Earworm ads & jingles

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What are some of those advertisments that you hear once and then they live rent-free in your head til the end of time?

Mine is this one:


And they got sued for it, so you know it did its job XD
 
I remember hearing these sorts of ads all the time on the radio as a kid. That opening "Hello!" is ingrained in my subconscious, because it would be the one recurring element throughout the entire ad campaign.
 
In Southern California, there were so many car lot jingles that they had to move into your brain because there was nowhere else for them to go. Two that still live on thirty-plus years later are the Pete Ellis jingle at the end of his TV spots:

And the LJ Snow Ford radio jingle that I could not find a copy of after hours of searching old YT videos of radio recordings and everything, but a friend of mine went so far as tracking down the jingle's author and securing a copy for internet archive:

 

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