# The oldest jingle you have in your memory **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531 "2018-09-18T13:22:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/101 "2018-09-19T15:23:57Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Speaking of beer ads, didnt Busch beer have an ad, or was it a trademark for most of their ads, in which the slow-motion popping open of a can of Busch was in-sync with a baritone voice-over saying “Buuuuuusssssccch!” In order to make an over the topic mimicing sound of the can of beer opening? Ring any bells? Bueller? They still use it. This time they extend the “Busssssccccchhhh” longer so that the actor is looking around, waiting for it to stop. META! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/102 "2018-09-19T15:24:26Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Ai yi yi yiiiiii > I am the Frito Bandito > Geev me Frito’s corncheeps and I be your friend > The Frito Bandito you must not offend Ai yi yi yiii I am the frito bandito I eat Fritos corn chips I love them I do I want Fritos corn chips I get them from you Must have been the second verse. 🙂 > [@blondebear](#): > > _Winston tastes good like a cigarette should…_ We sang parodies in second grade. I’d probably never heard the originals, but I remember the parodies Winston taste bad like a cigarette had No filter, no flavor, it tastes like toilet paper ---
**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:** [September 19, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/103 "2018-09-19T15:27:45Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > We sang parodies in second grade. I’d probably never heard the originals, but I remember the parodies > > Winston taste bad like **a cigarette** had > No filter, no flavor, it tastes like toilet paper Like **the one I just** had. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/104 "2018-09-19T15:40:01Z")
I barely remember women playing tennis and smoking and manly men in cowboy hats on horses smoking in commercials on TV but I do remember part of the Winston jingle because we little girls played a hand clapping game that started with it: Winston tastes good like a cigarette should Winston tastes good like a – Oooh Ahhh I wanna piece of pie The pie too sweet, I wanna piece of meat The meat too tough, I wanna ride a bus. . . ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/105 "2018-09-19T17:08:02Z")
I remember TV ads saying you could [go to Marlboro country](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_klOhy-el0). It looked like [a great place](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2if9_Y6sHU)! And it had great music! Not quite a jingle like the OP, but I could hum along. Since my mom smoked Marlboros, I figured if I just stood close to her when she smoked, I could be transported along with her. Like it was some tobacco transporter device. It’s a wonder I never took up smoking. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/106 "2018-09-19T18:16:12Z")
Garfield 1, 2-3-2-3 Garfield 1, 2-3-2-3! ---
**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:** [September 19, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/107 "2018-09-19T18:53:04Z")
_“You can take Salem out of the country **but** you can’t take the country out of Salem!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/108 "2018-09-19T18:57:44Z")
The earliest I personally remember. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ib-Qiyklq-Q/hqdefault.jpg "Coca Cola Commercial - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) - 1971") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/109 "2018-09-19T19:03:12Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Ai yi yi yiii > I am the frito bandito > I eat Fritos corn chips I love them I do > I want Fritos corn chips I get them from you > Must have been the second verse. 🙂 > > We sang parodies in second grade. I’d probably never heard the originals, but I remember the parodies > > Winston taste bad like a cigarette had > No filter, no flavor, it tastes like toilet paper I remember singing(to the tune of the Colonel Bogey March): Comet, it makes your teeth turn green Comet, it tastes like gasoline Comet, it makes you vomit So buy some Comet and vomit today No idea if there was an actual commercial for Comet using that song. Or why you’d brush your teeth with it. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/110 "2018-09-19T19:23:39Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I remember TV ads saying you could [go to Marlboro country](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_klOhy-el0). It looked like [a great place](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2if9_Y6sHU)! And it had great music! Not quite a jingle like the OP, but I could hum along. You could also have ordered the LP: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-sr2qYbEgGM/hqdefault.jpg "Marlboro Country 1963!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sr2qYbEgGM) There apparently have been many other subsequent releases on both cassettes and CDs. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/111 "2018-09-19T22:22:35Z")
All those beer jingle memories, and no one mentioned the all-time classic [Rheingold beer song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_51RANXHg0&t=0m20s)\* (Rheingold sponsored N.Y. Mets games going back to their days in the Polo Grounds)? Ballantine beer (which sponsored the Yankees) had a jingle too, but since no one in our family could tolerate the Yanks, I don’t remember how it went. \*some years ago on the Dope I started a thread about advertising jingles which featured my fractured memory of how the Rheingold jingle went: _My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer I drink Rheingold whenever I buy beer Rheingold’s taste ain’t too sweet Smells like old stinky feet Bud and Schlitz can’t compete with my beer!_ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/112 "2018-09-19T23:02:06Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > All those beer jingle memories, and no one mentioned the all-time classic [Rheingold beer song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_51RANXHg0&t=0m20s)\* (Rheingold sponsored N.Y. Mets games going back to their days in the Polo Grounds)? I was going to mention this one. I remember it well. It’s based on Emile Waldteufels’ [Estudiantina Waltz.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6R5M52lqlw) I hadn’t been aware of it until I googled it, but he also wrote the instantly familiar [Skater’s Waltz.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zirn3M3ewQc) I had one music teacher who taught one lesson in which he featured classical music that had been used in popular culture, like this and the Lone Ranger’s _William Tell Overture._ _My beer is Rheingold the dry beer. Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer. It’s not bitter, not sweet, it’s the extra dry treat Won’t you try extra dry Rheingold beer?_ It was a major mystery to me as a kid how beer could be dry. It seemed pretty wet to me!😕 ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/113 "2018-09-20T00:07:10Z")
_Tide was designed, with mothers in mind, to get out the dirt kids get into. You get a lot of dirt with children, you get a lot of clean…with Tide._ Pour it ON, Pour on the Iron City beer. Slapkling robust flavor, that does your thirst a favor, when your REALLY ready to pour it on, Pour on the Iron. [Whole version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U_8gv0bNO8) [Lemon Pledge, very pretty (too long to type)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUF7Pz0GvGc) And just for shits and grins…[The Flintstones selling Winston Cigarettes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1TBBp4dC8) ---
**Author:** ![CurrlyD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CurrlyD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurrlyD)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/114 "2018-09-20T00:54:47Z")
A couple of folks beat me to my earliest, Pepsodent and Brylcreem. So I offer numbers 3 and 4: [whistle] Mabel! Black Label! Carling Black Label Beer! Drive in to McDonald’s, Drive in to McDonald’s, For forty five cents you get a three-course meal. Drive in to McDonald’s, Drive in to McDonald’s, Forty five cents at McDonald’s. It’s all over town! Burger, milkshake, french fries. Mom used to sing a radio jingle she remembered from the '40s which would crack me up as a kid: If Nature should forget Go to your medicine cabinet, Get Ex Lax, Ex Lax, if, If, IF . . . ---
**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:** [September 20, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/115 "2018-09-20T01:48:12Z")
_Let’s all go to the Dairy Queen, I see one just down the street! We’re all going to the Dairy Queen to get a fresh, frozen treat!_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/116 "2018-09-20T02:25:23Z")
God, there are some memories here–I guess i am getting old in that I can still sing 9or at least hum) a whole lot of them. Two more: I think this was the 1960’s, but who doesn’t know the line: “There is nothing so clean as my Burger Machine.” [McDonalds Television Ad - c. 1970's - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKR1ScQUpcA) I think the oldest one was Diana Shore singing “See the USA in your Chevrolet” back in the 1950’s–[Dinah Shore "See the USA in your Chevrolet" - 1953 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boertpylK0M) ---
**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:** [September 20, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/117 "2018-09-20T02:43:42Z")
_Come to the Florida Sunshine Tree for fresh-tasting orange juice nat-tur-al-ly! Orange juice with natural vitamin C, from the Florida Sunshine Tree!_ ---
**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:** [September 20, 2018, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/118 "2018-09-20T03:01:40Z")
_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 B-F-G, the Radial 990! One ride and you will see it rolls like nothing that you used to know! It’s the Radial Age, It’s the Radial Age!_ _Escape, come over to Royal Crown Cola! It’s the mad, mad, mad, mad cola! RC, the one with the mad, mad taste! Let us shake the cola drag, check the one that’s really mag! It’s the mad, mad, mad,mad cola! RC, the one with the mad, mad taste! RC!_ ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/119 "2018-09-20T03:55:52Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **Fun Fact:** The lyrics and melodies of “The Marines’ Hymn,” “British Grenadiers,” and “Wabash Cannonball” are mutually interchangeable. > > Go ahead and try it. You can sing any set of the lyrics to any one of the three melodies! “Marine’s Hymn” is the odd one there. Its meter (syllables in the lines) is 8.7.8.7, the others are meter 7.6.7.6. My post (there may be errors in it) on that subject from one of several earlier threads: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12979636#post12979636](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12979636#post12979636) > [@terentii](#): > > _Escape, come over > to Royal Crown Cola! > It’s the mad, mad, > mad, mad cola! > RC, the one with the mad, mad taste! > Let us shake the cola drag, > check the one that’s really mag! > It’s the mad, mad, > mad,mad cola! > RC, the one with the mad, mad taste! > RC!_ The best part of that commercial was Joey Heatherton! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531/120 "2018-09-20T04:03:27Z")
‘I like Aeroplane Jelly, Aeroplane jelly for me’ … etc Australia’s favourite flavoured, sugared gelatine crystal mix has used the same song since the 1930s. The version thats broadcast now is from the 1940s, and pretty well embedded in the reptile sector of the brain of anyone who’s listened to Australian commercial radio since Rommel. My own prehistoric memories of jingles involve Ron Hodgson a used car dealer whos adverts benefited from jaunty songs and the occasional bit of sped-up Benny Hill style camera work. Lovely stuff, as Alan Partridge would agree. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-jingle-you-have-in-your-memory/821531.md?page=7)