Is everybody ready?
Comic books and rubber bands
Climbing to the tree tops
Falling down and holding hands
Climbing through the window
Remember when you were a kid?
Well, part of you still is
And that’s why we make Faygo
Faygo… remember… faygo…
I’ll never be able to ditch the Spotlight jingle from my brain. They were the HBO before there even was an HBO, I believe. At least, they were the pay movie channel we had when I was a toddler, and then one day…poof, it was gone, replaced by HBO. Anyway…
Spotlight,
Shining bright,
Day and night,
We light up the stars at Spotlight!
I never heard that jingle after turning roughly three years old, but I don’t think I’ve gone a week since then without that earworm wrigging through…
Sometimes you feel like a nut
Sometimes you don’t
Almond Joy’s got nuts
Mounds don’t
I remember:
(some opening question, perhaps “Who’s the McFunniest fellow in town?”, followed by…
Who’s our McFavorite Hamburger Clown?
Whose tricks are trickiest?
Whose mind is quickiest?
Ronald! Ronald McDonald!
I also vaguely recall “any time of the year” as part of the jingle.
xizor: Here are the complete lyrics to the Faygo song. However, the transcription is inaccurate. After “Pony rides and Sunday nights”, the lines should be:
Roller skates and yo-yos
Fairy tales and snowball fights
Climb in through the window*
… and suddenly I just had
Mazola
Corn goodness
Burst into my skull and give my brain a swift kick. Has to be sung like a Native American, of course.
Don’t give me that same old soda
A so-so cola
I want a rock and roller.
I want a pop
I want a Shasta.
Shasta soft drinks
McDonald’s is my kind of place
They serve you rattlesnakes
French fries right up your nose
Ketchup between your toes
Here’s two for the SoCal codgers:
If you need a car or truck
Go see Cal
Better value for your buck
Go see Cal
Buy a new car for your wife
She will love you all her life
Go see Cal
Go see Cal
Go see Cal
(As a kid I thought they singing “pussy cow” instead of “go see Cal.”)
Pete Ellis Dodge
Long Beach freeway
Firestone exit
Southgate
Johnson’s Baby Shampoo. 
Ball Park Franks.
They plump when ya cook 'em!
Baaaaaaaall Park Franks.
Carly Simon: Anticipation.
Anticipay-ay-tion, it’s makin’ me wait.
VO Man: Heinz. It’s slow good.
Gee, if I could think of a French’s Mustard jingle, I’d have a tripleheader here.
Our version was:
McDonald’s is your kind of place
Hamburgers in your face
French fries between you toes
Dill pickles up your nose
And then we have our special shakes
Made from polluted lakes…
And of course:
You deserve a break today
So throw up and crawl away
From McDonald’s
rrrrraaaAAAAAIIIIINNNNNNNIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEERRRRRRR Beeeerrrrr (Motorcycle)
Rain-ier Beer(frogs)
Burger King
It takes to hands to handle a Whopper!
The two fisted burger at Burger King!
Sara Lee
Everybody doesn’t like something,
But nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee!
Don’t forget Cal Worthington’s dog, Spot!
You haven’t lived until you’ve heard David Sedaris sing this in the voice of Billy Holliday!
P.S. Wasn’t cigarette advertising banned from TV and radio by the 70’s, thus depriving millions of American children of the opportunity to hear the theme music from The Magnificent Seven?
I thought it was The burgers are bigger at Burger King.
Yes, in 1971. The Doral advert I mentioned is the last one I remember with a jingle.
Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, French Fry.
Icey Coke, Thick Shakes,
Sundaes and Apple Pie.
(repeat, repeat, repeat)
You deserve a break today, at McDonalds!
Sometimes in the summer,
It’s hard to beat the heat.
Mommas not cookin so when Daddy comes home,
he’ll take us to McDonalds to eat.
He says it fits his budget,
and the food tastes very good.
Plus we get to see our friends,
from the neighborhood.
(You deserve a break today, at McDonalds)
(Continued)
The beer will pour…
Must say something more, somehow
So tonight
Tonight
Let it be Lowenbrau
Another:
Me and Sparklett’s Water, makin’ friends!
Thanks Sternvogel, unfortunately in Detroit in the 70s, they never showed the entire song in the commercials, just the 30 second abridged version.
I don’t believe it,
I just don’t believe it,
The things I can do with my Spyrograph.
Let’s all go to A&W,
Food’s more fun at A&W,
Grab a pint of root beer,
Maybe two or three,
Take four pick from the burger famileeeeeeeee…
“your” pick, that is.
Labatt 50 Ale
…me and the boys and our 50.
Me and the boys and our beer.
(group of 30ish year-old males playing touch football, and drinking beer!)
And his classic tagline:
If you find a better deal, I’ll eat a bug!