# Old Ad Jingles You remember
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 16, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620 "2003-08-16T17:47:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/1 "2003-08-16T17:47:03Z")
It’s funny how you can remember the most pointless things…like those ad jingles that were so popular years ago. Here’s a few from my memory baks:
-(Paul Parrot-a brand of children’sshoes): “paul parrot, paulparrot, the name you ought to buy…they make your feet run faster, as fast as I can fly?”
-(Brylcream-a barnd of male hair grease): “Brylcream, a little dab will do ya…”
-a Boston area carpet cleaning company…remeber when phone numbers had exchanges?
"How many cookies did Andrew eat? -Andrew 8-8000! (the phoe number was AN8-8000)
So why did ad jingles disappear? Seems like they were a nifty way ofimplanting awareness!
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### Author:  [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/2 "2003-08-16T18:09:54Z")
I think nowadays they usually just use a pop/rock/country/rap/some other genre song that was originally not intended to be an advertising jingle.
Sometimes, a song gets used in advertising so much that it seems like it was always a jingle, for example, Bob Seger’s “Like A Rock” for Chevrolet trucks.
There is a carpet company called Empire that does their phone number as a jingle, only without the exchange name because nobody uses those anymore.
In Michigan we have an ambulance chasing attorney named Lee Steinberg who has a cheesy jingle that goes “Choose the right attorney, Call Lee Free!”
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/3 "2003-08-16T18:42:50Z")
“Hey, Mabel. Black Label. Carling’s Black Label Beer.”
This one goes way back: “You’ll be for B4 before you drive six city blocks.” (Some kind of oil additive, I think)
“Mohawk carpet. Mohawk carpet.” (sounded like Indian drums)
I could name dozens that most of you are too young to have heard.
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### Author:  [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/4 "2003-08-16T18:46:20Z")
I can remember all the good classics - Tootsie Roll, Meow Mix, etc. At work when we’re counting parts, we will sometimes lapse into the Owl from the Tootsie Pop commercial. "One. Ta-whoooo. Three. "
The one I remember most from growing up in WI was the American Family Insurance ad. Mainly because I knew when I heard that, I was getting a special treat of staying up _late_, since they only played it after 10. “American Family Insurance! For your Auto, Home, Heath- and Life!”
There are no more good jingles. As a matter of fact, I hate it when they take a good old classic song and turn it into a commercial. The one that comes to mind first is Canned Heat’s _Goin’ Up the Country_ that a major cola company hijacked about 10 years ago. Now they are all doing it. Ruins the song for me.
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### Author:  [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/5 "2003-08-16T18:58:29Z")
**Zeldar** , I’ll see your Black Label and raise you a Hamm’s.
“From the Land of Sky Blue Waters…(Waters) (Waters)…” Beer Refreshing Hamm’s…"
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/6 "2003-08-16T19:02:47Z")
N-E-S-T-L-E-S,
Nestle’s makes the very best
Chooooooclit!
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/7 "2003-08-16T19:04:09Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Baggins111 \*
> \*\ ***Zeldar** , I’ll see your Black Label and raise you a Hamm’s.
>
> “From the Land of Sky Blue Waters…(Waters) (Waters)…” Beer Refreshing Hamm’s…" \*\*
Far out! Let’s see, then.
(deep voice) Miller (high voices) High Life \
The Champagne of Bottled Beer
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### Author:  [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/8 "2003-08-16T19:25:56Z")
Ahhh… “When it’s time to relax / one beer stands clear. Miller Beer.”
How about this one?
**Clydesdales pulling a beer laden wagon** \*
Dum Dum Dum
Here comes the king! Here comes the king - Number One!
(Here comes the king)
Budweiser beer, the king, is second to none!
(When you say Buuuuuuuuud)
The king is coming! Let’s hear the call!
When you say Bud you’ve said it all!
(when you say Bud you’ve said it all!)
_ **Clydesdales fading into pint glass full of golden ale** _
Ya da da da da da da dadada da.
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/9 "2003-08-16T19:32:52Z")
I can bring home the bacon
_(Enjoli)_
Fry it up in a pan
_(Enjoli)_
And never, never let you forget you’re a man
'cause ah’m a woooooooooman
_(with Enjoli)_
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/10 "2003-08-16T19:41:00Z")
For Philadelphia dopers (old ones):
_“All the animals in the zoo
are jumping up and down for you.
Hoping you will be sure to plan
a trip to the zoo as fast as you can…”_
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/11 "2003-08-16T19:50:00Z")
“See the USA
In your Chevrolet
America is answering the call…”
“Be happy go lucky
Be happy go Lucky Strike…”
“You’ll wonder where the yellow went
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent…”
“So get AJAX (boom boom)
The foaming cleanser (boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boom)
Floats the dirt
Right down the drain
(boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boom)”
“You can trust your car to
The man who wears the star
The big bright Texaco star”
“I’d walk a mile
For a mild mild Camel
So mild it suits you to a T”
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### Author:  [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/12 "2003-08-16T20:17:07Z")
'80s kid checking in.
“POW POW Power wheels! POW POW Power wheels! Power wheels, power makes 'em go!”
I think that’s the only nationwide jingle I remember. There’s probably a few local ones lodged in there, though. For a while, Hersheypark was changing their jingle every year or two. One I remember:
“Hersheypark, happy! Hersheypark, glad! So many things to see and do. Good times to be had!”
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/13 "2003-08-16T20:45:00Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Baker \*
> \*\*N-E-S-T-L-E-S,
> Nestle’s makes the very best
> Chooooooclit! \*\*
Remember the psuedo-arty ads they did in the late 80’s? You’d see pouty women in white on a huge tree swing and so forth:
Nestles makes the very best
N-E-S-T-L-E-S
A dream as sweet as this
N-E-S-T-L-E-S
Creamy white,
Dreamy white,
Nestles makes the very best \*
N-E-S-T-L-E-S
- (this might not be the right line)
Also, from the 70’s:
Pioneer car stereos
super systems on the go
Pioneer car stereos
taking the best on the road
play me some music
let me hear you play my song
play me some music
play in loud, play it strong…
And:
Kawasaki let’s the good times roll
Kawasaki let’s the good times roll
get aboard get away and you’re going to say
let the good times roll…
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### Author:  [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/14 "2003-08-16T20:45:39Z")
Another 80’s kid here:
\*Mr.T!
He’s got legs that move, he’s twelve inches high-I-I!!
Mr.T!!
He’s got a real cool haircut and a mean, mean look in his eye-I-I!
He’s got arms that move and a fistfull of rings,
You can pretend that Mr.T is really tough and mean!
Mr.T! (Nuh, nun, nuh, nuh, nuh…)
Strawberry Shortcake,
My, she’s lookin’ swell,
Cute little doll with the strawberry smell…
It’s yumyum fun
that is cool and keen
and it’s name is
the Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine…
Hello, my name is Crispy!
How do ya’ do?
Crispy Critters cereal is entirely new!
It’s indubitibly… delicious!\*
God, I wish I had back the brain space devoted to this jun
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/15 "2003-08-16T21:38:22Z")
(Yikes, **koeeoaddi** – I had no idea that was in my brain!)
I’ve got two that I still perform upon request (or, more often, without a request):
First, to a bouncy tune:
_Does your shoe have a boy inside?
What a funny place for a boy to hide!
Does your shoe have a dog there too –
A boy and a dog and a foot in a shoe.
Well, the boy is Buster Brown,
And the dog is Tige his friend,
And they’re really just a picture –
But it’s fun to play pretend!
So look look look
In your telephone book
For the store that sells the shoe
With the picture of the boy and the dog inside
and you can put your foot there too.
**Buster Brown Shoes!** _
and the other, to a more portentous bit of music (imagine, if you will, an enormous foam rubber “cold” running around knocking into people, being strafed by a cold pill in a biplane):
_A summer cold
Is a different animal
An ugly animal, too
It hits you in the summer
When you’ve got lots to do
Sniffles – sneezes – stuffy nose
Don’t let it
Get you down
GET CONTACT!_
[sub]Tally ho, contact…[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/16 "2003-08-16T21:57:14Z")
See Pearson Ford it stands alone
At Fairmont and El Cajon!
A little bit of heaven
Ninety-four point seven
K-M-E-T
Tweedle-dee!
> [@](#):
>
> Kawasaki let’s the good times roll
> Kawasaki let’s the good times roll
> get aboard get away and you’re going to say
> let the good times roll…
Climb aboard the silver bird
It’s a magical machine… (That’s all I remember.)
Forget your troubles
Get on Suzuki!
Get yourself a Honda
Built like a watch that was meant to last a hundred years!
Yamaha, won’t you fly me away?
Today is the day
Don’t look the other way
Yamaha!
Today is the day! (I wonder if that’s part of the “silver bird” one?)
I’m a-wearin’ my Levi’s
Lee-hee-hee-hee-hee
Lee-hee-hee-hee-hee
Levi’s!
That’s life!
That’s what people say!
Sanyo!
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to buy the world a Coke
And keep it company
Plop! Plop!
Fizz! Fizz!
Oh, what a relief it is!
Then there was one for a malt liquor. Colt 45, I think. Instrumental. The commercial had a well dressed man sitting at a little white table. He’d be calmly pouring his brew as he and his table get surrounded by sharks or float downriver toward a waterfall. “Doot doot DOOT / Doo-doot doot DOOT / Doo-doo-doo Doo-doo Doot-doot doot.” (I think I saw a tape of Ernie Kovaks’s “Nairobi Trio”, and they used that music.)
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/17 "2003-08-16T22:05:46Z")
See Pearson Ford it stands alone
At Fairmont and El Cajon!
A little bit of heaven
Ninety-four point seven
K-M-E-T
Tweedle-dee!
> [@](#):
>
> Kawasaki let’s the good times roll
> Kawasaki let’s the good times roll
> get aboard get away and you’re going to say
> let the good times roll…
Climb aboard the silver bird
It’s a magical machine… (That’s all I remember.)
Forget your troubles
Get on Suzuki!
Get yourself a Honda
Built like a watch that was meant to last a hundred years!
Yamaha, won’t you fly me away?
Today is the day
Don’t look the other way
Yamaha!
Today is the day! (I wonder if that’s part of the “silver bird” one?)
I’m a-wearin’ my Levi’s
Lee-hee-hee-hee-hee
Lee-hee-hee-hee-hee
Levi’s!
That’s life!
That’s what people say!
Sanyo!
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to buy the world a Coke
And keep it company
Plop! Plop!
Fizz! Fizz!
Oh, what a relief it is!
Then there was one for a malt liquor. Colt 45, I think. Instrumental. The commercial had a well dressed man sitting at a little white table. He’d be calmly pouring his brew as he and his table get surrounded by sharks or float downriver toward a waterfall. “Doot doot DOOT / Doo-doot doot DOOT / Doo-doo-doo Doo-doo Doot-doot doot.” (I think I saw a tape of Ernie Kovaks’s “Nairobi Trio”, and they used that music.)
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### Author:  [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/18 "2003-08-16T22:12:28Z")
One I remember from the mid 70’s was for a now defunct amusement park in Kentucky:
“You’ve got the summer
And I’ve got a dime
Let’s put it together and have a good time
Beech Bend, it’s fun for the whole famileeeeee!
Beech Bend, you’ve just got to come and see!”
I also remember a Fonzie doll whose commercial song contained the lines:
“Stick his thumb up in the air
Fonzie’s cool/Not a square!
Fonzie, Fonzie, the Fonz!”
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/19 "2003-08-16T22:21:59Z")
\*The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (sound of thundering hooves) \* for Crispy Critters
_To run faster, jump higher, with the action wedge_ PF Flyers- brand of sneakers
_Cities Service is Citgo now! Zoom, zoom zoom zoom zoom, Citgo Zoom!_ Gasoline
I’m with you **koeeoaddi**
"_story books that come alive and turn on with a key,
da da da da da da da da da da da da (can’t remember next 2 lines)
a world of new excitement awaits you at the Zoo!"_
_From the valley of the jolly **Ho, Ho, Ho** Green Giant_
_It’s so easy when you use Lestoil_
Another for Philly dopers: Krass Brothers! 947 South Street! Store of the Stars! These were the ultimate in schmaltz. UHF TV at night featured little 15 to 30 second bits filled with terrible puns.
As a little kid, the one I could never figure out was the Hertz Rent-A-Car ads that showed people floating out of the sky into the driver seat of a moving convertible. Why wasn’t the wind blowing that woman’s dress up beyond her ears? :eek:
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-ad-jingles-you-remember/195620/20 "2003-08-16T22:29:05Z")
\*The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (sound of thundering hooves) \* for Crispy Critters
_To run faster, jump higher, with the action wedge_ PF Flyers- brand of sneakers
_Cities Service is Citgo now! Zoom, zoom zoom zoom zoom, Citgo Zoom!_ Gasoline
I’m with you **koeeoaddi**
"_story books that come alive and turn on with a key,
da da da da da da da da da da da da (can’t remember next 2 lines)
a world of new excitement awaits you at the Zoo!"_
_From the valley of the jolly **Ho, Ho, Ho** Green Giant_
_It’s so easy when you use Lestoil_
Another for Philly dopers: Krass Brothers! 947 South Street! Store of the Stars! These were the ultimate in schmaltz. UHF TV at night featured little 15 to 30 second bits filled with terrible puns.
As a little kid, the one I could never figure out was the Hertz Rent-A-Car ads that showed people floating out of the sky into the driver seat of a moving convertible. Why wasn’t the wind blowing that woman’s dress up beyond her ears? :eek:
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