This was all over NYC radio throughout the '60s.
Palisades has the rides
Palisades has the fun
Come on over
Shows and dancing are free
So’s the parking, so gee
Come on over
Palisades from coast to coast
Where a dime buys the most
Palisades Amusement Park
Swings all day and after dark
Ride the coaster, get cool
In the waves in the pool
You’ll have fun, so
Come on over
Apparently doesn’t matter much, since I just sang all three of them interchangeably.
And yeah, Joey Heatherton, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o
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This was all over NYC radio throughout the '60s.
Palisades has the rides
Palisades has the fun
Come on over
Shows and dancing are free
So’s the parking, so gee
Come on over
Palisades from coast to coast
Where a dime buys the most
Palisades Amusement Park
Swings all day and after dark
Ride the coaster, get cool
In the waves in the pool
You’ll have fun, so
Come on over
A bit of trivia: Frankie Cannon’s hit Palisade Park, which is after the jingle, was written by Chuck Barris, creator of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show.
I remember this Ovaltine commercial from the year I spent living in England. I’m wondering if any of the British contingent at the site remembers hearing the actual radio broadcasts. What would the time frame be for these? The other links indicate The Ovaltineys ran from the 1930s into the '50s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIjckGp0woYFYI, “The Cool, Green Hills of Earth” can also be sung to the tune of “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island.”
A local Chevy dealer used the same song with his own lyrics…still embedded in my brain: “See Ellis Brooks today, for your Chevrolet…the corner of Bush and Van Ness.”
Locally (NY), there was, well, not a jingle exactly but if you grew up in the tri-state area you’ll know what I mean when I say:
Ha ha ha ha ha-- Raceway Park! (zooooom).
ETA: I believe these ads started in the '60s.
As usual, too late, but I can give a link to the Aeroplane Jelly commercial referenced by Banksiaman above:
It’s funny, I never had Bosco and I never heard an ad for Bosco. But when I was in elementary school in the early 60s we use to sing:
I hate Bosco
It’s made of TNT
My mommy put it in my milk
And tried to poison me
I tricked mommy
I put it in her tea
And now there’s no more mommy
To try and poison me
Exactly the same with me. Except we said it was full of DDT. But, beside that one little detail, I coulda posted this.
So can Amazing Grace.
From the '60s:
“Floating heads, floating heads, floating all the way,
Norelco is the shaving gift to give on Christmas Day.”
and
“Meet the Swinger, Polaroid Swinger!
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!)”
I was mulling the jingles in my mind, but as soon as I saw this post, I knew this was the one. My parents actually went to “see Cal” with me (about age 3) when he was having a sales event that included a trained elephant on the car lot as his dog Spot - I got an elephant ride. My parents shook hands with Cal (I have an abiding memory of his cowboy hat). We didn’t buy a car.
“You get a lot to like in a Marlboro:
Filter, flavor; pack or box!”
and
“Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?
A Buick, a Buick?
Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick
than any other car this year?”
I just thought of a fairly ancient jingle (“National Shoes - ring the bell”), mainly because I had a friend who insisted his mother invented it to win a contest.
I was unsuccessful finding an online recording, but instead discovered a website featuring a ton of radio ad jingles, plus assorted promos and comedy bits. Well worth wasting your time on.
For instance, I had no idea that The Troggs ever recorded a version of the Miller Beer song. :eek:
I think the cost of a few rolls of film exceeded the camera price.
Sort of a model for present-day copier sales, where the device is cheap and the ink makes up the real cost.
Off the top of my head, Meow Mix, unless Band-Aid or Oscar Meyer wieners came earlier. (Pretty sure I first heard those last two later in life, when they were bringing them back as nostalgia.)
Meow mix: “Meow” ad infinitum. But I remember the entire melody.
Band-Aid: I am stuck on Band-Aid [brand] cuz germs won’t stick on me.
Oscar Mayer: Oh, I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener/That is what I really want to be/Cuz if I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner/Everyone would be in love with me.
Not technically a jingle and it predates the show by decades but it is the oldest* radio show theme song I can remember:
Uncle Bob’s Squirrel Cage used The Teddy Bear’s Picnic as it’s theme.
I don’t know if we listened to it on KEX directly or via a local repeat. But this was back in the day when people would listen to radio stations a couple hundred miles away. (And back then “clear channel” meant something good.)
That sanctimonious, teary little fucker goin “America, don’t be fuelish”.
Good and Plenty candy