Whether you know it or not, you probably have hundreds -- possibly thousands -- of commercial jingles floating around in your head. Merriam-Webster says a jingle is "a short verse or song marked by ...

For decades, brands used catchy jingles to make their products unforgettable. These short songs were designed to be simple, repetitive, and instantly recognizable. Many of them remain familiar today, ...

Whether you like it or not, some commercial jingles are unforgettable. The "Five Dollar Footlong" or the "Nationwide is on Your Side" tunes have disappeared from TV. Yet many still have the catchy ...

Skip-It was the toy that kids could away with using in gym class. After stepping your ankle into the Skip-It loop, you had to hop over the plastic jump rope-like contraption as it spun around and ...

Jack White returned to the Late Show Friday to help Stephen Colbert perform the “full versions” of some popular commercial jingles. “If you don’t watch the commercials, you’re stealing,” Colbert ...

How does advertising turn earworms and odd ditties into hits? You might be surprised at the bops that started as jingles. We're sorry, but something went wrong while ...

Thursday's Geoff Rickly was raised around "the music of the hippies," but his childhood obsession with commercial jingles — specifically "Meow Mix," which he compares to Bach in its genius — had a ...

The deluge of political campaign ads has mercifully ended, and in its place is a flurry of holiday ads and appeals to spend, spend, spend. While national heavy hitters like Target and Wal-Mart ...

In 1967, The Who released a concept album, compiling a collection of unrelated songs, fake public service announcements, and commercial jingles for their third release. The Who Sell Out was meant to ...

Ruth Marx, the singer of many classic TV commercial jingles and the mother of pop-rock singer Richard Marx, died Aug. 24 of lung cancer at her son's California home. She was 85. The younger Marx ...