Ch 15, pages 367/368

[Robin Landseadel]

It's a jump ahead, but wotthehell wotthehell:

	"Hnof ikh, Angh-ah!"

	"My own adorable grandchild," slinging the girl's head gently away
	at last. "I want you to sing the 'Gilligan's Island' theme for your
	mother," she commanded.
	
	"Grandma!"

	"First time she ever noticed the Tube, remember, Frenesi? A tiny
	thing, less than four months old—Gilligan's Island' was on,
	Prairie, and your eyes may've been a little unfocused yet, but you
	sat there, so serious, and watched the whole thing—"

	"Stop, I-don't-want-to-hear-this—"

	"—after that, whenever the show came on, you'd smile and gurgle
	and rock back and forth, so cute, like you wanted to climb inside
	the television set, and right onto that Island—"

	"Please—" She looked to Frenesi for help, but her mother looked
	as bewildered as she felt.

My first words were "Hamms" followed by "Beer,"—that "from the land of  
sky-blue waters" jingle burning its way into my consciousness right  
from the start:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83xxWCel8g

On Apr 16, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Henry Musikar wrote:

> A cousin of mine and I both remember pretty much every jingle that  
> we heard
> as children, which is not altogether pleasant.  Neither one of us  
> made any
> attempt to memorize them.
>
> In retrospect, my favorite jingle campaign was "You can take Salem  
> out of
> the country, but... you can't take the country out of Salem."  After
> everyone had heard it enough times that they knew it well, they sang  
> "You
> can take Salem out of the country, but..." paused, and then rang a  
> bell,
> ding!  That made the internal singing of the jingle even stronger!
> Brilliant!
>
> When you say "Bud..."
>
> Henry Musikar