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Madonna’s “Ray of Light” is going from pop hit to commerical jingle. The song will be featured in a Windows XP ad that lasts
Back when video-game plots were as simplistic as spaceships firing death rays at large, attacking asteroids, or Pac-Man gobbling up rows of bright dots, nobody paid much attention to the background music. Some robotic beeps, mechanical chimes and a singsong jingle sufficed. But today's games lead players...
I can still hear the Wibbage jingle, with some Johnny Mann Singers-type ensemble perkily warbling, "W-IBG,/ Where your dial belongs the ev-en-ing through,/ W-IBG,/ Joe Niagara spins the hits for you." Known as the Rockin' Bird, Niagara had been with the station eight years before...
A ceremony of the patriarchy, if you like. Gillette Blue Blades sponsored other ceremonies: prizefights on black-and-white television, the boxing-ring bell orchestrated into the jingle... "To LOOK sharp DING/ ev'ry time you shave!" I cherish a hazy recollection, the haze being snow on the television set...
DIED. MICHIKO NAMIKI, 79, Japanese singer whose Apple Song was a major hit following WWII; in Tokyo. As historian John Dower wrote: "That spirits were lifted by a peppy jingle about something edible was hardly surprising at a time when food was an overriding concern."