TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Do you ever get a jingle stuck in your head and you just can't get it out? Well, after reading today's trivia, you may have a bunch of them playing over in your head! I especially enjoy the video clip featuring the Pringles commercial. I had never heard that jingle before, but I keep humming it now...

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

HINT: (1860-1925), leading American politician from the 1890s until his death.


RANDOM TIDBITS
The Coca-Cola jingle "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" was reworked into a proper song and released in 1971. But it wasn't until the release of the accompanying TV commercial, featuring a crowd of young people singing the tune on a hilltop, that the jingle got any real airplay. Two versions of the song ended up hitting the Top 20.

The voices who sing radio station IDs belong to the Johnny Mann Singers. The vocal group records jingles for stations across the country from a studio in Dallas, Texas.

The deep voice that says, "Ho, ho, ho," in the Green Giant jingle belongs to singer Elmer "Leon" Dresslar Jr. The baritone first recorded those three syllables in 1959 and continued to receive checks for his effort up until his death in 2005.

In order for a sound to be trademarked, it must be inherently distinctive and unique and must also indicate to the consumer the source of the product. NBC's three-tone station-ID jingle was trademarked in 1950, the first sound to be so patented.

For the Meow Mix commercial jingle, Ralston Purina's ad agency used some film footage of a mewing cat, which they proceeded to loop backward, forward, and backward again in order to stretch it out to 30 seconds.

Barry Manilow wrote commercial jingles to pay the bills before his recording career took off. Some of his best-known compositions include "I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me" and "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there."


VIDEO CLIP
Pringles Commercial
Once you taste the flavor, then you get the fever, then the CDC quarantines you for two weeks to minimize possible infection. Or, if you live in the world of TV advertising, you get the fever for the flavor of a Pringles!

Watch It Now: Pringles Commercial


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

ANSWER: William Jennings Bryan.

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