The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52618 Message #2142915
Posted By: MystMoonstruck
06-Sep-07 - 08:39 PM
Thread Name: Jingles you remember.
Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
I felt bad about repeating information that I hadn't noticed above, then I noted that a number of us have done that. Considering our history of being deluged by advertisements, it's not that surprising that we're compiling so much and sometimes repeating some, as I did with Chiquita Banana and a couple of others. I see that someone previously quoted the anti-Oscar Meyer boy completely, recalling the complete stanza. Yea! It was fun to read.
I didn't see if the musical percolator product was identified. My mom and I think it's a Folger's ad. Or, was it Maxwell House? See? We might remember the ads, but often the product is forgotten. They should remember to include the product's name IN the jingle, true?
Someone wrote this:
A candy bar jingle... "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't."
That was Almond Joy and Mounds. "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got nuts. Mounds don't. 'Cause sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't!"
Also, some cigarette advertised with the jingle "A silly millimeter longer..." I think that also led to the "cigarette break" in which the longer cigarette helped stave off a firing squad, got caught in an elevator door, and many other odd situations~or so I recall. In one ad, they featured the leaning horse from "Cat Ballou", the one Lee Marvin credited part of his Best Actor Oscar to: "I think half of this belongs to a horse somewhere out in the Valley." I seem to remember that this as showed a gypsyish-appareled man taking the product's vaunted extra-long break before repairing the caravan, and the horse was leaning against the wagon, apparently napping while awaiting repairs.
This thread is quite addictive! I promise: No more entries till someone else comes along.
I wonder: Can posts me edited so that I could put info together? I don't see an edit button anywhere.