History Main / Jingle

* UsefulNotes/Commodore64 had a couple.
** [[https://youtu.be/m5IZJi62TSk “Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Cause the Commodore is keeping up with you!”]]
** [[https://youtu.be/ZekAbt2o6Ms “I’m more alive than ever before...I’m into my Commodore 64...”]]

* The sponsors of ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' had some pretty catchy ones:
** "Brush your teeth with Colgate/Colgate dental cream/It cleans your breath (what a toothpaste)/While it cleans your teeth."
** "Dream girl, dream girl/Beautiful Luster Cream girl/You owe your crowning glory to/A Luster Cream shampoo." (This one was set to the tune of "Toyland" from Babes in Toyland.)

* Chock Full o' Nuts coffee has a jingle that dates back all the way to the heyday of radio; as of late Spring 2007, they were running a contest for customer-created "modernizations".

* Creator/AnnaRussell's "A Practical Banana Promotion" included not only "Eta Banana," a parody of the Chiquita jingle, but also "Alas, What Should I Do," which sounds like just a rather mushy ballad when played the first time, but with subliminal advertising supposedly included. The song is repeated to reveal many contemporary (1950s) commercial jingles and slogans.

* An early part of Barry Manilow's career was helping major corporations sell you stuff:
** "It's a Pepsi Generation"
** "The original soft drink, Dr. Pepper"
** [[StuckOnBandAidBrand "I am stuck on Band-Aid" ]]
** "You deserve a break today (at [=McDonald's=])" Barry Manilow did not write this jingle (which makes me doubtful about attributing his authorship to the others). What is true is that when [=McDonald's=] introduced this jingle it was so popular that Manilow incorporated performing it into his stage show, thus causing the confusion regarding his authorship.
** "Grab a barrel of fun (Kentucky Fried Chicken)"
** "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there"
*** Apparently, singing the jingle in State Farm commercials can make State Farm representatives materialize into the area.
* [=McDonalds=]' current jingle: "Buh-dah-buh-bah-bah, I'm lovin' it!" Taken from a Music/JustinTimberlake song.

* Similarly taken to an extreme by radio jingle company JAM Creative Productions with the aptly named "[[http://www.jingles.com/jam/fans/jamsong.html The JAM Song]]", highlighting many of the radio stations and shows (including ''Radio/AmericanTop40'', the BBC, and Creator/VH1) sung for circa 1985, ending with a jingle for the fictional "Zorp Furble, Andromeda". Ironically, this song would also be used as jingle in and of itself on Sirius XM's 60s channel.
* Speaking of JAM, they, along with Creator/RCARecords, would turn the opening bridge to Music/{{Starship}}'s "We Built This City" [[https://wtop.com/music/2015/07/30-years-ago-the-day-the-music-almost-died/ into a makeshift jingle for several radio stations]], many of them already featuring jingles and [=IDs=] by the former. While this exhibits the skill of the jingle singers being able to match the vocal tone of the song near flawlessly; it also goes to show just how corporate the song itself ended up being labeled as down the line as people thought Starship themselves did these intros, and not the jingle company.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'s'' first episode features the band Dethklok performing a concert consisting of a ''single'' death metal coffee jingle.
* Another Dr Pepper jingle: "I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, we're a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?" This was famous enough to be parodied by ''{{Series/SCTV}}'' and ''Series/RemingtonSteele''.
** And WebVideo/AskANinja.
** And WesternAnimation/VeggieTales, in one of their "Silly Songs".
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iebtccYzhzw Doofensmirtz Evil Incorporated!]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has the "Canyonero" jingle, sung by Hank Williams, Jr.
* Hitachi's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SQNMclNGY "Hitachi No Ki"]] (which is still used today, Japan only).
* ''Literature/TheMysteriousDisappearanceOfLeonIMeanNoel'' has the Mrs. Carillon's Pomato Soup jingle, set to the tune of "On Wisconsin." Leon/Noel hates the jingle so much that [[spoiler:the tune causes him to have a fatal accident]].
* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'': Calvin quotes the famous UsefulNotes/McDonalds jingle at one point in "Eggs for Calvin!".
* ''Theatre/ThePajamaGame'' has the cast sing a jingle for Sleep-Tite pajamas.

* Radio station jingles tend to date quickly. But they can also be evocative of places and times. BBC Radio Two's retrospective shows presented by forty-year veterans like Johnny Walker and Radio/TonyBlackburn are an opportunity to dust down and revive equally old jingles. On one level they sound ridiculously cheesy and [[TheSixties 1960's]]/[[TheSeventies 1970's]], but for people who were around to hear them first time out, they are surprisingly evocative. In fact, one of the selling points for Radio 1's 50th anniversary was the use of many of their JAM-commissioned 1980s and early 1990s jingles played throughout, but with an added "Vintage" shout at the end of them (though one jingle was actually resung to include it).
* Parodied in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E07TheLandThatTimeForgot The Land That Time Forgot]]". Kinga Forrester and Max introduce the Mesozoic Ranch Dino BBQ sauce and various dishes and after each little bit, a jingle starts to play. However, when Max remembers he left the Alliosarus cage unlocked and it got out, the jingle gains a mind of its own and mocks the two.

* [[https://youtu.be/q9aa8tbeuHA "Puppy Chow, for a full year, 'til he's full grown."]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' ChristmasSpecial ''WesternAnimation/ArthursPerfectChristmas'', D.W. Read really wants the toy Tina the Talking Tabby, a talking plush cat toy, having repeatedly heard its advertising jingle. Arthur, however, hates hearing said jingle, saying that it gives him a headache. The jingle goes as follows: "''What's really, really neat and is always at your feet? It's Tina the Talking Tabby! Just scratch behind her ears and this is what you'll hear: "I'm Tina the Talking Tabby!" Oh, Tina, Tina, tiny Tina, Tina, Tina, tiny Tina, Tina the Talking Tabby...''" Later, Arthur traverses a toy store at the mall and is forced to endure the chorus of "''Oh, Tina, Tina, tiny Tina, Tina, Tina, tiny Tina, Tina the Talking Tabby...''" seven-and-a-half times before finally escaping.
* More than a few musicians have made a living doing jingles either as a jumping off point or as a career onto itself - Music/BarryManilow (as noted above) and Music/PaulAnka regularly wrote commercial jingles between their biggest hits; Music/RichardMarx started out doing jingles for Peter Pan brand peanut butter when he was a child, and Music/{{Survivor|Band}}'s second lead singer Jimi Jamison cut radio jingles for Memphis-based jingle company Pepper-Tanner between 1979 and 1983 before joining the band.
* [=MarineLand=] in Niagara Falls, Canada might be the only ''theme park'' to have a jingle, but they started using it in the early 90's and are still using it in some capacity in the 2010's. It usually has the same tune, with slightly different lyrics depending on what attraction they're advertising, but the "chorus" is always "Everyone loves [=MarineLand=]!" In the 90's, this catchy as all heck jingle combined with its status as a RepeatingAd in northeast Canada and the US means most Millennials who lived in that area could probably finish the entire jingle if you went [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1XOzE15iPk&ab_channel=BryanFarr "There's a place I know in Ontario..."]]

* In Britain some recent commercials for Mr. Sheen polish and Toblerone chocolate bars have revived jingles first heard in the 70s.

** A recent Fairy Liquid advert has restored this jingle. Well, sort of...

* Speaking of JAM, they, along with Creator/RCARecords, would turn the opening bridge to Music/{{Starship}}'s "We Built This City" [[https://wtop.com/music/2015/07/30-years-ago-the-day-the-music-almost-died/ into a makeshift jingle for several radio stations]], many of them already featuring jingles and [=IDs=] by the former. While this exhibits the skill of the jingle singers being able to match the vocal tone of the song, it also goes to show just how corporate the song itself ended up being labeled as down the line.

* Speaking of JAM, they, along with Creator/RCARecords, would turn the opening bridge to Music/{{Starship}}'s "We Built This City" [[https://wtop.com/music/2015/07/30-years-ago-the-day-the-music-almost-died/ into a makeshift jingle for several radio stations]], many of them already featuring jingles and [=IDs=] by the former.

* More than a few musicians have made a living doing jingles either as a jumping off point or as a career onto itself - Music/BarryManilow (as noted above) and Music/PaulAnka regularly wrote commercial jingles between their biggest hits; Music/RichardMarx started out doing jingles for Peter Pan brand peanut butter when he was a child, and Music/{{Survivor}}'s second lead singer Jimi Jamison cut radio jingles for Memphis-based jingle company Pepper-Tanner between 1979 and 1983 before joining the band.

* ''The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)'' has the Mrs. Carillon's Pomato Soup jingle, set to the tune of "On Wisconsin." Leon/Noel hates the jingle so much that [[spoiler:the tune causes him to have a fatal accident]].

* The {{Tintin}} adventure ''Land of Black Gold'' has "Boum!" by Charles Trenet repurposed as a jingle for a breakdown assistance company, with lyrics about what to do when your car goes boom. Thompson and Thomson start singing along to it, and then their car mysteriously explodes.

* {{UsefulNotes/Commodore64}} had a couple.

* Parodied in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode featuring ''Literature/TheLandThatTimeForgot''. Kinga Forrester and Max introduce the Mesozoic Ranch Dino BBQ sauce and various dishes and after each little bit, a jingle starts to play. However, when Max remembers he left the Alliosarus cage unlocked and it got out, the jingle gains a mind of its own and mocks the two.

'''Kinga''': Yeah, yeah. We're in serious danger. We don't need a jingle right now.\\

* More than a few musicians have made a living doing jingles either as a jumping off point or as a career onto itself - Music/BarryManilow and Music/PaulAnka regularly wrote commercial jingles between their biggest hits; Music/RichardMarx started out doing jingles for Peter Pan brand peanut butter when he was a child, and Music/{{Survivor}}'s second lead singer Jimi Jamison cut radio jingles for Memphis-based jingle company Pepper-Tanner between 1979 and 1983 before joining the band.

* More than a few musicians have made a living doing jingles either as a jumping off point or as a career onto itself - Music/BarryManilow and Music/PaulAnka regularly wrote commercial jingles between their biggest hits; Music/RichardMarx started out doing jingles for Peter Pan brand peanut butter, and Music/{{Survivor}}'s second lead singer Jimi Jamison cut radio jingles for Memphis-based jingle company Pepper-Tanner between 1979 and 1983 before joining the band.

* Speaking of JAM, they, along with RCA Records, would turn the opening bridge to Music/{{Starship}}'s "We Built This City" [[https://wtop.com/music/2015/07/30-years-ago-the-day-the-music-almost-died/ into a makeshift jingle for several radio stations]], many of them already featuring jingles and [=IDs=] by the former.

* Speaking of JAM, they, along with RCA Records, would turn the opening bit to Music/{{Starship}}'s "We Built This City" into a makeshift jingle for several radio stations, many of them already featuring jingles and [=IDs=] by the former.

* Speaking of JAM, they, along with RCA Records, would turn the opening bit to Music/{{Starship}}'s "We Built This City" into a makeshift jingle for several radio stations, many of them already featuring jingles and IDs by the former.

* Radio station jingles tend to date quickly. But they can also be evocative of places and times. BBC Radio Two's retrospective shows presented by forty-year veterans like Johnny Walker and Radio/TonyBlackburn are an opportunity to dust down and revive equally old jingles. On one level they sound ridiculously cheesy and [[TheSixties 1960's]]/[[TheSeventies 1970's]], but for people who were around to hear them first time out, they are surprisingly evocative. In fact, one of the selling points for Radio 1's 50th anniversary was the use of many of their 1980s and early 1990s jingles played throughout, but with an added "Vintage" shout at the end of them (though one jingle was actually resung to include it).

* The legendary Advertising/BurmaShave signs are a non-musical example.

* Similarly taken to an extreme by radio jingle company JAM Creative Productions with the aptly named "[[http://www.jingles.com/jam/fans/jamsong.html The JAM Song]]", highlighting many of the radio stations and shows (including ''Radio/AmericanTop40'', the BBC, and Creator/VH1) sung for circa 1985, ending with a jingle for the fictional "Zorp Furble, Andromeda". Ironically, this song would also be used aa jingle in and of itself on Sirius XM's 60s channel.

* Similarly taken to an extreme by radio jingle company JAM Creative Productions with the aptly named "[[http://www.jingles.com/jam/fans/jamsong.html The JAM Song]]", highlighting many of the radio stations and shows (including ''Radio/AmericanTop40'', the BBC, and Creator/VH1) sung for circa 1985, ending with a jingle for the fictional "Zorp Furble, Andromeda".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' ChristmasSpecial ''WesternAnimation/ArthursPerfectChristmas'', D.W. Read really wants the toy Tina the Talking Tabby, a talking plush cat toy, having repeatedly heard its advertising jingle. Arthur, however, hates hearing said jingle, saying that it gives him a headache. The jingle goes as follows: "''What's really, really neat and is always at your feet? It's Tina the Talking Tabby! Just scratch behind her ears and this is what you'll hear: "I'm Tina the Talking Tabby!" Oh, Tina, Tina, tiny Tina, Tina, Tina, tiny Tina, Tina the Talking Tabby...''"

** [[https://youtu.be/m5IZJi62TSk “Are you keeping up with the Conmodore? Cause the Commodore is keeping up with you!”]]
** [[https://youtu.be/ZekAbt2o6Ms “I’m more alive than ever before...I’m into my Conmodore 64...”]]

** [[https://youtu.be/m5IZJi62TSk “Are you keeping up with the Conmodore? Cause the Conmodore is keeping up with you!”]]

* Radio station jingles tend to date quickly. But they can also be evocative of places and times. BBC Radio Two's retrospective shows presented by forty-year veterans like Johnny Walker and Radio/TonyBlackburn are an opportunity to dust down and revive equally old jingles. On one level they sound ridiculously cheesy and [[TheSixties 1960's]]/[[TheSeventies 1970's]], but for people who were around to hear them first time out, they are surprisingly evocative. And one of the selling points for Radio 1's 50th anniversary was the use of many of their 1980s and early 1990s jingles played throughout, but with an added "Vintage" shout at the end of them (though one jingle was actually resung to include it).

* Radio station jingles tend to date quickly. But they can also be evocative of places and times. BBC Radio Two's retrospective shows presented by forty-year veterans like Johnny Walker and Radio/TonyBlackburn are an opportunity to dust down and revive equally old jingles. On one level they sound ridiculously cheesy and [[TheSixties 1960's]]/[[TheSeventies 1970's]], but for people who were around to hear them first time out, they are surprisingly evocative. And one of the selling points for Radio 1's 50th anniversary was the use of many of their 1980s and early 1990s jingles played throughout, but with an added "Vintage" shout at the end of them (though one cut was actually resung to include it).

* Similarly taken to an extreme by radio jingle company JAM Creative Productions with the aptly named "[[http://www.jingles.com/jam/fans/jamsong.html The JAM Song]]", highlighting many of the radio stations and shows (including ''Radio/AmericanTop40'' and Creator/VH1) sung for circa 1985, ending with a jingle for the fictional "Zorp Furble, Andromeda".

* Radio station jingles tend to date quickly. But they can also be evocative of places and times. BBC Radio Two's retrospective shows presented by forty-year veterans like Johnny Walker and Radio/TonyBlackburn are an opportunity to dust down and revive equally old jingles. On one level they sound ridiculously cheesy and [[TheSixties 1960's]]/[[TheSeventies 1970's]], but for people who were around to hear them first time out, they are surprisingly evocative.

* Similarly taken to an extreme by radio jingle company JAM Creative Productions with the aptly named "[[http://www.jingles.com/jam/fans/jamsong.html The JAM Song]]", highlighting many of the radio stations and shows (including ''Radio/AmericanTop40'') sung for circa 1985, ending with a jingle for the fictional "Zorp Furble, Andromeda".