Damn this thread for putting all these jingles in my head!
Nivea, Nivea, NIVEA
From your fingers to your toes
You’ve got just one set of permenant clothes
And with a little daily care (daily care)
It’ll last for years of wear (years of wear).
Oh-oh-oh What a feeling, Toyota!
If you think it’s butter, but it’s not, It’s Chiffon!
You’ve got ring around the collar!
Ring around the collar! Ring around the collar!
Thos dirty rings! You’ve tried scrubbing them out. You’ve tried soaking them out. Now try shouting them out.
A cracker, a slice of cheese, and another cracker. Hey kis, a wagon wheel!
When I’m slow on the draw,
And I need somethin’ to chaw,
I hanker for a hunk o’ cheese
A slab or slice or chunk o’
I hanker for a hunk o’ cheese
That guy?
Remember those Irish Spring soap commericials? The one where we see a man in a beautiful valley in Ireland, dressed as a sheep herder or something. He walks up to a waterfall or, well, an Irish Spring, and he takes a pocket knife and cuts into the bar of soap to show us how fresh and wonderful everything is inside the bar of soap?
– Or those ads for the Pocanos:
Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge. . .
– Or the gorilla trying to break the Samsonite luggage
– Or those Massingill Disposable Douche commericals:
“Mom, do ever get that not so fresh feeling” – as they walk along the beach.
And they don’t make pantyhose commercials anymore. Remember this ditty?:
"She gets a kick out of L’eggs and it shows,
From her head to her toes, her Legg’s pantyhose!
Nothing beats a great pair of L’eggs!"
You’d have to be in Tennessee (or a nearby state) to have gotten the full thrill of “Tennessee Trash” but I’d wager other regions or states may have similar anti-litter promos.
This one had a grubby, cigar-chomping, heavy-set guy in a wifebeater driving a Corvair convertible down a road throwing trash everywhere. Clouds of exhaust smoke billowed behind. There was some sort of jingle about the lack of virtue in littering.
As best I can recall, litter was more a problem after the ad campiagn.
Near that same time, country singer Ed Bruce dressed up in a Davy Crockett looking set of skins with obligatory coonskin cap to serve as spokesperson for Tennessee vacationing, state parks most notably. That ad campaign actually seemed to work, but Bruce complained on talk shows about how hot the suit was, and I don’t mean sexy hot.
In California there was a Hughes Air West commercial set to a well-known musical piece.
Yes!
Hughes Air West!
Top banana in the West!
(I assume they were the ‘top banana’ because IIRC their aircraft were bright yellow.)
Speaking of bananas, didn’t Charles Nelson Riley do a Bic Pen commercial dressed as a banana? I remember him (or whoever) spelling ‘banana’.
“Who wears short shorts?
We wear short shorts!
If you dare wear short shorts, Nair for short shorts!”
My favorite when I was a kid, and still my favorite forever and ever.
Heh-when they were doing those “Best Super Bowl commercials” thing on TV, that’s what I was thinking, "Damn, I’ll bet right after the cameras stop rolling, he lets out this monster belch.
I don’t know if they started in the '70s or the '80s, but surely I’m not the only one who felt sorry for the Trix Rabbit. Just give him some cereal, you selfish little bastards!
“Moooove over bacon! Here comes something meatier!”
And what about Lucky the Leprechaun?! Poor guy…only wanted some peace and quiet to eat his Lucky Charms in and these kids keep kidnapping him!
“Now there’s something leaner”, actually. It was for Sizzlean, which was supposed to be a revolutionary low-fat bacon substitute. It was an 80s product, however. Hormel no longer produces it.
How do you handle a hungry man?
The Man Handler!
What’s your dog’s name? DIGGER!
Digger the dog, Digger he goes with you when you explore.
Just pull his leash he’ll go for a walk. He’s your dog for sure!
“Ancient Chinese secret!”
“Calgon - take me awayyyyy!”
“We’ve secretly switched their regular brand of coffee with Folgers’ Crystals”
“Faberge Organics Shampoo - you tell a friend. And she tells two friends. And so on. And so on. And so on.”
“Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific!”
VCNJ~
From the land of sky blue water…
Hamms the beer refreshing, Hamms the beer refreshing
Hammmmms
All God’s children gotta Grange
How could I forget one of the more annoying jingles of 70s/80s TV?
I’m really glad they made
the Children’s Aid
Society!
*There’s a mountain
Far away
And we go up there
Every day…
We take the water
From a living spring
It’s a pure clean taste that
Only Arrowhead can bring!*
The “Yuck Mouth/Wagon-wheel” guy was named Timer. I can’t find a link, though.
Robin
Yeah, I remember “Time for Timer!!” We loved that weird looking guy!
“I’m the sole survivor!” (board game)
The Cavity Creeps: We. Make. Holes in Teeth.
They were creepy all right!
There was a commercial for some kind of cold medicine where they would pull apart the capsule and all these little confetti like pills would come spilling out of it. I was always mesmerized by that but I can’t remember the name of the med…was it Contact or could it have been UniSom?
Contac