Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle

Subject: Words to Frosty Morn Jingle
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jul 02 - 01:04 PM

We were playing the fiddle tune "Cold Frosty Morn" at a recent session and, for some reason, I was reminded of a totally unrelated old telvision commercial jingle for Frosty Morn meats from back in the sixties. In said commercial, a chorus line of cartoon piggies do a can-can and sing the jingle while the lyrics stream across the bottom of the screen accompanied by a bouncing ball a la Mitch Miller so that the audience at home can sing along. Got it? I think one of the programs they sponsored was the Porter Waggoner show or another of those Saturday afternoon country music things that were around back then.

I can remember parts of the lyrics, ie:

The height of a piggie's ambition
From the day he is born
Is just that he'll be good enough
To be a Frosty Morn

So....everybody sing
Frosty Morn, Frosty Morn.....

I have not seen Frosty Morn products in area stores for years, but they are apparently still in business. A Google search found lots of references to recalls of their products due to Listeria contamination, but no web page for the company. Wonder why???

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Words to Frosty Morn Jingle
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jul 02 - 02:12 PM

Oops... forgot to mention that the idea is to see if anyone actually knows any more words.

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Words to Frosty Morn Jingle
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Jul 02 - 10:53 AM

I had no luck at all. Sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Words to Frosty Morn Jingle
From:
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 10:54 PM

Now you're dating yourself. My daughters couldn't believe that such a song existed.


The height of a piggie's ambition
From the day he is born
Is hope that he'll be good enough
To be a Frosty Morn

Sing it over and over and over again

Frosty Morn.....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,happypup8360
Date: 12 Jul 05 - 09:36 PM

Oh Yes,
A couple of friends of mine didn't believe me when I told them about the jingle. But I remember it very well:

Sing it over and over and over again .. Frosty Morn
Sing it over and over and over again ... Frosty morn
The height of a piggie's ambition from the day he is born
Is the hope that he will be good enough to be a frosty morn
and everybody join in ... aaaand,
Sing it over and over and over again .. Frosty Morn
Sing it over and over and over again .. Frosty Morn!

I can still see and hear it in my head just as if I were still a little kid

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Kay
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 11:06 PM

My sister and I have quite the reputation for singing the entire jingle at every family function. Has anyone found the actual commercial so we can prove that we didn't make it up?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,KEV
Date: 07 Jan 09 - 04:18 PM

I have been searching for that song for years!!! I am glad others have been too. I thought I was the only one who remembered. I would hear it on the radio back in 1978 in Wilmington, North Carolina and the lyrics I remembered went like this:

Every little pig
When he grows up big
Likes to be a Frosty Morn.
When you do your best,
And you're better than the rest,
You'll be a Frosty Morn.
Frosty Morn, Frosty Morn, Frosty Morn,
You're very good. You are the best,
And you're better than the rest.
You are a Frosty Morn.

THERE! I finally am one step closer to finding a copy of that song before I do a remake of that jingle myself. Of course I have to find some pigs that sound like the chipmunks first. Anyone know where to find that song?

Thank you for your time.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Tom Myatt ,Jr.
Date: 31 Jan 09 - 08:45 AM

Funny-Not sure how I arrived at this site. I made breakfast for my family this morning and of course bacon was on the menu. I started singing the old Frosty Morn jingle from my childhood. I remember the commercials well. My wife who is 7 years my junior had never heard the jingle. I began looking for the commercial on Youtube. No success yet. Hope someone finds it.
Tom Myatt in Clayton, NC
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Tim in Fla.
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 08:24 AM

I remember the jingle from my childhood in Defuniak Springs Fl. Our local TV station at the time was out of Dothan Al. As I remember from the mid 60's it went like this.

The height of a piggie's ambition
From the day he is born
Is hope that he'll be good enough
To be a Frosty Morn

Sing it over and over and over again Frosty Morn

Sing it over and over and over again Frosty Morn.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Allen in Florida
Date: 23 Mar 09 - 05:52 PM

I remember the commercial too.

We lived in North Florida, near the Frosty Morn plant in Quincy.

As I remember the black & white TV commercial was an animated drawing of 3 or 4 dancing pigs and a scrolling lyric line with a bouncing ball that encouraged you to sing along.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 04:21 AM

Bruce, on the Frosty Morn products, Family Brands, Lenior City, Tn., now produced it.They can be found at Food Lion stores. People today still remember that commercial, it really boosted sales and won many awards. The family that started Frosty Morn began in the meat industry in the 1800's in St.Louis then moved to Nashville.A plant of theirs is located on the river just north of downtown Nasville in the Germantown area. An historic area, 6th Ave. N area, with lots of shops and renovated older homes. The family that owns it actually live in a renovated office building at the plant. Also has another building that's been remolded for reception meetings,also has a historic room, it has wood floors, sits on a hill and looks over the Nashville skyline. If in Nashville, you might want to check it out.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,L N
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 04:37 AM

Gary living near the plant in Quincy ,Fl. Can you share a memory about the Frosty Morn plant ? My father worked w/ Frosty Morn. Thanks, also I did find the jingle's lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Mar 09 - 10:09 PM

[O]ne of their commercials had a sign that said 'Frosty Morn for President.'

The song for that one went

Our candidate has requested
We read this note he sent:
'I'd rather be a Frosty Morn
Than be president.'"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Michael Bryant
Date: 06 Apr 09 - 07:22 AM

As a very young boy in Kinston,NC durning the late 50's and 60's I often heard over the radio the Frosty Morn giggle the went " Frosty Morn makes meats that all little folks love F-r-o-s-t-y Morn".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Fran
Date: 07 May 09 - 08:25 AM

Yes, I remember the jingle word for word! I am 53 years old and that was my favorite jingle as a child. There was a pig conducting a chorus of pigs that sang the song. DO they even make that bacon anymore? I am a vegetarian now, but I would have to take a little nibble on something reminiscent of being 3 years old again.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Alabama Girl
Date: 18 May 09 - 09:04 PM

As I remember it, from probably the very early 60's:

The height of a piggy's ambition, From the day he is born, He hopes that he'll be good enough, To be a Frosty Morn.

So... everybody join in and

Sing it over and over and over again, Frosty Morn. Sing it over and you'll sing it over again, Frosty Morn.

Sure miss those "little dancing piggies"!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,The Kentucky HeadHunters
Date: 28 Jun 09 - 02:32 PM

If anyone ever finds a video clip, or MP3 of the actual jingle, please share. This is a 'big' part of our childhood, we heard the commercial many times on local TV & radio in the 60's.

[e-mail]

Thanks...
Doug, Greg, Fred & Richard
The Kentucky HeadsHunters

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Ole Paw
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 07:41 PM

The commercial was in heavy rotation on TV all over middle TN and my sister was encouraged to sing along once. She got such a response that she'd sing AND dance (can-cam style) with the piggies everytime they appeared.

Besides Frosty Morn ... another one: Odum's Family Tennessee Pride sausage also had animated commercials with cartoon characters singing jingles.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,WobblerI
Date: 11 Aug 09 - 05:04 PM

I saw the commercial in Atlanta GA as a wee tyke. I'm 52 now, and no one believes me when I say there used to be a Frosty Morn commercial. I sure wish I could find it online somewhere. Ah well, at least I know now I'm not insane -- other people my age remember Frosty Morn!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Judy Malone
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 11:27 PM

I am 60, still live in Jackson, TN., and saw the cute little piggies when I was a child. Loved that jingle abt 'sing it over and over and over again, Frost Morn.' The other jingle was the one Reelfoot bacon had out about..."Real real real real good Reelfoot" I think they used a cartoon Indian boy to beat on a tom tom, and would say something like..beat on drum , beat out for Reelfoot.
Sorry, the old memory just not what it used to be!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Bernie
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 01:57 PM

I was working at the Frosty Morn plant in Quincy, Florida when the plant closed down.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,David Morris
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 08:56 AM

If anyone ever finds a video of this, it should be posted on YouTube. I would love to see it. Even at the time, the ad seemed macabre to me, but I loved it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 09:03 PM

The Frosty Morn factory at Clarksville, Tennessee, has sat abandoned for more than thirty years.
Elm Hill Meats took over the name, and Frosty Morn bologna, sausage and weiners are still sold by Hills Foodland in Pleasant Grove, Alabama and other stores in the South.

Jimmy Dean sausage is better! Unfortunately not available in Canada.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Oct 09 - 01:23 PM

what company and what year did it appear on tv

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 05:01 PM

I was just telling my grandchildren that the only time I didn't get in trouble for getting out of bed when I was suppose to be asleep was when the Frosty Morn jingle came on. Frosty Morn was a sponsor of the 10:00 p.m. news in Nashville, TN. I was about 3 years old so this would have been around 1955. I waited until the commercial came on, ran down the hall to our living room and sang and danced with the pigs and then ran back and jumped into bed. I never once got into trouble because my Mom and Dad were always waiting for it to happen and then laughing so hard. I was trying to find the actual commercial for them to see. Would love to have it if anyone finds it. Jeanice Ladd Walters [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 12 Nov 09 - 11:44 AM

I found an old lard can in my daddys barn this week. It is blue and has the frosty morn picture on it. We built a log house and I was looking for antiques. It is in really good shape, don't know how old it is. If someone knows anything please send it down the line please. Email: [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 09 - 02:45 PM

I am 50 and that commercial is one of my earliest memory. I contacted the company (Family Brands) that now owns the name "Frosty Morn" to try to get that video clip. After several attempts I finally got this response:

Sorry… We get at least one inquiry a month about this Jingle. However, we bought the Frosty Morn Brand long after this commercial was gone. We have tried to find it, but have had no luck to this point. Again , thanks for the inquiry and sorry we couldn't help.

Sincerely,
*name withheld*

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Sam in ATL
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 12:55 AM

I heard this tune on the radio this morning, used in a carol by
English composer John Rutter. I don't know who was first, Rutter (born in 1945) or the Frosty Morn ad agency's composer. Or, maybe it comes from an old folk melody. But it is uncanny, the similarity with the tune of the verse ("The height of a piggie's ambition.....")

And of course, Rutter lived in England, so may never have heard the Frosty Morn jingle

http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B0000031HZ/ref=pd_krex_dp_001_019?ie=UTF8&track=019&disc=001

Sample of Rutter carol

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,999
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 01:02 AM

Everything you wanted to know about Frosty Morn.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,999
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 01:06 AM

Everything you wanted/didn't want to know about Frosty Morn.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,cleve in Birmingham
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 09:00 PM

I lived in Dothan, Alabama in 1961 and I heard this song playing on the TV all the time. Just today, I was cooking bacon and started singing the song, so I looked it up on this website. It's a catchy tune!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Mabery
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 05:22 AM

I grew up in Mobile al, in the 60's Frosty Morn, is my all time favorite commercial. The last time I saw the commercial was on a tv program showing old commercials maybe 10 plus years ago. I will keep trying to find my old favorite.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Olin Williams
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 07:55 PM

I grew up in Columbus Georgia and remember the commercial well. Was also trying to locate a video of it, but so far I guess we are all out of luck!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Raving Dave
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 10:48 AM

I'm 58 and living in Los Angeles now, but I grew up in Alabama and those "Frosty Morn Sausage" commercials and jingles will be forever burned into my brain.

WBRC-TV out of Birmingham was our station of choice (because their signal was clearer than competetitor WAPI-TV's) and WBRC produced a live/local country and western music show from their studios every morning called the "Country Boy Eddie" show. In addition to sponsors like "Big-Hearted Eddie's Used Cars", "Frosty Morn Sausage" was a regular advertiser. I can still hear those animated piggies singing in their sped-up, "Alvin and the Chipmunks" voices.

In case the meaning of the "Frosty Morn" is lost on readers, farmers would traditionally wait until a cold, frosty, winter morning before, ahem, "demising" the pigs. The cold weather would help preserve the meat during the process.

Gotta go have a big ole country breakfast of coffee, eggs, grits, biscuits and "Frosty Morn" sausage now. Sorry piggies.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,mike barbour from goldsboro ,n.c.
Date: 16 May 10 - 06:49 PM

born 1957 my grandfather owned the red apple truck stop on us 301 in selma n.c. The neatest thing on tv were the pigleetes that danced like the rockeetes.Who could forget?Somewhere there must be a copy.            mike [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jul 10 - 02:48 AM

Here is the full lyrics to Frosty morn jingle
Sing it over and over and over again!
Frosty Morn...
Sing it over and over and over again!
Frosty Morn...
The height of a piggy's ambition,
From the day he is born,
He hopes that he will be good enough
To be a Frosty Morn!
So, everybody join in
And sing it over and over and over again!"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 29 Jul 10 - 06:08 PM

Hi, BWL. I can't contribute to the discussion of the jingle, but thanks for mentioning the tune 'Cold Frosty Morning.' I decided to see what it's like, and I believe I like it enough to add to my permanent collection.

Will it be a piano number? A recorder solo? A session tune? Time will tell.

Thanks for the lead.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,R.C. Bottles
Date: 30 Aug 10 - 12:15 PM

The Frosty Morn jingle was the 1st I ever learned by listening to the commercial on TV> This was in 1955!!
Wilmington, NC
WMFD TV (later changed call letters to WECT)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Clayton
Date: 02 Oct 10 - 10:22 AM

This is the verse that I remember, a little different from the other posts:
The height of a piggy's ambition,
from the day he was born,
in hopes that he would be good enough,
to be a Frosty Morn!

Maybe it's incorrect, but it's burned into my 49 y.o. memory as such. I certainly remember the tune and can play it on the piano! The tune is similar to the old Gospel hymn, "Wonderful words of life"...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 03:31 PM

I can hear the Frosty Morn Jingle "over and over and over again" in my head, but want to hear the actual song from the commercial. Does anybody know where a copy can be found?

Thank you.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 10 - 06:36 AM

The name of the company that owns Frosty Morn is Family Brands in Lenoir City , Tn. 800-356-4455, email [e-mail] who likes the old jingle should contact them and ask for them to put it back on the TV or do a new commercial w/ jingle. Maybe one of you could sing it for them. They are a very friendly, family owned business. Ask for John Ed.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,numbersmgr
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 01:21 AM

I grew up in Mobile, Alabama and I would come running from any part of the house whenever that commercial came on and squat in front of the TV until it went off. Even now at 56, it will still pop into my head. I am amazed that other people remember it too. I always thought it was a meatpacker local to Mobile, but now I see it was a pretty big company.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,RW
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 06:43 PM

I was born in Kinston, NC, and grew up in eastern NC in the 1960s. My dad's best friend was an exec for Frosty Morn, named Robert Rhew. He eventually moved to the headquarters in Tennessee. I always thought the Frosty Morn jingle and melody were unusually good for a commercial. The song still rings in my head from time to time. I'm not surprised this post has attracted a lot of other "fans". I'd love to get an MP3 of it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,bama hog slayer
Date: 21 Sep 11 - 01:32 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrMGqSSKgw&feature=related

the height of a piggie's ambition

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Dee Kingston
Date: 13 Jan 14 - 07:06 AM

When I was a very young child (2 - 3), this commercial was all over television in Tennessee. My Mom told me I used to run to the tv set from wherever I was (including outside--we had no air conditioner at our farmhouse) and just stand there watching the piggies sing. You see, I had two pet pigs, Sammy Kaye and Mojo. I was fascinated by the ones that sang. At one point. I probably asked my Mom and Dad why my pets couldn't sing a well! Thanks for the memories!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Oct 15 - 06:27 PM

https://youtu.be/fDrMGqSSKgw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Oct 15 - 08:52 PM

Thank you, GUEST at 06 Oct 15 - 06:27 PM!

That video leads us to the inescapable conclusion that the Frosty Morn piglets starred in at least two advertisements! I may have seen that ad as a kid, but it's the one with the lyrics scroll that I (and several others who've posted to this thread over the last thirteen years) seem to remember more clearly.

Kudos for the find anyway.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,Ed Crowe
Date: 24 Jun 16 - 09:39 PM

I grew up in the 50's and 60's in Montgomery, AL. I heard that TV commercial regularly on WSFA and WCOV TV stations. I actually played little league baseball for two years for the Frosty Morn baseball team in Montgomery, AL.
They were a great company with a great product. I still miss those days back then.

Ed

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 17 - 09:26 PM

Icommercial showed in 1955 on channel 9 wnct and possibly witn in qwashington,nc
am looking forn a copy of the commercial for frosty morn meats.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: GUEST,vance newton jr.
Date: 07 Mar 17 - 09:43 PM

aaI am trying to find the video of the commercial for frosty morn. Please post or share video can be foun. It is a master piece. Come on somebody give it up!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Frosty Morn Jingle
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Mar 17 - 09:47 PM

Links have been posted but perhaps a hot link will help.

https://youtu.be/fDrMGqSSKgw

https://youtu.be/_yTcxhqA9wM