They wouldn’t have provided Shirley Jones’ voice as the mom on The Partridge Family, either.
Funny you mention that, cause I’ve read somewhere (maybe an interview with PF music producer Wes Farrell?) where they re-mixed the Partridge Family’s songs two different ways; the mix heard on the actual episode has Shirley Jones’ track turned up a bit, while the mix heard on the records (LPs and 45s) had her track way down, because they were appealing more to the youth market, so David Cassidy’s voice was what they pushed. Don’t know if the story is true, because watching the shows, I’m still not sure I can even hear her “mix”! I think they only let her sing lead once (at least that I remember) – “Whale Song” during the episode filmed at Marineland of the Pacific (with none other than Howard Cosell!). (Wow, talk about another ‘defunct’ product! Somebody could start a thread just on defunct amusement parks and other tourist attractions).
Some day you’ll own
Some day you’ll own
Sooner or later you’ll own General
(They’re a tire company, sure, but I was amazed to learn that my General mountain bike was made by them as well)
Often heard thru the AM speakers of our '68 Beetle as my pop listened to Bernard Meltzer on WOR, who was known to shill for Martin Paint in actual on-air reads, and equally often poked fun at by the long esteemed Uncle Floyd on UHF ch 68 who called it “Martian Paint,” usually right before The Ramones or some equally stellar if unlikely guest would appear.
One for a defunct chain of carpet stores that’s just come to me, which (as it happens) was the source for a parody line in the Bonzo Dog’s “I’m bored”:
This is luxury you can afford
By Cyril Lord!
A couple more from the UK in the 60s:
(From a paint firm) “For a really professional finish, use Hadrian!”
And (from further back still)
“Murraymints! Murraymints!
The too good to hurry mints!”
I don’t know how I missed this thread, but I wanted to mention that while the jingle was fine, their best commercial was because of the script. One of the announcers said he knew someone who liked it so much that they made a wedding cake of if when they were married.
And everyone sang, “The bride cut the cheese. The bride cut the cheese.”
It ran for ages. Evidently no one with the ability to censor it knew what “to cut the cheese” meant.
For the record for younger folk, it mean “to fart.”