*"Kiss a little longer,
(something something) a little longer,
(something) fresh breath a little longer,
Longer with Big Red!
(something something something) it,
(something) fresh breath goes on and on,
While you chew it!
So (something) last a little longer,
(something something) a little longer,
Fresh breath lasts a little longeeeeeeeeeer,
With Big Red!"*
From the commercial where the guy’s running out of the house to catch his carpool, but stops to smooch his wife and they end up smooching so long the carpool leaves without him. I think.
Also from the same era, the Doublemint Gum commercial with all the twins: “So double it, double it,
go on and double it,
Doublemint, Doublemint, Gum!
(Announcer: There’s no single gum like it!”
You are correct, and you can both read the lyrics and hear the music by clicking here.
I grew up in suburban Cleveland, and thus will always remember the Aluminum Siding Corporation’s phone number. Even twenty years after exchanges were removed from the phone books, the jingle still reminded you to call “GArfield 1-2323!”
Suse reminded me of the “Me and my RC” jingles that matched the standard tune with various sets of country music lyrics. One commercial began:
The final race, this dude showed up
With twenty coats of paint
I took one look at Wanda
She looked about to faint!
and ended
It’s knowin’ when to take the turn
And not how fast you go
followed by the standard “Me and my RC” refrain. Another started with
At a music school in Boston
They call it a violin
before a line about how “it’s a fiddle in Nashville”. I believe this version was the one that went on to say:
When you work for Old Man River
He’s a boss you understand
No politics or office tricks
He wants a steady hand
In the Midwest, an Old Home Bread campaign became so popular that singer Bill Fries became known by the name assigned to the trucker whose character he assumed for the campaign. As C.W. McCall, he hit the charts with Convoy.
What do you call a kid who can hit like that?
You call that kid a crackerjack!
To those who have recalled the Hamm’s commercials, Thanks. It’s been quite some time since I have sung “Hamm’s, the beer refreshing.”
At some point far in the past, Hamm’s was my dad’s favorite beer. I loved the commercials on TV, partly because I could recognize the product as one my dad liked and partly because of the neat animated bear.
I taped off a bunch of old albums from the library when I was about 15 old radio commerials. I’ve since lost the tape ( insert boo-boo lip smilie) but part of this jingle ( from the Jimmy Durante Show is forever in my brain.)
*For goodness sake
If you a tummy ache
deep in your solar plexus
You’ll really find
just how good
**RexAll ** Bismo-X is *
*"Kiss a little longer, Stay close a little longer, romance a little longer,
Longer with Big Red!
That Big Red freshness lasts right through it, Your fresh breath goes on and on,
While you chew it!
So (something) last a little longer,
(something something) a little longer,
Fresh breath lasts a little longeeeeeeeeeer,
With Big Red!"*
There were actually a few versions, each more irritating than the last. This is one of the ones I remember. I didn’t do the last verse because three different ones warred in my head and made me hear strange voices and see AMAZING colors…
We’ve had some jingles for American cigarettes and beer, but do any older Canadians remember these:
Coolest, cleanest, most refreshing… (Repeat constantly; it was for Craven Menthol cigarettes.)
Wild mild! Belvedere is wild mild! (Belvedere cigarettes.)
For your real satisfaction, Molson Export Ale keeps on tasting great.
Okay, a few more:
Charlie says, “Love my Good n’ Plenty!”
Charlie says, “Really rings a bell!”
Charlie says, “Love my Good n’ Plenty,
Don’t know any other candy that I love so well!”
And I’m amazed I can still remember this one:
*If you’ve got trouble, wait don’t run
This kind of trouble is lots of fun.
Pop-O-Matic pops the dice
Pop the six and you move twice
Race your men around the track
And try to send the others back.
That’s Pop-O-Matic Trouble!
The game is fun for Dad and Mother
And Sis can trouble her mean old brother!
Pop-O-Matic Trouble!*
Traaaaavel Amtrak
See the country
Its easy come and easy go!
I also recall a commercial for Moddess (which I think was a feminine hygiene spray). The tune didn’t have any words that I can recall, just this tune playing while a woman in a long flowing white robe strolled along the beach and had this look that was supposed to say “Boy, my vagina smells great.”
And a slight hijack re: Darryl Dawkins. He dunked once and hit an opposing player in the head. After the game he was asked if that dunk had a name. His response: “Damn straight. I call it the ‘Move Your Damn Head’ dunk.”
Campbells.
MM MM good MM MM good that’s what Campbells soups are MM Mm good
Oscar Mayer
My bologna has a first name
Its Oscar
My bologna has a second name
It’s Mayer
Oh I love to eat it everyday and if you ask me why I’ll say
Cause Oscar Mayer has a way with Bologna
“National Beer, National Beer
You’ll like the taste of National Beer
And while I’m singin’ I’m proud to say
It’s brewed on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay!”
“Down down down the stomach to
Round round round the system through
With Alka-Seltzer you’re sure to say
Relief is just a swallow away.”
“After you shave your face you’re
needin’ Mennen Skin Bracer
'cause it cools cools cools rather than burns”
Okay, I got you all beat. I don’t know if anyone will remember this commercial from the late 80’s where Sally Struthers was doing an ad for a correspondence school, but here goes.
In case you couldn’t tell, I watched a lot of TV when I was a kid.
Iverson Mall
Iverson Mall
Hop in the buggy and drive her
to Iverson Mall
Iverson Mall!
Aren’t you glad you use Dial?
Don’t you wish everybody did?
Aren’t you glad you use Dial?
Goobers and Raisinettes
Goobers and Raisinettes
Goobers are delicious peanuts covered in chocolate
Raisinettes are raisins covered in chocolate, too,
Ooo.
Goobers and Raisinettes
The (something, something) candy that pours
As I’ve said on this board before, I’d be simply delighted to see the complete “goobers and Raisinettes” theme, since nobody here in the West seems to have heard it.
My mother used to sing me radio jingles from her youth in the 30s. Which means that down the years there still echos in my head the 70-year-old ads:
All girls are beautiful
If one loves you, then show her your love is true.
Dress her in I.J. Fox Furs.
She’s worth it if you’ve chosen her,
and she’ll be beautiful…
and
It’s delicious yum yum yum
It’s delicious, order some
It’s delicious so they claim
Piels light beer of Broadway fame.