When the owner of a radio station where I worked couldn't reach the program director, he'd call the request line. When I answered, he'd say, "If you would ask her to give me a jingle..."
"Alright," I thought. "You'd like her to call you, then." Even in the '90s, it was unusual to hear anyone refer to a phone call as "a jingle." No one I know has used that terminology around me since then. I wonder if that general manager ever said, "The phone's jingling," when it rang.
