Word: jinglees
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The likeliest clues were the Walking Man's hollow, echoing footfalls (they sounded as though they might be coming from a vault), and the jingle:
It was an ad man's idea. Why not have singing commercials set to really good music? Before the ad man could say J. Walter Thompson, he had consulted promising young composer and Guggenheim Fellow Gail Kubik (best known for his score of the Air Force film Memphis Belle...
In Ponca City, Olcla., one T. J. Cuzalina, a druggist who writes and pays for an advertising column in the Ponca City News, announced the winner in his recent Eisenhower jingle contest. Druggist Cuzalina, who claims credit for starting the Eisenhower campaign in Oklahoma two years ago, plunked out $100...
By last week, eight record versions of this jangling jingle had been turned out, and Civilization was creeping up bestseller lists. It was one of those flash, expendable tunes bound to be a public craze, and then a public nuisance. Hilliard and Sigman have already written another song. Theme: the...
They did more than just inspect. The first day's receipts were around $250,000, some 2½ times as much as Foley's had ever grossed at its outgrown store. The jingle of cash registers was merry music to Foley's chubby boss, Fred Lazarus Jr...