The Great Canadian Annoying Radio Jingle Thread

[lrt's friend]

Commercials broadcast on CBC 40 years ago tomorrow April 16, 1979. How time flies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW5OvJcff_c

[harls]

Does anywhere else other than Ottawa get those stupid Spence Diamond ads?

Consider yourselves lucky if you haven't heard one.

These fuck heads own FM radio ad space in this city.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by harls

Does anywhere else other than Ottawa get those stupid Spence Diamond ads?

Consider yourselves lucky if you haven't heard one.

These fuck heads own FM radio ad space in this city.

Maison d'Or ("Where Ottawa gets engaged") seems to be stepping up lately.

[CanSpice]

Originally Posted by harls

Does anywhere else other than Ottawa get those stupid Spence Diamond ads?

Consider yourselves lucky if you haven't heard one.

These fuck heads own FM radio ad space in this city.

They're in Vancouver and we definitely get them. Woo!

[casper]

Originally Posted by CanSpice

They're in Vancouver and we definitely get them. Woo!

Speaking of Vancouver, as a little one, if my mother happened to have the day off, she would take me with her on the bus downtown for $1.49 day at Woodwards. It was a zoo. I think it was once a month that Woodwards would have their $1.49 day. The hallways would be full of tables with special stuff they brough in for the day. For a few days before $1.49 day they would run adds on radio station.

Interview of the fellow that created the add in the 60s, ran well into 80s until Woodwards sold the department store business to the Bay and the food floors to Safeway. Then their stores went downhill.

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Should probably also include their Woodwards has it all jingle for completeness. The content of the main commercial was usually different bit it would end with the "Woodwards Has it All" slogan.

They use to be a excellent department store when department stores were a thing.

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[casper]

The other annoying old jingle in BC was Van-Kam trucking. I don't know why a trucking company would want to advertise on radio and TV but these guys aggressively advertised for years with this jingle.

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[Djeffery]

Originally Posted by casper

Speaking of Vancouver, as a little one, if my mother happened to have the day off, she would take me with her on the bus downtown for $1.49 day at Woodwards. It was a zoo. I think it was once a month that Woodwards would have their $1.49 day. The hallways would be full of tables with special stuff they brough in for the day. For a few days before $1.49 day they would run adds on radio station.

Was Woolco ever a thing out there? They were famous for $1.44 days here. Same deal, once a month madhouse. I worked in a Woolco in London 40 years ago in high school, hated $1.44 days. Having to set up all that crap in the aisles the night before, clean it up the next night. That store is still a Walmart today, I wonder how many old Woolco stores still remain after Walmart took them over in the 90's.

[Bishop2047]

Canada's "Huggable" car dealer. This jingle is why I stopped listening to the radio.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNSJam1Oeuo

[MolsonExport]

This is what you get when your ad budget is $17.00
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[MolsonExport]

And this is still the greatest commercial. Check out their terrible accents, when speaking French.

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[Ozabald]

Originally Posted by casper

The other annoying old jingle in BC was Van-Kam trucking. I don't know why a trucking company would want to advertise on radio and TV but these guys aggressively advertised for years with this jingle.

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That commercial was a great geography lesson of BC, Alberta and Washington!

[Nashe]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

And this is still the greatest commercial. Check out their terrible accents, when speaking French.

I'm 100% ignorant to what this is about, but even I can tell these accents are horrible. Where are these people from in Quebec? I assume some isolationist anglophone enclave? This is the linguistic equivalent of just shoving the gear-stick where you want it to go regardless of how much the machinery protests.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by harls

Does anywhere else other than Ottawa get those stupid Spence Diamond ads?

Consider yourselves lucky if you haven't heard one.

These fuck heads own FM radio ad space in this city.

OH MY GOD!!!! I hate Spence Diamonds with the fire of a thousand suns! I specifically avoided them when purchasing an engagement ring. They used to have that nasally fuckwad Sean Jones who would even read his hatemail on air. Now they've switched from him but the dialogue sounds like it was dictated by him. The most condescending, obnoxious sales pitches you've ever heard.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Djeffery

Was Woolco ever a thing out there? They were famous for $1.44 days here. Same deal, once a month madhouse. I worked in a Woolco in London 40 years ago in high school, hated $1.44 days. Having to set up all that crap in the aisles the night before, clean it up the next night. That store is still a Walmart today, I wonder how many old Woolco stores still remain after Walmart took them over in the 90's.

We had Woolco in Calgary growing up in the 80's.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

And this is still the greatest commercial. Check out their terrible accents, when speaking French.

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I didn't think a Bob and Doug McKenzie accent would translate into french but there you have it. I couldn't even understand what they were saying.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Nashe

I'm 100% ignorant to what this is about, but even I can tell these accents are horrible. Where are these people from in Quebec? I assume some isolationist anglophone enclave? This is the linguistic equivalent of just shoving the gear-stick where you want it to go regardless of how much the machinery protests.

These guys (Mr. Poodle-Hair, aka David Shiller), and his two sons) owned a giant drapery/curtains/blinds outlet in the East End of Montreal. They were from the Anglo community, and their extremely bad commercials (in English) were the stuff of legends, outdone only by their French-language commercials (same stuff as the English commercials, but with their really bad accents).

EVERYBODY in Montreal in the 1970s-1990s knew who these guys were.

Mr. Poodle-hair (David Shiller) and sons went on to create "Blinds to Go", which has showrooms across North America.

https://www.blindstogo.ca/about-us/

The Blinds To Go story begins in 1951 with a young entrepreneur, David Shiller, who left his job at a local houseware store to set out on his own. He would load up his family’s station wagon and drive hundreds of miles to sell home goods door to door. It was during these long trips that David learned to go the extra mile to make a customer happy. The foundation of his business was built on providing customers with exceptional service. David opened his first showroom in Montreal, Canada in 1954.

Aidez-nous à écraser la compertition! Pendan kwe vou attandaye! nous avons les meilleurs prix!!

[manny_santos]

Originally Posted by Djeffery

Was Woolco ever a thing out there? They were famous for $1.44 days here. Same deal, once a month madhouse. I worked in a Woolco in London 40 years ago in high school, hated $1.44 days. Having to set up all that crap in the aisles the night before, clean it up the next night. That store is still a Walmart today, I wonder how many old Woolco stores still remain after Walmart took them over in the 90's.

They existed on the west coast but they were far less common than Walmart is today and less common than Zellers was back in the day. Out in my direction, there was a Woolco at Lougheed Town Centre which is a Walmart today (and still feels like a Woolco in some ways); many of the rest of the Walmart stores are former Zellers or Target stores, or were built from the ground up. Walmart's predominance in the BC Lower Mainland has exploded within only the past 10 years, with the demise of Target Canada and Zellers.

New Westminster didn't even have Walmart prior to 2003 when the Queensborough store opened, and the second store at Royal City Centre opened in 2015 replacing a Zellers that had closed a number of years before Target announced its intentions to expand into Canada.

In London, of the three former Woolco stores, only one remains as a Walmart (White Oaks). Argyle Mall's store was rebuilt, and the Oakridge Mall store relocated to Fanshawe Park Road in 2003. In Toronto I believe there's at least one former Woolco still operating as a Walmart, at Agincourt Mall in Scarborough.

[casper]

Originally Posted by manny_santos

They existed on the west coast but they were far less common than Walmart is today and less common than Zellers was back in the day. Out in my direction, there was a Woolco at Lougheed Town Centre which is a Walmart today (and still feels like a Woolco in some ways); many of the rest of the Walmart stores are former Zellers or Target stores, or were built from the ground up. Walmart's predominance in the BC Lower Mainland has exploded within only the past 10 years, with the demise of Target Canada and Zellers.

New Westminster didn't even have Walmart prior to 2003 when the Queensborough store opened, and the second store at Royal City Centre opened in 2015 replacing a Zellers that had closed a number of years before Target announced its intentions to expand into Canada.

In London, of the three former Woolco stores, only one remains as a Walmart (White Oaks). Argyle Mall's store was rebuilt, and the Oakridge Mall store relocated to Fanshawe Park Road in 2003. In Toronto I believe there's at least one former Woolco still operating as a Walmart, at Agincourt Mall in Scarborough.

Growing up in Vancouver, the Woolco, my parents went to was Lougheed Mall. What was odd is they use to have two floors. When it became a Walmart, the main floor was taken over by Walmart and the bottom floor turned into a London Drugs.

The $1.44 day was killed. Once a month. No parking and a complete zoo.

Woodwards was more upscale. They were a $1.49. Otherwise the same thing.