History Main / Jingle

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' ChristmasSpecial ''WesternAnimation/ArthursPerfectChristmas'', D.W. Read really wants the toy Tina the Talking Tabby, a talking plush cat toy, having repeatedly heard its advertising jingle. Arthur, however, hates hearing said jingle, saying that it gives him a headache. The jingle goes as follows: "''What's really, really neat and is always at your feet? It's Tina the Talking Tabby! Just scratch behind her ears and this is what you'll hear: "I'm Tina the Talking Tabby!" Oh, Tina, Tina, tiny Tina, Tina, Tina, tiny Tina, Tina the Talking Tabby...''" Later, Arthur traverses a toy store at the mall and is forced to endure the chorus of "''Oh, Tina, Tina, tiny Tina, Tina, Tina, tiny Tina, Tina the Talking Tabby...''" seven-and-a-half times before finally escaping.

* UsefulNotes/Commodore64 had a couple.

* Radio station jingles tend to date quickly as a result of general changes in musical trends. But they can also be evocative of places and times. BBC Radio Two's retrospective shows presented by forty-year veterans like Johnny Walker and Radio/TonyBlackburn are an opportunity to dust down and revive equally old jingles. On one level they sound ridiculously cheesy and [[TheSixties 1960's]]/[[TheSeventies 1970's]], but for people who were around to hear them first time out, they are surprisingly evocative. In fact, one of the selling points for Radio 1's 50th anniversary was the use of many of their JAM-commissioned 1980s and early 1990s jingles played throughout, with an added "Vintage" shout at the end of them except for one jingle, which was actually resung to include it.

** [[https://youtu.be/ZekAbt2o6Ms “I’m more alive than ever before...I’m into my Commodore 64...”]]

* Chock Full o' Nuts coffee:
** It has a jingle that dates back all the way to the heyday of radio; as of late Spring 2007, they were running a contest for customer-created "modernizations".
** "Chock Full o' Nuts is a heavenly coffee..."

While not quite as common as they used to be, jingles work, so they will probably be around as long as we have commercials. They can even become quite popular [[TopTenJingle and be released as a single]]. Some well-known jingles have been around literally for decades, periodically having their instrumentation/arrangement updated to sound more modern.

* An early part of Barry Manilow's career was helping major corporations sell you stuff:
** "It's a Pepsi Generation"

** "You deserve a break today (at [=McDonald's=])" Barry Manilow did not write this jingle (which makes me doubtful about attributing his authorship to the others). What is true is that when [=McDonald's=] introduced this jingle it was so popular that Manilow incorporated performing it into his stage show, thus causing the confusion regarding his authorship.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' would parody the practice of radio jingles in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E2MotherTucker Mother Tucker]]", by having {{Dumbass DJ}}s Weenie and the Butt abuse them to no end.

* ''Franchise/TransformersGenerationOne'' had a ton of different jingles done up for its toy commercials, tying into the product being advertised. Most of these were simply modified versions of the theme songs of the [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers corresponding cartoon]] with different lyrics. But would eventually delve off into their own thing starting in 1987. The same applies to its sister line ''Franchise/GIJoe''.

* Radio station jingles tend to date quickly. But they can also be evocative of places and times. BBC Radio Two's retrospective shows presented by forty-year veterans like Johnny Walker and Radio/TonyBlackburn are an opportunity to dust down and revive equally old jingles. On one level they sound ridiculously cheesy and [[TheSixties 1960's]]/[[TheSeventies 1970's]], but for people who were around to hear them first time out, they are surprisingly evocative. In fact, one of the selling points for Radio 1's 50th anniversary was the use of many of their JAM-commissioned 1980s and early 1990s jingles played throughout, but with an added "Vintage" shout at the end of them (though one jingle was actually resung to include it).

* [=MarineLand=] in Niagara Falls, Canada might be the only ''theme park'' to have a jingle, but they started using it in the early 90's and are still using it in some capacity in the 2010's. It usually has the same tune, with slightly different lyrics depending on what attraction they're advertising, but the "chorus" is always "Everyone loves [=MarineLand=]!" In the 90's, this catchy as all heck jingle combined with its status as a RepeatingAd in northeast Canada and the US means most Millennials who lived in that area could probably finish the entire jingle if you went [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1XOzE15iPk&ab_channel=BryanFarr "There's a place I know in Ontario..."]]