# Whatever happened to jingles? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796 "2010-09-15T01:59:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796/41 "2010-09-16T02:26:27Z")
I KNOW, the only thing close to jingles are these lame things that don’t even rhyme. Like, “Mattress Firm, it’s a gray place, to get a good night’s sleep.” (Or maybe it’s “good place to get a gray night’s sleep.”) At any rate–doesn’t rhyme, sounds lame, and the woman singing it has serious enunciation problems. I fondly remember things like “Hold the pickles hold the lettuce/special orders don’t upset us” --bonus points for an internal rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796/42 "2010-09-16T02:31:21Z")
There are a few still on local radio. Here’s one of the ads played on my town’s radio station: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1KcyEkaXsNU/hqdefault.jpg "Badgerfest 2008 - Bluegrassholes - Bluegrass Glass & Mirror") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KcyEkaXsNU) Frankly, if I needed glass or mirror replacement, I’d probably call them, since I can actually remember the business name and phone number. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Violaceous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Miss\_Violaceous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Violaceous)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796/43 "2010-09-16T02:32:54Z")
Local chimney sweeping company (which is retro in and of itself) A Step In Time totally does the jingle thing to the hilt still. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDCFlorPI\_o&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDCFlorPI_o&feature=related) ETA: Even if I can’t remember the whole thing, I never forget “dial C-H-I-M-N-E-Y!” ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796/44 "2010-09-16T03:07:04Z")
Home-home-home-home of the one dollar install! See how far your mind can take you… at Apollo Coooollege! I hear jingles all the time. Then again, I’m a product of the '90s so maybe I just haven’t experienced what you guys consider true jingles. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796/45 "2010-09-16T06:21:10Z")
> [@gwendee](#): > > . . . Honeycomb. . . The Honeycomb jingle was lifted from a popular song of the same name. [Jimmie Rogers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anRqh02N8UM) recorded it in 1957. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796/46 "2010-09-16T11:54:14Z")
A true jingle is more than 10 words. Another fave from my teenage years – the Bekins jingle. (Taken from [here](http://bekinshistory.blogspot.com/2006/08/chuck-blore-company-chuck-wrote-bekins.html).) I saw a Bekins truck the other day and reflexively started singing it. Bekins men are careful, quick, and kind Bekins takes a load off of your mind Moving heavy stuff or a fragile fixture A Bekins man is a moving picture We’re the best-trained moving men around In the moving business Bekins men are pros And pros means poetry In moving ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796/47 "2010-09-16T14:25:48Z")
Forgot to mention the HVAC company in this area that has a jingle that they tweak for heating and air conditioning seasons. I was amused to see that they flipped into heating mode last week even though today’s forecast high is 92 degrees. _Late last night I woke up shivering in my bed. That danged old furnace, it was completely dead. So I called Morris-Jenkins and they very kindly said You’ll have warm heat in your house tonight!_ The summertime version is _Late last night I woke up sweatin’ in my bed. That old air conditioner, it was completely dead. So I called Morris-Jenkins and they very kindly said You’ll have cool air in your house tonight!_ Catchy, not excessively annoying, but memorable as hell. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796/48 "2010-09-16T16:20:19Z")
Here’s one from Washington State: [State Roofing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WjMxCL2GL8). From [an article on jingles in the contracting industry](http://www.replacementcontractoronline.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=319&articleID=640882): > [@](#): > > The award-winning tune created for State Roofing, in Seattle, lifted the company’s consumer awareness level from single digits to 50% or more. Prospects often ask reps to sing the song for them. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796/49 "2010-09-17T02:03:35Z")
But speaking of Buster Brown-“Pluck your magic twanger, **Froggy**!” ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796/50 "2010-09-17T16:52:14Z")
There is a place here in Kansas City with a jingle that is pretty effective and quite short: Less of you, more of life, Weight Loss Surgical Center! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-jingles/553796.md?page=2)