Jingles you remember.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 03:15 AM

It's quite clear that our American cousins have won this competition on both quantity and variety of product (Aeroplane Jelly I definitely need!). However I would submit that in our own understated British way we have some quality gems tucked away. The cigarette brand of immortal memory namely 'Anchor' had a suitably folksy jingle (to the tune of 'What shall we do with a drunken sailor") which led to rather predictable parodies over which it is best to draw a veil. It went like this - "A man at sea will often hanker for the flavour of an Anchor - so much satisfation".

By the way I believe that the revolutionary new carpet material that Cyril Lord was imploring us to buy was 'Enkalon'...presumably made from the wool of the Enk?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 12:58 PM

I thought I'd leave this thread for a while (it seems to have been about 5 years) before checking whether any Brits had remembered "Sorry mate, you're too late, the best peas went to Farrows" (for tinned processed peas) or "Fresh as the moment when the pod went pop" (for packeted frozen ones).

Kitty

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Shot Synapses
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 08:37 PM

I think the end of the Rhinegold jingle actually went:

It's not bitter, not sweet,
it's a full-flavored treat,
Why not buy extra-dry Rhingold Beer?

Yoo Hoo, it's Yogi Berra's favorite drink! (especially since he owned the company, which we gullible kids didn't know back then.)

Man, all that talk about Freedom Land really jogged my memory of a million drives on the LIE. Do you remember the billboard that they put up while they were building Lefrack City?

"If you lived here, you'd be home by now!"

I think that must have been the original use of that slogan, which really hit home because that was the exact place where the miles-long bumper-to-bumper parking lot began.

And thanks to Rabbi Sol for all his great NYC jingles and his mention of the New York Giants (the Polo Grounds ones). They'll always be my team even if they did move to San Francisco 47 years ago. What I never could forgive however is that their departure turned the Polo Grounds (a virtual shrine) into a stock-car track and then another ugly high-rise project.

"Say Hey, Willie!!!"

So for all the New Yorkers out there I offer this political jingle which might just be the most obscure item on here since it undoubtedly goes back to the 1800's. My father used to sing it when we were little kids in the 40's and probably learned it from his father, who was born in 1865 and was involved in N.Y. politics. It's the Tammany anthem (from Tammany Hall, the New York Democratic Party Machine of the time), and goes like this:

"Hiawatha was an Indian,
So was Navajo.
Big Chief Organ Grinder killed them
many years ago.

Now there is a band of Indians
that will never die.
And when you here them singing
this will be their battle-cry.

Tam-ma-ny, Tam-ma-ny
Big Chief sits in his tee-pee
Cheering braves to vic-to-ry

Tam-ma-ny, Tam-ma-ny
Whomp-um, Stomp-um, Get your Wam-pum
Tam-ma-ny!"

There might have been more verses, but given that I haven't heard or sung it in about 57 years I think I did pretty well. If anybody else out there remembers this or other esoteric NY lore, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Maybe we should start a new thread?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Shot Synapses
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 08:55 PM

Well, ain't Google wonderful! Having written the previous post I thought why not just google it and see what appears. So dammit, now I have to unsay all that about it going back to the 1800's cause it turns out it was a song published as sheet music in 1905 by Vincent Bryan and Gus Edwards with the title "Tammany, a pale face pow-wow".
Still fairly esoteric though.

Except for a couple of variations, my version from memory was pretty close in most of the particulars, but of course as a little kid I never learned the additional verses, or perhaps my father just never sang them.

All of this makes me feel both great at being able to recover cultural knowledge experienced as a child, and extremely old, because who else alive now could possibly sing such an old ditty from personal memory? Yecch!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: 60s Burnout
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 08:55 PM

I also have been searching for this forever. I've found a couple of different recollections of it and combined with what I remember, I think thie is it.

The Spaniel by Edgar, Al & Moe.

Once upon a midnight cautious, while I pondered weak and nauseous,
Over some advertising copy I had wrote for Macy's store,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a yapping,
As of someone loudly yapping, yapping at my office door.
"'Tis some client there," I muttered, "Yapping at my office door.
Only this and nothing more."

The I felt my terror worsen, for my guest was not a person.
In there stepped a cocker spaniel. Naturally I jumped in fear.
Tried to climb an oaken panel, ripping there my new grey flannel,
But the spaniel merely stood there, speaking out in voice so clear,
Speaking out like Jack Lascoulie in a voice both loud and clear;
Quoth the Spaniel, "Drink Blatz Beer."

How I marveled this ungainly dog who did commercials plainly,
How he spoke the message clearly, selling points he underscored.
For I could not help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet could mouth a slogan without sounding slightly bored.
Most annnouncers being human can't help sounding slightly bored.
Quoth the spaniel, "Buy a Ford."

Thus this dog with voice like Murrow made my heavy brow unfurrow,
Thoughts of fortunes I could make now made me shake down to my knees.
But the spaniel set me grieving then by turning tail and leaving.
Naturally I begged him tarry, crying out, "Stay with me, please."
Chasing him along the hallway begging him, "Stay with me please."
Quoth the spaniel, "Eat Kraft Cheese."

Long live Mad Magazine.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 05:29 AM

KItty, wasn't the Farrows ad fronted by a black crow (cartoon)?
Not strictly on topic but does anyone remember the Pink Paraffin Pongo? Invented by a mate of mine he (or was it she?) sniffed out inferior and smelly lesser brands of this heating liquid. Amusing anecdotes surround the gentleman who was employed to dress up in the 'Pongo' outfit and stroll the streets of England promoting the product. Rather too fond of the glass that cheers one can imagine the difficulties of perambulation whilst under the influence.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 10:10 AM

I remember that every year, in the run up to Christmas on ITV in the UK, there were ads for Timex watches (to the tune of 'Deck the Halls') and 'Tom Thumb Cigars for Christmas'. AFAIR they never used to advertise the rest of the year. I guess they were aiming at people who only smoked cigars at Christmas, and only bought watches as Christmas presents.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 02:58 PM

Yes, Jon,there was a cartoon crow!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jim Lad
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 05:57 PM

Ring the bells with Christmas Timex
Ticky Tiicky Timex tra la la!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 09:26 AM

Aye that were it Jim Lad.

As their name implied, them Tom Thumb cigars were tiny things about the size of woodbines, and they were sold in flat tins. Wonder if you can still get 'em? Not that I want to smoke 'em, mind - just interested to know.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jim Lad
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:03 PM

Wee Willem II was another. I loved them. (Still would)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:37 AM

GUEST,Jacqued - "Tasty, tasty, very very tasty" was used for Kelloggs
Bran Flakes back in the 1970s.

I notice it was recently revived (which seems unusual for a jingle), as I heard it on TV not long ago. Not 100% sure it was the same product though - anyone know?

Not sure if anyone else has said this above (no time to check in detail), but in the 1960s and 70s advertisers used to commission proper jingles as we've found examples of above. These days they mostly just seem to use an existing pop song (sometimes pretty obscure, sometimes not) and use that instead.

I sometimes find myself listening to the pop song (which may be something obscure from the 1960s that I remember) and totally missing what the ad is for. I wonder how many others get distracted from the advertiser's message in this way, and whether it's counterproductive?

Is the day of the advertising jingle dead then? Discuss.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jim Lad
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:57 PM

No Scrump: We are! We're just not the target audience any more and most of the time, completely miss the message. I think they like it that way. Take a look at car commercials. You'd think that for a $30.000 they'd give you a good look at the car. Not the way to sell to younger folks though. Maybe "Rap" would do it!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: MMario
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 02:02 PM

Once upon a time there was an engineer
Choo Choo Charlie was his name, we hear.
He had an engine and he sure had fun
He used GOOD & PLENTY candy to make his train run.


Charlie says
            "Love my GOOD & PLENTY!"

Charlie says
            "Really rings my bell!"

Charlie says
            "Love my GOOD & PLENTY!"

Don't know any other candy that I love so well!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:43 PM

MMario, thanks for posting the complete Good & Plenty jingle.

I posted the second part of that jingle upthread {on 10 Feb 07 - 07:31 PM}, but I didn't remember the first part of it.

And though it wasn't a song, there's also the memorable commercial line "Sorry Charlie, only the best tuna get to be Chicken Of The Sea" {or something like that}.

I sometimes get that line mixed up with "Silly Rabbit. Trix are for kids" cereal commercial.

I felt sorry for that rabbit...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: MMario
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 08:46 AM

Tou know - I read through the thread TWICE and missed 'good and plenty' both times. *sigh* I really wish my relatives would loan me the brain cell occasionally.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:13 AM

Well, there seem to be very few 'proper' jingles on TV ads these days, compared to the heyday of the 1950s-70s (I can't remember further back than that so maybe even that wasn't the heyday).

These days, you're lucky if they even bother to write a parody lyric, which at least can be amusing. More often than not, they just find a piece of existing music and use that. I guess it's easier and cheaper to do that. But as I said above, is it as effective from an advertising point of view? Of course it often has spinoff benefits for the person who made the original record, resulting in a new generation discovering a song and putting it back in the charts.

Meanwhile here's a few more (apologies if these are included above and I missed 'em):

"Light up a Richmond and strike it rich, richest flavour yet in a tipped cigarette. light up a Richmond and strike it rich, strike it rich with Richmond"

And here are (from memory) the words of the Juicy Fruit Gum ad:

"Juicy Fruit adds to your fun
It's a hit with everyone
Fine fruit flavour, what a treat
Makes your mouth feel fresh and sweet
Juciy Fruit adds to your fun
Juicy Fruit chewing gum"

ISTR they used a very similar jingle in the US for Doublemint gum, something like:

"Doublemint adds to your fun
Doubles fun for everyone
You will love it, millions do
Stick it in yer gob and chew"

I made that last line up as I can't remember the real version!

Anyone remember how it really went?

Finally, anyone remember the Fry's chocolate campaign "Big Fry" (said in a deep voice with lots of reverb). Wasn't there a jingle to go with that? I think it was something like "Big Fry is comin' to town..." - anyone remember?

(Ye gods, I worry about myself sometimes - I can remember this sort of crap, but not important stuff!)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Alec
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:22 AM

I seem to remember that the Big Fry ads featured George Lazenby who was subsequently cast as James Bond partially on the basis of them.
I worry about myself as well,Scrump.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:35 AM

Aye thart reet Alec. It were George Lazenby.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sapper82
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:55 PM

Taking time off from my night shift of testing the Heathrow branch on the TRU;
Who recalls the singer Owen Brannigen doing the Newcastle Brown Ale Commercials?

It's a strong beer it's a bottled beer,
With the North's Biggest sale,
For complete satisfaction,
Newcastle Brown Ale.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jim Lad
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 10:14 PM

The Milky Bar Kid
is strong and Tough
And only the best
is good enough
The creamiest milk
The whitest bar
The goodness that's in
MILKY BAR!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 09:08 AM

Back in the 1950's, there was an ad campaign for a product called "Sunny Boy". I think it was some sort of sweet drink. The jingle started out

Sunny Boy, Sunny Boy
two for a nickel
Sunny Boy

and later in the jingle there was a part that went

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

I assume that "Sunny Boy" (or maybe it was "Sonny Boy" - can't remember at this point) was a Bordens product.

Anyway, it wasn't until decades later that I discovered that this jingle was based on an old song called "Pony Boy" (or possibly "Tony Boy".) My father-in-law would sing it to my baby daughter as he bounced her on his foot (as he sat with legs crossed, the baby on the foot of the leg on top), holding her hands. His version went

Pony Boy, Pony Boy
won't you be my Pony Boy?
Marry me, carry me, straight across the sea.
Don't say no, here we go,
giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up, WHOA! (whoops!)
My Pony Boy.

On the "WHOA", he would lean my daughter backwards, much to her delight.

Google turns up slightly different lyrics to the song, but I'll stick to this version!

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: autolycus
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:44 PM

The Grasshopper's Dance by Ernest Bucalossi.(1900/1905)

   That's the name of the novelty tune used recently on Brit.tv for the dancing milk bottles ad. Used to be on the radio in the 40s/50s.

   I went into a charity shop here in Norwich today,and found the tune on a 78 !! (Thank you,up there.)




   The jingle I pointlessly remember is for Danish Blue cheese. Two phrases on two lines waved about like a pair of scissors and I used to copy the waving with my arms at the time (late50s/early 60s).

   nobody was interested then either.

   Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp !!


   Please,somebody say they honestly remember that add.Or ad, even.(Sorry.Quite unibtentional. Am IIIIIIIII tired.)






      Ivor

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: autolycus
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:47 PM

Incidentally,the only way I found this thread again was via my personal page.

What's the way via some search or other if I can't remember the exact wordin g of the thread,please? Thanks.




    Ivor

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jim Lad
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:50 PM

Go through your old posts?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: autolycus
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 08:33 AM

Yes,thast what i did this time. It's the threads where ididn't post - say,I've thought of something for an old thread I never contributed .





       Ivor

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Granny
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 09:56 PM

Coates comes up from Somerset
Where the cider apples grow


(wonder why I remember jingles for alcohol) LOL

This is the bitter with the bite, this is,
Flowers Keg, the bitter with the bite, this is
If you want a pint of bitter
Flowers Keg you'll find it better
Open up the bitter with the bite!

oh, and

Ticka Ticka Timex, tra la la (Christmas TV advert, sung to Deck The Halls)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Granny
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 09:58 PM

Little Jackie Horner
Sitting in the corner
Eating winkles with a safety pin
His mother said, "Jack -
A much better snack
Is a little bit of salmon from the John West tin"

(probably dates from the 1930s, my father used to sing it)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 01:52 PM

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Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Old Grizzly
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 02:11 PM

Whitbread Trophy - the pint that thinks it's a quart

I'm sure there are more words to this

D

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Rogerric
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 12:32 AM

Back in the 60s, when I lived in central Pennsylvania, a jingle ran on local TV for a department store near State College. This tune has been staging periodic random performances in my head for the last 40 years. It went:

See Sam's in Philipsburg,
Open daily nine to nine,
Pay by cash or pay on time,
Either way Sam treats you fine.

No Grammy contender here, but it had a catchy melody that embedded itself into the nap and weave of my subconscious..

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,ESTMainMan
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 12:49 AM

OK - how 'bout this one ...

Good morning, good morning,
The best to you each morning,
K E double L, O double good,
Kellogg's best to you!

Legend has it that this jingle inspired John Lennon's "Good Morning Good Morning" found on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Album.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 07:12 AM

Legend has it that this jingle inspired John Lennon's "Good Morning Good Morning" found on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Album.

That could be true - I remember that jingle. I read that Lennon was inspired by the PAMS radio jingle used on the UK offshore pirate radio station Radio London:

Good morning,
Good morning
Everything looks good when you open your eyes with
Wonderful Radio London

Maybe it was both! (Anyone remember those old PAMS jingles?)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 08:40 AM

There was more to that Kellogg's Corn Flakes jingle. I think the first verse was something like

Good morning, good morning
the best to you each morning
let a happy greeting
from Kellogg's Corn Flakes
start you on your way!

Or something like that.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Gas and Tonic
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 12:09 PM

What were the lyrics to the old (Esso?) jingle.
All I remember of it is something like this:

"Esso puts a tiger in your car
   ...helps you go very far....
   So when you put your foot down,
   you won't get a put down.
   dee dee dee, dee dee, dee dee, dee dee dah!"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 08:18 AM

They have just held the 50 year reunion of "The Happy Little Vegemites" - only one was unable to attend - sadly - he must have not eaten all his Vegemite...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Pitheris
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 08:58 AM

Back in the mid 1970's there was a jug band that did some parodys of commercials.
Three of them would be dressed up with long black beards and they would start debating the three great schools of chiropracty. This would eventually turn into the Rice crispies jingle.

Dan Hicks did a radio commercial for Boon's Farm apple wine and a few other radio ads in the early 1970s.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Apr 07 - 09:34 AM

Tommy Makem & Clancy Bros. Lyrics, Bringin' home the oil, me boys,

Trivia

Gulf Oil sponsored US television coverage (NBC 'Special Reports') of the NASA space launches and missions in the 1960s. One commercial sponsoring this coverage, one of the first commercial music videos of its day, featured an Irish band singing a rousing maritime song with this chorus (note: 'oil' pronounced 'isle', 'boys' pronounced 'byes'):

    (Hey!) Bringin' home the oil, me boys, bringin' home the oil!
    Sailing all around the world, bringin' home the oil!
    A workin' on a giant ship, it's very hard we toil,
    A sailin' into Bantry Bay, bringin' home the oil!

With the final verse:

    We're buildin' other tankers now to speed more oil to you
    The Universe Kuwait, me lads, -Japan and Portugal too
    And now the Universe Ireland, I'm very proud to say
    Is among the giant ships a-bringin' oil to Bantry Bay
    (Chorus)

    See
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse_incident

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 09:14 AM

I was thinking recently about a jingle that I heard in the early Seventies in Ithaca New York. It was a radio ad for a wine called Allegria (sp?) It went something like this:

It's one-oh-three
in Tennessee
L. A. is really feelin' the heat!
It's one-oh-four
in Baltimore
and they're fryin' eggs in the street!
You turn on the T. V. station
and the weather man says
"Guess what!"
It's only 99
near the county line
but it looks like it's gonna get hot!
So you pour yourself
some Allegria
the wine you drink
over the rocks
and sit by the pool
feelin' mighty cool
from your head down to your socks.

This jingle took the campus community at Cornell by storm (the product itself may also have been popular, I wouldn't know.) But then, someone pointed out that the product was imported from Portugal, which at the time had colonies in Angola and Mozambique. Campus opinion almost immediately turned against it. There was a follow up radio ad campaign, but it died away quickly and the product was never heard of again.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Bubblehead Bob
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 10:17 AM

Shredded Ralston for your breakfast
Start your day off SHINING BRIGHT
Full of cowboy energy
With a flavor that' just right
It's delicious and nutricious
Bite size and ready to eat
So take a tip from Tom
Go and tell your Mom
Shredded Ralston
CANT BE BEAT!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: DMcG
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 10:27 AM

Whitbread Trophy - the pint that thinks it's a quart

I'm sure there are more words to this


....
It's got the body,
the body,
that satisfies,
It can't be modest,
No matter how it tries,
'Cause its the big head bitter,
Trophy bitter,
The best that you've ever bought.
Whitbread,
Big head,
Trophy Bitter,
The pint that think's its a quart.


(I think I'll go and shoot myself now ...)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 02:16 PM

A jar of jam some slices of ham a doughnut and a bun and a great big box or ricicles it's sure to be lots of fun

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,carl
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 07:11 PM

When you are this big, they call you Mister, (MR Big bar)

Nothing does it like 7-up.

Always look to Imperial for the best (ESSO)

Must get a mustang, get a mustang now (Ford)

Put a tiger in your tank (ESSO)

Vegetable, Animal, Mineral (VAM hair cream)

Double your pleasure, double your fun, with doublemint, doublemint, doublemint gum

Rolaids consume up to 47 times their weight in excess stomach acid

he kissed you once, but will he kiss you agsin? Be certain with Certs.

Listerine kills millions of germs on contact

Pay me now, or pay me later (car product, not sure for what)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Carl
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 07:16 PM

Forhot one

ENO is the one, bubbly, bubbly ENO

Plop, plop fizz fizzoh what a relief it is Alka Seltzer

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,kerryguy7
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 08:44 PM

For all of you New Yorkers out there do you remember this...?
"Baseball and Ballantine
   Baseball and Ballantine
   Balantine and Baseball what a treat...!
   So when you're at the game
   Think of the three ring name
   You'll all agree that nothing can compare with..
   Baseball and Ballantine..."

That was the old Ballantine beer jingle that used to play during the radio and television broadcasts of the New York Yankee games during the '50s and early '60s.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 11:37 AM

I can go back before the ban on cigarette ads on TV--one of my favorite commercials:

"You can take Salem out of the country, but
You can't take the country ouf of Salem."

I found this site because, inexplicably the "ooey, gooey rich and chewy inside" popped into my head, mid shower.

did anyone mention the Cal Worthington and his dog spot commercials? You can actually see/here them on another side

If you're lookin for a brand new set of wheels
I will stand upon my head to make more deals
I will stand upon my head till my ears are turning red
go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal

my daughter wouldn't believe me so I searched on it, to prove it to her. Now that's called wasting time! Not only did I save space in my brain for this, I had to prove to a 10 year old that I was right.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,saulgoldie
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 12:37 PM

I haven't read the whole thread through, so I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but...

Smokey the bear, smokey the bear;
Prowlin and a-growlin and a sniffin the air;
He can find a fire before it starts to flame;
That's why the call him smokey, that is how he got his name.

Great thread!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: saulgoldie
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 12:44 PM

"Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't."

For Peter Paul ALmond Joy and Mounds candybars.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 12:49 PM

The complete lyrics to "Smokey the Bear" are in the Digitrad. It's a great song.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,AshburnStadium
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 02:59 PM

How could Philadelphians forget "Nobody bakes a cake as tasty as a Tastykake"?

More for those of us in the Delaware Valley:

Everybody who knows goes to Melrose, everybody who knows goes to Melrose, everybody who knows goes to the Melrose Diner-Restaurant for the most in quality!

(that jingle for the Melrose Diner at 15th & Snyder Sts. at Passyunk Ave. in South Philly still airs to this day in the wee hours of the morning on KYW Newsradio 1060)
-----
The home of happy auto parts
Where saving money starts
At Jimmy's Used Auto Parts
-----
Everybody goes to Gino's, 'cause Gino's is the place to go!

(a hamburger chain that was the only place in the Philly are to get Kentucky Fried Chicken)
-----
It's not a fancy salon - it's nothing but a Quonset hut!
But...

(Chorus)
If you've got a passion for fashion
And you've got a craving for saving
Take the wheel of your automobile
And swing on down to Ideal!

(instrumental interlude then repeat chorus)

The Ideal Manufacturing Company is on Route 30, the White Horse Pike in Hammonton, New Jersey. Open every night and all day Sunday!

For those not familiar with the Ideal jingle, you can listen to it here: http://mcnally.cc/ideal.htm

Midway down that page is "click for the REAL jingle" and offers you either RealAudio or .mp3.

Hope you enjoyed!
Bill at Ashburn Stadium