How does one get into the business of writing commercial jingles?

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I was just reading an article about that dude from that horrible band The Album Leaf, and apparently, he made his living writing jingles until recently. I have always believed, as I'm sure a lot of you have, that I could write jingles. Uncle Jesse and Uncle Joey did it on Full House. How does one get into this business? Are there less and less 'jingle houses' nowadays because all the companies are buying actual songs to pimp their shit? Are there websites?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 8 August 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I could've swore that this was going to be an Onion link.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 8 August 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

There are still music houses that produce jingles and other ad music, but the biggest ones are in NYC, so good luck getting in there. There are other ones throughout the country, but most of them are very small operations that aren't looking to hire other writers (for example, here in Dallas, there is one called Juniper Music, which has done lots of stuff, but all their music comes from the two guys who own the company, they don't use outside writers except on an occasional freelance basis). The easiest was to get started is to freelance. If you know people in advertising, you should try to work with them. I did this a few times, though will say that I very quickly realized writing music for ads wasn't my vocation.

― dleone (dleone), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Uncle Jesse and Uncle Joey did it on Full House."

I found out that this defence really doesn't hold up in a Court of Law.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4029

― Peter $6, Monday, 9 August 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the one.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

form The Darkness.

― drew, Monday, 9 August 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm. The Album Leaf are from my hometown. I wonder if he worked at the studio part-owned by Glen Galaxy/Galloway or Trumans Water and Soul Junk.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

They do all jingles, btw. If you hear a commercial jingle that sounds like Soul Junk, there you go...

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

http://consumerist.com/5027233/mcdonalds-robber-is-finalist-for-mcdonalds-jingle-contest

― roxymuzak, Friday, 1 August 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

I would like to know this.

― Pylon Gnasher, Friday, 1 August 2008 17:37 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

This used to really grate on me, but it's kind of grown on me over the years of not hearing it any more, especially:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQFlkK9nYYs

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 30 April 2012 04:03 (fourteen years ago)

3:01:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8wON5Ne_6Q

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 30 April 2012 04:14 (fourteen years ago)

Jack Writes a Jingle

― Lee626, Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:32 (fourteen years ago)

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