Ads that linger forever

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  • KarlLB wrote: »
    First rule of beer ads - inversely proportional to the quality of the beer.

    Agreed. Heineken used to do some very good adverts.
    I walked about a bit on my own...
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Wisk laundry soap: "Ring around the collar! Ring around the collar!"

    Husband looks accusingly at his wife who looks abashed at the dingy ring inside his crisp, early sixties, white office shirt.

    My mom snapped: "Tell him to clean his neck!" :frowning:
  • HarryCHHarryCH Shipmate
    In one of my favorite ads, a little girl is carefully stringing Kix cereal using needle and thread to make a Christmas tree decoration. Her little brother is delicately picking Kix off the other end of the thread and eating them.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Another great Super Bowl ad: A little kid is playing at being Darth Vader in full costume. He's trying like the dickens to levitate things and control things (like Mom) in the house. No go. Then he goes out to the driveway and tries to put the whammy on the family car. He gestures at it; it starts! He's Blown Away!

    Parents stand at the window with the zapper that starts the VW.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    • "I can't believe I ate the whole thing!" pushing a certain remedy for acid indigestion?
    There was also “Try it, you’ll like it,” “Mama Mia! That’s a spicy meatball,” “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz” (as @jedijudy noted) and “When you’ve eaten something you shouldn’t have” for that same product.

    I would add “I am stuck on Band-Aid,” this particular version with a young Teri Garr and a young John Travolta.

    And the operatic classic “Great moments at breakfast” for Kellogg’s Rice Krispies.

    My wife and I regularly quote “Thanks for the gum ball!”

    Meanwhile, in my corner of the US, where Atlantic Coast Conference (collegiate) basketball approaches being a religion—in junior high the whole school would listen to tournament games over the loudspeaker—people of a certain age remember fondly and can still sing the jingles of two main TV game coverage sponsors:
  • We no longer enjoy hearing that Pan Am makes the going great.

    On the other hand, we can still fly British Airways .

    Maybe to bring you to God's own country!
  • MelisandeMelisande Shipmate Posts: 11
    I used to walk my babies around the house singing "Ice cold milk and an Oreo cookie, they forever go together, what a classic combination...."
  • There have been lots of great ads. The art of a really good ad seems to have been lost.

    Anyone else for "A fingle to dottighab" - the Tunes ad?
  • "Give 'Em A Lift (oo-oo) With Cookeen"

    Or "cocaine" as the daringly edgy at school had it.

    A sort of early-80s version of the Red Bull ads I suppose.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    And then there were the ads for Ballantine beer that began with a clip from one familiar song or another. E.g.

    "I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair." She . . .
    . . . Asked the man for Ballantine,
    And is she glad she did!
    It's got the liveliest taste in town,
    Just open it up and drink it down.
    Now you ask the man for Ballantine Beer.
    You'll be so glad you did.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited March 30
    Pop! Pop!
    That's pop-o-matic Trouble!

    Race your men around the track,
    and try to send the others back.

    Here comes sister, look out Jack!
    You got trouble, you go back.

    The game is fun for Dad and Mother,
    and sis can trouble her mean old brother!

    [Kudos to the copywriter who came up with "pop-o-matic".]
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    Everyone's a fruit and nut case ...
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited March 30
    Nick Tamen wrote: »

    One of the few commercial jingles that can function as a stand-alone song. I'm pretty sure I had heard it as a song on the radio before I knew it was an ad song.

    (My understanding is that ILTTTWTS originally was a pop song, and then Coke reworked it for those ads. I suppose I could check wikipedia, but speculation is always more fun.)
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Actually, The Wiki says it’s the other way around (which is what I thought I remembered). The ad was so popular, it was recorded as a pop song.

  • *Flash cleans floors fast, and no messin'!*

    Said in a Scots accent by the lady (Barbara Mullen, IIRC) who was housekeeper to the doctors in Dr Finlay's Casebook of mumble mumble decades ago...
  • tclunetclune Shipmate
    In pre-Playboy magazine days, "I dreamed I
    in my Maidenform bra" passed as adolescent porn.
  • The Robertson's Marmalade ad of days gone by would, today, be extremely non-PC (and probably illegal):

    Look for the Golly*, the Golly on the jar!

    *as in golliwog...
  • finelinefineline Kerygmania Host, 8th Day Host
    Many from my childhood, that pop into my head whenever I see the product they were advertising. I knew the ads before I knew the songs they were taking off.

    The Colgate ad: 'Morning time and we're awake, brush our teeth with new Colgate; Colgate, blue minty gel, Mum and Dad use it as well.' (I conflate the words a bit.) That lad also went on to be in Press Gang and the Catherine Tate Show.

    The weird Kinder egg ad, with that strange-faced egg sitting on a wall talking gibberish - not from a song, just utter weirdness. 'Kiiinder. Yoobo tricky. Me unscrabbly.' 'Yodel yum and chocco scrum.' I liked it, as I liked making up silly words, and it was fun to imitate him, but apparently lots of kids found it creepy.

    And then 'thank you very, very, very much one' - 'Thank you very much, you're one in a million. Thank you very much for feeding William.' I think William was a goldfish, and I thought that ad was for Quality Street chocolates, but from googling, I see it's for Roses chocolate, and I can't find the one about feeding William.

    The Anchor butter ads, with the dancing cows: 'We're the Anchor cows that make the butter so good, other cows would taste like Anchor too if they could; They may try to imitate us as you can see, but we're the Anchor cows who do it nat-uh-ruh-lee.' (I clearly heard/remembered that wrong, as it's not the cows but the spreads that would taste like Anchor butter if they could. I think it didn't occur to me that spreads would be seen as sentient beings with envy, so I thought it must be the cows, even though it didn't sound quite like it.)

    Lurpak butter too, with that little man made of butter: 'A taste of Lurpak butter is the uttermost, ask any decent toast, it's the creamy most. Spread a little creaminess upon your toast.' (Misheard lyrics there too - I don't think I was yet very familiar with the word host, and to me it made sense to ask the toast!)

    I could go on forever, as there are loads of ads from my childhood that are stuck in my mind - I preferred them to the TV shows. The bank ads were fun, and made having a bank account quite fun for me. The Nat West piggies ad. The 'Come to the Midlands' ads with the Griffin, and this one when the hole in the wall thing was new and exciting, with Richard Briars voicing the Griffin: 'When you press his little buttons, the blessed chap has ears.' (A bit misleading, when you discover there isn't really a little man with ears and a big nose singing to you when you press the buttons!)
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    fineline wrote: »
    Colgate ad

    Brush your teeth with Colgate,
    Colgate Dental Cream.
    It cleans your breath (what a toothpaste!)
    While it cleans your teeth.
  • The Robertson's Marmalade ad of days gone by would, today, be extremely non-PC (and probably illegal):

    Look for the Golly*, the Golly on the jar!

    *as in golliwog...

    As kids, we innocently collected labels so that we could send away for our free golliwog badges. Back then, I never thought of a golly as anything other than a cute toy.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    "Amour Hot Dogs, the dog kids love to bite!"

    Fun fact Dorothy L. Sayers coined the phrase, "It pays to advertise" back in her early days when she actually worked for an ad agency.
  • Fay Weldon is credited with "Go to work on an egg" and Salman Rushdie coined "Naughty but Nice" for cream cakes.
  • "Our tummies say it's time for tea,
    So let's down tools for Dairylea!"

    There's another meat paste advert I remember for no good reason:

    "Princes salmon spread and all the other flavours are
    Nice on a slice
    Fun in a bun
    A must on a crust
    Make the most of your toast
    There's beef, fried chicken, and of course there's salmon
    Or you could put smokey bacon or even ham on.
    Princes - the eat you can't beat!"
  • finelinefineline Kerygmania Host, 8th Day Host
    "Our tummies say it's time for tea,
    So let's down tools for Dairylea!"

    I'd forgotten this one, but now I instantly remember the tune. The 'down tools' bit is unfamiliiar, but this is another one where I didn't understand all the words - I didn't even know 'down tools' was an expression. I liked singing it though, so I changed the words to something that made sense.
  • fineline wrote: »
    "Our tummies say it's time for tea,
    So let's down tools for Dairylea!"

    I'd forgotten this one, but now I instantly remember the tune. The 'down tools' bit is unfamiliiar, but this is another one where I didn't understand all the words - I didn't even know 'down tools' was an expression. I liked singing it though, so I changed the words to something that made sense.

    I think that the version I remember went

    (Children painting gates or something, rural child labour)

    Children: Our tummies say it's time for tea
    So let's down tools for Dairylea!
    There's enough for him and me and me,
    A taste of the country.
    Child 1: I like the taste of butter
    Child 2: I like the taste of cheese
    Child 3: I like the taste of milk
    'Farmer': They're all in Dairylea.
    Children: Straight from the tub, our mums have found
    There's so much more to spread around.
    It tastes just great, it's good for you.
    A taste of the country!

    Please note that I am an extremely sad individual.
  • Another rather non-PC jingle:

    *sings*

    A million housewives every day
    Pick up a tin of beans and say
    Beanz meanz Heinz!
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Another rather non-PC jingle:

    *sings*

    A million housewives every day
    Pick up a tin of beans and say
    Beanz meanz Heinz!

    Our version ended Fartz.
  • finelinefineline Kerygmania Host, 8th Day Host
    fineline wrote: »
    "Our tummies say it's time for tea,
    So let's down tools for Dairylea!"

    I'd forgotten this one, but now I instantly remember the tune. The 'down tools' bit is unfamiliiar, but this is another one where I didn't understand all the words - I didn't even know 'down tools' was an expression. I liked singing it though, so I changed the words to something that made sense.

    I think that the version I remember went

    (Children painting gates or something, rural child labour)

    Children: Our tummies say it's time for tea
    So let's down tools for Dairylea!
    There's enough for him and me and me,
    A taste of the country.
    Child 1: I like the taste of butter
    Child 2: I like the taste of cheese
    Child 3: I like the taste of milk
    'Farmer': They're all in Dairylea.
    Children: Straight from the tub, our mums have found
    There's so much more to spread around.
    It tastes just great, it's good for you.
    A taste of the country!

    Please note that I am an extremely sad individual.

    Ha, I don't remember the visuals, or the rest of the words - that second line stopped me and I got stuck there! I think I used to sing it as 'My tummy says it's time for tea, so let's eat lots of Dairylea!' I just found it on youtube, here, and the only other thing I remember is the bit at the end: 'The kids'll eat it till the ceoows come 'ome.' I used to love putting on his deep voice and accent and saying that, when I was a kid. Heh - I suspect I'm an even sadder individual!
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Dairylea . . . wow, that brings back memories! I think Dairylea in the USA (Dairymen's League Cooperative Association) was different from the British one, though. That was the first brand of milk I remember as a kid. Delivered by the milkman and left in bottles in a metal box on the porch. The milk would freeze in the winter and the bottle tops would pop off, leaving a shaft of white ice protruding out of the top of the bottle.

    There was a cardboard thing that had all of Dairylea's products visually represented (milk, cream, butter, cheese, eggs, buttermilk, sour cream, chocolate milk, orange drink). Mother would turn the thing so that the products she wanted were displayed, and then stick it in an empty milk bottle where the milkman could see it.

    The only jingle I remember is:

    Dairylea, Dairylea, Dairylea,
    It's rich in Vitamin D.

    and I don't remember the rest.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    Public service jingle for seat belts: "Buckle-up for safety, buckle-up! Buckle-up for safety, always buckle-up! Put your mind at ease, tell your riders, please, Buckle-up for safety, everybody buckle-up!"
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    edited March 30
    An anti-hitchhiking PSA from the 60s:

    "Never pick up a stranger,
    Don't put your life in danger."
  • finelinefineline Kerygmania Host, 8th Day Host
    Dairylea . . . wow, that brings back memories! I think Dairylea in the USA (Dairymen's League Cooperative Association) was different from the British one, though. That was the first brand of milk I remember as a kid.

    It's specifically a processed cheese spread in the UK. Originally it was only in little foil-wrapped triangles, like the Laughing Cow. But that ad was for when they'd first made it into a spread in a tub. It comes in a few formats now.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    NicoleMR wrote: »
    An anti-hitchhiking PSA from the 60s:

    "Never pick up a stranger,
    Don't put your life in danger."
    When it comes to American PSAs from the 60s and early 70s, it’s hard to beat Keep America Beautiful’s “Crying Indian,” problematic though it is in some ways.

    And speaking of things that are problematic, I’d walk a mile for a Camel.

  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    fineline wrote: »
    Dairylea . . . wow, that brings back memories! I think Dairylea in the USA (Dairymen's League Cooperative Association) was different from the British one, though. That was the first brand of milk I remember as a kid.

    It's specifically a processed cheese spread in the UK. Originally it was only in little foil-wrapped triangles, like the Laughing Cow. But that ad was for when they'd first made it into a spread in a tub. It comes in a few formats now.

    All of them foul and almost completely unlike cheese.

    I have traumatic memories of being fed it by someone who told me it was cheese. It clearly wasn't.
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Cachet . ‘A thousand girls can wear it. It won’t be the same on any two.’
    https://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/detail/13814/1/Magazine-Advert/Cachet-by-Prince-Matchabelli/1970s

    Vintage 70s/80s. I thought it was the last word in sophistication.🥰


  • KarlLB wrote: »
    Another rather non-PC jingle:

    *sings*

    A million housewives every day
    Pick up a tin of beans and say
    Beanz meanz Heinz!

    Our version ended Fartz.

    I can never think if a Beans ad without thinking of the Goodies.

    "Get it right!"
  • *Flash cleans floors fast, and no messin'!*

    Said in a Scots accent by the lady (Barbara Mullen, IIRC) who was housekeeper to the doctors in Dr Finlay's Casebook of mumble mumble decades ago...

    Never the saintly Janet! The actress was Molly Weir.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    I am always interested in ads that feature actors or actresses whose star shone brightly once but has since dimmed. I'm just glad that they're still working in their profession and not waiting on tables or flipping burgers somewhere. Case in point . . .

    Aunt Bluebell, the charming old lady who persuaded us to buy Scot Towels and "weigh it for yourself, honey" was Mae Questel, the voice of cartoon legend Betty Boop.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Being a little younger than most people who have posted so far, the ads of my youth were the Gold Blend couple and Nicole and her Papa selling that French car.

    My parents had a full set of the Tetley tea people on their kitchen windowsill.
  • (Sending my mate a press release from a company who make electronics instrumentation which touches on both our work, he commented 'the last time I saw an ad like that it was advertising a Ford Capri'. It's a Norwegian firm, and the ad featured a lot of blonde women and a very old piece of their lab equipment, which still faithfully works. I own two of these gizmos, and no blondes whatsoever have turned up here to sit on my desk and smile about it. I guess that's advertising).
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    no blondes whatsoever have turned up here to sit on my desk

    Count your blessings.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    I am always interested in ads that feature actors or actresses whose star shone brightly once but has since dimmed. I'm just glad that they're still working in their profession and not waiting on tables or flipping burgers somewhere.
    Like how Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West, was Cora, who only served Maxwell House Coffee at her general store?*

    And then there was Jane Russell, recommending Playtex bras for “us full-figured girls.”


    *Total tangent, but for anyone who’s never seen it, Margaret Hamilton’s appearance on “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood” is worth a watch.

  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    And Gertrude Berg, in her wonderful Molly Goldberg yenta (Yiddish for busybody) character, hawking SOS scouring pads ("with the rust arrester . . . more soap, more shine!).
  • Annoying jingle remembered from childhood

    There's fun for you
    For you and for me
    for you and for me and the whole family
    In the Lyons Maid treasure chest

    Just recorded it here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DDsNeb6aOUl1fcOOiugXRmV_pZeX2n3v/view?usp=sharing

  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    And then there was Madge the Manicurist who would dunk her clients' hands in Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid: "You're soaking in it!"
  • DafydDafyd Shipmate
    I am not sure yet whether I can listen to Bach's Cantata 140, Wachet auf, without unwanted thoughts of a certain UK high street bank.
  • Let's not forget Maureen Lipman's ad for British Telecom:
    You got an ology?
  • PendragonPendragon Shipmate
    The Honda ad that built a very complicated mechanism out of car parts in sequence. Apparently the ad is called "Cog".

    The 118 118 ads when directory enquiries got opened up to other companies in the UK.
  • questioningquestioning Shipmate
    My parents had a full set of the Tetley tea people on their kitchen windowsill.

    I spent far too much time last night trying to find the Tetley tea advertisement that I remember best - the one in which the tea folk dance with bells on their toes (ankles?). I couldn't find it anywhere :disappointed:
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