| Date | Who | Description | MP3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | David Arnold | Extra versions of the jingles (in high quality) used on Marcher Sound, Wrexham. Also see our Marcher Sound page for the full set. | |
| 1984 | ITN | On YouTube there is an ITN news story here about ILR in 1984 which features Radio Mercury before it launched. | |
| 1984 | David Arnold | Original main jingles (high quality audio) | |
| 1984 | David Arnold | Original main themes (high quality audio) | |
| 1984 | David Arnold | Programme Share Jingles (Southern Sound & Radio Mercury) | |
| 1983 | Andy Clark | The Will to Win - Sometimes used on the Timbo show for the Weather before the news. The full version is on our LBC audio page. | |
| 1983 | Nicholas Glennie-Smith & Trevor Spencer | Programme Share Commercial Break Fill-in Music (full version) - Track 1: Feel Alive. End of track used on Timbo show, Peter Young etc. | |
| 1983 | Nicholas Glennie-Smith | Programme Share Commercial Break Fill-in Music (full version) - Track 2: Shakeout. End of track used on Timbo show, Peter Young etc. | |
| 1984 | Richard Myhill | Programme Share Commercial Break Fill-in Music (full version) - Track 3: The Go Ahead. End of track used on Timbo show, Peter Young etc. | |
| 1980s | ? | Andrew Marshall Meets the Stars 1st Theme - please email in if you know who this is by | |
| After 1985 | David Reilly & John Devereaux | Andrew Marshall Meets the Stars 2nd Theme - The track is called "Winning Through" and is from the KPM Main Series. | |
| 1980s | Andrew Marshall | Andrew Marshall Meets The Stars Air Checks | |
| 1980s | Back Room Boys/Var | Timbo Jingles | |
| 1980s | Back Room Boys | Timbo Air Checks of The Back Room Boys guest appearance | |
| 1985 | Timbo | Recording of the Timbo Show from January 1985 (recorded from Southern Sound) - thanks to Vectoraudio for posting this | |
| 1986 | David Arnold | Additional jingles (high quality audio) | |
| 01.08.86 | Tim Lloyd | Timbo's final show on Radio Mercury part 1 (thanks to Peter Hewlett for this) | |
| 01.08.86 | Tim Lloyd | Timbo's final show on Radio Mercury part 2 (thanks to Peter Hewlett for this) | |
| 30.03.86 | David Arnold | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Concert at Fairfield Halls part 1 | |
| 30.03.86 | David Arnold | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Concert at Fairfield Halls part 2 | |
| 1980s | Various | Air Checks of Adverts/Commercials for Endeavour Redhill, Evans Halshaw, BCP coaches, Aristo Recruitment, La Strada Restaurant, Mabu Leather, Hapstead Volvo & Xpert Recruitment | |
| 1980s | Various | General Air Checks part 1 | |
| 1980s | Various | General Air Checks part 1 | |
| 1987 | Various | Christmas blooper tape for 1987 - Warning: Contains some swearing! | |
| 1987 | Paul Lee | Clips of the Paul Lee evening show 9th Nov 1987 | |
| Late 80s | Russell Pockett | Air check of Russell Pockett late 1980s (includes the travel news) | |
| Late 80s | Russell Pockett & Judith Falcon | Click here for a video of Russell Pockett & Judith Falcon in the studio at Broadfield House | |
| Late 80s | Martyn Blunt | Air check of Martyn Blunt late 1980s (includes some adverts too) | |
| Late 80s | Paul Lee | Paul Lee Quiz Bits: Part 1 & 2 | |
| 01.04.89 | Various | Mickleham Independence April Fool Air Checks part 1 | |
| 01.04.89 | Various | Mickleham Independence April Fool Air Checks part 2 | |
| 01.04.89 | Various | Mickleham Independence April Fool Air Checks part 3 | |
| 01.04.89 | Various | Mickleham Independence April Fool Air Checks part 4 | |
| 1989 | Paul Lee | Clips of the Paul Lee evening show 21st Aug 1989. See More | |
| 1989 | Simon Osbourne & Paul Lee | Berlin Wall Operation Santa Claus clips | |
| 1980s | Damien Prescott | "Auntie Damien" Prescott's 'remix' of I Should Be So Lucky with dubbed multi-part harmony smurf voices!!! | |
| 1990 | Various | Christmas blooper tape for 1990 - Warning: Contains some swearing! | |
| 1991 | Various | Christmas blooper tape for 1991 - Warning: Contains some swearing! | |
| 1990s | Graham Francis De Wilde | The South Tonight theme tune. The track is called Global Network | |
| 1990s | David Arnold | Air Checks of Your Kind of Music jingles (after merger with County Sound) part 1 | |
| 1990s | David Arnold | Air Checks of Your Kind of Music jingles (after merger with County Sound) part 2 | |
| 1995 | Alfasound/Jam | Mercury FM jingles | |
| 1990s | Alfasound/Jam | Mercury Extra jingles | |
| 1990s | Alfasound/Jam | Fame 1521 jingles | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Tony Myatt | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Steve Hyland | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Geoff Aspel & Paul Lee | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Ed Stewart | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Peter Young | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Lynda Bond | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Martyn Blunt & Graham Freer | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: John Scragg & Russell Pockett | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Ian Davidson & Graham Freer | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: John Aumonier | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: John Wellington & Peter Perry | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Andrew Marshall | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Timbo | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Paul Anderson | |
| 20.10.02 | Various | Air Checks of Mercury's 18th Birthday Party: Peter Anthony, Judith Falcon, Mike Russell, Danny Pike, Pat Sharp & John Scragg |
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The first jingle package for Radio Mercury was by David Arnold with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. These were recorded in two three hour sessions at CTS studios in Wembley. A lot more time was then spent on the mixing of the various cuts. These jingles sounded amazing on air as did a lot of David's work heard on other stations at the time. The theme is now on production music CDs so you may hear it again in the background of commercials on TV and radio stations. Marcher Sound also used the same theme and some of the shorter versions too. You can hear those jingles on our Marcher Sound page here.
There were three additional pieces of music used to fill the gaps at the end of commercial breaks while programme sharing with Southern Sound. Click here for the end section of those tunes. The full versions are in the main audio section near the top of this page.
Some of Timbo's jingles were by a group called the Backroom Boys. One night they were invited in to perform live on air. Audio files of this can be found towards the top of the page. Their songs have been edited down to speed up the download time.
Radio Mercury organised a few concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon. The audio files we have are of one of the concerts performed on the 28th February 1986 (broadcast on the 30th March).
On April the 1st 1989 Mercury staged an April Fool by telling their listeners that the small hamlet of Mickleham had declared independence. This fooled quite a few listeners at first and became more and more ridiculous throughout the morning.
On the 20th October 2002 Mercury FM celebrated their 18th birthday live on air. Most of the programme was presented by Chris Oxlade, Simon Osborne, Paul Lovett and Emma Graham. It was a 4 hour show from mid day until 4pm and tons of ex-presenters turned up to re-live their experiences of the launch of the station. It was great fun with food and drink in the reception for all the guests.
The photo below shows some of the original staff from 1984 including Tony Myatt, Andrew
Marshall, John Wellington, Peter Young, Linda Bond, Ed Stewart, Timbo,
Martyn Blunt and Geoff Aspel.
The next photo shows Chris Oxlade in the studio while presenting the on air
party.
Also at the party here's Simon Osbourne, Geoff Aspel, Steve Hyland and Chris.
