Brilliant.
Although Mennen ("Byyyyy Mennen!) comes in a close for using the by/buy double entendre...
There was an ad that played in my hometown that of course you won't be able to appreciate here that went, "Blaaaaaaaah-BLAH... Blaaaaaaah-BLAH!.. Nissan, Chevrolet, GEEEE-OOO!!" that brought the house down.
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)
― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)
break me off a piece of that kit kat bar.
― reo, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)
― Abbott, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)
― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)
BUT the hands down winner (canucks, you know what I'm talking about) has got to be:Fabricland FABRICLAND!(yes, americans, you read that correctly, it's the company name, sung once slow, then once fast... and it'll stick in your brain.)
― scout (scout), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)
Whoever's writing these has a good rekkid collection.
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)
Oh, howbout this: "In-TEL in-SIDE!" (Lyrics inferred, tho not "actually" sung, of course.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)
MOST. BUDGET. EVER.
― scout (scout), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)
I count "Adam's Real Life", "That's Jared", 1970s Broadway musicals, and the Fraggle Rock theme among my main influences.
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 03:42 (eighteen years ago)
"The name of the game is Light-Works !"
"Sprite, Makes, the Mellon-Ball Bounce !"
"Try Vicks, Medicated Cough Drops (cough !)"
Annnnd so on
― Erock Lazron (Erock Zombie), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.myspace.com/anthemsabbreviated
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago)
― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago)
That's my favourite
― everything (everything), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago)
I mentioned before that, tho I've never left Ontario, I've lived in three different towns right on the Michigan border! (Upper peninsula once, lower peninsula twice.) I can reminisce about Detroit/Saginaw/Flint TV, no problem. (Mel Farr, Superstar! We do good work! Never eat spinach with a stranger!)
― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 06:35 (eighteen years ago)
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago)
Bernie and Phyl's...quality, comfort and price!...(that's nice)...
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago)
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago)
At Eastern Motorsyour job’s your credit.At Eastern Motorsyour job’s your credit.
Ford, Hondas, Chevy, Beamers,and minivans.Over 600 cars, trucks, SUVs,are you listening man?
Let Eastern Motorsput you in a car today.Let Eastern MotorsFinance it all the way…
― meeterhead (meeterhead), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago)
it's not too sweetI repeat it's not too sweetCanada Dry, ginger aleit's not too sweet...
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago)
― autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago)
― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago)
"if you could take a bite of every pizza in the world,number onewould beBu-sche-mi's!"
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago)
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago)
always liked that one
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago)
man, I hope I can someday shake that one from my sub-conscious...
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago)
― The PappaWheelie Story: Half Brain, Half Soul, All Mouth (on sale now) (PappaWhe, Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago)
― arjun (arjun), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago)
The streets of to-MOR-row...To lead, not to FOL-low...
― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago)
― Bjorn Deleuze (Ocelot Wildly), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago)
I hate the way the 800 is so shoehorned in there, though.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago)
― arjun (arjun), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago)
― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago)
― hank (hank s), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:05 (eighteen years ago)
― hank (hank s), Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago)
I believe he wrote:
Like a good neighbor State Farm is there
(I'm glad someone out there does agree with my old man rant about Empire's 800 dealy though)
― The PappaWheelie Story: Half Brain, Half Soul, All Mouth (on sale now) (PappaWhe, Thursday, 5 October 2006 00:33 (eighteen years ago)
― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago)
― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Thursday, 5 October 2006 05:24 (eighteen years ago)
Maybe this will...
― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Thursday, 5 October 2006 05:37 (eighteen years ago)
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 5 October 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago)
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 5 October 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago)
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 5 October 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago)
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 5 October 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago)
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 5 October 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago)
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 5 October 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago)
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:37 (eighteen years ago)
My dad would not stop talking about Firestone and their "where the rubber meets the road" jingle this weekend, so I went looking for it on youtube and found this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7iD96pN3gs
It seems to be Portuguese or Brazilian, and does not have the same tune. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 04:54 (thirteen years ago)
That would be this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md72R-LWmvU
― Lee626, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 07:01 (thirteen years ago)
that's it!
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:21 (thirteen years ago)
That one is way before my time. The only tire jingle I remember is for Goodyear, circa 1982, went something like this:
There's good times 'round the cornerGood times, wherever you areGoodyear tires and Goodyear service formore good years in your car
Catchy jingle but I can't find it online. It showed a kid rolling a tire town the sidewalk at the beginning.
But I did find *this*, which somehow I don't think Goodyear really used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJCxMXNx4vU
Also this one, which doesn't have a jingle, just background music, but I'm posting just for the O_o <i>OMG</i>WTFness of it. Kids, if you want to know why we needed a "women's movement" in the '70s and onward, it's because it was once deemed acceptable by much of society for a well-respected business to run an advert like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvsEx_SRJpU
Goodyear. Because women are helpless weaklings, and what will happen if your wife gets a flat and there's NO MAN AROUND????
― Lee626, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:36 (thirteen years ago)
Diesel Driving Academy
"When you can drive a truck,You've got a job my friend!...THE ROAD STARTS RIGHT HERE!"
― andrew m., Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:13 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOnXaiLMcYURegional obviously, but a classic. There was an earlier version that I can't find that ended "The road starts right here!" But I guess they updated it and decided to plug the name one more time instead.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:20 (thirteen years ago)
Trying to work your phone number into a jingle is a losing proposition IMO unless it's really memorable or it rhymes or something.
― Lee626, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:37 (thirteen years ago)
LOL that's great!
― skip, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:37 (thirteen years ago)
> Anything by Randy Newman. Can't remember what products they were for, however.
Here you go! Written by Randy Newman and Jake Holmes, still see ppl wearing "Be A Pepper" t-shirts 25 years after they last used this jingle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8DWf-rSHn0
― Lee626, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:44 (thirteen years ago)
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; three, sir; two, sir; one! 'Tenser,' said the Tensor. 'Tenser,' said the Tensor. 'Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.'
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Thursday, 14 June 2012 03:23 (thirteen years ago)
You'd think, but for some reason I can still sing the number for Sheraton Hotels: "800-325-3535"
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 14 June 2012 04:55 (thirteen years ago)
this really is the best ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYVmq_hR_As
when you're looking for that ooh-ah feel come to mattress giantwhen you want that ooh-ah deal we've got the best pricefor that ooh-ah bedit's ONLY at MATTRESS GIANT
OOOOHH AAAAHOOOOHH AAAAHONLY AT MATTRESS GIANT (OOH AH)ONLY AT MATTRESS GIANT
OOOOOOOOOHHH AAAAAAH
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:42 (thirteen years ago)
Donna Summer sells mattresses!
― skip, Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:51 (thirteen years ago)
that jingle would work even better for this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUNRJOhjAkM
― Lee626, Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:13 (thirteen years ago)
I absolutely CANNOT believe the Mentos jingle isn't on here, that was the most infectous, hateable, awesome piece of commercial music ever made! I haven't heard it since what, 1999? And I still remember ever note "DO DO DO DOOOOO DO DO, DO-WAAAAAA!! It doesn't matter what comes, fresh goes better with life, with Mentos fresh and full of life!" HOW did you guys forget about this???
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:31 (thirteen years ago)
also, I know it's not a real jingle, but the Tim & Eric "Rolo Tony" jingle is really one of the greatest things ever:
"Rolo Rolo Tony, working on the factory floor/making chocolate Rolos, for the kids to buy at the store/And when he makes it through the day/the children gather round and say/Rolo Tony, Brown Town/Check yourself out at the door/Give us all some Rolos, you know you got to give us some more/of those Rolos"
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:37 (thirteen years ago)
see I just typed that from memory
I always liked this jingle because it's catchy as all hell, yet it break all the usual rules of writing catchy jingles - it's musically complex, continuously changing, full of unusual chord changes, and never repeats a melodic phrase even once. It was used from the late '70s into the '00s, dropped for awhile, but revived a few years ago.
Big Red: The official gum of couples who really need to get a room....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHn6Hgx_sfE
― Lee626, Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:53 (thirteen years ago)
ha yes, i do remember that one, haven't heard it in a long time
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 14 June 2012 15:18 (thirteen years ago)
"Light Brite making things with light."
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Thursday, 14 June 2012 15:32 (thirteen years ago)
best, as in worst
http://www.avclub.com/article/ira-kaplan-why-he-hates-worlds-most-annoying-jingl-223869
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 21:09 (ten years ago)
One for anyone from Michigan/SW Ontario:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3XPDh7Irs
― everything, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 22:09 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJCaGvrPRk
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 22:22 (ten years ago)