# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/141 "2013-07-15T15:39:06Z")
> [@Umbriel2](#): > > 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. IDEAL’s still around [http://www.idealclothing.net/](http://www.idealclothing.net/) Here’s the infamous jingle https://www.youtube.com/embed/oQFlkK9nYYs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![M60TankDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b77776/32.png) [@M60TankDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M60TankDriver)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/142 "2013-08-21T05:27:57Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > From the same time period: > > \*They took the blue from the skies > And the pretty girls’ eyes, > And a touch of Old Glory too. > And gave it to the men > Who proudly wear > The US Air Force blue! > The US Air Force blue! \* Terentii-- this song has an interesting history; it’s was written about 1956 for a USAF recruiting drive, and became popular due to it’s release by the Mitch Miller Orchestra & Chorus. My father, who was in the Air Force at the time, remembered some effort by the “Brass” in Washington to replace the familiar “US Air Force Song” (“Off we go into the wild blue yonder…”) with “Air Force Blue” as the USAF’s “official” song. He remembered some polls or something being conducted among various Air Force personnel, but the results were “hands down” that they wanted to retain the old “Air Force Song” (“Wild Blue Yonder”). He said he did remember hearing “Air Force Blue” at times, and that over the years it DID became something of a “second theme” for the USAF. I think most old Airmen felt like my Dad, however – that nothing could every come close to the “US Air Force Song” (“Wild Blue Yonder”). In fact, my Dad went back far enough to remember when it was the “Army Air Corps Song”, then the “Army Air Force Song”! At any rate, if I recall correctly, “Air Force Blue” was used again during the 1960’s on Air Force recruiting commercials… that might be the time you picked up on it? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/143 "2013-08-21T05:54:57Z")
> [@M60TankDriver](#): > > At any rate, if I recall correctly, “Air Force Blue” was used again during the 1960’s on Air Force recruiting commercials… that might be the time you picked up on it? That’s right, late '60s or early '70s. I think my brother was in the AF at the time (1968–72). They were still doing the original “High Flight” around that time, as I recall (the one with the F-104). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/144 "2013-08-21T06:00:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > “It takes two hands to handle a Whopper” > > “The bigger the burger, the better the burger. > The burgers are better at Burger King!” I always had my own interpretation of the first jingle (and yes, I was in fifth or sixth grade at the time).\* :rolleyes: IIRC, the last line of the second was “The burgers are _bigger_ at Burger King!” \*A friend of mine claimed to have Burger King shorts, “Home of the Whopper.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![meecepeece](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@meecepeece](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meecepeece)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/145 "2014-01-09T18:03:05Z")
I grew up in the 80 s& early 90 s and there were a ton of awesome cereals. Nerds cereal with the box looking just like the candy one side Cherry one side Orange& two separate openings! But the Jingle I recall is for Smurfberry Crunch which was very tasty- Smurfberry crunch is fun to eat! A fruity smurfy breakfast treat. Made by Smurfs so happily, it tastes like crunchy smurfberries! Its berry shaped& crispy too its berry red & smurfy blue. Sung to the tune of the Nutcracker, and the cereal sort of resembled captain crunch berries with blue berry pieces also. The other one I recall is for Too T Fruits chewy fruit leather stick type snacks, with 2 flavors one in the middle& one around it. Too too too too T fruits too too too T fruits too too too t fruits too too… In a rhythm while the fruit sticks danced in a line all over the house. ---
**Author:** ![meecepeece](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@meecepeece](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meecepeece)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/146 "2014-01-09T18:15:11Z")
The Bucky Beaver Ipana ad from the 60 s can clearly be seen and heard in the movie Grease also during the Slumber Party Scene ---
**Author:** ![meecepeece](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@meecepeece](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meecepeece)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/147 "2014-01-09T18:20:20Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The McDonald’s Big Mac jingle only aired for a year and a half and went off the air in 1976. But I betcha everyone who was around then remembers “two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onion on a sesame bun.” I was born in 1975 and wasnt old enough in 76 to recall this, so it must have either been replayed in the 80 s or the Jingle was re used in an 80 s ad? Because I know this jingle well and heard it every day after school on a big mac commercial that aired when I was way older than one year. I think I was maybe around 8 ---
**Author:** ![meecepeece](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@meecepeece](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meecepeece)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/148 "2014-01-09T18:35:39Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > _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!_ I remember the soft whip yogurt ad as being Soft whip its yogurt fun for you! Soft whip is soft and creamy too. Soft whip is the one for you its red and blue and yellow too. Or to that extent, listing colors instead of the flavor it wouldve represented. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/149 "2014-01-09T20:55:49Z")
1966 - _If you don’t (I do!) like peanuts, Don’t get new Kellogg’s Triple Snack. Triple Snack is right for me, And I am right for Triple Snack._ ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/150 "2014-01-09T21:19:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 1966 - > > _If you don’t (I do!) like peanuts, > Don’t get new Kellogg’s Triple Snack. > Triple Snack is right for me, > And I am right for Triple Snack._ Oh, the dangers of a zombie thread being revived … when you discover you have ninja’d _yourself_. (See post 127) ---
**Author:** ![M60TankDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b77776/32.png) [@M60TankDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M60TankDriver)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/151 "2014-08-04T04:54:06Z")
> [@M60TankDriver](#): > > More info on the classic AMC jingle of the early/mid-1970’s. Turns out it was recorded by the Ron Hicklin Singers, and a brief excerpt can be heard on a You Tube video! (“Ron Hicklin Singers Demo – TM Productions – 1974”; it’s at 0:10 time-frame). In fact, the whole video is worth checking out – it’s filled with excerpts from quite a few memorable commercial jingles they did (IHOP, Kawasaki, Datsun,etc). > > Turns out the Ron Hicklin Singers have an amazing resume, backing up a large list of recording artists (incl The Monkees, Cher, Paul Revere & the Raiders, etc), and providing the voices of the Partridge Family (except, of course, lead singer David Cassidy). They recorded the version of “Love, American Style” theme song heard from seasons 2 onward (The Cowsills version was used only for season one), and were billed as “The Charles Fox Singers” (Charles Fox did all the music for “Love American Style”). Several members of The Ron Hicklin Singers formed the nucleus of the Sixties flower-power/“feel good” rock group The Love Generation (biggest hit: 1967’s “Groovy Summertime”). ANOTHER UPDATE: One of the actual mid-70’s AMC (American Motors) jingles by the Ron Hicklin Singers has been posted on You Tube! It’s under “Ron Hicklin Singers: AMC (American Motors) ‘Thrifty’.” Check it out! Terrific jingle! ---
**Author:** ![danhanegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@danhanegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danhanegan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/152 "2014-08-04T07:06:05Z")
I can bring home the bacon fry it up in a pan and never let you forget you’re a man 'cause I’m a wo-ooman TV commercial for Enjoli perfume. Late 70s or early 80s, I think. Sounds a bit sexist today, was thought rather progressive at the time. The catchy jingle will be stuck in my head forever. Enjoli still sells a product line, but this commercial is long gone. ---
**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 4, 2014, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/153 "2014-08-04T09:12:05Z")
> [@danhanegan](#): > > I can bring home the bacon > fry it up in a pan > and never let you forget you’re a man > 'cause I’m a wo-ooman > > TV commercial for Enjoli perfume. Late 70s or early 80s, I think. Sounds a bit sexist today, was thought rather progressive at the time. The catchy jingle will be stuck in my head forever. Enjoli still sells a product line, but this commercial is long gone. That reminds me of a cartoon I once saw in response to that commercial. In it, a haggard looking woman stares at a TV set watching that commercial and comments, “And you’re on drugs!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/154 "2014-08-06T19:24:56Z")
> [@danhanegan](#): > > I can bring home the bacon > fry it up in a pan > and never let you forget you’re a man > 'cause I’m a wo-ooman > > TV commercial for Enjoli perfume. Late 70s or early 80s, I think. Sounds a bit sexist today, was thought rather progressive at the time. The song it was based on went back considerably farther: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GhkwRBGZEN4/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AGsBYAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgUCg0MA8=&rs=AOn4CLDBfr0WmmNGIvuDcAd3uwJjzaD7Gg ""Peggy Lee I'm A Woman" (Original Song + Lyrics)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhkwRBGZEN4) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/155 "2014-08-06T19:58:17Z")
“Ring Around The collar!” and (Angelinos only): “Aydee Do.” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/156 "2014-08-06T20:01:48Z")
Oops. Aydee Do is still in business. Shows how much I know. ---
**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/157 "2014-08-09T16:54:06Z")
I can’t imagine why no one has quoted these: _Pepsi Cola hits the spot, twice as much and that’s a lt, twice as much for a nickel too = you know Pepsi’s the drink for you.|| I’m Conchita banana and I’ve come to say bananas have to ripen in a certain way. You can put them in a salad, you can put them in a pie. Anyway you want to eat them it’s impossible to beat them. But bananas are from the very, very tropical equator, so never put bananas in the refrigerator._ ---
**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:** [August 9, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/158 "2014-08-09T18:52:41Z")
Because both Pepsi and Chicquita Bananas are still going concerns and the title of the thread is Memorable Advertising Jingles For DEFUNCT Products? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/159 "2014-08-09T19:00:54Z")
> [@M60TankDriver](#): > > ANOTHER UPDATE: One of the actual mid-70’s AMC (American Motors) jingles by the Ron Hicklin Singers has been posted on You Tube! It’s under “Ron Hicklin Singers: AMC (American Motors) ‘Thrifty’.” Check it out! Terrific jingle! They wouldn’t have provided Shirley Jones’ voice as the mom on The Partridge Family, either. Also, Brylcreem is still around. Whoa, how old is this thread? ---
**Author:** ![KarenKraft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@KarenKraft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarenKraft)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212/160 "2015-01-13T15:31:12Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > _Dont cook tonite- call Chicken Delite!_ > > _Say the Magic words, say Mission Pak and it’s on its merry way! No gift so bright, so gay, so right, give the Mission Pak magic way!_ > > You sent your relative _oranges_. Seriously.:eek: A regular box of California oranges. \*And \*it was a gift most appreciated by those in the northern climes. Say the magic word, say ‘MissionPak’ And it’s on its merry way No gift so bright, so gay, so right Send a Mission Pack magic way! To find your nearest MissionPak store, Call ADams 2-4184 NOW! Anybody have a link to an MP3 of the jingle? Thanks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-advertising-jingles-for-defunct-products/428212.md?page=9)