# 1970s jingles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674 "2005-09-27T15:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/1 "2005-09-27T15:00:40Z")
The GQ thread about KFC reminded me of a couple of their commercial jingles. _Keeee-entucky, Friiiiiiied Chicken!_ was part of one. _Get a bucket of chicken (Finger lickin’ good!) Have a barrel of fun (Goodbye ho-hum!) Say hello to your family (Come on everyone!) At Kuntukey Fried Chicken Have a barrel of fun!_ That was another (allegedly written by Barry Manilow). And that turned my thoughts to jingles in general. **Levi’s** _Leeeeeeeeeeeeee Viiiiiiiiiii’s! Lee-hee-hee-hee-hee-vi’s!_ **Crazy Wheels (bicycle tires)** _Crazy Wheels! Crazy Wheels! Red, blue yellow Orange and green Makin’ the scene!_ **Alka-Seltzer** _Plop, plop! Fizz, fizz! Oh, what a relief it is!_ **Dole Bananas** _A Dole banana is a great banana And it’s great because it’s Dole. Because it’s Dole!_ **Fig Newtons** _Ooey-gooey rich and chewy inside Golden flaky tender cakey outside Wrap the inside in the outside, is it good? Darn-tootin’! Doin’ the big Fig Newton! (Here’s the tricky part) The Big Fig Newton!_ **And do I have to mention…** _I’d like to teach the world to sing In perfect harmony I’d like to buy the world a Coke a And keep it company_ And then there were the motorcycle jingles… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/2 "2005-09-27T15:35:57Z")
Yo ho ho for an Oreo I’d fly to the moon for a Lorna Doone (though both were from the 60s). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/3 "2005-09-27T15:40:21Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Yo ho ho for an Oreo > > I’d fly to the moon for a Lorna Doone (though both were from the 60s). I don’t remember those. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/4 "2005-09-27T16:03:48Z")
I love how I look in my gabardine, so I fight for my figure with Figurines! ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/5 "2005-09-27T16:09:27Z")
Before kids were admonished to “Do the Dew” while riding their skateboards, it was marketed as a drink made by hillbillies. \*Yahoo! Load up on Mountain Dew There’s nothin’ it cain’t do Load up on good ol’ Mountain Dew!.." It’ll tickle yore innards! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/6 "2005-09-27T16:13:26Z")
**Ken-L-Ration dog food** \*My dog’s faster than your dog My dog’s bigger than yours My dog’s better 'Cause he gets Ken-L Ration My dog’s better than yours. \* **Libby’s canned foods** _When it says Libby’s, Libby’s, Libby’s On the label, label, label You will like it, like it, like it On your table, table, table When it says Libby’s, Libby’s, Libby’s On the label, label, label!_ **Armor Hot Dogs** _Hot dogs Armor hot dogs What kind of kid eats Armor hot dogs? Fat kids, skinny kids Kids who climb on rocks Tough kids, sissy kids Even kids with chicken pox like Hot dogs Armor hot dogs The dogs Kids Love To Bite!_ **McDonald’s Big Mac** Two all-beef patties Special sauce Lettuce, cheese Pickles, onions On a sesame seed bun!\* **Taco Bell** _Come to Taco, Taco, Taco, Taco, Taco Taco, Taco, Taco, Taco, Taco Taco Bell!_ **Band-Aid adhesive strips** _I am stuck on Band-Aid 'Cause Band-Aid sticks to me_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/7 "2005-09-27T16:34:10Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > And then there were the motorcycle jingles… Kawasaki let the good times roll! **Beer** Here’s to good friends, tonight is kinda special… (Lowenbrau) ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/8 "2005-09-27T16:39:21Z")
_I drink Dr Pepper and I’m proud I’m part of an original crowd And if you look around these days There seems to be a Dr Pepper craze ohhh I’m a Pepper He’s a Pepper She’s a Pepper They’re a Pepper Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too Be a Pepper, drink Dr Pepper_ (vamp & fade) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/9 "2005-09-27T16:40:06Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Kawasaki let the good times roll! Okay, now you’ve done it! **Yamaha** \*Get aboard the Silver Bird, It’s a magical machine. Satisfy your Walter Mitty mind, Tryin’ out a dream. Your sign is Capricorn and Every corner of your mind Says you’ll remain my friend, A friend for all my time. Yamaha, won’t you fly me away, Yamaha, take me into the day, Yamaha, come and give me a ride And let us go see What’s on the other side. Yamaha, won’t you fly me away. Yamaha, today is the day. \* **Suzuki** _Forget your troubles Get on Suzuki_ **Honda** _Get yourself a Honda Built like a watch that was meant to last a hundred years!_ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/10 "2005-09-27T16:40:08Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > _Get a bucket of chicken > (Finger lickin’ good!) > Have a barrel of fun > (Goodbye ho-hum!) > Say hello to your family > (Come on everyone!) > At Kuntukey Fried Chicken > Have a barrel of fun!_ > > That was another (allegedly written by Barry Manilow). I used to have _Barry Monilow Live_ on 8-track (don’t ask why), and on it he does a medley of commercial jingles that he wrote or was otherwise involved in. That was one of them. My bologna has a first name It’s O-S-C-A-R My bologna has a second name It’s M-A-Y-E-R I love to eat it every day And if you ask me why I’ll say 'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way With B-O-L-O-G-N-A Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener That is what I’d truly like to be Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener Everyone would be in love with me ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/11 "2005-09-27T16:59:42Z")
**Doral cigarettes** _Taste me, taste me! Come on and taste me! That’s all Doral asks_ ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/12 "2005-09-27T17:10:58Z")
I can’t remember all the words of this jingle. But there was an horrific commercial in Canada for Labatt’s Blue, circa 1975. The visuals were middle-class, suburban white people in polyester leisure suits and white flared slacks with ugly, patterned shirts with massive collars, milling about in a suburban rec room. The music was totally lame, white-people imitation of watered down disco, and the words I wish I could forget were: “Disco me, disco you, disco Blue…” Gawd, it was awful! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/13 "2005-09-27T17:27:16Z")
Yaaaaagh Make Them Stop Kill Me Now The Fiiiire In My Braiiiiin Aieeeeeee!!!11 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/14 "2005-09-27T17:44:43Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Yaaaaagh Make Them Stop Kill Me Now The Fiiiire In My Braiiiiin Aieeeeeee!!!11 Ar? 😕 What product was that from? 😛 **Jack-In-The-Box** J-J-J-J-J-J- Jack-In-The-Box! You’re really cookin’ now!\* (Last part of) **Wienerschnitzel** _At der happy Wienerschnitzel! Yum, yum! Hot dog!_ **Freakies cereal** _We are the Freakies! We are the Freakies! And this is the Freakies Tree We never miss a meal 'Cuz we love our cer-e-eal_ **Bumblebee Tuna** _Yum, yum Bumblebee, Bumblebee tuna I love Bumblebee, Bumblebee tuna Yum, yum Bumblebee, Bumblebee tuna I love a sandwich made with Bumblebee_ (I have a nice ska version of this. 😉 ) **Budweiser beer** _Here comes the king, Here comes the big Number One, (Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom) Budweiser Beer, the king is second to none. (Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom) The king is coming, let it be known; When you’ve said Bud, you’ve said it all, When you’ve said Bud, you’ve said it all. Dah dah dah dah Dah dah dah Da dah dah dah_ ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/15 "2005-09-27T17:45:42Z")
Burger King: Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, Special orders don’t upset us, All we ask is that you let us Make it your way Which my brother and I wickedly parodied as: Throw the pickles, throw the lettuce Shut up lady, you upset us, All we ask is that you let us Take you away Weren’t we clever? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/16 "2005-09-27T17:48:27Z")
**McDonald’s** _McDonald’s in my kind of place It’s such a happy place_ (And here’s where I can only remember the ‘alternate lyrics’) They take your license plates Put mustard in your face!\* ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/17 "2005-09-27T18:53:07Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > When you’ve said Bud, you’ve said it all. When you say Bud You’ve said a lot of things nobody else can say When you say Bud You say you care enough to only want the very best… > [@](#): > > McDonald’s Who’s the McGreatest McClown of them all In the spring, summer, winter, and fall? Whose smile is happiest? Whose food is crappiest? Ronald. Ronald McDonald! I’m sure that’s not quite right, but I can’t for the life of me remember what the correct lyrics are. And they don’t seem to be online anywhere. I even vaguely remember having a McDonald’s Coloring Calendar with the words to that jingle in it. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/18 "2005-09-27T18:54:44Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > **Budweiser beer** > _Here comes the king, > Here comes the big Number One, > (Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom) > Budweiser Beer, the king is second to none. > (Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom) > The king is coming, let it be known; > When you’ve said Bud, you’ve said it all, > When you’ve said Bud, you’ve said it all. > Dah dah dah dah > Dah dah dah > Da dah dah dah_ I had that music running through my head while I was thinking of beer jingles but I couldn’t think of the words… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/19 "2005-09-27T19:00:31Z")
Kawasaki lets the good times roll Kawasaki lets the good times roll Get aboard, get away And you’re gonna say Let the good times roll (paraphrasing this next one) Pioneer car stereos Super systems on the go Pioneer car stereos Takin’ the best on the road Play me some music (Let me hear you play my song) Play me some music (Play it loud, play it strong) ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674/20 "2005-09-27T19:05:56Z")
You. You’re the one. Filet o Fish we’re fixin You. You’re the one … At McDonalds, we do it all for you! From the land of sky blue water. Hamm’s. The beer refreshing. Hamm’s. The beer refreshing. Hammmmm’s. Interestingly, an old, old ad from Chicago has been revived. Apparently, what was a local carpet shop has gone national and now coast to coast, we can hear the chorus sing “Eight Hundred. Five Eight Eight Two Three Hundred. Empire!” The animated version of the original Empire Carpet guy unfurling a roll of carpet is a bit creepy for some reason. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-jingles/323674.md?page=2)