I'd Like To Teach The World to Sing....

I like old commercials that stick with you.

I love the coffee commercials at Christmas where the kid makes it home for Christmas morning and wakes the parents up with the smell of coffee wafting up to their bedroom.

Or the Clydesdale beer horses playing in the snow. The beer companies usually break out the big guns in time for Superbowl so it’s fun to guess which commercials will be around for a few years - you have a pretty good idea which ones won’t be shown again come Monday morning.

Or, and this one will take you waaaaay back. The commercials for the Mrs. Beasley doll with her blue and white polka dotted outfit and glasses. Pull her cord and … “If you were just a little smaller I could rock you to sleep.” Oh my goodness!

“I’m a Pepper, she’s a Pepper, he’s a Pepper, they all Peppers, wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too? Be a Pepper, drink Dr. Pepper.”

I think my all time favorite oldie has to be the Coke commercial from years ago “I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony. I’d like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company, that’s the song I hear”… (I can still see the people sitting on the hill swaying back and forth singing).  Come on, admit it. You were singing along by the time the first four words registered, weren’t you?

You will, undoubtedly, be cursing me at some point later today when you find yourself singing a jingle from way back ("They're Greeeaaat!!!"  Oops, sorry.  That's a slogan, not a jingle).  But you’ll probably have a little smile on your face at the same time, so it’ll be worth it!