# Commercial jingles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584 "2011-08-13T17:17:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **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:** [August 13, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/1 "2011-08-13T17:17:11Z")
Off the top of my head… _Yamaha! Won’t you fly me away Today is the day Don’t look the other way Yamaha! Today is the day!_ … _Get yourself a Honda Built like a watch that was meant to last a hundred years!_ … _Forget your troubles, get on Suzuki…_ … _Kawasaki lets the good times roll Get aboard, get away And you’re gonna say Let the good times roll!_ … _Get a bucket of chicken Have a barrel of fun At Kentucky Fried Chicken There’s fun for everyone!_ … _Yes! Denver, Phoenix, Reno Yes! Burbank, San Francisco … Yes! Hughes Air West Top banana in the West!_ … _Good mornin’ world! Good mornin’ to you-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoooo. I’m a-wearin’ my Levi’s, Lee-hee-hee-hee-hee-vi’s._ OK, that’s enough. A bit of a sampling of commercial jingles I remember from the '70s. It seems to me that commercials are less musical nowadays, and have been for quite some time. Sure, there are soundtracks. Some are instrumental, and some are popular songs. (I enjoyed hearing The Pogues used on a car commercial recently… the first dozen times I saw it.) But there seems to be few, if any, ‘commercial songs’ anymore. I hesitate to call them ‘jingles’. To me a ‘jingle’ is a little song that appears along with an announcer. The first one that pops into my head is Chockfull-Of-Nuts. There’s the announcer talking about the product, and then ‘_Chockfull-Of-Nuts is the heavenly coffee/Better coffee a millionaire’s money can’t buy!_’. What I’m thinking about are commercials that use the product-specific songs, often set to well-known tunes, that make up the bulk of the commercials’ audios. On one hand, some of the commercial songs of my adolescence drove me nuts. Hated them. Mocked them. (c.f., Chockfull-Of-Nuts.) OTOH, how could I not think of the Yamaha song as I bounced across the desert on my Enduro? And others were just darned catchy. Maybe it’s just that with the Internet and so many choices of channels that don’t interrupt programmes with commercials so I tend to ignore ads until they’ve been played over and over and over, but current commercials seem less memorable to me. Sure I remember the ones for the online bank where the sleazy guy treats small children unequally, but darned if I can remember the company being advertised. I think that humans are generally hardwired to remember and respond to music, and that product-specific songs made/make it easier for people to remember the products. I mean, I’ll never fly Hughes Air West (since they no longer exist), but I remember the commercials and who they were for! I’ll end with this: [Sparkletts Water commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=budeaznVEQo&NR=1). I still can’t hear the name ‘Leon’ without thinking of it. And I always think of it when I buy lamb shoulder. (Incidentally, was lamb easier to buy in the '70s? The way the Sparkletts guy casually brings lamb bones on his visits, it’s like an everyday thing. I have to go to the butcher’s if I want lamb. It’s not something you can generally pick up at the supermarket.) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/2 "2011-08-13T18:00:30Z")
Not a jingle, certainly by your definition anyway, but I remember fondly the music from the old Triumph TR7 commercials. “The shape of things to come.” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/3 "2011-08-13T18:16:10Z")
From Kansas City radio ads of the 50s: Milgram’s grocery stores: “Hi neighbor, hi neighbor!” A used(?) car dealer: “Give my regards to Broadway, remember Broadway Motors there.” Some things you never forget, despite their triviality. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/4 "2011-08-13T19:02:46Z")
Your Wind Song stays on my, Wind Song stays on my, Wind Song stays on my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/5 "2011-08-13T19:10:20Z")
[Anybody looking for an earworm?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sn8H42FZcI&feature=player_embedded) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/6 "2011-08-14T02:14:00Z")
The latest Heiniken ad on TV. Love that ditty! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/7 "2011-08-14T02:20:00Z")
a few that will inflict earworms on anybody who ever lived in SoCal: \* Banner Mattress…for the rest of your life!\* _Little bit of Heaven 94.7 KMET Tweedle-dee_ \* If you want a car or truck, go see Cal, if you want to save a buck, go see Cal.\* ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/8 "2011-08-14T02:36:30Z")
[Earworm alert!](http://youtu.be/SHYgjyGoV9s) ;);)😉 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/9 "2011-08-14T02:45:30Z")
_Hold the pickle, 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!_ ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/10 "2011-08-14T03:42:36Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > [Earworm alert!](http://youtu.be/SHYgjyGoV9s) > > ;);)😉 > > Quasi On a related note, here’s [an early 70s homage to the ad by 7-Up.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzXBFHlKRLE) Incidentally, my first knowledge of the “Let’s all go to the lobby” intermission ad came through the 7-Up commercial because I was too young to see the original when it was used in theaters. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/11 "2011-08-14T03:46:29Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Off the top of my head… > > _Yamaha! Won’t you fly me away > Today is the day > Don’t look the other way > Yamaha! Today is the day!_ This was based on the hit song [Silver Bird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVv0EGiY7k4) by Mark Lindsay. _You can trust your car, To the man who wears the star, The big bright Texaco star!_ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/12 "2011-08-14T04:52:31Z")
Call Mr. Plow, That’s my name, That name again Is Mr. Plow. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/13 "2011-08-14T05:00:23Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Call Mr. Plow, > That’s my name, > That name again > Is Mr. Plow. At Wilkins Hyundai and Subaru, We have Hyundais and Subarus. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/14 "2011-08-14T09:02:44Z")
I bought [these DVD’s](http://www.amazon.com/1001-Classic-Commercials-Various/dp/B00290X6NW/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1313312375&sr=1-1)a couple of months ago. Those of you who like jingles oughta like these, and I bought mine used! 🙂 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-jingles/592584/15 "2011-08-14T20:59:37Z")
You’ll wonder where the yellow went. When you brush your teeth with pepsodent. We always made up our own words to the tune. You’ll wonder where you went last night. When you brush your teeth with dynamite. And so on, and so on.