Post by memoriesradio on Feb 4, 2023 18:01:13 GMT
Hey folks, longtime reader but a new poster to the forum. Really awesome community you've got here.
My first contribution to the wiki is an article I'd been hoping to put together for a while, and thankfully I'd finally found the time to do so. It is a list of popular commercials that were used to promote radio stations for almost four decades - the "Remarkable Mouth". An attractive female model, in her own voice, introduces the spot by saying that she would "like to tell you about a remarkable radio station". The camera then zooms into a tight close-up of her mouth as she lip-syncs to snippets of banter by the station's DJs, clips of songs featured on the station, its jingles and the voices of the callers. As the audio montage concludes, the camera zooms out to reveal the model's full frame, and an offstage male voice compliments her by saying that she has "a remarkable mouth", to which she replies "we have [or '(the station's call letters) is'] a remarkable radio station" in her own voice.
Hundreds of these spots have been found online and even compiled into their own playlists, but several more have yet to be unearthed. If anyone here knows a market whose ad is not represented here (or even better- provide lost video), please feel free to update the wiki or let me know so I can add it to the article. Thanks!
