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The latest threads, all about detectives... posted by Life_is_Simple, was so much fun, I thought I'd start a new thread on jingles.
Any jingles are fair game, but older ones (I thought) would be a lot of fun, because (most) everything back then was sort of kooky, at least in the way of commercials it was...
Here are two I remember from way back.
Our legs, fit your legs, they hug you they hold you, they never let you go!
Coffee mate... tastes great... coffee mate... smooths the flavour, so that coffee mate... makes your cup of coffee taste great!
Double youir pleasure..Double your fun. : )
Oh I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner....
Winston tastes good like a {clap clap} cigarette should ...
Pop pop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is ...
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner ... that is what I'd really like to be ... 'cause if I were an Oscar Meyer weiner... everyone would be in love with me ...
Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops, sugar pops are tops!
I could go on and on and on ... :~)
Let Hertz.. put YOU.. in the driver's seat. Let Hertz.. put YOU.. anywhere at all!
I can bring home the bacon.. fry it up in the pan, and never let you forget you're a man, cuz I'm a woman W-O-M-A-N I'll say it again.
gimmethesimplelife
3-10-13, 9:54pm
The Coca Cola ad from the 70's - I'd like to give the world a Coke......(too bad it's full of high fructose corn syrup which is horrible for the liver)......Also I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too? (Dr. Pepper, great commercial but ditto on the high fructose corn syrup.) Rob
Two more I thought of - the Lite Brite Ad from the 70's - Lite Brite make things with light.....(it was a kid's toy if anyone doesn't know), and also the Merlin ad from the late 70's (another kid's toy)...Where's Merlin now, it's not there, it's out with Billy playing Magic Square....
You've come a long way, baby...to get where you got to today. You've got your own cigarette, now, baby....you've come a long, long way.
Tussiemussies
3-11-13, 4:17am
Pop pop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is...
Wildflower
3-11-13, 6:09am
See the USA in your Chevrolet...
I never watched much TV, but one tag line (not a musical one) occasionally comes to mind. I think it was from one of the margarine companies.
"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."
Miss Cellane
3-11-13, 8:19am
McDonald's is your kind of place, it's a hap, hap, happy place, McDonald's is your kind of place!
I am stuck on Bandaids, 'cause Bandaids stuck on me!
Mr. Clean gets rid of dirt and grime and grease in just a minute, Mr. Clean will clean your whole house and everything that's in it, Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean
My bologna has a first name, it's Oscar. My bologna has a second name, it's Mayer. Oh, I love to eat it everyday and if you ask me why I'll say because Oscar Mayer has a way with b-o-l-o-g-n-a.
Take a ring, and add another ring and then another ring and then you've got three rings, Ballentine! And now it's premium, it's a very special glass of beer.
ROTFLMAO! So many good ones everybody!!! I laboured to remember the two that I did... do remember many of the ones posted!
The 60's/70's produced the best commercials/theme openings/endings (television shows)!
Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks, tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox love hot dogs, Armor hot dogs...the dogs kids love to bite!
My how times have changed! That must have been early 70's? Play it today and the ACLU would slap a law suit on them before the next commercial started!!!
Oh, you'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with pepsident
One more I remembered, Lucky Charms Cereal.
"Pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers"... and later (1970's), "pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers, and NEW blue diamonds"! (Spoken with a strong Irish accent)!
Keep 'em coming everybody!
I can't believe I ate the WHOLE thing.
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce
Special orders don't upset us.
All we ask is that you let us serve it your way
Have it your way! Have it your way!
Have it your way, at Burger King!
Maxamillion
3-12-13, 1:31am
This one's from the '80s.
It's never been like this, sweet dreams you can't resist
A dream as real as this, N-E-S-T-L-E-S
Alpine white, creamy light
Alpine White's the very best, N-E-S-T-L-E-S
Sweet dreams you can't resist
My favorite commercial song ever! There's like two or three different versions of it too, but this one's my favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrZq61NIwkw
Soft Soft Flush-a-byes, what a time to be born.
This surely must have been a jingle for one of the first disposalble diapers. This will be forever stuck in my head. I was in first(?) grade and remember being at my desk, happy and swinging my arms back and forth on the desk top singing this. The teacher yelled my name, opps we were suppose to be working not singing to ourselves.
goldensmom
3-12-13, 6:33am
From the valley of the jolly….ho ho ho….Green Giant.
He’s got a bubbly face and a bubbly nose, Mr. Bubble.
I love it you guys!
I've been trying so hard to remember more, but no such luck... I'm fresh out.
Mighty Frugal
3-12-13, 11:38am
Weekends...were made for Michelob
'Calgon...take me away!!'
You can try hard..or you can try soft, soft will get him every time, Love's Baby Soft'.
I was a kid/preteen during these commercials which depicted teenage girls. some trying 'hard' to get the guy-trying to steal a kiss, showing him their cool car, etc. And the more 'baby' girls tried 'soft' oh so coy and ringing their bell on the 10 speed..the soft girls always won:~)
LOL, Mighty Frugal! How are you guys all remembering so many!!!???
crunchycon
3-12-13, 2:56pm
Meet the swinger Polaroid Swinger, meet the swinger Polaroid Swinger, It's more than a camera, it's almost alive, it's only nineteen dollars and ninety-five...
Tussiemussies
3-12-13, 4:26pm
Weekends...were made for Michelob
'Calgon...take me away!!'
You can try hard..or you can try soft, soft will get him every time, Love's Baby Soft'.
I was a kid/preteen during these commercials which depicted teenage girls. some trying 'hard' to get the guy-trying to steal a kiss, showing him their cool car, etc. And the more 'baby' girls tried 'soft' oh so coy and ringing their bell on the 10 speed..the soft girls always won:~)
I used to use Loves Baby Soft when I was a teen and they still sell it now on Amazon. Was on another board where they were talking about this scent...
Mutual of Omaha is people. You can count on use when the going's rough.
You can try hard..or you can try soft, soft will get him every time, Love's Baby Soft'.
I was a kid/preteen during these commercials which depicted teenage girls. some trying 'hard' to get the guy-trying to steal a kiss, showing him their cool car, etc. And the more 'baby' girls tried 'soft' oh so coy and ringing their bell on the 10 speed..the soft girls always won:~)
Remember the one where the boy says he loves lending the girl his jean jacket, because when she gives it back it smells like her Loves Baby Soft. Swoon!
Wildflower
3-14-13, 4:46am
Shoop Shoop Hula Hoop
gimmethesimplelife
3-16-13, 11:28pm
Weekends...were made for Michelob
'Calgon...take me away!!'
You can try hard..or you can try soft, soft will get him every time, Love's Baby Soft'.
I was a kid/preteen during these commercials which depicted teenage girls. some trying 'hard' to get the guy-trying to steal a kiss, showing him their cool car, etc. And the more 'baby' girls tried 'soft' oh so coy and ringing their bell on the 10 speed..the soft girls always won:~)That Calgon commercial still gets referred to once in awhile, which is amazing after all these years.....I think the last time I came across a reference to it was on a blog about low paid boring service industry jobs where this one sales clerk was standing at a counter with a Calgon Take Me Away look on her face.....Rob
Tussiemussies
3-17-13, 3:49pm
Mt Grandmother faithfully used Calgon, just to see I looked them up and they do have a website with products they still sell but not the original Calgon...
How did the Ipana toothpaste jingle go? Seems like so long ago that I heard it.
Mighty Frugal
3-17-13, 7:20pm
I still say the 'Calgon, take me away!!' especially when the boys are being crazy and driving me crazy!!
I never realized they were even listening until one day I overheard the older one say to the younger one,
'let's wish to Calgon to not let it rain on Saturday'
turns out they thought Calgon was some sort of genie-haha
Brusha, brusha brusha with the new Ipana..(Wasn't there a beaver on it? Or in the ad? )
Where's the beef?
Double your pleasure, double your fun, doublemint, doublemint gum.
Thank you for the additions everybody!
My dog's better than your dog...my dog's better than yours.
My dog's better 'cause he eats Kennel Ration, my dog's better than yours.
Gimme a break, gimme a break. Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar.
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, pickle, cheese on a sesame seed bun (big mac)
LOL, Spartana! Yes, I remember the two beef patties one!
This one is from my husband. "When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last, do you suck them very slowly... or crunch them very fast, eat those candy-coated chocolates, but tell me when I ask... when you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last"!?
"I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair" for a shampoo. I never understood that one but it stuck with me. Can't remember the rest of the jingle or the product though.
My dog's better than your dog...my dog's better than yours.
My dog's better 'cause he eats Kennel Ration, my dog's better than yours.
Gimme a break, gimme a break. Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar.
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, pickle, cheese on a sesame seed bun (big mac)
Don't forget the onions! "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."
I love remembering the old slogans too. Just the other day one of my friends at work scratched his head and commented how itchy it was and without even having to think about it I said "That little itch should be telling you something..." (head and shoulders)
I'm pretty good with pre-1990 tv trivia. After I graduated college that spring I lived for almost 10 years without watching any tv so all my friends know that I have an almost total gap in knowledge of tv trivia from the 90's.
"I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair" for a shampoo. I never understood that one but it stuck with me. Can't remember the rest of the jingle or the product though.
That song is actually from the rogers and hammerstein musical South Pacific. Other than the fact that it mentioned washing hair, I agree, it didn't make much sense. Kind of like the contact lens commercial that used the The Guess Who song "These Eyes" even though the song's meaning had nothing to do with visual clarity.
Don't forget the onions! "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."LOL!
Sad Eyed Lady
3-27-13, 4:48pm
The Coca Cola ad from the 70's - I'd like to give the world a Coke......(too bad it's full of high fructose corn syrup which is horrible for the liver)......Also I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too? (Dr. Pepper, great commercial but ditto on the high fructose corn syrup.) Rob
Two more I thought of - the Lite Brite Ad from the 70's - Lite Brite make things with light.....(it was a kid's toy if anyone doesn't know), and also the Merlin ad from the late 70's (another kid's toy)...Where's Merlin now, it's not there, it's out with Billy playing Magic Square....
Yes, but you know it WASN'T full of high fructose corn syrup when that commercial was around in the early 1970's. That was when we did have the real thing - cane sugar. That is why the supposedly Coke Classic tastes so very different than the cokes we grew up with if you are, well, a certain age! LOL!! I seldom drink cola anymore but when I do I seek out an Hispanic grocery were I can buy cokes bottled, (yes in glass bottles), in Mexico and made with pure cane sugar.
How do you spell relief? R O L A I D S
Ring around the collar, ring around the collar (to the tune of Ring around a Rosie)
I coulda had a V8!
It says Libby Libby Libby on the label label label.
They changed it from "I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair" to "I'm gonna wash that GRAY right out of my hair." It was for a hair color product.
Another hair color commercial was based on "Let's Fall in Love" by Cole Porter. Instead of "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it let's fall in love". The ad was "Blondes do it, reds do it, brunettes who wouldn't be caught dead do it. They do it why shouldn't you." Meaning you too should color your hair. (I mean, jeepers, shouldn't everyone?)
We always enjoy changing the jingles. Instead of "Oscar Meyer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A", we sing "Oscar Meyer has a way to rearrange your DNA".
Remember "If you don't look good we don't look good, Vidal Sasson"? We sing "If you don't look good we don't care, Vidal Baboon"
And for Armour hot dogs (given the unhealthy-ness of such fare and what it's doing to our kids) we sing "What kind of kids eat Armour hot dogs? Fat kids, fat kids, kids who are really fat, fat kids, diabetic kids, even kids who are morbidly obese eat hot dogs, Armour hot dogs. The dogs that make kids fat!" Not PC or funny but possibly more factual.
SEL. It's been many... many years, but I definitely remember the unique and classic taste of 1970's Coca-Cola! Gosh was it EVER good!
LOL, Sunnyjoe! The whole "ring around the collar thing", used to stump me. I'd think to myself, "take one clean shirt, apply it to a clean man working in an office, yet the collar gets a black ring around it"? LOL!
LOL, MaryHu! A great touch!
LOL, Sunnyjoe! The whole "ring around the collar thing", used to stump me. I'd think to myself, "take one clean shirt, apply it to a clean man working in an office, yet the collar gets a black ring around it"? LOL!
I've always wondered if laundry detergent was really crappy back then. I've been wearing collared shirts to offices regularly for over 20 years now and have never done anything special to keep the collars clean, yet I've never had a ring around one.
My friend's response to the ring around the collar commercials was always "Try washing your neck!"
My husband neither, Jp1, though occasionally, I'll find a little discolouration at wash-time, but it always launders out. Definitely think we've progressed exponentially in the way of laundering methods/products.
LOL, MaryHu! Yes! A good ole scrubbing!
early morning
3-30-13, 9:31pm
Brusha, brusha brusha with the new Ipana..(Wasn't there a beaver on it? Or in the ad? ) Indeed - Bucky Beaver, lol. Mabel! Black Label! Carling Black Label Beer...
I've been cooking up a storm today, and thinking about this thread. Just thought of another.
"Two scoops of raisins in a package of Kellogg's, Raisin Bran"!
Early Morning. Your post made me think... Going to ask DH if he knows any beer jingle commercials.
I'm from Milwaukee and I ought to know, it's draft brewed Blatt's beer wherever you go..it's( something and something ) less filling thats clear- Blatts is Milwaukees finest beer.
From the land of sky blue waters. From the land of pine's lofty balsams . Comes the beer refreshing. Hamms the beer refreshing.
I've been cooking up a storm today, and thinking about this thread. Just thought of another.
"Two scoops of raisins in a package of Kellogg's, Raisin Bran"!
Early Morning. Your post made me think... Going to ask DH if he knows any beer jingle commercials.
My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer
Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_51RANXHg0
Sorry--thread hijack because these are not old beer commercials--but new ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-dEAhlz3Bg
When you're out of Schlitz \
You're out of beer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgrUCprTuUs&list=PL55D5D1FE093EDE1C&index=4
OK, one more commercial jingle and then I have to go do something productive. Teaberry shuffle. When I was a football Pep Leader in high school, we did this as part of our half time show and I had so much fun--especially watching the poor tuba players having to do that fancy footwork.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk11Acjofu8
The Storyteller
4-1-13, 11:53am
Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick? A Buick? A Buick? Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick, than any other kind of car?
Buckle up, for safety, buckle up. Buckle up, for safety, buckle up, everybody buckle up. Put your mind at ease, tell your driver please, buckle up for safety, everybody buckle up.
[That last one put a college friend of mine through college. Her dad wrote jingles for a living. That was his most famous.]
Holy smokes! Love all the great additions!!!
The Teaberry Gum jingle/commercial is so much fun! LOVE the music of Herb Alpert!
"Soup and sandwich, soup and sandwich, have your favorite Campbell's Soup and sandwich! Any time or weather, soup and sandwich go together!" to the tune of "Love and Marriage." Used to air on weekend nights around Mr. Ed, Dennis the Menace, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. . . My Favorite Martian. . .
"Parliament (cigarettes) with the filter that's in - recessed in!" Used to sponsor Perry Mason (I was a toddler then, ha!)
"Ay, ay, ay, ay! oh, I am dee Frito Bandito. I like Frito's Corn Chips. I love them, I do. I want Frito's corn chips. I'll take them, from you."
"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs and makes a slinkity sound? A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing! Everyone knows it's Slinky.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky, It's fun, it's a wonderful toy. It's Slinky, it's Slinky, It's fun for a girl or a boy."
Plop Plop Fizz fizz oh what a relief it is!
The Storyteller
4-5-13, 11:09am
Brill Cream, a little dab'll do ya!
The wet head is dead.
The Storyteller
4-5-13, 11:11am
Taking a shower with Irish Spring in your hand is like taking a shower in Ireland.
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.
uh oh spaghetti os
Rice a Roni the San Francisco Treat
Gregg - the jingle was very similar to an ad for 'kickers' shoes advertised and sold to teenagers in the early 1970's, in Australia. They were two tone blue suede lace up desert boots.
It went 'what kind of kids wear kickers, all kinds of kids who wear shoes, ( and continued on similar words to what you wrote), etc.'
Very similar wording to the advert. that you remembered, I would say. Gail
"You've tried many others and find, that the best is right here. Coming home to Stegmaier Beer, Stegmaier Gold Medal Beer!"
This may have been a local ad; I'm not sure.
Skimmed through all the pages and don't think my favorite has been posted yet:
Once upon a time there was an engineer
Choo-choo Charlie was his name we hear
He had an engine and he sure had fun
He used Good'n'Plenty candies to make his train run
Charlie says "Love my Good'n'Plenty's"
Charlie says "Really rings a bell" <ding>
Charlie says "Love my Good'n'Plenty's... don't know any other candy that I love so well!"
[QUOTE=happystuff;137127]Skimmed through all the pages and don't think my favorite has been posted yet:
Here you go, happy stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ExSlyoVTX3I
This thread escaped me for a tad. Love the new entries!
I was trying to think of an old coffee jingle, something like, "fill it to the brim with ?"
Then there's, "Maxwell House, good to the last drop".
crunchycon
4-15-13, 3:40pm
Fill it to the rim....with Brim.
Thanks, Crunchycon. I don't remember Brim. I wonder if Brim Coffee was ever available in Canada?
domestic goddess
4-19-13, 11:21am
This just popped into my head this morning:
"Yipes, stripes, Beech-Nut's got 'em,
Yipes, stripes in fruit stripe gum.
Yipes, stripes, five different flavors.
Get Beech-Nut's Fruit Stripe Gum!
Only a nickel! Yipes! Stripes!"
Odd Ogg, Odd Ogg, Half Turtle and Half Frog, Odd Ogg Plays Ball! This was in the 1960's, for kids, a plastic frog whenyou threw the ball into his mouth, he croaked and moved forward a few spaces.
Fun additions you guys! This is a great thread. I had two I remembered the other day, but have now forgotten them.
Probably already said but heard it this morning: "the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup"
Love that one a lot, Spartana. Every now and then a commercial/jingle comes along that reaches right into the heart and soul of the viewer, and that commercial/jingle does it for me.
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