Jingles you remember.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 26 Aug 07 - 06:06 PM

Pamper, Pamper, new shampoo.
Gentle as a lamb, so right for you.
Gentle as a lamb?
Yes ma'am.
Pamper, Pamper, new shampoo.

(US TV jungle, before Pampers became a brand name for diapers.)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 12:41 AM

Mattel's ad for a vanity in the 60's. Oh how I wanted that thing!! My parents wouldn't buy it. Been traumatized ever since!

A little girl
Becomes a lovely lady
With a vanity all her own

You get a beauty brush and comb
Just like Mommy's very own
And some makeup just like Mommy uses
But it's yours alone

A little girl
Becomes a lovely lady
With a vanity all her own

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,mollieb
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 04:13 PM

who did the ad "all day strong,all day long"? Was it for Lifebuoy soap?

Subject: RE: "Uncle Whoa Bill" 1930's Radio Program
From: GUEST,GUEST: Helen
Date: 29 May 07 - 12:57 PM

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Tim theTwangler
Date: 15 May 07 - 02:21 PM

How about "Use your old coppers in sixpenny lots"
For the Decimalisation of £sd to the "New moneY"
There was another that semed to be THe words decemalistaion Decimalise Decimalisation will change your lives
I think I was scarred for life by those two.
Now How many groats was an Aztec bar?
Hmmmm
One for Geaorgian Silver I think.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Breebamac
Date: 15 May 07 - 01:57 PM

To the person trying to remember the St. Joseph Aspirin jingle...It's my favorite!

pump pump pump pump pump pumps your blood...
the process begins with the right atrium
with CO2 that enters the heart
through bicuspid valve, the right ventricle,
coronary artery, and lungs
once inside the lungs it pumps the carbon dee-oxide
and frees up its oxygen supply
then its back into the heart through the coronary vein
left atrium and left ventricle
pump pump pump pump pump pump...

It was fun to memorize and helped me through many biology courses in college!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 14 May 07 - 08:58 AM

This one was bouncing around in my head the other day:

Drink new Patio
Diet Cola
refreshing way to stay slim!
It's sugar-free, low calorie
get true cola taste,
while you trim.
Try it, Patio,
Buy it, Patio,
Diet Cola today!

It's possible that I have "Try it" and "Buy it" transposed.

Patio Diet Cola was a Pepsi product back in the sixties, I believe.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,jon steele
Date: 13 May 07 - 11:36 PM

I remember the words submitted by Mark Cohen, except the line
"tell your riders please"
I remember as
"tell your passengers please"

My memory is from 1960s NY City television channels.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,edgebander
Date: 11 May 07 - 04:01 PM

You`ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 11 May 07 - 01:33 PM

Powder your teeth,
Powder your teeth,
Powder your teeth,
Don't paste 'em.
For the cleanest, whitest
Teeth of your life
Powder your teeth,
Don't paste 'em.

US radio commercial from the late 1950s. Can't recall the specific brand of tooth powder.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,edgebander
Date: 11 May 07 - 10:06 AM

Websters pennine bitter=Cornet carillon by Ronald Binge.Look him up
and you`ll be surprised by how much you already know about him!

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

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: 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: 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: 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,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,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,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
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: 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,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: 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
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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 01:52 PM

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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,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: 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: Jim Lad
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 03:50 PM

Go through your old posts?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Scrump
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:35 AM

Aye thart reet Alec. It were George Lazenby.

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 - 09:13 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.