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  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    Fay Weldon is credited with "Go to work on an egg" and Salman Rushdie coined "Naughty but Nice" for cream cakes.

    "Naughty but nice" goes back to the 19th century. Rushdie's not that old.
    Lyda wrote: »
    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!"

    Is this to the tune of "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain"?

  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    mousethief wrote: »
    Fay Weldon is credited with "Go to work on an egg" and Salman Rushdie coined "Naughty but Nice" for cream cakes.

    "Naughty but nice" goes back to the 19th century. Rushdie's not that old.
    Lyda wrote: »
    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!"

    Is this to the tune of "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain"?

    It sounds to me as if it fits the college athletic song, "Buckle down, Winsockie, buckle down"

  • AnselminaAnselmina Shipmate
    "A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat;
    A finger of fudge is just enough, until it's time to eat.
    It's full of Cadbury goodness, and very small and neat.
    A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat."

    'Milky Way - the sweet you CAN eat between meals without ruining your appetite.'

    'Only Smarties have the answer....'

    'Topic! A hazelnut in every bite!'

    'A Mars a day, helps you work, rest and play.'

    And no, it's no coincidence that all these are for sweets!!



  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    "A finger of fudge is just enough to rot your children's teeth
    A finger of fudge is just enough to linger underneath
    It's full of horrid e-numbers
    And priced beyond belief
    A finger of fudge is just enough to rot your children's teeth"
  • AnselminaAnselmina Shipmate
    KarlLB wrote: »
    "A finger of fudge is just enough to rot your children's teeth
    A finger of fudge is just enough to linger underneath
    It's full of horrid e-numbers
    And priced beyond belief
    A finger of fudge is just enough to rot your children's teeth"

    Blasphermy!
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    edited April 2
    stetson wrote: »
    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.)

    I give you We've only just begun, which started out life as a TV commercial.
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    There was another pop song in the UK something like "Would You Like to Fly in my Beautiful Balloon", which a bakery company reworked as background to one of their adverts for low calorie bread (Nimble?) which had a girl flying around in a hot air balloon.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Now why doesn't it surprise me that one of the first memories on this thread is for the Smash aliens? :)

    What is this place?

    It is called Hud-ders-field.


  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited April 2
    Sparrow wrote: »
    There was another pop song in the UK something like "Would You Like to Fly in my Beautiful Balloon", which a bakery company reworked as background to one of their adverts for low calorie bread (Nimble?) which had a girl flying around in a hot air balloon.

    Up, Up and Away by The Fifth Dimension, I think you'll find. I was more familiar with the Frank Ifield cover, owing to my parents' music tastes.

    I had a sneaking suspicion that Nimble and Slimcea and their ilk primarily had half the calories of regular bread because the slices were half the size...
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    When a man you’ve never met before, suddenly gives you flowers...



    Well, yes...🤨 Thanks, Impulse Body Spray.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    "That woman's wearing Harmony hairspray!"
  • Anselmina wrote: »
    KarlLB wrote: »
    "A finger of fudge is just enough to rot your children's teeth
    A finger of fudge is just enough to linger underneath
    It's full of horrid e-numbers
    And priced beyond belief
    A finger of fudge is just enough to rot your children's teeth"

    Blasphermy!

    The version round our way was:
    "A finger of fudge is just enough
    To make your kids go green
    It's full of stiickky sugar
    And very very cheap
    A finger of fudge is just enough
    To make your kids go green."

    Cheapest chocolate-type thing in the shop IIRC.
  • No-one's mentioned the Cockburn's Port or Wool Council's poetic offerings on the Tube.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    edited April 2
    KarlLB wrote: »
    Sparrow wrote: »
    There was another pop song in the UK something like "Would You Like to Fly in my Beautiful Balloon", which a bakery company reworked as background to one of their adverts for low calorie bread (Nimble?) which had a girl flying around in a hot air balloon.

    Up, Up and Away by The Fifth Dimension, I think you'll find. I was more familiar with the Frank Ifield cover, owing to my parents' music tastes.

    I had a sneaking suspicion that Nimble and Slimcea and their ilk primarily had half the calories of regular bread because the slices were half the size...

    Wonder Bread, apparently.

    My bank had Lennon's Imagine as their ad backround and hold music for a while, which struck me as about as incongruous as one could get. Before they moved on to "Say a little prayer" by Aretha Franklin (had to be careful not to be singing along when they finally picked up, too).
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited April 2
    Eutychus wrote: »
    KarlLB wrote: »
    Sparrow wrote: »
    There was another pop song in the UK something like "Would You Like to Fly in my Beautiful Balloon", which a bakery company reworked as background to one of their adverts for low calorie bread (Nimble?) which had a girl flying around in a hot air balloon.

    Up, Up and Away by The Fifth Dimension, I think you'll find. I was more familiar with the Frank Ifield cover, owing to my parents' music tastes.

    I had a sneaking suspicion that Nimble and Slimcea and their ilk primarily had half the calories of regular bread because the slices were half the size...

    Wonder Bread, apparently.

    My bank had Lennon's Imagine as their ad backround and hold music for a while, which struck me as about as incongruous as one could get. Before they moved on to "Say a little prayer" by Aretha Franklin (had to be careful not to be singing along when they finally picked up, too).

    Don't think we ever had Wonder Bread in the UK.

    It was Nimble. However we seem to have a Mandela Effect here inasmuch as many (like me) remember the song being UU&A but it was in fact "she flies like a bird" as a quick perusal of YouTube proves.

    I wonder if UU&A was used in an advert for something else around the same time? The Mandela Effect being real is not a conclusion I want to draw!

    Edit: TWA ad from the same period: https://youtu.be/7hiDVYi8XJ8

    Funny how brains work
  • Eutychus wrote: »
    stetson wrote: »

    I give you We've only just begun, which started out life as a TV commercial.

    And is now backing a TV commercial again
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    edited April 2
    KarlLB wrote: »
    The Mandela Effect being real is not a conclusion I want to draw!

    :scream:

    I've looked several times, but I can't find

    "When life is just a bore...have a Bourbon!" on YouTube anywhere.

    [ETA in fact Googling "when life is just a bore" returns NO results. Or at least did until now*]

    *My mum sang an old folk song which is absent from the internet and which I'm loth to ask for help in finding, in order to keep it that way.
  • We did have Wonderloaf - link to Getty image of the bakery in the 60s and 70s. One of my sister's and my school friends' father* drove a delivery lorry for Wonderloaf, which caused much hilarity when it would not grow mould in an experiment compared to the other breads.

    * (Sisters, we both counted them as friends, although the elder died while we were still in primary school.)
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Brian May wrote (Everything we do is) Driven by You for the Ford commercial. His fans recognised him and he had to turn it into a single.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Eutychus wrote: »
    stetson wrote: »
    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.)

    I give you We've only just begun, which started out life as a TV commercial.
    This seems like a good time to mention Barry Manilow’s “Very Strange Medley”—a medley of jingles he wrote.

  • Jengie JonJengie Jon Shipmate
    Tell Sid which I felt was a shame because BT/GPO had Buzby
  • Sparrow wrote: »
    There was another pop song in the UK something like "Would You Like to Fly in my Beautiful Balloon", which a bakery company reworked as background to one of their adverts for low calorie bread (Nimble?) which had a girl flying around in a hot air balloon.

    Is that what Wallace and Gromit were doing a spoof of in A Matter of Loaf and Death?
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    This seems like a good time to mention Barry Manilow’s “Very Strange Medley”—a medley of jingles he wrote.

    What did I just listen to? :dizzy:
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Eutychus wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    This seems like a good time to mention Barry Manilow’s “Very Strange Medley”—a medley of jingles he wrote.

    What did I just listen to? :dizzy:
    “Songs” of my youth. :grin:

  • Gill HGill H Shipmate
    edited April 2
    Fry's Turkish Delight. Anyone of a certain age just sang those words.
  • Promise her anything but give her Arpege. It worked, it is still my favorite, I find I can buy old bottles of it on E-bay now and then as they have stopped making the real thing.
  • LatchKeyKidLatchKeyKid Shipmate
    There was a series of Smirnoff adverts of the form:
    I used to think ....... until I discovered Smirnoff.
    E.g. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O548417/i-used-to-take-the-poster-nash-robin/

    Although it is the spoof that sticks in my memory:

    I used to think cunnilingus was an Irish airline until I discovered Smirnoff
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    Sparrow wrote: »
    There was another pop song in the UK something like "Would You Like to Fly in my Beautiful Balloon", which a bakery company reworked as background to one of their adverts for low calorie bread (Nimble?) which had a girl flying around in a hot air balloon.

    Is that what Wallace and Gromit were doing a spoof of in A Matter of Loaf and Death?

    Yes!
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    When I think of vodka adverts, the first thing that comes to mind is Wodka from Varrington (Vladivar Vodka)
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    There was a series of Smirnoff adverts of the form:
    I used to think ....... until I discovered Smirnoff.
    E.g. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O548417/i-used-to-take-the-poster-nash-robin/

    Although it is the spoof that sticks in my memory:

    I used to think cunnilingus was an Irish airline until I discovered Smirnoff

    Snow White thought SevenUp was a fizzy drink until the dwarves discovered Smirnoff 😈
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate

    I’ve just been reminded of another one - listening to Classic FM’s top 300, they just played one of Cantaloube’s Songs of the Auvergne, which was used as backing for an advert for Dubonnet.

  • In Australia Up, Up and Away is associated with the ill-fated Trans-Australia Airlines

    Up, up and away with TAA, the friendly friendly way
  • RicardusRicardus Shipmate
    A while ago I got stuck on the A1(M) with Classic FM on the radio. Every single commercial break began with:

    'How many tablets did you take this morning? On average, people over fifty say: "Four." That's over a hundred a month! With new, 12-hour Voltarol Gel ...'

    I like Classic FM, but their advertisers have some, er, very specific ideas about their demographic ...
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    Another Classic FM reminder, they've just played the Flower Duet from Lakme, which British Airways used heavily many years ago.
  • Olly WelchesterOlly Welchester Shipmate Posts: 15
    'Wrigley spearmint gum, gum, gum.
    Stick it up your ...
    Carry the big fresh flavour.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    Gill H wrote: »
    Fry's Turkish Delight. Anyone of a certain age just sang those words.

    It obviously lodged in Nigel Blackwell's head too!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUWIzVaIYlA
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Or Bonomo's Turkish Taffy (pronounced BAH-no-mo):

    [Chorus]: b-O
    n-O
    m-O
    bo-no-MO
    Oh, Oh, Oh,
    It's Bonomo.

    [Little girl's voice] Candy.
  • Olly WelchesterOlly Welchester Shipmate Posts: 15
    Now I cook with Brown and Polson
    All my gravy's smooth and wholesome,
    And there's not a single lump in sight.
    Harry used to hate my gravy,
    Threatened once to join the Navy.
    Brown and Polson really saved the night.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    Aahhh! Bisto!
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Wrigley's spearmint gum in my mind is indissociable from Alright Now.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Trebor mints are a minty but stronger
    To which the childish added
    Stick them up your a*se and they last a bit longer
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    In Australia Up, Up and Away is associated with the ill-fated Trans-Australia Airlines

    Up, up and away with TAA, the friendly friendly way

    Never to be forgotten

  • AnselminaAnselmina Shipmate
    KarlLB wrote: »
    Sparrow wrote: »
    There was another pop song in the UK something like "Would You Like to Fly in my Beautiful Balloon", which a bakery company reworked as background to one of their adverts for low calorie bread (Nimble?) which had a girl flying around in a hot air balloon.

    Up, Up and Away by The Fifth Dimension, I think you'll find. I was more familiar with the Frank Ifield cover, owing to my parents' music tastes.

    I had a sneaking suspicion that Nimble and Slimcea and their ilk primarily had half the calories of regular bread because the slices were half the size...

    Or this to 'I can't let Maggie go'.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited April 7
    Anselmina wrote: »
    KarlLB wrote: »
    Sparrow wrote: »
    There was another pop song in the UK something like "Would You Like to Fly in my Beautiful Balloon", which a bakery company reworked as background to one of their adverts for low calorie bread (Nimble?) which had a girl flying around in a hot air balloon.

    Up, Up and Away by The Fifth Dimension, I think you'll find. I was more familiar with the Frank Ifield cover, owing to my parents' music tastes.

    I had a sneaking suspicion that Nimble and Slimcea and their ilk primarily had half the calories of regular bread because the slices were half the size...

    Or this to 'I can't let Maggie go'.

    Yeah, we discovered that there's a Mandela Effect thing going on. Lots of people on t'web and here thought it was UUaA but t'ain't so.
  • AnselminaAnselmina Shipmate
    KarlLB wrote: »
    Anselmina wrote: »
    KarlLB wrote: »
    Sparrow wrote: »
    There was another pop song in the UK something like "Would You Like to Fly in my Beautiful Balloon", which a bakery company reworked as background to one of their adverts for low calorie bread (Nimble?) which had a girl flying around in a hot air balloon.

    Up, Up and Away by The Fifth Dimension, I think you'll find. I was more familiar with the Frank Ifield cover, owing to my parents' music tastes.

    I had a sneaking suspicion that Nimble and Slimcea and their ilk primarily had half the calories of regular bread because the slices were half the size...

    Or this to 'I can't let Maggie go'.

    Yeah, we discovered that there's a Mandela Effect thing going on. Lots of people on t'web and here thought it was UUaA but t'ain't so.

    Oops! Sorry, missed your post. I didn't doubt the others thinking they'd heard 'Up, up and away...'. I only remembered the other one because I'm that old! My mum used to use Nimble, occasionally. You could spit through it, as the saying goes.
  • Marvin the MartianMarvin the Martian Admin Emeritus
    “Don’t push me, push a push pop”

    “All because the lady loves Milk Tray”
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    Oh, we loved the Milk Tray adverts! It was fun to think of some dashing man in black who would ski down mountains or swing on ropes just to bring us chocolates.
    There was even a scene in Coronation Street where a chap bought a box of Milk Tray, but he took out the chocolates and put in a black negligee instead.
  • Don't forget the Nescafe Gold Blend romance ... utterly cringe-worthy!
  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    I like Chiclets candy-coated chewing gum
    I am going out right now and buy me some
    It's refreshing as can be
    Skidley woe, skidley wee
    I like Chiclets candy-coated chewing gum
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    Eigon wrote: »
    Oh, we loved the Milk Tray adverts! It was fun to think of some dashing man in black who would ski down mountains or swing on ropes just to bring us chocolates.
    There was even a scene in Coronation Street where a chap bought a box of Milk Tray, but he took out the chocolates and put in a black negligee instead.

    That’s a pick-up with a difference!

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