14 Old UK Ads With The Greatest Jingles! 📺🎶

Here's an extra special collection of old adverts with the best jingles. This video accompanies the Top 10 Ads video (link below) on my sister channel, RetroSpectives, and include the top ten, plus the four honourable mentions.

Top 10 Greatest Jingles From Old UK Adverts:

Chapter Markers:
0:00 Vintage Introduction
0:33 Cadbury's Smash
1:06 Mars Bar
1:30 Birds Eye Potato Waffles
1:54 Mild Green Fairy Liquid
2:48 Cadbury's Fruit & Nut
3:22 Cadbury's Flake
3:57 Cadbury's Fudge
4:31 Glade Shake n' Vac
5:05 R Whites Lemonade
5:39 Jacobs Trio
6:13 Cadbury's Whole Nut
6:46 Kellogg's Bran Flakes
7:20 Kwik-Fit
7:54 Walls Cornetto
8:29 End Links & Music

[grantlalala]

Couldn’t remember a thing at school when it came to exams but 40 years later I remember every word to these adverts 🤷‍♂️

[sassy_brit]

The adverts from the 70's & 80's are timeless and genuis thinking.. Unlike the dreadful forgettable ads of today.. Thank you for posting such great ads from happier times, love your channel. Love Sassy 😍👍❤ xxx

[hiramabiff]

What a lovely treat & walk down memory lane for a lazy rainy/windy Wednesday night. Much appreciated & thank you.

[mich]

I wish i could go back in time 😢 and experience my childhood again an see my mum, im sobbing watching all these. So nostalgic!

[remaincalm]

Adverts were a big part of British culture in the 70's, 80's and even the 90's. Thanks to the memorable catch phrases and jingles, at any moment in time up to 20 million Brits would be watching the same advert. We'd throw catch phrases and lyrics into conversations at school, home and work because everyone else would get the joke or join in. It's practically impossible to do that today because people are watching too many different things on 100 channels and streaming services. Today's adverts are bland and devoid of humour. Our society has been fragmented into too many different groups resulting in common bonds that tied people together across towns and cities becoming lost. I cherish those bygone decades when we were truly a United Kingdom. Also remembering all those dear family members and friends from back then. These adverts hold memories for us way beyond what the script writers and composers ever thought were possible. Thank you RetroSteveUK for helping to preserve these treasures.

[dabe]

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Ross McManus, the composer and singer of the R Whites Lemonade Drinker song asked his son Declan to record backing vocals. Declan later became better known as Elvis Costello...

[emmacoombes]

Great memories of when I was a kid. So long ago. What a different world we lived in. This world is crazy now I feel sorry for the kids.

[juliedeed]

I'm 51, when I heard most of these I was teleported back to being 10 years old! How the hell did I just remember the words to jingles I haven't heard since 1982?! such nostalgia, a happier time. Even the TV ads were full of fun and laughter.

[willdixon]

Bloody hell! Aa soon as those ad titles rolled, I remembered the tunes and the words to all of 'em! Am I really that sad - or were the ads just so brilliantly crafted? You decide....

[ukphone]

These adverts were in my time I still remember those great era ❤❤

[Ironic-Social-Phobia]

FINALLY some ads on YouTube worth watching...

[ead]

Oh my dad bless him loved the smash ad. He would be in fits of laughter 😂. “Mummy why are your hands so soft”. “Because daddy does all the dishes “ 😂

[timwilliamson]

What surprises me about some of these earlier ads is that as a child born in the late 70s and growing up in the 80s, a lot of these were still on the TV. They were just great

[FishpondsLady]

Even when I was a child the finger of fudge song seemed sort of dodgy! But thanks for these. I still eat potato waffles (my oven is broken and you can put them in a toaster) and I have large lips and when I was a teenager my friends would say "go on, do the Flake advert". Happy days indeed.

[davidbowie]

Great compilation Steve! Nice to see most of these products still exist. I remember Smash being in tiny cubes, now it's just powder. My Mum always got a tin of it in her Xmas hamper. Adverts were so much better back then as most were just for the UK market. Nowadays they're international. Oh and the guy that sings the Cornetto song was Renato Pagliari, famous for "save your love" song

[nickydavies]

These are brilliant!! I still find myself singing these adverts sometimes. Adverts now just depressed me, but the adverts back then were fun, and catchy, and it was just such a simpler, happier time. Thank you for posting these.

[hawkpaul]

In the supermarket yesterday we were bemoaning the size of the Mars bars being so small nowadays. Seeing it in the advert here makes me remember when they were actually a good size.

[joannmccreadie]

R Whites lemonade, 1973, I was 12 years old, now 63, but still get the annoying earworm from this. Loved the advert.

[samanthafox]

OMG - I can't believe it - I'm 55 years old now and yet I STILL remember these ads... thanks so much for a (very nostalgic) trip down memory lane x

[ruthcollins]

The Smash advert makes me laugh every time I see it! The earthlings nowadays have definitely gone backwards & are primitive, unlike those who saw it when it first came out!🤣🤣🤣