Jingles you remember.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 09:00 AM

Well I certainly haven't bought any Chambers caskets lately :-)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 05:40 AM

We remember them and it is often the case that we can't get some of them out of our heads - but do we buy the product because of the jingle?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 04:26 AM

I learned half my Italian from jingles on Greek radio. One, repeated around Christmas time for years, said "MIGLIORI AUGURI from xxxx (brand of spaghetti)". It stuck in the brain. Ten years ago I happened to pop into an Italian restaurant in Amsterdam first thing on Christmas morning (don't ask), and the family that ran it were all gathered handing round presents. Without thinking I blurted "migliori auguri" to them. You guessed it - they came back at me with a torrent of congratulatory Italian, surprised at my mastery of their tongue!

Back to English: One I can never get out of my mind is for Penguin chocolate biuscuits, with fake stutter:

P-Pickup a Penguin
A lovely P-Penguin
When you P-P-P-Pickup a Penguin there's so much more to enjoy
It's bigger, and chocolatey, with chocolate filling too
When you feel a bit P-P-P-Peckish, what's bigger and best for you?
A P-P-P-Penguin!
When you feel a bit P-P-P-Peckish, P-P-P-Pickup a Penguin

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 03:42 AM

Thsnks!


Chambers caskets are so fine,
Made of sandal-wood and pine.
When your loved ones pass away,
Have them pass the Chambers way.
If your loved ones have to go
Dial Colunbia triple-0
Chambers customers all sing,
"Death, oh death, where is thy sting?"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Hrothgar
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 03:37 AM

If your loved ones have to go
Dial Colunbia triple-0

- sung as lines 5 and 6, I think.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 26 Jun 04 - 11:50 PM

Remember the "Little Old Wine Maker"

          You just can't miss
          With Italian Swiss
          Italian Swiss Colony Wine

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 26 Jun 04 - 06:21 PM

Hmmm Not much to go on. How about...

Wednesday is Prince day, hey what a treat!
Wednesday is Prince day up and down the street.
Gals making noodles, spaghetti and sauce,
Putting elbows on the table,
Even brand new brides are able.
This very Wednesday, start serving Prince,
Brighten Wednesday up with Prince.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Tiger
Date: 26 Jun 04 - 12:33 PM

Thanks to Uncle Manny:

"Prince Spaghetti, something, something, something, something, something...."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 03:43 PM

Who did it?
How did they do it?
What in the world did they do?
Who put the men in menthol smoking?
Alpine, that's who?

(There was another verse, explaining how they did it, but all I can remember is the last line: "Flavor, that's what.")

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 03:10 PM

If you watched NY Giants Baseball:

          Satisfies your beer thirst better
          Satisfies your beer thirst better
          Satisfies your beer thirst better
          With New York's famous beer
          Have a Knick, Have a Knick
          Have a Knickerbocker Beer

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Jun 04 - 12:19 PM

That does ring a bell bb, but I can't remember how it went.

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Jun 04 - 03:16 PM

Chamber's Caskets are so fine.... (words in DT?)

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 10:57 AM

when I put my Brutus jeans on.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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:
Date: 14 Jun 04 - 11:49 PM

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: 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: Cluin
Date: 24 Feb 04 - 08:03 PM

Have a good old barley sandwich...
That's Calgary Export Ale!