[Dixielandjazz] Pepsi Jingle

[David Richoux]

Since this topic has migrated to ad jingles I thought I might let you 
all know about a stack of 78s I got (for 25 cents each) at the French 
Quarter Flea Market about 15 years ago- mostly Billy Butterfield and 
his Orchestra with various female singers (Dinah Washington and Ella, 
as I recall without digging up the discs ) singing the virtues for the 
Crosley Refrigerator, Washing Machine and other kitchen items. These 
were 1 minute and 3 minute commercials with standard OKOM tunes, lyrics 
changed to plug the product! I don't think I have ever heard anything 
else quite like them, but there was no jingle for the Crosley 
Automobile - that would REALLY be something ;-)

For those of you who are not quite sure what the at car was - check out 
this site: http://home.earthlink.net/~mherman/frame.html - some of the 
strangest US cars ever made...

Dave Richoux
On Apr 14, 2005, at 8:41 PM, Steve barbone wrote:

> Well it's nice to know that there are so many old farts on the DJML who
> remember the jingle. It played through the WWII, at least. The "Pope 
> Sicola"
> version originated, as I remember, upon the death of Pope Pius XI, in
> February 1939.
>