# Really Good Advertising Jingles & Slogans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [May 22, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679 "2025-05-22T19:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/21 "2025-05-22T22:19:35Z")
and worst of all, at that time their burger wasn’t much bigger than a White Castle and bun was huge ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/22 "2025-05-23T00:08:14Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > But this thread is not about clever ad campaigns, or commercials with funny plots. That would be a different thread. Like “Most memorable ad campaigns.” Which we’ve probably done many times. > > This is about catchy tunes that really sell a brand/product, slogans that encapsulate a brand, and brand names that really hit the mark. # [Really Good Advertising Jingles & Slogans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679) > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > But what about jingles and slogans that are just really good and clever? You said Slogans, are you changing it to Jingles only now? You even said- > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I think Kay Jewlers “Every kiss begins with Kay” is a brilliant slogan. So, which is it? > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’m not sure if it fits the op, > but.. > > My bologna has a first name… Good Jingle. As for a catchy Jingle, since I guess slogans are out??? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/M7KdFyaW_x8/hqdefault.jpg "Band-Aid Stuck on Band-Aid Jingle 90s Commercial (1997)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7KdFyaW_x8) > [@fedman1](#): > > and worst of all, at that time their burger wasn’t much bigger than a White Castle and bun was huge 4oz for Wendy’s.- less than an oz for White Castle- they get 18 patties from a pound. The burger patties are actually very small, just **2 ½ inches (6 cm) square**. One pound (450g) of ground beef will make 18 of White Castle hamburger patties. Each burger has five holes in it. [White Castle - CooksInfo](https://www.cooksinfo.com/white-castle#:~:text=The%20burger%20patties%20are%20actually,has%20five%20holes%20in%20it). So Wendy’s is four times bigger. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/23 "2025-05-23T02:48:01Z")
“Stuck on Band-Aids/cuz Band-Aid’s stuck on me” is brilliant and fits the theme of this thread. It applies to the brand, forever, and is not tied to any sort of “you had to be there” situation. Just please don’t list all of the commercials and ad campaigns through life that have amused you. That’s not what I’m going for here. “Where’s the beef?” tells me as much about Wendy’s hamburgers as “Clydesdale horses” tell me about Budweiser. Iconic for sure but not the same as “Think outside the bun.” ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/24 "2025-05-23T02:57:57Z")
Pure simplicity, Mazda’s “Zoom Zoom” told you they weren’t concerned with how many grocery bags could fit in the back of their cars as much as they were interested in making a car that was fun to drive. I’ve found that to be an accurate description of their cars. ---
**Author:** ![d1opez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@d1opez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d1opez)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/25 "2025-05-23T03:07:26Z")
On the same note of jingles, what about the absurdity of the intros on radio stations? I will always default to looking for Magic 106.7 on a new radio because of their jingle I heard throughout my childhood sticking with me. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/26 "2025-05-23T04:24:42Z")
Remember the feminist anthem for **Virginia Slims**? _You’ve come a long way, baby,_ _to get where you’ve got to today._ _You’ve got your own cigarette now, baby!_ _You’ve come a long, long way!_ Yep, you can now stain your teeth, ruin your skin and nails, make your hair, breath, clothes, and apartment stink, get emphysema, and die of lung cancer just like American men! 👍 > [https://youtu.be/da0EUKh-8cE](https://youtu.be/da0EUKh-8cE) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/27 "2025-05-23T04:48:48Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Stuck on Band-Aids/cuz Band-Aid’s stuck on me” is brilliant and fits the theme of this thread. Trivia: it was written by Barry Manilow. He also wrote: “Like a Good Neighbor" for State Farm, and “You Deserve a Break Today” for McDonald’s ---
**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:** [May 23, 2025, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/28 "2025-05-23T04:54:38Z")
I kinda liked this one back around 1966: _The youth of America is fighting for you._ _Buy Bonds where you bank or where you work----they do----_ _and follow the eagle----the red, white, and blue eagle!_ _Buy a share in Freedom----US Savings Bonds!_ Accompanied by cool scenes of Hueys blasting targets in Vietnam. Good, clean fun! 👍 This recruiting ad was good too: _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!_ ---
**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:** [May 23, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/29 "2025-05-23T05:20:13Z")
Didn’t Manilow also write _It’s the Pepsi generation,_ _comin’ atcha, 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!_ Also ca. 1968: _Hey, meet the Swinger, Polaroid Swinger!_ _It’s more than a camera, it’s almost alive!_ _It’s only nineteen dollars, and ninety-five!_ _Pick it up (yeah, yeah), take the shot (yeah, yeah),_ _tear it off (yeah, yeah), count it down (yeah, yeah),_ _peel it off!_ and _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 Nine-Nine-Oh-Oh-Oh!_ _One ride and you will see_ _it rolls like nothin’ that you used to know!_ _It’s the Radial Age! It’s the Radial A-a-aaaaage!_ What can I say? I grew up in front of a television set! ---
**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:** [May 23, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/30 "2025-05-23T05:32:25Z")
_Oh, I’d love to be an Oscar Meyer wiener,_ _that is what I’d truly like to be!_ _'Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener,_ _everyone would be in love with me!_ _Oh, I’m glad I’m NOT an Oscar Meyer wiener,_ _that is what I’d NEVER want to be!_ _'Cause if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener,_ _there would soon be nothing left of me!_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/31 "2025-05-23T05:41:28Z")
One I remember from Saturday morning cartoons. It was for Good-n-Plenty candy, and featured Choo-Choo Charlie operating a train engine and singing his part: _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!"_ It must be a really good jingle if I can remember it close to 60 years later. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/32 "2025-05-23T06:48:53Z")
_"It’s Slinky, It’s Slinky!_ _For fun, it’s a wonderful toy!_ _It’s Slinky, It’s Slinky!_ _Fun for a Girl and a Boy!"_ Yeah. For about 5 minutes. 2 if you didn’t have stairs. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/33 "2025-05-23T11:56:35Z")
Otter Pops “There’s an otterly fantastic place Waiting for you in otter space So come with us in our ottermobile There’s an ottermatic shift on the steering wheel And you can fly Otter Pops! Otter Pops! You get ‘em at the grocery store!” ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/34 "2025-05-23T12:02:59Z")
New York Life Insurance: “The Company You Keep.” (Sadly, they replaced that with the inane “Be Good at Life.”) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/35 "2025-05-23T12:05:15Z")
Responding to @jaycat.again; copy function went haywire. From National Lampoon, “Letters from the editors”: “Hey, I’m Buster Brown, I live in a shoe. Here’s my dog, Tige, he lives in there, too. So how about washing your feet once in a while?” ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/36 "2025-05-23T12:41:53Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > One topic that I think leads to clever jingles is when they re-word (cover?) an existing popular tune for a jingle. The first one I thought of was [Nacho Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKtzs7tLXLM), a song in a 1990s commercial for Old El Paso salsa sung to “Macho Man” by The Village People. And then there’s the [Enjoli perfume commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_kzJ-f5C9U) from the late 1970s which features a take on Peggy Lee’s [I’m A Woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvqBNVYAMG8) song. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/37 "2025-05-23T12:57:53Z")
🎶\*”We’ve only just begun”\*🎵 Started life as a wedding themed ad jingle for a bank ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/38 "2025-05-23T13:18:33Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I also wanted to talk about really good brand names. Ones that really nailed the product description and is clever. But I can’t think of any now off the top of my head. I did think of one a bit ago so they do exist. One I’m fond of - dunno how widespread the company is – is **Mattress Firm**. But back to jingles and slogans, already iin progress. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/39 "2025-05-23T14:15:27Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Remember the feminist anthem for **Virginia Slims**? > > _You’ve come a long way, baby…_ I remember a feminist protest sign from back then: I Haven’t Come a Long Way . . . . . and I’m Not a Baby! ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-good-advertising-jingles-slogans/1018679/40 "2025-05-23T15:02:24Z")
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