Jingles you remember.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Seonaid
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 07:54 PM

Dr. Ross Dog Food and Super Koola in cap-top cans...
Oh, wow, someone here is as old as I am!
Anyone else remember "Western Airlines, the o-o-o-only way to fly!"
Or, "She's Camay all over..."
I think Ipana toothpaste was touted as "friendly to your tee-eeth."

And here are a couple of parodies:

"I wonder where the yellow went?
Somebody had an accident!"

"I hate Bosco, it's full of TNT.
Mommy put it in my milk, to try to poison me.
But I fooled Mommy, and put it in her tea,
And now there is no Mommy to try and poison me!"

"Double your pleasure, double your fun --
Make out with two guys instead of just one."

Folk music of the post-radio age.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Harvey
Date: 07 Dec 10 - 04:58 PM

A favorite of mine from the '70s:

Variety is the spice of life,
So if you're good with a fork and a knife,
Come on out to the Sweden House,
Deliciously charming, Sweden House,
All you care to eat from our smor-gasboard,
It's yours at a price you can easily afford,
So treat your children and please your spouse,
Good taste makes the diff'rence at Swe-den House!
All - you care - to eat!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 07:02 PM

It's 'please 'do' remember...'

and the last line is: Wise guys buy Standard fireworks.

There is no other line, you've got it!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,R. White, Austin
Date: 18 Nov 10 - 03:46 PM

I've been looking for this, too, because I remember the closing line:

Quoth the Spaniel, I'd just bite 'em.

(to rhyme with "guardian ad litem."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Terry Bennett
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 12:41 PM

Referring to Cool Beans' post 09 Oct 05 ...

Aren't you glad that you're not a bug?
Not even a snug-in-rug bug.
Cos bugs have to worry about d-Con
Cos bugs have to worry about d-Con
Cause d-Con is dead end for bugs.
Aren't you glad that you're not a bug?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 11:38 PM

Take Sominex tonight and sleep, sleep, sleep

Double your pleasure, double your fun
With Doublemint Doublemint Doublemint gum

Refresh your taste
Chew Wrigley's Spearmint gum
Refresh your taste
For flavor it's the one
The flavor's fresh and lively too
Enjoy it daily, millions do
Refresh your taste
Chew Wrigley's Spearmint gum

And who can forget this short gem:
Mustang II, Boredom zero

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: ichMael
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 10:07 PM

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=old%20time%20commercials

Lots of links to pages of jingles and commercials at the top of that page.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 10:06 AM

Beeliner,
    Thanks for the E-Z Pop commerical link. I loved that ad. The lower voice sure sounds like Thurl Ravenscroft, who was Tony the Tiger ("They're grrreat!") and the singer of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Brian B
Date: 17 Apr 10 - 08:46 PM

Tom Mix sponsored by Ralston Cereals:

Start the morning with Hot Ralston
And you surely will agree
That this warm-up build-up breakfast
Gives you cowboy energy
It's delicious and nutritious
Made from golden western wheat;
Take a tip from Tom
Go and tell your Mom
Hot Ralston can't be beat!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 09:35 AM

Here's one that bubbled to the surface of my mind recently:

Get Top Value Stamps where you shop!
Get Top Value Stamps where you buy!
Get top value gifts for the stamps that you save,
get Top Value Stamps (they're just like gold!)
and save, save, save!

and after the jingle concluded, a voice with a broad, fake Scottish accent would say "They'rrrrrrre Thrrrifty!'

Top Value Stamps were trading stamps that you would get when you shopped at certain stores. When you had saved enough stamps, you could redeem them for merchandise. I still have a hatchet that I got with the stamps, back in the sixties.

This was in Washington D.C. The other brand of trading stamp that we had was S&H Green Stamps, but we were a "Top Value family".

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,donna
Date: 22 Mar 10 - 07:08 PM

i just found this site. how about...

"Mommie" "What is it dear?" "I want a Salerno Butter Cookie"

(munch, munch)

"Mommie" "what is it dear" "Salerno cookies are better by far"

You can lookie, lookie, lookie, but you'll never find a cookie,

with a better butter batter than Salerno!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 08:28 AM

Mummy, why are your hands soft and gentle?

Cos I'm only 14.

(Original Fairy Liquid ad, shot on location in Doncaster.)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: beeliner
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 05:27 PM

Here is my all-time favorite:

It used to run every week during the syndicated Dick Tracy TV series. That was in the mid-1950's.

It presages rap music by several decades!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,suzy
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 08:26 PM

sanyone know the Mobil Speedpass jingle

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Joseph de Culver City
Date: 03 Nov 09 - 11:41 AM

LA area Christmas jingle of yore:

Say the magic word
Say Mission-Pak
And it's on it's merry way,
No gift so bright,
So gay, so right
I'ts the Mission-Pak magic way

And for your nearest Mission-Pak store
Call ADams 2-5184


Also:
If you're lookin' for a better set of wheels
"I will stand upon my head to make all deals,
I will stand upon my head, 'til my ears are turnin' red",
Go see Cal, Go see Cal, Go see Cal

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 03 Nov 09 - 08:43 AM

Thank you, GUEST,Sunny Boy. I'm quite sure I remember the ending

giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up
buuuuuuuuuuy....Bordens today!

If this wasn't part of the Sunny Boy jingle, I wonder if there was also another jingle that used the "Pony Boy" tune?

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Sunny Boy
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 11:12 AM

To the person who wanted to know the lyrics to the product "Sunny Boy":

Sunny Boy, Sunny Boy
Two for a nickel
Boy oh Boy.
Each small pack makes one big drink.
Full fruit flavor in a wink.
Sunny Boy, Sunny Boy
You'll love that tast and how!
Giddyap, Giddyap, Giddyap GO!
Get Sunny Boy.

Sunny Boy, had a competitor called "Lik-M-Ade". They were supposed to be the answet to Kool-Ade, in individual servings, but never caught on.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Oct 09 - 03:32 PM

Old Dutch Cleanser. Check out the old Nick Carter mysteries. Old Dutch Cleanser was the sponsor of the show.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cleverthreads (inactive)
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 04:17 PM

You Must Remember This

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 10:32 PM

The yada yadas on "Don't Cross the Street..." go:
Teach your eyes to look out
Teach your ears to hear
Walk up to the corner
Where the coast is clear
And wait, and wait,
And wait until the light turn green.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Uly
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 07:56 AM

They seem to be using more pop songs for commercials now, than hiring more jingle writers. What a nice way for someone to go to the unemployment line. It's all about the almighty dollar.

I don't know, I think getting the permission to do that probably costs them more money. There's probably more behind it - like that a lot of people found jingles too memorable and were irritated by them and therefore didn't buy the product or something. Like the Hillshire Farms commercials have a Go Meat jingle-thing, and I run to turn off the TV if it comes on.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 10:16 PM

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 01:43 PM

How about this one, it was a PSA ....

Don't Cross the street in the middle of the block, in the middle in the middle in the middle of the block. (Repeat)

There may have been more but it is the chorus I recall.

Nick

here it is Nick..dont cross the street in the middle, in the middle , in the middle, in the middle in the middle of the block! Keep your ears and eyes up, watch and look both ways, yada yad ayda yada...and wait, and wait and wait until you see the ligh turn green. if i had another hour or so, i would get the yada yada yada too

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 05:24 AM

Too many posts above to scan, but has anyone remembered to 'Buy some for Lulu' ( Smarties.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 11:02 PM

Tug -- love Dick Emery but never heard this .....thanks...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 10:21 AM

Just saw some early posts about adverts foe Esso. My favourite was Dick Emery singing

My old Ma
said fill up the car
with Esso Extra on the way.
Off went the car with the Extra in it,
I ran behind shouting 'wait a minute'
I chased, I paced it
I....? nearly raced it
up and down the road we went all day.
You can't get a petrol like the esso Extra
get a tankful down your way.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 10:12 AM

Totally meaningless washing liquid up ad from the 50's

It's New.... It's PINK.... It's OLA.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,salsa
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 09:55 AM

Crave Cat food

My kitty cat craves chicken,
My kitty cat craves beef
My kitty cat craves tuna
My kitty cat craves crave
My kitty cat craves crave

Meow, meow ... Me-ow

Subway subs are the ones
when you get the munchies
try subway subs for supper or
for lunchies.

Volarie woe woe
Volarie woe woe woe woe
Come ride volarie today the new and sensible way

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,In-N-Out
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 07:19 AM

In-N-Out

In-N-Out
In-N-Out
That's what hamburger's all about.

Chain of 200 plus, very popular (cult like following) family owned burger joints, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California that pays $11.00 and hour and prints Bible scripture on their wrappers.

Bumper stickers were frequently modified to:

In-N-Out

URGE

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 06:32 AM

we are the boys from down the farm
we really know how cheese
theres much better value in chesdale
it never fails to please
chesdale slices thinly
theres no crumbs and theres no waste
and boy its got a mighty taste
chesdale cheese
its finest cheddar
made better

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Pistachio
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:00 PM

Nuts oh Hazelnuts,uh
Cadburys take 'em and they cover them in chocolate!

Now I wonder why I recall that one?

and the "Nimble" bread ad where there's a hot air balloon with the song
'she flys like a bird in the sky y y y
She flys like a bird and I wish that she was mine,
She flys like a bird,oh me oh my .. I see her fly
Now I know, I can't let Maggie go ...

How sad is that? (Ooops, Muppet mentioned Nimble in his 2004 post)
Hazel.x

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:24 PM

123;m&m Candy Commercial
m&m's,
You eat them,But don't eat too much,Your lungs will hurt extreme-lier bad....And puke,Blab Blab Blab H!
You feel like chocolate,Sometimes you don't.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 07:26 PM

Kibbles And Bits was a catchy jingle I remember. I miss jingles.

I agree on the "commercial songs vs "work-for-hire" writers jingles"
bit.
They seem to be using more pop songs for commercials now, than hiring more jingle writers. What a nice way for someone to go to the unemployment line. It's all about the almighty dollar. Use a pop song hoping it would get more customers, thus making huge profits. Personally, I would rather jingles from a "work-for-hire" writer. I'd
be more likely to buy the product.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Folkasaurus
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 11:26 AM

I heard Chamvers' Caskets sung by an English 4-part harmony group called 'Heritage' in October 1983. They claimed to have heard it on the radio during a trip to the USA. They said it was a genuine jingle for an advertisment.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 27 May 09 - 08:20 AM

There she goes!
She's a Sego girl.
With a [something, something, something] point of view.
You can tell,
she's a Sego girl.
It's that beautiful feeling of being so slender and new!

A jingle for a diet drink product, from the sixties. Sung to the tune of "Tangerine". Sorry about the missing words.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 26 May 09 - 02:55 PM

Who listens to radio?
That go-where-you-go medium called radio,
That's with you ever night
In the long commuter fight
And in the morning with your toast and marmaladio
Who listens to radio
No matter if it's summer, winter, spring or fall
Who listens to ra-ha-ha-hadio?
Only one hundred and fifty million people
That's all.

1960s jingle for the U.S. radio industry

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 13 May 09 - 10:57 PM

All the dirt, all the grit
Hoover gets it every bit
For it beats as it sweeps as it cleans.........

You'll be a little lovelier each day, with Fabulous pink Camay

Take a tip, take a Bristol
Today's cigarette is a Bristol
The real cool flavor you'll never forget
BRISTOL is today's cigarette (I do not lie!!!!!)

My mum used to smoke Kensitas which offered coupons while they poisoned you but I can't remember the jingle for them.

Yes, I remember -- sorry mate, you're too late - the best peas went to Farrows....

Great thread......

Oh

And

Spam, there is only one Spam
There is only one Spam
in the blue and yellow can!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,CupOfTea, No cookies
Date: 13 May 09 - 06:49 PM

I got a kick out of this Frankenthread & to paraphrase an AlkaSeltzer commercial: I can't believe I read the WHOLLLLLE thing.

I was surprised not to see one of my favorites from the 60's for Nestles. My Godfather worked for Nestles then, and he sent lots of things including a stuffed version of the puppet used in the commercials, a dog named Farfel. Though Nestles made choclate bars of various kinds, I think the product being advertised was Nestles Quick, a chocolate powder that you'd stir into milk. The dog puppet Farfel sang:

"N -   E - S - T - L - E - S. Nestles makes the very best!
Choooooc (mouth wide open) LET!" ( Mouth drops shut with a wooden clacking sound)

I find it gratifying to see evidence of my assumption that MOST places had phone numbers that had been used as the text to advertising jingles. You can identify folks from Northern Ohio by their ability to sing GArfield 1-2323. This was brought home to me in Chicago years ago, at a benefit, when all the locals sang back THEIR local phone number jingle to the performers.

I also remember being more charmed by the MAYPO commercials than the cereal. We studied them in art school animation class - they were classics produced by some folks who made animated movies for the Film Board of Canada. They'd record their actual children, then animate fantasies, using the recordings as a sound track. The commercial captured some of that magic.

Joanne in Cleveland

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 13 May 09 - 03:47 PM

A fragment from a Scripto Pen commercial, circa 1959 (US):
You don't have to know his size,
Or worry about the fit,
A new Scripto pen or pencil
Always makes a hit.
Go, go, go, get a Scripto.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Ignatz
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 05:18 PM

Schwinn bikes:
I'm so glad I got a Schwinn bicycle
I'm so glad I got a Schwinn bicycle
Boy I like my Schwinn bike
Schwinn is the finest bike!

Dr. Ross dog food:
Dr. Ross dog food, do him a favor;
It's got more meat and it's got more flavor.
Dr. Ross dog food makes him feel the way he should.
Dr. Ross dog food is doggone good. WOOF!

76 Union gasoline (heard during L.A. Dodgers games; only remember parts):
You always get the finest, the very best the finest
at the sign of the seventy-six.
Feel free to stop in for water or air,
to powder your nose or comb your hair.
You always get the finest, the very best the finest
at the sign of the seventy-six.
It's orange and blue, so look for that U-nion sign
of the finest, the sign of the seventy-six.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 11:22 AM

Bit o Honey.

drool

I was in the south eastern US last summer. Looked and looked everywhere for bit o honey, either bars to bite size pieces for 2 weeks and go no joy.

Accidently found the bars in a little petrol station/store somewhere between Augusta Georgia and Raliegh Durham NC on the last day but one of the holiday. Wish I could remember where. The bars are still cut into rectangles and one sheet of waxed paper folded around each piece to keep them from sticking together.

Anyway I picked up a load of them and brought back to UK. Sadly all gone now.

However, my sister in law in Orlando, says the bite sized pieces in bags can be purchased from the Vermont Country Store online.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 20 Feb 09 - 08:32 AM

Bit-o-Honey goes a long, long, long way.
If you have one head,
it'll last all day!

This jingle appeared at the end of an animated Bit-o-Honey commercial - it featured a many-headed monster of some sort, who was placated by being given a Bit-o-Honey bar. Bit-o-Honey bars, as I recall, were scored in a way that allowed one to break off several bite-sized pieces.

As I recall.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 03:45 PM

I am stuck on bandaid
cause bandaid's stuck on me
I am stuck on bandaid
cause bandaid's stuck on me
oh sticks on bendy places
like your elbows and your knees
I am stuck on bandaid
cause bandaid's stuck on me

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 03:18 PM

Lays Potato Chips - you can't eat just one


Ie ie ie
I am the Frito Bandito
I love Fritos cornchips
I love them I do
I steal Fritos cornships
I take them from you

Candy coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize
That's what you get in Crackerjack


I can't even remeber the product that these catch line go with

What's a mother to do

Mother please, I'd rather do it myself



Andie was right... I am such a goober!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 02:43 PM

Krispie Kritters now have moose,
call for orange moose call for orange moose,
call for orange moose
Krispie Kritters now have moose,
call for orange moose



You get a big delight
in every bite
of Hostess Cupcakes and Twinkies



LiteBrite, making things with light
What a sight making things with LiteBrite



Take a bath with Mr. Bubble
He'll get you so clean your mother won't know you.
He's got a bubbly face and a bubbly nose Mr. Bubble
My name is Mr. Bubble and you can watch me pop

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 02:21 PM

Mr. Clean gets rid of dirt and grime
And grease in just a minute
Mr. Clean will clean your whole house
And everything that's in it


These are the jongles my daughters would sing at me whenever I made them help me with the grocery shopping.

somebody help me please...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 02:12 PM

Hotdogs
Armour hotdogs
What kinds of kids eat Armour hotdogs?
Fat kids
Skinny kids
Kids who climb on rocks
Tough kids
Sissy kids
Even kids with chickenpox
Love hotdogs
Armour hotdogs
The dogs kids love to bite.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 02:06 PM

The world looks mighty good to me
Cause Tootsie Rolls are all I see
Whatever it is I think I see
Becomes a Tootsie Roll to me

Tootsie Roll I love your chocolatey chew
Tootsie Roll I think I'm in love with you
Whatever it is I think I see
Becomes a Tootsie Roll to me

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,MikeK
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 02:06 PM

There's one jingle that's been bouncing around my head for weeks now - at least the ending has, but for the life of me I cannot remember the beginning (the bit with the product name!), so when I came across this thread I jumped for joy. "Aha," said I, "It's sure to be in here!" I ploughed through the whole thread. No luck!!

The jingle is from the UK, late 50's or early 60's, and the ending (to "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star")is: "...Luscious, dreamy simply heaven, twelve for ony one-and-seven."

Someone, please help!!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,bj in ALA
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 12:16 PM

Remember the one from early 60's.. for Soakey Bubble Bath

Soakey soaks you clean in oceans full of fun
Scrubbity bubbity flibbity flubbity clean before your done
Soakey soaks you clean and every girl and boy
Gets a toy when it's empty, when it's empty it's a Toy.

Containers were in the shape of cartoon characters such as
Rockey and Bullwinkle

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sapper82
Date: 12 Oct 08 - 12:05 PM

Will Fly - PM
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 11:22 AM

It's difficult to say - we just saw what we saw! However, in retrospect, I'd say "We're going well, we're going Shell, we're going well with Shell, Shell, Shell," with Bing Crosby singing it, was probably shown on both sides of the pond. The more international the product, the more chance of it being shown globally.



Always though it was sung by Michael Holiday!!