That sounds like fun!
The weird thing about my show is that it's kind of hard to define. Basically I play jazz and pop vocalists from the 1920s through the early 1960s. Not a very catchy slogan, is it? I tried a couple of different approaches, using different music for each.
The first one uses a lounge/bachelor pad classic by Julie London. I ripped off a promo idea from my favorite satellite radio station, the 40s on 4: most of the day the show is called The Savoy Express, and their promos say "This is the Larry Clinton Express. This is the Artie Shaw Express. This is the Judy Garland Express" and so on. I tried the same idea with "Divaville Lounge." think it turned out pretty good if I do say so.The second one uses a silly song from 1928, and again it turned out just about exactly how I wanted. "From Tin Pan Alley to the swing era" isn't exactly accurate, but I think it conveys the feel of the show pretty well.
The third one is hot jazz and I don't think it turned out as well. My voice isn't well suited to the energy of the track, and when I tried to make myself sound more animated I came out sounding like an idiot. plus it was more difficult to edit the track down to the length I needed. I might look for a different song to do this one over.
I had actually been thinking about doing something like this for a long time, because I want an intro that I could play at the beginning of every show. Something like you hear to introduce those old time radio shows. The stumbling block is finding someone who's good at voices and could sound like a radio announcer from the 1940s. (If you are such a person and you're willing to be recorded for the beginning of my show, please email me!)
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