Burma Shave Slogans of the Fifties

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The irresistible, singable, stick-in-your-mindable jingle is dead
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/01/09/the_irresistible_singable_stick_in_your_mindable_jingle_is_dead?mode=PF>

With more and more pop songs selling products, the world of advertising is
being turned upside down.

    By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff  |  January 9, 2005

    In 1929, a barbershop quartet in Minneapolis sang a song about
    breakfast cereal on the radio. So began the long, lucrative,
    endearing, and excruciating heyday of the jingle, when cheerful tunes
    about things for sale permanently lodged themselves in people's
    brains. Humming consumers would then go out and buy Rice-A-Roni, the
    San Francisco treat, or double their pleasure with Doublemint gum, or
    be a Pepper.


best,
karen

At 12:36 PM 1/31/2005, you wrote:
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>Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Poster:       George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
>Subject:      Re: Burma Shave Slogans of the Fifties
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>The children among us will not know that Burma Shave was a brand of
>shaving soap which posted these rhymes on sets of small signs by the
>roadside, each line on a separate sign.
>
>GAT
>
>George A. Thompson
>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
>Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
>Date: Sunday, January 30, 2005 3:10 am
>Subject: Re: Burma Shave Slogans of the Fifties
>
> > A couple from the 'Forties:
> >
> > We know
> > How much
> > You love that gal
> > But use both hands
> > When driving, pal
> > Burma-Shave
> >
> > Car in ditch
> > Man in tree
> > Moon was full
> > So was he
> > Burma-Shave
> >
> > -Wilson Gray
> >
> > On Jan 30, 2005, at 2:45 AM, Jerry E Kane wrote:
> >
> > > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
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> > > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > > Poster:       Jerry E Kane <Jerryekane at AOL.COM>
> > > Subject:      Burma Shave Slogans of the Fifties
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------
> > > --------
> > >
> > > Burma Shave Slogans of the Fifties
> > > http://www.fiftiesweb.com/burma.htm
> > >
> > > Shaving brushes
> > > You'll soon see 'em
> > > On a shelf
> > > In some museum
> > > Burma-Shave
> > >
> > > His cheek
> > > Was rough
> > > His chick vamoosed
> > > And now she won't
> > > Come home to roost
> > > Burma-Shave
> > >
> > > On curves ahead
> > > Remember, sonny
> > > That rabbit's foot
> > > Didn't save
> > > The bunny
> > > Burma-Shave
> > >
> > > If your peach
> > > Keeps out
> > > Of reach
> > > Better practice
> > > What we preach
> > > Burma-Shave
> > >
> > >
> > > Jerry E Kane
> > > Los Angeles, CA
> > >
> >

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