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Title: Classic Jingles
Post by: roadman65 on April 19, 2019, 11:16:14 PM


I always loved this ad by Budweiser especially the whole song. Usually its cut short to fit in with the typical 30 second ad, but once in a while Anheiser Busch did spring for 2 full minutes to air the whole jingle. 
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Big John on April 19, 2019, 11:34:12 PM
Armour Hot Dogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fQwJdXFQlU

Simpsons doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luNi4TS6s8k
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: jp the roadgeek on April 20, 2019, 12:00:03 AM
A jingle from an ad you'd never see on TV today:



One that The Doors paid tribute to at the end of Touch Me



And John Denver gave us this one:


Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Max Rockatansky on April 20, 2019, 12:25:12 AM
Mentos

Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: bandit957 on April 20, 2019, 06:04:38 PM
Remember "Marathon's got it" for Marathon Oil? Everyone always says I'm making it up, but Marathon ran a radio commercial back around 1988 that used that song. I can't remember any of the other words. I think it was sung by a guy with a weird voice.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: US71 on April 20, 2019, 10:00:02 PM
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Stephane Dumas on April 21, 2019, 07:29:40 AM
A French jingle used by CKAC-AM, a Montreal radio station from the early 1970s who played well into the mid-1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwW2MDU-9_E

Anyone remember the Slinkly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hayCTb3PNk
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: jp the roadgeek on April 21, 2019, 05:21:31 PM
Quote from: Stephane Dumas on April 21, 2019, 07:29:40 AM
Anyone remember the Slinky?

I do.  Reminds me of this one



And here's some that will remind you of Saturday mornings.

Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: bandit957 on April 21, 2019, 09:02:04 PM
I remember "All the right parts in all the right places" for NAPA. We always used to go, "All the right farts in all the right faces."
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Henry on April 22, 2019, 10:09:30 AM
Perhaps the most quintessential car jingle of all time:

"See the USA in your Chevrolet...America's the greatest land of all."

I remember that they brought it back shortly after the new millennium began, IIRC, and there were quite a few variants of it made.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Stephane Dumas on April 23, 2019, 12:18:36 PM
Quote from: Henry on April 22, 2019, 10:09:30 AM
Perhaps the most quintessential car jingle of all time:

"See the USA in your Chevrolet...America's the greatest land of all."

I remember that they brought it back shortly after the new millennium began, IIRC, and there were quite a few variants of it made.

And also used Bob Segar's song "Like a rock" for the truck ads from 1991 to 2004!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBd6NTY8wc0
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: SectorZ on April 23, 2019, 12:46:30 PM
Quote from: Stephane Dumas on April 23, 2019, 12:18:36 PM
Quote from: Henry on April 22, 2019, 10:09:30 AM
Perhaps the most quintessential car jingle of all time:

"See the USA in your Chevrolet...America's the greatest land of all."

I remember that they brought it back shortly after the new millennium began, IIRC, and there were quite a few variants of it made.

And also used Bob Segar's song "Like a rock" for the truck ads from 1991 to 2004!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBd6NTY8wc0

Senior year of high school for me, around May 1996, I was working at one of the Papa Gino's in my hometown. They played typical 70's/80's pop/rock over the radio in there. "Like a Rock" comes on and a co-worker, a classmate of mine, looks at me dead serious and tells me he never knew it was a real song.

Mid-2000's Ford had an F-series pick up commercial. It starts with a guy backing his Silverado + boat into the water, and the Silverado sinking when he forgets to put it in park once stopping. The F150 driver pulls out Silverado and boat with the F150, and when the Silverado driver comments "That sunk fast", the F150 driver replies, "yeah, like a rock".
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Max Rockatansky on April 23, 2019, 12:51:08 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on April 23, 2019, 12:46:30 PM
Quote from: Stephane Dumas on April 23, 2019, 12:18:36 PM
Quote from: Henry on April 22, 2019, 10:09:30 AM
Perhaps the most quintessential car jingle of all time:

"See the USA in your Chevrolet...America's the greatest land of all."

I remember that they brought it back shortly after the new millennium began, IIRC, and there were quite a few variants of it made.

And also used Bob Segar's song "Like a rock" for the truck ads from 1991 to 2004!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBd6NTY8wc0

Senior year of high school for me, around May 1996, I was working at one of the Papa Gino's in my hometown. They played typical 70's/80's pop/rock over the radio in there. "Like a Rock" comes on and a co-worker, a classmate of mine, looks at me dead serious and tells me he never knew it was a real song.

Mid-2000's Ford had an F-series pick up commercial. It starts with a guy backing his Silverado + boat into the water, and the Silverado sinking when he forgets to put it in park once stopping. The F150 driver pulls out Silverado and boat with the F150, and when the Silverado driver comments "That sunk fast", the F150 driver replies, "yeah, like a rock".

Didn't Dodge the nerdy looking vampire Dad character from Lost Boys pushing their trucks at about the same time?   
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: PHLBOS on April 23, 2019, 02:48:11 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on April 20, 2019, 12:00:03 AM



John Amos with a broom at 0:16.  Supposedly, that commercial was the reason why Eddie Murphy wanted him (Amos) to play the boss of the fictional McDowell's in the 1988 movie Coming to America.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: US71 on April 23, 2019, 03:29:42 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on April 23, 2019, 02:48:11 PM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on April 20, 2019, 12:00:03 AM



John Amos with a broom at 0:16.  Supposedly, that commercial was the reason why Eddie Murphy wanted him (Amos) to play the boss of the fictional McDowell's in the 1988 movie Coming to America.

Back when they had some semblance of pride. Anson Williams is also on here.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: wxfree on April 23, 2019, 03:45:13 PM
Quote from: Henry on April 22, 2019, 10:09:30 AM
Perhaps the most quintessential car jingle of all time:

"See the USA in your Chevrolet...America's the greatest land of all."

I remember that they brought it back shortly after the new millennium began, IIRC, and there were quite a few variants of it made.

But have you driven a Ford lately?
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: wxfree on April 23, 2019, 03:46:06 PM
"Co-stan-za!"
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: bandit957 on April 23, 2019, 03:49:43 PM
Here's a jingle that brang laughs to 7-year olds everywhere.

"Open a jar of Pizza Quick Sauce...And open your own..." (Are you ready for it?) "...DIARRHEA!"
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Stephane Dumas on April 23, 2019, 08:23:13 PM
Quote from: wxfree on April 23, 2019, 03:45:13 PM
Quote from: Henry on April 22, 2019, 10:09:30 AM
Perhaps the most quintessential car jingle of all time:

"See the USA in your Chevrolet...America's the greatest land of all.

I remember that they brought it back shortly after the new millennium began, IIRC, and there were quite a few variants of it made.

But have you driven a Ford lately?

Yeah, "Ford had a better idea" because it's "Going thing".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ6doKP-PYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8rAh72jRDo

The "Going thing" theme got some overseas adaptations like Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL3P1pP1wAQ

Speaking of overseas versions, "Baseball, Hot dogs, Apple pies and Chevrolet" became "football, meat pies, kangaroos, Holden" Down Under in Australia and "Braaivleis, Rugby, Sunny Skies and Chevrolet" in South Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqweygy9K9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGW-WX77zjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1wvQ7ERXhY
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: roadman65 on April 23, 2019, 08:49:57 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=ao8XDFNQ3Qk
Who remembers the commercials of Wendy's from the 1970's?

Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: bandit957 on April 23, 2019, 09:30:01 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on April 23, 2019, 08:49:57 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=ao8XDFNQ3Qk
Who remembers the commercials of Wendy's from the 1970's?



I remember these. The music in these ads sounded like the song "Winchester Cathedral."

They brang these ads back about 10 years later.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: bandit957 on April 23, 2019, 09:33:13 PM
I also remember how in commercials for hamburger places (or places that served sandwiches similar to hamburgers), it always showed a close-up of the burger, and a person's hand would always come down and press down on the top bun.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: bandit957 on April 23, 2019, 10:00:25 PM
Remember the horribly annoying Toy Money commercial from 1990? I think they used to show it during 'The Simpsons'. It was a cross-promotion by Coke and Mattel toys.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: abefroman329 on April 24, 2019, 10:47:39 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on April 23, 2019, 12:51:08 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on April 23, 2019, 12:46:30 PM
Quote from: Stephane Dumas on April 23, 2019, 12:18:36 PM
Quote from: Henry on April 22, 2019, 10:09:30 AM
Perhaps the most quintessential car jingle of all time:

"See the USA in your Chevrolet...America's the greatest land of all."

I remember that they brought it back shortly after the new millennium began, IIRC, and there were quite a few variants of it made.

And also used Bob Segar's song "Like a rock" for the truck ads from 1991 to 2004!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBd6NTY8wc0

Senior year of high school for me, around May 1996, I was working at one of the Papa Gino's in my hometown. They played typical 70's/80's pop/rock over the radio in there. "Like a Rock" comes on and a co-worker, a classmate of mine, looks at me dead serious and tells me he never knew it was a real song.

Mid-2000's Ford had an F-series pick up commercial. It starts with a guy backing his Silverado + boat into the water, and the Silverado sinking when he forgets to put it in park once stopping. The F150 driver pulls out Silverado and boat with the F150, and when the Silverado driver comments "That sunk fast", the F150 driver replies, "yeah, like a rock".

Didn't Dodge the nerdy looking vampire Dad character from Lost Boys pushing their trucks at about the same time?
Yep, Edward Herrmann, aka FDR from Annie.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Max Rockatansky on April 24, 2019, 12:04:01 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on April 24, 2019, 10:47:39 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on April 23, 2019, 12:51:08 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on April 23, 2019, 12:46:30 PM
Quote from: Stephane Dumas on April 23, 2019, 12:18:36 PM
Quote from: Henry on April 22, 2019, 10:09:30 AM
Perhaps the most quintessential car jingle of all time:

"See the USA in your Chevrolet...America's the greatest land of all."

I remember that they brought it back shortly after the new millennium began, IIRC, and there were quite a few variants of it made.

And also used Bob Segar's song "Like a rock" for the truck ads from 1991 to 2004!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBd6NTY8wc0

Senior year of high school for me, around May 1996, I was working at one of the Papa Gino's in my hometown. They played typical 70's/80's pop/rock over the radio in there. "Like a Rock" comes on and a co-worker, a classmate of mine, looks at me dead serious and tells me he never knew it was a real song.

Mid-2000's Ford had an F-series pick up commercial. It starts with a guy backing his Silverado + boat into the water, and the Silverado sinking when he forgets to put it in park once stopping. The F150 driver pulls out Silverado and boat with the F150, and when the Silverado driver comments "That sunk fast", the F150 driver replies, "yeah, like a rock".

Didn't Dodge the nerdy looking vampire Dad character from Lost Boys pushing their trucks at about the same time?
Yep, Edward Herrmann, aka FDR from Annie.

That's the guy, couldn't remember his name.  Man things certainly have changed since Dodge was promoting all those stodgy practical cars back then versus now with all the "Brotherhood of Muscle"  stuff now. 
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: jp the roadgeek on April 25, 2019, 12:00:35 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on April 23, 2019, 03:49:43 PM
Here's a jingle that brang laughs to 7-year olds everywhere.

"Open a jar of Pizza Quick Sauce...And open your own..." (Are you ready for it?) "...DIARRHEA!"

This was more overt.  Lots of fruity marshmallow sh**s:

Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: bandit957 on April 25, 2019, 08:40:15 AM
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on April 25, 2019, 12:00:35 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on April 23, 2019, 03:49:43 PM
Here's a jingle that brang laughs to 7-year olds everywhere.

"Open a jar of Pizza Quick Sauce...And open your own..." (Are you ready for it?) "...DIARRHEA!"

This was more overt.  Lots of fruity marshmallow sh**s:



The same melody was used for a commercial in the mid-'90s that showed people (and a dog) dancing around a kitchen. For the life of me, I don't remember what the product was.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: inkyatari on April 25, 2019, 09:39:30 AM
Quote from: Stephane Dumas on April 23, 2019, 12:18:36 PM
Quote from: Henry on April 22, 2019, 10:09:30 AM
Perhaps the most quintessential car jingle of all time:

"See the USA in your Chevrolet...America's the greatest land of all."

I remember that they brought it back shortly after the new millennium began, IIRC, and there were quite a few variants of it made.

And also used Bob Segar's song "Like a rock" for the truck ads from 1991 to 2004!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBd6NTY8wc0

Ugh. I HATE bob seger and his brand of "whine rock." in every song he's whining about his youth. Get over yourself.

We used to tell a joke when that commercial aired.. 

How is a chevy like a rock?

It's big, ugly, and only goes places when you push it down a hill!
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: mgk920 on April 25, 2019, 01:14:48 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on April 19, 2019, 11:16:14 PM


I always loved this ad by Budweiser especially the whole song. Usually its cut short to fit in with the typical 30 second ad, but once in a while Anheiser Busch did spring for 2 full minutes to air the whole jingle.

Aaaaand, in the late 1970s, the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band adapted it as a secondary fight song.  It starts at about 0:30 in the clip.



Also, a true classic for Miller.  They we rerunning this jingle the last couple of seasons on Milwaukee Brewers' radio play-by-play broadcasts.



Another true classic from anyone who has ever spent time on the Minnesota or Wisconsin north woods!



Enjoy!

:cheers:

Mike
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Henry on April 26, 2019, 08:29:32 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on April 25, 2019, 09:39:30 AM
Ugh. I HATE bob seger and his brand of "whine rock." in every song he's whining about his youth. Get over yourself.

We used to tell a joke when that commercial aired.. 

How is a chevy like a rock?

It's big, ugly, and only goes places when you push it down a hill!
That's funny, although I know lots of owners like myself would take offense to that joke.

Try this on for size:

"Why is a Ford built tough?"

"It's very tough to start it up, and even tougher to get it to go anywhere."
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Stephane Dumas on April 27, 2019, 07:35:05 AM
Anyone who remember the 1980s Juicy Fruit single?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mad3wy7hpoM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFNO7qorvI

Parodied by Family Guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z69HKZ4cPrA
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Verlanka on April 27, 2019, 08:06:30 AM
Quote from: Henry on April 26, 2019, 08:29:32 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on April 25, 2019, 09:39:30 AM
Ugh. I HATE bob seger and his brand of "whine rock." in every song he's whining about his youth. Get over yourself.

We used to tell a joke when that commercial aired.. 

How is a chevy like a rock?

It's big, ugly, and only goes places when you push it down a hill!
That's funny, although I know lots of owners like myself would take offense to that joke.

Try this on for size:

"Why is a Ford built tough?"

"It's very tough to start it up, and even tougher to get it to go anywhere."
I think that's true of all pickup trucks.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: bandit957 on April 27, 2019, 09:39:19 AM
Quote from: Stephane Dumas on April 27, 2019, 07:35:05 AM
Anyone who remember the 1980s Juicy Fruit single?

Some stores lately sell a Juicy Fruit BUBBLE gum. Juicy Fruit never used to be labeled as BUBBLE gum, but this kind is. It never used to be designed for blowing bubbles, but apparently now they have a bubble-busting variant.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: US71 on December 09, 2019, 07:39:10 AM
This was a radio jingle

Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: mgk920 on December 09, 2019, 10:57:21 AM
Quote from: US71 on December 09, 2019, 07:39:10 AM
This was a radio jingle



When I was very young, tuning around on the radio on lazy warm weather afternoons, I'd catch that classic jingle while listening to Chicago Cubs games.

Mike
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: US71 on December 09, 2019, 11:42:41 AM
When you run out, run out to White Hen
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: US71 on December 09, 2019, 11:55:38 AM
Also:

rub-a-dub put a spa in a tub
rub-a-dub put a spa in a tub
rub-a-dub put a spa in a tub
a spa in a tub
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: OracleUsr on December 09, 2019, 11:09:51 PM
Quote from: mgk920 on April 25, 2019, 01:14:48 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on April 19, 2019, 11:16:14 PM


I always loved this ad by Budweiser especially the whole song. Usually its cut short to fit in with the typical 30 second ad, but once in a while Anheiser Busch did spring for 2 full minutes to air the whole jingle.

Aaaaand, in the late 1970s, the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band adapted it as a secondary fight song.  It starts at about 0:30 in the clip.



Also, a true classic for Miller.  They we rerunning this jingle the last couple of seasons on Milwaukee Brewers' radio play-by-play broadcasts.



Another true classic from anyone who has ever spent time on the Minnesota or Wisconsin north woods!



Enjoy!

:cheers:

Mike

Clemson University's Tiger Tubas (I was a member for 7 years in the 90's, with co-operative education and two years of grad school) used this as their sectional cheer towards the end of each home game.  We would signal to each other by waving our hands with the thumb and pinky extended.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: US71 on December 17, 2019, 07:59:15 PM
And this classic:

Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: SectorZ on December 18, 2019, 10:59:47 AM
Quote from: US71 on December 17, 2019, 07:59:15 PM
And this classic:



Amazing that the ad is 30 years old and still gets played actively now.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: renegade on December 18, 2019, 11:13:00 AM
And yet, I'm still sick of hearing it ...
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: PHLBOS on December 18, 2019, 01:18:51 PM
Quote from: US71 on December 09, 2019, 11:42:41 AMWhen you run out, run out to White Hen
Remember that one while I was still residing in MA during the 1980s.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: SectorZ on December 18, 2019, 03:02:48 PM
For Boston locals...

Who do you call when your windshield's busted
Call Giant Glass
1-800-54-GIANT
Done right, done fast

It's actually referenced in a Stephen King book (The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon).

They sadly were bought by Safelite Auto. Giant Glass used to sponsor the "giant" part of the lineup (batters 3 to 6) on the Red Sox radio broadcasts. Now it's the "Safelite Auto" stretch of the lineup, which really sounds asinine.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: GaryV on December 18, 2019, 04:20:06 PM
"One eight-hundred five two eight, one two three four, Best Western."

Pretty effective if you can remember a phone number 3 decades later.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: mgk920 on December 18, 2019, 09:34:43 PM
Quote from: GaryV on December 18, 2019, 04:20:06 PM
"One eight-hundred five two eight, one two three four, Best Western."

Pretty effective if you can remember a phone number 3 decades later.

Anyone who has lived for any amount of time in Chicagoland, especially during the later parts of the 20th century, will fondly remember "Five eight eight two three hundred Empire!".

Mike
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: US71 on December 18, 2019, 09:36:35 PM
Quote from: mgk920 on December 18, 2019, 09:34:43 PM
Quote from: GaryV on December 18, 2019, 04:20:06 PM
"One eight-hundred five two eight, one two three four, Best Western."

Pretty effective if you can remember a phone number 3 decades later.

Anyone who has lived for any amount of time in Chicagoland, especially during the later parts of the 20th century, will fondly remember "Five eight eight two three hundred Empire!".

Mike

Oh yes!
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Big John on December 18, 2019, 09:42:40 PM
^^ They since went nationwide and modified the number to start with 800 (eight hundred)
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: US71 on December 18, 2019, 09:54:43 PM
Quote from: Big John on December 18, 2019, 09:42:40 PM
^^ They since went nationwide and modified the number to start with 800 (eight hundred)

and added "Today" to their name 800-588-2300 Empire Today
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Scott5114 on December 18, 2019, 10:07:10 PM


An Oklahoma City classic since 1956.
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: Rothman on December 18, 2019, 10:45:10 PM
I remember the Empire jingle from when I was a kid visiting my grandparents in Kentucky (1980s).  Had to be a broader business earlier on.

https://youtu.be/JDv8zqpl8mI
Title: Re: Classic Jingles
Post by: US71 on December 18, 2019, 11:07:41 PM
Quote from: Rothman on December 18, 2019, 10:45:10 PM
I remember the Empire jingle from when I was a kid visiting my grandparents in Kentucky (1980s).  Had to be a broader business earlier on.

https://youtu.be/JDv8zqpl8mI

Also, the Empire Man was not an actor, but the ad agency rep (who also wrote the jingle)