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posted by BlueHorse at 9:41 PM on October 1, 2016 [2 favorites]


Now I'm sad I know how the song was made. As mysterious as the product, I only learn about this guy when it's too late.

He probably had more airtime than The Beatles.
posted by adept256 at 9:41 PM on October 1, 2016


I'm in my 20s, I missed most of the prime airtime of these jingles, but I knew all of the mentioned tunes because my mother used to sing them idly around the house. That's some enviable earworm power.
posted by Kortney at 9:54 PM on October 1, 2016 [2 favorites]


The Post Title is NOT from the Oscar Mayer Weiner Song, it's a line from the Armour Hot Dog jingle of the same era:
Hot dogs
Armour hot dogs
What kind of kids eat Armour hot dogs?
Fat kids
Skinny kids
Kids who climb on rocks
Tough kids
Sissy kids
Even kids with chicken pox
Love hot dogs
Armour hot dogs
The dogs kids love to bite!
(which one source calls the SECOND all-time favorite hot dog jingle)
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:56 PM on October 1, 2016 [14 favorites]


In the world of Demolition Man, this would be viewed as the passing of John Lennon. RIP.
posted by davelog at 10:15 PM on October 1, 2016 [4 favorites]


This is a song of my youth, and so it the McDonald's tune. THe McDonald's tune was rewritten or adapted for school bus rides with

McDonald's is your kind of place,
Hamburgers in your face,
French fries between your toes,
Dill pickles up your nose,
McDonald's is your kind of place...

The man had talent.
posted by AugustWest at 10:35 PM on October 1, 2016 [1 favorite]


gone on to that great bun in the sky.

So in this scenario, he's a hot dog, and God is eating him or something?
posted by clockzero at 10:44 PM on October 1, 2016


Oscar Mayer, the food giant..., was sponsoring a contest for a wiener jingle.

I wish I lived in a world where the words in this sentence had different meanings.
posted by Literaryhero at 11:42 PM on October 1, 2016 [12 favorites]


Remember back in the '80s when Cabbage Patch Kids were all the rage, part of their gimmick was that each one came with a birth certificate and had a "unique" name. So I got one for Christmas and his name was Oscar Myner. The baloney song was never the same after that.
posted by peeedro at 1:43 AM on October 2, 2016 [2 favorites]




The Post Title is NOT from the Oscar Mayer Weiner Song, it's a line from the Armour Hot Dog jingle of the same era

AAARGH! Of course you're right! Somehow my pre-coffee brain had melded those two jingles together, and I fired off that title without really thinking it through.

But now I'm thinking... MASHUP!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:28 AM on October 2, 2016 [5 favorites]


In 1973, during my first trip to the USA, I spent some time in Athens, GA. One Saturday night, my American hosts and myself sat down to watch some major film on the TV.

Having grown up in the UK (no ads on the BBC whatsoever; "commercial breaks" every half hour or so on the other channel, ITV), my amazement at the constant interruption of the film (every 10 minutes or so?) soon gave way to irritation.

And speculation on the effect such incessant interruptions might be having on the American mind's ability to immerse itself and follow a narrative.

Anyway, bombarded by this onslaught of propaganda to buy Oscar Mayer! Oscar Meyer! (see it works, I still remember the major culprit that night), I vowed never to buy any of that company's products. It's one of the view vows I have managed to uphold.
posted by Mister Bijou at 2:44 AM on October 2, 2016 [4 favorites]


So in this scenario, he's a hot dog, and God is eating him or something?

No one could say that Mr. Trentlage's most-expressed wish was not being granted, if your supposition were correct.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:00 AM on October 2, 2016


Basically, it's the ending of a Night Gallery episode.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:01 AM on October 2, 2016 [2 favorites]


Buckle up for safety, buckle up!

Buckle up for safety, always buckle up!

Pull your seat belt snug, give an extra tug,

Buckle up for safety, buckle up!

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posted by Bee'sWing at 3:04 AM on October 2, 2016 [2 favorites]


I wonder if there's a complete discography somewhere? I wonder if he wrote the Oscar Mayer bologna song? His jingles were definitely a big part of my early childhood and as mentioned above were ripe targets for schoolyard parody. Our version of that McDonald's jingle reversed the roles of pickles and French fries and added the lines:
"And don't forget those chocolate shakes,
They come from sewage lakes!
McDonald's is your kind of place!"

(Is it just me or was advertising less evil back then?)

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posted by TedW at 4:13 AM on October 2, 2016


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posted by bjgeiger at 4:17 AM on October 2, 2016


A true foot-long in a field full of viennas.

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posted by Thorzdad at 4:17 AM on October 2, 2016 [6 favorites]


That Oscar Mayer jingle was perfect for kids to sing on the bus. It was easy to learn but still tricky enough that you had to pay attention to get it right, and its durability speaks for itself.

There just aren't any great jingles left anymore, just as there aren't any memorable TV show theme tunes. The commercial content has eclipsed its frame.

When my in-laws gather someone will inevitably begin singing old local commercial jingles from the 60s and 70s and all siblings will reverently join in, sometimes in harmony. In this context the things sound almost like hymns.

"At Syracuse Savings Bank--da, da, da, da--your hard-earned money earns more and more money for you..."
"Byrne Dairy Milk is mighty fine, product of the hometown line..."
"Cole Muffler--Cole Muffler!--Cares about your car..."
posted by kinnakeet at 4:51 AM on October 2, 2016 [2 favorites]


(which one source calls the SECOND all-time favorite hot dog jingle)

ME: Tell me about the 'Jingle Wars'.
DAD: I don't want to talk about it. *sighs* It was a bad time. The weiner companies were waging a war against one another and the beer companies, dear God.....it was downright cut-throat, someone brought back the theme song for Spud Mckenzie?! It was unlike anything I've ever seen.
posted by Fizz at 5:21 AM on October 2, 2016 [1 favorite]


2016 is fucking B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
posted by srboisvert at 5:24 AM on October 2, 2016


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posted by drezdn at 5:26 AM on October 2, 2016


Incomplete without the Simpsons' cover
posted by BWA at 5:45 AM on October 2, 2016 [4 favorites]


Jingles constitute my fundamental cultural knowledge, my basic folk tradition. They are embodied in my oldest, most durable neuronal structures.
And on some level, I'm kind of miffed that much of my earliest experience of human culture was devised by Madison Ave to sell stuff. (All due respect to the deceased.)
posted by Jode at 5:47 AM on October 2, 2016


On the topic of "Buckle Up for Safety," as some may know, it borrowed its melody from "Buckle Down, Winsocki," the fight song for the fictional Winsocki Military Academy in the film Best Food Forward. But, more generally, along with the longtime drought for memorable jingles and theme songs, are school songs still known at that level of public consciousness?

It might've been that my childhood reading skewed towards reprinted Mad magazine song parodies, but I feel as if those tunes (Yale's "Boola Boola" and "The Whiffenpoof Song" perennial models) were much more a part of the cultural lingo in the Olden Days, irrespective of one's interest in college athletics.

Oh, and, yes, "The Oscar Meyer Weiner Song" was, as Cosmo Kramer put it, tattooed on my brain.

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posted by the sobsister at 6:19 AM on October 2, 2016 [1 favorite]


Those from Pittsburgh might know one of my favorites, revived a few years ago, for Austin's A-1 Bleach and other cleaning products. It has a great horn arrangement. "Austin's...good, clean, done!"
posted by tommyD at 7:01 AM on October 2, 2016


As a boomer, there's so many jingles imprinted on my brain its a wonder there's room for anything else. Let's not forget all those jolly cigarette ads, Texaco!, Hush Puppy shoes, cars, and oh gods, the beer ads. The beer ads. "Hamms, the beer refreshing. Hamms, the beer refreshing."
posted by Ber at 7:58 AM on October 2, 2016


2016, have you not taken enough from us?
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 9:00 AM on October 2, 2016


The decline of jingles. Now they just use pop songs.
posted by Bee'sWing at 9:02 AM on October 2, 2016


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lets get mikey. he'll eat anything.
posted by valkane at 9:43 AM on October 2, 2016 [1 favorite]


The decline of jingles. Now they just use pop songs.

There's still hope for the future envisioned inside of the film Demolition Man where old television jingles are the dominant musical form of entertainment. Who knows what will happen or how our current culture will be consumed!?
posted by Fizz at 9:59 AM on October 2, 2016


All the animals in the zoo
Are jumping up and down for you
Asking you to be sure to plan
To visit the zoo as soon as you can
Story books that really talk
You turn on with a key
Tell fascinating things about
The animals you see
Story books and zoo keys
Together guide you through
A world of new excitement
Awaits you at the zoo.


The San Francisco zoo jingle is forever etched in my neurons.

I have often wondered how many of our neurons are devoted to remembering ads, versus topology, differential equations, or Latin grammar.
posted by njohnson23 at 12:31 PM on October 2, 2016


No zoo jingle beats the one for the San Diego Zoo: "You... belong in the zoo!"
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:52 PM on October 2, 2016


But still, one of my all time favorite jingles, non-food division, is the one for Slinky, even more so after it was perfectly parodied 30 years later by Ren & Stimpy's Log.
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:02 PM on October 2, 2016 [1 favorite]


Now I'm sad I know how the song was made. As mysterious as the product.

This is the truth about marketing. The truth about food. The truth about music.

No one really knows how the game is played. The art of the meal. How the sus2 gets made.

(Sorry.)
posted by rokusan at 3:13 AM on October 3, 2016


I wonder if he wrote the Oscar Mayer bologna song?

It is burned into my memory, Julie in fifth grade had this bizarre take on that song:

My bologna has a first name
It's O-S-C-A-R
My bologna has a second name
It's M-A-Y-E-R
I love to eat it every day
And if you ask me why I'll say
'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way
With fried D-W-A-R-F-S
posted by Meatbomb at 3:36 AM on October 3, 2016 [1 favorite]




And the correct version of the McDonald's jingle is as follows:

McDonald's is your kind of place!
They serve you rattlesnakes,
Hamburgers up your nose,
French fries between your toes!
The last time that I was there
They stole my underwear!
McDonald's is your kind of place!
posted by Trinity-Gehenna at 1:28 PM on October 3, 2016


Wow, njohnson23, I haven't thought about that in years but I probably still have my SF zoo elephant key in a box somewhere.
posted by moonmilk at 8:26 AM on October 4, 2016


Apparently "My Bologna Has a First Name" apparently came as a response to the success of the hot dog jingle. Its architect, Jerry Ringlien died at the age of 77 in 2007. These guys say the ad itself was created by Steve Merson from the J. Walter Thompson agency. The bologna kid himself works in web and graphic design today. JWT also brought us the Toys-r-us earworm "I don't want to grow up" jingle. ♒★

I too wish I could be a dirt bike hot dog.

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posted by Ogre Lawless at 1:25 PM on October 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


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