Jingles you remember.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 14 Dec 07 - 09:50 AM

Here's couple, from the same add if I remember rightly:

'Happiness, happiness, is the boat that we possess...'

'Villa in Spain we adore you; we've waited twenty years for you...'

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,DonD
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 03:41 PM

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Cresta? ------ Blanca!

Cresta Blanca Wine!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 12:57 PM

Old spice means quality, said the captain to the boatswain, so look for the bottle with the ship that sails the ocean. Yo HO!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: topical tom
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 12:19 PM

"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz,
    oh, what a relief it is!" (Alka-seltzer or Bromo-seltzer, I can't
    remember which)

    "You'll wonder where the yellow went
    when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,John
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 12:42 AM

Re: GE Christmas commercial

There's love and laughter in the air
It's joyous as can be
Let Christmas light your happy heart
May GE light your tree.

Would you know where one could get a copy of this radio commercial?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Susan B
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 12:43 PM

Thank you, sapper82 (that could be a jingle!).

What about the rest of:-

I like a nice cup of tea in the morning
I like a nice cup of tea.....
.......
I like a nice cup of tea with my tea
And around this time of night
Just to make the day end right
I like a nice.. cup.. of tea

Can't remember what it advertised (please don't all chorus 'tea')

Susan B

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sapper82
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 11:54 AM

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Susan B - PM
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 11:27 AM

Not seen this before and it has set me off:-

Opal fruits
made to make your mouth water

Susan B


Fresh with the tang of citrus,
Four refreshing fruit flavours,
Orange, Strawberry, Lemon, Lime!
Opal fruits
made to make your mouth water

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Susan B
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 11:27 AM

Not seen this before and it has set me off:-

Opal fruits
made to make your mouth water

Susan B

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Susan B
Date: 16 Nov 07 - 11:09 AM

To a march tune:-

HP baked beans
They're the beans for me
HP baked beans
They're the beans for tea
They're the beans
We all love best..
H P
Baked beans

To an eastern sounding tune:-

Fry's Turkish Delight
Full of Eastern Promise

Then there was the slogan "Go to work on an egg", which must have been around in the early 70s as I remember seeing a parody with a cartoon sperm.

Susan B

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Bobby Bob, Ellan Vannin
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 11:44 AM

"1001 cleans a big big carpet, for less than half-a-crown.......for less than half-a-crown."

Back in the mists of time - well, 18th October 2002 - Shambles referred to the 1001 advert. But before that line, the start of the jingle was -

1001, 1001.
Get rid of that work-a-day frown.
1001 cleans a big big carpet,
For less than half-a-crown.......for less than half-a-crown

There was also the Murray Mints series, including the astronaut at countdown:

5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . Blast off.

"You'll just have to wait. I'm too busy finishing my Murray Mint, the too good to hurry mint."

Followed by the jingle: "Murray Mints, Murray Mints, Too Good to Hurry Mints".

There was a public service film about The Thieves' Kitchen. I suspect that there was a verse before this one, but this is the bit I remember:

"Out for a minute? Not going far?
Don't close the door, dearie, leave it ajar."
Yes, leave it ajar, yes, leave it ajar
"And we'll nick yer TV without saying 'Ta'."


There was a family in a car heading home to watch a programme on TV. I may have the times wrong here!

Wife in front passenger seat to driver: "Faster, George, that programme starts at 6.15!'"
Grandma (from the back seat): "Slow down, George, it doesn't start till 7.20!"
Children (from the back seat): "Quick, Dad, it's on now!"

Followed by the jingle:

The only way to see
What's coming on ITV
Is to go and get the TV Times!

They don't really seem to go for jingles as such anymore. They've gone for linking commercial recordings with products. Still, at least it spares us from

More reasons to shop at Mor-risons.


Shoh slaynt,

Bobby Bob

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,2641 Frey Court
Date: 14 Nov 07 - 11:12 PM

Jingles that still resonate in my head:

Schaefer is the one beer to have if you're having more than one...

Hush Puppies are fun...

Hot Tamale Candy a delicious(?) something something (??? anyone know?)
When you bite a hot tamale, it gives you a bite right back...

Sometimes you feel like a nut
Sometimes you don't
Peter Paul Almond Joy's got nuts
Mounds don't
Because...
Sometimes you feel like a nut
Sometimes you don't

I'm a chiquita banana
And I'm here to say
I'm the top banana
In the world today
I am the top banana...


Try White Cap!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 10:14 PM

Brush your teeth with Colgate
Colgate Dental Cream
It cleans your breath
What a toothpaste
While it cleans your teeth

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,weirdgoodmemorychick
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 10:51 PM

all the bright exciting new Buicks, are here

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 01:28 PM

whitbread big head,trophy bitter
the pint thatthinks its a quart
its got the body that satisfies
it cant be modest no matter how it tries

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,mejb
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 10:56 AM

Beer at home means Davenports
That's the beer
Lots of cheer
The finest malt with hops & yeast
Turns a snack into a feast
Straight from brewery to your home
Why collect
We'll deliver
Soon you'll know why folks all say
Beer at home means Davenports!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Young Buchan
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 07:58 AM

Cadum for Madam (It was a soap bar)

Someone has just mentioned the Mars a day ad: that jingle was written by Murray Walker - may not mean much to the American audience, but over here he was known primarily as a motor-racing commentator with a singular lack of ability to get things right.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Young Buchan
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 06:35 AM

As children we rendered the abovementioned Pepsodent ad as:
You'll wonder where your dentures went
When you brush your teeth with wet cement!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: melodeonboy
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 01:46 AM

Well, that reminds me of another one:

It's in the bag, it's in the bag,
It's in the bag, it's in the bag.
Brooke Bond tea in tea bags!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 10:47 PM

Don't wrap it, bag it, with Baggies -- it's in the Bag! New tear off plastic bags on a roll, Great idea, bless my soul! Don't wrap it, bag it, with Baggies -- it's in the Bag!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: paula t
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 07:15 AM

How about..
"Opal fruits. Made to make your mouth water."
"Mackeson. It looks good, it tastes good-and by golly it does you good!"
"Watch out! Watch out!There's an Ernie about!" (milk advert!)
"A Mars a day helps you work rest and play".
"Up and down, up and down , till they're clean and sparkling" (public information film about how to brush your teeth)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 08:52 AM

Since Melissa mentioned McDonald's, here is an old jingle from a McDonald's competitor that didn't survive - Burger Chef:

For fifteen cents
a nickel and a dime
at Burger Chef
you'll eat better every time!
'cause a nickel and a dime will get:
french fried potatoes,
thick, thick shake,
or the very best
fifteen cent
hamburger yet!

I'm reminded of a catch line from an old (American) TV show, "The Naked City" - "There are six (?) million stories in the naked city - this has been one of them." Well, old jingles are continually bubbling up from the dim recesses of my memory - this has been one of them.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Melissa
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 02:59 AM

"I am stuck on Band-aid 'cause Band-aid's stuck on me."

"The taste will tickle your fancy..and the bubbles will tickle your nose." Squirt/Sprite/Fresca? Something like that.

For McDonald's, I remember the "cup ran away with the spoon" part as being sort of a 'shave and a haircut' end for the commercial--not exactly part of the 'You deserve a break today' thing.

For Oreo, the one I remember starts "Who's that kid with an Oreo cookie, (something) together (something) forever, what a classic combination..."

This is a FUN topic!
M

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,George
Date: 22 Oct 07 - 10:36 PM

I wish I could remember a Philadelphia jingle which ended in a singing of the telephone number... Sagamore 2-2900 from the early 50s. Many people recall the jingle but no one knows the company or product being advertised. Any help from the old timers...
Thanks, George

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:00 PM

Cadbury's Hazelnut chocolate was once advertised with the jingle,

'What's got hazelnuts in every bite?'

Uncouth persons used to utter the response 'Squirrel shit!' at the tops of their voices.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: CapriUni
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 01:05 AM

Thansk Guest of Sept. 22, 10:27p! I knew I was close...

Any idea why they scrapped the lyrics altogether instead of just changing "tuna" to "salmon"? It still scans well...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 10:27 PM

Meow Mix complete lyrics circa 1972: I love chicken, I love liver, I love tuna, Please deliver! Now you know What cats like best: I't meow mix, meow mix, Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow .... instrumental continues.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,AshburnStadium
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 06:20 AM

More Philly jingles:

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! (still aired in the wee hours on KYW-1060)

KYW, Newsradio, 1060! (spoken:) From Independence Mall, this is Newsradio, KYW, 1060 on your dial, serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
(Their traffic reports still open with car horns doing the KYW jingle: C,C,B,A,G; going down the scale)

Everybody goes to Gino's - 'cause Gino's is the place to go!
(for good sirloin burgers - and for many years in Philly, it was the only place to get Kentucky Fried Chicken)

Nobody bakes a cake as tasty as a Tastykake! (still their jingle)

Call For Action! GReenwood 7-5312! (WFIL, later WPVI, 6-ABC's consumer hotline)

It's not a fancy salon, it's nothing but a Quonset hut! But...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!

The home of happy auto parts where saving money starts - at Jimmy's Used Auto Parts!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,l goodman
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 11:41 PM

Hey Moonstruck, I found your post in a google search for: "I don't see a dog, do you see a dog?" I was telling my kids about this ad, and I too wasn't sure if maybe I'd imagined it. Have you gotten any other information on that ad?

And what is Mudcat Cafe?

lee goodman

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 05:25 PM

I found this example while searching the Internet for something else. Some folks from the UK might remember this ad:

"There's an ice cream van that has been coming around here on nights of resonable weather and the tune it plays is 'O Solo Mio' which a lot of Brits of a certain age will associate with a long running advert for walls ice cream Cornetto's and hence that is what I end up singing as the van comes around (Just one cornettoooo, give it to meeeeee, delicious ice cream from Italyyyyyy).I found an energetic version of this on the same tape as the Steve Reich and Prefab Sprout Interviews though I've only placed an extract here as the full tune is the only tune available on iTunes (link here iTunes required) from Pookiesnackenburger who I believe were from Brighton and who had founding members who went on to form Stomp.

All together now…

Just one Cornetto (extract)"

[go to this website http://stuffem.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/tape-archive-just-one-cornetto-1985/ and then click on the sound thingy]

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Stringsinger
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 03:59 PM

Christianity hits the spot.
Twelve apostles, that's a lot.
Father, Son and the Holy Ghost,
Christianity is the most.

Bottled at Jones University, SC

Frank

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Relson
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 01:02 PM

"What's half the fun of having feet?
Red Goose Shoes
Whose low price gives Mom a treat?
Red Goose Shoes
Lots of value for the price, shoes that fit, style that's nice
Red Goose Shoes
What shoes are sold just down the street?
Red Goose Shoes"

also "Sorry, Charley only the best tuna can be Starkist."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Guest_uscriders
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 12:22 PM

My faulty memory (it has been over 50 years) was:

Sunny Boy
Sunny Boy
it's a bottle of drinking joy
needs no sugar
pure delight
needs no sugar
tastes just right
Sunny Boy
Sunny Boy
low in cost you know
so giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up go
get Sunny Boy

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 09:50 AM

Here's two websites that I just found for information & videos about popular jingles from way back when:

http://www.tvparty.com/vaultcom2.html

and

http://www.80stvthemes.com/commercials/

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Sorry if the links to these websites are already posted on this thread}, but since this thread is kinda long :o} it's not gonna hurt to post them again.

Enjoy!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 09:43 PM

Myst,
I remember the duckling and the dog.
And also
Ken-L Ration
Lean red meat
What we doggies
Love to eat!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: MystMoonstruck
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 08:39 PM

I felt bad about repeating information that I hadn't noticed above, then I noted that a number of us have done that. Considering our history of being deluged by advertisements, it's not that surprising that we're compiling so much and sometimes repeating some, as I did with Chiquita Banana and a couple of others. I see that someone previously quoted the anti-Oscar Meyer boy completely, recalling the complete stanza. Yea! It was fun to read.

I didn't see if the musical percolator product was identified. My mom and I think it's a Folger's ad. Or, was it Maxwell House? See? We might remember the ads, but often the product is forgotten. They should remember to include the product's name IN the jingle, true?

Someone wrote this:
A candy bar jingle... "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't."
That was Almond Joy and Mounds. "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got nuts. Mounds don't. 'Cause sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't!"

Also, some cigarette advertised with the jingle "A silly millimeter longer..." I think that also led to the "cigarette break" in which the longer cigarette helped stave off a firing squad, got caught in an elevator door, and many other odd situations~or so I recall. In one ad, they featured the leaning horse from "Cat Ballou", the one Lee Marvin credited part of his Best Actor Oscar to: "I think half of this belongs to a horse somewhere out in the Valley." I seem to remember that this as showed a gypsyish-appareled man taking the product's vaunted extra-long break before repairing the caravan, and the horse was leaning against the wagon, apparently napping while awaiting repairs.

This thread is quite addictive! I promise: No more entries till someone else comes along.

I wonder: Can posts me edited so that I could put info together? I don't see an edit button anywhere.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: MystMoonstruck
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 04:59 PM

old commercials on YouTube!

I hope this will work since I used the "blue clicky". It's a link to YouTube, where you can look at lots of old commercials, including an array of Jolly Green Giant ones, starting with the original B&W version!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: MystMoonstruck
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 04:35 PM

Pits! That's it! Shows you my totally wonky memory, with it's on-and-off retrieval. Stan Freberg did the voiceover on the TV commercials, too. Actually, I think that he designed that campaign for them. One ad had a rather stuffy-looking gentleman being talked into trying a prune. While he approved the absence of a pit, he did note, "They're still rather badly wrinkled." Then, that grand voice would announce, "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles!"

"Purina Cat Chow~Chow Chow Chow!" Remember the lady chachaing with her cat?

Great! It's not just Mom and me who remember that Rival ad! It's weird how some campaigns imbed themselves so thoroughly in our minds that they pop out at odd times.

Now, if I could find someone who remembers the ducklings eating the dog food, I'd reach a further state of bliss. *giggle*

I remember Oscar Meyer's ad with the contrary little boy:
"Oh, I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Meyer Weiner. That is what I'd never want to be. For if I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner..." I don't remember the exact wording, only that he runs into a disapproving group of children then joins them in singing the usual jingle. It was an animated commercial I think.

"Hot Dogs, Armour Hot Dogs
What kind of kids love Armour Hot Dogs?
Big kids, little kids, kids who climb on rocks.
Fat kids, skinny kids, even kids with chicken pox love hot dogs,
Armour Hot Dogs. The dogs kids love to bite!"

Wow! What nook or cranny of my brain did that emerge from?

Actress/model Barbara Carrera had her screen (OK~TV screen) debut as the personification of Chiquita Banana. I admit that I found these lyrics, which seem to differ in places from what I remember:
"I'm Chiquita Banana and I've come to say
Bananas have to ripen in a certain way.
When they are fleck'd with brown and have a golden hue,
Bananas taste the best and are the best for you.
You can put them in a salad, You can put them in a pie aye
Anyway you want to eat them, It's impossible to beat them.
But bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator.
So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator. No no no no!"

I think most of the informative lyrics were lost on young ones as we went from a cartoon banana to Ms. Carrera. The Chiquita site I checked did admit that there have been lots of rewrites since the Forties.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 12:35 PM

MystMoontruck, you are not insane. I remember the Rival Dog Food (arf arf! arf arf!)commercial. And "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles" ad for pitted prunes. I believe Stan Freberg did 'em on the radio. And boy, do you know your obscure actors!!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: CapriUni
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 12:17 PM

Okay, this is half-remembered, but does anyone else remember fully the original "Meow Mix" lyrics?

Something along the lines of (sung melodiously by a live action cat):

"I love chicken, I love tuna! I love liver,
Please deliver Meow mix to (something, something)..."
Into a fast patter song.

And it ends on an enunciated "me-ow!"

Then, the announcer: "Meow Mix. So good, cats ask for it by name."

Later, it was discovered that too much tuna is bad for cats, and they changed the recipe, so they did away with the lyrics, and now, it's a can just singing "m'yow, m'yow, m'yow, m'yow!" to the same tune.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,labbie
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 08:59 AM

Can someone please tell me who sang and who were the actors in the old No More Rice Krispies song in operatic form? I am looking for a copy. I want to share it in my acting classes I'm teaching.
Thanks,
Labbie Dabbie

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: john f weldon
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 08:52 PM

German oopah-band style...

Oh Brew me no Brew mit artificial bubbles...
Those carbonated beers of today!
Utica Club still takes the troubles
To age beer the natural way!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Y_Not
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 08:25 PM

I remember the watch adverts that used to hit the tele in TIME for Christmas.

Go take a jump off Blackpool Tower (tra la la la la la la la la)
Hit the gound at ninety mile an hour (tra la la la la la la la la)
Although your blood wil be freely flowing (tra la la la tra la la la la la la)
Your Timex watch will still be going (tra la la la la la la la la)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: MystMoonstruck
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 07:32 PM

"It's Shake & Bake!"
"And I helped!"
(mother and daughter to hubby/dad)

I don't know if I missed this along the way, but, to this day, my mother cannot hear "Blue Danube Waltz" without singing:
"Get Rival Dog Food! (dog barking quite musically) Arf! Arf! Arf! Arf!" (Try it!)

By the way, Festus on "Gunsmoke" was played by Ken Curtis (who used to sing with The Sons of the Pioneers and also was a writer/director). I tried reading all of the responses and might have missed someone answering it already.

As for "Jingle Bells", was it "Floating heads! Floating heads!" that you remembered, with Santa, seated on the electric shaver's much-vaunted "floating heads" for a smoother shave, snowboarding over the hills? That seemed to be trotted out every Christmas for a number of years in the Sixties.

"From the land of sky blue waters..." (with "Indian" chants and tom-toms sounding throughout the jingle~though I don't recall the rest of the lyrics~something like "Hamm's! The King of Beers!". I think that was Hamm's being hawked by a cartoon bear and all of his animated woodsy buddies.

"I'd walk a mile for a Camel." (After smoking a number of years, the customer wouldn't be able to walk a mile, but people didn't seem to think about that then.)

"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!" It was for some butter substitute, but I don't recall which. Mother Nature was played by Dena Dietrich.

How about the little argumentative tub of Parkay~first "Butter!" then "Parfaaay!"

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing!" There were so many Alka Seltzer commercials, all of them very clever. They also had "Mama mia! That's-a specy spicy..." after the man in the commercial within a commercial had to keep eating during endless takes. What about the new husband whose wife is doing some experimental cooking? I think it was something like "I've never seen a meatball that size," from the ill-looking hubby. I can't remember the recipe she happily proclaims at the end of the commercial, perhaps sweet and sour something.

I don't remember much of this one except for "Hi, guy!" (delivered by big, genial Chuck McCann) and "Mona!", an end line that was an ad lib by an actor whose name slips my mind for now. Oh! It was Bill Fiore! Remember the commercial with the shared medicine cabinet, in which the slight, darkhaired man opened the cabinet door to come face-to-face with the guy in the next apartment? It was very cute and funny, and I think they did at least three of them. For the life of me, I can't remember WHAT they were advertising. Maybe it was a deodorant.

Speaking of Lark set to "The William Tell Overture": That set off a hilarious set of commercials that led to Clayton Moore in Lone Ranger regalia confronting the Lark guy about using HIS theme! Teehee! Later, Totino's Pizza Rolls (I believe it was) joined in the fray; their ad featured a takeoff of the Lark spokesman, talking people into trying a pizza roll, then the Lone Ranger AND Tonto (Jay Silverheels) entered the scene! I LOVED these ads! Talk about crossing universes! I just might have those on a VHS of classic ads.

Does anyone remember the amazing musical number that Great American Soups did with actress/singer/dancer Ann Miller as the housewife who launches into a song-and-dance number to tell her husband about all of the GAS (*giggle*) flavors? The kitchen set split in two and slid aside to reveal a stage worthy of an MGM musical. I don't recall the lyrics except for one line: "Let's face the Chicken Gumbo and dance!", at which point she goes into a wild tap dance routine. When she ends up in her husband's arms in the classic dip position, he wearily asks, "Emily, do you have to make such a big production of everything?" Mom and I still use that line when something seems overboard, too elaborate. By the way, it WAS excellent soup! My favorites were cream of mushroom and chicken noodle, and I probably WAS influenced by the ad.

I have memories of a dog food commercial in which you saw only the large dog's long legs, the food dish and a gaggle of ducklings that scurried around eating kibble from the dish and where it was spilled on the floor. In a voiceover, duck dialogue was supplied, something like: "I don't see a dog." "Do you see a dog?" "I don't see a dog!" etc. Most people look at me as if I've gone mad when I talk about this commercial. Anyone else remember it? If my mom didn't, I probably WOULD think it's my imagination.

In another dog food ad, the wife keeps telling the husband about the "lion food" they need to but. The husband says, "But Bijou isn't a lion!" Then, they show a tiny scruffy dog, and the wife says, "HE thinks he is!"~at which point, the dog emits a lion's roar.

The same company did a reverse ad, in which the husband says, "But Bijou isn't a dog!" Cut to very large lion lounging on couch (if I recall). "HE thinks he is!" She delivers that line in that babying tone some of us use with our pets. Again, I haven't a clue what brand this was for.

I remember jingleless ads: "The Teaberry Shuffle" and "No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In" (Alka Seltzer). The latter instrumental was actually "Music to Watch Girls By"~I think; isn't it by the Bob Crewe Generation? Was the shuffle tune an original because my mind keeps bringing up a Herb Alpert tune ("The Spanish Flea?").

Oh! Remember the Alka Seltzer ad in which the guy sat in one chair with his cartoon stomach in another, arguing over what should not be eaten. "You eat pepperoni pizza, you're gonna get heartburn!" the stomach warns him. Or, was that for Rolaids? Commercials can become entertainment but leave you at a loss what they're advertising.

Wasn't there an ad for prunes: "Today the flavor! Tomorrow the wrinkles!"? They did several of these. In one, Ray Bradbury made a guest appearance, denying that he predicted that people in the future eat prunes!

"Where's the beef?!" was delivered by Clara Peller (Or, is that Pellar? I really should have checked.) But, which burger-seller was it for? Again, remember the commercial but forget the brand seems to be the norm--at least for me.

"In the valley of the Jolly~Ho! Ho! Ho~~Green Giant!" That even inspired a rock 'n' roll song!

I really have to stop this and do something else! But, this certainly is a brainshaker!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Stephen R.
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 11:56 AM

"The cool shades of evening their mantle were spreading,
As Mary, all smiling, was saying so clear:
'Come, darling, let's toast as we did at our wedding,
And drink to our future with good East Side Beer.' "

Anyone remember that?

And there were more East Side pastiches of oldies--"In the gloaming" &c--but I can't recall the words.

Stephen

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Dana
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 12:05 PM

I posted the following (see below) in November and December 2005. Then no one posted in the "Jingles you remember" thread again until... February 2007? Is that possible? I'm stilling humming these jingles and interested to hear if anyone remembers the rest of the words, or for that matter, even remembers the jingles period. I really hope that I don't somehow kill the thread again! I'm friendly - honest. :-)

Dana

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Dana
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:40 AM

I don't think these have been mentioned:

For Nabisco Premium Saltine Crackers (circa 1964):

Premium Saltine reclosable pack,
You open 'em up and you close 'em back.
They stay crisp until
You get to the very last cracker.
Premium Saltine!

Fig Newton (same era):

The one and the only Fig Newton is a very remarkable thing...
(don't remember the rest, although the tune's still with me; may have been a girl on a tree swing in the TV commercial; anyone?)

It ended with: The one and the only Fig Newton is a very remarkable, very remarkable, very reMARKable thing!"

Others have mentioned a couple of sixties-era Chef Boyardee commercials (e.g. the "French school kids" one for Spaghetti and Meatballs: "Come when the bell calls (tolls?), spaghetti and meatballs"; and, another for Ravioli: "Ravioli, we like ravioli..."). There was a third one in that series, I believe for Beefaroni, featuring "British" school children. I don't know the name of the "English sounding" tune was or all the words, but there was something about "oodles and oodles of big (tasty?) noodles, and beef, tomato and cheese" -- or something like that.

But the one I wish had *never* aired was for Del Monte canned juices. I was in fourth grade when this one was popular and my last name was "Belmonte" back then, so you can imagine the rest:

Del Monte fruit juice drinks, so fresh, so light.
Del Monte fruit juice drinks -- good morning, noon or night!

Fill in the gaps where you can. Hope I helped folks remember some more jingles/ads.

and...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Dana
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 08:45 AM

WOW! Ten years of posting to various web forums and internet newsgroups and I've *never* totally killed a thread anywhere! Until now, it seems. :-)

It's been a month and a half since I tossed in these jingle fragments and not one person has anything to add?!?

Gee whiz. I was even on topic in this "off" topic discussion. I'm amazed (and I think I'm talkin' to myself - ack!).

I guess I'll just slink back into the darkness, humming a 40 year old TV jingle about canned pasta 'cuz I can't remember the WORDS!!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 09:31 AM

GUEST,Guest (10 Jun 07 - 12:41 AM),

You mentioned "Mattel's ad for a vanity in the 60's." I believe the product was called "Budding Beauty Vanity". I'm remembering "Budding Beauty Vanity - by Marx!", rather than Mattel.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Joe_F
Date: 27 Aug 07 - 09:18 PM

TJ: I thought the Tom Mix tune was that of "When It's Roundup Time in Texas". It began

Shredded Ralston for your breakfast

& ended

Take a tip from Tom:
Go and tell your mom
Shredded Ralston can't be beat.

but I can't remember what went in between.

I never presumed to tell my mom any such thing. I knew perfectly well that french toast, waffles, and pancakes (especially in the shape of people) were much better.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 27 Aug 07 - 01:18 PM

Good grief! I never thought to see this dumped on a "folk" pile. However, having grown up in central California in the forties and fifties.........

I remember a classmate in business school who worked for Wrigley Co. I remarked that I had begun to hate that jingle, "Double your pleasure, double your fun, etc." for Doublemint gum. He replied, "Yeah, but you can't get it out of your head, can you?" Point taken - reluctently.

I'm surprised no one has resurrected the hoary old "Chester and Miss Kitty" jokes.

I remember, too, the Tom Mix radio show in the forties, sponsored by Hot Ralston cereal. The theme song was "Pony Boy." Anyone remember that tune?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Don Firth
Date: 26 Aug 07 - 06:52 PM

I note that someone posted this above. But not who did it. I remember hearing when I was a little squirt, back in the 1930s:

Rinso White, Rinso White
Happy little wash-day song.

For the radio jingles, this was sung by 9-year-old Belle Miriam ("Bubbles") Silverman.

Better known later as Beverly Sills.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: COINWOLF
Date: 26 Aug 07 - 06:20 PM

The jingle of morris dancers in the streets of Upton.

The next jingle is the third week of September at the Upton Feel Good Festival where the town celebrates the change from Upton under Severn to Upton Upon Severn.
(best flood picture goes to Chinese national news site)