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Radio adverts/jingles that you still remember today…

143 replies

crabsaremisunderstood · 20/11/2022 22:32

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Maureen…OH she’s cheap!

Autoglass repair, auto glass replace

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KezzabellaB · 20/11/2022 23:33

NannyR · 20/11/2022 22:50

An incredibly random one, but in the 80's Yorkshire Television used to have a Christmas helpline to help you sort out festive emergencies. I can remember the whole jingle including the phone number "ring ytv's Christmas line on Leeds 448199" to a jaunty tune. I also remember the Um Bongo jingle and the Birds Eye potato waffles jingle.

Hahahaha!!! I'm from Yorkshire and remember that Christmas line jingle so well!! Me and DH were only reminiscing about it the other day lol

Bluegingerbread · 20/11/2022 23:35

Doingtheboxerbeat · 20/11/2022 23:30

@Bluegingerbread it was fab, but my question was why am I hearing this advert, from the arse end of Australia from the 1950's in UK, in the 90's 😁?

If I remember right, it was part of random stuff Chris Tarrant did. I think it was the time when he also had a TV programme showing funny TV and ads from other countries. So he ran the Hobart ad on his radio as general chit chat and people just liked it and kept requesting it as a replay. I've sometimes wondered if their tourist office had any idea about it

theblackradiator · 20/11/2022 23:51

Bensons for beds.
and you can't get better than a kwik fit fitter we're the ones to trust.

WuTangGran · 20/11/2022 23:52

Doingtheboxerbeat · 20/11/2022 22:45

So epically random that I think I could have dreamt it. It was maybe 20 + years ago that either radio 1or 2 used to play this ad/ jingle for Hobart, Tasmania. It sounded like it was from the 1950's and was advising for what a wonderful town it was.
It was probably some sort of skit that went over my head, but it I still remember it 🤔.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FBAhG0FNqO0

Discoh · 20/11/2022 23:53

Trago Mills got a great deal 'appenin
So get on dowwwn to Trago Mills

ThisNameIsDifferentFromTheLast · 21/11/2022 00:01

At southern aquatics we're fish fanatics
It's better than any hotel
5 star rated, we swim around naked
Haven't a care in the world
I'm one lucky fish!

It's been 20 odd years and I still haven't been able to forget this radio jingle!

Doingtheboxerbeat · 21/11/2022 00:04

@WuTangGran 😁 excellent, thank you.

BlackCatTabbyCat · 21/11/2022 00:06

Oh eight hundred double oh, ten sixty six.

MrsMoastyToasty · 21/11/2022 00:11

Mike Read
Mike Read
275 and 275
On national Radio One.

FartOutLoudDay · 21/11/2022 00:22

I remember it as 0891 50! 50! 50! - 0891 was a premium rate number!

For those of a Medway towns persuasion - Hempstead Valley, shopping centre, so much to see there, more for yooooou!

HairyMcLarie · 21/11/2022 00:35

Trio
Trio! Trio!
I want a Trio and I want one now
Not one , not two but three things in it
Chocolate and biscuit and a toffee taste too

Alphabites
A is Alpha B is for Bite
C for yourself cos they taste just right
D is for dinner E is for egg
Letters so tasty from A through to Z

Some grillsteak type thing
Will it be chips or jacket spuds
Will it be salad or frozen peas
Will it be mushrooms
Fried onion rings
You'll have to wait and see
Hope it's chips it's chips

DillDanding · 21/11/2022 00:41

My now husband and I went travelling together in the 90s. We spent about 6 months out of that year in Australia and we STILL sing the adverts from TV.

Mostly the one for Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, but also the channel 10 ad.

ValBiro · 21/11/2022 00:46

On and on and Ariston!

Canderal in the morning, canderal in the evening...

Have it all, have a baaaaallll... In Is-ra-el

RobertaFirmino · 21/11/2022 00:47

St Helen's Glass...has the class!

Sabota · 21/11/2022 00:52

Milk, urgh!
It's what Ian Rush used to drink.
Ian Rush, who's he?
Exactly, give me some!

Starlitexpress · 21/11/2022 00:56

Radio City, think it was for easy care suits or something and the poor bloke not having any space for all his clothes, so nowhere to even swing a cat, gets his wonder suit so no need for other clothes and now his room "is full of swinging cats" followed by a loud miaow. Must be 40 years and still makes me smile

RobertaFirmino · 21/11/2022 00:59

Sabota · 21/11/2022 00:52

Milk, urgh!
It's what Ian Rush used to drink.
Ian Rush, who's he?
Exactly, give me some!

I never heard that variant, we had:

It's what Ian Rush drinks. And he says if I don't drink lots of milk, when I grow up I'm only gonna be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley

Accrington Stanley - who are they?

Exactly!

Sabota · 21/11/2022 01:03

RobertaFirmino · 21/11/2022 00:59

I never heard that variant, we had:

It's what Ian Rush drinks. And he says if I don't drink lots of milk, when I grow up I'm only gonna be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley

Accrington Stanley - who are they?

Exactly!

I used to know this word for word just up to a few months ago and the irony, I just struggled through it. Brushing my teeth and thinking, it's not right!

Thanks for the reminder!

RiverSkater · 21/11/2022 01:04

Doingtheboxerbeat · 20/11/2022 22:45

So epically random that I think I could have dreamt it. It was maybe 20 + years ago that either radio 1or 2 used to play this ad/ jingle for Hobart, Tasmania. It sounded like it was from the 1950's and was advising for what a wonderful town it was.
It was probably some sort of skit that went over my head, but it I still remember it 🤔.

I think it was Chris Tarrant Capital Radio! I still have that ear worm!!

Mamai90 · 21/11/2022 01:08

Stick it on your crumpets, stick it with a twist, stick it on your yogurt, stick it on your shopping list!

Mama don't want no greasy food from no cooking oil....

I still remember every word to the early 90's Pat the Baker advert. It always made me smile as a child. If you're Irish you'll know.

ColinRobinsonsFart · 21/11/2022 01:09

Mike Read Mike Read two seven five and two eight five, Mike Read Mike Read national Radio one.

ColinRobinsonsFart · 21/11/2022 01:10

MrsMoastyToasty · 21/11/2022 00:11

Mike Read
Mike Read
275 and 275
On national Radio One.

Bloody hell - are we twins?

Tothepoint99 · 21/11/2022 01:12
  1. "The Mortgage Point...2360606"

2.Safestyle....

"Ya buy one, ya get one free...

I said, ya buy one, ya one free"

Tothepoint99 · 21/11/2022 01:13

Tothepoint99 · 21/11/2022 01:12

  1. "The Mortgage Point...2360606"

2.Safestyle....

"Ya buy one, ya get one free...

I said, ya buy one, ya one free"

*get!

bevelino · 21/11/2022 01:19

“Summer radio on the Peter Powell show”. Google it or YouTube, very seventies early eighties.

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