I've been thinking about jingles in ads again lately In piano lessons, I've taught students The Room Store song with good effect. It's a bit of comic relief from the serious side of lessons. Here it is.
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Play it again and, this time, sing along...
C
We put it all together
F C
And save you more
G C
At the room store.
If you google "jingles" + "room store", there are substantial results that will lead you, presumably a student of the piano, to a whole new world of musical possibilities. Imagine a live concert at a stadium, for example, where the band played 10 to 20 second songs off their latest album consisting of nothing but jingles-- excellently performed with appropriate applause at the end. Funny, no?
A critic of local TV jingles in Phoenix wrote: "Commercials with jingles that can get forcefully stuck in your head, leaving you unable to shake their hauntingly annoying melodies. ". [+]. For a critic, that's an excellent accolade in FAVOR of jingles. He willingly admits that they get stuck in your head-- a mark of success for a songwriter.
Continued.... JINGLES
