I can’t find this on YouTube; you’re going to have to believe I wasn’t clever enough in the mid-'60s (when I was 6 YO) to compose it, just remember it:
Load up on Mountain Dew
Ain’t nothin’ you can do
Without good ol’ Mountain Dew
Mountain Dew will do it fer you, yeah
That good ol’ Mountain Dew
Will do it fer you, YA-HOO!
I can’t prove this either, but when MD first came out, it had RED PEPPER in it :eek:
<Bill Murray> Well, that’s what I heard <BM>
Yeah, good music <big thumbs-up smilie>
Can you imagine a TV theme song today at a minute 40 seconds?
That guy must have had a big, circular bruise on his chest.
Where they street legal?
That last drawing in the clip–Col. Potter did the exact, same thing in a MASH episode.
It’s the Pepsi generation,
comin’ at ya, goin’ strong!
Put yourself behind a Pepsi,
if you’re livin’, you belong!
You’ve got a lot to live,
And Pepsi’s got a lot to give!
You’ve got a lot to live,
And Pepsi’s got a lot to give!
Hey, meet the Swinger, Polaroid Swinger!
Hey, meet the Swinger, Polaroid Swinger!
It’s more than a camera, it’s almost alive!
It’s only nineteen dollars and ninety-five!
Swing it up (Yeah, yeah!),
take the shot (Yeah, yeah!),
count it down (Yeah, yeah!),
rip it off (Yeah, yeah!)!
It’s the radial age!
Now the world is safer on a great new tire!
It’s the radial age!
BF Goodrich boosts your mileage so much higher!
New tire from BFG,
the Radial 990!
One ride and you will see,
it rolls like nothin’ that you used to know!
It’s the radial age!
It’s the radial age!
Sorry; I cheated a little on the last one. I could only remember the first half, so I found the commercial on YouTube.
*Rollin’ over prairie where there ain’t no grass,
Rollin’ over mountain where there ain’t no pass.
Sittin on a board eyein’ the weather,
Prayin’ to the Lord we stay together
Side by side on the Wagon Train. *
This old chestnut popped into my head as I was driving home last night.
Used to watch it on KSTP (I think) in Minneapolis every Sunday morning when I was in high school (early '70s). I know it was aimed at younger kids, but they always managed to have really good guests and lots of interesting stuff that they talked about.
I especially remember one week when their guests were an Olympic fencer and Playboy artist LeRoy Nieman. I can’t imagine a kids’ show doing that today!
There’s a little hotel called the Shady Rest at the Junction (Petticoat Junction).
It’s is run by Kate, come and be her guest at the Junction (Petticoat Junction).
And there’s Uncle Joe, he’s moving kinda slow at the Junction (Petticoat Junction).
“Our burgers can’t be beat 'cause we grind our own meat,
Grind, grind, grind, grind, griiiiind.
And when you drive away, a tip upon our tray
We hope to find, find, find, find, fiiind,”
We hope to find, find, find, find, fiiind!"
ETA: Beaten to it. Oh well, I’m having a great time remembering all of these.
*Meet Cathy, who’s lived most everywhere
From Zanzibar to Berkeley Square,
**But Patty’s only seen the sights
A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights!
What a crazy pair!
But they’re cousins
Identical cousins all the way
One pair of matching bookends
Diff’rent as night and day**
Now Cathy adores a minuet,
The Ballet Russe, a crepe suzette,
**But Patty loves to rock’n’roll
A hotdog makes her lose control!
What a wild duet!
Still, they’re cousins,
Identical cousins, and you’ll find
They laugh alike,
They walk alike,
At times they even talk alike!
You could lose your mind
When cousins
Are two of a kind!***
As I tippy tippy toe through my garden
Where all the pretty flowers dwell
There’s a rare perfume in my garden
And I love to stand there and smell
And as I tippy tippy toe along
All the pretty flowers seem to sing this song:
I wasn’t alive when that one came out, but I did watch in on a black and white tv.