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Sorry all, know I've gone on far too much already. Wanted to post this separately as it's slightly off-topic (I'm very good at going off-topic I'm afraid.)
This conversation brought to mind something from one of my favourite books, Eric Morecambe's 'Mr. Lonely.' When a character is very abruptly and heartlessly told (by a policeman via telephone) of her husband's unexpected death, she sits down and quietly sings the Cadbury's 'Nuts, whole hazel nuts' song to herself three times over.
Perhaps I take things too seriously but I found this very ... allright, I'll say it, humanly profound. It's never left me. But then I found the entire book oddly haunting. It's funny (humourous) in many ways but keeps reverberating within me, always making me think. It's never moralizing, but for some reason 'morally haunting' is how I always think of it.
If you haven't read it please don't let this put you off, as it's a delightful read. Incredibly funny but also much more. Morecambe could really write.
This isn't merely singing the praises of a beloved book. The reason I brought it up is because it seems a perfect example of what NannyJanny was partly getting at (if my understanding was correct) in her original post: how deeply advertising has become part of us. In the midst of death we are still in adverts.
Enormous apologies for bringing this into such a jolly discussion!
On a happier note, for the benefit of anyone who hasn't read them, all of Eric Morecambe's books are (in one's humble opinion) astonishingly good. 'Stella' is his other (very accomplished) novel for grown-ups or possibly even teens, depending on taste. 'The Reluctant Vampire' and 'The Vampire's Revenge' are sheer joy, delight, and beauty for any age. Almost always devoured/adored/re-read by children and grands.
Funny, this has almost come back to jingles: whenever the little Thames Television tune runs through my head, which it does with alarming regularity, I always hear it as 'Here they are now, Morecambe and Wise!' Oh how I miss those men.
Hope this hasn't bored and/or annoyed everyone senseless. I can be really annoyingly enthusiastic. 
Thank you for your patience lovely Gransnet people.
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.
I saw the Gibbs SR advert on the news tonight and you could only see it if you lived in the wider London area when ITV started this day 50 years ago. We were still in Scotland then and I think we had a TV.
The advert did look familiar though, so I suspect some variation was shown for several years. We got a colour TV when Scotland was in the World Cup - 1974 maybe?
We had a TV but I was only 18mths old so no I don't remember it.
I used to love oxo flavoured crisps. Does anyone remember plastic flowers being given away with washing powder? Also there was a brand of washing powder (I think it was Fairy Snow) and every now and again they would send a representative to certain streets and if you had a box of Fairy Snow in your window they would knock the door and give you a cash prize. I can see all those packets of Fairy Snow in windows now. No one every got a prize 
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