Comments on: Circus Peanut Butter

By: John Loop

John Loop — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:09:35 +0000

I lived in Indiana and this jingle was on WLS radio

It is a mix of Herman’s Hermits vocals and Eleanor Rigby strings

Back in the day the influences were obvious!!

By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:25:24 +0000

Hi Joyce – I only ever had the audio of this alas! I’ve never seen the advert on TV.
best wishes
Giles

By: Joyce La Master

Joyce La Master — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 05:49:42 +0000

Is there any chance you can find and post the actual ad for this? I recall it had a great cartoon. Thanks for posting the jingle, I still sing this now and then. No one seems to remember it but me. Glad to see I’m not alone!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 01:54:42 +0000

Great. Been looking for this for the longest time. It brings back great memories.

By: Hieronymus Illinensis

Hieronymus Illinensis — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:59:28 +0000

Thanks for curating this! Here's an image to go with it. In a sense, though, this is an example of how not to write a jingle. Because it falls on an off-beat and on the lowest pitch in the whole melody and near the bottom of the singer's range, the hardest word to make out (particularly on a mid-1960s pocket radio) is the brand name "Circus" itself!

By: David Hutchins

David Hutchins — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:12:25 +0000

I am thrilled that you saved and posted the Circus Peanut Butter Jingle. That song stuck in my head for years. It was such a clever little song and I have been looking for a recording of it for years. Glad to know someone saved it and enjoyed it as much as I did. There are a couple of other jingles I am looking for. You might have them??? One was Juicy Fruit Gum…It starts out “Hey let’s pick-a-pack of Juicy fruit gum”. The other is for Sunny Delight… It starts out “Orange Tangerine and Lime….” Can’t remember any of the other words of either of those singing commercials. Interestingly I did recall most of the lyrics in the Circus Peanut Butter Jingle, although not totally correct. Some of those old jingles were as good as any songs written at the time.