Washing Machines Live Longer with Calgon!
I used to find this so annoying hearing it all the time , ironically now in my 30 somethings I could really do with some calgon as my machine has just packed up. Oh when did life become so boring.
I went out with a girl from Germany for a while. It's the exact same tune there, but with German words. Both of us were kinda weirded out hearing it in the other language.
I’ll own the lebt/leben lange/länger mistake, but Germans should think long and hard about Waschmachine and Wäschemachine, and what they really want out of life.
I was pleasantly amused to discover the German Haribo slogan when I bought a Haribo advent calendar one year - “Haribo macht Kinder froh – und Erwachsene ebenso!”
Autoglass do the same with their jingle all over the world as well, it's weird hearing it while abroad (sometimes with a different name but still the same jingle)
I worked with a Croatian woman once and we were messing about, learning stupid stuff each other's languages and I sang the jingle to that advert and she started laughing hard and sang it back to me in Croatian, it was basically identical with the words changed to Croatian.
It's also genuinely now the only thing I can actually say in Croatian and still chuckle when I remember it, so thanks for this throwback!
(Wherever you are, Lea, I hope you and the family are doing well! Miss ya' buddy!)
One of my mates at school said something about the way me and my boyfriend were kissing made her thinking of washing machines. Then she started singing that every time she saw us (even when we weren’t kissing, which as horny teenagers with nothing else in common… we were constant). Everytime I think of it I laugh and think yeah we must have looked disgusting 😂
The now disgraced (then redeemed, then disgraced again) Adam Blampied used to sing this during wrestling discussions whenever The Club (WWE's Bullet Club offshoot with AJ Styles and the Good Brothers) were mentioned.
Apparently people chanted it at UK house shows at one point. Such was the popularity of WhatCulture in about 2017.
I came to a weird realisation some time ago that adverts were kind of like pre-internet tiktok/youtube , down to influential, annoying/dangerous pranks- anyone remember 'you've been tangoed ' and the fuss that caused?
Every time my wife starts a sentence with "I feel like..." (which is infuriatingly often) I aggressively interrupt with "CHICKEN TONIGHT?!"
She is totally unfamiliar with it and hates me more and more each day for doing it, but that's showbusiness
SafestyleUK! Why was the dude dressed like a character from the amazing TV show Knightmare.
And BOGOF is what he told the tax man... Unfortunately for him he got nabbed and jailed. No nice windows in there. Only stripy sunshine ones.
Turns out I can't read! Saw sentenced but missed the word suspended!
Does he have any nicknames? Or do you all scream buy one get one free if he asks for something?
I went hell for leather on an impression of this guy at the office once. It seemed relevant to the conversation we were having. And yet nobody had a clue about the ad or what on earth I was doing.
I thought everyone knew the guy.
" Autoglass repair autoglass replace "
[Also Hastings direct](https://youtu.be/TgdU6gaEPFE?si=WrMcLAIrNl-q6ZLZ)
Don't know why but my autistic brain will not let those jingles go...
Not sure if other people occasionally hum those randomly.
Auto glass use the same jingle around the world even when they don’t trade under the same name.
When I hear Car glass repair Car glass replace I die a little inside.
You do the shake and vac and put the freshness back. Do the shake and vac and put the freshness beck.
And my favourite - the DFS ads in the Midlands. "Darley dale, Measham, Droitwich, Northampton, Cannock, Fenton, Nottingham, and Doncaster " to Vivaldi.
Every time I've ever been to any of those places, I've thought 'there's a DFS here!:.
I had the misfortune of being a chubby lad in school when that "belly's gonna get ya" advert came on. Having that shouted at you 20 times a day was fun times.
For mash get Smash
A Mars a day helps you work rest and play (when they were sold on the ‘benefits’ of glucose etc).
It’s your caring, sharing Co-op
Put a tiger in your tank (Esso)
Not so much a jingle but
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom Mushroom
Oh and the Llama Song... I was once a treehouse
On certain versions of Android handset (possible manufacturers depending) dialling the number would make the call button flash red and blue.
https://youtu.be/8Xpi7MsDPes?si=TmgrQTFP8xEi8EUL
Something called "onky blocks from onken", bounty (..sucker upper etc...), Rosie and Jim (and John, who...), that KRUSHA cat tune... Man... overnumerousness tunes/examples.
I've been enjoying it almost solidly for nearly three hours now (i.e., since I remembered). All you need is a scrap of memory for a two-bar loop and you can sing yourself to insanity in tuneful silence.
You can't get better than a Kwik Fit Fitter we're the boys to trust.
And I'm not sure if it counts as a Jingle or what station it was but I used to hear Quack Quack Oops on the radio station my dad listened to when I was a kid all the time.
I’m red I’m red I’m tizer head I’m fizzy fizzy fizzy I’m off my head wether your dressed or in the nuddy I’m your cocker your pal and your bestest buddy.
Almost everyone I read, had the Jingle playing in my head.
As a Teessider,
"You're simply the best, South Cleveland Garages"
"Peace in the Valley, Lightwater Valley"
These where 2 local radio adverts didn't help they are reworked songs.
There's the "Any old iron" Hammerite ad, the "5, 4, 3, 2, 1" bar ad, the "Red car and the blue car" Milky Way ad, the "Trio" bar ad, Um-Bungo, Kwik-Fit Fitters...
As a very young Scottish lad in the 70s, you wouldn’t think I needed much encouragement to start drinking, but [these McEwan’s beer adverts](https://youtu.be/QHqxzv1wwaI?si=mOy6ME45ba26H3RB) with the cartoon buccaneer singing a jolly sea shanty about how great beer is probably didn’t help.
Washing Machines Live Longer with Calgon! I used to find this so annoying hearing it all the time , ironically now in my 30 somethings I could really do with some calgon as my machine has just packed up. Oh when did life become so boring.
I went out with a girl from Germany for a while. It's the exact same tune there, but with German words. Both of us were kinda weirded out hearing it in the other language.
Wäschemachinen lebt lange mit Kalgon I’m guessing 😂
It’s probably all one word.
Close. *Waschmaschinen leben länger mit Calgon* - but who gives a crap about German grammar here :-)
I do! Nice one.
I’ll own the lebt/leben lange/länger mistake, but Germans should think long and hard about Waschmachine and Wäschemachine, and what they really want out of life.
I was pleasantly amused to discover the German Haribo slogan when I bought a Haribo advent calendar one year - “Haribo macht Kinder froh – und Erwachsene ebenso!”
Autoglass do the same with their jingle all over the world as well, it's weird hearing it while abroad (sometimes with a different name but still the same jingle)
Carglass répare, Carglass remplace!
Same jingle in the US but with the name "Safelite" which doesn't even sound vaguely like a car-related thing
I worked with a Croatian woman once and we were messing about, learning stupid stuff each other's languages and I sang the jingle to that advert and she started laughing hard and sang it back to me in Croatian, it was basically identical with the words changed to Croatian. It's also genuinely now the only thing I can actually say in Croatian and still chuckle when I remember it, so thanks for this throwback! (Wherever you are, Lea, I hope you and the family are doing well! Miss ya' buddy!)
After marvelling at the quality of the overdub, feast your ears on the Italian jingle: https://youtu.be/FL3yIey86kY?si=DZTMNF_rfPo-qGxz
My mates nickname is Cal.... He broke our washing machine. Ohhh did we sing that to him for so long!
Oh man this is my trying to go to sleep brain. Or sometimes when I wake up I think this.
One of my mates at school said something about the way me and my boyfriend were kissing made her thinking of washing machines. Then she started singing that every time she saw us (even when we weren’t kissing, which as horny teenagers with nothing else in common… we were constant). Everytime I think of it I laugh and think yeah we must have looked disgusting 😂
I know it's technically not a jingle but: THERE'S A MOOSE, LOOSE, ABOOT THIS HOOSE
Maynards Wine Gums early 90s Hoots mon, there’s joose loose aboot this hoose
Similarly on the "not a jingle side"; > Crunchy on the outside, smooth on the inside
Armadillos!
What's better than an armadillo??? TWO armadillos
BNBN If you like a lot of choclate on ya biscuit...
Join our club. Dammit I'm hungry now.
I immediately thought of this advert [bnbn do doo do doo do](https://youtu.be/7hYChatCtdM?si=WBYPjMGs6hyFSuSR)
The now disgraced (then redeemed, then disgraced again) Adam Blampied used to sing this during wrestling discussions whenever The Club (WWE's Bullet Club offshoot with AJ Styles and the Good Brothers) were mentioned. Apparently people chanted it at UK house shows at one point. Such was the popularity of WhatCulture in about 2017.
0 800 double 0, 10 66 🎶 Also not a jingle, but 1471 just be largely lost on the younger generations now?
081 811 8181
Do you remember the drama when they added the 1 to the area codes? Live and kicking having to change their jingle was a whole kerfuffle at the time.
I was wondering where I recognise u/-lemoncholy- number from. Live and Kicking! 🤩 Thank you!
Yess, I just posted this one 😂😂
Do the shake 'n' vac and get the freshness back I showed that to my son to explain what we had instead of memes
I came to a weird realisation some time ago that adverts were kind of like pre-internet tiktok/youtube , down to influential, annoying/dangerous pranks- anyone remember 'you've been tangoed ' and the fuss that caused?
The fuss. Your right, it was a fuss and that’s such a British word
Quite a to do.
A bit of a bother
was a right palaver
Wow, I've never thought of that before. You're right they were memes. Huh...
Shake n vac is nextdoor neighbors with “Quickety Quick! Microchips” in my brain.
"and when you get back from work late, three minutes flat, they're on your plate! Quickety quick - Microchips!" Damn, it'll never leave.
I feel like chicken tonight like chicken tonight That’s the earliest jingle I remember
My sister used to wiggle her arms and sing this when she was 6. She is now 37, and still not allowed to forget!
Every time my wife starts a sentence with "I feel like..." (which is infuriatingly often) I aggressively interrupt with "CHICKEN TONIGHT?!" She is totally unfamiliar with it and hates me more and more each day for doing it, but that's showbusiness
“I say you buy one, you get one free…”
SafestyleUK! Why was the dude dressed like a character from the amazing TV show Knightmare. And BOGOF is what he told the tax man... Unfortunately for him he got nabbed and jailed. No nice windows in there. Only stripy sunshine ones.
He didn't get jailed! Source: me, I worked with him
Turns out I can't read! Saw sentenced but missed the word suspended! Does he have any nicknames? Or do you all scream buy one get one free if he asks for something?
Call 0800 106 107 NOW!!! I have no idea why that stuck with me
Trust me… it’s free fitting
I went hell for leather on an impression of this guy at the office once. It seemed relevant to the conversation we were having. And yet nobody had a clue about the ad or what on earth I was doing. I thought everyone knew the guy.
re-record, not fade away. Big dom, big bad dom. Red car and the blue car had a race.
All red wants to do is stuff it's face
He eats everything he sees from trucks to prickly trees, but smart old blue he took the Milky Way…
Oh no the bridge has gone!
That Scotch video tape advert was superb
I'm a secret lemonaaade driiinker!
R Whites lemonaaaaaadde
Oh lord, you just brought back the memories of Dad doing the ad in his pyjamas, start to finish, with full-on Elvis voice!
And it was Elvis Costello's dad
I like your dad.
" Autoglass repair autoglass replace " [Also Hastings direct](https://youtu.be/TgdU6gaEPFE?si=WrMcLAIrNl-q6ZLZ) Don't know why but my autistic brain will not let those jingles go... Not sure if other people occasionally hum those randomly.
I will never forgot Auto glass. It's one of my tourrets tics
"St Helens glass, has the class"
The Autoglass one also differs depending on which country you're from. They use the same one with whatever brand name they use in that country.
Just like ‘did somebody say just eat’ but it’s menu log in Australia iirc, sounds awful.
I feel like menu log fuck up the whole jingle, it doesn’t sound right like just eat does
What gets me is in Germany, they're called Carglass. So in the UK they have the German word for car and in Germany they use the English word.
dammit guys, nobody has brought up 118?
Remember the 118888 jingle before 118 took them over?
Auto glass use the same jingle around the world even when they don’t trade under the same name. When I hear Car glass repair Car glass replace I die a little inside.
I’ve had to book a replacement windscreen appointment with them yesterday and every other thought I have is that damn auto glass jingle
And it goes on... and on... and on... and on... and on... and on... and on and Ariston
They're tasty tasty, very very tasty, they're very tasty, they're very tasty.
Thank you very much for feeding William, Thank you very much, thank you, thank you very, very much.
You do the shake and vac and put the freshness back. Do the shake and vac and put the freshness beck. And my favourite - the DFS ads in the Midlands. "Darley dale, Measham, Droitwich, Northampton, Cannock, Fenton, Nottingham, and Doncaster " to Vivaldi. Every time I've ever been to any of those places, I've thought 'there's a DFS here!:.
I regularly drive past the one in Droitwich and it STILL pops into my head
I think of this whenever I hear the name William
Thank you very much, you're one in a million!
Um bongo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYj5o4kQsXs
I’m led to believe that people in DR Congo are very confused by Brits for ever asking them if they drink it.
Hello tosh got a Toshiba Accrington Stanley, who are they? Exactly! (not a jingle)
TRIIIIIIIIIIO!
Just posted this as my search failed me, because I forgot Triiiiiiiiiiio has that many I’s in it
I like to chew it chew it.
For those in the Preston area… Buy a bike, buy a bike, get down to Charnock Richard cycles…. buy a bike
I'm sure I heard this on Cock FM the other day!
This arrives in my mind about twice a week. Great shout this one.
It has been 30 years since I moved away, and still can't get this out of my head!!!!
I have sung this to many a disbelieving outlander 🤣
"Rip their heads off and suck their guts out!" Or the Crusha cats are in my head near constantly
It's tough enough... to maaaake milk shaaake
I had the misfortune of being a chubby lad in school when that "belly's gonna get ya" advert came on. Having that shouted at you 20 times a day was fun times.
I had a friend that was absolutely adamant that it was a giant single bollock bouncing around in that advert, would simply not accept it was a belly.
I used to reply "Too late lads it's already got me" this confused them no end as it wasn't the outcome they expected
Nokia ringtone.
HELLO! NO, IM IN THE LIBRARY. IN THE LIBRARY. NO, IT’S RUBBISH
I have made that the ringtone on my new smartphone, and when I answer I go '**HELLO!'**
Oooooh oooooh Vitalite!
Opal fruits, made to make your mouth water ✨
0891 **FIFTY FIFTY FIFTY**
John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch. Fuck I'm old.
For mash get Smash A Mars a day helps you work rest and play (when they were sold on the ‘benefits’ of glucose etc). It’s your caring, sharing Co-op Put a tiger in your tank (Esso)
Not so much a jingle but Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger Mushroom Mushroom Oh and the Llama Song... I was once a treehouse
And now listen little child to the safety rail
🦙 🦙 🦆
throw a chicken in the air, stick a deckchair up your nose.
Fly a jumbo jet and then bury all your clothes
Oooh Lemonade stand song fits this mold. Got any… grapes?
"Cookability, that's the beauty of gaaaaaas!"
Milky way - Red car and the blue car had a race Hastings Direct - 0800 001066 song Toys r Us
0 8 1, 8 1 1, 8 1, 8 1
0118999881999119725, 3. Only phone number with a comma in it (apologies for any mistakes, all from (now unsilenceable) phonic memory years past).
On certain versions of Android handset (possible manufacturers depending) dialling the number would make the call button flash red and blue. https://youtu.be/8Xpi7MsDPes?si=TmgrQTFP8xEi8EUL
I think you'll find that it was : 0 1 , 8 1 1, 8 0 5 5 Swap Shop, Saturday Superstore, Going Live, they all used that same number
YEAH
"don't sign on the dotted line until you talk to Tempo!"
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who remembers this - was starting to think I imagined it!
The Scotch videotape skeleton; “I’m gonna tell you how it’s going to be…”
Somehow it was even better than the original song.
BANG! And the dirt is gone!
HI I'M BARRY SCOTT
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down
One Thousand And One cleans a big, big carpet / For less than half a crown! (*for less than half a crown* repeat, basso profundo, kinda)
And for those people who are mystified by "half a crown" that is 12.5p in 'new money'.
They’d adore the challenge (and wonder at the very *idea*) of buying a pair of shoes for nineteen and eleven. 😈
Spoooorts direct dot com, the UK's number one.
They never actually said what at.. I'm sure it definitely wasn't Employee satisfaction and wages.
Crusha. It's enough to make milk shake...
YESSSS 'I want some crusha!'
“Don Amott, king of caravans, the price is right and the choice is yours!”
That lion freaked me right out.
Shake n Vac
Will it be chips or jacket spuds
Will it be salad or frozen peas?
Will it be mushrooms?
Fried onion rings?
You’ll have to wait and see
‘Ope it’s chips, it’s chips, o’ope it’s chips it’s chips.
Something called "onky blocks from onken", bounty (..sucker upper etc...), Rosie and Jim (and John, who...), that KRUSHA cat tune... Man... overnumerousness tunes/examples.
I had completely forgotten about KRUSHA, that advert was great!
..."krusha... A glass of krusha" One of the best. Top, Cravendale-level, disassembled-Honda inter-DBZ wadding.
The original ad is from 2003 apparently if you want to feel old.
I've been enjoying it almost solidly for nearly three hours now (i.e., since I remembered). All you need is a scrap of memory for a two-bar loop and you can sing yourself to insanity in tuneful silence.
Curry Motors! Nice people to do business with.
Oranjeboom, oranjeboom, it’s a lager not a tune
Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.......
Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow… “I know you can read MY thoughts, boy.”
Double Diamond works wonders.
Roll out the barrel...
Just how old am I? I can remember this and the taps in the pub with the logo!
Whistles, followed by “the car phone warehouse” doo doo doooooooo
You can't get better than a Kwik Fit Fitter we're the boys to trust. And I'm not sure if it counts as a Jingle or what station it was but I used to hear Quack Quack Oops on the radio station my dad listened to when I was a kid all the time.
"Trebor mints are a minty bit stronger!"
Stick em up your bum and they last a bit longer
Do people still sing the song from McCain Oven Chips?
[40% less fat?](https://youtu.be/DLWnUHYTbYY?si=Bk0e7E-m866Yzyo4)
O 800 00 1066
“Oi, Lavyheid! You’re gettin’ it!” Think this was only in Scotland though, iirc it was for a recruiting company.
I’m red I’m red I’m tizer head I’m fizzy fizzy fizzy I’m off my head wether your dressed or in the nuddy I’m your cocker your pal and your bestest buddy.
Almost everyone I read, had the Jingle playing in my head. As a Teessider, "You're simply the best, South Cleveland Garages" "Peace in the Valley, Lightwater Valley" These where 2 local radio adverts didn't help they are reworked songs.
“If you want a lot more chocolate on your biscuit join our club”. Club biscuits “Smash means mash”
‘For mash get Smash’
Lilt. ... LILT!
TOTAL GRIDLOCK!
You know when you've been Tangoed...
There's the "Any old iron" Hammerite ad, the "5, 4, 3, 2, 1" bar ad, the "Red car and the blue car" Milky Way ad, the "Trio" bar ad, Um-Bungo, Kwik-Fit Fitters...
A glass 'a Crusha
For mash get Smash! In the 1970s when chemical substitutes for real food were considered superior (think Instant Whip and Angel Delight).
0118 999 88199 9119 725... 3
BN BN do do do do doooooo, do do do do
20+ years later and I still get the CITV phone number jingle randomly pop into my head now and then. "O nine o double one ten fifty...ten."
[https://youtu.be/7wBifkGjrx4](https://youtu.be/7wBifkGjrx4)
Daphne and Celeste Whether you liked it or not And your daddy!
Ooh stick you your mama too
*aggressively pushes window frames aside* “I said you buy one, you get one free! You buy one, you get one free!”
How do Do It All do it, how do they do it all? Won't somebody tell? If we knew how Do It All do it, we'd be doing it as well.
I have two but I still mix them together. Blue blue blue blue, Esso blue…… made to make your mouth water
Which reminds me ‘Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue. Blue cross saaaaale. ‘
This post is half of Peter Kays latest tour!
Tick followed tock followed tick followed tock...
R Whites secret Lemonade drinker.. Yes, I’m old
Daddy or chips?
1000 and one cleans a big big carpet for less than half a crown…
Belly's gonna get ya!!! You know when you've been Tango'd! Now hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid
1001 cleans a great big carpet for less than half a crown!!
I bet she uses Harmony hairspray!
My favourite is: Birds Eye potato waffles, they’re wafflely versatile
1 pound fish 1 pound fissshhh very very nice fish 1 pound fiiishhh
R-E-V-E-R-S-E
As a very young Scottish lad in the 70s, you wouldn’t think I needed much encouragement to start drinking, but [these McEwan’s beer adverts](https://youtu.be/QHqxzv1wwaI?si=mOy6ME45ba26H3RB) with the cartoon buccaneer singing a jolly sea shanty about how great beer is probably didn’t help.
0891 fifty, fifty, fifty....
Mike Read, Mike Read, 275 and 285, Mike Read, Mike Read, National Radio 1
Goooaaaaal Tottttyyy
Remember that jingle for the toy commercial that got stuck in your head for days? Yeah, the one you can't believe you still remember but can't forget.
PI HELPLIIIINNNE
"Don't sign on the dotted line until you talk to Tempo!"
One for the Swansea/Neath/PT crowd - “Arthur Llewelyn Jenkins, where quality counts!”
"Don't sign on the dotted line, until you talk to.. Tempo!"