Jingles you remember.

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