Jingles you remember.

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: 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: 19 Feb 07 - 05:57 PM

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

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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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,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: Jim Lad
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 02:36 AM

Remembered the last two lines now. ("Blackbeard" was an ice lolly)




Now Blackbeard was a Pirate bold
And he sailed the Caribbean
He was ten feet tall and black as night
So they gave him a "Blackbeard"
and he took a bite.......
Now Blackbeard's Dead and gone
But the dreadful memory lingers on.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jim Lad
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 12:58 AM

And from down under.......

You need Uncle Sam
You Need Uncle Sam
It's the perfect protection
In the stars and striped can
It's the perfect connection
For fellas and girls
And under your arm
Is the top of the world!
*********************

You need all the teeth you can get
Uncle Sam's got a super set
An apple a day may be sweet
But try Uncle Sam's cleaning teeth!
********************

Now Blackbeard was a Pirate bold
And he sailed the Caribbean
He was ten feet tall and black as night
So they gave him a "Blackbeard"
and he took a bite.......
******************

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Jim Lad
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 12:50 AM

One Thousand and one
Cleans a big, big carpet
For less than half a crown
*************************

Things go better with Coca Cola
Things go better with coke
Life is much more fun when your refreshed
And Coke refreshes you best
(it's the refreshingness)

Oh, Oh, Oh, Things go better with
You'll go better with
Fun goes better with Coke
That real live one
Puts extra fun in you
And everything you do, so
Things go better with Coca Cola
Things go better with coke!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 11:33 PM

Hope this is not a repeat........

'All the dust, all the grit, Hoovder gets it every bit...
For, it beats as it sweeps as it cleans....'

Ah, ah, ah AH
BISTO gravy's best by far.

Have a break
Have a Kit Kat.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,shot synapses
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 02:55 AM

Don't cook tonight,
Call Chicken Delight!

Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat,
Rice-a-Roni, ... ... can't be beat.
(I forgot how it went, so anyone remember it?)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Fred Maslan
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 11:34 PM

This was sung barbershop style:

You get fresh,
Fresh delicattesan flavor
From Rath's Blackhawk
Ready sliced
Sandwich meats.

Rath wraps it up.
Hummmm...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 12:15 PM

Another one, for the awful beer Double Diamond:

Double Diamond Works Wonders
Works Wonders, Works Wonders
Double Diamon Works Wonders
So drink some today

(not 100% sure of the last line but it were summat like that).

Tune was "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza..."

A Watneys' Red barrel one was mentioned above. I remember one for that to the tune of Beer Barrel Polka "Roll out Red Barrel".

Any more beer jingles?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 12:07 PM

Another one that somehow sprang to mind:

We all like Ricicles
They're twiceicles as niceicles

(that's all I remember)

For Kellogg's Ricicles breakfast cereal, which IIRC were a sugar coated version of Rice Krispies (not sure if you can still get Ricicles or not? Haven't seen them for years).

I remember we had a 45rpm flexidisc of the song back in the 1960s. It featured the Enid Blyton kids' characters Noddy & Bigears (etc.) who at that time were used to advertise the cereal. The disc had a story on it, and the characters kept singing songs all saying how great Ricicles were.

Anyone remember it?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: oldhippie
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 07:38 PM

Wasn't there a jingle for Za-Rex?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bernard
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 06:40 AM

Just remembered the (UK) Shipphams Paste ads from the 1960s... tune - The Blue Danube... did we really eat fish paste sandwiches for tea?!!

Shipphams for tea (for tea, for tea)...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Shot Synapses
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 07:24 PM

Roto Rooter, Roto Rooter!

Hey Culligan Man!

LSMFT, Lucky Strike Means Fine Tabacco.

Brylcream, a little dab'll do ya.

Don't Cook Tonight, call Chicken Delight!

Horn and Hardart means less work for mother.

Halo everybody Halo,
Halo Shampoo, Halo.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rowan
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:06 PM

Thanks Jenny!

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:51 AM

And who could forget:

"I like Aeroplane Jelly, Aeroplane Jelly for me...

Everybody, it seems :D

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Blindlemonsteve
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:31 AM

Nerdy Bloke - How comes your such a big shot with the girls
Eddie - (In a really bad Elvis impression) Well you can tell what i´m drinkin that i´m really rather cool u hu hu.....then on in a greased lightnin type rythm about pepsi cola.....is it me, or does anyone else remember that.
R whites lemonade i´m a secret lemonade drinker, ive been tryin to give it up but it´s one of those nights... (Elvis Costello´s Dad you know)

Cook cook cook cookability, thats the beauty of gas

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:04 AM

GUEST,Jim gave some Bosco jingles and then said

I'm not even sure what Bosco was, but I remember that jingle.

As I recall, Bosco was a chocolate syrup, to be mixed with milk to make chocolate milk. A Google search confirms this: Bosco site .

As I recall there may have been some sort of bear mascot, and a jingle that went something like

Bosco drinks his Bosco
Bosco drinks his Bosco
Bosco loves his Bosco
You'll love Bosco too!

Or possibly it was "You'll like Bosco too!" I'm remembering this jingle very imperfectly!

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: JennyO
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 09:43 AM

Here's the whole Vegemite jingle, Rowan.

We're happy little Vegemites
As bright as bright can be.
We all enjoy our Vegemite
For breakfast, lunch and tea.
Our Mummies say we're growing stronger
Every single week
Because we love our Vegemite.
We all adore our Vegemite.
IT PUTS A ROSE IN EVERY CHEEK!
We're growing stronger every week!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 07:01 AM

Most people remember the UK Cadbury's ad 'Everyone's a fruit and nutcase' to the Tchaikowsky 'Dance of the Reed Pipes'...

Aye, with voiceover by the late Frank Muir.

I sometimes wonder whether I should be worried about the fact that I can remember stuf like 1960s advertising jingles when I can't remember important stuff that happened last week.

Glad to know I'm not alone in this respect!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rowan
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:03 AM

In the June 04 part of this thread there was some discussion of Chambers' Caskets by JennyO, Hrothgar, Jack Halyard and others. I suspect one of the reasons Australians of their vintage might be familiar with it is that Pageant included the song as part of their Death Bracket and it's on the cassette we released.

I was interested to see how many had crossed the equator; toothpastes of various sorts and Brylcreem are the only ones I recognise as having come south but I was fascinated to see that a Brit had become familiar with Australia's Dismal Guernsey advertising. Aeroplane Jelly features in the thread but, as a Victorian, it was unfamiliar to me until I started singing with Tony Suttor, a Sydneysider. He, on the other hand, was unfamiliar with the radio jingle of the '40s and early '50s advertising the Hoyts cinema chain; the ad and much of the chain died with the onset of TV in 1956.

To the tune of "The man who broke the bank of Monte Carlo"

Oh we can't show all the pictures
so we only show the best
the others show the rest
you can put it to the test.
So call your girlfriend right away
when she hears the news she'll shout hooray
you're happier in a Hoyts suburban theatre.

Now, if only I could remember all the words to

We're happy little Vegemites
we're happy as can be
we always like our Vegemite
for breakfast, lunch and tea.
We always love our Vegemite
We always have our Vegemite
it puts a rose in every cheek!

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 06:35 PM

First I'll confess that I stopped perusing and merely skimmed this thread about the time the discussions about sidekicks began, so plaease forgive me for repeating.
Pancho and Cisco finished each radio show with a joke from Pancho.
e.g.
Pancho:Hey Cisco, why does a giraffe have such a long neck?
Cisco:I don't know Pancho, why does a giraffe have such a long neck?
Pancho:Because his head is so far from the ground>
Cisco:Oh Pancho.
Pancho:Oh Cisco. Have a stick of Wrigley Spearment Gum.

Another jingle that comes to mind is:

I like Bosco, it's so good for me...
I must admit that's all I can remember of the real jingle, but of course kids sang:

I hate Bosco, it's so bad for me.
Mama puts it in my milk to try and poison me.
But I fooled Mama. I put some in her tea.
Now I have no Mama to try and poison me.

I'm not even sure what Bosco was, but I remember that jingle.

How many can remember the Wildroot Cream Oil commercials where Evil Eye Fleagle would say,"Get Wildroot Cream oil Charlie," and the answer would be,"But that would be illegal. My name is Fred."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 02:43 PM

Here is another commercial i really like

I can bring home the bacon..{Enjoli}.
Fry it up in a pan.....{Enjoli}.
And never ever let you forget you're a man,{Enjoli}.
'Cause I'm a WOMAN...with Enjoli.

Also, what about "let's give it to Mikey. He'll eat it. He eats everything"

"mmm mmm good mmm mmm good. That's what Campbell soup is mmm mmm good".

"Silly rabbit. Tricks are for kids".

"Two scoops of raisens in kellog's raisen brand.

from Blue Balloon

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 02:33 PM

Thanks, Don!!

I appreciate you posting that line.

I was telling my daughter about this thread, and she's wants to post some jingles too.

So, take it away, Blue Balloon!!!

* i wanna pop(pop,pop,pop,pop)i wanna, shasta! i wanna taste a taste pizazz, all in the great tastes that Shasta has! i wanna pop (pop,pop,pop,pop)

Here's another Shasta commercial from the 1980s that i found online, i do remember it though)

Don't give me that so-so soda, the same old cola, I wanna rock 'n rolla, I want a pop, pop, pop, I want a Shasta

*Frosty Lucky Charms, their magically delicious

*I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony, i'd like to buy the world a coke, and ????

* A Double pleasure is waiting for you, a double pleasure from double mint gum, double great freshness, double great ?? that makes u realize Double mint's the 1 for you.

*I don't wanna grow up, I'm a toys r us kid, ??

*What would you do for a Klondike bar ???

*plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relieve it is.

* Hamburger helper helps your family.. make a great meal.

* She wears short shorts ???? if you dare wear shorts shorts, Nair for shorts shorts

**These aren't jingles but i couldn't resist adding them**
Do you remember the commercials that used these lines?

Ancient chinese secret huh,

Betcha can't eat just one,

Thanks Easter Bunny (bawk, bawk)

I can't believe i ate the whole thing. you did it Ralph
                                              Thanks,                                          
Blue balloon (Azizi's daughter)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 01:50 PM

Azizi asked:

Does anybody remember the last line to this Post Sugar Crisp cereal commercial:

Can't get enough of those Sugar Crisps
Sugar Crisps
Sugar Crisps
Can't get enough of those Sugar Crisps
????

I remember it as

Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp
Sugar Crisp, Sugar Crisp
Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp
keeps me goin' strong!

or possibly "It keeps me goin' strong!" It was sung to the tune of "Joshua fit the battle of Jericho".

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 12:32 PM

Most people remember the UK Cadbury's ad 'Everyone's a fruit and nutcase' to the Tchaikowsky 'Dance of the Reed Pipes'...

But the tune was originally used for a margarine ad in the 1950s - 'Eat a bit of bread and Magic'... with a cartoon rabbit, as I recall!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:17 AM

The end of the Ipana Toothpaste jingle went:
Brusha, brusha brusha, it's better for your tee-eeth.
---
Bob and Ray were the voices of Bert and Harry Peil (Piel's Beer)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 09:52 AM

Does anybody remember the last line to this Post Sugar Crisp cereal commercial:

Can't get enough of those Sugar Crisps
Sugar Crisps
Sugar Crisps
Can't get enough of those Sugar Crisps
????

--snip-

It was sung by the character Sugar Bear and I now recognize that structure as one that was often used for African American spirituals.

Since this thread seems to be about what jingles we remember, I'll confess that I cheated and tried to find the last line by googling the first line of the commercial.

I found this website http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/890/. And I actually spent time d watching that 1979 commercial. But the last line was still not clear to me.

Now I can't get this jingle out of my mind. Maybe it'll go away if someone 'posts' its last line.

Please!!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 09:06 AM

And who could forget:

"I like Aeroplane Jelly, Aeroplane Jelly for me.
I like it for dinner, I like it for tea,
A little each day is a good recipe.
The quality's high, as the name will imply,
It's made from pure fruit, one more good reason why
I like Aeroplane Jelly, Aeroplane Jelly for me."

:D

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 08:52 AM

GUEST,Shot synapses recalled

50's Ipana toothpaste had Bucky the Beaver singing:
"Brusha, Brusha, Brusha, with the new Ipana, Brusha, Brusha, Brusha, with the new Ipana..." can't remember the rest

I remember it as "Bucky, Bucky, Beaver, new Ipana toothpaste, Bucky, Bucky Beaver, new Ipana toothpaste." Possibly both are correct, occurring at different times.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Shot synapses
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 07:20 PM

50's Ipana toothpaste had Bucky the Beaver singing:
"Brusha, Brusha, Brusha, with the new Ipana, Brusha, Brusha, Brusha, with the new Ipana..." can't remember the rest

The DoubleMint twins jingle began: "Double your pleasure, double your fun..."

Toni Shampoo slogan "Which twin has the Toni?" led to a lot of double entendre jokes.

Carling Black Label had a jingle that went "Hey Mabel, Another Black Label" or something like that. This was more often sung as a parody which went "Mabel, Get off the table, the dime is for the beer."

In the forties there was the bell-hop in the hotel lobby who shouted out "Call for Phillp Morris!!".

Also back then Buster Brown shoes had this ditty:
I'm Buster Brown,
I live in a shoe.
That's my dog Tye,
He lives there too.

And who could ever forget the obnoxious kid who repeatedly whined out:
"More Park Sausages Mom!!"?

BTW, the Serutan ad went: Serutan is Natures spelled backwards, not the way you have quoted it.

In NYC Piel's Beer had a cartoon pair called Harry and Bert Piel, but I don't remember any jingle. Maybe someone else...?

Castro Convertible Sofas also had a jingle in the 50's that escapes my memory.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,vorblesnak
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 02:38 PM

Four little pizza's from Chef Boyardee
Four little pizza's just as quick as you please
Pop em in the oven just as fast as you can
One for momma
One for poppa
One for sister
One for brother
But if you just want a snack
You pop the other three back
Doot doo doo, doot doo doo
Doot doo doo
Chef Boyardee


Pardon us for butting in
But your laundry is a sin
It's mearly clean and white
"But what's better than that?"
Bright!

Bold goes beyond clean and white
Bold goes all the way to bright



How about great moments at breakfast with Rice Crispies

No more Rice Crispies
We are out of Rice Crispies
My tears will not stop
Till I hear snap crackle pop ..


OR

Wake up, wake up, wake up
Let me help you to wake up
Kellogg's Rice Crispies my dear
Snap crackle pop in your ear ..

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Scrump
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 10:19 AM

A lot of the ads mentioned here (mainly from the US) were used on the British offshore 'pirate' radio stations in the mid 1960s (Kent cigarettes, Coca Cola, Consulate menthol cigarettes, Doublemint Gum, etc.). There were also these (among others): Findus Fresh, Start the Day with Weetabix, Sunsilk shampoo ("four kinds of..."), Vitalis, Bulova watches, Palmolive shaving cream("smoothest way to start the day"), Juicy Fruit gum, etc. Some of these were used on TV as well as radio.

Some of them were released in the UK on CDs in the 1990s, along with CDs containing the pirate stations' own station ID jingles, e.g. the famous PAMS jingles for Radio London and Radio England, Britain Radio, etc. Anyone remember them?

I don't think any of these CDs are still available but anyone interested might find them on ebay or somewhere.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 10:17 AM

I can't believe I read the whole thing.

Long-running supermarket add from deep in the heart of Dixie:
From the welcome, to the checkout,
You're in a better mood,
When you're in a Piggly Wiggly,
Buying Piggly Wiggly food.

The worst one I ever wrote, a radio commercial for a local rug merchant to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Repubic, started off:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of a rug that's sold by Ford,
They are clearing out the warehouse where the rolls of rugs are stored...
Thankfully I can't remember any more of it.
- Phil

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 08:26 AM

My boloney has a first name is the one. And both were mid- to late-70s in Atlantic City, NJ (which also gets a namecheck and some nostalgia earlier - I love this thread!) We also used to do a four-way handclapping game to Rockin Robin (slightly OT, I know, but Rockin Robin was turned into the Rocky Robin jingle for Rocky chocolate biscuits in the UK!)


Oooh, speaking of UK ones, I can't believe no one's mentioned the one to the tune of Boney M's The Israelites:

Wake up in the morning wanting my breakfast
Which kind of spread do I put on my bread?
Ohhhhhh-Oh, Vitalite!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 07:55 AM

Thanks, Ruth for that mention of turning ad jingles into handclap rhymes.

Would you please specify which Oscar Myer Bologna jingle you referred to. Was it my Bologna has a first name etc.? Also, in which geographical location{s} and during which time period {decade}do you remember these being turned into handclap rhymes?

With regard to the examples I cited-the McDonald "handclap rhyme" was mid to late 1980s or 1990s {sorry I'm not sure-in Pittsburgh, PA and Cleveland Ohio areas}

And the Kit Kat "handclap rhyme" was early 2000s, Canada.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 07:43 AM

Aunt Jemima's homemade pancake batter
For Aunt Jemimas that taste just great
No measurin no mixin
Just real easy fixin
3 minutes from package to plate

What walks downstairs, alone or in pairs
and makes a slinkety sound?
A spring, a spring, a marvellous thing
Everyone knows it's Slinky.
It's slinky, it's slnky, for fun it's a wonderful toy,
It's slinky, it's slinky, it's fun for a girl and a boy

Do you know exactly how to eat an oreo
Well to do it, you unscrew it very fast
cause a kid'll eat the middle of an oreo first
and save the chocolate cookie outside for last
(this last one we turned into a clapping game, along with the Oscar Mayer bologna one that's further up the thread)

You deserve a break today
So get up and get away to McDonalds...we do it all for you...

Cause the milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hands (M&Ms)

Well imagine your surprise, when you realise
Reeses' peanut butter flavour's inside
Reeses Pieces, Reeses Pieces

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: autolycus
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 06:26 AM

i remember the dancing milk bottles' tune and wish I could remember what the tune's called. it was a popular novelty instrumental on the Beeb in the 50s.






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Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 04:05 AM

'You're lucky, you're in Tolly country!'

'I have personally won over two million pounds with my amazing Infra-draw method!' (Keynsham, Bristol, spelt K-E-Y-N etc).

'Caroline, the sound of the nation!'

'Wonderful Radio London!'

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 07:35 PM

Oops! {Preview should be my friend-How many times do I say that? That's a rhetorical question}

Here's the whole McDonald's commercial that I should have posted:


Big Mac,
Filet-O-Fish,
Quarter Pounder,
French Fries,
Icy Coke,
Thick Shake,
Sundae and Apple Pie.
You deserve a break today. At McDonald's
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

-snip-

Question: Does anyone else remember this last line as part of this commercial? Or do you remember reciting this line with that commercial?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 07:31 PM

Thanks for the trip down memory land.

Here's a commercial from the 1950s or early 1960s

[setting: a little boy pretending to be a choo choo train]:

Charlie says
Love my Good & Plenties.
Charlie says
Really rings the [my?] bell.
Charley says
Love my Good & Plenties.
Don't know any other candy
that I love so well.


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Here's another one from the 1950s:

Jump!
It's fun!
Jump!
It's easy!
Jump!
We love to play Parchesi

[Parchesi was {is?} a children's board game].

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GUEST,[e-mail] posted this commercial to this thread on 20 Oct 04 - 04:06 PM

"Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, French Fries, Icy Coke, Thick Shake, Sundae and Apple Pie. Beat, Beat, Beat and the dish ran away with the spoon".

My daughter remembers doing a handclap rhyme to this chant based on that commercial:
"Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, French Fries, Icy Coke, Thick Shake, Sundae and Apple Pie. You deserve a break today.And the dish ran away with the spoon".

She thinks was mid to late 1980s but she's not sure. Can someone confirm that? Also, I find it interesting that someone else remembers adding the line "and the dish rang away with the spoon" to this chant. Was this line {and the "You deserve a break today" line} in the original jingle or did kids just add it {those two lines?}

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The Kit Kat Bar jingle {posted on this thread by GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 04:12 PM} with basically the same words given by Guest is also being used as a two partner children's handclap rhyme. The onlyu difference I've found is "Choclaty coating gonna make my day".

I'm curious do folks know of any other commercial that was converted into a children's handclap rhyme or jump rope rhyme?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,dangerous
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 12:50 PM

Two questions:
1 Websters pennine bitter tune from about 1980. I think that it was called cornet & clarionette, but does anyone know better? It was a brass band test piece I think.

2. Dancing milk bottles to a xylophone tune, which may be the grasshopper dance, again does anyone know better?