The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13641   Message #536357
Posted By: Mark Cohen
27-Aug-01 - 06:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: ...after this commercial break
Subject: RE: BS: ...after this commercial break
Hey, thanks, Deda, for resurrecting this. I didn't see it the first time around. I think I remember every one of these -- and had forgotten many of them! I was about to start a quiz on old TV jingles, to follow up on the TV theme songs quiz, but I think all of them are in here.

Here's one that isn't, though: What's the shortest singing TV commercial ever? (This one hasn't been authenticated by the Guinness Book of Records, but I don't think anyone can top it.)

Hey, SharonA, did you ever watch the Phillies games on TV?

Atlantic keeps your car on the go
When driving for pleasure (?)
In every kind of weather
Atlantic keeps your car on the go, go, go, go
Keep on the go with Atlantic!

Hey, get your cold beer,
Get your ice-cold (later, cold-brewed) Ballantine Beer
It's the beer that's crisp and icily light
Clean cold taste that's precisily right
Frosty, lively, crystally clear
The crisp refresher,
Ballantine, Ballantine Beer
(The earlier version was "You get a smile every time with a Ballantine", but I don't remember those words.)

The third sponsor was Winston, but that's already been mentioned.

Oh, speaking of cigarette commercials:

Taste me, taste me!
Come on and taste me!
That's all Doral asks--
Taste me!

Enough!

Aaauugggh, I can't stop!

What are we having for lunch?
We're having Beefaroni
It's made with macaroni----OK, OK, I'll stop.

Aloha,
Mark