Jingles you remember.

Subject: Jingles you remember.
From: The Shambles
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 03:27 PM

As the whole point of the jingle is to make you remember both them and more importantly the product, I was wondering how many of them we still do remember and if they do make us buy the product.

In some cases I think they work so well, we often remember the jingle long after the product has ceased to exist. I wonder if there are many examples of this and also I wonder the reason why?

This still exists, well I know it does as Mrs Shanbles has just shown me the bottle she picked up today. This jingle works so well I wonder why they ever changed it?

1001 cleans a big big carpet, for less than half-a-crown.......for less than half-a-crown.

Well one reason is that there are no more half-a-crowns....

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 03:36 PM

Now hands that do dishes can be soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid ...

Because the lady loves Milk Tray....

Me ears are alight...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: C-flat
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 03:43 PM

"You'll wonder where the yellow went,
when you brush your teeth with pepsodent"

I remember a company tried to market a product labelled 10001 with the extra 0 in.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 03:58 PM

"The Milky Bar kid is tough and strong
The Milky Bar Kid just can't go wrong"

I just wonder how many children were deterred from buying Milky Bars because of the nerdy little bespectacled kid who starred in the ads?

Murray

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Gareth
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 04:01 PM

One I remember, for all the wrong reasons, is the Watneys Red Barrel jingle.

Actually the only version I remember perfickly is the Real Ale Drinkers parody

" Whats the beer that makes you queer,
Watney's Keg Red Barrel,
It always is an awfull brew,
It always makes you want to spew,
So come along and join the crew,
Botcott Keg Red Barrel"

Gareth

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 04:23 PM

"Push, pull, click, click, change baldes that quick." For Gilllete razors.
"Brylcream, a little dab'll do you, Brylcream, you'll look so debonaire. Brylcreme, the gals will all pursue ya, they love to get their fingers in your hair."
"Pepsi Cola hits the spot, 8 whole ounces, that's a lot. All that for a nickle, too. Pepsi Cola is the drink for you."
"Brusha, Brusha, Brusha, new Ipana toothpaste." Repeat until someone screams..

Jerry

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RolyH
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 04:56 PM

"Don't forget the Fruit Gums,Mum"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,toribw who should be working
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 05:32 PM

Ooey gooey rich and chewy inside
Tender flaky golden cakey outside
You wrap the inside in the outside is it good? Darn tootin'!
It's the big, Fig Newton!

Hot dogs, Armour Hot Dogs
What kind of kids eat Armour Hot Dogs?
Fat kids, skinny kids, kids that climb on rocks
tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox
love hot dogs, Armour Hot Dogs
the dogs kids love to bite

Honeycomb's big, yeah yeah yeah
It's not small, no no no
Honeycomb's got a great big bite
Big, big taste and a big big bite

Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onion on a sesame seed bun

No more Rice Krispies! We ran out of Rice Krispies!
(sung to a famous opera tune, name of which escapes me)

I'm a Pepper, she's a Pepper, he's a Pepper, we're Peppers, wouldn't you like to be a pepper too? Be a Pepper, drink Doctor Pepper

Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is!

What would you do for a Klondike bar?
******

Wow, that's pretty sick when I reread it. The product of a wasted youth. *G*

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bert
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 06:45 PM

Hey Ho for Caley Cuba
Who wouldn't walk the plank for Cuba
Who wouldn't rob the bank for Cuba
Yo Ho Ho for Cuba.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: khandu
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 10:00 PM

"You can take Salem out of the country but...
You can't take the country out of Salem"

"I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner..."

k

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 11:02 PM

"Trust your car to the man who wears the star, the great big Texaco star!"

"5 Years or Fify thousand miles! Whichever comes first!"

"Call Doug for a Clean Rug"--very local to my area at the time

USers, what was the one for Gillette razors on the Friday Night Fights?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Barry T
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:33 AM

Here's one that's haunted me for about forty-five years. It was a Christmas jingle marketing General Electric Christmas tree lights.

Here's a midi of the melody, and here's what little I remember of the lyrics:

There's love and laughter in the air
Dum dum dum as can be
Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum
May G.E. light your tree.

Make no mistake. If this had been a complete Christmas song (and perhaps it was) it would have made a fine addition to anyone's Christmas collection. I remember it getting positive caller feedback on CFRB in Toronto back in the 50's(?)

Ring any (Christmas) bells with anyone?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: mack/misophist
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:46 AM

I heard this only once....on the car radio, outside Tulsa, Olkahoma:

We're having a heat wave,
A tropical heat wave.
For coolness and slumber
Just dial our number
Armour 04....04

It's exoteric.

As you can see, it was a long time ago but I've never forgotten.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 03:54 AM

Get Babo! (Boom boom)
The foaming cleanser! (Bubba dub-a-dub-dub-dub)
Washes DIRT right down the DRAIN!

One-two-the-four-SKY BAR!

B, O! N, O! M, O! Bonomo!
Oh, oh, oh! It's Bonomo's! Cannnnn-dy!

L and M has found the secret, that UNlocks the flavor
UNlocks the flavor, UNlocks the flavor
L&M has found the secret.....

See the U.S. A in a Chevrolet,
America is calling you to come...

Plus a lot of the above-listed...


A

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Chanteyranger
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 04:33 AM

A San Francisco version of "See the USA in your Chevrolet" for a local dealer in the 1960s went:
"See Ellis Brookes today, for your Chevrolet,
corner of Bush and Van Ness.
He's got a deal for you, oh what a deal for you,
the kind of deal you'll like the best."

Camera then shows ol' Ellis Brookes himself, sitting behind a desk with five coffee cans stacked on it. "I'll give you five pounds of Hills Bros. coffee just for coming in and taking a look." (very gravelly voice)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Kaleea
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 05:19 AM

Misophist, I was raised in Tulsa, & I don't remember that one! Nor do I remember the "Armour" exchange, but when I was a teen I mainly called the "Riverside" exchange, and had relatives in "Circle" & "Hickory" exchanges--does anybody else remember dialing numbers using 2 letters followed by 5 numbers?
    I DO remember the following radio (TV?) jingle from Tulsa, based upon the actual last name of the owner of the company (Needham) which some advertising firm came up with, which was finally dropped after many years because it was not politically correct:
   (psuedo indian drum sound):
BOOM boom boom boom, BOOM boom boom boom, BOOM!
You need-um tires?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Shambles
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 05:24 AM

I wonder if their are any more examples of PC casualties?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 05:45 AM

Oh, boy, now you've got me started....

World's shortest TV commercial: "Try White Cap!" (do...la-fa)

Once upon a time there was an engineer
Choo-Choo Charlie was his name, we hear
He had an engine and he sure had fun
He used Good & Plenty candy to make his train run
Charlie says, "Love my Good & Plenty!"
Charlie says, "Really rings the bell"
Charlie says, "Love my Good & Plenty,
Don't know any other candy that I love so well."

N-E-S-T-L-E-S
Nestles makes the very best
Choc...late

"I want my Maypo!"

"Taste me, taste me! Come on and taste me!"
That's all Doral asks. "Taste me!" (One of the last before the government pulled the plug on TV cigarette ads.)

(to the tune of the William Tell Overture:)
Have a Lark, have a Lark, have a Lark today!

Stronger than dirt! Stronger than dirt!
New Ajax laundry detergent is stronger than dirt!

Mr. Clean gets rid of dirt and grime and grease in just a minute
Mr. Clean will clean your whole house, and everything that's in it
Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean

Call for Philip Morris!

It's the radial age... (for B.F. Goodrich, to the tune of "It's a Sign of the Times"--Petula Clark?)

Things go better with Coca-Cola, things go better with Coke
Life is much more fun when you're refreshed
And Coke refreshes you best
Fun goes better with, food goes better with, things go better with Coke

Double your pleasure, double your fun
With double good, double good, Doublemint gum

Winston tastes good like a (clap! clap!) cigarette should
(which was eventually followed by:)
What do you want--good grammar or good taste?
Pardon our grammar, but: Winston tastes good like a cigarette should!

Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat!
Rice-a-Roni, everybody's got the beat
Started out where cablecars play their song
Now try it at home before very long
Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat!

There's just one Schlitz, yeah, yeah,
Nothing else comes near
When you're out of Schlitz
You're out of beer

And some for the Philadelphians:

Who's the world's smallest Chevrolet dealer? "Me, Marv Pollow"
[repeat]
Tell your friends about Marv Pollow, the world's smallest Chevrolet dealer!

Hey, get your cold beer, get your ice cold Ballantine Beer
It's the beer that's crisp and icily light
Clear cold taste that's precisely right
Frosty, lively, crystally clear
The crisp refresher, Ballantine, Ballantine Beer

Tastykake Cakes and Pies!

Atlantic keeps your car on the go
When driving for pleasure
In any kind of weather
Atlantic keeps your car on the go, go, go, go
Keep on the go with Atlantic

Help, somebody stop me....

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 05:53 AM

And Kaleea, my phone number (in Philadelphia) was DE2-9220, that is, DEvonshire 2-9220. My grandmother's was PI4-0981 (PIoneer), but my other grandmother's was PI2-9216 (PIlgrim--go figure). In the northeast section of the city we also had MAyfair 4, FIdelity 2, and I forget the others. It wasn't until about 1969, I believe, that people started using just numbers.

Aloha,
Mark (now I really do have to get to sleep...)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 06:47 AM

"Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet."

Who can forget:
"I'd love to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...
I'd like to buy the world a Coke...etc."

"Put a Tic-Tac in your mouth and get a bang outta life."

Still have a paper placemat printed with the lyrics/music for this one at my mom's, but I can't remember much of the words right now:

The Ronald McDonald song
"Who's the most kid loving clown...blah blah blah...
Ronald, Ronald McDonald."

"Who wears short shorts?
We wear short shorts.
If you dare wear short shorts
Nair for short shorts"

"I can bring home the bacon,
Fry it up in a pan
And never never let you forget you're a man...
Cause I'm a woman--Enjolie"

"The neat round spaghetti you can eat with a spoon
Uh-oh! Spaghetti-0's"

"A & W Rootbeer's got that frosty mug taste"

Think that's enough from me.

Mary

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 06:52 AM

I remember that Womanly Jingles. (Ducks for cover)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: WYSIWYG
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 07:46 AM

588-2300, Empire....

~S~

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Ma-K
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 09:53 AM

I think most of you are to young to remember " Jack Armstrong the all American boy"
"Won't you try Wheaties the best breakfast food in the land." From the 30's

They are still in the cupboard. Mary

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Ma-K
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 10:02 AM

Rinso-white Rinso-white
happy litte wash day song

Duz duz everything
Oh Duz duz everything

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: 53
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 10:37 AM

Mickey Mouse

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Pooka
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 11:07 AM

heeheehee

(Jingles. Whose sidekick was he? Damn.)(Someone unWomanly...)

...Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick
A Buick, a Buick,
Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick
This year?

(Wot was the preceding lyric? Ended with "...Buick is here" I think.)

The dreamiest creamiest soft ice cream
You'll get from Mister Softee...

SHerwood 7-1849. Plainville CT USA 1955ish.

Khandu, you *are* an Oscar Meyer Weiner. We wish you'd stay in the land o' cotton. :)

One for central-CT locals:

For weddings, for birthdays, for ann-i-ver-sar-eees,
See Savitt, you'll have it, the perfect gift for theeee...

Drat. Gotta get muh brain defragged.

- 5ish Finkel

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 11:51 AM

Geez Mark...We really did grow up together.....Those all were just great!!

FOR SORCHA:
GILLETTE BLUE BLADES
To look sharp every time you shave,
To feel sharp and be on the ball,
To be sharp, Use Gillette Blue Blades,
It's the quickest, slickest shave of all!

How about Edy Adams, wife of cigar famous Ernie Kovacs, singing for Muriel Cigars with that sexy voice and the tag line, "Why don't you pick one up and smoke it sometime?"

"Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz,
Oh what a relief it is."

"This is the cereal that's shot from guns"
--Quaker Cereals to the tune of 1812 Overture.

I simply cannot sing the last line of jingle bells without thinking, "Norelco is the shaver gift to give on Christmas Day."

"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should."

"To a Frenchman it's the Eiffel Tower, to a Dutchman it's a pretty flower, to an Indian it's a monument, to a smoker, it's a Kent"

Geez, this could go on forever........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:13 PM

Jingles, played by Andy Devine, was Wild Bill Hickok's side kick. He waddle down the street whining "Wait foe meeeee, Wahld Beeeyul!". Their sponsor was some sugar-coated breakfast cereal -- puffed corn, I think. Sugar Pops!!

Other famous side kicks from those early years include Gabby Hayes (whose was he -- maybe Gene Autry ?) and Pat Brady, whose Jeep Nellybelle was always being told, "Whoaaaaaa, Nellybelle!", in support of the Roy Rogers show. Don't remember their sponsor.

Then there was game-legged Chester who limped alongside of Marshall Dillon, discussing Miss Kitty's virtues.

Yer right, Pat -- this could go on for fifty odd years!!

A

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: NH Dave
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:19 PM

"NUTS! WHOLE HAZLENUTS! Cadbury takes them and covers them in chocolate!"


TTA Dayo


Dave

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mark Clark
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:28 PM

Use Ajax, (bom, bom) that foaming cleanser, (ba-ba ba-ba bom bom bom) floats the dirt right down the drain.

Miller (la la) High Life... The champagne of bottled beer.

And no one's mentioned the most obvious...
For the finest biscuits you can bake,
Get Martha White's self risin' flour,
The one all-purpose flour,
Get Martha White's self risin' flour for goodness sake.

(la la la I forget the words)... cause Camel suits you to a “T.”

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:42 PM

Yeah Amos....."Sugar Pops are Tops!"

Gabby Hayes is probably most associated with the classic sidekick role in B movie westerns, often with Roy Rogers. Gene Autry had several, the two most prominent were Smiley Burnette (later on Petticaot Junction-train engineer) and Pat Buttram (later on the sister series of Green Acres oddly enough). Ther was of course the famous "Hey Cisco---Hey Pancho" between Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo. Funny thing though....on all of those TV shows, I don't remember the sponsor except for Wild Bill and Gene Autry who was sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint Gum.

There were an awful lot of 50's shows closely associated with only one sponsor because that was the way of things then. Geritol sponsored the quiz "21" and Revlon sponsored "The $64,000. Question." The funniest story I recently learned relating to that type of single sponsorship was that in the early days of Sid Caesar's show, the sponsor was Admiral Televisions. The Caesar show was such a hit that Admiral couldn't keep up with the demand for new sets and had to build another factory.......the problem being that they couldn't afford the factory and the sponsorchip both so they had to cancel the Caesar show......the first time and I think the only time a show was cancelled because it was too successful! Sid and his gang were actually off the air for a few months until someone else came along.

From those shows the main slogan I recall was for "DeSoto" with "Tell 'em Groucho sent ya'!" Of course as someone else mentioned Uncle Miltie (and before him Ed Wynn) said that "You could trust your car to the man who wears the star." And when Amos above mentioned Chevy and "See the USA, in your Chevrolet, America's inviting you to call, See the USA in your Chevrolet, America's the greatest land of all.".......Well that always ended with a big "MUHWAW" sound that we all did emulating the thrown kiss from Dinah Shore.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Giac
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:50 PM

Halo, everybody, Halo
Halo is the shampoo
That glorifies your hair
So Halo, everybody, Halo!


Looky, looky, looky,
Here comes Cookie,
Cook's Pest Control.

The latter, which has some age on it, still runs on Knoxville, Tennessee, stations.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 01:31 PM

Anybody remember an American "beer" from the '50s (I think it was made by Blatz cuz I grew up in Milwaukee) called Tempo?

The jingle went, "Tempo, Tempo, T-E-M-P-O, Tempo (drawn out) Beer."

Linn

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 01:43 PM

Wow!! Are we a nation of MAdison Avenue Borgs, or what?? LOL!!! Now its been three, maybe four generations, who have been raised before the hypnotic glare of a boobtube anchoring their minds not to the virtues of Right Action or the challenges of Heroism, but to the Jingles of Soap Products and Breakfast Cereal!!

And ya wonder they talk about Dumbing Down.

M-IC-.....



K-E-Y............


LOL!


A

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 01:43 PM

How about this one, it was a PSA ....

Don't Cross the street in the middle of the block, in the middle in the middle in the middle of the block. (Repeat)

There may have been more but it is the chorus I recall.

Nick

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 02:05 PM

This may be thread drift, but I remember most of a Mad Magazine advertising-related parody of Poe's "The Raven" from the early '60s but I don't think I remember all of it. I've been checking on-line resources (my mother confiscated the original magazine years ago, damn!) but can't seem to find any of the poetry from that era.

Here goes:

The Spaniel

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary
Over many an advertising copy that I wrote for Macy's store.
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone loudly rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"Tis some client there," I muttered. Only this and nothing more.

Then I felt my terror worsen, for my guest was not a person.
In there stepped a cocker spaniel, naturally I jumped in fear.
Tried to climb an oaken panel, ripping there my new grey flannel
But the spaniel only stood there, speaking out with voice so clear
Speaking out like Jack Lescoulie in a voice both loud and clear.
Quoth the spaniel, "Drink Blatz beer."

How I marvelled this ungainly dog that did commercials plainly
Thoughts of fortunes I could make now make me shake down to my knees.
But the spaniel set me grieving then by turning tail and leaving
Chasing him along the hallway, crying out, "Stay with me me please!"
Chasing him along the hallway, crying out, "Stay with me please!"
Quoth the spaniel, "Eat Kraft Cheese."

Anybody remember this or know where I can find the complete text? I loved it, of course, because not only was it a parody, but it incorporated most of the tv commercials of its day.

Linn

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 02:42 PM

Nice one, Linn. I bet it's up in my brother's attic somewhere...

Now back in the 1940's we used to hear during the breaks of the radio story shows:

Hot Ralston for your breakfast!
Hot Ralston for your lunch!
Hot Ralston for your dinner!
Hot Ralston for your brunch!
It's good for growing children,
Bite sized and ready to eat!
Take a tip from Tom,
Go tell your Mom,
"Hot Ralston can't be beat!"

There was also:

Cream of Wheat is so good to eat that we have it every day...
But the rest of the words have dissipated, along with my appetite.

Hey, Mabel, Black Label!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mudlark
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 02:51 PM

Sigh...what a way to bring back memories!

Here's one that used to invade my mind like some alien virus...

Hi ho, hey, hey
Chew your little troubles away
Hi ho, he, hey
Chew Wrigleys Spearmint gum

Aghhh, now it's in there again.

Another "song"...

Cream of Wheat is so good to eat
That we have it every day
???
???
It's good for growing children
And good for grown-ups too
???

I think that ad was on a 50's children's program that came on Sat. mornings..."Let's Pretend." I was glued to the radio, especially as that was followed by "The Red Lantern"...

Wheaties...Breakfast of Champions!!!

You better get Wildroot Creme Oil, Chaaarrrlie...



Memorable TV ads...

Little cartoon people saying things like "It's a FORD," and "Ask for it by name...MONEY!" and "It's SNOWdrift..."(veg. lard, remember that?)

A car dealer in Missouri: "We can talk turkey for just a little scratch" (with a cute little chick pecking up scratch feed...)

Dancing wienies singing: "I wish I was an Oscar Myer weiner, for that is what I'd truly like to beeeeee. For if I was an Oscar Myer weiner, everyone would be in love with meeeee."

I remember the jingles, I remember the brand names, but they never influenced me to buy...I sure did want a Capt. Midnight secret decoder ring tho...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 02:54 PM

Many, many years ago I recorded 2 jingles for Radio Wales. It was for the Mike Flynn. What ever happened to him, by the way? I bet no one remembers them...they weren't very memorable! Mind you I did get to record them with a guy who played keyborad for Cliff Richard. OOOh weee!

Sal

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 05:54 PM

Mudlark-

Damn, now I'm going to wake up 3 in the morning with fragments of that jingle rattling round my brain:

Cream of Wheat is so good to eat
That we have it every day;
...; it makes us strong,
It makes us shout "Hurray!"
It's good for growing children
And grown-ups for to eat,
...a bowl of Cream of Wheat.

Someone has to remember the rest of this! 'Fess up!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Deda
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 06:21 PM

BrilCream, a little dab'll do ya
Brilcream, use more if you dare
But watch out, the girls'll all pursue yaaaaa --
They love to get their fingers in your hair

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Walrus
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 06:58 PM

Everyone's a Fruit and Nut case,
Crazy for those Cadbury's nuts and rasins,
Every mother's daughter
Is a firm supporter
(and don't forget the diver
who eats it under water),
Everyones a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut case,
Crazy for those Cadbury's nuts and rasins,
(2 lines forgotten)
Cadbury's Fruit and Nut!

(To , I think, "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy")


How about the singing petrol pumps?

"The Esso sign means happy motoring(x3)
So call at the Esso sign
(spoken) For Esso extra"


or for Esso Blue (paraffin - kerosene for USAers)

"They asked me how I knew
it was Esso Blue
I, of course replied
With other fuels you try
Smoke gets in your eyes"

Walrus

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Shields Folk
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 07:03 PM

I think the proper words are:

I,of course replied
With lower grades one buys
Smoke gets in your eyes"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Shields Folk
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 07:05 PM

"boom boom boom boom-
Esso Blue"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Pooka
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 07:31 PM

Amos - yeahyeah, ha ha! Thanks for Andy Devine, "...Wait foe meeeee, Wahld Beeeyul!...Then there was game-legged Chester..." YES! Dennis Weaver! "Misstuh Dyill'n! Misstuh Dyill'on!!" Character later replaced by Festus Hagan - ?

Misstuh 'Cyatspaw sir: hm. Think now I could use at least one of the products you cited. (Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho) -
"Yasha got a bottle of Geritol, Geritol, Geritol
Yasha got a bottle of Geritol
And he knocked a hole in the wall."
- Allan Sherman (OK so not his best already, so sue me)

Bat Goddess - Mad Magazine - *LOL*!!! Thankyou / whoo hoo we gotta get us the rest of that. O excellent. Mad Magazine Memories!!
Tom Lehrer's Christmas Carol, fragment - "Hark the Herald Tribune sings, advertising wondrous things..."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Shambles
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 07:33 PM

The ESSO sign means 'appy motoring
'appy motoring
'appy motoring

The ESSO sign means 'appy motoring
So stop at the ESSO sign

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Dave Swan
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 07:36 PM

SNAP, what a happy sound
Snap is the happiest sound I've found
You may clap, rap, tap, slap, but
Snap makes the world go 'round
Snap, Rice Crispies

I say it's CRACKLE, the crispy sound
You've gotta have Crackle or the clock's not wound
Geese cackle, feathers tickle, belts buckle, beets pickle, but
Crackle makes the world go 'round
Crackle, Rice Crispies

I insist that POP's the sound
The best is missed unless Pop's around
You can't stop hoppin' when the cereal's poppin'
Pop makes the world go 'round
Pop, Rice Crispies.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Shambles
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 07:55 PM

You're going well, you're going SHELL
Things go better with SHELL SHELL SHELL

I may still remember the jingles but I have never cared or even noticed what brand of petrol/gas I filled up with.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: curmudgeon
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 09:02 PM

The most memorable jingle from my youth, by which I judge true New Englanders was for the Adams and Swett Rug Cleaners. With a simple cartoon of a child devouring cookies, it went:

How mant cookies did Andrew eat?
Andrew ate eight thousand.
How do you keep your carpets clean?
Call ANdrew 8 -8000.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 09:35 PM

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 09:39 PM

Ya better get Wild Root Cream Oil, Chaaarly!
Start using it today!!
You'll have a hard time, Charley,
Keeeping all the giruls a-waaaa-ay!

LOL!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 09:49 PM

Note to self: If you're going to cut and paste a message instead of typing it up here, it's a real good idea to do the cutting and pasting before hitting the submit button.


Okay dammit! Somebody help me remember the rest of the words to the Chocks Vitamin jingle. Well.... it wasn't really a jingle because it was only spoken, not sung. The words I can remember are:

They're newfy, poofy, pillowy thingamazees
With a flavor you'll favor
A fruit tasting one
Making taking Chocks vitamins
Plenty of fun

Obviously, there were words preceding what I can remember and probably additional words after.

Anybody else remember any?

Bruce

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 12:11 AM

Aha! 1961!

Well with the rap of a hammer (rappa rat tat)
Or just a little bit more (rappa rat tat)
Washington Builders
Will make the whole place look
Like it never did before,
Washington Builders,
Call Sunset 3,2,4....oh 4.

or

Brusha brusha brusha
Get the new Ipana
With the brand new flavour
Its dandy for your teeee-eeeeth.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sharyn
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 01:56 AM

Is your engine sick and tired?
Want your car to run like new?
Automotive Engineering
Pleases thousands -- why not you?

...

It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so wonderful
It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so different
More raisins! Lots more raisins!
More raisins than you have ever seen before
If you like raisins, plump juicy raisins,
You'll like Post Raisin Bran more

...

And for those of you who rememember cigarette commercials there was a very complicated rhyming jingle with the punchline of "To a smoker, it's a Kent."

...

If you've got a hanker and a real big hanker for real good coffee this is it Dum-de-Dum
New Nescafe is Dum-de-Dum Powerful
Dum-de-Dum Powerful
Powerful Good!

...

I'm sure there are more: they'll probably show up in my sleep or during my next meditation retreat.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mudlark
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 02:42 AM

Charley Noble...Was the last line of the Crm of Wht song something like "So why not start your breakfast (or morning) with...a bowl of C of W? It seems like with so much of it I should be able to remember the rest. Unfortunately, I'll be working on it...

Wasn't there a song for Bosco too?

A candy bar jingle... "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you dont."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,KT
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 03:03 AM

Charley and Mudlark, here ya go:

Cream of Wheat is so good to eat
That we have it every day.
We sing this song, it will make us strong
And it makes us shout HOORAY!
It's good for growing babies
And grown-ups too, to eat
For all the family's breakfast
You can't beat Cream of Wheat!

And who can complete these....

Tan don't burn.......
Aunt Jemima....
MMM, MMM good.....
Everybody doesn't like something....
Kool aid , Kool aid....tastes great....
Buckle up for safety, buckle up......
It's not fried, it's.....
Bit O' Honey goes a long, long way....
It's Slinky, it's Slinky.....

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 10:17 AM

Thnaks so much, Guest KT! Now I can relax, sit down and shovel in a soggy spoonful of that oh so delicious Cream of Wee-wee.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 11:01 AM

Strong Wilhelmina eats her farina,
H-O Farina, cream farina
Smooth and delicious, All boys and girls love it so,
H-O

To the tune of a Viennese waltz, (Estudiantina, I believe):
My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer,
Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer,
It's not bitter, not sweet,
(something, something, rhymes with eet)
Why not try extra dry Rheingold Beer?

Brush your teeth with Colgate,
Colgate Dental Cream.
It cleans your breath (What a toothpaste!)
(forgot the last line)

I thought it was kind of sad that when Dinah Shore passed away, all the TV and radio news stories could play was the Chevrolet jingle (mentioned above). What a way to be remembered.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Shambles
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 11:07 AM

I now notice we stopped twice at the ESSO sign! Sorry I didn't see the first posting of it.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 11:23 AM

What ever happened to Bucky Beaver (of Ipana toothpaste fame)?

Oh, and back to Mad Magazine -- there was a wonderful image (c. 1963) of Crest's "Invisible Shield" falling on the actor (I should know who it was) who knocked on it to show it was there, protecting teeth.

And (more Mad Magazine) neon signs with letters missing: "You Can [be] Su[r]e If It's Westinghouse" (You Can Sue If It's Westinghouse)

It's been 40 years, but I can't see the advertiser without thinking of the parody.

Anyone remember the Hills Brothers Coffee TV commercial where the spoon says it wants to be a fork and the voice over explains how wonderful it is to be a spoon and stir Hills Brothers Coffee? I think it was around 1958 or 1959. That year for Hallowe'en, I went trick or treating as a fork. (Made my own costume, of course.)

Linn

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 11:50 AM

Mudlark....The Bosco Song for you

I love Bosco its rich and chocolatey
Chocolate flavoured Bosco
Is mighty good for me

Bosco gives me Iron
And sunshine vitamin D
So I love Bosco
That's the drink for me

There are some lines about Mamma in the middle, but unfortunately or not, all I can remember is a later parody

Mamma puts it in my milk to try to poison me,
But I fooled Mummy,
I put it in her tea,
Now there is no Mummy to try to poison me.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 02:26 PM

Gee, Linn -- what were you really trying to say with that costume? Fork you all?? :>)

A

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 03:31 PM

Early on in this thread the Watneys' ad was parodied. the original was

"Drink Red Barrell near or far
In pub or club or any bar
It's always good wherever you are
Drink Watneys keg Red Barrell"

(An advert extolling the virtues of a 'plasticised pint'???)


One manufacturer of 'Club'(chocolate coated biscuits) had the jingle
"If you want a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club"
Unfortunately this was quicly parodied as:
"If you want a lot of lipstick on your dipstick, join our club!"

Nigel

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Deda
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 08:40 PM

Let's have another cup of coffee,
Yes let's have a cup of Nescafe.

Years after knowing this as a commercial I found out that there was a previous actual SONG that went, "Let's have another cup of coffee,
And let's have another piece of pie."

Then there was the percolator commercial, that showed coffee bubbling up into the glass top of a percolator -- the first couple of coffee-bubbles had a soundtrack of sort of musical "blup -- blup, blup --- blup, blup, blup" which then transmogrified into a tune. I can remember the tune but not what kind of coffee it was!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: khandu
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 08:48 PM

"Where ever wheels are turning,

No matter what the load,

The name that's known is Firestone,

Where the rubber meets the road."...and...

"The moment you walked in the room,

I knew you were a man of distinction, a real big spender,

Hey, Big Spender, spend a little time with me" Aqua Velva ad (mid-60's)

k

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 09:41 PM

Dida, that was Maxwell House coffee.

A brand that doesn't exist anymore, Spattini Spaghetti Sauce had someone singing their name to "La Donna E Mobile". Unfortunately, I heard the jingle before I new it was a real song, and 40 years later, the song still reminds me of the commercial. Just like William Tell and the Lone Ranger.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 09:48 PM

Good ones, KT...I only got 5 of them:

Tan don't burn.......get a Coppertone tan

MMM, MMM good.....Mmm, Mmm, good, that's what Campbell's soups are, Mmm, Mmm, good.

Everybody doesn't like something....but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee

Buckle up for safety, buckle up......Buckle up for safety, always buckle up, Put your mind at ease, tell your riders please, buckle up for safety, everybody BUCKLE UP! (Original: Buckle down, Winsocki)

It's not fried, it's.....Shake 'n' Bake. And I helped! (In a very thick Southern accent)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 06:20 AM

"Do the Shake 'n' vac and put the freshness back
Do the Shake 'n' vac and put the freshness back
When your carpet smells fresh your room does too"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 06:28 AM

"..will it be mushrooms?
fried onion rings?
you'll have to wait and see

Hope it's chips, it's chips
I hope it's chips, it's chips..."

Is there anyone in the UK who doesn't remember this? Is there anyone who actually remembers what it was advertising? (Clue: it wasn't chips, apparently.)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:11 AM

For mash get smash.john

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:14 AM

Fibs, I think it was Findus steakhouse burgers. Que sera!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:25 AM

gasp! I think you may be right! For the life of me, I couldn't remember, but that rings a bell alright. Que sera sera.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:34 AM

Snap, Crackle, Pop, is the rice krispie jingle.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mudlark
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 01:47 PM

Guest, KT...Thanks (I think) for giving the whole Crm/Wht song...will take it to next music get-together. (I used to know a jazz group in the 50's that used the "So use Ajax, boom boom, the foaming cleanser, etc. as a riff in a lot of songs).

And Metchosin...thanks for the Bosco number...AND the parody, which I agreed with wholeheartedly as a kid. Even the word makes my lip curl.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: PageOfCups
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 01:57 PM

Oh, geez. Now I've got a bunch of them running around my brain & they won't stop til I type them up. If you are nice people and want me to help me retain my sanity, you'll fill in the missing words...

Mobil:
We're the rocker arm assembly,
Assembly, assembly,
We're the rocker arm assembly
And we don't like dirt!
   A detergent gasoleeeeeene
   Helps keep your engine running smooth and cleeeeeeen -
It's Mobil, oh 'tis Mobil gasoline!


The STP commercial (sung to the tune of the Toreador song from Carmen)
STP! You need some STP!
One little can keeps it running free!
[something], cooler, quieter, more precise,
[something something something] nice
[something something] we all agree
The best is STP!


Shell (I think):
Bringin' home the oil me boys,
Bringin' home the oil,
Workin' all around the world
Bringin' home the oil,
[something] on a giant ship,
[no clue this line here]
Sailin' into Bantry Bay
Bringin' home the oil.


Hamm's beer:
From the land of sky-blue waters - (echo: wa-ah-ters)
Comes the water best for brewing
Hamm's the beer refreshing
Never stops refreshing you...


Bay gasoline:
[there's a verse before this]
When you're driving down that superhighway
It's a great feeling to know
Bay is designed to match Michigan weather,
Whether it's hot or cold!
Bay gasoline has Dow
Get Dow knowhow
Get Dow knowhow with every drop of Bay!


Chef Boyardee:
At lunchtime the bell tolls
Spaghetti and meatballs
For you and for me
From Chef Boyardee!


Yipes! Stripes! Beechnut gum!


Oh, and I learned the Empire jingle (988-2300 Empire!) from spending way too many hours taping _The Wild Wild West_ off of WGN.


Thread creeplet: anybody know all the words to that Jimmeny Cricket safety movie we had to watch in grade school? The chorus went:
I'm no fool, nosirree
I'm gonna live to be 33! [number got larger each verse]
Let's play safe for you and me,
'Cause I'm no fool!


I really, really need to get to work!!!
PoC

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 02:32 PM

A million housewives every day
Pick up a tin of beans and say
"BEANZ MEANZ HEINZ!"

As a really (nowadays) un-PC famine joke we used to sing
"A million ********* every day
Pick up a tin of beans and say
One for you, one for me...."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 04:30 PM

The minute you walked in the joint
I could tell you were a man of distinction
a real big spender
Good looking, so refined
I figured that you're the Mureil Cigar smokin' kind
So let me get right to the point
You're in style when you're in Muriel's company
Hey big spender
Spend a little dime with me

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:37 PM

Two masterpieces of bad sentence structure from Burger King:
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Special orders don't upset us
All we ask is that you let us
Have it your way.

And:
Our new Whaler, gentle fish is
Cook just right, so it's delicious
All we ask is that your wish is
Have it your way.

A Pepsi parody from my childhood:
Pepsi Cola hits the spot
In your stomach it will rot
Tastes like beer, tastes like wine,
(Shouted)OH MY GOSH, IT'S TURPENTINE!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Patilou
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 05:18 PM

My father swore this was the first singing comercial
`Socks, socks, here we are upon the air.
`Oh! We're the Interwoven pair of socks, socks!

Then there's that wonderful ditty:
`Come away with me Lucille, in my merry Oldsmobile, etc.

`My name is Buster Brown, and I live in a shoe, my dog is Tighe, and he lives in here too.

Dream girl, dream girl! Beautiful Lustercreme girl, you clean your crowning Glory too with Lustercreme Shampoo

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: freightdawg
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 06:45 PM

Let's don't forget the one's that predate the telly...

At the curve...
the car was whizn...
the fault was hers...
the funeral hizn...
Burma Shave

At the school yard...
take it slow...
let our little...
shavers grow...
Burma Shave

For those who never saw them (myself included), these were road signs placed every so many feet apart. Apparently in the midwest they were immensely popular as they broke up the monotony of a long car trip. I have a book with the complete collection. Some are really hilarious

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 07:42 PM

We are the ovalteenies
Happy girls and boys...........

It's Amazin what raisins can do..........

And one for Nimble? bread with a woman in a hot air balloon singing something that escapes me...up,up and away in my beautiful balloon maybe?

Watch out there's a humphrey about. (ok not sung.)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Compton
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 12:32 PM

Guest...I think the tune was "I Can't let maggie go!...She flies through the air, etc.
Wasn't there an Esso Blee Dooler?
Bing Crosby did the Shell Ad....(or some one who sounded like him!)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 01:16 PM

Thanks, thats the tune....now in my head for the rest of the weekend no doubt.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: brid widder
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 01:31 PM

I remember the pepsodent jingle

we used to sing

You'll wonder where your front teeth went
when you brush your teeth with Earles Cement

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 02:42 PM

how did I miss this thread? Looking at the dates, it must have been Getaway weekend...

anyway...

"to "Sweet Betsy from Pike"

"I'll tell you a story you'll never forget,
A story about you and YOUR cigarette.
Enjoy smoother smoking, choose wisely, choose well;
Relax and enjoy yourself, light a Pall Mall."

Pall Mall, Pall Mall,
Choose longer and finer and milder Pall Mall.
------------------------------------------------------------------
"You'll ride with pride when you ride with Rayco
Seatcovers in your car.
By golly, they're HUM-dingers..('hum' is drawn out)
The best looking covers by far.
Rayco rides the best, Rayco wears the best, Rayco IS the best by far..
By golly, they're HUM-dingers..
Rayco seat covers in your car!"

----------------------------------------
and, to enlarge on the Halo shampoo lines Giac posted..
"Halo, everybody, Halo
Halo is the shampoo
That glorifies your hair
So Halo, everybody, Halo!

Halo, everybody, Halo..
Halo means natural beauty,
The first time that you use it-
Needs no special rinsing,
After you USE it,
So Halo, everybody HA-lo.."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Celtaddict
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 11:06 PM

KT and Mark, there were more in the Public Service Buckle Up campaign.
Buckle up for safety, buckle up,
Buckle up for safety, always buckle up.
Show the folks you care
By the belt you wear
Buckle up for safety, everybody buckle up.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 01:07 AM

There was a sausage ad on the radio in Ireland sung to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance and widely sung in a more suggestive way by listeners:

Double wrappers for double protection
Double wrappers for double protection
And if your grocer should make a suggestion
Say "No, it's Donnelly's skinless for me."

Isn't it amazing when you look at the ads people quote, how many of them are products that have survived and gone on to world domination? It shows how advertising works!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,shona
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 02:45 PM

From our local radio station:
"North East Scotlands best mix of Moooosic, NECR!"
(its North East Community Radio!)

"Danish Bacon Danish Bacon Yummy Yummy Yummy Yummy Yummy Yummy Yum!"

:)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 04:21 PM

The flavour's locked in with Jello crystals

The Esso sign means happy motoring

You wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent

You're never alone with a Strand

Mighty meaty matey, they're Drings

Cool as a Mountain stream, Consulate

Lees Lees Lees if you please
Look at jus crawling we're down on our knees
Fot picaninnies, and Grandpapas
There's nothing so nice as Lees Macaroon bars

We are the Ovaltineys, happy girls and boys.
etc.etc.
John

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 04:35 PM

Three little pigs singing "Morell pure lard,Morell pure lard,Morell pure laaard"
Mackeson,looks good,tastes good and by golly it does you good.
Fisons evergreen 80,makes gardening a little bit more like fun, aarh.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 05:38 PM

Wheaties -- the Breakfast of CHAMPIONS!!!

Colgate Toothpaste, with Gardol -- The Invisible Shield!!!

Who Ate My Post Toasties????

Keebler Cookies, Tareytons, Kents, Irish Spring, Buick, the list goes on forever.....


A

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Compton
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 07:24 PM

"Now hands that wash dishes can feel soft as your face with mild green Fairy Liquid"
"All the dirt, All the grit, Hoover gets at every bit, Hoover beats as it sweeps as it cleans"
Birds Eye Peas, Sweet as the moment when the pod went (Cue Patsy Kensit)Pop!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: ranger1
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 08:23 PM

A slinky, a slinky
for fun, it's a wonderful toy!
It's fun for a girl and a boy!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,TheOldMole
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 08:34 PM

SHE: Baby bring me Barricini, it's the chocolate I adore

HE: Bring your baby Barricini and she'll love you so much more

SHE: Oh, what a lovely package...

                      HE: Barricini's where it's from

SHE: Barricini's gifts are candy,
Oooooh, gimme gimme gimme gimme some

HE: Bring your baby Barricini

SHE: I won't let you in the door
Unless you bring me Barricini

HE: It's the chocolate she'll adore

SHE: Don't be a meanie...bring me Barricini

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 08:54 PM

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.


Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow
Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow
Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Feb 04 - 05:36 AM

What a sad lot...........

Does Pepsodent still exist? If not it would seem to be a great marketing idea to revive this product (and perhaps many of the others)? For those old enough to remember it - the name alone would bring back the jingle and no further advertising would ever be required. But of course the current 'ad' people are too young to remember.

Accepting of course that those old enough to remember Pepsodent do still have their own teeth to brush.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Lil Dog Turpy
Date: 22 Feb 04 - 06:17 AM

I'm amazed no one has this one yet. I can not think of this tune without the words ....


Just one Cornetto,
Geeeve eeeet to me.
Delicious ice cream
From Italy

The nut and chocolate dream
Give me Cornetto,
From Wall's ice cream

Sung in a very cheesy italian accent while two gondolas approach each other in Venice. The man singing to the woman in the other gondola as they approach and as they pass each other .... he grabs her cornetto.

Robin

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: ray bucknell
Date: 22 Feb 04 - 07:26 PM

The complete Buster Brown jingle (I think) was:

    "Does your shoe have a boy inside?
       What a funny place for a boy to hide.
    Does your shoe have a dog there too?
       A dog and a boy and a foot in a shoe.

    Well the boy is Buster Brown, and the dog is Tighe, his friend.
       And they're really just a picture,
       but it's fun to play pretend.

    So, look, look, look in the telephone book
       for the store that sells the shoe
       with the picture of the boy and the dog inside
       so you can put your foot in too!"

    In the New York area, we had Schaefer beer sponsoring many of the baseball games:

   Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one!

(stuff tasted so bad I don't know how anybody could get past the first one).

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Compton
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 07:12 AM

"Do the "Shake and Vac" and put the freshness back,"
How the hell did we forget that one !

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Splott Man
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 07:36 AM

"Raelbrook Poplin -the shirt you don't iron"

"Murraymints, Murraymints, the too good to hurry mints"

"This is carpet you can afford by Cyril Lord."

This is beginning to hurt...


and I made post No 100 again!

"Id like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony"

stop me somenone....

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,KT
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 11:05 PM

Celtaddict, also this one:

Buckle up for safety, buckle up,
Buckle up for safety, always buckle up.
Pull your seat belt snug, give an extra tug,
Buckle up for safety, everybody buckle up.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 11:11 PM

I'm holding a cassette of 50 old time radio commercials... I haven't read this whole thread, so I don't know if others have something similar. Kinda fun to listen to every eleven years..

Jerry

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 02:31 AM

One for Yamaha motorcycles, an adaptation of the Mark Lindsay song "Silver Bird":

Ya-ma-ha!
Won't you fly me away
Ya-ma-ha!
Take me into the day
Ya-ma-ha!
Come and give me a ride
And let us go see what's on the other side
Ya-ma-ha!
Won't you fly me away
Ya-ma-ha!
Today is the day

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: alison
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 02:53 AM

theyrrrrrrrrre grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!! (Kelloggs Frosties with Tony the Tiger)

toffo - a mans gotta chew what a mans gotta chew

OOO-ER shouldn't be allowed (Pat Coombes voice over for Hi Karate aftershave)

I knew a different Milky Bar ....(and have you tried the ones with mashed cookies in them?..... mmmmm)

the Milky bar kid is strong and tough
and only the best is good enough
the creamiest milk the whitest bar
the goodness thats in Milky bar

show 'em the hunny mummy (honey monster for sugar puffs)

there was one for sausages from Cookstown in N.Ireland.... I can still see the man wafting down the stairs following the smell to the kitchen.....
"no one can resist the cookstown sizzle)

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 08:24 AM

Real folksingers did commercials, which how I first heard folk music.


The Mobil commercial alluded to above, the one about the rocker arm assembly? I believe it was sung by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

Then there's this one written by Tom Paxton:
My dog's bigger than your dog,
My dog's bigger than yours.
My dog's bigger 'cuase he eats Ken-L Ration
My dog's bigger than yours.


And this, written and sung by Tom Glazer, aired in New York for about 40 years and taugh generations the word "incontrovertible":

Who was the first to conquer space?
It's incontrovertible
That the first to conquer living space
Was a Castro Convertible
Who conquers space with fine design?
Who saves you money all the time?
Who's tops in the convertible line?
Castro Convertible.


And this from the 1950s, written and sung by Bob Gibson:

A cagey old pirate who lived in a tree
Loved syrup much better than golden jewelry.
He buried his treasure chest out in the glade
Filled with real maple syrup by Vermont Maid
So learn well this lesson from my serenade:
There's no finer syrup than sweet Vermont Maid
It's naturally flavored with the very best grade
Of real maple sugar -- that's my Vermont Maid.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 11:16 AM

I'm a secret lemonade drinker.......R.Whitessssssssssssssss

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 11:59 AM

completing one from above and adding a couple:
"I'd walk a mile for a mild, mild, Camel, they're so mild they suit you to a 'T'"

"Luckies taste better, cleaner, fresher, SMOOTHer" (kinda chanted, rather than sung)

and the Jello jingle, written especially for Fanny Bryce on the "Baby Snooks Show" as far as I know..to approximately the tune of "The Hinky-Dinky Spider"

"Oh, the big red letters stand for the Jello fam-i-ly,
The big red letters stand for the Jello fam-i-ly..
Strawberry, Raspberry, Cherry, Orange, Lemon & Lime!
My Daddy LIKES it!"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: SueB
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 03:05 PM

I'm Chiquita Banana, and I come to say
Bananas got to ripen in a certain way
When they are flecked with brown
and have a golden hue
Bananas taste the best and are the
Best for you


Ai Ai Ai AI you can put them in a salad
Ai Ai AI AI you can put them in a pie
Any way you want to eat them
It's impossible to beat them

(missing words and then)
You must never put bananas
In the refrigerator!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 05:09 PM

I only just stumbled onto this thread, and it has been a real trip down memory lane. I once ran a "TV jingles and theme songs" workshop at the Folklore Society of Greater Washington mini-festival, but I think I'm strictly an also-ran when it comes to remembering jingles!

Four comments:

1. Mark Cohen (19 Oct 02 - 05:45 AM) made note of

Hey, get your cold beer, get your ice cold Ballantine Beer
It's the beer that's crisp and icily light
Clear cold taste that's precisely right
Frosty, lively, crystally clear
The crisp refresher, Ballantine, Ballantine Beer

Here's the way I remember it from the Washington DC area:

To be crisp, a beer
must be icily light
with true lager flavor
precisely right
lively golden, crystally clear
the crisp refresher (duh duh duh duh duh duh)
Ballantine, Ballantine beer!
Heeeeeeey, get your cold beer!
Heeeeeeey, get your Ballantine
Heeeeeeey, get your cold cold beer
get your ice-cold Ballantine beer!

2. Giac (19 Oct 02 - 12:50 PM) mentioned "Looky, looky, looky, Here comes Cookie, Cook's Pest Control." My mother-in-law taught my daughter a song that goes "Looky, Looky, Looky, Here comes [or maybe "there goes"] Cookie, Walking down the street". I'm betting that Giac's Pest Control ad derives from that song.

3. freightdawg (19 Feb 04 - 06:45 PM) mentioned Burma Shave signs. I once actually saw a genuine, for real Burma Shave sign series(it was in the sixties, while my dad was driving us to Atlantic City NJ.) It wasn't terribly memorable, went like this:

King Henry VIII
Sure had trouble
Short term wives
Long term stubble
Burma Shave

4. Finally, here is one that has stuck in my mind since the sixties:

Reach for a peach
a peach of a bleach
new Bleach Tabs by Barcoleen

I'm not sure of the spelling of "Barcoleen", and I don't believe the product exists anymore.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 06:47 PM

Clueless Don, you;ve triggered a long-dormant memory:

There's nothing in the world (There's nothing in the world)
That cleans so clean (That cleans so clean)
As Liquid (liquid)
Barcolene! (Barcole-en!)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: ray bucknell
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 07:52 PM

Wow! I knew Paxton had written "My Dog's Bigger..." but had no idea that Tom Glazer was behind the Castro Convertible jingle that I do remember vividly (with Bernadette Castro as a small child pulling out the bed on the TV commercial, many years before her gig as New York State Parks Commissioner). Also didn't know that the late great Bob Gibson wrote or sang jingles. That Vermont Maid one may have been a little before my time.

    The Kingston Trio did a series of 7-UP commercials way back when Dave Guard was still in the group. I don't remember hearing them on the air either, but they're included on the "Capitol Years" boxed set of KT material.

                                       'Ray

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 08:03 PM

Have a good old barley sandwich...
That's Calgary Export Ale!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 25 Feb 04 - 11:04 AM

The Kingston Trio also did a radio commercial for Ry-Krisp, "the bite-size cracker," and the Limelighters did one for L&M cigarettes:

Start fresh
With L&M
Stay fresh
With L&M
Unlock a whole new world
Of fresh smoking pleasure.
Start fresh, start fresh
With L&M.

They did another L&M commercial where they sang "They give you flavor, flavor, flavor." In a 1988 phone interview either Alex Hassilev or Lou Gottlieb told me that when they were goofing around at that recording session they would sing "They give you cancer, cancer, cancer."

And Tom Glazer told me in a live interview in 1987 0r 1988 that he was still receiving royalties for the Castro Convertible jingle but it was at 1950s rates so it wasn't much. This from the man who wrote "A Dollar Ain't a Dollar Anymore," so he should know.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 25 Feb 04 - 11:36 AM

Radio Humberside
VHS 36.9
Medium wave 202
Rediffusion
Channel B

Jingle utilising the above words for Radio Humberside, written and performed by two reprobates (that shall remain nameless) who were paid the princely sum of £20...don't tell the tax man

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 14 Jun 04 - 11:49 PM

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 12:08 AM

The cigarette that was named for a TV program

More people are smoking Hit Parade around the USA
'Cause Hit Parade has all you want in a cigarette today
So why not switch to Hit Parade and you'll be sure to get
The tobacao, the tip,and the taste you want in a great new cigarette

Named after Your Hit Parade, starring Giselle MacKenzie, Russell Arms, Dorothy Collins, & Snooky Lanson.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 02:28 AM

Clueless Don, when your dad drove you to Atlantic City, did you go over the Tacony Palmyra Bridge? The toll was 5 cents...even when I drove across it myself for the first time in 1970, in my dad's '59 Chevy BelAir (the one with the fins). Do you remember Egg Harbor? I loved that name! And the Knife and Fork Inn. My sister and I used to play the gas station game on the drive from Philadelphia through the Pine Barrens to Atlantic City. We'd each choose one gasoline company and count the stations along the way. As I recall, I always chose Atlantic ('cause we were going to Atlantic City, of course!) and I always won. Some of the other stations back then (early 60's) were: Mobil, Esso, Flying A, Gulf, Texaco, Amoco...and the rest are lost for the time being. The opening of the Atlantic City Expressway in 1965 changed that trip dramatically, from farm stands and the Renault Winery to just another big multilane highway. But I digress...We should do a thread on old Atlantic City: "More than Monopoly!"

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 05:29 AM

...and jingles you cant forget..no matter how hard you try!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 09:05 AM

Good morning, Breakfast Clubbers
Good morning to ya!
We woke up bright and early
Just to howdy-do ya!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 10:13 AM

Mark Cohen - I don't remember a whole lot about that trip. I think it was in the early sixties. Someone had told my Dad about a "back roads" way to get to Atlantic City from DC. I remember looking for a road called "Buckshutem" - I'm not sure that we ever found it.

This was back before gambling transformed Atlantic City. I remember going to a show at the Steel Pier - I think the headliners were the McGuire Sisters.

I remember all of the Gas Station names that you mention. I remember when Esso changed to Exxon. I remember when Amoco changed to American, and later on when American changed back to Amoco! Now the local Amoco stations seem to be changing to BP - very confusing.

Getting back to the subject of jingles (remember jingles? this is a thread about jingles...), I can't really remember any jingles about any of the Gas Stations you mention, except for a dimly remembered snippet that went something like "Texaco tower of power...".

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: CET
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 10:45 AM

Charmion actually, who can't be bothered re-setting the cookie.

To those who can't remember who sponsored Roy Rogers' TV show, it was General Mills, maker of Post cereals. Remember the branding iron putting the big G on the top of the cereal box?

"Good, good whole-wheat Shreddies!"

My Dad used to quote a jingle he read in an English magazine about 1924:

"High o'er the stile leapt Sunny Jim;
Force [a breakfast cereal] was the power that lifted him."

Cleanser jingles:

"It's so easy when you use LessToil!" (1958-1960)

"Ajax: It cleans like a white tornado!" (declaimed, not sung; early '70s)

"New Ajax laundry detergent: it's stronger than dirt!" (sung; mid-60s, I think)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 10:57 AM

when I put my Brutus jeans on.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 11:03 AM

You can trust your car
To the man who wears the star,
The big bright Texaco star.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 11:12 AM

a finger of fudge
is just enough
to give the kids a treat.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Chris
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 08:46 AM

Paint Brushes.....

They won't, they won't,
There isn't any doubt.
With HARRIS on the handle,
The Bristles won't come out.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Tracey Dragonsfriend
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 10:51 AM

Whne I was a kid - "For mash, get SMASH!" with the tinny aliens...

And now, to "Daydream Believer", there's :
"Oh, if your lawn, is a farce
Weeds a right pain in the grass
Simply shake this on and in a week...
Cheer up Evergreen!
Makes it lush and green
It's the, easy peasy way to
Get the lawn of your dreams!"
Just gotta sing along with that happy frog!

Cheers
Tracey Dragonsfriend
Scorch's Pyrography

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 11:51 AM

This one just jumped into my head this morning as I drove to work:

Mix and match, it's fun to do
what Barbie wears is up to you.
There are sweaters and slacks and socks and shoes
there are lots of styles from which to choose.

As I recall there is more to it, but that's what I remember offhand.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 05:41 PM

I just remembered this one:

       My name is Maisie the Raisin
       And my name is Jake the Flake
       Oh what a great combination we make
       Known to the world as Post Raisin Bran Flakes
       We have a story to tell you
       It happened not too long ago

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: C-flat
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 05:50 PM

Got to be the worst singing strap-line ever

"This is carpet you can afford.....by Cyril Lord!"

from many years ago.

C-flat.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 07:28 PM

You will have a circus eating Krinkles.
Sugar-coated cereal, Krinkles,
Candy-kissed rice that's twice as nice.
You will have a circus eating Krinkles.

AND, from the same era,, the 1950s

Mmm, duh-DOO-doot,
You'd love to be in our shoes.
Mmm, duh-DOO-doot,
Adler Shoes.
Mmm, duh-DOO-doot,
You'd love to be in our shoes.
Look so good and feel so good,
Better leather, whatever you spend.
You'd love to be in our shoes,
Whose shoes? Our shoes,
Adler Shoes for men.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 08:23 PM

From the TV Show " The Merry Mailman"

How old are you my pretty little dear
How old are you my honey
Did I hear you say you were 3 years old
3 years old this Monday.

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 17 Jun 04 - 11:41 AM

Ah, the Merry Mailman. Loved that show,. Starred Ray Heatherton (father of Joey). But back to commercials...

There was a chain of appliance stores in New York called Sunset...
Sunset, Sunset
For appliances you need,
Sunset, Sunset
Everything is guaranteed
Sunset, Sunset
For easy credit, the place to go
Sunset, Sunset,
Call HIckory six-four-oh-oh-oh
HIckory, HIckory, HIckory
Six-four-oh-oh-oh

Contemporaneously, there was what may have been the world's first rap on the radio, a jingle without a tune, just percussion, for Palisades Park:
Now, after all is said and done
It's Palisades for having fun.
So during the day or when it's dark,
Visit this great amusement park,
Palisades Amusement Park.
Skip the bother and skip the fuss (beep beep!)
Take a Public Service Bus
Public Service sure is great
It takes you right up to the gate.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 17 Jun 04 - 01:43 PM

there was more to the Schaeffer Beer jingle mentioned above, it went

Shaeffer, is the, one beer to have, when your having more than one,

Shaeffer's pleasure doesn't fade, even whn the thirst is done,

The most rewarding flaver in this man's world,

for people who are having fun.

Shaeffers is the one beer to have, when you're having more than one.

and surprised no one has mentioned

What'll you have?

Pabst Blue Ribbon

What'll you have?

Pabst Blue Ribbon?

What'll you have?

Pabst Blue Ribbon, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

the beer that made Milwaukee famous!

My dog's better than your dog,....My dog's better than yours,
My dog's better cause he eats Ken'l Ration,
My dog's better than you.

Get that juice up to Lawson's in forty hours...
Oh, one man sleeps while the other man drives
On that non-stop Lawsons run, and that cold cold juice
in the tank truck caboose, stays as fresh as the Florida sun

Roll on, Big O!

Get that juice up to Lawsons, in forty hours

O the oranges ripen in the Florida sun,....
and we pick em, and we squeeze, just as fast as you please,

can't remember the rest, Oh well.

I remember the Gillete jingle as being

You'll look sharp, when you use Gilette
You'll feel sharp, when you use Gilette
You'll be sharp, when you use Gillete
It's the ...something, something....razor blade

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jun 04 - 03:47 PM

hmmm...I remember the Gillette song just as Catspaw posted it...there 'might' have been another version, but I never heard it.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 17 Jun 04 - 05:34 PM

Another Schaeffer Beer Commercial:

Make it cool, Make it Schaeffer
When you do you always will
Make it cool, Make it Schaeffer
Our hand has never lost its skill

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 17 Jun 04 - 07:19 PM

Holy cow! That one they used to play on radio broadcasts of the Brooklyn Dodgers! Hadn't thought of it ages.
Now, this one's pretty obscure unles you were around Syracuse, NY, in the 60s. They had great singing commercials in Syracuse...

Seat covers that look so nice,
Convertible tops at a low, low price,
Safety glass for boat or car,
Drive right in to Bon Ton.
   Take your car to Bon Ton.
   Drive right in to Bon Ton.
Tops in tops and best seat covers,
Bon Ton!
Bernie Manheim's Bon Ton!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Augie
Date: 18 Jun 04 - 12:41 AM

I can't remeber what the numbers were for, but two jingle phone numbers and the melody they were sung to have been with me for 40 plus years. HUdson3-2700 and MOhawk 4-4100. Any Chicago Mudcatters who can put a company name with these numbers?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 18 Jun 04 - 09:12 AM

GUEST,Bill Kennedy posted the old Shaeffer beer jingle. Farther above I had posted the version I remember of a Ballentine Beer jingle. Here's a couple more:

I'm from Milwaukee, and I ought'a know
It's draft brewed Blatz beer, wherever you go
smoother
fresher
less filling, that's clear
Blatz is Milwaukee's finest beer.

National Beer, National Beer
You'll like the taste of National Beer
and while we're singing we're proud to say
it's brewed on the shores ...
of the Chesapeake Bay.

I can remember two different tunes for Hamm's beer jingles ("from the land of sky-blue waters"), but I can't quite recall the words.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 01:00 PM

Oh, we've got boxy cars for boxes,
Commuter trains for Dans
Parlor cars for ladies,
Money-saving plans
On the Long Island Railroad (BOAARD!)

Incomplete, and probably imprecsie, but 'twas sung by Oscar Brand and ran on radio in NY for years.
Dans was short for Dashing Dan, the LIRR's cartoon logo ("The Route of the Dashing Commuter")

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Jacqued
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 02:33 PM

Guest JTT:   VERY early in the 50's I recall being aboard a rusty old tanker, the ESSO Tioga, creeping into Cork bay and hearing another verse to your sausage jingle:

Oh it's true they're the talk of the nation,
a sausage exceeding new.
So the next time you visit your grocer,
tell him no other sausage will do.
To his other suggestions say "no sir,"
it's Donnelly's sausages for you!

And what was the jingle "Tasty, tasty, very, very tasty" advertising!?!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 03:04 PM

How many remember the TV show "Mr. I Magination"

Mr. I-Magination
The man with the magic reputation
If you feel you want to go
Where you think you can not go
Just ask me
Mr. I-Magination
The man with the magic reputation

another song from the same show:

I wish I were, I wish I were, I wish I were,
Just tell me
I promise you, it will come true
What ever you wish you wish you were

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 03:16 PM

Chamber's Caskets are so fine.... (words in DT?)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 03:35 PM

ok, they are not...

Chamber's caskets are so fine,
Made of sandalwood, and pine.
.....

Who knows the rest?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,GRANNYB
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 03:56 PM

I happened on this thread after looking for the words to "Twenty Froggies." Great trip down memory lane! Anyone remember the bubblebath called Soaky?

Soaky soaks you clean
In oceans full of fun
Rubbly-bubbly-scribbly-scrubbly
Clean before you're done!
Soaky soaks you clean
And every girl and boy
Gets a toy when it's empty
When it's empty it's a toy!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 06:41 PM

I 'member Mr. I Magination (Paul Tripp). Did you know he also wrote "Tubby the Tuba?"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 06:52 PM

Cool Beans, If you remember Mr. I Magination, you must be around my age, 61. No, I did not know that Paul Tripp wrote Tubby The Tuba. Did he write all the songs for his own show as well ? SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 11:26 PM

Chambers caskets are so fine,
Made of sandal-wood and pine.
When your loved ones pass away,
Have them pass the Chambers way.
Chambers customers all sing,
"Death, oh death, where is thy sting?"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 03:54 AM

It's easy to grin
when your ships come in
and you've got the stock market beat,
but the man worth while
is the man who can smile
when his pants are too tight in the seat.
--Judge Smails in the film Caddyshack

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 11:00 AM

JennyO,

Thanks! Was there also a line with a phone number? "Call Columbus xx0"?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 11:02 AM

Don't know if Mr. I. Magination wrote the songs for his show. (I'm 59.) And this morning I remembered...

Man oh Manischewitz kosher wine for me.
Man oh Manischewitz, sweet as wine can be.
Yes the best there is
Is Manischewitz's
Man oh Manischewitz, what a wine!

Unfamiliar with the company? It's pronounced Man-ih-SHEV-itz

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 12:19 PM

That does ring a bell bb, but I can't remember how it went.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 03:10 PM

If you watched NY Giants Baseball:

          Satisfies your beer thirst better
          Satisfies your beer thirst better
          Satisfies your beer thirst better
          With New York's famous beer
          Have a Knick, Have a Knick
          Have a Knickerbocker Beer

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 03:43 PM

Who did it?
How did they do it?
What in the world did they do?
Who put the men in menthol smoking?
Alpine, that's who?

(There was another verse, explaining how they did it, but all I can remember is the last line: "Flavor, that's what.")

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Tiger
Date: 26 Jun 04 - 12:33 PM

Thanks to Uncle Manny:

"Prince Spaghetti, something, something, something, something, something...."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 26 Jun 04 - 06:21 PM

Hmmm Not much to go on. How about...

Wednesday is Prince day, hey what a treat!
Wednesday is Prince day up and down the street.
Gals making noodles, spaghetti and sauce,
Putting elbows on the table,
Even brand new brides are able.
This very Wednesday, start serving Prince,
Brighten Wednesday up with Prince.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 26 Jun 04 - 11:50 PM

Remember the "Little Old Wine Maker"

          You just can't miss
          With Italian Swiss
          Italian Swiss Colony Wine

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Hrothgar
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 03:37 AM

If your loved ones have to go
Dial Colunbia triple-0

- sung as lines 5 and 6, I think.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 03:42 AM

Thsnks!


Chambers caskets are so fine,
Made of sandal-wood and pine.
When your loved ones pass away,
Have them pass the Chambers way.
If your loved ones have to go
Dial Colunbia triple-0
Chambers customers all sing,
"Death, oh death, where is thy sting?"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 04:26 AM

I learned half my Italian from jingles on Greek radio. One, repeated around Christmas time for years, said "MIGLIORI AUGURI from xxxx (brand of spaghetti)". It stuck in the brain. Ten years ago I happened to pop into an Italian restaurant in Amsterdam first thing on Christmas morning (don't ask), and the family that ran it were all gathered handing round presents. Without thinking I blurted "migliori auguri" to them. You guessed it - they came back at me with a torrent of congratulatory Italian, surprised at my mastery of their tongue!

Back to English: One I can never get out of my mind is for Penguin chocolate biuscuits, with fake stutter:

P-Pickup a Penguin
A lovely P-Penguin
When you P-P-P-Pickup a Penguin there's so much more to enjoy
It's bigger, and chocolatey, with chocolate filling too
When you feel a bit P-P-P-Peckish, what's bigger and best for you?
A P-P-P-Penguin!
When you feel a bit P-P-P-Peckish, P-P-P-Pickup a Penguin

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 05:40 AM

We remember them and it is often the case that we can't get some of them out of our heads - but do we buy the product because of the jingle?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 09:00 AM

Well I certainly haven't bought any Chambers caskets lately :-)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 10:21 AM

I love the Chambers Caskets jingle! But, seriously, was it a real advert or somebody's spoof? I mean, I've buried loved ones in my time and you go into the funeral home's casket showroom and pick one out based on price and personal taste. The brand name never comes up. I didn't even know there were brand-name caskets. Is/was this a British phenomenon?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 05:41 PM

Ronzoni Sono Buoni
Means Ronzoni is so good

another spaghetti commercial

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 09:02 PM

Cool Beans:

No, it was a real campaign. Not sure when, and I think it was on the radio. There is a Chambers Funeral home in Hyattsville, MD. on Rt. 1 just outside of Washington DC. Not sure if it was a chain or not. ANyone else have a Chambers nearby?

8-{E

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 04:01 AM

Way back at the beginning of this thread, 'Spaw mentioned the Kent commercial, but he didn't give the chorus:

Happiness is...the taste of Kent
Happiness is...the taste of Kent
Happiness is...the taste of Kent
More taste, fine tobacco
That's what happiness is

There were other versions of "To a ____ it's a _____, to a smoker, it's a Kent" but I can't remember them.

Then there was the Winston commercial (this might have been the last campaign before they stopped cigarette commercials on TV) where they had some stuffy grammarian saying, "It's incorrect to say 'like a cigarette should,' it should be 'as a cigarette should.'" And then a whole chorus line would explode into:

What do you want, good grammar or good taste?
What do you want--
Good grammar or good taste?
Pardon our grammar, but...
Winston tastes good, LIKE a cigarette should

And remember the little kid walking down the street singing,

Oh, I'm glad I'm NOT an Oscar Meyer wiener,
That is what I never want to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener
There would soon be nothing...left...of...me...

At which point he ran into a crowd of kids with one girl who gave him a dirty look, and he sheepishly joined the crowd of kids singing,

Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener
That is what I'd truly love to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: darkriver
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 04:10 AM

Rabbi Sol,

thanks! You finally jogged my memory to recall something that HASN'T yet been posted!

[to the tune of Yankee Doodle]

R - O - N - Z - O - N - I
Is how you spell Ronzoni!
America's best spaghetti
And the finest macaroni!

And I never heard this on TV or radio (back when I COULD hear, in my childhood), but I did hear kids sing this one:

Carnation Milk is the best in the land,
Here I sit with a can in my hand.
No teat to pull, no hay to pitch,
Just punch a hole in the sunuvabitch!

doug

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 07:15 AM

I know this is not an ad, but when I saw mention of the Yankee Doodle tune, I immediately thought of this one and had to post it. Believe it or not, a friend of ours sings this at sessions:

Roger Ramjet

Roger Ramjet and his Eagles
Fighting for our freedom
Fly through and in outer space
Not to join him but to beat him.

Roger Ramjet he's our man
Hero of our nation
For his adventure just be sure
And stay tuned to this station.

Come and join us all you kids
For lots of fun and laughter
As Roger Ramjet and his men
Get all the crooks they're after.

Roger Ramjet he's our man
Hero of our nation
For his adventure just be sure
And stay tuned to this station.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 01:13 PM

I remember when I was a child that Yonkers Raceway had a jingle to the tune of Stephen Foster's "De Camptown Races". All I remember of it was the second line of the chorus which was "Bring your gal along".
More recently, they ran a commercial:
   
            Clippety, clippety, clippety clop
            Yonkers Raceway hits the spot
            Trotting races each weekday night
            Yes Yonkers Raceway's where its at

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 01:25 PM

I remember the Yonkers Raceway jingle as sung to the tune of Rossini's "William Tell Overture."
But I digress. What I wanted to contribute was this:

Merkel meats are so good, good, good.
Taste and quality, understood.
It's heard all over the neighborhood:
A great big Mmmmm for Merkel's.

Footnote: The Merkel's chain went out of business after they got caught selling kangaroo meat labeled as something more conventional. So much for taste and quality.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 06:21 PM

Hoffman's was a brand of soda pop that was popular in the NYC metro area in the l950s. They had this jingle:

The prettiest girl I ever saw
Was sipping Hoffman right through a straw
The prettiest girl I ever saw
Was sipping Hoffman through a straw.

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 09:36 PM

Wan't a nice cup of Folgers coffe from about 1959?

Said the Cap'n to the Bo'sun
Look for the package with the ship that sails the ocean

Fresh as a breeze, yoho,yoho

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 11:24 PM

Maxwell House Coffee

               For flavor that's good to the very last drop
               Look for the jar with the stars on top
               The most happy flavor in the U.S.A.

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 11:28 PM

"Look for the package with the ship that sails the ocean"

That commercial was for Old Spice after shave lotion & deodorant. Not for Folgers coffee.

                                                 SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:06 PM

Come on out to Freedomland
For the greatest time you've ever planned.
Fun and thrills go hand in hand
At exciting Freedomland.
Bring along that special date,
Come out early, stay late.
You can dance in the pale moonlight
On a riverboat every night...

As sung by Paul Anka for short-lived amusement park in the Bronx.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Walrus
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:29 PM

Reading some of these has reminded me of the 'Corona' soft drinks jingle:

"Corona - Sparkles up with joy,
"Corona - For every girl and boy
"Come drink it up to the very last drop
"It's got a sparkle in the middle and a tingle at the top."

As a sideline - At one point Corona did door-to-door delivery and, when Cyclamates (an artificial sweetened IIRC) were suspected to be carcenogenic and were banned the lorrys were posted with the message "Cyclamate Free!" across the back - A elderly neighbour, having bought several bottles demanded her "free" cyclamates - it took the driver some time to peruade her that she wasn't being fiddled out of a free gift.

Walrus

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:34 PM

I loved Freedomland!!! It was laid out like a map of the US, with rides whose themes corresponded to the different locations. In the Chicago Fire, they had an old-fashioned fire truck that put out a real fire in a building. I grabbed the long wooden handle of the fire truck, which promptly yanked me up off the ground. I let go, fell off, and the handle hit me in the head! There was also the San Francisco earthquake, one of several in which you rode in a little car through a series of displays. The fake buildings fell down and "almost" hit you. Most of the rest is lost in the dim recesses of a child's memory, but thanks for reminding me, CB! That must have been the same trip to NY when we went to the Bronx Zoo and the Hayden Planetarium. I'm guessing it was around 1960--does that fit with Freedomland's existence?

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: muppett
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:46 PM

The R White (lemonaide) Ad, where the guy sneaks down t' fridge in his PJs & he opens it then goes into a rock n roll type song.

The Coco pops ad. where the monkey (Rick Mayal voice?) sings I'd rather have a bowl of Coco pops.

The clover Marg ad where they sing a jingle t' tune of the wild rover.

Any time, any place anywhere...................... that's Martini.

The nimble (bread) ad, She flies like a bird in the sky hi hi.

The series of Heinz beans ads withthe young lad in it (what's the demonstration Barry)

Webster's Pennine Bitter, Webster's Pennine Bitter etc, etc.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:51 PM

Aloha, Mark!
    Yup, 1960 would have been the golden age of Freedomland. I believe highrises now stand on its site but I can't verify that.
    Wish I could remember the final lines of the Freedomland jingle.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 01:51 PM

Freedomland is now the site of Co-Op City, in the Bronx. SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Seaking
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 02:43 PM

This is the Luxury you can afford - by Cy-ril Lord.   

I also remember a little ditty that went

'..when you stand in the bar and go home in the car
A 'Polis' Man may take you by the hand
and you'd wished you rode a nag - when you blow into the bag
When the breathlyser comes to Ireland..'


Mid 60's ??

Chris

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: jack halyard
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 05:00 AM

"Chamber's caskets" is getting regularly sung at pub sessions in Sydney as well as by the Roaring Forties, one of Australia's great shanty singing ensembles.
As to memorable jingles;

I'm louis the fly, I'm Louis the fly,
Straight from rubbish tip to you.
Spreading disease with the greatest of ease,
Straight from rubbish tip to you.
I'm bad, I'm mean, I'm mighty unclean,
Afraid of no-one..
But the man with the can of Mortein.
Hate that word mortein.
(various choking and dying in agony noises)
One spray and Louis the fly-
Apple of his old mother's eye was louis,
Poor, dead Louis,
Louis the fly,
A victim of Mortein.

Performed with the right roaring-twenties gangster movie touch, it was perhaps Australia's zaniest ad.
Two that have stuck when I would prefer to have long forgotten them were;

"You'll look a little lovelier each day,
With fabulous pink Camay"
I hope the soap has ceased to exist.

The other- sang to the Toreador's song:

Use a Rolla door,
That's what it's for,
You'll get much more,
With a Rolla door,
A hundred and forty nine stock sizes,
Each is custom made,
DO NOT BE AFRAID!
Dependable as a clock,
The door with the centre lift lock,
You'll get much more with Rolla door.

There are others equally appalling, but those two are the most bubble gum- like for adhesion to inside surfaces of the brain.

                              Jack Halyard

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 08:47 AM

And the memories continue! I actually went to Freedomland when I was a lad (I was 10 for most of 1960.) I think I remember an "attraction" called "The Casa Loca", within which water seemed to flow uphill (there is a similar place today at Idlewild amusement park in Pennsylvania, called "Confusion Hill".) I seem to remember that when Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the USA, he requested permission to visit Disneyland, which was denied. But (once again, as I recall) he was given permission to visit Freedomland. I don't know if this recollection is true, or if Mr. Khrushchev actually visited Freedomland.

It isn't a jingle, but the reference to "The series of Heinz beans ads with the young lad in it" reminded me of the ad campaign featuring "H.J. and Heinz, the almost human beans".

To keep things on topic, here is another jingle:

They said it couldn't be done
They said nobody could do it
but L&M is low in tar
with more taste to it.
L ... and M
don't settle for any other
low tar
more taste
don't settle for one ...
without the other.

Does anyone remember the old Chesterfield jingle ("...stops and takes big pleasure when and where he can. Cheeesssssss...ter fieeeeld!)?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 08:54 AM

Some old Scottish ones - Drink the beer that's bright and clear drink Dryborough's keg heavy, or the terribly now not PC one for macaroon bars which went - Lees Lees more if you please always down on your bended knees for pickannies and grand pa pas it's Lees for luccious macaroon bars'

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 09:37 AM

I heard this one the other day, after not hearing it for a few decades, and now it's in my head every time I go shopping. I might as well put it in your heads, too.

Bum Bum Bumblebee, Bumblebee Tuna,
I love Bumblebee, Bumblebee Tuna,
Bum Bum BUmblebee, Bumblebee Tuna,
Love my sandwich made with Bumblebee.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 10:48 AM

Yes, yes, I remember the Chesterfiled jingle, but have forgotten nearly all the words. What I remember better is the parody of the Chesterfield jingle in Mad or Humbug or one of the other circa 1960 humor magazines.
The Chesterfield jingle ran on TV and it showed some rugged individualist-type guy taking a cigarette break from his important macho work. So the magazine parody showed what we today would call a homeless person finding a cigarette butt in the street, and it went...

Hustling handouts, guzzling cheap wine,
Stopping people, asking for a dime,
Staggering and reeling you will find a man
Stoops and takes big pleasure when and where he can.
Chesterfind!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 01:18 PM

Everyone should remember the Camels cigarette jingle sung to the tune of the famous Civil War song "Goobers Peas".

          Rich, rich, mild, mild, Camels cigarettes
          Tastes so rich yet smokes so mild, Camels cigarettes

That was the chorus. There was also 2 or 3 stanzas to the song. I have forgotten the words to those, but the first one was about a girl named Mary Lou. Anyone else remember the stanzas ?

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 02:03 PM

Ah yes, Cool Beans, I remember that Mad magazine parody of the Chesterfield jingle. I also remember a Mad parody of a magazine ad - it was for "Marble Row", indicating that this (a cemetery with rows of marble head stones) was where smokers likely would end up. "You get a plot you'll like with a Marble Row." - a parody of the jingle "You get a lot to like with a Marlboro, filter, flavor, flip-top box" (it was later modified to "...pack or box.")

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 03:56 PM

Chock Full of Nuts is the heavenly coffee
Heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee,
Chock Full of Nuts is the heavenly coffee
Better coffee Rockefeller's money can't buy

And after the then Governor of New York State, Nelson Rockefeller threatened them with a lawsuit, the last line was changed to:

Better coffee a milionaire's money can't buy

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 04:35 PM

JOE, arriving in his car (speaking):
Hiya, Kate!
You've got yourself a date!
The gang's at the juke joint
So let's not wait!

KATE, leaning out her window (speaking):
Golly, Joe,
I can't tonight,
Just washed my hair
And it's a fright!

CHORUS (sings):
Aww, poo, poo, poo
Shampoo, poo, poo.
Shampoo your hair
And keep that date.
With Royal Drene
No need to wait.
Your just-washed hair
Won't fly about.
New Royal Drene
Can't dry hair out.

(A long suppressed memory from the depths of somewhere. Scary.)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,M'Grath of Altcar
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 04:45 PM

Radio One is wonderful, like migraine headaches.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 04:55 PM

25 Years ago there was Jewish programming on WNYM radio in Staten Island, N.Y. The Dov Shurin Show was one of the programs. It was sponsored by Quality Broadloom & Carpet, with 2 locations in Brooklyn.
Dov made up and sang his own commercial for this firm to the tune of the Hebrew song "Ashrei Ish Shelo Yishkacheka".

If you want some carpeting, carpeting, carpeting
If you want some carpeting, carpeting galore
Quality has carpeting carpeting carpeting
Quality has carpeting,a warehouse and a store

(Chorus) Quality Broadloom and Carpet 4618 - 16th Avenue
         Quality Broadloom and Carpet 816 - Coney Island Avenue

My wife thought it was the most obnoxious commercial she had ever heard.
                                          SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 12:29 PM

Kool Aid, Kool Aid,
A five-cent package makes two quarts of
Kool Aid, Kool Aid,
Delicious Kool Aid, the drink we love.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 01:14 PM

Little girls have pretty curls but I like Oreos,
Oreos my choice because its the very best cookie ever was,
Girls are nice but boy what icing comes with Oreos,
(spoken) Oh, well, all gone.
(finish with melody being hummed.)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 10:53 AM

When I was about four (Los Angeles, early 1940s), I liked a radio program sponsored by the Bullocks department store & hosted by a character called Uncle Whoa Bill. In those days, parents usually monitored their children's listening, and so sponsors had to please parents to get at the children. This program featured propaganda in favor of good behavior. The host was named after "Whoa, Bill!", an injunction nominally addressed to a horse, but representing what you were supposed to say to yourself when tempted to naughtiness. That is, he was Inhibition personified. The opening jingle, TTTO "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean", went, pretty nearly,

Good evening. We are the Whoa-Billers.
Of dear Uncle Whoa Bill we sing
And Bullocks, the store that is friendly,
And this is the message we bring:

Whoa, Bill! Whoa, Bill!
How happy we are when we learn to say
Whoa, Bill! Whoa, Bill!
[last line forgotten]

Later on, my brother & I were partial to a singing commercial for a car dealer called Madman Muntz, TTTO "Vienna Blood". The only lines I remember are

For Muntz is on a selling spree
. . .
So buy your car from Muntz.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 11:25 AM

Gonna give my age away now...."Whatever you do, wherever you go, let your constant companion be a radio,,,doo doo doo radio" followed by..."This is the BBC Light Programme and the British Forces Network in Germany, The Archers, An everyday story of countryfolk"
circa 1958+

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 11:41 AM

Georgiansilver :

You are giving away your age?

Wherever did you find someone to take it?! Do they want any more?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 12:26 PM

I'd love to give it away but unfortunately I am saddled with it. There are compensations...age brings a certain amount of wisdom(I sometimes wonder if I have enough of that!). Best wishes.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 06:02 PM

We go from being smarter than the old folks to being wiser than the young folks. %^)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 06:08 PM

Yep, we spend the first part of our lives being hassled by our parents and the rest being hassled by our kids.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: el ted
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 04:11 AM

200. I thank you.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Peace
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 09:09 PM

I remember Jingles from Hopalong Cassidy I think.?!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 09:12 PM

Brucie:

Andy Devine, the overweight guy in bucksins who yelled "waiiiiit fer me!" was Jingles on the Wild Bill Hickock show. Sponsored by Sugar Corn Pops. (Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops!! Sugar Pops are tops!!).

A

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Bob in Kansas
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 11:57 PM

Mabel, Black Label, The Champagne of bottle beer. Early 1960s. Remember the tune in Hialeah Florida radio commercials.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 10:46 AM

Rizlone cleans out gum and sludge.
Try it and you be the judge.
Add a can of Rizlone today.
It's guaranteed.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: onlyonejudy
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 08:54 PM

I just found this site - I have been looking for Uncle Whoa Bill information forever. I was a member (probably 1944?) and had a button and Uncle Whoa Bill told me (on radio) to follow the string tied to my bedpost on my birthday and I would find my present. I remember this so well but I was beginning to wonder if it was real. I must have been four at the time. I also (think) I remember going to the show (did they have an audience?) and singing "Are you sleeping". Both of my parents have died and I had no one to ask.
I don't remember the Uncle Whoa Bill song though. THANKS for the memory confirmation!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: onlyonejudy
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 09:07 PM

I just found this site; has this one been posted?
    Mommy, mommy, mommy, don't forget the Super Koola,
    ????? now in pop top cans.
    No return and no deposit
    No more empties in the closet.
    All the other kids are Super soft drink fans.
      
    Please, mommy, please    Super Koola?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: onlyonejudy
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 10:56 PM

On Steven Lodge's site "Behind the Scenes" he shows a photo of himself on the Uncle Whoa Bill show. Judy

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: mike_in_st_c
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 09:49 PM

Here are a couple I remember:
From the land of sky blue waters,
Comes a beer most refreshing.

And, If you think it's butter, but it's not...it's Chiffon!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 10:17 AM

Correction, FWIW: The Strauss waltz used for the Madman Muntz jingle was not "Vienna Blood", but "Artist's Life".

onlyonejudy: Thank's for the appreciation. I don't remember if Uncle Whoa Bill had a studio audience. I don't remember the bit about the string attached to the bedpost, either. That fellow must have had parents well in hand!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 10:39 AM

I've forgotten the first verse of the DeSoto commercial that used to air on Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life." The rest of it, to the tune of Cole Porter's "It's De-lovely" went...

You can tell at a glance
That this swell car is far in advance
You can hear that great big engine murmuring low.
Rarin' to go.

So make sure you see and drive
The new DeSoto. Why, man alive!
It's delightful, it's de-lovely,
It's de- latest, it's deluxe, it's DeSoto!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: DMcG
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 10:47 AM

To the tune of 'Click go the shears, boys':

In come the dollars,
In come the cents.
To replace the pounds, and the shillings and the pence.
Be prepared folks, for when the coins begin to mix
On the fourteenth of February, 1966.

- A publicity campaign when Australia went through decimalisation. The odd thing is, I'm in the UK and have never been to Australia. That's what I call powerful advertising! On the other hand, I can bearly remember the UK campaign, apart from

Decimalisation, decimalize,
Decimalisation will change your life.
Decimalisation, decimalize,
Decimal Five.
Decimal Five.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 17 Sep 04 - 02:37 PM

Vaseline Hair Tonic
Grooms to last, last, last!
While it fights
Dry scalp fast.
You'll look your best much longer
Fight dry scalp and dandruff, too.
Yes, Vaseline Hair Tonic
Goes on protecting you.
Vaseline Hair Tonic
Grooms to last, last, last!
While it fights
Dry scalp fast.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 17 Sep 04 - 04:09 PM

"Just one Cornetto - give it to me!
Delicious ice-cream from Italy!"

Most of the jingles I remember from the early seventies had been satirised to include our Headmaster and other notable school characters. But get MBSLynne on the subject of Louis the Fly or Masters Choc Milk...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: MBSLynne
Date: 17 Sep 04 - 04:50 PM

I'm Louis the Fly,
I'm Louis the Fly,
Straight from rubbish tip to you.
Spreading disease with the greatest of ease,
Straight from rubbish tip to you.
I'm bad and mean and mighty unclean
Afraid of no one
'Cept the man with the can of Mortein.
Hate that word Mortein.

One spray and Louis the fly,
Apple of his old mother's eye was Louis,
Poor dead Louis,
A victim of Mortein...Mooorteiin.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,DocArn
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 12:30 AM

Re. Freedomland.
you can download there commercial jingle(s)[audio!] from the web - don't have them in front of me now. I do remember one of them, only remember first line or so:
'Mommy and daddy take my hand
Take me out to Freedomland'

And, yes, was there once in life and indeed seemed to beat out Disney; you participated in the different themes. They also used to have entertainment for the 'parents' come nightime, maybe other times. Probably the first time my parents actually left me out of their sight.
Now, Co-op city stands there.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Foolestroupe
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 08:21 AM

"Louis the Fly" is still the base of their ads today...

Mortein's ad line used to be
"When You're on a good thing, stick to it" - and it was delivered vocally by John Laws - the logo was a dog going hell for leather while having his rear end stung...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: NightWing
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 09:33 PM

Nobody has mentioned the *other* Oscar Meyer jingle (which I remember through having recently learned a very bawdy parody):

My bologna has a first name:

It's O-S-C-A-R.

My bologna has a second name:

It's M-E-Y-E-R.

I love to eat it every day

And if you ask me why I'll say

That Oscar Meyer has a way

With B-O-L-O-G-N-A.

For some alcoholic beverage by a company called Martini & Rossi (I don't do mixed drinks, so don't know any more than that):

Martini & Rossi on the rocks

(repeat)

Say Ye-e-es!

For the United States Army:

Be all that you can be

In the Ar-rmy

There's lots more to it, but I can't remember it.

For Coca-Cola:

It's the real thing (Coke is)

In the back of your mind (Coca-Cola)

What you're hoping to find

Is the real thing

(Coke is)

Miller Beer (if you can call it "beer"):

When it's time to relax,

One beer stands clear. (beer after beer)

Well if you've got the time,

We've got the beer (Miller beer.)

And finally the creme de la creme. I could only remember the parody of this one...

McDonald's is your kind of place.

They serve you rattlesnakes,

French fries between your toes,

Hamburgers up your nose.

The last time that I was there

They served me underwear.

McDonald's is your kind of place.

...so I went out looking for it. Oh, the horror! Click the "View the famous 1966 commercial" link down near the bottom of the page.

McDonald's is our kind of place.

It's such a happy place.

Hap, hap, happy place

A clean and snappy place.

McDonald's is our kind of place.

It's such a happy place.

McDonald's is our kind of place.

[spoken] Your kind of place.

[voiceover with ad copy]

McDonald's is our kind of place.

It's such a happy place.

McDonald's is our kind of place.

[spoken] Your kind of place.

Oh my! It's even worse than I had thought. *LOL*

BB,

NightWing

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: NightWing
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 09:41 PM

And, of course, as soon as I clicked the Submit Message button, I remembered:

It takes to hands

To handle a Whopper:

The big, juicy burger from

Burger King

NightWing (again)

P.S. Sorry for the spacing thing. Thought I had that right?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,linda
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 10:39 PM

how about the early '70's PSA:
Buckle up for safety, buckle up!
... I think it just repeated.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 10:56 PM

For the first time in your life
feel really clean
get that Zest Glow
from head to toeZ-E-S-T...ZEST!

It's Cream of Wheat weather we repeat
So guard your family with hot Cream of Wheat

St Joseph's Aspirin for children
Buy it mothers, and be wise!

Candy coated popcorn
Peanuts and a prize
That's what you get with Cracker Jack!

Thanks to GUEST for reminding me of the words to the Old Spice song. Remember the ruggedly handsome Sea Captain with the bag over his shoulder helping some floundering nerd out of a romantic problem by tossing him a bottle of Old Spice?

Couple of local Kentucky classics...

Ballard Flour
Ballard makes a better batch o' biscuits
Ballard self-rising flour
now has ovenrize
Ovenrize! Ovenrize!
If you like biscuits tall and tender
Ovenrize! Ovenrize!
If you like biscuits then remember
Ballard Flour (etc)

For Odem's Tennessee Pride Sausage..
For real country flavor
the best you ever tried,br>Look fer me on the package of Tennessee Pride!
It's real country sausage yes sirree
The secret of the goodness is the recipe
Now before this song is done all played
Mr Odem will tell you how it's made!

(Voice-over of Mr Odem describing the mouth watering process)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 02:16 PM

GUEST,linda,

You wrote:

how about the early '70's PSA:
Buckle up for safety, buckle up!
... I think it just repeated.

I remember it. It was to the tune of "Buckle down, Winsocki". Some lines I think I remember are:

Pull your seatbelt snug
give an extra tug
buckle up for safety
buckle up

and

When you're driving, please
tell your riders, please
buckle up for safety
everybody buckle up!

or something like that.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Vixen
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 02:54 PM

Ro--oa--d lo-o-ve
Ro--oa--d lo-o-ve
It's you and Renault
And the road that you're driving...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:05 PM

There was a commercial for Oasis cigarettes called "Smoke The Big O". I forgot how the chorus went. I do remember one of the stanzas.
         
                For a better taste
                Each and every light
                The Oasis box
                Is flavor tight
                                          
                                        SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Franz S.
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 08:10 PM

I'm pleased that at the moment the thread adjacent to this in the listing is the one on the Alzheimer's parody of Last Thing on My Mind.

Shredded Ralston can't be beat!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 10:33 AM

The Oasis commercial chorus:

Smokers who know
Now smoke the Big O.
Smokers who know
Now smoke the Big O.
O flavor, O freshness, Oasis!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 10:21 AM

Why can't I find anywhere the complete lyrics to the Oreo cookie song?

oh oh oh who's that kid with the oreo cookie?.....

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,The Slinky jingle
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 01:44 AM

They walk downstairs,
Alone or in pairs,
And make a slinkety sound.
A spring, a spring,
A marvelous thing---
Everyone knows it's Slinky.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky---
For fun, it's a wonderful toy!
It's Slinky, it's Slinky---
It's fun for a girl and a boy.
It's fun for a girl and a boy.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 04:06 PM

Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, French Fries, Icy Coke, Thick Shake, Sundae and Apple Pie. Beat, Beat, Beat and the dish ran away with the spoon.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 04:12 PM

Don't forget Roto-Rooter...

"... that's the name, away go your troubles down the drain"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: *Laura*
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 04:16 PM

Theres a *great* one on the radio around where I live - perhaps some of you have heard it:
(sung in lame voice to a crap tune)

"Hey Westcountry!
Westcountry wi-indows"

but I always find myself singing:

*Life tastes good - coca cola*

*Washing machines live longer with Calgon!*

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 07:08 PM

The whole egg, The whole egg,
The whole egg goes into Hellman's real mayonaise
Hellman's is so good so many ways
Cause Hellman's is the whole egg mayonaise

                                          SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 10:47 AM

If you're a pizza fan
You will adore Doran
There's nothing beats-a
This home-made pizza.

To the tune of "La donna e mobile" (apologies for the spelling) from Verdi's "Rigoletto."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: *Laura*
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 01:58 PM

Bring on the branston,
Bring on the branston,
Bring on the branston...
TANG

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 08:57 AM

This one is rather specific to the Washington DC area, around the mid to late 60's, I would say:

Eddie Leonard sandwich shops, you should try 'em
for the very best in sandwiches, just buy 'em
no matter where you are
you'll find that you're not far
from an Eddie Leonard sandwich shop

So take that short ride
for a long, large measure
of sandwich
or pizza pleasure
at an Eddie Leonard sandwich shop
you're never far from an Eddie Leonard sandwich shop

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 07:06 PM

Cocil-LA
LA-la, la-LA, la-LA,
Cocilana Cough Nips.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Frug
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 11:16 AM

What's got a hazelnut in every bite?..............Topic
(Also squirrel sh*t!!)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Swave N. Deboner
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 12:09 PM

"Justa' one Cornetto,
Geeve eet to me,
Deeleecious ice cream
of Eetalee."

(Tune: O Sole Mio, from a Wall's Cornetto TV advert, ITV, mid 1980's, I think?)

Best damn ice cream cone I ever et.

(Sorry if I misspelled "Cornetto")

Swave N. Deboner (pronounced SwAYve 'n Dee-boner)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 03:03 PM

Please send me the words to the jingle from St. Joseph's Aspirin that begins Pump, Pump, Pump......and tells the story of the blood flow through the heart and body.

Thank you.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,chicky5
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 07:43 PM

What are the words to the Oreo jingle? :^{

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,rickz
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 03:55 PM

Bat Goddess, what a great name.

Re: The Spaniel

I have the poem in a paperback Mad collection in my garage and was
hoping I wouldn't have to go dig it out. But since there are now TWO
people that want to read it (you and myself) I guess I'll have to
go get it. I think it starts out something like this:

Once upon a midnight cautious, while I pondered nearly nauseous
over some advertising copy I had wrote for Macy's store...

The spaniel also says "Buy a Ford".

Stay tuned.

Rick

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: NormanD
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 06:26 PM

ITV, mid-late 1950's: Coates Cider

"We all likes drinking cider
When we watch the tv show
'Cos Coates comes up from Somerset
Where the cider apples grow"

All sung in country-bumpkin West Country zummerzet voices. Come to think of it, haven't The Wurzels built their whole career on this?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,George
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 06:33 PM

Re: The Spaniel

I stumbled across this thread (goodness knows if I'll ever find it again) and I do have the complete text for "The Spaniel". It's in "We're Still Using That Greasy MAD Stuff" (c)1959, 1963, E. C. Publications, Signet Q6499.

by Edgar, Al, & Moe

Once upon a midnight cautious, while I pondered weak and nauseous,
Over some advertising copy I had wrote for Macy's Store,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a yapping,
As of someone loudly yapping, yapping at my office door.
"'Tis some client there," I muttered, "yapping at my office door -
    Only this and nothing more."

Then I felt my terror worsen, for my guest was not a person!
In there stepped a cocker spaniel; naturally I jumped in fear.
Tried to climb an oaken panel, ripping there my new grey flannel;
But the spaniel merely stood there, speaking out with voice so clear -
Speaking out like Jack Lescoulie, in a voice both loud and clear -
    Quoth the spaniel- _"Drink Blatz Beer!"_

How I marveled this ungainly dog who did commercials plainly;
How he spoke the message clearly; selling points he underscored.
For I could not help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet could mouth a slogan without sounding slightly bored -
    Quoth the spaniel: _"Buy a Ford!"_

Thus this dog with voice like Murrow made my heavy brow unfurrow;
Thoughts of fortunes I could make now made me shake down to my knees.
But the spaniel set me grieving then by turning tail and leaving.
Naturally, I begged him tarry, crying out, "Stay with me, please!"
    Quoth the spaniel, _"Eat Kraft Cheese!"_

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RobbieWilson
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 06:59 PM

Two of my fanourites are Scottish adverts for fizzy pop.

Irn Bru, nade in Scotland, fae girders.

and
Vimto, it tinkles rught up your nose.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 07:24 PM

The New York Public Library had one that went:

Oh, the place for you
And the place for me
Is the local public library.
They've got books and things
That they lend for free.
It's the latest, it's the greatest
It's the library.

There's a verse, too, but I can't rememrber it.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 11:37 AM

Up above (on 12 Feb 05), GUEST,chicky5 asked "What are the words to the Oreo jingle? :^{ ".

It is probably available on the net, but here is what I can remember off the top of my head:

Little girls have pretty curls
but I like Oreo.
Oreo's my favorite because
it's the very best cookie, ever was.
Girls are nice but, oh, what icing
comes with Oreos....

I think there is more, and I probably botched a word or two (for example, it might be "*boy*, what icing...").

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Genie
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:41 PM

[I'm] Reingold the king of the dry beer
Pick up Reingold whenever you buy beer.
It's not bitter, not sweet,
It's a [fine-flavored?] treat,
Reingold the dry-flavored beer!


The words in parentheses I'm not sure of.   Anyone remember the exact lyrics?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 04:14 PM

My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer.
Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer.
It's not bitter, not sweet,
It's a dry-flavored treat
Won't you buy extra dry Rheingold Beer?

Subject: Jingles you remember. - Rheingold beer
From: Genie
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 05:07 PM

Thanks, Beans!

You jogged my memory, and everything you posted is as I remember it (post-jog). But I'm pretty sure sometimes they did use the last line I posted
"Rheingold the dry-flavored beer!"

Could be they revised the jingle a bit over the years. It was the early 1950s when I used to hear that jingle (in NY and NJ).

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 05:11 PM

Hey thanks Beans. Dang. I thought for twenty minutes about that, then thought another ten. Still got it wrong. Appreciate you solving a mystery that has plagued me for years. I suppose I could have looked it up on the 'net, but it's been one of those things I always thought would wake me at three in the morning with one of those 'eureka' things. I haven't slept right in fourteen years. I will now. Merci, Danke and Thanks again.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Genie
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 09:41 PM

Here's all I can recall of the 1950s commercial lyrics (from the very early days of TV).   I can clearly picture the cigar clad in a belly dancer type outfit, cooing in her best Mae West voice:

"Oh, I'm today's new Muriel, the fine cigar,
...
...
Why don't ya pick me up and (provocative pause) smoke me sometime?"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 09:53 AM

Glad you're finally getting some sleep, Peace. My wife says I have that effect on people. Peace, Peace.

And getting back to old beer commercials:

Make it clear, make it Schaefer.
When you do you always will.
Make it clear, make it Schaefer.
Our hand has never lost its skill.

Schaefer Beer used to sponsor Brooklyn(sniff!)Dodgers baseball games.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 11:15 AM

Mommy, mommy, mommy, don't forget the Super Koola,
    And the other Super soft drinks,
    They're in pop top cans.
    No return and no deposit
    No more empties in the closet.
    All the kids are Super soft drink fans.
      
    Please, mommy, please    Super Koola?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Kaleea
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 08:30 PM

I used to drive my mother crazy when I was little by singing all the jingles for most every product while we were grocery shopping. A couple of years ago I was discussing jingles with my nephew, who was 32, and asked him some of his earliest jingle memories. He remembered one from when he was a toddler & cable TV was new, the Chicago Empire Carpet jingle:

five eight eight, two three hundred, Empiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiire.

Then he picked up the phone & called them. They were some financial company & get occasional calls from people all over the country who remember the jingle.




for the Hamms jingle & other beer jingles:
(sorry, couldn't get the blue clicky to work today)

a recording of old commercials:
http://www.beerchurch.com/be

for a piano midi of the Hamms tune,
scroll down to bottom of page:
http://mmd.foxtail.com/Sounds/hamms.html

From the land of sky blue wa-a-ters
                              wa-a-ters,
From the land of pines, lofty balsam,
Comes the beer refreshing,
Hamm's the Beer Refreshing".
    (da-da-dum-dum-dum)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: weelittledrummer
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 08:58 PM

one for the teenagers!


OBJ OBJ
Finest drink in the world today
Lifts you up when you are down
you will never wear a frown
Oh Be Joyful!

and

I told 'em
Oldham!

and

take the tip
the tip is the trend
and the trend
is to bachelors

and

Take a tip, take a Bristol
todays cigarette is a bristol
its a real cool flavour you'll never forget
Bristol is today's cigarette

and we smoked our players!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Eye Lander
Date: 14 Jul 05 - 01:54 AM

'You're never alone with a STRAND' (it was a cigarette)!!
Was actually spoken not sung, so not really a jingle but this jogged my memory and of course because it is about cigarettes being advertised... shows my age.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sixtieschick
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 01:17 AM

When you say, 'Pepsi, please,'
You're putting yourself among
people who like their leisure
With Pepsi, the drink that's young.

So go ahead,
and say the drink
That lets you drink
As young as you think.
You've picked the right one,
The modern light one.
Now it's Pepsi,
For those who think young.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 10:33 AM

sixtieschick, your Pepsi jingle sounds like a follow-up version of the jingle that went

The modern crowd
today agrees
if you think young
say "Pepsi please!"
So pick the right one
the modern light one
now it's Pepsi ...
for those who think young.

sung to the tune of the old song "Makin' Whoopee".

(or maybe it was "So pick the light one, the modern right one" - memory fails me!)

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sapper82
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 11:14 AM

On Tyne Tees TV in the '60s we had "John Collier, John Collier, The Window To Watch"!

Subject: Bryllcreme jingle
From: Genie
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 08:13 PM

As Jimmy Buffetts sings in the song "Pencil-thin Mustache,"

Here's the whole jingle:

"Bryllcreme,
a little dab'll do ya.
Use more only if you dare,
But watch out!
The gals will all pursue ya.
They love to run their fingers through your hair."

Thanks to this website http://www.able2know.com/forums/about42165-10.html

for jogging my memory of the rest of the jingle.

Genie

Subject: "Why dont you pick me up & smoke me sometime?"
From: Genie
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 08:29 PM

The Muriel cigar commercial is coming back to me.
From googling it, I learned that it was Edie Adams who crooned the Muriel cigar jingles for 18 years. (I didn't know her name at the time I saw the commercials). One jingle was a parody of "Hey, Big Spender" from "Sweet Charity."

But the one I remember started out,
"I'm today's new muriel, the fine cigar
(something something something something something) by far.
(Can't recall the next line.)
"Why dontcha pick me up an' smoke me sometime."

But as I recall it, it was done as a voice over for a cartoon (female) cigar clad in a sort of "harem" outfit.

According to a post at this website this takeoff on Mae West was banned as too risqué for TV at the time.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sixtieschick
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 08:33 PM

Clueless Don, I think they may be verses from the same Pepsi jingle--it did go on. Actually, the first four lines I quoted were the bridge. Some popular singer of the time--it might have been Eydie Gorme--sang it at least once. I was a kid then, and it still rattles in my head!

M.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Genie
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 09:37 PM

On the Milton Berle Show the Texaco guys would sing:

"Oh, we're the men from Texaco,
We work from Maine to Mexico,
..."
and the last line was
"The best friend your car has ever had!"

Can't recall the rest of it.

----
Then there was
"Get Wildroot Creme Oil, Charlie

---
And Tareyton cigarettes used the campaign with the folks with the black eyes and the slogan, "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!"

--
And Bardahl did a campaign with a Dragnet motif, with 3 cartoon thugs, Blacky Carbon, Gummy Rings, and (IIRC) Sludgy Valves. Bardahl would round 'em up and the ad would end with "Bardahl does it again!"

---

And on the theme of an-ad-hasn't-done-its-job-if-you-remember-the-jingle-but-not-the-product, I submit the following:

Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops -- (I think, but I'm not very sure)
ba ba ba bum, They're keen!
They're red, blue, yellow too,
ba ba ba bum -- and green!

Some cigarette ad using the oft-parodied slogan, "So round, so firm, so fully packed!"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 09:55 PM

Joanie Summers (Sommers?) sang that "Pepsi, for those who think young" commercial.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 12:14 PM

Genie recalled a Bardahl campaign:

"And Bardahl did a campaign with a Dragnet motif, with 3 cartoon thugs, Blacky Carbon, Gummy Rings, and (IIRC) Sludgy Valves. Bardahl would round 'em up and the ad would end with 'Bardahl does it again!'"

I think it was "sticky valves", but I could be wrong. Here's what I recall of that jingle:

Is Blacky Carbon ridin' with you tonight?
Be sure your engine's running exactly right!
[...can't recall this line...]
Is Blacky Carbon ridin' with you tonight?

If you want to save your engine, now listen here ...
add Bardahl to your oil, he'll disappear.
Blacky Carbon is a coward, and his little game is soured.
Add Bardahl to your oil and never fear!

Bardahl did it again ... Bardahl did it again ...[fades out]

Of course, it may indeed have been "Bardahl *does* it again" - I'm working purely from memory here! Sorry I couldn't remember that one line.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sian, west wales
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 12:23 PM

You want obscure?   Here's obscure (mid 1960s vintage?)

Most agitator washers hold 16 gallons of water
That's a lot, an awful lot of water,
Takes maximum power for all that water,
and The Max is LOADED with power.

When you wash your clothes with Max, my friend,
They'll look so clean and bright,
With most other powders,
To make them look cleaner,
You'd have to wash them TWICE!

(return to first verse ...)

Why in the world that's stuck with me all these years, I'll never know. Yet I can't remember my mobile phone number for the life of me!

siân

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 02:19 PM

Don't cross the street in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle
In the middle of the block
Teach your eyes to look up
Teach your ears to hear
Walk up to the corner where the coast is clear
And wait...
And wait...
Until you see the light turn green!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: kytrad
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 02:30 PM

I bet I can go back to one that none of you can remember- it was always sung to introduce the, "Little Orphan Annie" show in the-1930s?
Ma K might recall it:

Who's the little chatterbox?
The one with curly auburn locks?
Who can it be" It's Little Orphan Annie!
Bright eyes, cheeks a rosy glow-
Here's a store of healthiness handy;
Mite-size, alway on the go- if you want to know,
ARF! says Sandy
Always wears a sunny smile,
Oh, wouldn't it be worth your while
If you could be
Like Little Orphan Annie?

Not complete- there are three lines following the first three, that I haven't remembered yet, but shall eventually...   Such fun- Jean

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: tarheel
Date: 18 Jul 05 - 09:59 PM

how about....(1)Eskimo pie,melts in your mouth....
then there's ...(2)miller,(highlife!)...miller, (highlife!) the champaign of bottled beer!!!then.....(3)pepsi cola hits the spot,twelve full onces that's lot,twice as much for a nickle too,pepsi cola is the drink for you.
nickle,nickle,nickle,trickle,trickle,trickle:nickle,nickle,nickle,nickle,trickle,trickle,trickle....(4)woodrow,woodrow,woodrow the famous store for men,if you drop in once,you'll drop in again!....(5)duckhead overalls wear like iron,wear like iron,wear like iron,duckhead overalls wear like iron,best overalls money can buy!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Maxman
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 12:29 AM

Hey there Cool Beans,
You missed an important verse in the middle:

My dog's bigger than your dog,
My dog's bigger than yours.
My dog's bigger 'cuase he eats Ken-L Ration
My dog's bigger than yours.
--------
Ken-L Ration has lean red meat
and lots of other good things
and when my mother goes to the store
she buys a m(b?)illion cans or more
--------
My dog's bigger than your dog,
My dog's bigger than yours.
My dog's bigger 'cuase he eats Ken-L Ration
My dog's bigger than yours.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 01:41 AM

Tarheel remembers miller,(highlife!)...miller, (highlife!) the champaign of bottled beer!!! So do we. But, in the early 1960s, Bev worked on a market research project for Miller Brewing. A lot of respondents said we didn't drink Miller because it's way too expensive. Actually, it cost no more than other beers but the words "highlife" and "champagne" were giving the wrong impression.

They immediately changed their whole advertising approach and started showing people on TV drinking Miller beer at barbeques and bowling alleys, and dressed in work or very casual clothes. They changed their jingle to

When it's time to relax,

One beer stands clear. (beer after beer)

Well if you've got the time,

We've got the beer (Miller beer.)

Which is what Night Wing remembers.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 11:46 AM

eight oh oh three two five three five three five
(800 325 3535)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Christopher Wren - High River - Alberta - Ca
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 08:53 PM

Are you a Clown, a man about town,
A Cully, a cove, or a Toff?
A Prince a Pharsee, a VVIP,
An Hon. a Rev. or a Prof.?
Whether you answer to a Hi or Ahoy,
A Shout a Salute or a Squeek,
There's no need to look so uncommonly coy
Have you read "Punch" this week?


This was an advert in the London Underground in the 50's

Subject: Jingles you remember
From: GUEST,unlogged-in Genie
Date: 22 Jul 05 - 11:30 PM

Tarheel, your post of the Pepsi jingle ("(3)pepsi cola hits the spot,twelve full onces that's lot,twice as much for a nickle too,pepsi cola is the drink for you.
nickle,nickle,nickle,trickle,trickle,trickle:nickle,nickle,nickle,nickle,trickle,trickle,trickle....") brings to mind the kids' parody:
"Pepsi Cola hits the spot,
'Specially when you're on the pot.
(Press the handle?), pull the chain -
There goes Pepsi down the drain."


I'm also trying to remember the Robert Hall jingle from the 1950s. The last two lines were:
"Robert Hall this season will show you the reason:
Low overhead, low overhead."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Jumper
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 12:59 AM

The two missing lines from the Cadbury's Fruit And Nut ad went ...

When you,ve got your feet up,
Then it's time to eat up....
Cadburys....Fruit And Nut.

At least I think that's what Frank Muir used to sing...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 11:46 AM

Palisades Park was an amusement park in New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from New York City. I never went there, but I was subjected to their jingle many times in my youth:

Palisades has the rides
Palisades has the fun
Come on over
Shows and dancing are free
So's the parking, so gee,
Come on over
Palisades coast to coast
Where a dime buys the most
Palisades Amusement Park
Swings all day and after dark
Ride the coaster
Get cool in the waves of the pool
You'll have fun
So Come on over.

http://www.palisadespark.com/sounds/comeonov.ra (Click here to hear it)

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 11:56 AM

A small jingle for a local restaurant in Stockbridge, Mass. The geographic description was accurate enough that I was able to find it on my first visit to Stockbridge a few decades ago, although I'm sure the restaurant hasn't been there for quite some time now:

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.
Walk right in. It's around the back.
Just a half a mile from the railroad track.
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 04:15 PM

That Pepsi commercial prompted a lot of parodies...

Christianity hits the spot.
Twelve apostles, that's a lot!
The Virgin Mary and the Holy Ghost.
Christianity is the most.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Paul Burke
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 09:58 AM

BMK BMK carpets
BMK BMK carpets
(boing boing boing)
BMK BMK carpets

and not exactly a jingle:

Who clunch?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: bill kennedy
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 04:10 PM

Jean - here's the missing verse for Little Orphan ANnie

Who's that little chatter box?
The one with pretty auburn locks?
Whom do you see?
It's Little Orphan Annie.

She and Sandy make a pair,
They never seem to have a care!
Cute little she,
It's Little Orphan Annie.

Bright eyes cheeks a healthy glow,
There's a store of healthiness handy.
Mite-size, always on the go,
If you want to know - "Arf", goes Sandy.

Always wears a sunny smile,
Now, wouldn't it be worth a while,
If you could be,
Like Little Orphan Annie?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 04:12 PM

gimme a break
gimme a break
break me off a piece of that kit kat bar

chocolately goodness gonna make my day
everywhere you go you hear the people say

gimme a break
gimme a break
break me off a piece of that-
gotta have a piece of that-
break me off a piece of that
KIT KAT BAR!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 09:35 AM

Does anyone remember the rest of the Wildroot Cream Oil jingle? It started with:

You'd better get Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie,
Start using it today


Anybody know the rest?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 10:23 AM

"You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent"

"Murray Mints, Murray Mints, too good to hurry mints"

and some vacuum cleaner that "beats as it sweeps as it cleans"

All from 50s/60s British telly and all of which probably date me terribly!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: JennyO
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 10:44 AM

I remember the first and third ones from Australian telly. I suppose that dates me too!

While on the subject of teeth, who remembers the Colgate ring of confidence?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 10:47 AM

the Wildroot jingle as far as I can remember

Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie,
Start using it today
You'll find you will have a tough time, Charlie
Keepin all those gals away.
Hi ya Handsome!
Keepin all those gals away.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 10:52 AM

Whole thing:

You better get Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie.
It keeps your hair in trim.0
You see it's non-alcoholic, Charlie.
It's made with soothing lanolin.
You better get Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie,
Start using it today
You'll find that you will have a tough time, Charlie
Keepin all those gals away.
Hi ya Handsome!
Keepin all those gals away.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Sandra
Date: 21 Aug 05 - 03:58 PM

The beautiful

I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to buy the world a Coke
And keep it company...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,scifistratocaster
Date: 15 Sep 05 - 03:06 PM

Swing Jazzy kinda feel.

Reach for a peach.
A peach of a bleach.
Bleach tabs made by Barcolene, Barcolene.
Your going to be washing that new modern way
with Bleach Tabs by Barcolene.
da doodley doodley doodley. (repeat)

Been singing that one for 40+ years.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 05:32 PM

Meet the Swinger
the Polaroid Swinger
Swing it up, it says "yes"
Take the shot, count it down
Zip it off!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 05:37 PM

You can trust your car to the man who wears the star
The great big Texaco Star!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 11:16 PM

I think the lyrics go as follows:

There's love and laughter in the air
It's joyous as can be
Let Christmas light your happy heart
May GE light your tree.

I used to love listening to the commercial as a small kid and even now I still hum it to myself as it reminds me of Christmases past. I think the commercial aired on the radio around 1964 to 1966.

Would you have any idea how one could get a copy of that commercial?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Camie723
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 12:56 PM

I'm constantly amazed at the Internet and its uses. A friend and I thinking about the Reingold Jingle because my grandfather and uncle owned a bar in upper Manhattan. I used to see the pictures of the Reingold Girls in there strung up across the bar, and people would vote on them for the best looking one. (I wonder who looked better after 2 beers!) Anyway, I remember the song so vividly but couldn't get the second line. Thanks Cool Beans for setting it straight...I simply put in Reingold Beer Jingle in the search and voila! 21st Century technology and the record is straight! LOL Thanks, Camie

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 10:53 AM

You're welcome, Camie,
Now...Does anyone know these missing lines?


Aren't you glad that you're not a bug?
Not even a snug-in-rug bug.
Something something d-Con.
Something something d-Con.
Cause d-Con is dead end for bugs.
Aren't you glad that you're not a bug?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Foolestroupe
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 09:18 AM

The famous Auussie Ballad Louie da Fly

I'm Louie da Fly, Louie da Fly
Straight from rubbish tip to you.
I'm bad and mean and mighty unclean
Afraid of no one, except the man with the can of Mortein!

There was another verse, but can't remember it all now...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: JennyO
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 09:56 AM

Robin, Louie the Fly was my grandpa's favourite ad on TV. This what I remember of it:

I'm Louie da Fly, Louie da Fly
Straight from rubbish tip to you.
Spreadin' disease with the greatest of ease,
Straight from rubbish tip to you.
I'm bad and mean and mighty unclean
Afraid of no one, 'cept the man with the can of Mortein!
Hate that word Mortein...
(then sound effects of fly dying) EEEUUW - ARRGGGGGGHHHH!

One spray and Louie the Fly,
Apple of his old mother's eye was Louie,
Poor dead Louie,
Louie the Fly, a victim of Mortein,
MOOOOOOOR - TEEEEEEIN!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Janie
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 10:12 AM

From the Porter Wagner Show with Flatt and Scruggs...

Black Draught helps you feel fresh and clean inside

Alka-Seltzer, speedy Alka-Seltzer

We're having Beef-a-Roni
Its made with macaroni
Beef-a-Roni's full of meat
Beef-a-Roni can't be beat
Hooray!
For Beef-a-Roni.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 01:09 PM

Here it is, Nick:
Don't cross the street in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle of the block
Teach your eyes to look up
Teach your ears to hear
Walk up to the corner where the coast is clear
And wait
And wait
Until you see the light turn green

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Bill
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 08:34 PM

When the values go up, up up
And the prices go down, down, down
Robert Hall this season
Will show you a reason
Low overhead, no overhead

Classic 50's!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 02:46 AM

Another venerable old Milwaukee brewer was Schlitz. When I was in the seminary in Milwaukee, they would pay seminarians union scale to work summer jobs - and they could get all the beer they could drink.
But I chose to work at a summer camp.

Let's get together with a glass of Schlitz,
A friendly glass of Schlitz.
Brewed with pride and just a kiss of the hops (smack!)
It puts real gusto into every drop.
So, let's get together with a glass of Schlitz,
A friendly glass of Schlitz.
Real gusto in a great....light....beer!

There was another one with Reddy Kilowatt telling us how to "live better electrically," but I can't remember the rest.


-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 10:36 AM

Pepsi commercial is down in this thread, along with a couple of parodies. Try your computer's "Find" function and type in "Pepsi."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 10:55 AM

Lots of good memories in this latest batch of postings!

GUEST,guest (on 22 Sep 05 - 05:32 PM) mentioned the Swinger. I seem to remember

Meet the Swinger
Polaroid Swinger
It's more than a camera,
it's almost alive!
It's only nineteen dollars
and ninety-five!

I still own a Swinger!

With Janie's Beef-a-Roni jingle, I remember an additional line "Beef-a-Roni's really neat!" I also remember "Hooray! Wheeee! for Chef Boyardi!"

I certainly remember Robert Hall ("We're doing our Christmas shopping, at Robert Hall this year!")

And I want to thank GUEST,scifistratocaster for providing the last part of the Bleach Tabs jingle. I'd been trying to remember that for years.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 03:46 PM

That GUEST on 11 Oct 05 - 10:55 AM was me. I didn't notice that my cookie had been lost.

Don

Subject: Chey-Boy-Ardee Mini Frozen Pizzas
From: GUEST,webutler
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 12:50 AM

Anyone remember a late 60's commercial by the Andrews Sisters for these mini frozen pizzas?

"You just pop em in the oven and there's never any bother, one for brother, one for sister, one for mother, one for father... But if you just want one snack...you put the other three back...

They were dressed in 40's costume singing to a big band beat...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bard Judith
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 09:16 PM

You MUST know the Pizza Nova jingle, to the tune of 'Funiculi Funicula'...

Four Three Nine, Oh Oh Oh Oh Pizza Nova
439 oh oh oh oh pizza nova
the (something something) pizza
with real italian flavour, so go and get it now and do yourself a favour so pick up the phone and call us pick up the phone and call us now, call pizza nova pick up the phone and get it now.

439! with the 4 zeros!
439! lots of zeros, pizza nova!
439 oh oh oh oh pizza nova.

(thanks to bdan's ublog for the words)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,webutler
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 12:43 PM

Does anyone know where I can get mp3's of the Joanie Sommers' Pepsi jingle for "Now It's Pepsi, for Those Who Think Young," and the "Dr. Pepper Time" jingle by Donna Loren?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 12:47 PM

short lived one from McDonalds that has (annoyingly) stuck with me for about 20 yrs...

"Choosey cheese choosers always say CHEESE PLEASE, when they choose the cheese in the cheeseburgers at McDonalds!"


Okay, I didn't say it was good.

B.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 07:51 PM

Schoolbells ring and children sing "It's back to Robert Hall again,
Mother knows for better clothes it's back to Robert Hall again.
You'll save more on clothes for school,
Shop at Robert Hall.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Econ Man
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 03:49 PM

Remember, Serutan spelled backwards is Natures.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 05:14 PM

Hurray!
It's the National Jell-O Week.
Tell everybody you know.
And don't, don't, don't let the week go by
Without J-E-L-L-O!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Kaleea
Date: 10 Nov 05 - 07:44 PM

Jeepers, I didn't know that! Howz cum I didn't see Bill Cosby on tv commercials promoting there's always room for in your tummy all week?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Dana
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:40 AM

I don't think these have been mentioned:

For Nabisco Premium Saltine Crackers (circa 1964):

Premium Saltine reclosable pack,
You open 'em up and you close 'em back.
They stay crisp until
You get to the very last cracker.
Premium Saltine!

Fig Newton (same era):

The one and the only Fig Newton is a very remarkable thing...
(don't remember the rest, although the tune's still with me; may have been a girl on a tree swing in the TV commercial; anyone?)

It ended with: The one and the only Fig Newton is a very remarkable, very remarkable, very reMARKable thing!"

Others have mentioned a couple of sixties-era Chef Boyardee commercials (e.g. the "French school kids" one for Spaghetti and Meatballs: "Come when the bell calls (tolls?), spaghetti and meatballs"; and, another for Ravioli: "Ravioli, we like ravioli..."). There was a third one in that series, I believe for Beefaroni, featuring "British" school children. I don't know the name of the "English sounding" tune was or all the words, but there was something about "oodles and oodles of big (tasty?) noodles, and beef, tomato and cheese" -- or something like that.

But the one I wish had *never* aired was for Del Monte canned juices. I was in fourth grade when this one was popular and my last name was "Belmonte" back then, so you can imagine the rest:

Del Monte fruit juice drinks, so fresh, so light.
Del Monte fruit juice drinks -- good morning, noon or night!

Fill in the gaps where you can. Hope I helped folks remember some more jingles/ads.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Dana
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 08:45 AM

WOW! Ten years of posting to various web forums and internet newsgroups and I've *never* totally killed a thread anywhere! Until now, it seems. :-)

It's been a month and a half since I tossed in these jingle fragments and not one person has anything to add?!?

Gee whiz. I was even on topic in this "off" topic discussion. I'm amazed (and I think I'm talkin' to myself - ack!).

I guess I'll just slink back into the darkness, humming a 40 year old TV jingle about canned pasta 'cuz I can't remember the WORDS!!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,dangerous
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 12:50 PM

Two questions:
1 Websters pennine bitter tune from about 1980. I think that it was called cornet & clarionette, but does anyone know better? It was a brass band test piece I think.

2. Dancing milk bottles to a xylophone tune, which may be the grasshopper dance, again does anyone know better?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 07:31 PM

Thanks for the trip down memory land.

Here's a commercial from the 1950s or early 1960s

[setting: a little boy pretending to be a choo choo train]:

Charlie says
Love my Good & Plenties.
Charlie says
Really rings the [my?] bell.
Charley says
Love my Good & Plenties.
Don't know any other candy
that I love so well.


**

Here's another one from the 1950s:

Jump!
It's fun!
Jump!
It's easy!
Jump!
We love to play Parchesi

[Parchesi was {is?} a children's board game].

**

GUEST,[e-mail] posted this commercial to this thread on 20 Oct 04 - 04:06 PM

"Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, French Fries, Icy Coke, Thick Shake, Sundae and Apple Pie. Beat, Beat, Beat and the dish ran away with the spoon".

My daughter remembers doing a handclap rhyme to this chant based on that commercial:
"Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, French Fries, Icy Coke, Thick Shake, Sundae and Apple Pie. You deserve a break today.And the dish ran away with the spoon".

She thinks was mid to late 1980s but she's not sure. Can someone confirm that? Also, I find it interesting that someone else remembers adding the line "and the dish rang away with the spoon" to this chant. Was this line {and the "You deserve a break today" line} in the original jingle or did kids just add it {those two lines?}

**

The Kit Kat Bar jingle {posted on this thread by GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 04:12 PM} with basically the same words given by Guest is also being used as a two partner children's handclap rhyme. The onlyu difference I've found is "Choclaty coating gonna make my day".

I'm curious do folks know of any other commercial that was converted into a children's handclap rhyme or jump rope rhyme?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 07:35 PM

Oops! {Preview should be my friend-How many times do I say that? That's a rhetorical question}

Here's the whole McDonald's commercial that I should have posted:


Big Mac,
Filet-O-Fish,
Quarter Pounder,
French Fries,
Icy Coke,
Thick Shake,
Sundae and Apple Pie.
You deserve a break today. At McDonald's
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

-snip-

Question: Does anyone else remember this last line as part of this commercial? Or do you remember reciting this line with that commercial?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 04:05 AM

'You're lucky, you're in Tolly country!'

'I have personally won over two million pounds with my amazing Infra-draw method!' (Keynsham, Bristol, spelt K-E-Y-N etc).

'Caroline, the sound of the nation!'

'Wonderful Radio London!'

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: autolycus
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 06:26 AM

i remember the dancing milk bottles' tune and wish I could remember what the tune's called. it was a popular novelty instrumental on the Beeb in the 50s.






      ivor

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 07:43 AM

Aunt Jemima's homemade pancake batter
For Aunt Jemimas that taste just great
No measurin no mixin
Just real easy fixin
3 minutes from package to plate

What walks downstairs, alone or in pairs
and makes a slinkety sound?
A spring, a spring, a marvellous thing
Everyone knows it's Slinky.
It's slinky, it's slnky, for fun it's a wonderful toy,
It's slinky, it's slinky, it's fun for a girl and a boy

Do you know exactly how to eat an oreo
Well to do it, you unscrew it very fast
cause a kid'll eat the middle of an oreo first
and save the chocolate cookie outside for last
(this last one we turned into a clapping game, along with the Oscar Mayer bologna one that's further up the thread)

You deserve a break today
So get up and get away to McDonalds...we do it all for you...

Cause the milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hands (M&Ms)

Well imagine your surprise, when you realise
Reeses' peanut butter flavour's inside
Reeses Pieces, Reeses Pieces