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Living With Madeley
"Living With Madeley" is a nostalgic TV based podcast that attempts to take a humorous look at some of the most weird, wonderful and woeful moments in UK television history.
Titled "Living With Madeley" as neither host can remember a week of their lives where Richard Madeley hasn't been on their screens, join Andrew and Liam as they take you on a journey to TV past.
Living With Madeley
Series 8 Episode 2: Jingles
Ever wondered why certain jingles stick with you for decades? Join us on a nostalgic adventure as we explore the TV advert tunes that have etched themselves into our memories. From the catchy jingle of a 1987 board game m to personal stories of humming these tunes when life doesn't go as planned, we'll take you back to the time when skipping ads wasn't an option. We reflect on how the rise of ad-free streaming services has made these jingles a rare breed and share our favorite memories tied to these unforgettable melodies.
We also reminisce about classic football chants, movie soundtracks, and the unforgettable TV commercials of the early '90s. Remember the cheeky chants for Adrian Littlejohn or the long-lasting impact of Bryan Adams' hit from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves? We'll also have a laugh revisiting celebrity-driven adverts featuring legends like Ronnie Corbett and John McEnroe. To top it off, we each create our own jingles for the podcast and invite you, our listeners, to vote for your favorite. Tune in for a fun-filled episode that celebrates the jingles and adverts that have shaped our collective memories.
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Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to episode 2 of series 8 of the podcast Living with Maidly. This is a N a nostalgic TV podcast. My name is Andrew and I'm joined by Liam. How's things, sir? Oi oi, hello. Oi, oi, yeah, a bit of a rush on this, because you had to work a little bit late and so the research might not be as good as planned, but we're going to try and get through it.
Speaker 3:You know this is adverse, anyway Jingle as planned, but we're going to try and get through it. You know this is adverts, anyway jingles. Yeah, the normally extensive 10-minute research has been condensed down to a couple of minutes, so bear with us, bear with us.
Speaker 2:So it's jingles, the TV advert. Jingles is what we're doing today, not necessarily the adverts themselves. I don't know about you, liam. Did you pick the best jingles or did you pick the most memorable ones?
Speaker 3:Yeah I the best jingles, or did you pick the most memorable ones? Yeah, I wanted to ask you this. I don't know, I didn't get the brief, or well, we set the brief so I didn't know the brief. But no, get an agenda. I confused myself by thinking is it the best or is it the standout ones? So I've kind of gone. I've kind of gone ones I think stand out that are well written jingles, but they're not necessarily my favorite. So possibly if we do a midweek episode, we could mention some favourites and people can send us in their favourites as well.
Speaker 2:I think mine are mine three. I've got one that's stuck in my head since the day it came out, which apparently 1987, which must have been on TV a bit later than that. I've got one that when I was looking through adverts, I thought I've got to have that, that will go on. And then I've got another one which I genuinely think is an absolute fucking banger of a track. But I'm going to start with I mean, the thing is with jingles, by the way is because, just for a start, you don't really watch as many ads do you as you used to. You're like because YouTube you skip it after 10. Much attention. You can go on your phone when there's an advert on.
Speaker 3:So they're not in your consciousness. I pay premium, mate, so don't worry.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah premium yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 3:I had that, I was good. I know what you mean, though yeah, don't you? Because actually watching that Richard and Judy thing for last week's episode, because I had to watch it on 5iPlayer, 5DM or whatever. I had to sit through the adverts. Don't let you skip a minute. It was a weird experience. That's not the way things are done these days. Channel 5.
Speaker 2:So outside of the John Lewis ads, I don't think there's anything really now that I can make out sort of stuck in my head, because you don't really watch them anymore. There's not any little jingles or anything is there anymore that stick in your head like these ones that we're going to mention today.
Speaker 3:No, I can't think of a. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a modern equivalent. I mean there's like the I don't think you've got this, so I'll mention it but there's the Coke sort of holidays that come in and around Christmas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's an old one, isn't it?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I suppose so yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I'm going to start.
Speaker 1:This is from 1987, apparently but this must have been shown into the night is and this is for the children's board the game of life.
Speaker 3:What?
Speaker 2:year was this advert? It says 1987. That seems way too early for me. There must have been. It's an American advert, though, so I wonder if it came across here a little bit later. Yeah.
Speaker 3:See, maybe that explains it then, because I don't quite remember that advert. I think I've seen it more recently on like the top ten adverts of the 90s or whatever it was. I think I've seen it more recently on like the top ten adverts of the 90s or whatever it was, I think. So I don't remember it. As a kid I remember having the game in the game of life.
Speaker 2:I was going to ask you that actually I was going to ask you if you had the game, because I had. I never had this, weirdly. The reason I picked this, by the way, is because I sing this in real life when things go wrong for me.
Speaker 2:So if I don't, I don't know if I run for a boat so if I run for a boat, knock something over, I don't like to mention it, but obviously I've got dyspraxia. So when I drop something sometimes I'll sing be a winner in the game of life. So I sing it to this day. That's why I picked it. It stuck with me so much. But the lyrics are crazy really, because he says Be a winner in the game of life, get a job, a money baby. What does that mean? A money baby?
Speaker 3:Is it and money baby?
Speaker 2:No, because he shows you a picture of a baby throwing dollar notes into the air Maybe there's a comma in there and money baby and money baby. And then the next one is get married, have a baby. So they rhyme baby with baby. It was shocking.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's poor.
Speaker 2:Do you remember the?
Speaker 3:actual game.
Speaker 2:I never had it.
Speaker 3:That's what I was going to ask you actually I had.
Speaker 2:Have you ever played?
Speaker 3:go for broke no I can imagine using an actie self on a daily basis as well actually go for broke is the opposite of game of life.
Speaker 2:game of life is like trying to make as much money as possible, get a family and all that sort of stuff, whereas go for broke the aim of the game is to lose your money as quickly as possible. I used to love it, probably why I've got no money, that's like.
Speaker 3:I'm alive, shit I wonder if that was before or after Brewster's Millions, because that's basically the plot in that haven't you seen it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I've not seen it. Broke yes, I bought the wrong game. Go for broke. Brilliant, though you'd love it. Like you, just sort of like. You put like massive bets on things that you think you'd lose, but if they won you're like oh fucking hell.
Speaker 1:What a gutter did you want?
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, you used to be brilliant. You used to play at Christmas and stuff. But this advert, by the way, because I looked into this and on the advert it says that the price is £14.99. That was £54 in today's money for a board game Wow, I remember it being expensive, I remember. No wonder I didn't have it. You'd have got it in. Go for broke, wouldn't you? It would have been a good thing to buy. Oh, I'm going to buy it.
Speaker 3:You had like a little cart and you could put in your pegs, so like if you were sort of playing it as a bloke. I suppose you could put whatever you want, but traditionally you put the blue peg in as you got a wife, you put the pink peg next to it and then there were little pegs in the back that you could put in. Yeah, they represented your kids. I think you could have up to four kids in it. How do you win that Is it just.
Speaker 2:Who's got the most kids?
Speaker 3:Who's got the most money. But the thing that I remember about it was that there were two routes at the start. You could either go the sort of quick route straight into work or you could go a bit of a longer route and you kind of went through the university route but it kind of potentially set you up for a higher earning job.
Speaker 3:I think it was good. Yeah, it was good. I remember playing at my grandma and granddad a lot and uh, yeah, there's like a big rather than dice. I seem to remember a big spinning clicky wheel. That was quite a good gimmick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that had a wheel actually go for broke. This game was originally created. When do you think this game was created?
Speaker 3:Well, if it was advertising this, advert's 88, can't be that much before that.
Speaker 2:Not this version of the game.
Speaker 3:the game itself, though, oh the actual first time it ever made, unless it had a massive revamp. Just because of the one I played the format of it, it's got to be fairly late. It's got to be 1980. 1860.
Speaker 2:No way it blew my mind. Honestly, it was the first ever parlor game. Credit is the first ever parlor game in the US. That's nonsense, I'm telling you Type it in Hold on what's a parlor game.
Speaker 3:It's like a game where you play indoors. Yeah, so you're telling me that before America had chess or drafts or battleships, they had the game of life. Be a winner in the game of life in 1816.
Speaker 2:Not my words, the Game of Life. Be a winner in the Game of Life in 1816. Not my words, the words of Wikipedia. The Game of Life was the US. Oh, sorry, I've sort of got this wrong, but not really. The Game of Life was the US's first popular parlor game.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so what's a parlor game then? A parlor game is a game played.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's quite a few things backing me up there, ray Parlor, isn't he Just playing with him? A parlour game is a group of games played indoors.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, I don't believe that this was before chess, for example. In fact I know it wasn't the ancient Chinese only played chess.
Speaker 2:According to this, chinese chess is not part of a parlor game. Examples of parlor games charades before charades apparently Mafia Kim's game, wink Murder. What on earth's going on here?
Speaker 3:Have you mixed up two things? No, game of Life's not like charades or like so charades Beware of in the game of life 1860 wink, murder like. These are games that you play as a group, but they're not board games. That's well. That's probably why they're parlor games. They're not board games, but it's a board game I look I don't know the game.
Speaker 2:It's a board game I don't write wikipedia for me, I'm saying this is all I'm saying here is. Is this what it says? And I found another one here game Game of Life, parlor game. This is fandomcom. It was America's first popular parlor game in the 1800s.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but not as a board game. It can't be as a board game because that's not seemingly what a parlor game is, so there might be something called Game of Life.
Speaker 2:It was originally created in 1860 by Milton Bradley as the checkered game of life. I'm looking at it now and it looks like a board game to me and it's all 45,000 copies by the end of the 19th century.
Speaker 3:I think they might mean it's the most popular board game or the first board game in America.
Speaker 2:If that's what it means, I would accept that, but not parlour games, it's like a checkerboard looking at it now, and you sort of land on spaces and collect points and stuff, but instead of a dice you get like a top like you were talking about, and that's in 1860.
Speaker 3:Right, let's move on.
Speaker 2:I don't know how you're going to make these things. I'm just telling you what the research is telling me. Do your own research, go on.
Speaker 3:Right, so my first advert, I'll play it first. Just how much you give.
Speaker 4:All the life you live. From Gillette Sensor Technology comes the Gillette Series Shaving, aftershave and deodorant products to help a man look, feel and be his best. Gillette, the best of the million, the Gillette series with Gillette Sensor.
Speaker 3:It's redefining men's grooming. I'm guessing. Well, I know you know what that is. I'm guessing everybody listening knows what that is, Do you think, do you like?
Speaker 2:it. It's brilliant, I mean, it's sort of. I mean, weren't England fans singing it at World Cup? Sure, they were, sure they were like a champ. Who would it be? They were singing Gillette, the best a man can get.
Speaker 3:They probably changed Gillette to a player name. It would have been better.
Speaker 2:But I think obviously they're not the most creative.
Speaker 3:It's literally singing Gillette. It's literally singing Gillette. Yeah, gillette, it's the Super Bowl 23,. 1989 was the first time this was aired in America. I'm not even going to pretend like. This is just live me reading from Wikipedia. This is live research. So in November 2009, gillette became the subject of a proposed boycott in Ireland due to its endorsement by French soccer player, thierry Henry. Do you remember?
Speaker 2:when he unballed it. Oh, he unballed yeah.
Speaker 3:We watched that in the Dog and Partridge, didn't we?
Speaker 2:Yeah, with some Irish people. Actually weren't they Not very happy?
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, me one of them, yeah, Certainly wasn't happy with that.
Speaker 2:You never mention it, so go on. You're never mentioning it so go on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they've kind of come in for some controversy for this advert because they recently did a short film, the Best A man Can Get, which is supposedly kind of coming away from what some people said was toxic masculinity. So all the sort of males posing, tensing the muscles and all this kind of stuff. They've also endorsed Tiger Woods. We're called the Curse of the Gillette sponsorship. They've endorsed Tiger Woods. I don't quite get this one Roger Federer losing an upset to Nikolai Davidenko.
Speaker 2:Oh, did he advertise it?
Speaker 4:and he lost.
Speaker 3:Yeah, then he lost Imagine just for that one game.
Speaker 2:he advertised him and he lost, you're left the best a man can get.
Speaker 3:But what I like about that is it's instantly sort of attached to your brain, isn't it? Whether you hear it once or a hundred times, you'll never forget that.
Speaker 2:And you know what it is as well. I think that's another thing, obviously, the one I've just picked Game of Life. You know what that is because it says Game of Life. Do you know? This is a razor. Gillette is a brand name that's become sort of synonymous because of this advert, I think yeah yeah, yeah, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 3:I think that's right and I think I kind of like the double meaning as well, because the best a man can get implies this product makes you the best you can be. But then it's also saying Gillette is the best razor you can get. Gillette is the best a man can get. So, yeah, very, do you use it? Gillette? Are you a Gillette man? No, because I sometimes I don't often have, uh, a full shave no, I don't like clean shaving man, and if I did I'd probably go bick.
Speaker 2:So I yeah, that's very uh.
Speaker 3:I've got a trimmer yeah, it's that long since I kind of really weddings and funerals and stuff like that really I would generally just shave right down short, with a zero on the old clippers.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, once I accidentally didn't put my clippers on my electric razor and I shaved half of my sort of face back before I realised. So I had to have a little goatee for a couple of weeks, like Sean Dyche.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I could have made you like that. You are sorry. Yeah, I can see you as a little goatee actually, you look quite hard. I'm not going to lie, I'm not going to lie to people.
Speaker 2:I look quite tough. But, yeah, brilliant advert that. Liam, I'm going to go take you back now to 1991, and this is an advert for Weetabix.
Speaker 1:Robin Hood, robin Hood, riding through the glen. Robin Hood, robin Hood, with his band of men, feared by the bad, loved by the good, robin Hood, robin Hood, robin Hood, robin Hood, robin Hood Could be in a fix. Robin Hood, robin Hood Spies in a fix. Robin Hood, robin Hood Spies the Weetabix. Does he retreat Back to Sherwood? Cause he should, cause he should, cause he should have.
Speaker 4:You had your Weetabix.
Speaker 3:Do you remember this one, liam Brilliant? Yeah, I remember this. Sorry, go on, tell me again what year 1991. This is yeah, so we would have been. Do you remember this one, liam Brilliant? Yeah, I remember this. Sorry, go on, tell me again what year 1991, this is yeah, so we would have been nine or possibly eight. And yeah, absolutely. This is probably one of my first memories that I loved. I thought it was genuinely funny at the time.
Speaker 2:This advert, I think, is great because it brought that song Robin Hood, robin Hood riding through the glen back into public consciousness. Because I looked into this and that song was used all the way back in 1955 in the Adventures of Robin Hood 1955. And that was shown on ITV. But this advert is the first time I'll have heard that song, robin Hood, robin Hood.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would agree with that. I don't think I knew that tune before this. I think I thought they'd written it for this advert.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I got into Robin Hood on the back of this. I started buying Robin Hood books and stuff as soon as it came on. I thought bloody hell. Yeah. And I think it's really good advertising because the Weetabix tagline were always have you had your Weetabix? Line were always have you had your Weetabix? I don't know if you say it like that. Did they say it like that, like Mick McCarthy, I've got this in my head or no, I don't know. Has he had the Weetabix have?
Speaker 3:you had your Weetabix. I don't know, I remember it being quite blunt anyway, that must have come back after, because we wouldn't remember before this, would we?
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 3:So they must have gone away from for Mick McCarthy after this.
Speaker 2:No, but well, it weren't actually Mick McCarthy. But you know, no, no, no, but just like a dour, even on this it says have you had your Weetabix at the end? Have you had yours or have?
Speaker 3:you had yours.
Speaker 2:You had yours, yeah Anyway, but I think this ad, these ads were really good because there were a series of them and there were people failing at things, because they and this one I love it because Robin goes to save Maryam but as he gets to the castle, sheriff of Nottingham is really cockily eating some Weetabix, like looking at him, and then he remembers he's not had his Weetabix, so he retreats back to Sherwood and just leaves Maryam. It's absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2:I love it should he retreat back to Sherwood? Because he should so good. I remember we had a player at this time, Sheffield United, Remember Adrian Littlejohn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And United fans used to sing Littlejohn On the back of this advert being popular. I was like Littlejohn, Littlejohn running down the wing, Littlejohn, Littlejohn, fastest fucking thing, he gets the ball. Will he score a goal? Of course he does, but I once had a pub and Little John weren't really that good, to be honest, and they changed the end of the song to he gets the ball. Does he score a goal? Does he fuck, Does he fuck?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't remember him being prolific.
Speaker 2:No, I think he got about four goals or something like that, but it reminds me of that as well. So this is a massive, massive child of memory of mine, just this song, this jingle. And it was made following the success of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, which came out a couple of months before. I've never seen it, but I presume you have.
Speaker 3:Oh, I think that's interesting. Have you never seen that? That is crazy, never seen it.
Speaker 2:Never seen it, Never seen it. I know the Brian Adams song. Obviously that went off, that didn't it? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, Everything I do, I do it for you. Never really liked it, to be honest.
Speaker 3:No, it was number one for about a couple of years.
Speaker 2:Everyone says that it's like the most. Who remembers that song, isn't it? I think Pete Gay was.
Speaker 3:It was in that era as well, wasn't it when Whitney Houston? We might have even mentioned this before, Apologies. Yeah, Houston were number one for ages Both of those songs came out in my mind around similar times and they both had number one for ages.
Speaker 2:That one was number one for ages. Stay by Shakespeare's sister as well. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Better.
Speaker 2:Hope Am. That's a fucking brilliant song.
Speaker 3:I don't think that would be in the same length as Adams or Houston, though would it?
Speaker 2:I'm just having a look now. Stay was number one for eight weeks. Oh yeah, that'll be nowhere near them. Yeah, I mean, that's mad. Now, 16 weeks, which one were?
Speaker 3:that Adams.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Adams doubles.
Speaker 2:I've looked for Houston I reckon she might even be longer. Houston, number one will always love you. That was number one for 14 weeks.
Speaker 3:Oh, so is that same, or did you say 16 right? 16, 16, 14?
Speaker 2:yeah, but yeah, songs used to get someone for ages back then back in the back in day.
Speaker 4:I don't know. I remember you guys saying you used to love it.
Speaker 2:You used to say you have your Sunday dinner, something like that. So I'm obviously paraphrasing him. You knew where you stood a stud because you came home you listened to Charts. Brian Adams is still number one. Anyway, liam, what's your number two?
Speaker 3:Do you remember? You took your shoes off in porch, didn't you? Your mum wanted to put them straight, but you threw them anywhere, didn't you Remember?
Speaker 2:Remember Watching Bergerac.
Speaker 3:Probably do. Actually, that's quite a good observation, right, my second one, I'll tell you what it is first. We a good observation, right, my second one, I'll tell you what it is first. So we won't remember the original, which was 1973, but there was a remake in 1993, starring actor and comedian Julian Dutton as the eponymous Eponymous. I can never, yeah, secret lemonade drinker. So here's the advert.
Speaker 1:I'm a secret lemonade drinker, so here's the advert I'm a secret lemonade drinker.
Speaker 2:Shh, always, always. I've been trying to keep it up, but it's one of those nights, always, always, always lemonade.
Speaker 1:I'm a secret lemonade drinker. Always, always, always lemonade. Always, always, always, always. I love this. I'm honest.
Speaker 3:I just can't. I'm going to seek a lemonade drink. It's ridiculous. So this was. I've read that. This is the one bit of research I did do earlier and I can't remember what I was going to say. So Ross McManus wrote the song's advert and his son, Declan McManus, did the vocals. So obviously you know who that is, but do you know who Declan McManus' stage name is? No, Elvis Costello.
Speaker 2:Is that Elvis Costello singing?
Speaker 3:Apparently. Yeah, I know, people have always said it sounds like him, but yeah, it's his son, declan McManus. This is crazy.
Speaker 2:We've got Game of Life first ever game, and now Elvis Costello singing.
Speaker 3:I'm a secret lemonade drinker and there's an unnamed version of the advert where Costello and his dad. So he kind of imagined himself being on a stage doing a rock performance with Costello, but he never heard that one.
Speaker 2:I mean, I remember the what was that TV channel called? I can't remember if there were TV channels. It's defunct now and it used to play old stuff, but it used to play old adverts in the middle of the shows and stuff. I remember this coming on and sort of clicking my fingers to it why is he a secret lemonade drinker?
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, I love this. I drink lemonade a lot, never in secret, I don't know why. Was it like a? I think the thing is that everyone's supposed to be in bed and he still has to get himself a bit of cheeky lemonade. But if he's thirsty and he's got the money to pay for lemonade, I don't understand the problem.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't understand this, Because if his missus, how fucking strict is his missus? What the hell are you doing? Just telling me something about lemonade? What Right that's it? Get out, you're sleeping on the sofa.
Speaker 3:I wish I'd just been a secret lemonade drink yeah it doesn't make any sense, but it's a brilliant advert.
Speaker 2:It's a classic.
Speaker 3:Sorry, just a little bit more on it. So when it came on back in 1993, and I don't remember really any of these, if I'm honest, but various celebrities are featured in the commercials so Ronnie Corbett, frankie Howard, nicholas Parsons and then John McEnroe had two versions. It said Really, and also St and Greaves have apparently done a version.
Speaker 2:No way is Ian St John walking downstairs going. I'm a secret lemonade drinker.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know how they do it. I'm a secret lemonade drinker. Oh, come on, you're having a lemonade.
Speaker 2:We know you're having a lemonade. You're having a lemonade. The only one I can remember doing I can imagine doing that, should I say is Frankie Howard. I can. I've never seen it, but I feel like I've already seen him do that advert Imagine when he's over.
Speaker 3:It's like a five minute advert where he sits down and like pushes his glasses up, yeah, doing that with his glasses into the fridge Like a big five minute anecdote about him.
Speaker 2:Who would you get to do it now? Who would you get to do it?
Speaker 3:Modern Celeb.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I always go for Danny Dyer for everything I mean I think he'd be. I'm a secret lemonade drinker.
Speaker 3:I can imagine, like as I started casting for it, ryland would be there just expecting to do it. Yeah, he'd do it it wouldn't I.
Speaker 2:We're at Vernon Cay.
Speaker 3:I'm a secret lemonade drinker downstairs Anyway, but yeah, great advert, very memorable, and that was my number two. What's your third one?
Speaker 2:My number three. Right, this is not a famous one, but we've mentioned it on the air before. I don't know if we've played it and I won't go over it because we've mentioned it, but it's just too fucking good. And this is the dixon's advert from 1991 Dixons, dixons, dixons.
Speaker 3:Amazing, yeah, I mean it's like we didn't play this, did we? I don't think we played this. We didn't play it.
Speaker 2:No, dixons, dixons, yeah.
Speaker 3:So this I said to you I don't know if this is one like blind, where I've kind of misremembered them saying loads of Ds, where I've kind of misremembered him saying loads of D's. I'm not sure if because we say to each other like I don't know if it must be such a rare instance, but I need to get a new TV, dixons, dixons, dixons yeah, and I didn't know whether that was an actual thing or we've just misremembered it.
Speaker 2:I'll say oh fucking hell. It's RTVing it for England game, mattaface and Dixons, and I don't know how famous this advert is, but it's stuck in my head. This is an absolute bang of this. This is like a genuine. Why has nobody sampled this for a proper song?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know. It's good, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Chemical was this trick back in the 90s, I think, dixons. Anyway, I'm going to blow your mind here, liam. In 1992, they had a new advertising, dixons, but it was a Dixons sale. So you might think, oh, they'll just play the same ad, or maybe they'll do a new one. Let's hear the 1992 version Dixons sale, dixons, dixons sale, dixons, dixons Sale, dixons, dixons.
Speaker 3:Sale Dix. Yeah, for anyone who listens to our midweek episodes, we couldn't be bothered to do a new theme. So, over the top of you doing it. I just said midweek. At times like this, this feels very much like that. Yeah, can we just butcher this and just put as a sail on, but we don't want to re-record it. Just say sail over top, it's fine.
Speaker 2:Is this a man going to a studio, going D Dixon, or is it an early computerised?
Speaker 3:voice. No, this is a man in studio. I would say and actually we didn't mention that that's so serious when we did the Best A man Can Get, when we talked about doing this idea, you said and I think you're absolutely spot on imagine somebody going into a recording studio and singing that the Best A man Can Get. That's that passionate of a little radio jingle. I think, this see somebody going da-da-da-da-Dixons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but what have they said to him? You've got to be so serious, you've got to make sure you're serious. Did he go in and go Dixons like a proper jingle and then say no, no, no, no no, no, no this is serious shit. This is serious stuff. Studio, I always laugh about that. Like, imagine be a winner in the game of life. Like because it's quite. It's not a bad voice like the people have got singing them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, the guys are obviously talented. That's the thing. It's like somebody's just sat and said press the fucking button On this Dixon's advert.
Speaker 2:By the way, the sale advert this is as well. The avatar is an Amiga computer for £300, which today works out £642. How? Much is your? How much is consoles these?
Speaker 3:days. I mean, I haven't bought one for a while, but a PlayStation 4 I've got. I don't know. That was about £300, I think.
Speaker 2:Why is Amiga so expensive? They must have all been.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we got an Atari ST, we got yeah.
Speaker 2:I had that yeah, very similar.
Speaker 3:But and yeah, I don't know, I don't know why they were kind of considered so expensive. I think it were kind of it was coming off the back of and this is really old school, wasn't it? But like tape, deck machines, like the Spectrum and stuff, and these were first sort of like yeah disc, computers, discs Every advert should be that Just telling stuff.
Speaker 2:As for Dixon's itself, the store did you know it's finished now Dixon's yeah.
Speaker 3:I assume that I don't know of any Dixon's anymore. Dixon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, orchard Square, that's what I would have made. A big memory of me was watching the football scores on the TV. If I went to the matches or something like that, normally I'd see my nan on the Saturday and we'd go into. Genuinely did I'm like, oh, bloody lost again, like because they had all TVs. Obviously Mad that now. Imagine that now People talk about CFAX. That's even madder, like just looking through a TV window Because they weren't just me there, there were about like 100 people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Now can we go to Dixons? Dixons, it's actually merged with Curry's and then Curry's is still going.
Speaker 3:So in a way, dixons is still with us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the legend of Dick Curry's Curry's Name, is it? No, it don't work. It don't work.
Speaker 3:Remember Comet? Comet was a thing as well, wasn't it Comet?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Comet, yeah yeah. Is it just all PC World now, isn't it? And stuff like that that sells all this sort of shit?
Speaker 3:I don't even know if PC World's a thing anymore, is it?
Speaker 2:Oh, who cares? It's not a label and it's all Amazon anyway. Right, your final one, liam, final one.
Speaker 3:So you might not remember the actual advert, but you'll remember the slogan. I'm certain um it's from 1999 and I'll play it and you'll know what it is we leave our washing machine door open and it still smells.
Speaker 2:Is it clean? Wash after wash, residue could build up in your machine, causing odor, Even in short cycles and low temperatures. Use Calgon 3-in-1 in every wash. Calgon protects your machine from limescale residue and odour. Cleaner machine cleaner clothes.
Speaker 3:So, obviously you know the jingle.
Speaker 1:Do you?
Speaker 3:remember the advert with the very stern-faced, serious man looking at the washing machine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I do. Yeah, I don't know I can't put into words how much this has stuck in my head, but I don't sort of I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 3:I know what it is, but yeah, well, he's basically telling you the most serious man no, I don't know if I have actually the most serious man in the world is telling you that there's like some kind of filter in your washing machine and it's covered in limescale and if you'd used cowl gun then it could have looked like this and it's a shiny version of it, but he's using the wrong advert.
Speaker 2:He should have been going Dixons, dixons.
Speaker 3:Cowl gun. Cowl gun.
Speaker 2:But yeah, but these are passive, like.
Speaker 3:So this, I think, is probably one of the best not the best advert, but the best at putting something in people's brains. Because I reckon if I said to anyone, oh, my washing machine's got a load of limescale in it, is there anything you know about it? Anyone would either say, oh, I've got no idea. Or they'd say, oh, calgon washing machine with. Calgon. I don't know of any other product that gets rid of limescale from washing machines?
Speaker 2:I can't. I don't even know what it is. I know what it is but I can't picture it in my head.
Speaker 3:But if you'd bought a new washing machine and someone said to you, I'll be careful because you get loads of limescale in, you might not buy anything. But I reckon if there's one product you're going to go and look for, it'd be Calgon. Have you got any Calgon, mate? Are there even any other brands of things that do this? And why did this sort of seemingly fairly obscure product go for like a kind of major TV advertising campaign? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Washing machines live long. How many Calgons are they selling? I mean, I'm looking now. They're in stock Sainsbury's, amazon, tesco, other stores. Obviously we don't advertise, but yeah every major store is selling different brands as well. There's a green bottle, there's a blue bottle, there's an anti-calcium bottle. There's loads of Calgon, you can get.
Speaker 3:So I'm just searching now for Calgon rivals. What can I substitute for Calgon Borax? So, and I've never, ever heard of Borax. No, I am Borax, think about the different marketing there, and that's the only one they've suggested as well.
Speaker 2:There's not suggested as well, Maybe they should come out with washing machines a little longer, with Borax Like over top. That'd be a good campaign, oh.
Speaker 1:Vanish has come out oh.
Speaker 2:Vanish has come up.
Speaker 1:Oh no, that's.
Speaker 2:Calgon.
Speaker 3:Vanish. It says here yeah, but Vanish is a washing machine, Washing power, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that one. I didn't know Calgon did it though.
Speaker 3:What is that? One of their products.
Speaker 2:According to this Calgon washing machine tablet, it's Vanish and it's the Vanish slogan yeah, all right.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, you know we said previously like these are not necessarily our best or our favourites. These are just jingles or slogan-type sort of songs that we think have stuck, and I can't think of a better example. I think everybody in the country, if you start singing Washing Machines, would be able to join in and say Live longer with Calgon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, brilliant. Yeah, that's it. That's the launch. I'm going to give some notable mentions that I toyed with, liam, if you remember. One of them we've already talked about, which I'll start not live but in private, was bird's eye potato waffles. What was the name? Burfital? That was that one. Yeah, just repeat that. A second mate again. Yeah, I can't. I got that completely wrong, didn't I? Burz Appetino.
Speaker 3:You know what that actually?
Speaker 2:says what? I'm just wondering what Waffling Versatile.
Speaker 3:I think, yeah, they're Waffling Versatile, but I didn't know what you said, but it went up, I don't know what I said? Yeah, I do love the way it says Burz Appet the Waffle.
Speaker 2:House, the Waffle Impress-a-Tile, one which reminds me of Carlebone, and another one that everyone will know is Ooh, body for home, body for you.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's the one where someone goes into a studio and singing it with proper gusto.
Speaker 3:Someone who's genuinely a good singer has gone in and screamed out Ooh body for home body for you.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what this Solbert Iron iron, any, any, any old iron. That one was sucking my head quite a bit. Yeah, Any, any, any old iron. It's got to be a paint of some sort, hasn't it?
Speaker 3:No, it's a good one. That though, because I know what you mean, but I don't know what it advertised. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Any do Ian? No, honestly, I nearly had this one, because it's a good song. It's Arm and Arm and Ariston.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know what Ariston is, though.
Speaker 3:No, I don't. I remember the advert, See this is bad adverts really.
Speaker 2:At least we're happy Dixon's. You know exactly what they advertising.
Speaker 3:Well you kind of know what Calgon's all about, don't it?
Speaker 2:Because it tells you that his own washing machines will last longer with Calgon On and Irish dog.
Speaker 4:Milky.
Speaker 2:Bar Kid classic. Not a big fan of it, though. I don't think myself. No, we Buy Any Car as a modern one, I think it's pretty good, yeah, much more modern.
Speaker 3:But yeah, of WeBuyAnyCarcom. Yeah, you would know. If somebody said oh, you've got to sell your car now, who are you going to go with? You'd have to go WeBuyAnyCarcom, wouldn't you?
Speaker 2:Remember when Kevin McKay of Sheffield United's All-Chairmen went on that streak of buying clubs. Remember JR May going WeBuyAnyClubcom Scotch that, but it was too short for me to have. That's the oh, come on.
Speaker 3:Rere-write, not fade away.
Speaker 2:That's it yeah, rerecord, not fade away.
Speaker 4:Well then, we record we record.
Speaker 2:It's quite scary, that Skeleton. It's a Skeleton like holding a VHS tape up. First comment is you look so much like Bob Holmuth. It's a pure Skeleton, like a cartoon skeleton. Branflakes. I nearly had this one. Tasty, tasty, very, very tasty. They're very tasty. Is that the Ross Kemp advert or what that smells? No, that were Fruit and Fibre. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, and then I'm going to play this one, right, because this I couldn't have this because it only played in Australia, but I've seen it before. This is an absolutely incredible advert. So, ashley Madison, this is advertising. If you don't know who Ashley Madison is, it was a website where people had affairs, basically and it's where, yeah, you could discreetly contact other people.
Speaker 3:but it came to headlines when somebody hacked it and leaked all the names of people on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So the tagline of Ashley Madison isison is life's too short, have an affair, and it says that, like after this song, this song is unbelievable.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna play it now I'm looking for someone other than my wife other than my wife ashley madison's right, I'm looking for someone other than my wife, other than my wife Ashley Madison's right.
Speaker 1:I'm looking for someone other than my wife, other than my wife Ashley Madison's right.
Speaker 3:I love it. It's a great song. It reminds me of the Cheers theme as well, which is yeah yeah, breaking your way in the world today Looking for someone.
Speaker 1:Looking for another wife.
Speaker 2:Looking for my wife. I just find it incredible. I mean, they're so happy on the advert. If you've not seen it, just type in Ashley Madison advert. It'll be the first one that comes up. Look how happy these men are. They're trying to look for an affair.
Speaker 3:It's absolutely insane we thought we'd have a little bit of fun, didn't we? Liam, just a couple for me one that I thought you were going to mention that you didn't was. Bullboy Shoes is what you need. Get the power on your feet. I thought you were going to mention that one. Alan Hansen yeah, and it's not really a jingle so I didn't have it. But remember Ron Seal does exactly what it says on the tin oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:The other one I nearly had, but I think it might have just been Sheffield where Colseal win those on Sheffield double five, those on Sheffield Double five, double two, double eight. I said you buy one, you get one free. That will coach you in as well. I said you buy one, you get one free. You don't really get these sort of adverts now. I don't think and I don't think it's just because we're getting old. You just don't watch adverts as much anymore.
Speaker 3:They used to be like absolutely changing, aren't they?
Speaker 2:The times. They are a-changing. But on that, liam, we thought we'd have a bit of fun, didn't we? So, with this being a jingle our favourite jingle we thought we'd try and devise a jingle each for this podcast. So we've both written a jingle. We'll probably put it out to a vote and see who's you know who's best. I mean, mine were impromptu, so I don't think you'll get any extra points for that, but do we go for yours first, liam?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean you say yours were impromptu.
Speaker 2:I don't know how long you think I spent on mine, but it weren't very long, they weren't impromptu, it's just a line of office. I spent days yeah.
Speaker 3:I know, I know, but even, even though an office guy implied that I put loads of work into mine, I thought and I have not.
Speaker 2:I'm sure when they hear it they'll do it. Yeah, that'll become clear, won't it? Very soon let's listen to your jingle for the Living With Mayley podcast TV rollercoaster Riding through the night Straight through the gates of heaven, Joining saints and friends. Even Saint Peter loves the Father never ends. Yeah, it's very John Lewis that one, isn't it, Liam?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean I'd love to say it's very John Lewis, but I'm sure they put a lot more effort in than we have to either of these. I bet they've got people working on from last Christmas. There's someone who's spent 10 months coming up with their next one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, if John Lewis want to adapt it, they can have it.
Speaker 2:yeah, For a small fee. This is mine. Right At first I thought, well, I'll do a proper jingle. But I just went for my Jamaican roots and this is my jingle. Who remembers who? My jingle? Who remembers?
Speaker 1:Who remembers? Who remembers Andre Oliroy I remember in TV, in the podcast. Or living with Madeleine yes, it's a TV, not such a podcast. Or living with Madeleine, not associated with Richard Madeleine, not unknown by Richard Madeleine. It's called that Because Richard Madeleine has called that, because Richard Madeley has been on TV since day one. Three Living with Madeley, living with Madeley hey, hey, wait, oh, remember, living with Madeley. Not in any way associated with Richard Madeley.
Speaker 3:Yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 2:But before we go on, when we decided we were going to do this, I thought well, first up, I'll use AI and I put into AI. Give me I'm going to have to play a bit of it give me a reggae song promoting the podcast of Living With Made Like and make sure it says that we're not associated with Richard Maidlight. This is what it came up with. This is absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Why does he say Richard Dianga?
Speaker 3:Richard Dianga, I don't know. Yeah, so obviously you can kind of you put your lyrics in, or you can just kind of let it do its own thing, but where it came up with Richard Dianga from, I don't know all I thought it is.
Speaker 2:Give me a reggae style jingle promoting the podcast live with a maid like and say we're not associated with Richard Maid like. So it started off like fairly normal. Then it went not associated with Richard Deanga, richard Deanga. I was like I don't know what's he saying here. I can imagine him, like you know, dressed as Ali G.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like Richard Deanga Hopping about, yeah, doing like West Side stuff, richard Deanga.
Speaker 2:Richard Deanga. Anyway, so that's another episode there for you. Next week we're doing an absolute what's the word?
Speaker 3:It's a proper classic. It's an iconic TV show, isn't it? For a certain age group, this was probably the number one TV show when it was on.
Speaker 2:I'm amazed you've not done it so far, actually.
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know what I think about it. I need to watch it again because I genuinely don't know if I think about it. I need to watch it again because I genuinely don't know if I liked it or not. I certainly remember watching a lot of it, but in my memory I didn't enjoy a lot of it.
Speaker 2:Well, this is TFI Friday and there's not actually that many episodes on YouTube. This is the first episode. I thought I don't really want to be doing the first episode because I'm not getting into it. So what we've done is something that they've. You can get it on YouTube. They released the best of 1997, which should have been the second series of TFI Friday, so we're going to review that. We should get everything in there.
Speaker 3:Then all the big moments yeah, I think so, yeah, I'm looking forward to watching it because, as I say, yeah, I do have lots of memories of TFI Friday, but I genuinely can't remember if I sat watching it because I loved it or because there was nothing else on. I don't know Well.
Speaker 2:I've had a skip through it, and there's a couple of things on it that you would absolutely not get away with nowadays, and I'd like to see what you think about that as well. So exciting times ahead.
Speaker 3:Yeah, sounds good. Okay, so we will hopefully do a midweek. We so we will hopefully do a midweek. We're not tying ourselves to midweek, the aim is to do one, but if not, we'll certainly be back next episode with TFI Friday. And sorry, just remind anyone who wants to watch it. What is it the best?
Speaker 2:of 97? Best of 997. It's in two parts on YouTube. I think it's about an hour altogether.
Speaker 3:Right, so that was Jingles. Send us any jingles you like. Anything you think that stands out, Tell us anywhere we went wrong. That I'm sure we did. And yeah, we will be back soon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you'll be back with more of Living With Richard Deanga. Yeah.
Speaker 3:If anyone wants to get in touch with us, send us anything. Find us on Twitter at LivingWithMade1. Wants to get in touch with?
Speaker 1:us, send us anything. Find us on twitter at living with made one or.