I visited west sound in 1986 and had a tour of their studio. The photos I took are very interesting. I wrote to them recently but they didnt want the photos so I passed them to Andy Walmsley who runs an online radio history site. You can see them on his site (search for west sound) here along with my collection of Autographed photos of West Sound Presenters
Here is a jingle montage I found on Soundcloud, the best ones are about half way through. They had a theme called “Mystical Waters” which was recorded by a group of kids singing the theme in North Ayrhsire, the opening jingle is the music only version done by session musicians and the other one on this demo is with the kids. They used it to close the station at 8pm every night. It was recorded at a recording studio in Ayr with kids from the local town of Stevenson. It was supposed to be used in the “Dolphin Club” but was finally used as a station ident. (Thanks to Letitia McLaughlan the jingle author of “Mystical Waters” for this info).
That first kids show “the Dolphin Club” on Saturday mornings was with Dippy the Dolphin, John MacAuley and Fiona MacDonald. (was it Fiona?)
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