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Friday my wife and I were driving to see the grandkids and on 101.5 had a call in on commercial jingles That became iconic. Afterwards we started to recall slogans that caught on. Here are a few. We had some fun with it so have at it if it appeals to you:

Virginia Slims - you've come a long way baby!
MacDonalds - two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun
Wendy's - where's the beef?
 
Kodak's "The Times of Your Life". To my knowledge, the only ad jingle that was expanded into a hit song.
 
"Please don't squeeze the Charmin." Which was easily the most annoying commercial ever.
"Bounty, the quicker picker upper." Just to stay with paper products.
"Just Do It." Nike.
"A little dab'll do ya." Brylcreem.
"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking." Timex
"A diamond is forever." DeBeers. Part of one of the most effective emotion based campaigns ever.
 
Just thought of another one that I liked because of Jeffrey Holder's great voice - 7up, the caffeine free uncola - never had it never will.
 
Doctor Worm said:
Kodak's "The Times of Your Life". To my knowledge, the only ad jingle that was expanded into a hit song.
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Doc
I'd like to teach the world to sing ... Spawned two top 40 hits at the same time ... And was the close to MADMEN
 
djrc89 said:
Doc
I'd like to teach the world to sing ... Spawned two top 40 hits at the same time ... And was the close to MADMEN
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The radio show about the jingles to which i referred In the OP was prompted by the fact that the man who wrote that song for Coke had just passed away the day before. Apparently he was inspired to write it when he was stuck in an airport when his flight to England was redirected to Ireland. All the passengers, many from multiple countries, were upset and mad but while they all were waiting in a rest area of the airport they were sitting at tables with coffee and Coca Cola. Eventually they were all talking and calmed down. Thus the line "I want to buy the world a coke".
 
Jingles are iconic too.

Rheingold
Pepsi, Pespi Cola hits the spot 12 full ounces that's a lot, twice as mush for a nickel too.... My moms all time favorite.
Schaefer ...when you're having more than one
 
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is - Alka Seltzer
Foam. Edge. With the credit card scrape showing how much better Edge was.
Tastes great/less filling - Miller Lite - surprised nobody noted that one yet.
Leggs will make you smooth and silky, shapely sexy...gentlemen, prefer Leggs.
My baloney has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R, my baloney has a second name, it's M-E-Y-E-R...
I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner...
We try harder - Avis
Breakfast of Champions - Wheaties
Don't leave home without it - AMEX
Have it your way - Burger King.

Those were off the top of my head. I then found the Holy Grail of commercial slogans...

http://www.cnbcfix.com/greatest-commercial-jingles-slogans-ads.html
 
Mounds/Almond Joy :"Sometimes you feel like a nut — sometimes you don't"
 
Fresh goes better, mentos fresher, fresh goes better with mentos fresh and full of life! Mentos, the fresh maker!

Energizer... It keeps going and going and going

How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

Think different

All you have to bring, is your love of everythiiinnnggg. Beautiful mount airy lodddgggeeeeee
 
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Mamma mia... that's a some spi--cey meat-a-ball-ay.

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Camel - I'd walk a mile
Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat
Bring on the Hellmans and bring out the best.
Is it real or is it Memorex
Campbell's Soup - Um, Um good
ESSO - Put a tiger in your tank
There's always room for Jello
Taco Bell - Think outside the bun
Utica Club - Wins 2 to One
Ipana - Brusha, brusha, brusha with the new Ipana
Dr Pepper - I'm a pepper, your a pepper ......
Chicken Delight - Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delight
Charlie says Love my Good n Plenty
I could have had a Clark Bar
Rice-a-Roni - The San Francisco treat
Hamas beer - From the land of sky blue waters
Meet the METS, greet the METS
Clairol - Does she or doesn't she
See the USA in your Chevrolet, America is the greatest land of all !
Heinz Ketchup - anticipation
Old Spice means quality said the Captain to the bossan .....
Bring yourself a package of natural goodness, Dorman's Endicott Cheese
Lay's - Bet you can't eat just one !
Dash, Dash, Dash for your dog
Call for Phillip Morrissss
Mott' s Apple Juice - the juiciest apples from appleland, make Mott' s Apple Juice just grand
Make it Progresso or make it yourself
Gillette - To look sharp and be on the go, to feel sharp.....
 
"Yahtzee!" - Yahtzee the game
"Snap into it!" Slim Jim. Randy "Macho Man" Savage
"Skoal Brother." Earl Campbell
"Kibbles and Bits. Kibble and Bits. All we want are Kibbles and Bits" - Kibbles and Bits dog food
"Shaefer is the one beer to have. When you're having more than one." Shafer beer.
"The golden beer of Danish kings" - Tuborg Gold


"Go OJ!" - Hertz. I remember one of the last OJ/Hertz commercials before the murders had OJ jumping over some seats in the airport. A young porter says "Brutal Juice!" Bad karma.
 
No one has Frank's Hot Sauce "I put that shit on everything"
We must use that one on a daily basis
 
Dpgru said:
Friday my wife and I were driving to see the grandkids and on 101.5 had a call in on commercial jingles That became iconic. Afterwards we started to recall slogans that caught on. Here are a few. We had some fun with it so have at it if it appeals to you:

Virginia Slims - you've come a long way baby!
MacDonalds - two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun
Wendy's - where's the beef?
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Looks like a pump, feels like a sneaker.
 
The double mint twins and Bert and Harry piels (spelling?)
Maxwell house coffee - good to the last drop
You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with pepsident
 
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I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner...
Here comes the King...
Cokes adds life...
Coo coo for Cocoa Puffs!
 
Hold the pickles hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us..... have it your way, at Burger King
 
RUsince52 said:
Camel - I'd walk a mile
Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat
Bring on the Hellmans and bring out the best.
Is it real or is it Memorex
Campbell's Soup - Um, Um good
ESSO - Put a tiger in your tank
There's always room for Jello
Taco Bell - Think outside the bun
Utica Club - Wins 2 to One
Ipana - Brusha, brusha, brusha with the new Ipana
Dr Pepper - I'm a pepper, your a pepper ......
Chicken Delight - Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delight
Charlie says Love my Good n Plenty
I could have had a Clark Bar
Rice-a-Roni - The San Francisco treat
Hamas beer - From the land of sky blue waters
Meet the METS, greet the METS
Clairol - Does she or doesn't she
See the USA in your Chevrolet, America is the greatest land of all !
Heinz Ketchup - anticipation
Old Spice means quality said the Captain to the bossan .....
Bring yourself a package of natural goodness, Dorman's Endicott Cheese
Lay's - Bet you can't eat just one !
Dash, Dash, Dash for your dog
Call for Phillip Morrissss
Mott' s Apple Juice - the juiciest apples from appleland, make Mott' s Apple Juice just grand
Make it Progresso or make it yourself
Gillette - To look sharp and be on the go, to feel sharp.....
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A few more:

Mr. Clean can clean your whole house and everything that's in it.
Chock Full of Nuts is that heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee...
Bit a Honey goes a long, long way, it will last all day.
Buzz the Bactine, down go the mean old germs
Atlantic keeps your car on the go, the further the better in any kind of weather
Ronzoni is so nabuone means Ronzoni is so good!
Miller, the Champagne of bottled beer
Morton Salt - when it rains, it pours
I'm Chiquita banana and I'm here to say...........
 
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