Jingles you remember.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 09:39 PM

Ya better get Wild Root Cream Oil, Chaaarly!
Start using it today!!
You'll have a hard time, Charley,
Keeeping all the giruls a-waaaa-ay!

LOL!!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 09:49 PM

Note to self: If you're going to cut and paste a message instead of typing it up here, it's a real good idea to do the cutting and pasting before hitting the submit button.


Okay dammit! Somebody help me remember the rest of the words to the Chocks Vitamin jingle. Well.... it wasn't really a jingle because it was only spoken, not sung. The words I can remember are:

They're newfy, poofy, pillowy thingamazees
With a flavor you'll favor
A fruit tasting one
Making taking Chocks vitamins
Plenty of fun

Obviously, there were words preceding what I can remember and probably additional words after.

Anybody else remember any?

Bruce

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 12:11 AM

Aha! 1961!

Well with the rap of a hammer (rappa rat tat)
Or just a little bit more (rappa rat tat)
Washington Builders
Will make the whole place look
Like it never did before,
Washington Builders,
Call Sunset 3,2,4....oh 4.

or

Brusha brusha brusha
Get the new Ipana
With the brand new flavour
Its dandy for your teeee-eeeeth.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: sharyn
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 01:56 AM

Is your engine sick and tired?
Want your car to run like new?
Automotive Engineering
Pleases thousands -- why not you?

...

It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so wonderful
It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so different
More raisins! Lots more raisins!
More raisins than you have ever seen before
If you like raisins, plump juicy raisins,
You'll like Post Raisin Bran more

...

And for those of you who rememember cigarette commercials there was a very complicated rhyming jingle with the punchline of "To a smoker, it's a Kent."

...

If you've got a hanker and a real big hanker for real good coffee this is it Dum-de-Dum
New Nescafe is Dum-de-Dum Powerful
Dum-de-Dum Powerful
Powerful Good!

...

I'm sure there are more: they'll probably show up in my sleep or during my next meditation retreat.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mudlark
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 02:42 AM

Charley Noble...Was the last line of the Crm of Wht song something like "So why not start your breakfast (or morning) with...a bowl of C of W? It seems like with so much of it I should be able to remember the rest. Unfortunately, I'll be working on it...

Wasn't there a song for Bosco too?

A candy bar jingle... "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you dont."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,KT
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 03:03 AM

Charley and Mudlark, here ya go:

Cream of Wheat is so good to eat
That we have it every day.
We sing this song, it will make us strong
And it makes us shout HOORAY!
It's good for growing babies
And grown-ups too, to eat
For all the family's breakfast
You can't beat Cream of Wheat!

And who can complete these....

Tan don't burn.......
Aunt Jemima....
MMM, MMM good.....
Everybody doesn't like something....
Kool aid , Kool aid....tastes great....
Buckle up for safety, buckle up......
It's not fried, it's.....
Bit O' Honey goes a long, long way....
It's Slinky, it's Slinky.....

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 10:17 AM

Thnaks so much, Guest KT! Now I can relax, sit down and shovel in a soggy spoonful of that oh so delicious Cream of Wee-wee.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 11:01 AM

Strong Wilhelmina eats her farina,
H-O Farina, cream farina
Smooth and delicious, All boys and girls love it so,
H-O

To the tune of a Viennese waltz, (Estudiantina, I believe):
My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer,
Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer,
It's not bitter, not sweet,
(something, something, rhymes with eet)
Why not try extra dry Rheingold Beer?

Brush your teeth with Colgate,
Colgate Dental Cream.
It cleans your breath (What a toothpaste!)
(forgot the last line)

I thought it was kind of sad that when Dinah Shore passed away, all the TV and radio news stories could play was the Chevrolet jingle (mentioned above). What a way to be remembered.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Shambles
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 11:07 AM

I now notice we stopped twice at the ESSO sign! Sorry I didn't see the first posting of it.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 11:23 AM

What ever happened to Bucky Beaver (of Ipana toothpaste fame)?

Oh, and back to Mad Magazine -- there was a wonderful image (c. 1963) of Crest's "Invisible Shield" falling on the actor (I should know who it was) who knocked on it to show it was there, protecting teeth.

And (more Mad Magazine) neon signs with letters missing: "You Can [be] Su[r]e If It's Westinghouse" (You Can Sue If It's Westinghouse)

It's been 40 years, but I can't see the advertiser without thinking of the parody.

Anyone remember the Hills Brothers Coffee TV commercial where the spoon says it wants to be a fork and the voice over explains how wonderful it is to be a spoon and stir Hills Brothers Coffee? I think it was around 1958 or 1959. That year for Hallowe'en, I went trick or treating as a fork. (Made my own costume, of course.)

Linn

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 11:50 AM

Mudlark....The Bosco Song for you

I love Bosco its rich and chocolatey
Chocolate flavoured Bosco
Is mighty good for me

Bosco gives me Iron
And sunshine vitamin D
So I love Bosco
That's the drink for me

There are some lines about Mamma in the middle, but unfortunately or not, all I can remember is a later parody

Mamma puts it in my milk to try to poison me,
But I fooled Mummy,
I put it in her tea,
Now there is no Mummy to try to poison me.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 02:26 PM

Gee, Linn -- what were you really trying to say with that costume? Fork you all?? :>)

A

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 03:31 PM

Early on in this thread the Watneys' ad was parodied. the original was

"Drink Red Barrell near or far
In pub or club or any bar
It's always good wherever you are
Drink Watneys keg Red Barrell"

(An advert extolling the virtues of a 'plasticised pint'???)


One manufacturer of 'Club'(chocolate coated biscuits) had the jingle
"If you want a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club"
Unfortunately this was quicly parodied as:
"If you want a lot of lipstick on your dipstick, join our club!"

Nigel

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Deda
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 08:40 PM

Let's have another cup of coffee,
Yes let's have a cup of Nescafe.

Years after knowing this as a commercial I found out that there was a previous actual SONG that went, "Let's have another cup of coffee,
And let's have another piece of pie."

Then there was the percolator commercial, that showed coffee bubbling up into the glass top of a percolator -- the first couple of coffee-bubbles had a soundtrack of sort of musical "blup -- blup, blup --- blup, blup, blup" which then transmogrified into a tune. I can remember the tune but not what kind of coffee it was!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: khandu
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 08:48 PM

"Where ever wheels are turning,

No matter what the load,

The name that's known is Firestone,

Where the rubber meets the road."...and...

"The moment you walked in the room,

I knew you were a man of distinction, a real big spender,

Hey, Big Spender, spend a little time with me" Aqua Velva ad (mid-60's)

k

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 09:41 PM

Dida, that was Maxwell House coffee.

A brand that doesn't exist anymore, Spattini Spaghetti Sauce had someone singing their name to "La Donna E Mobile". Unfortunately, I heard the jingle before I new it was a real song, and 40 years later, the song still reminds me of the commercial. Just like William Tell and the Lone Ranger.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 09:48 PM

Good ones, KT...I only got 5 of them:

Tan don't burn.......get a Coppertone tan

MMM, MMM good.....Mmm, Mmm, good, that's what Campbell's soups are, Mmm, Mmm, good.

Everybody doesn't like something....but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee

Buckle up for safety, buckle up......Buckle up for safety, always buckle up, Put your mind at ease, tell your riders please, buckle up for safety, everybody BUCKLE UP! (Original: Buckle down, Winsocki)

It's not fried, it's.....Shake 'n' Bake. And I helped! (In a very thick Southern accent)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 06:20 AM

"Do the Shake 'n' vac and put the freshness back
Do the Shake 'n' vac and put the freshness back
When your carpet smells fresh your room does too"

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 06:28 AM

"..will it be mushrooms?
fried onion rings?
you'll have to wait and see

Hope it's chips, it's chips
I hope it's chips, it's chips..."

Is there anyone in the UK who doesn't remember this? Is there anyone who actually remembers what it was advertising? (Clue: it wasn't chips, apparently.)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:11 AM

For mash get smash.john

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:14 AM

Fibs, I think it was Findus steakhouse burgers. Que sera!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:25 AM

gasp! I think you may be right! For the life of me, I couldn't remember, but that rings a bell alright. Que sera sera.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 11:34 AM

Snap, Crackle, Pop, is the rice krispie jingle.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Mudlark
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 01:47 PM

Guest, KT...Thanks (I think) for giving the whole Crm/Wht song...will take it to next music get-together. (I used to know a jazz group in the 50's that used the "So use Ajax, boom boom, the foaming cleanser, etc. as a riff in a lot of songs).

And Metchosin...thanks for the Bosco number...AND the parody, which I agreed with wholeheartedly as a kid. Even the word makes my lip curl.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: PageOfCups
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 01:57 PM

Oh, geez. Now I've got a bunch of them running around my brain & they won't stop til I type them up. If you are nice people and want me to help me retain my sanity, you'll fill in the missing words...

Mobil:
We're the rocker arm assembly,
Assembly, assembly,
We're the rocker arm assembly
And we don't like dirt!
   A detergent gasoleeeeeene
   Helps keep your engine running smooth and cleeeeeeen -
It's Mobil, oh 'tis Mobil gasoline!


The STP commercial (sung to the tune of the Toreador song from Carmen)
STP! You need some STP!
One little can keeps it running free!
[something], cooler, quieter, more precise,
[something something something] nice
[something something] we all agree
The best is STP!


Shell (I think):
Bringin' home the oil me boys,
Bringin' home the oil,
Workin' all around the world
Bringin' home the oil,
[something] on a giant ship,
[no clue this line here]
Sailin' into Bantry Bay
Bringin' home the oil.


Hamm's beer:
From the land of sky-blue waters - (echo: wa-ah-ters)
Comes the water best for brewing
Hamm's the beer refreshing
Never stops refreshing you...


Bay gasoline:
[there's a verse before this]
When you're driving down that superhighway
It's a great feeling to know
Bay is designed to match Michigan weather,
Whether it's hot or cold!
Bay gasoline has Dow
Get Dow knowhow
Get Dow knowhow with every drop of Bay!


Chef Boyardee:
At lunchtime the bell tolls
Spaghetti and meatballs
For you and for me
From Chef Boyardee!


Yipes! Stripes! Beechnut gum!


Oh, and I learned the Empire jingle (988-2300 Empire!) from spending way too many hours taping _The Wild Wild West_ off of WGN.


Thread creeplet: anybody know all the words to that Jimmeny Cricket safety movie we had to watch in grade school? The chorus went:
I'm no fool, nosirree
I'm gonna live to be 33! [number got larger each verse]
Let's play safe for you and me,
'Cause I'm no fool!


I really, really need to get to work!!!
PoC

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 02:32 PM

A million housewives every day
Pick up a tin of beans and say
"BEANZ MEANZ HEINZ!"

As a really (nowadays) un-PC famine joke we used to sing
"A million ********* every day
Pick up a tin of beans and say
One for you, one for me...."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 04:30 PM

The minute you walked in the joint
I could tell you were a man of distinction
a real big spender
Good looking, so refined
I figured that you're the Mureil Cigar smokin' kind
So let me get right to the point
You're in style when you're in Muriel's company
Hey big spender
Spend a little dime with me

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:37 PM

Two masterpieces of bad sentence structure from Burger King:
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Special orders don't upset us
All we ask is that you let us
Have it your way.

And:
Our new Whaler, gentle fish is
Cook just right, so it's delicious
All we ask is that your wish is
Have it your way.

A Pepsi parody from my childhood:
Pepsi Cola hits the spot
In your stomach it will rot
Tastes like beer, tastes like wine,
(Shouted)OH MY GOSH, IT'S TURPENTINE!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,Patilou
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 05:18 PM

My father swore this was the first singing comercial
`Socks, socks, here we are upon the air.
`Oh! We're the Interwoven pair of socks, socks!

Then there's that wonderful ditty:
`Come away with me Lucille, in my merry Oldsmobile, etc.

`My name is Buster Brown, and I live in a shoe, my dog is Tighe, and he lives in here too.

Dream girl, dream girl! Beautiful Lustercreme girl, you clean your crowning Glory too with Lustercreme Shampoo

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: freightdawg
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 06:45 PM

Let's don't forget the one's that predate the telly...

At the curve...
the car was whizn...
the fault was hers...
the funeral hizn...
Burma Shave

At the school yard...
take it slow...
let our little...
shavers grow...
Burma Shave

For those who never saw them (myself included), these were road signs placed every so many feet apart. Apparently in the midwest they were immensely popular as they broke up the monotony of a long car trip. I have a book with the complete collection. Some are really hilarious

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 07:42 PM

We are the ovalteenies
Happy girls and boys...........

It's Amazin what raisins can do..........

And one for Nimble? bread with a woman in a hot air balloon singing something that escapes me...up,up and away in my beautiful balloon maybe?

Watch out there's a humphrey about. (ok not sung.)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Compton
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 12:32 PM

Guest...I think the tune was "I Can't let maggie go!...She flies through the air, etc.
Wasn't there an Esso Blee Dooler?
Bing Crosby did the Shell Ad....(or some one who sounded like him!)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 01:16 PM

Thanks, thats the tune....now in my head for the rest of the weekend no doubt.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: brid widder
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 01:31 PM

I remember the pepsodent jingle

we used to sing

You'll wonder where your front teeth went
when you brush your teeth with Earles Cement

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 02:42 PM

how did I miss this thread? Looking at the dates, it must have been Getaway weekend...

anyway...

"to "Sweet Betsy from Pike"

"I'll tell you a story you'll never forget,
A story about you and YOUR cigarette.
Enjoy smoother smoking, choose wisely, choose well;
Relax and enjoy yourself, light a Pall Mall."

Pall Mall, Pall Mall,
Choose longer and finer and milder Pall Mall.
------------------------------------------------------------------
"You'll ride with pride when you ride with Rayco
Seatcovers in your car.
By golly, they're HUM-dingers..('hum' is drawn out)
The best looking covers by far.
Rayco rides the best, Rayco wears the best, Rayco IS the best by far..
By golly, they're HUM-dingers..
Rayco seat covers in your car!"

----------------------------------------
and, to enlarge on the Halo shampoo lines Giac posted..
"Halo, everybody, Halo
Halo is the shampoo
That glorifies your hair
So Halo, everybody, Halo!

Halo, everybody, Halo..
Halo means natural beauty,
The first time that you use it-
Needs no special rinsing,
After you USE it,
So Halo, everybody HA-lo.."

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Celtaddict
Date: 20 Feb 04 - 11:06 PM

KT and Mark, there were more in the Public Service Buckle Up campaign.
Buckle up for safety, buckle up,
Buckle up for safety, always buckle up.
Show the folks you care
By the belt you wear
Buckle up for safety, everybody buckle up.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 01:07 AM

There was a sausage ad on the radio in Ireland sung to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance and widely sung in a more suggestive way by listeners:

Double wrappers for double protection
Double wrappers for double protection
And if your grocer should make a suggestion
Say "No, it's Donnelly's skinless for me."

Isn't it amazing when you look at the ads people quote, how many of them are products that have survived and gone on to world domination? It shows how advertising works!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,shona
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 02:45 PM

From our local radio station:
"North East Scotlands best mix of Moooosic, NECR!"
(its North East Community Radio!)

"Danish Bacon Danish Bacon Yummy Yummy Yummy Yummy Yummy Yummy Yum!"

:)

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 04:21 PM

The flavour's locked in with Jello crystals

The Esso sign means happy motoring

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

You're never alone with a Strand

Mighty meaty matey, they're Drings

Cool as a Mountain stream, Consulate

Lees Lees Lees if you please
Look at jus crawling we're down on our knees
Fot picaninnies, and Grandpapas
There's nothing so nice as Lees Macaroon bars

We are the Ovaltineys, happy girls and boys.
etc.etc.
John

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 04:35 PM

Three little pigs singing "Morell pure lard,Morell pure lard,Morell pure laaard"
Mackeson,looks good,tastes good and by golly it does you good.
Fisons evergreen 80,makes gardening a little bit more like fun, aarh.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 05:38 PM

Wheaties -- the Breakfast of CHAMPIONS!!!

Colgate Toothpaste, with Gardol -- The Invisible Shield!!!

Who Ate My Post Toasties????

Keebler Cookies, Tareytons, Kents, Irish Spring, Buick, the list goes on forever.....


A

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Compton
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 07:24 PM

"Now hands that wash dishes can feel soft as your face with mild green Fairy Liquid"
"All the dirt, All the grit, Hoover gets at every bit, Hoover beats as it sweeps as it cleans"
Birds Eye Peas, Sweet as the moment when the pod went (Cue Patsy Kensit)Pop!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: ranger1
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 08:23 PM

A slinky, a slinky
for fun, it's a wonderful toy!
It's fun for a girl and a boy!

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST,TheOldMole
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 08:34 PM

SHE: Baby bring me Barricini, it's the chocolate I adore

HE: Bring your baby Barricini and she'll love you so much more

SHE: Oh, what a lovely package...

                      HE: Barricini's where it's from

SHE: Barricini's gifts are candy,
Oooooh, gimme gimme gimme gimme some

HE: Bring your baby Barricini

SHE: I won't let you in the door
Unless you bring me Barricini

HE: It's the chocolate she'll adore

SHE: Don't be a meanie...bring me Barricini

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 08:54 PM

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.


Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow
Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow
Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow Miaow

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Feb 04 - 05:36 AM

What a sad lot...........

Does Pepsodent still exist? If not it would seem to be a great marketing idea to revive this product (and perhaps many of the others)? For those old enough to remember it - the name alone would bring back the jingle and no further advertising would ever be required. But of course the current 'ad' people are too young to remember.

Accepting of course that those old enough to remember Pepsodent do still have their own teeth to brush.

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Lil Dog Turpy
Date: 22 Feb 04 - 06:17 AM

I'm amazed no one has this one yet. I can not think of this tune without the words ....


Just one Cornetto,
Geeeve eeeet to me.
Delicious ice cream
From Italy

The nut and chocolate dream
Give me Cornetto,
From Wall's ice cream

Sung in a very cheesy italian accent while two gondolas approach each other in Venice. The man singing to the woman in the other gondola as they approach and as they pass each other .... he grabs her cornetto.

Robin

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: ray bucknell
Date: 22 Feb 04 - 07:26 PM

The complete Buster Brown jingle (I think) was:

    "Does your shoe have a boy inside?
       What a funny place for a boy to hide.
    Does your shoe have a dog there too?
       A dog and a boy and a foot in a shoe.

    Well the boy is Buster Brown, and the dog is Tighe, his friend.
       And they're really just a picture,
       but it's fun to play pretend.

    So, look, look, look in the telephone book
       for the store that sells the shoe
       with the picture of the boy and the dog inside
       so you can put your foot in too!"

    In the New York area, we had Schaefer beer sponsoring many of the baseball games:

   Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one!

(stuff tasted so bad I don't know how anybody could get past the first one).

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Compton
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 07:12 AM

"Do the "Shake and Vac" and put the freshness back,"
How the hell did we forget that one !

Subject: RE: Jingles you remember.
From: Splott Man
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 07:36 AM

"Raelbrook Poplin -the shirt you don't iron"

"Murraymints, Murraymints, the too good to hurry mints"

"This is carpet you can afford by Cyril Lord."

This is beginning to hurt...


and I made post No 100 again!

"Id like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony"

stop me somenone....