Radio listeners: What is the show biz name for the brief sound snippets DJs use?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Little bits of music or recorded speech used to be funny or punctuate a point.

Stephanie Miller has around the best collection I've ever heard, particularly little bits of music from cartoons (Flinstones etc.), little recordings of her or someone else saying "What-EV-er!" etc.

This has been bugging me!

[SeattleGirl]

1. I think they call them bumpers

[XemaSab]

2. I think bumpers are to lead in an out of ads

At one point I totally would have known the answer to the OP, but I can't think of what they're called. :banghead:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. I thought bumpers were the longer pieces of music to segue in and out of commercial.

I'm talking gimmicky one second sound bites.

[XemaSab]

4. DROPS

I knew it would come to me! :D

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. Ah thank you now I can die peacefully, in my sleep, like Grandpa. Not screaming in terror like

the passengers in his car.

[Left Is Write]

6. XemaSab is right. They're called drops.

Bumpers are used to segue between songs or into/out of ads.