GUEST,J (back in 06 Jul 09) asked My dad used to sing a jingle about brushing your teeth...with words like "you will have a winning smile." Anyone know this?

I remember The Billboard Song:

As I was walking down the street a billboard caught my eye.
The advertisements written there would make you laugh and cry.
The signs were torn and tattered from the storm the night before
And as I read the things they said, this is what I saw:

Smoke Coca-Cola cigarettes! Drink Wrigley's Spearmint beer!
Chew Ken-L Ration dogfood, makes your wife's complexion clear!
Eat chocolate-covered mothballs: they always satisfy!
And wash your face with LifeBuoy Soap and watch the suds go by!

Take your next vacation in a brand-new Frigidaire!
Learn to play piano in your winter underwear!
Simonize your baby with a Hershey's candy bar!
And see the difference Drano makes in all the movie stars.

Doctors say that babies shouldn't smoke 'til a hundred and three!
And grandmas under 35 take baths in Lipton Tea!
Now you can make this country a better place to stay:
Just buy a record of this song and throw it far away!

[as a cheer]
T - I - D - E ! Zest!

I don't suppose that's what he was thinking of, but it reminded me of this.

Back in 21 Oct 09, GUEST,tkhering asked:

Is this the song "Worms?" I don't know the details.
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: GUEST,Guest JKA
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 06:22 PM

I only heard this on WKRC in Cincinnati,OH (model for WKRP) in the early 50's.It went like this:

There's a New Sound, the newest sound around,
the newest sound you ever heard.
Not like a wild boar or a jungle lions roar,
not like the cry of any bird.
But, this new sound ......

It is indeed Worms, by Tony Burrello and Tom Murray.

There's a new sound, the newest sound around,
the newest sound that you ever heard.
Not like a wild boar or a jungle lions roar,
not like the cry of any bird.
But, this new sound
It's in the ground
It's the sound,
that's made by WORMS

For a few others, how about

"Splish Splash"
Love Potion Number 9

Does anybody remember Wet Dream? Kip Addotta does a talkin' blues loaded with fish puns, then a female chorus comes in with the chorus: simply "Wet Dream". One of the early bits

My Barracuda was in the shop, so I was in a rented Stingray, and it was overheating.
So I pulled into a Shell station.
They said I'd blown a seal.
I said, "Fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, okay pal?"

has always been one of the funniest lines ever and I've used "For the halibut" ever since I first heard it in this song. (According to the wiki on him, he also did a similar one with vegetable puns? Never heard that one!)

Certainly, Worms and Wet Dream were from the '60's. But The Billboard Song should certainly qualify.

BB,
NightWing