October 7, 2003
From the desk of Jane Galt:Blegging
This is not for a story, but only for my personal satisfaction.
Anyone who lived in Philly during the early nineties remembers the commercial for the various CoreStates Bank product lines, all sung to the same tune. I remember the chorus very well:
We've been through everything you've been through
We've grown up strong and healthy like you
We know what you want your [card/bank/etc.] to do
CoreStates [card/bank/etc.] . . .
You know us and we know you
But while I remember that the verse of at least one started "Ben Franklin, cheesesteaks. . . mumble, mumble . . . Tastykakes . . . ", the remainder eludes me. Can anyone provide the verses for these jingles? The song is stuck in my head, and as long as it's there, I'd like to be able to sing all of it.
Posted by Jane Galt at October 7, 2003 5:14 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksSorry, I can't help you; I grew up in Philly but was gone by the 1980's.
Yet now you've made me wonder if they still run commercials that say, "If you didn't buy your suit at Krass Brothers, you wuz robbed!!"
I still live in Philly, don't remember the Jingles but alas the Brass brothers went out of business a couple of years ago. Their ads were so bad they were good
mmmmmm, Tastykakes!
Clap clap clap and yum yummy yummy
They're so good to put in your tummy
TasteyKake cakes and pies!
(circa early '60s)
Tunes stuck in your head? Just be thankful it's not Abba.
I remember those ads, but sorry I can't answer your question...I always thought that line about "...we know you" was kind of creepy. Remember the Tastykake ad where the line, "Nobody bakes a cake as tasty as a Tastkake", was sung over and over?
"everybody who knows, goes to melrose!"
not OT, but anybody remember that one?
Ask Lileks -- if he doesn't know the words right off, there's a chance he'll have their matchbook cover scanned and he can look them up.
I haven't lived in Philadelphia since the spring of 2001, but it seems to me that that Melrose Diner ad ("Everybody who knows, goes to Melrose...[repeat]...for the most, in quality!") was still playing on stations like WPEN. At the time I left Philadelphia, I actually lived just a few blocks from the Melrose. I grew up in the 'burbs but had lived in South Philly for 5 years.
All I can ever remember is early-70s, with an animation of a guy putting up a billboard, and singing:
Let's all have a Tastycake
Dum dum, chocolate,
La da da da,
Great - tasting,
Tastycakes are all the good things,
All the good things wrapped up in one.
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