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Thread #52618 Message #1238289
Posted By: Joe_F
01-Aug-04 - 10:53 AM
Thread Name: Jingles you remember.
Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
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.