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Top 10 local radio advertising jingles

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thirdendorsed

OK, sitting under the mango tree with a laptop on a summer morning I nominate the 10 advertising jingles from Boston radio history.

10. Northeast Airlines, "Yellowbirds...we fly more to the sun"
9. Barbo's Furniture "Barbo's Barbo's"
8. Giant Glass "800-64-giant"
7. Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority "Island Queen"
6. Narragansett "Our Own New England beer;
5. New England Brown Egg Council "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh"
4. Durkee-Mower "Fluffernutter"
3. Zayre Department Stores, "Before you go back to school, go to Zayre"
2. Dave Dinger Ford "How does Dinger do it?"
1. Adams & Swett "How many cookies did Andrew eat."

Some inspiration from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mK-ge6jWiw
and http://newenglandtravelnews.blogspot.com/2010/06/old-time-bostonnew-england-ad-jingles.html

No, Ernie Boch doesn't make it and neither does "the Boston Globe has three live bands" that they used to run on Glick. Those were easily left out.

Honorable mention to the original Papa Gino's Piece-A-Pizza; Waalom Park; BayBank card; New England Telephone and Telegraph (both "We're the one for you" and "Take the first 5 for a dollar-five," celebrating 21 cents per minute in-stage calls!; WBZ-TV "We're Four" and Wm. Filene's Sons "F-I-L-E-N-E-S" and "Filene's Basement"
 
good point about the wachusett jingle. I think my lack of consideration was based on the fact that it's a sweetheart lease of state land, but that has nothing to do with the jingle
 
I remember some of those--a couple others that got stuck in head:

1)If you're a homeowner and you need a loan, call the Loan Depot, pick up the phone,
Call 800-USA-LOAN, homeowners, if you need a loan. We're helping homeowners all over
the state keep all their dreams alive, call now don't wait, we can help you, in every way,
homeowners, do it today.

2)If your boss threatens to kill ya, if you got robbed from your last printing job, call the cops--
the Copy Cops!

3) Run your ad in the Herald today, it's only a call away--so pick up the phone and dial
423-4545 (based on 634-5789 I think)--(then) Boston moves to the Herald.

4) (Various spoken bits, then): It's the Phoenix...from Boston USAAAAAAAAAAAA!

5) The Globe's here (the Globe's here) every morning every day, life gets brighter when you say/The Globe's here

Ch 5 used to use the Orleans hit Still the One (Ch 5's the one). Ch 4 had a jingle that kept saying "We're 4...we're 4". (At the time they were the station that made you tune to Ch 10 in Prov if you wanted to see the post-Carson shows Late Night With David Letterman and SCTV--because they had Hawaii Five-O reruns to do. They later changed their mind.)
 
thirdendorsed said:
OK, sitting under the mango tree with a laptop on a summer morning I nominate the 10 advertising jingles from Boston radio history.

10. Northeast Airlines, "Yellowbirds...we fly more to the sun"
9. Barbo's Furniture "Barbo's Barbo's"
8. Giant Glass "800-64-giant"
7. Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority "Island Queen"
6. Narragansett "Our Own New England beer;
5. New England Brown Egg Council "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh"
4. Durkee-Mower "Fluffernutter"
3. Zayre Department Stores, "Before you go back to school, go to Zayre"
2. Dave Dinger Ford "How does Dinger do it?"
1. Adams & Swett "How many cookies did Andrew eat."

Some inspiration from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mK-ge6jWiw
and http://newenglandtravelnews.blogspot.com/2010/06/old-time-bostonnew-england-ad-jingles.html

No, Ernie Boch doesn't make it and neither does "the Boston Globe has three live bands" that they used to run on Glick. Those were easily left out.

Honorable mention to the original Papa Gino's Piece-A-Pizza; Waalom Park; BayBank card; New England Telephone and Telegraph (both "We're the one for you" and "Take the first 5 for a dollar-five," celebrating 21 cents per minute in-stage calls!; WBZ-TV "We're Four" and Wm. Filene's Sons "F-I-L-E-N-E-S" and "Filene's Basement"
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On the Giant Glass thing, don't you mean "1-800-54-Giant?" The right number is 1-800-54-Giant.
 
WLYNgm said:
..and the most obvious choice (as far as I am concerned!)
New England Dragway. Sundaaaaaaaaaaay...
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We will ask the judges if Sundaaaaaaaaaay was delivery or jingle. They stepped out for a cocktail, however.

AS for Loan Depot, that was both a local and national spot. The national jingle was "1-800-USA-LOAN" but due to the old WATS line requirements, one state had to have an alternative to the l 1-800 number so they usually had a local number in the call center state, so the Boston version jammed "call 848-3006" over tjhe phone number bed.

I did think about including it, and ironically, later that week, Mr. Loan Depot was heading toward a murder one rap for lacing a guy's Dunkin iced coffee with cyanide (the victim probably downed it quickly thinking it tasted better than the currently putrid quality of DD, which has fallen faster and further in quality than even WRKO)
 
Right, Bill Camuti was the guy arrested for allegedly murdering Stephen "Stippo" Rakes. The story I heard was it was iced coffee from McDonald's actually.
 
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