Here’s Buster Brown
He lives in a shoe
Here’s his dog Tige
He lives in there too!
Are we talking strictly personal memory (i.e. heard it firsthand during the time it was used as advertising), or are secondhand accounts allowed?
The oldest jingle I can remember for myself is probably Doublemint Gum. “A double pleasure’s waiting for you!”
Secondhand? Probably “Pepsicola hits the spot, twelve full ounces, that’s a lot.”
I miss the “S”.
One more that I definitely remember from afternoon TV:
“Call Roto-Rooter, that’s the name, and away go troubles down the drain.”
Back in the mid 20thC there was a lemonade (soda) brand in Aus called Marchants after the founder George Marchant.
Anyway, one of my earliest jingle memories was:
‘Marchants lemonade is spark-a-lark-a-lark-a-ling’.
A local one for Southern California:
**Here’s Cal Worthington and his dog Spot! **(cut to some Cal and some exotic animal that is never a dog)
If you need a set of wheels, go see Cal
If you want a better deal, go see Cal
[Some weird stuff that changed from ad to ad]
Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal
Unavoidable in the 1970s and early 80s, and supposedly dates back to the mid 60s
And in that same vein:
“Parliament gives you EXTRA MARGIN,
Parliament gives you EXTRA MARGIN.
The filter’s recessed and made to stay,
A neat, clean quarter inch away.”
I’m annoyed that this “information” is even in my brain.
“Wiedemann, Wiedemann beer- satisfies a thirst monumental and sincere!”
“When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer!”
Not really a jingle, but any baby boomer from central Indiana should recall “Noooooobody!”
Clop!
I remember that too. My MIL worked for Lawson’s for about a year after her husband died.
I was shocked to find out they still exist in Japan - and that Anthony Bourdain loved their egg sandwiches (milk and that orange juice were the big sellers in Cleveland back in the day).
I could have been any of the ones from.the late sixties. It may be Beefaroni.
Not all that old, but the song in the commercial for the Nestlé $100,000 Bar has been stuck in my head since the 1970s.
Here it is. Crap, now it will stuck in my head for another 40 years. :mad:
Ah yes, when Farfel’s mouth snaps shut. This jingle is the oldest I remember on my own.
As far as commercial jingles, my memory is relatively fleeting. I like to think of it as a good thing, like I just tune all that shit out. The farthest back I can actually remember the words to a jingle is…
800-588-2300…Empiiiiiiire! today
Truth be told, that jingle might outspan my entire life. So my memory of commercial jingles might not be all that fleeting after all. I might not be all that impervious to the wiles of those cunning advertising folk. Now that I’m thinking…where did I get my carpet from? :eek:
‘Riceroni. The San Francisco treat’.
And,
A jingly song for Kellys brand chili or stew, or something. I can’t remember the words but the tune is now stuck in my head. Oh, joy.
We’re having Beefaroni, it’s beef with macaroni…
Beefaroni’s fun to eat, beefaroni’s really neat…hooray! Whee! for Chef Boy-ar-Dee!
That '60s 7-Up jingle “All for Un”
it’s the nothing that makes a something
it’s what we miss that hit the mark
it’s what’s left out that leaves us in
it’s the light shining over the dark
Does anyone else remember a jingle that went in part “it’s mooore chickeneee…”? Maybe a Knorr’s commercial? What was it for?
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A local spot that ran virtually forever:
Stay on the right track to Nine Mile and Mack,
Roy O’Brien trucks and cars something your money back
ok, since you beat me to that one, I’ll come in with these:
“We’re Father & Son, we’ll do it all!”
Then there’s Mr. Belvedere:
“TYler 8-7-100. We do good work!”
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and the Detroit Zoo:
I was pretty young the first time I heard the Gulf “Bringin’ Home the Oil” song.