I hate the way the 800 is so shoehorned in there, though.
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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)
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Maybe this will...
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― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
That would be this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md72R-LWmvU
― Lee626, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 07:01 (twelve years ago) link
that's it!
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
LOL that's great!
― skip, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
> 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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Donna Summer sells mattresses!
― skip, Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
that jingle would work even better for this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUNRJOhjAkM
― Lee626, Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
ha yes, i do remember that one, haven't heard it in a long time
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 14 June 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
"Light Brite making things with light."
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Thursday, 14 June 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
One for anyone from Michigan/SW Ontario:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3XPDh7Irs
― everything, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJCaGvrPRk
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link