Jingles you remember.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: DMcG
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 10:47 AM

To the tune of 'Click go the shears, boys':

In come the dollars,
In come the cents.
To replace the pounds, and the shillings and the pence.
Be prepared folks, for when the coins begin to mix
On the fourteenth of February, 1966.

- A publicity campaign when Australia went through decimalisation. The odd thing is, I'm in the UK and have never been to Australia. That's what I call powerful advertising! On the other hand, I can bearly remember the UK campaign, apart from

Decimalisation, decimalize,
Decimalisation will change your life.
Decimalisation, decimalize,
Decimal Five.
Decimal Five.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 10:39 AM

I've forgotten the first verse of the DeSoto commercial that used to air on Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life." The rest of it, to the tune of Cole Porter's "It's De-lovely" went...

You can tell at a glance
That this swell car is far in advance
You can hear that great big engine murmuring low.
Rarin' to go.

So make sure you see and drive
The new DeSoto. Why, man alive!
It's delightful, it's de-lovely,
It's de- latest, it's deluxe, it's DeSoto!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 10:17 AM

Correction, FWIW: The Strauss waltz used for the Madman Muntz jingle was not "Vienna Blood", but "Artist's Life".

onlyonejudy: Thank's for the appreciation. I don't remember if Uncle Whoa Bill had a studio audience. I don't remember the bit about the string attached to the bedpost, either. That fellow must have had parents well in hand!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: mike_in_st_c
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 09:49 PM

Here are a couple I remember:
From the land of sky blue waters,
Comes a beer most refreshing.

And, If you think it's butter, but it's not...it's Chiffon!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: onlyonejudy
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 10:56 PM

On Steven Lodge's site "Behind the Scenes" he shows a photo of himself on the Uncle Whoa Bill show. Judy

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: onlyonejudy
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 09:07 PM

I just found this site; has this one been posted?
    Mommy, mommy, mommy, don't forget the Super Koola,
    ????? now in pop top cans.
    No return and no deposit
    No more empties in the closet.
    All the other kids are Super soft drink fans.
      
    Please, mommy, please    Super Koola?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: onlyonejudy
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 08:54 PM

I just found this site - I have been looking for Uncle Whoa Bill information forever. I was a member (probably 1944?) and had a button and Uncle Whoa Bill told me (on radio) to follow the string tied to my bedpost on my birthday and I would find my present. I remember this so well but I was beginning to wonder if it was real. I must have been four at the time. I also (think) I remember going to the show (did they have an audience?) and singing "Are you sleeping". Both of my parents have died and I had no one to ask.
I don't remember the Uncle Whoa Bill song though. THANKS for the memory confirmation!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 10:46 AM

Rizlone cleans out gum and sludge.
Try it and you be the judge.
Add a can of Rizlone today.
It's guaranteed.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Bob in Kansas
Date: 24 Aug 04 - 11:57 PM

Mabel, Black Label, The Champagne of bottle beer. Early 1960s. Remember the tune in Hialeah Florida radio commercials.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 09:12 PM

Brucie:

Andy Devine, the overweight guy in bucksins who yelled "waiiiiit fer me!" was Jingles on the Wild Bill Hickock show. Sponsored by Sugar Corn Pops. (Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops!! Sugar Pops are tops!!).

A

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Peace
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 09:09 PM

I remember Jingles from Hopalong Cassidy I think.?!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: el ted
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 04:11 AM

200. I thank you.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 06:08 PM

Yep, we spend the first part of our lives being hassled by our parents and the rest being hassled by our kids.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 06:02 PM

We go from being smarter than the old folks to being wiser than the young folks. %^)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 12:26 PM

I'd love to give it away but unfortunately I am saddled with it. There are compensations...age brings a certain amount of wisdom(I sometimes wonder if I have enough of that!). Best wishes.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 11:41 AM

Georgiansilver :

You are giving away your age?

Wherever did you find someone to take it?! Do they want any more?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 11:25 AM

Gonna give my age away now...."Whatever you do, wherever you go, let your constant companion be a radio,,,doo doo doo radio" followed by..."This is the BBC Light Programme and the British Forces Network in Germany, The Archers, An everyday story of countryfolk"
circa 1958+

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 10:53 AM

When I was about four (Los Angeles, early 1940s), I liked a radio program sponsored by the Bullocks department store & hosted by a character called Uncle Whoa Bill. In those days, parents usually monitored their children's listening, and so sponsors had to please parents to get at the children. This program featured propaganda in favor of good behavior. The host was named after "Whoa, Bill!", an injunction nominally addressed to a horse, but representing what you were supposed to say to yourself when tempted to naughtiness. That is, he was Inhibition personified. The opening jingle, TTTO "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean", went, pretty nearly,

Good evening. We are the Whoa-Billers.
Of dear Uncle Whoa Bill we sing
And Bullocks, the store that is friendly,
And this is the message we bring:

Whoa, Bill! Whoa, Bill!
How happy we are when we learn to say
Whoa, Bill! Whoa, Bill!
[last line forgotten]

Later on, my brother & I were partial to a singing commercial for a car dealer called Madman Muntz, TTTO "Vienna Blood". The only lines I remember are

For Muntz is on a selling spree
. . .
So buy your car from Muntz.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 01:14 PM

Little girls have pretty curls but I like Oreos,
Oreos my choice because its the very best cookie ever was,
Girls are nice but boy what icing comes with Oreos,
(spoken) Oh, well, all gone.
(finish with melody being hummed.)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 12:29 PM

Kool Aid, Kool Aid,
A five-cent package makes two quarts of
Kool Aid, Kool Aid,
Delicious Kool Aid, the drink we love.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 04:55 PM

25 Years ago there was Jewish programming on WNYM radio in Staten Island, N.Y. The Dov Shurin Show was one of the programs. It was sponsored by Quality Broadloom & Carpet, with 2 locations in Brooklyn.
Dov made up and sang his own commercial for this firm to the tune of the Hebrew song "Ashrei Ish Shelo Yishkacheka".

If you want some carpeting, carpeting, carpeting
If you want some carpeting, carpeting galore
Quality has carpeting carpeting carpeting
Quality has carpeting,a warehouse and a store

(Chorus) Quality Broadloom and Carpet 4618 - 16th Avenue
         Quality Broadloom and Carpet 816 - Coney Island Avenue

My wife thought it was the most obnoxious commercial she had ever heard.
                                          SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,M'Grath of Altcar
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 04:45 PM

Radio One is wonderful, like migraine headaches.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 04:35 PM

JOE, arriving in his car (speaking):
Hiya, Kate!
You've got yourself a date!
The gang's at the juke joint
So let's not wait!

KATE, leaning out her window (speaking):
Golly, Joe,
I can't tonight,
Just washed my hair
And it's a fright!

CHORUS (sings):
Aww, poo, poo, poo
Shampoo, poo, poo.
Shampoo your hair
And keep that date.
With Royal Drene
No need to wait.
Your just-washed hair
Won't fly about.
New Royal Drene
Can't dry hair out.

(A long suppressed memory from the depths of somewhere. Scary.)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 03:56 PM

Chock Full of Nuts is the heavenly coffee
Heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee,
Chock Full of Nuts is the heavenly coffee
Better coffee Rockefeller's money can't buy

And after the then Governor of New York State, Nelson Rockefeller threatened them with a lawsuit, the last line was changed to:

Better coffee a milionaire's money can't buy

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 02:03 PM

Ah yes, Cool Beans, I remember that Mad magazine parody of the Chesterfield jingle. I also remember a Mad parody of a magazine ad - it was for "Marble Row", indicating that this (a cemetery with rows of marble head stones) was where smokers likely would end up. "You get a plot you'll like with a Marble Row." - a parody of the jingle "You get a lot to like with a Marlboro, filter, flavor, flip-top box" (it was later modified to "...pack or box.")

Don

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 01:18 PM

Everyone should remember the Camels cigarette jingle sung to the tune of the famous Civil War song "Goobers Peas".

          Rich, rich, mild, mild, Camels cigarettes
          Tastes so rich yet smokes so mild, Camels cigarettes

That was the chorus. There was also 2 or 3 stanzas to the song. I have forgotten the words to those, but the first one was about a girl named Mary Lou. Anyone else remember the stanzas ?

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 10:48 AM

Yes, yes, I remember the Chesterfiled jingle, but have forgotten nearly all the words. What I remember better is the parody of the Chesterfield jingle in Mad or Humbug or one of the other circa 1960 humor magazines.
The Chesterfield jingle ran on TV and it showed some rugged individualist-type guy taking a cigarette break from his important macho work. So the magazine parody showed what we today would call a homeless person finding a cigarette butt in the street, and it went...

Hustling handouts, guzzling cheap wine,
Stopping people, asking for a dime,
Staggering and reeling you will find a man
Stoops and takes big pleasure when and where he can.
Chesterfind!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 09:37 AM

I heard this one the other day, after not hearing it for a few decades, and now it's in my head every time I go shopping. I might as well put it in your heads, too.

Bum Bum Bumblebee, Bumblebee Tuna,
I love Bumblebee, Bumblebee Tuna,
Bum Bum BUmblebee, Bumblebee Tuna,
Love my sandwich made with Bumblebee.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 08:54 AM

Some old Scottish ones - Drink the beer that's bright and clear drink Dryborough's keg heavy, or the terribly now not PC one for macaroon bars which went - Lees Lees more if you please always down on your bended knees for pickannies and grand pa pas it's Lees for luccious macaroon bars'

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: clueless don
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 08:47 AM

And the memories continue! I actually went to Freedomland when I was a lad (I was 10 for most of 1960.) I think I remember an "attraction" called "The Casa Loca", within which water seemed to flow uphill (there is a similar place today at Idlewild amusement park in Pennsylvania, called "Confusion Hill".) I seem to remember that when Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the USA, he requested permission to visit Disneyland, which was denied. But (once again, as I recall) he was given permission to visit Freedomland. I don't know if this recollection is true, or if Mr. Khrushchev actually visited Freedomland.

It isn't a jingle, but the reference to "The series of Heinz beans ads with the young lad in it" reminded me of the ad campaign featuring "H.J. and Heinz, the almost human beans".

To keep things on topic, here is another jingle:

They said it couldn't be done
They said nobody could do it
but L&M is low in tar
with more taste to it.
L ... and M
don't settle for any other
low tar
more taste
don't settle for one ...
without the other.

Does anyone remember the old Chesterfield jingle ("...stops and takes big pleasure when and where he can. Cheeesssssss...ter fieeeeld!)?

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: jack halyard
Date: 30 Jun 04 - 05:00 AM

"Chamber's caskets" is getting regularly sung at pub sessions in Sydney as well as by the Roaring Forties, one of Australia's great shanty singing ensembles.
As to memorable jingles;

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, I'm mean, I'm mighty unclean,
Afraid of no-one..
But the man with the can of Mortein.
Hate that word mortein.
(various choking and dying in agony noises)
One spray and Louis the fly-
Apple of his old mother's eye was louis,
Poor, dead Louis,
Louis the fly,
A victim of Mortein.

Performed with the right roaring-twenties gangster movie touch, it was perhaps Australia's zaniest ad.
Two that have stuck when I would prefer to have long forgotten them were;

"You'll look a little lovelier each day,
With fabulous pink Camay"
I hope the soap has ceased to exist.

The other- sang to the Toreador's song:

Use a Rolla door,
That's what it's for,
You'll get much more,
With a Rolla door,
A hundred and forty nine stock sizes,
Each is custom made,
DO NOT BE AFRAID!
Dependable as a clock,
The door with the centre lift lock,
You'll get much more with Rolla door.

There are others equally appalling, but those two are the most bubble gum- like for adhesion to inside surfaces of the brain.

                              Jack Halyard

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Seaking
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 02:43 PM

This is the Luxury you can afford - by Cy-ril Lord.   

I also remember a little ditty that went

'..when you stand in the bar and go home in the car
A 'Polis' Man may take you by the hand
and you'd wished you rode a nag - when you blow into the bag
When the breathlyser comes to Ireland..'


Mid 60's ??

Chris

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 01:51 PM

Freedomland is now the site of Co-Op City, in the Bronx. SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:51 PM

Aloha, Mark!
    Yup, 1960 would have been the golden age of Freedomland. I believe highrises now stand on its site but I can't verify that.
    Wish I could remember the final lines of the Freedomland jingle.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: muppett
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:46 PM

The R White (lemonaide) Ad, where the guy sneaks down t' fridge in his PJs & he opens it then goes into a rock n roll type song.

The Coco pops ad. where the monkey (Rick Mayal voice?) sings I'd rather have a bowl of Coco pops.

The clover Marg ad where they sing a jingle t' tune of the wild rover.

Any time, any place anywhere...................... that's Martini.

The nimble (bread) ad, She flies like a bird in the sky hi hi.

The series of Heinz beans ads withthe young lad in it (what's the demonstration Barry)

Webster's Pennine Bitter, Webster's Pennine Bitter etc, etc.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:34 PM

I loved Freedomland!!! It was laid out like a map of the US, with rides whose themes corresponded to the different locations. In the Chicago Fire, they had an old-fashioned fire truck that put out a real fire in a building. I grabbed the long wooden handle of the fire truck, which promptly yanked me up off the ground. I let go, fell off, and the handle hit me in the head! There was also the San Francisco earthquake, one of several in which you rode in a little car through a series of displays. The fake buildings fell down and "almost" hit you. Most of the rest is lost in the dim recesses of a child's memory, but thanks for reminding me, CB! That must have been the same trip to NY when we went to the Bronx Zoo and the Hayden Planetarium. I'm guessing it was around 1960--does that fit with Freedomland's existence?

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Walrus
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:29 PM

Reading some of these has reminded me of the 'Corona' soft drinks jingle:

"Corona - Sparkles up with joy,
"Corona - For every girl and boy
"Come drink it up to the very last drop
"It's got a sparkle in the middle and a tingle at the top."

As a sideline - At one point Corona did door-to-door delivery and, when Cyclamates (an artificial sweetened IIRC) were suspected to be carcenogenic and were banned the lorrys were posted with the message "Cyclamate Free!" across the back - A elderly neighbour, having bought several bottles demanded her "free" cyclamates - it took the driver some time to peruade her that she wasn't being fiddled out of a free gift.

Walrus

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 29 Jun 04 - 12:06 PM

Come on out to Freedomland
For the greatest time you've ever planned.
Fun and thrills go hand in hand
At exciting Freedomland.
Bring along that special date,
Come out early, stay late.
You can dance in the pale moonlight
On a riverboat every night...

As sung by Paul Anka for short-lived amusement park in the Bronx.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 11:28 PM

"Look for the package with the ship that sails the ocean"

That commercial was for Old Spice after shave lotion & deodorant. Not for Folgers coffee.

                                                 SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 11:24 PM

Maxwell House Coffee

               For flavor that's good to the very last drop
               Look for the jar with the stars on top
               The most happy flavor in the U.S.A.

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 09:36 PM

Wan't a nice cup of Folgers coffe from about 1959?

Said the Cap'n to the Bo'sun
Look for the package with the ship that sails the ocean

Fresh as a breeze, yoho,yoho

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 06:21 PM

Hoffman's was a brand of soda pop that was popular in the NYC metro area in the l950s. They had this jingle:

The prettiest girl I ever saw
Was sipping Hoffman right through a straw
The prettiest girl I ever saw
Was sipping Hoffman through a straw.

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 01:25 PM

I remember the Yonkers Raceway jingle as sung to the tune of Rossini's "William Tell Overture."
But I digress. What I wanted to contribute was this:

Merkel meats are so good, good, good.
Taste and quality, understood.
It's heard all over the neighborhood:
A great big Mmmmm for Merkel's.

Footnote: The Merkel's chain went out of business after they got caught selling kangaroo meat labeled as something more conventional. So much for taste and quality.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 01:13 PM

I remember when I was a child that Yonkers Raceway had a jingle to the tune of Stephen Foster's "De Camptown Races". All I remember of it was the second line of the chorus which was "Bring your gal along".
More recently, they ran a commercial:
   
            Clippety, clippety, clippety clop
            Yonkers Raceway hits the spot
            Trotting races each weekday night
            Yes Yonkers Raceway's where its at

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 07:15 AM

I know this is not an ad, but when I saw mention of the Yankee Doodle tune, I immediately thought of this one and had to post it. Believe it or not, a friend of ours sings this at sessions:

Roger Ramjet

Roger Ramjet and his Eagles
Fighting for our freedom
Fly through and in outer space
Not to join him but to beat him.

Roger Ramjet he's our man
Hero of our nation
For his adventure just be sure
And stay tuned to this station.

Come and join us all you kids
For lots of fun and laughter
As Roger Ramjet and his men
Get all the crooks they're after.

Roger Ramjet he's our man
Hero of our nation
For his adventure just be sure
And stay tuned to this station.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: darkriver
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 04:10 AM

Rabbi Sol,

thanks! You finally jogged my memory to recall something that HASN'T yet been posted!

[to the tune of Yankee Doodle]

R - O - N - Z - O - N - I
Is how you spell Ronzoni!
America's best spaghetti
And the finest macaroni!

And I never heard this on TV or radio (back when I COULD hear, in my childhood), but I did hear kids sing this one:

Carnation Milk is the best in the land,
Here I sit with a can in my hand.
No teat to pull, no hay to pitch,
Just punch a hole in the sunuvabitch!

doug

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 04:01 AM

Way back at the beginning of this thread, 'Spaw mentioned the Kent commercial, but he didn't give the chorus:

Happiness is...the taste of Kent
Happiness is...the taste of Kent
Happiness is...the taste of Kent
More taste, fine tobacco
That's what happiness is

There were other versions of "To a ____ it's a _____, to a smoker, it's a Kent" but I can't remember them.

Then there was the Winston commercial (this might have been the last campaign before they stopped cigarette commercials on TV) where they had some stuffy grammarian saying, "It's incorrect to say 'like a cigarette should,' it should be 'as a cigarette should.'" And then a whole chorus line would explode into:

What do you want, good grammar or good taste?
What do you want--
Good grammar or good taste?
Pardon our grammar, but...
Winston tastes good, LIKE a cigarette should

And remember the little kid walking down the street singing,

Oh, I'm glad I'm NOT an Oscar Meyer wiener,
That is what I never want to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener
There would soon be nothing...left...of...me...

At which point he ran into a crowd of kids with one girl who gave him a dirty look, and he sheepishly joined the crowd of kids singing,

Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener
That is what I'd truly love to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 09:02 PM

Cool Beans:

No, it was a real campaign. Not sure when, and I think it was on the radio. There is a Chambers Funeral home in Hyattsville, MD. on Rt. 1 just outside of Washington DC. Not sure if it was a chain or not. ANyone else have a Chambers nearby?

8-{E

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 05:41 PM

Ronzoni Sono Buoni
Means Ronzoni is so good

another spaghetti commercial

SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Cool Beans
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 10:21 AM

I love the Chambers Caskets jingle! But, seriously, was it a real advert or somebody's spoof? I mean, I've buried loved ones in my time and you go into the funeral home's casket showroom and pick one out based on price and personal taste. The brand name never comes up. I didn't even know there were brand-name caskets. Is/was this a British phenomenon?