Oh thank you NannyJanny golly this is fun!
Um-Bongo, Um-Bongo, they drink it in the Congo: the python picked the passion fruit, the marmoset the mango
Anchor(the green, green grass) butter (they were happy cows who chewed the cud & grazed if memory serves)
Jack Hylton's 'Grasshopper's Dance' for the Milk Marketing Board ... 'Emp-ties!'
R. White's Lemonade, Club, a Finger of Fudge, Carling Black Label
Mild green Fairy Liquid (I look just like Nanette Newman when I wash up ha!)
'Graded grains make better flour' (indeed they do; how wistfully lovely the Homepride men were).
'Aqua-Fresh has all three, three-in-one protection for your family'
Not jingles but things that stuck: Thora Hird for Mother's Pride, Nicola Pagett saying she needed soft skin because she's a woman, Barclaycard it does more than you'd credit, J.R. Hartey 'Fly Fishing,' the Philadelphia girl, marvelous Irn Bru spoof of American rubbish, 'Luton Airport' (one of the all-time greats!), 'Go to Work on an Egg,' 'Haze Pomander' dear old Basil Brush.
Thank you VampireQueen for reminding me of the milk/Accrington Stanley one! Utterly marvelous!
Daffydil you may be interested to know that the spilling the drink business in the Cinzano adverts was Leonard Rossiter's idea. Sheer brilliance; thank you for bringing back the memories. Wish they'd re-run those.
Fetelbaum how very exciting about the Sooty/Oxo campaign! Harry Corbett's one of my heroes so it was nice to learn about that. Thank you. Congratulate yourself on a job well done!
What a relief to know that others hate these sounds that pass for voices. Not only torture to the ear but a dangerous example to be setting to young women. 'Remember that you are a human being, with the divine gifts of thought and articulate speech' ... sorry GBS if I'm misquoting from 'Pygmalion.'
Funny, I rail against the advertising industry but miss the old adverts so much. There was joy and pleasantness in them, things that could be enjoyed by everyone, and some very good performances by people with real talent. Yes we were being influenced, but at least it was done with life and humour. The more subliminal form used now is infinitely worse in my opinion. If they're going to manipulate us - and Heaven knows they are - they should at least have the decency to make it enjoyable!
Thanks to all for the lovely memories.