Jingles you remember.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sixtieschick
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 08:33 PM

Clueless Don, I think they may be verses from the same Pepsi jingle--it did go on. Actually, the first four lines I quoted were the bridge. Some popular singer of the time--it might have been Eydie Gorme--sang it at least once. I was a kid then, and it still rattles in my head!

M.

Subject: "Why dont you pick me up & smoke me sometime?"
From: Genie
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 08:29 PM

The Muriel cigar commercial is coming back to me.
From googling it, I learned that it was Edie Adams who crooned the Muriel cigar jingles for 18 years. (I didn't know her name at the time I saw the commercials). One jingle was a parody of "Hey, Big Spender" from "Sweet Charity."

But the one I remember started out,
"I'm today's new muriel, the fine cigar
(something something something something something) by far.
(Can't recall the next line.)
"Why dontcha pick me up an' smoke me sometime."

But as I recall it, it was done as a voice over for a cartoon (female) cigar clad in a sort of "harem" outfit.

According to a post at this website this takeoff on Mae West was banned as too risqué for TV at the time.

Subject: Bryllcreme jingle
From: Genie
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 08:13 PM

As Jimmy Buffetts sings in the song "Pencil-thin Mustache,"

Here's the whole jingle:

"Bryllcreme,
a little dab'll do ya.
Use more only if you dare,
But watch out!
The gals will all pursue ya.
They love to run their fingers through your hair."

Thanks to this website http://www.able2know.com/forums/about42165-10.html

for jogging my memory of the rest of the jingle.

Genie

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sapper82
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 11:14 AM

On Tyne Tees TV in the '60s we had "John Collier, John Collier, The Window To Watch"!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 10:33 AM

sixtieschick, your Pepsi jingle sounds like a follow-up version of the jingle that went

The modern crowd
today agrees
if you think young
say "Pepsi please!"
So pick the right one
the modern light one
now it's Pepsi ...
for those who think young.

sung to the tune of the old song "Makin' Whoopee".

(or maybe it was "So pick the light one, the modern right one" - memory fails me!)

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sixtieschick
Date: 15 Jul 05 - 01:17 AM

When you say, 'Pepsi, please,'
You're putting yourself among
people who like their leisure
With Pepsi, the drink that's young.

So go ahead,
and say the drink
That lets you drink
As young as you think.
You've picked the right one,
The modern light one.
Now it's Pepsi,
For those who think young.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Eye Lander
Date: 14 Jul 05 - 01:54 AM

'You're never alone with a STRAND' (it was a cigarette)!!
Was actually spoken not sung, so not really a jingle but this jogged my memory and of course because it is about cigarettes being advertised... shows my age.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 08:58 PM

one for the teenagers!


OBJ OBJ
Finest drink in the world today
Lifts you up when you are down
you will never wear a frown
Oh Be Joyful!

and

I told 'em
Oldham!

and

take the tip
the tip is the trend
and the trend
is to bachelors

and

Take a tip, take a Bristol
todays cigarette is a bristol
its a real cool flavour you'll never forget
Bristol is today's cigarette

and we smoked our players!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Kaleea
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 08:30 PM

I used to drive my mother crazy when I was little by singing all the jingles for most every product while we were grocery shopping. A couple of years ago I was discussing jingles with my nephew, who was 32, and asked him some of his earliest jingle memories. He remembered one from when he was a toddler & cable TV was new, the Chicago Empire Carpet jingle:

five eight eight, two three hundred, Empiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiire.

Then he picked up the phone & called them. They were some financial company & get occasional calls from people all over the country who remember the jingle.




for the Hamms jingle & other beer jingles:
(sorry, couldn't get the blue clicky to work today)

a recording of old commercials:
http://www.beerchurch.com/be

for a piano midi of the Hamms tune,
scroll down to bottom of page:
http://mmd.foxtail.com/Sounds/hamms.html

From the land of sky blue wa-a-ters
                              wa-a-ters,
From the land of pines, lofty balsam,
Comes the beer refreshing,
Hamm's the Beer Refreshing".
    (da-da-dum-dum-dum)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 11:15 AM

Mommy, mommy, mommy, don't forget the Super Koola,
    And the other Super soft drinks,
    They're in pop top cans.
    No return and no deposit
    No more empties in the closet.
    All the kids are Super soft drink fans.
      
    Please, mommy, please    Super Koola?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 09:53 AM

Glad you're finally getting some sleep, Peace. My wife says I have that effect on people. Peace, Peace.

And getting back to old beer commercials:

Make it clear, make it Schaefer.
When you do you always will.
Make it clear, make it Schaefer.
Our hand has never lost its skill.

Schaefer Beer used to sponsor Brooklyn(sniff!)Dodgers baseball games.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Genie
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 09:41 PM

Here's all I can recall of the 1950s commercial lyrics (from the very early days of TV).   I can clearly picture the cigar clad in a belly dancer type outfit, cooing in her best Mae West voice:

"Oh, I'm today's new Muriel, the fine cigar,
...
...
Why don't ya pick me up and (provocative pause) smoke me sometime?"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 05:11 PM

Hey thanks Beans. Dang. I thought for twenty minutes about that, then thought another ten. Still got it wrong. Appreciate you solving a mystery that has plagued me for years. I suppose I could have looked it up on the 'net, but it's been one of those things I always thought would wake me at three in the morning with one of those 'eureka' things. I haven't slept right in fourteen years. I will now. Merci, Danke and Thanks again.

Subject: Jingles you remember. - Rheingold beer
From: Genie
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 05:07 PM

Thanks, Beans!

You jogged my memory, and everything you posted is as I remember it (post-jog). But I'm pretty sure sometimes they did use the last line I posted
"Rheingold the dry-flavored beer!"

Could be they revised the jingle a bit over the years. It was the early 1950s when I used to hear that jingle (in NY and NJ).

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 04:14 PM

My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer.
Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer.
It's not bitter, not sweet,
It's a dry-flavored treat
Won't you buy extra dry Rheingold Beer?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Genie
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:41 PM

[I'm] Reingold the king of the dry beer
Pick up Reingold whenever you buy beer.
It's not bitter, not sweet,
It's a [fine-flavored?] treat,
Reingold the dry-flavored beer!


The words in parentheses I'm not sure of.   Anyone remember the exact lyrics?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 11:37 AM

Up above (on 12 Feb 05), GUEST,chicky5 asked "What are the words to the Oreo jingle? :^{ ".

It is probably available on the net, but here is what I can remember off the top of my head:

Little girls have pretty curls
but I like Oreo.
Oreo's my favorite because
it's the very best cookie, ever was.
Girls are nice but, oh, what icing
comes with Oreos....

I think there is more, and I probably botched a word or two (for example, it might be "*boy*, what icing...").

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 07:24 PM

The New York Public Library had one that went:

Oh, the place for you
And the place for me
Is the local public library.
They've got books and things
That they lend for free.
It's the latest, it's the greatest
It's the library.

There's a verse, too, but I can't rememrber it.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RobbieWilson
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 06:59 PM

Two of my fanourites are Scottish adverts for fizzy pop.

Irn Bru, nade in Scotland, fae girders.

and
Vimto, it tinkles rught up your nose.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,George
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 06:33 PM

Re: The Spaniel

I stumbled across this thread (goodness knows if I'll ever find it again) and I do have the complete text for "The Spaniel". It's in "We're Still Using That Greasy MAD Stuff" (c)1959, 1963, E. C. Publications, Signet Q6499.

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."

Then 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 with voice so clear -
Speaking out like Jack Lescoulie, 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 -
    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!"
    Quoth the spaniel, _"Eat Kraft Cheese!"_

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: NormanD
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 06:26 PM

ITV, mid-late 1950's: Coates Cider

"We all likes drinking cider
When we watch the tv show
'Cos Coates comes up from Somerset
Where the cider apples grow"

All sung in country-bumpkin West Country zummerzet voices. Come to think of it, haven't The Wurzels built their whole career on this?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,rickz
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 03:55 PM

Bat Goddess, what a great name.

Re: The Spaniel

I have the poem in a paperback Mad collection in my garage and was
hoping I wouldn't have to go dig it out. But since there are now TWO
people that want to read it (you and myself) I guess I'll have to
go get it. I think it starts out something like this:

Once upon a midnight cautious, while I pondered nearly nauseous
over some advertising copy I had wrote for Macy's store...

The spaniel also says "Buy a Ford".

Stay tuned.

Rick

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,chicky5
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 07:43 PM

What are the words to the Oreo jingle? :^{

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 03:03 PM

Please send me the words to the jingle from St. Joseph's Aspirin that begins Pump, Pump, Pump......and tells the story of the blood flow through the heart and body.

Thank you.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Swave N. Deboner
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 12:09 PM

"Justa' one Cornetto,
Geeve eet to me,
Deeleecious ice cream
of Eetalee."

(Tune: O Sole Mio, from a Wall's Cornetto TV advert, ITV, mid 1980's, I think?)

Best damn ice cream cone I ever et.

(Sorry if I misspelled "Cornetto")

Swave N. Deboner (pronounced SwAYve 'n Dee-boner)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Frug
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 11:16 AM

What's got a hazelnut in every bite?..............Topic
(Also squirrel sh*t!!)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 07:06 PM

Cocil-LA
LA-la, la-LA, la-LA,
Cocilana Cough Nips.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 22 Oct 04 - 08:57 AM

This one is rather specific to the Washington DC area, around the mid to late 60's, I would say:

Eddie Leonard sandwich shops, you should try 'em
for the very best in sandwiches, just buy 'em
no matter where you are
you'll find that you're not far
from an Eddie Leonard sandwich shop

So take that short ride
for a long, large measure
of sandwich
or pizza pleasure
at an Eddie Leonard sandwich shop
you're never far from an Eddie Leonard sandwich shop

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: *Laura*
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 01:58 PM

Bring on the branston,
Bring on the branston,
Bring on the branston...
TANG

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 10:47 AM

If you're a pizza fan
You will adore Doran
There's nothing beats-a
This home-made pizza.

To the tune of "La donna e mobile" (apologies for the spelling) from Verdi's "Rigoletto."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 07:08 PM

The whole egg, The whole egg,
The whole egg goes into Hellman's real mayonaise
Hellman's is so good so many ways
Cause Hellman's is the whole egg mayonaise

                                          SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: *Laura*
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 04:16 PM

Theres a *great* one on the radio around where I live - perhaps some of you have heard it:
(sung in lame voice to a crap tune)

"Hey Westcountry!
Westcountry wi-indows"

but I always find myself singing:

*Life tastes good - coca cola*

*Washing machines live longer with Calgon!*

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 04:12 PM

Don't forget Roto-Rooter...

"... that's the name, away go your troubles down the drain"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 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.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,The Slinky jingle
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 01:44 AM

They walk downstairs,
Alone or in pairs,
And make a slinkety sound.
A spring, a spring,
A marvelous thing---
Everyone knows it's Slinky.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky---
For fun, it's a wonderful toy!
It's Slinky, it's Slinky---
It's fun for a girl and a boy.
It's fun for a girl and a boy.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From:
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 10:21 AM

Why can't I find anywhere the complete lyrics to the Oreo cookie song?

oh oh oh who's that kid with the oreo cookie?.....

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 10:33 AM

The Oasis commercial chorus:

Smokers who know
Now smoke the Big O.
Smokers who know
Now smoke the Big O.
O flavor, O freshness, Oasis!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Franz S.
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 08:10 PM

I'm pleased that at the moment the thread adjacent to this in the listing is the one on the Alzheimer's parody of Last Thing on My Mind.

Shredded Ralston can't be beat!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:05 PM

There was a commercial for Oasis cigarettes called "Smoke The Big O". I forgot how the chorus went. I do remember one of the stanzas.
         
                For a better taste
                Each and every light
                The Oasis box
                Is flavor tight
                                          
                                        SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Vixen
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 02:54 PM

Ro--oa--d lo-o-ve
Ro--oa--d lo-o-ve
It's you and Renault
And the road that you're driving...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 02:16 PM

GUEST,linda,

You wrote:

how about the early '70's PSA:
Buckle up for safety, buckle up!
... I think it just repeated.

I remember it. It was to the tune of "Buckle down, Winsocki". Some lines I think I remember are:

Pull your seatbelt snug
give an extra tug
buckle up for safety
buckle up

and

When you're driving, please
tell your riders, please
buckle up for safety
everybody buckle up!

or something like that.

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 10:56 PM

For the first time in your life
feel really clean
get that Zest Glow
from head to toeZ-E-S-T...ZEST!

It's Cream of Wheat weather we repeat
So guard your family with hot Cream of Wheat

St Joseph's Aspirin for children
Buy it mothers, and be wise!

Candy coated popcorn
Peanuts and a prize
That's what you get with Cracker Jack!

Thanks to GUEST for reminding me of the words to the Old Spice song. Remember the ruggedly handsome Sea Captain with the bag over his shoulder helping some floundering nerd out of a romantic problem by tossing him a bottle of Old Spice?

Couple of local Kentucky classics...

Ballard Flour
Ballard makes a better batch o' biscuits
Ballard self-rising flour
now has ovenrize
Ovenrize! Ovenrize!
If you like biscuits tall and tender
Ovenrize! Ovenrize!
If you like biscuits then remember
Ballard Flour (etc)

For Odem's Tennessee Pride Sausage..
For real country flavor
the best you ever tried,br>Look fer me on the package of Tennessee Pride!
It's real country sausage yes sirree
The secret of the goodness is the recipe
Now before this song is done all played
Mr Odem will tell you how it's made!

(Voice-over of Mr Odem describing the mouth watering process)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,linda
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 10:39 PM

how about the early '70's PSA:
Buckle up for safety, buckle up!
... I think it just repeated.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: NightWing
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 09:41 PM

And, of course, as soon as I clicked the Submit Message button, I remembered:

It takes to hands

To handle a Whopper:

The big, juicy burger from

Burger King

NightWing (again)

P.S. Sorry for the spacing thing. Thought I had that right?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: NightWing
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 09:33 PM

Nobody has mentioned the *other* Oscar Meyer jingle (which I remember through having recently learned a very bawdy parody):

My bologna has a first name:

It's O-S-C-A-R.

My bologna has a second name:

It's M-E-Y-E-R.

I love to eat it every day

And if you ask me why I'll say

That Oscar Meyer has a way

With B-O-L-O-G-N-A.

For some alcoholic beverage by a company called Martini & Rossi (I don't do mixed drinks, so don't know any more than that):

Martini & Rossi on the rocks

(repeat)

Say Ye-e-es!

For the United States Army:

Be all that you can be

In the Ar-rmy

There's lots more to it, but I can't remember it.

For Coca-Cola:

It's the real thing (Coke is)

In the back of your mind (Coca-Cola)

What you're hoping to find

Is the real thing

(Coke is)

Miller Beer (if you can call it "beer"):

When it's time to relax,

One beer stands clear. (beer after beer)

Well if you've got the time,

We've got the beer (Miller beer.)

And finally the creme de la creme. I could only remember the parody of this one...

McDonald's is your kind of place.

They serve you rattlesnakes,

French fries between your toes,

Hamburgers up your nose.

The last time that I was there

They served me underwear.

McDonald's is your kind of place.

...so I went out looking for it. Oh, the horror! Click the "View the famous 1966 commercial" link down near the bottom of the page.

McDonald's is our kind of place.

It's such a happy place.

Hap, hap, happy place

A clean and snappy place.

McDonald's is our kind of place.

It's such a happy place.

McDonald's is our kind of place.

[spoken] Your kind of place.

[voiceover with ad copy]

McDonald's is our kind of place.

It's such a happy place.

McDonald's is our kind of place.

[spoken] Your kind of place.

Oh my! It's even worse than I had thought. *LOL*

BB,

NightWing

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 08:21 AM

"Louis the Fly" is still the base of their ads today...

Mortein's ad line used to be
"When You're on a good thing, stick to it" - and it was delivered vocally by John Laws - the logo was a dog going hell for leather while having his rear end stung...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,DocArn
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 12:30 AM

Re. Freedomland.
you can download there commercial jingle(s)[audio!] from the web - don't have them in front of me now. I do remember one of them, only remember first line or so:
'Mommy and daddy take my hand
Take me out to Freedomland'

And, yes, was there once in life and indeed seemed to beat out Disney; you participated in the different themes. They also used to have entertainment for the 'parents' come nightime, maybe other times. Probably the first time my parents actually left me out of their sight.
Now, Co-op city stands there.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: MBSLynne
Date: 17 Sep 04 - 04:50 PM

I'm Louis the Fly,
I'm Louis the Fly,
Straight from rubbish tip to you.
Spreading disease with the greatest of ease,
Straight from rubbish tip to you.
I'm bad and mean and mighty unclean
Afraid of no one
'Cept the man with the can of Mortein.
Hate that word Mortein.

One spray and Louis the fly,
Apple of his old mother's eye was Louis,
Poor dead Louis,
A victim of Mortein...Mooorteiin.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 17 Sep 04 - 04:09 PM

"Just one Cornetto - give it to me!
Delicious ice-cream from Italy!"

Most of the jingles I remember from the early seventies had been satirised to include our Headmaster and other notable school characters. But get MBSLynne on the subject of Louis the Fly or Masters Choc Milk...

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 17 Sep 04 - 02:37 PM

Vaseline Hair Tonic
Grooms to last, last, last!
While it fights
Dry scalp fast.
You'll look your best much longer
Fight dry scalp and dandruff, too.
Yes, Vaseline Hair Tonic
Goes on protecting you.
Vaseline Hair Tonic
Grooms to last, last, last!
While it fights
Dry scalp fast.