Jingles you remember.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 11:13 AM

The jingle that blighted my tender youth was the Bonnie Dog Food commercial, an inane little earworm of a ditty which started out:

Better buy Bonnie for your bow-wow [arf, arf]

I cannot believe I've forgotten the rest of it! After having that sung at me throughout school, I thought it would be etched on the brain cells forever. Anybody remember the other lines?

(And: Was the Bonnie Dog Food they sold in California made of kangaroo meat like its Oz cousins?)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 10:52 AM

Get Nucoa, N-U-C-O-A
Buy it today!

(Was that from the same jingle, or a different one for Nucoa?)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 08:13 AM

New, new, Nucoa, the margarine largin in vitamin A,
New, new, Nucoa, gives you all your vitamin A,
In one, two, three pats a day.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 07:57 AM

Mark Cohen wrote:
"I grabbed the long wooden handle of the fire truck, which promptly yanked me up off the ground. I let go, fell off, and the handle hit me in the head!"

"Half-way up, I met the barrel coming down ..."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Jackie
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 02:34 PM

I believe the phone number "SAgamore 2-2900" was for "Dee's Appliances". It was preceded by ........."For a free home demonstration, without cost or obligation, just call right to the station--------SAgamore 2-2900 etc.

Subject: SAgamore 2-2900
From: GUEST,Jackie
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 02:27 PM

My recollection is that it was from "Dee's Appliances". The phone number was preceded by........."For a free home demonstration, without cost or obligation....Just call right to the station --------SAgamore 2-2900

Subject: The Plastic Song
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 04:53 PM

Does anybody out there remember a song from the mid to late 60s that has a song title that possibly is the "The Plastic Song"? Within the lyrics were: "you know it's plastic, oh yes it's plastic". Also, it included the lyrics that described: "she's 36-24-36, but she's plasic".

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Aug 08 - 02:15 PM

Yes, Cool Beans! It WAS a "sinister little tune"! I've tried a few times to google the product but to no avail. At least someone else remembers it so now I know I didn't make it up.
Thanks.
La

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 24 Aug 08 - 01:48 PM

Guest LaLa,
    I remember the Easy Glamor jingle (don't ask me how to spell the product). It had a sinister little tune, like the main theme from "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." You caa almost sing it to that theme.
Easy, easy, easy does it
With easy, easy, Easy Glamor
Easy.   
I don't know what Easy Glamor did (or does). Clean? Polish? Both?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jayto
Date: 24 Aug 08 - 01:17 PM

Another on that is burned forever in my mind is a public service ad that came on locally in the late 70's early 80's. I was a very young kid and can't believe I remember it at all. I used to actually play this commercial with a friend of mine. I would sit in a wagon with all my toys and he would pull me while I threw my toys out (simulating littering) and sing this song. When I ran out of toys I had I stick I would drop off the back of my wagon like my bumper fell off. The commercial had a guy in a beat up car driving down the road littering like crazy. At the end of the commercial he stopped on a hill overlooking Nashville Tn. and his bumper fell off while he kept littering. The song playing was

Tennessee trash rolling down the highway Tennessee trash
That is all I remember of the song but I remember the melody and all very well. I loved that commercial as a kid and it has burned itself deep into my memory lol.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,LaLa
Date: 24 Aug 08 - 01:01 PM

Does anyone remember a 1950's radio jingle
Easy does it
With Easy Glamor
EeeeZeee.
I don't remember what the product was nor do I know if it was a local ad on Long Island. Everyone I ask thinks I'm nuts!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Will Fly
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.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 11:16 AM

It's possible that Will Fly has the answer. Will appears to be from Britain and includes "You'll wonder where the yellow went..." among jingles rememberd. The Pepsodent jingle was ubiquitous (today we'd say it went viral) in the US.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RobbieWilson
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 10:24 AM

I have just read every post in this six year old thread, no mean feat in itself, but while I recognise a lot of the products and brands from Stateside I do not recognize any of the jingles.

Does anyone know of any used on tv both sides of the pond?

Light up the sky with standard fireworks
( cant remember the second line, can someone else?)
please to remember
the fifth of November

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Barry Finn
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 10:03 AM

"Chewy, chewy Tootsie Roll lasts a long time, long time
Chewy, chewy Tootsie Roll lasts a long time"

I went to the National Boy Scout Jamboree held in Washigton in 1962. It was a long bus ride from Boston & some asshole sang those lines & only those lines at least half the way there. I don't recall if he ever made the bus trip back but I still think of that jingle when ever there's any connection to a Tootsie Roll.

Barry

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 10:00 AM

Hadrian, Hadrian, the deep gloss paint,
So easy to apply, makes work a pleasure.
Hadrian, Hadrian, the deep gloss paint,
For a really professional finish, use Hadrian.


Murraymints, Murraymints, the two-good-to-hurry mints.

You'll wonder where the yellow went,
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.

Coates comes up from Somerset, where the cider apples grow.
We all drink Coates sweet Somerset, 'cos country folks do know
That Coates comes up from Somerset, where the cider apples grow.

(Why, oh why, do I remember this crap?)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jayto
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 09:55 AM

From Tennessee and Kentucky in the 80's

For the best pork sausage the best you ever tried
pick up a pound or two of Tennessee Pride

It had a Bluegrass type groove to it. Banjo, mandolin, guitar, and dobro. It also had a guy in overalls and a straw hat and a cartoon pig singing harmony. OMG I had forgot all about that until this thread.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 09:14 AM

What about:
Put a tic tac in your mouth and get a ....BOING! out of life
da da da da da da da da da - don't remember the end

and Milk it instead...
Its a little bit rough when you don't get enough,
the day before you drink -- stop and think,
What I say? I said milk it instead!
What I say? I said milk it instead!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,D2
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 09:50 AM

Eno is the one.
Eno's the one to take.
100 percent.
For your stomach ache.
God tasting Eno works 100%.
Relieving stomach discontent.
Eno is the one ... bubbly, bubbly, bubbly, Eno!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,buspassed
Date: 30 Jun 08 - 06:59 AM

Golden Oldies here,

OBJ, OBJ,
The finest drink in the world today,
Lifts you up when you are down,
You will never wear a frown,
Raise your glass,
Drink it down,
Duttons O'Be Joyful!    [God knows what kind of drink it was!]

Sirdar Wool is better by far
S-I-R-D-A-R
Sirdar wool is better by far,
You know what you get with Sirdar.   [Gotta be wool!]

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,looking for this jingle
Date: 29 Jun 08 - 12:59 PM

some kind of shampoo that washes the greys away

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Captain Sellers
Date: 17 Jun 08 - 03:52 PM

In Atlanta, about 1976:

Wouldn't you really rather
deal with D. L., too?
D. L. Clayburn...
Clayburn Buick

and

It's Automan Transmission.
That's 48 oh one,
that's 48 oh one,
that's 48 oh one, Buford Hiiiiighway.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jun 08 - 02:15 PM

My bologna has a first name
It's O-S-C-A-R
My bologna has a second name
It's M-A-Y-E-R
Oh, I love to eat it every day
And if you ask me why I'll say
'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way
With B-O-L-O-G-N-A

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 17 Jun 08 - 11:19 AM

Arnie Yusum Chevrolet!
Save the low, low profit way!

The Internet Archive has a collection of some excellent old TV commercials, some with jingles. Here are some of my favorites, including an Ajax and a Corona (?) cigar commercial ("Come up and smoke me sometime!") animated by the great Shamus Culhane: http://www.archive.org/details/ClassicT1948_3

There's a list here:
http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=movies&collection=prelinger

You can get a list of the videos with commercials under
Advertising: Television Commercials

These are all before my time.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 10:13 AM

Not a jingle, but along the same lines:

Timmy, the Long Chevrolet newsboy:

Extra, extra! Read all about it! Long Chevrolet has more! More new cars! More new trucks!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 10:11 AM

(Sing-song:)

Ring-around-the-collar!
Ring-around-the-collar!

(Spoken:) Those dirty rings! You've tried scrubbing, soaking, but you still get

(Sing-song:)

Ring-around-the-collar!
Ring-around-the-collar!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 14 Jun 08 - 10:08 AM

Lincoln, Lincoln, I've been thinkin'
Better carpeting for less!
Call National two nine-thousand,
National two nine-thousand!

(With an infuriating catch on "two". At least, I think it was "two". For decades this has been floating around in my brain and I never had any doubt about the phone number --- until I tried to type it.)

Hudson three two seven hun-dred!
(Sung in a very low voice. This was the jingle for some other company, I can't remember which one.)

"Lincoln" and "Hudson" were the names of telephone exchanges (in Chicago). Using letters for the first two numbers is an old-fashioned way of giving phone numbers. Hey, is this the modern folklore?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Michael Vivrette
Date: 13 Jun 08 - 05:08 PM

Give him Doctor Ross Dog Food - do him a favor
It's got more meat and It's got more flavor
It's got more things to make him feel the way he should
(drop one octave) Doctor Ross dog food is Dog Gone Good! WOOF!!

I sang this around the house in the 50's and at parties now
Mom said too bad he was a John Bircher...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Guest Sunshine Girl
Date: 31 May 08 - 11:21 AM

Apologies for any duplicate

A million housewives every day - pick up a tin of beanz and say - beanz meanz heinz

Tressy - her - hair - grows

thank Crunchie it's Friday

clunk-Click every trip

Hovis - as good for you today as its always been

Matey bubble bath - It's so much fun to let Matey bubble and bub-bub-bubble us clean


Now you can use them - straight from the packet - whitworths are a girl's best friend(dried fruit)

Ring the bells for Christmas Timex, ticka ticka timex tra la la

Batgers silmos lollies ( I can only remember a fragment of the tune, but I am famed in my family for having sung this in the newsagents when I was about two)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,mike
Date: 31 May 08 - 08:45 AM

any one know
we can put you in a pickle etc etc

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rowan
Date: 27 May 08 - 01:13 AM

And now, returning to south of the equator, Sidchrome were the NAME brand of spanners until they got taken over 25 (or so) years ago. I can now only remember the first part of their jingle. In Oz accents it is;

Oh ya canna hand a man a granda spanna
than a Sidchrome,
than a Sidchrome
....
Perhaps someone will remember the rest.

Mortein (purveyors of flyspray) used to have a tag line "When you're on a good thing, stick to it!" and they also did a musical skit on Looie the Fly but I can't bring it to mind.

Tarzan's Grip was a popular adhesive sold in squeeze tubes (like toothpaste) and the ads had a tag line "Get a tube of Tarzan's Grip, the stuff that sticks!" which us smutty-minded schoolkids modified to "Get a grip of Tarzan's tube, the stick that stuffs!"

Sigh!

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Guest, just passin' through
Date: 26 May 08 - 10:26 PM

Milk, and butter and eggs, and cheese,
Fresh from the farm to you,
If you don't own a cow,
Call Cloverland now,
It's North 9 2222.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,on my mind
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 10:57 PM

I remember the jingle slightly different than printed
I remember -

Shredded Ralston for your breakfast
Start[s] your day off SHINING BRIGHT
[Gives you lots] of cowboy energy
With a flavor that[s] just right
It's delicious and nutricious
Bite size[d] 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: GUEST,Paul
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 01:59 AM

Does anyone remember this jingle, and if it can still be heard somewhere? It was from Exon, during the early 70's.

The words....OMG, I can still remember them, I think:

Let's make every mile count
You and Exxon
You and Exxon, we gotta make
Every mile count today

repeat


Email me a [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 12 Mar 08 - 04:00 PM

Guest, Old Bob,
    Thanks for bringing that one back. It was one of the original raps--no tune, just words. I think you left out a frying pan.
   
"You need more than heat, boy, according to Hoyle
You need popcorn, salt, butter and oil
And a frying pan, ot to be completely proper
You ought to have a popper."

    That was my introduction to the phrase "according to Hoyle." I didn;t learn what it meant until many years later.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,old bob
Date: 12 Mar 08 - 11:44 AM

easy pop popcorn. all you need is heat. you need more than heat boy, you need popcorn salt butter and oil and to be completly proper you ought to have a popper. well i dig it hip ole man easy pop pops in its own pan, you mean easy pop pops in its own man? now your swinging daddy crazy man. so why dont you make it with me to the grocery shop an we will each get a pan of easy pop and we will pop a little pop. pop pop pop well what do you know no muss no fuss theres easy pof for both of us.            i forgot acording to hoyle

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:50 AM

In the 1950s and early 60s, before credit cards were common, there were finance companies providing loans of up to a few hundred dollars. They advertised fiercely on the radio, at least in New York, e.g.:

When you're young
You have money to burn;
Later on
You owe more than you earn.
Relax and take heart,
Get a fresh start,
With cash from Seabord.
---
Never borrow money needlessly
But when you must,
Borrow from the oldest company
From those you trust.
Borrow confidently
From HFC.

(HFC--Household Finance Company)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,The Renaud Dauphine
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 04:31 PM

She gets full marks
Where ever she parks
The Renaud Dauphine - 1950's or early 1960's

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Sapper just over half way to Carlisle on the
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 08:01 PM

Who also remembers the singer Owen Brannigen doing the Newcastle Brown Ale and Amber Ale commercials?
Sung to the Chorus of Cushie Butterfield;

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: GUEST,Sapper waiting to start from Polmadie
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 02:51 PM

OK, what rotten sod revived this thread?

How about the OMO washing powder thread?

OMO washes not only clean,
Not only white, but bright?
OMO adds bright bright brightness!

OMO of course had another use. Certain ladies used to place it in the window to signify that the Old Man was Out!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 01:58 PM

Chicken Charlie, not sure if this is the one you mean, but I posted a youtube link in This Thread which has the Gillette parrot in it. It is a 58 minute long video of 50s and 60s commercials. The parrot comes late in it. There are some really funny ones in the video.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 05:29 PM

(1) Doctor Ross' dog food
    Is dog gone good!

(2) Lucky Tiger butch hair wax
    Keeps it up where you want it up,
    Down where you want it down,
    You'll be the livin' end
    With Lucky Tiger butch hair wax.

(3) Brylcream--a little dab 'll do ya!
    Brylcream--you'll look so debonair!
    Brylcream--the gals 'll all pursue ya!
    They'll love to get their fingers in your hair.

(4) Gillette had another operatic masterpiece for their razor blades, but right now I can't remember the middle part.

    How are you fixed for blades?
    ....
    Gillette Blue Blades, we mean.

That was crooned by an animated parrot with a straw hat and a cane. The others were radio bits.

What a walk down inanity lane! :)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Martie
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 02:21 PM

Hi again. I posted the jingle from the pampers commercial. After posting it here I did some research on google and was shocked to see that the "Jenny Rebecca" lyrics are actually a Barbra Streisand song from 1965! All these years I had no idea I named my daughter after one of her songs!!
Anyone remember..."I WANT MY MAYPO!"? It's maple flavored oatmeal or some kind of soft cereal. Maybe cream of wheat. I made my mother buy it for me back in the 50's because of that commercial. And I hated it!! It was a cartoon commmercial with a little kid with a cowboy hat on or some kind of big hat. And he's sitting at an empty bowl with a spoon in his fist, whining for his Maypo!
How about Tony the Tiger and his loud "They're GRRRRRRRRREAT!!"? (Frosted Flakes).
This is a great thread!! I think I'll run to the store now and get some Good and Plenty!! I remember that Charlie commercial!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:21 AM

The one that sticks most in mind is from the in-store radio station in Jacksons "Jacksons.. local people serving local people",
notable not so much for the lyrics as the fact that it sounded just like the Jackson 5!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:20 AM

The last line of the Royal pudding jingle was:

Than a whole pint of milk.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Martie
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:42 PM

I remember Pampers jingles from way back when Pampers first came out. I named my daughter after one of them in 1972!!
Jenny Rebecca....four days old....how do you like your world so far? There will be swings to be swinging on.....(I forget the rest!!)
There was a boy version with the same words only the name was "Christopher Michael".

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Stephen R.
Date: 15 Dec 07 - 11:46 AM

The last line of "Royal Pudding" may have been "...sweet, fresh milk."

Here's another:

The giant of the cereals is Quaker Oats
The giant of the cereals is Quaker Oats
Delicious, nutritious, makes you feel ambitious
The giant of the cereals is Quaker Oats.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Stephen R.
Date: 14 Dec 07 - 11:06 PM

Royal Pudding:
Rich, rich, rich with flavor,
Smooth, smooth, smooth as silk,
More food energy
Than fresh whole milk.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Stephen R.
Date: 14 Dec 07 - 11:00 PM

OK, I think I have the Cream of Wheat jingle whole:


Cream of Wheat is so good to eat
That we have it every day;
We sing this song
'Cause it makes us strong,
And it makes us shout "Hurray!"
It's good for growing children
And grown-ups too to eat;
For all the family's breakfast,
You can't beat Cream of Wheat.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Stephen R.
Date: 14 Dec 07 - 10:53 PM

Anyone remember what detergent claimed to contain "activated seismatite"?

Stephen