# Commercial jingles you didn't know were real songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823 "2012-01-17T20:30:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/1 "2012-01-17T20:30:57Z")
“There’s a big beer brotherhood Of Hamm’s…” ran a beer commercial of my youth. I was pushing 40 when I heard the soundtrack of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” for the first time, and there was this song called “There is a Brotherhood/Of Man…” And I said–“Oh, that’s where it comes from!” (Actually, I said, “Why are they playing a beer commercial in the middle of the show?” But you get the idea.) Other examples: “It’s not too sweet/It’s a cool refreshing treat/Canada Dry ginger ale/it’s not too sweet” Which is based on “Ain’t She Sweet (See Her Coming Down the Street),” a song of the 1920s, not that I knew it when I first heard the commercial. And “Crispy, chewy, crispy chewy, Duncan Hines makes cookies that are crispy, chewy…” (Note: the words here may be slightly off. It’s been a while.) Which to my surprise turned out to be using the tune of an apparently well-known made-famous-by-Sinatra song “Love and Marriage.” Others? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/2 "2012-01-17T21:51:31Z")
As a kid I remember being surprised when I found out “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” was a real song, and not just the California Raisins jingle. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/3 "2012-01-17T23:41:57Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > And “Crispy, chewy, crispy chewy, Duncan Hines makes cookies that are crispy, chewy…” (Note: the words here may be slightly off. It’s been a while.) > > Which to my surprise turned out to be using the tune of an apparently well-known made-famous-by-Sinatra song “Love and Marriage.” I remember the “Love and Marriage” tune as a '60s Campbell’s (?) soup commercial advocating a meal consisting of “Soup and Sandwich.” Also from the '60s, the “I Love Funyuns” jingle turned out to be a barely rewritten version of an actual novelty song, [“I Love Onions.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mhdIVwky0) Years later this was repurposed into [“I Love Turtles.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0GEMuj4I5Q) 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/4 "2012-01-18T00:05:41Z")
I had no idea the Debeers song was written for anything other than the commercial. I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/5 "2012-01-18T00:17:29Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > Which to my surprise turned out to be using the tune of an apparently well-known made-famous-by-Sinatra song “Love and Marriage.” And used ironically as the theme song to “Married with Children”… I had a friend who thought that “All of Me” was written for the Steve Martin film of the same name. Not true… ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/6 "2012-01-18T01:41:45Z")
That “Whoo-Hoo!” from the Labatt’s commercial a few years ago… **Song 2** by _Blur_ ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/7 "2012-01-18T16:30:14Z")
The theme song to House is from a band called Massive Attack. I thought that was rather brilliant. (The song is called Teardrop.) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/8 "2012-01-18T19:57:27Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > That “Whoo-Hoo!” from the Labatt’s commercial a few years ago… > > **Song 2** by _Blur_ You are a lucky, lucky person. The radio station that I listened to in San Francisco played that song about five times a day for about ten years. I saw the original movie **MASH** years after I had seen the TV show, and was quite surprised to hear them play the TV theme song in the movie, with words. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/9 "2012-01-18T20:05:46Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I saw the original movie **MASH** years after I had seen the TV show, and was quite surprised to hear them play the TV theme song in the movie, with words. The words were written by Robert Altman’s son. Altman later complained that his son made more money from the TV show then he did (he made nothing, actually). ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/10 "2012-01-18T20:12:48Z")
I was surprised when I found out that “I’m Gonna Wash that Grey Right Out of my Hair” from some shampoo commercial was actually from South Pacific and titled "“I’m Gonna Wash that Man Right Out of my Hair” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/11 "2012-01-18T20:45:36Z")
Just thought of a super-obvious one: **The Lone Ranger** / William Tell Overture. I also just realized that both of my contributions aren’t commercial jingles. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/12 "2012-01-18T20:57:13Z")
_I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan and never, ever, ever let you forget you’re a man_ is an actual song written by a famous song writing team and recorded as an actual record a good decade before Enjoli perfume. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles-you-didnt-know-were-real-songs/609823/13 "2012-01-18T21:13:56Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > That “Whoo-Hoo!” from the Labatt’s commercial a few years ago… Or from the Vonage commercials … “Woo Hoo”, by the 5.6.7.8’s.