A Vintage Ad Jingle Programmable Video Billboard!

"Choo Choo Charlie" for Good N Plenty candy...I'd buy that

One...Ah two...And three....*CRUNCH!*   Thhrrree.   (How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? Do we know yet? ) Not a song, but "I'd buy that for a dollar" too.

Oscar Mayer  "I wish I was" and "My Bologna"

Campbell's Soup "Soup and Sandwich" and "Mmm Mmm Good"

Mr Clean cleans it all ...  da da da da ....da da da da (????)   

 Fresh from the garden in the vallley of the Jolly Green Giant (ho ho ho!)

"It's Slinky, It's Slinky, It's fun for a girl or a boy!"

Plop plop, fizz fizz oh what a relief it is.

Bryil Cream, a little dab'll do ya....

  Wrigley's gum jingles were all pretty good and numerous, Juicy fruit, Double mint, & Spearmint.

Oh yeah!!....... Kool aids here, ready for fun......" get a big wide happy ear to ear kool aid smi-  i - ile, get a kool aid smile"

Maybe a couple of Jack Benny related ones?

"J-E-L-L-OOOOOO!"  

"Be happy, go Lucky!"  

'Course, you'd need a station with Mel Blanc going "Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc.....amonga!"  to go with 'em!  ;-) 

Mitch 

Thanks for all the contributions - I think we may be on to something here!

The copyrights would have to be researched especially for products like Rheingold and Ipana which are no longer produced. I would presume Gillette would be on board!

BLUELINEC4: GOOD ONE!

I think the quantities would be too small for a major manufacturer - unless it used a technology that allowed the end-user to load the specific jingle.  That ought to get around copyright, licensing, royalties, or whatever issues?  Forum member eddiem had this recent thread about a sound-module that ought to do the trick.  If you're a determined DIY-er there have been several threads about making your own rolling-stock sound module for $5-10 in parts.   Also threads about using wireless technology (e.g., Bluetooth) to transmit an arbitrary sound from your phone or laptop to the boxcar...also for not much coin.

So if a major manufacturer did make such a boxcar (e.g., using a $2 user-loaded memory card), the value added would be all the electronics to deal with track voltage and/or battery-charging, on-off activation-triggering, easy-access to change the memory card or whatever, and so on.

The billboard part would be more difficult if not pad-printed at the factory by a manufacturer.  I initially thought end-user printed decals on decal-paper but these can be hard to apply on "corrugated", riveted surfaces, or over a boxcar sliding door, etc.  So not sure how this could work.  I was thinking how Menards has lighted layout billboards that come with a set of user-changeable inserts including recognizable brands:

stan2004 posted:

I think the quantities would be too small for a major manufacturer - unless it used a technology that allowed the end-user to load the specific jingle.  That ought to get around copyright, licensing, or whatever issues?  Forum member eddiem had this recent thread about a sound-module that ought to do the trick.  If you're a determined DIY-er there have been several threads about making your own rolling-stock sound module for $5-10 in parts.   Also threads about using wireless technology (e.g., Bluetooth) to transmit an arbitrary sound from your phone or laptop to the boxcar...also for not much coin.

So if a major manufacturer did make such a boxcar (e.g., using a $2 user-loaded memory card), the value added would be all the electronics to deal with track voltage and/or battery-charging, on-off activation-triggering, easy-access to change the memory card or whatever, and so on.

The billboard part would be more difficult if not pad-printed and the factory by a manufacturer.  I initially thought end-user printed decals on decal-paper but these can be hard to apply on "corrugated", riveted surfaces, or over a boxcar sliding door, etc.  So not sure how this could work.  I was thinking how Menards has lighted layout billboards that come with a set of inserts including recognizable brands:

All of these signs would be great to print out for vintage signs.  I've done some like these on self adhesive paper and used them for a train station.

Alan

AIZEND:

THANK YOU! I like the billboard idea over the boxcars! Perhaps an electronic one with a changing programmabale video display with sound?

Such an accessory would insure maximum flexibility for adding both sound and the vintage ad displays! It could initially be preloaded with a few video ads and have the capability to download more. Sort of a 21st Century AF Whistling Billboard!

Maybe Menards could fabricate such a device?

I want to credit and thank forum member AIZEND for the BILLBOARD suggestion over the boxcars and have changed the title of this thread accordingly!