If someone asked you to name the sound of Christmas, what would you say? Most people answer one of two things: either the sound of Santa’s 'Ho, Ho, Ho-ing' or the unmistakable jingling of Christmas ...
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Remember those Saturday mornings in the '70s when you'd bound out of bed and plant yourself in front of the TV? The air was thick with the scent of sugary cereal, and the sound of iconic jingles was ...
Thomas W. Dawes, a rock musician whose band opened for the Beatles on their final tour but who made a broader mark on pop culture writing music for such well-known commercial advertising jingles as ...
With the advent of smart TVs, and thus, all kinds of services that offer original — and entertaining, get it networks? — content, clever TV ad jingles have become pretty much a thing of the past. Of ...
Great ideas can come at any time. For McCann-Erickson's creative director Bill Backer in January 1971, one of those great ideas came while enduring a weather-induced layover in Shannon, Ireland. "I'd ...
Quick! What’s the most annoying ad jingle ever? How about that Liberty Mutual one (“Liberty, Liberty, Liberty…Liberty”)? It topped the list of the 10 most-annoying and 10 most-hated jingles in a ...
As a singer and songwriter in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ginny Redington struggled to win attention in an extremely crowded field. When she began writing advertising jingles in the mid-1970s, she ...
Freelance creative director, October 2024 - Present Saatchi & Saatchi (PG One), Shanghai, associate creative director, March 2024 - September 2024 Dentsu Creative (Mcgarrybowen), Shanghai, associate ...
Glenn Erath dressed as a cockroach for Corky’s Pest Control. Image from video Glenn Erath, San Diego’s best-known writer of advertising jingles, has marked the beginning of his 40th year of creating ...