“You can trust your car to, the man who wears the star, the big bright Texaco star.” “You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.” “Brill Cream a little dab ‘ll do ya. Brill Cream, ya look so debonair.” “Now it’s Pepsi, for those who think young”. Okay Boomers, it’s time to remember those great commercial jingles we grew up with. Sometimes they made the commercials more entertaining than the regular shows. “Here comes Bucky Beaver, brushin’ with Ipana.” Ipana tooth paste is long gone but I still remember that jingle all right. There were the commercial jingles for adults but we kids knew them by heart. “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.”, “Hey Mabel, Black Label.” “When you’re beer hungry brother give a big cheer for Wiedemanns, Wiedemanns registered beer.” “When you say Budweiser, you’ve said it all.” “Let Hertz put you in the driver’s seat.” I didn’t known much about renting cars but i knew the name Hertz. “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.” Barry Manilow’s contribution to pop culture. “The best part of waking up is Folgers’s in your cup.”
“Double your pleasure/double your fun with double good Doublemint gum.” “M’m M’m good, M’m M’m good, That’s what Campbell’s soups are. M’m M’m good!” “Oh, I’d love to be an Oscar Meyer wiener, that is what I’d truly like to be, cause if I was an Oscar Meyer wiener, everyone would be in love with me!” The sexual innuendos for those lyrics are quite obvious as are the infamous “It’s not how long you make it/it’s how you make it long” for Winston Super Kings extra long cigarettes. ”How do you handle a hungry man? The Man-handlers.” (This was the soup commercial that Campbell’s put marbles in the cotton to make the stock look muck thicker and richer.) ”Get Wild Root Cream Oil Charlie. Start using it today, You’ll find you’ll have a tough time Charlie keepin’ all those gals away.” Nat King Cole first sang that.
“Call Roto-Rooter, that’s the name, and away goes troubles down the drain.” “Mr. Clean will clean your whole house and everything that’s in it.” “Have it your way, have it your way, at Burger King.” “Hot Dogs, Armor Hot Dogs, they’re the dogs kids love to munch!” And for all the tummy aches those fast foods brought us, “Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz, oh what a relief it is!” Alka Seltzer’s enduring message. “I am stuck on Band-Aids ‘cause Band-Aids’ stuck on me.”
“When it says Libby’s, Libby’s, Libby’s on the Label, Label, Label, you will like it, like it like it, on your table, table, table.” Repetitive but it worked. “In the the valley of the jolly, Ho Ho, Ho, Green Giant.” “Yes he’s got go power, there he goes! He’s feelin’ his Cheerio’s!” “If you want shoes with lots of pep, get Keds Kids Keds. For bounce and zoom in every step get Keds Kids Keds!” U.S. Keds were the official gym shoe of the 1950s.
Those jingles we grew up with helped us define our world and the things we wanted in it. They also made icons of certain products that became household words. “Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, and pickles on a sesame seed bun!” “You deserve a break today, so get up and get away, at McDonald’s!” And finally “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. I’d like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company!”
Commercial jingles. What would our childhood have been without them?