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Earworm alert!
By Anon
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 4:26pm
Earworm alert!
Jeez, I'd forgotten about it
By mcflipper
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.
WGBH whong
By Lecil
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 4:55pm
FTW!
Anyone do a count? How many of these companies no longer exist? Baybank? NYNEX?
Is Dean's Furniture still around?
By adamg
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 4:58pm
I doubt it.
Deans Home Furniture?
By Michael Kerpan
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 5:36pm
I found this...
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2002/01/...
Why!?
By BPlusPlayer
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 5:36pm
Good lord!
How do you keep
By Kathode
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 6:18pm
a carpet clean? ANDrew 8-8000!
How many cookies did Andrew
By anon
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 9:45pm
How many cookies did Andrew eat? ANDrew 8 8000.
Andrew 8-8000 ?
By Ron Newman
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
Carpet Cleaning
By anon
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.
Andrew Ate 8000 Jingle
By Ryan Connolly
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.
My Flabber Is Officially Gasted
By Suldog
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 6:20pm
That is the biggest slice of awesome pie ever!
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
How could they leave out the
By anon
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 9:41pm
How could they leave out the Aquarium and the MoS?
Where the hell is Bobs Furnichah?!
By anon
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 10:26pm
what -- no love for Bob's wicked pissa furnichah?!
I doubt it!
By Lecil
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 10:59pm
(And yeah, that's a quote from the video!) ;)
I nearly blew a gasket at the
By anononono
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
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 6:57am
When did Curly grow a beard?!
nice.
By John-W
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 9:24am
They got LightandLeisurethePUUURRRPLEBILLLDING! in there, so I'm happy. My jingle is jangled.
Good stuff.
By Spatch
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.
I think attempting the WGBH
By Meaghan W
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 9:41am
I think attempting the WGBH sound was my favorite part
Fantastic!
By Sally
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?..."
I'm a real go-getter
By adamg
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?
BayBanks (plural) Card
By Ron Newman
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.
More than sending your voice...
By Dani B.
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 10:36am
A commercial with the full New England Telephone jingle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfEEkf-LSHc
Can someone make a GIF the
By got2trotlibrarian
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!
MORE!!!!!
By deirdre murphy
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 9:21am
"Everyone shops at Mals (shops at Mals); all the guys and gals (guys and gals)!!!!!!!
Dating myself
Where the meat falls off the bone ...
By adamg
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.
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