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Good God, they even remembered the Silver Lake Dodge jingle

By adamg on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 4:03pm

ONE FOR YOU, NEW ENGLAND (The SSP)

Via Garrett Quinn.

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Comments

By Anon on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 4:26pm.

Earworm alert!

By mcflipper on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 4:28pm.

Jeez, I'd forgotten about it but as soon as I saw the guy in the top hat, I remembered the dancing silhouette from Evening Magazine.

By Lecil on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 4:55pm.

FTW!

Anyone do a count? How many of these companies no longer exist? Baybank? NYNEX?

By adamg on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 4:58pm.

I doubt it.

By Michael Kerpan on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 5:36pm.

I found this...

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2002/01/...

By BPlusPlayer on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 5:36pm.

Good lord!

By Kathode on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 6:18pm.

a carpet clean? ANDrew 8-8000!

By anon on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 9:45pm.

How many cookies did Andrew eat? ANDrew 8 8000.

By Ron Newman on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 2:14pm.

is that jingle in here somewhere? I have never actually heard it, so maybe I'm not sure what to be listening for.

Another legendary commercial I have yet to hear (nor find online): Brown Eggs Are Local Eggs

By anon on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 2:51pm.

Although it's not in the video (I don't think it is, anyway), Andrew 8-8000 is a reference to the jingle that ran forever on local radio and TV for Adams&Swett carpet cleaning:

"How many cookies did Andrew eat,
Andrew ate 8000
How do you keep your carpets neat
Call ANdrew 8-8000"

It ran back in the days when telephone exchanges used letters.

By Ryan Connolly on Wed, 10/28/2015 - 10:42am.

The jingle actually goes:

"How many cookies did Andrew eat?
Andrew ate 8,000
How did he get his carpet clean?
He called Andrew 8-8000" (which is 268-8000)

So the cookie eating is linked to the carpet, as 8,000 cookies will indeed make a lot of crumbs! The thing is I don't remember the name of the company, only the catchy jingle.

By Suldog on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 6:20pm.

That is the biggest slice of awesome pie ever!

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

By anon on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 9:41pm.

How could they leave out the Aquarium and the MoS?

By anon on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 10:26pm.

what -- no love for Bob's wicked pissa furnichah?!

By Lecil on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 10:59pm.

(And yeah, that's a quote from the video!) ;)

By anononono on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 12:28am.

I nearly blew a gasket at the WLVI jingle.

I also thought I was the only one who remembered Dean's home furniture.

By Judy on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 6:57am.

When did Curly grow a beard?!

By John-W on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 9:24am.

They got LightandLeisurethePUUURRRPLEBILLLDING! in there, so I'm happy. My jingle is jangled.

By Spatch on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 2:03pm.

I think I first lost it at THEPURRRRRPLEBUILLLLDING. And kept losing it.

Was surprised there was no mention of National Lumbah, "Wait til you see us!" On the other hand, their ad campaign usually consisted of people singing the jingle slightly off-key, so maybe the guys wanted to avoid repetition and they more than made up for it with the Evening Magazine tapdancer and LIVIN' 56.

Terrific all around, though.

By Meaghan W on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 9:41am.

I think attempting the WGBH sound was my favorite part

By Sally on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 10:22am.

I'm only sorry that apparently they never spent a summer working on the Cape so we could have "HEY! Wherrrreya goin?..."

By adamg on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 11:15am.

Also, I soar like an eagle:

And remember when phone companies tried to get us to make more calls?

By Ron Newman on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 11:49am.

This commercial goes back to the days when BayBanks (plural) were a rather loose and not entirely well-organized collection of smaller banks that had all agreed to use a common brand name.

By Dani B. on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 10:36am.

A commercial with the full New England Telephone jingle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfEEkf-LSHc

By got2trotlibrarian on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 4:20pm.

Can someone make a GIF the guy on the right dancing/singing the Giant Glass jingle (seconds 25-28)- love it! These guys are great!

By deirdre murphy on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 9:21am.

"Everyone shops at Mals (shops at Mals); all the guys and gals (guys and gals)!!!!!!!
Dating myself

By adamg on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 9:38am.

Not a jingle, but I can't get that one out of my head, especially not when I'm on 93 and go through the tunnel, because that thing used to play incessantly back when the Central Artery was still up and you'd get stuck in the tunnel and all the stations would be replaced by "Tunnel Radio," which apparently was perpetually sponsored by Tony Floramo's.