# Memorable advertising jingles for defunct products **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212 "2007-11-29T19:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/81 "2010-02-07T07:49:00Z")
One that I remember: Paul Parrott, Paul Parrot, the shoe you ought to buy They make your feet run faster, as fast as I can fly! (Paul Parrott was a brand of children’s shoes). ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/82 "2010-02-08T23:08:48Z")
“Kids are king at Dispensa’s Kiddie Kingdom! Fun’s the thing at Dispensa’s Kiddie Kingdom! Exciting rides to make you yell and holler! Any ride a quarter! Six for a dollar!” I never went. I was a little too old. Anyone here who did? ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/83 "2010-02-09T01:33:12Z")
_“You’ve come a long way, baby, to get where you got to today. You’ve got your own cigarette now, baby. You’ve come a long, long way!”_ Now fix us a sandwich. > **[Paramount Network](https://www.paramountnetwork.com/)** > > Television's destination for premium entertainment and storytelling, with original scripted and non-scripted series. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/84 "2010-02-09T01:59:37Z")
Here a [favorite](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLL67CN2hnw&feature=related) of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Umbriel2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/4af34b/32.png) [@Umbriel2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Umbriel2)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/85 "2010-02-09T02:02:54Z")
Philadelphia and South Jersey for many years had commercials for the clothing outlet [Ideal Manufacturing](http://www.bakedziti.net/2005/06/ideal-clothing-greatest-jingle-ever.html). They generally ran their commercials in the cheapest possible slots, wee hours of the morning and weekends on UHF stations (for those that remember such things), and ran them in great numbers to sear the catchy jingle into your brain for life. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/86 "2010-02-09T14:13:43Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > There’s some impediment to dialing 421-2323, all of the sudden? Or do you just mean that many people don’t know how the mnemonic conventions for telephone exchanges work these days? 😛 The latter. Oh, plus you have to add the area code, which is 216, unless you’re in 330- or 440-, in which case you’ll have to dial a 1-, depending on your cell plan. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/87 "2010-02-09T14:58:17Z")
Nobody outside the Altoona/Johnstown/State College region in Pennsylvania will ever have heard of this place, but there was a furniture store in Phillipsburg called “Sam’s”. They had a commercial in the 70s with three mariachi marionettes doing a song about the store. The only part I really remember, but I’ve carried it through almost 40 years of forgetting everything else, is the very end: “at Saaaaaaaaaaaam’s! Phillipsburg!” with the “Phillipsburg” very staccato and quick, contrasting with the long, drawn-out “Sam’s”. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/88 "2010-02-09T15:58:57Z")
Does anybody remember this? _“You get a whole lot more at the Ground Round, YOU GET A WHOLE LOT MORE!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/89 "2010-02-09T16:04:38Z")
_Soft Whip is soft and creamy too, Soft Whip yogurt is the one for you._ Soft Whip has been gone for years, but I used to pack it in my sack lunch for grade school every day. I think it was made by Old Dutch or something. This company is still around, but I haven’t heard the jingle in a while: _Rattle rattle thunder clatter boom boom boom Don’t worry, call the CarX man!_ ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/90 "2010-02-09T18:00:47Z")
\*meow, meow, meow, meow meow, meow, meow, meow meow, meow, meow, meow meow, meow, meow, meow meow, meow, meow, meow meow, meow, meow, meow me-ow … me-ow … me-ow\* And, if you lived in the greater Dayton Ohio area … \*B-H-A means Better Home Appliances Better Home Appliances Better Home Appliances B-H-A means Better Home Appliances Bet-ter Home Appli - ance Store! B-H-A!\* ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/91 "2010-02-09T18:34:23Z")
> [@tattman40](#): > > This may have been only in the NY/NJ/CT area, but does anyone remember the “Great Bear” radio jingle? > > I cant remember all of it,except for.. > > Gotta fix those brakes. Drive a little slower say a little prayer (cant recall words here) til you get to great bear. I think it was “You’re driving down the road in the dead of night When up ahead is a terrible sight You hit the brakes, but they’re not all there And you miss this one by only a hair” And it ended “Great Shocks, Great Brakes, Great Bear” - so maybe they had 2 jingles Lets add to this Zombie: “You start to live, when you learn to drive” “You start to have fun, when you used to have none” And this “226-0841 = the honeymoon hotline, for honey-moon fun” (Google indicates that one was Pocono Gardens lodge - and I did get the phone number right without googling first!) And …I didn’t see this one either in 2007 or today, but it sort of lives on in Seinfeld: “Nobody beats the Wiz - nobody beats the Wiz” ---
**Author:** ![slitterst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@slitterst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slitterst)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/92 "2010-02-09T19:12:38Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Though the cereal was around during the 60’s and early 70’s originally (way before my time), Post released a version in the 80’s: I was going to post about the 60’s version. \*The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals. With moose, the color of orange.\* [B&W Ad here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN3WCnBAdrc) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/93 "2010-02-09T19:53:01Z")
"The most rewaaaarding flavor in this man’s world, For people who are having fun. Schaefer… is the… one beer to have, When you’re having more than one.’ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/94 "2010-02-09T19:54:04Z")
"Palisades Amusement Park, Swings all day and after dark. Ride the coaster, get cool In the waves of the pool. You’ll have fun… so come on overrrrrr." ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/95 "2010-02-09T19:55:10Z")
Oh, and I was 6 years old when my parents drove me and my brothers from New York City to Montreal for Expo '67. Almost 43 years later, I can still hear their promotional jingle… “Hey friend, say friend… come on over! Looking for happiness? This is the plaaaace…” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/96 "2010-02-09T20:00:50Z")
Are Funny Face fruit drinks defunct? I remember… “Goofy Grape (hoo hoo hoo hoo ho hoo)! Injun Orange! Freckle-Face Strawberryyyyy! Chinese Cherry! (Gong!) LOUDMOUTH LIME! Rootin’ Tootin Raspberry, YAHOO!” Yeah, just a BIT racist in a few places. I seem to recall they changed the names to “Jolly Ollie Orange” and “ChooChoo Cherry” after receiving a lot of complaints. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/97 "2010-02-09T20:47:48Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > In NE Ohio we have: > > _Garfield 1 2-3-2-3_ > > Which is the old old old telephone number for [looks it up…] The Home Corporation which does…[looks it up…] “Home Improvements.” > > They were still using this jingle in the 80’s, but it didn’t really do them any good since everyone remembered the jingle yet there was no way to “call” that number by then. > > But alas, it seems like they were saved by the Internet. Now we can “call” [www.garfield12323.com](http://www.garfield12323.com) and find out what the heck they do. You can still call Pennsylvania 6-5000 and get the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York, although you do now need the area code as well. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/98 "2010-02-10T23:20:55Z")
In Boston, there was a carpet cleaning company that used the following jingle: “How do you keep your carpets neat?..call ANdrew8-8 thousand… How many cookies did Andrew eat?..Andrew ate 8 thousand” ---
**Author:** ![ep42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@ep42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ep42)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/99 "2010-04-15T18:18:50Z")
Anyone remember this one for Schaefer beer? It goes something like this: Schaefer is the one beer to have when you having more than one Schaefer pleasure doesn’t fade even when you’re thirst is done The most rewarding flavor (?) pleasure (?) in this man’s world is when you’re having more than one (?) people who are having fun (?) Schaefer is the one beer to have when you having more than one!!! ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/100 "2010-04-15T18:39:02Z")
Lotto America: _Life can be a holiday When you win 10 million or more Life won’t be a boooooooooooooore Play Lotto America And you could win a holiday for life!_ Lotto America morphed into the present day Powerball. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212.md?page=6)