In the 1950s before electronic gadgets took over our lives there was only the radio and television.

With our eyes glued to every program on television we watched every commercial as though it was part of the regular program. It wasn’t until we had seen it all that we got up and went to the kitchen for a snack.

Commercials were entertaining and usually were accompanied with music or some sort of jingle. Do you have a favorite jingle that you still remember from childhood? For many people, these classic TV jingles have stuck with them their entire lives and hearing those words is like a blast from the past that brings them back to a simpler time.

Today we will test your memory. The answers will be at the end of this article.

Try to finish each jingle and name the product it advertises.

1. See the USA in your______. And who sang it?

2. Halo Everybody, Halo. Halo is the _______.

3. I love to be an ________ _______ _______.

4. Ai Yi Yi Yi I am the __________ Bandito.

5. ________ tastes good like a cigarette should.

6. Double your pleasure, double your fun.

7. A Little Dab will do you.

8. Nothing says lovin’ like something from the oven.

9. You’ll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with _______.

10. Snap, Crackle and Pop

11. What’ll you have?

12. From the land of the Sky Blue Water.

13. What was the San Francisco treat?

14. Ho Ho Ho (no not Santa Claus!)

Here are the answers:

1. Chevrolet, sung by Dinah Shore; 2. Halo Shampoo; 3. Oscar Meyer Wiener; 4. Frito; 5. Winston cigarettes; 6. Wrigley’s Double Mint gum; 7. Brylcreem; 8. Pillsbury; 9. Pepsodent toothpaste 10. Rice Krispies; 11. Pabst Blue Ribbon beer; 12. Hamm’s beer; 13. Rice a Roni; 14. Jolly Green Giant.

If you got them all correct then you really were a baby boomer of the 1950s or you spent a lot of time in front of the television set. You probably even remember Captain Kangaroo, Bozo the Clown, Dennis the Menace, the Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Lassie, Huckleberry Hound or maybe Romper Room.

I only watched these shows to be with my kids.

 

Jo-Ann Boepple works at the Edwardsburg Area History Museum.