"Sing it over and over and over again..." Another classic early-to-mid 1960's TV commercial created by Noble Dury & Associates, Nashville, Tennessee. (I wonder if the pigs really knew what they were singing about!)
One of my earliest TV memories. I’ve been singing that jingle to myself for decades. I didn’t know why the pigs wanted to be eaten but they sure looked happy
When I was a small child, I rode with my Daddy lots of times hauling pigs from the farm here to Frosty Morn in Clarksville, TN. There was a kitchen beside the unloading ticket house..they made and gave away Sausage and Biscuits. Parts of the place is still standing.
And you had not a clue of the horror that would be going o inside ... for those hapless animals, at least. Me neither. Until more recently I saw the "undercover" videos.
I use to work at Frosty Morn back in Clarksville, TN in the early 1960's. My father worked there when it first opens up and worked there for 28 years. The owner was Mr. Newhoff. My Father gave Mr. Newhoff the name because he told him the best time for a farmer to Pigs & Cows slaughtered for consumption as food is in the late Fall when they first see Frost on the ground. Then they take the meat to there smokehouse to be cured to have food to survive on and share with others. Frosty Morn became the best Meatpacking house in the South and I think it opens 9 other Meatpacking houses in the South. I do know we supplied meat to the Army during the Vietnam War and Fort Campbell.
Toney Burkhart I remember frosty morn products very well in the early 60s. Great sausage, bacon, and ham. I was thinking about that little jingle just a few days ago. Thank you for the information!
Haaa! Did you notice toward the end of the commercial when the two pigs pick up the ham, the third pig not only walks off to the right, he's walking on air because his feet are not touching the floor! Bwahahahahaha!
I say we bring this ad back to broadcast television just to mess around with PETA. And I will eat a ham sandwich while it's airing for the first time. LOL
Growing up in and around Montgomery, AL (home of one of the Frosty Morn plants), in the sixties, i heard this commercial incessantly and have never gotten that jingle out of my mind. Though even as a kid I thought it odd that "The height of a pig's ambition, from the day he is born..." is to grow up and get slaughtered. But at least this was unique, unlike the unending string of cut-rate auto insurance ads which now blanket TV.
I lived in Columbus, GA. I didn't know if Frosty Morn was a local business or what. Thank you for the info! I thought what the piggies didn't know wouldn't hurt them.
I grew up in, and still live in, my little hometown in the panhandle of Florida. I know a few people, like myself, who still have this jingle in their heads, and it surfaces quite regularly. It sounds like that's your experience, as well. Thanks for sharing.
@@PolkRidgeAesthete Yes it was during those earlier times of my innocent youth! That is, until I later comprehended that such sweet little cartoon piggies never knew a day of compassion in their entire little piggy lives before being brutally slaughtered. Now it's "touching" for a different reason. ... Larry Rose; M.D.
@@LR-my2di I was always affected by the pathos of the very concept of the piggies' ambition to become your meal as well as the beauty of the lastingly bittersweet melody. Each reinforced the other for me, rendering it simultaneously a disturbing and tearfully affectionate experience. I even wrote an experimental fantasy for piano utilizing the theme in the days when the commercial was still running. All of this comes into contemplative play when I'm reminded of it, as I movingly was here. ---David Thomas Roberts composer, pianist, painter and poet
As youngsters living in Marietta, Georgia in the early 1950s, we would sing all of the verses of this catchy sales jingle 'over and over again' on church bus trips or hay rides, mindlessly parroting the company's pitch. What fun!
Wow! I haven’t see this since I was about 5 years old. This jingle has popped in my head from time to time over the years. It was awesome to finally see it again! Thanks for sharing.
OMGosh!!! My life is now complete! I have had this jingle in my head for years, and I just wanted to hear it one more time, and I found it tonight!!! Thank you so much for posting this wonderful commercial!!!
Yes, me too. Over 60 years ago, been randomly popping into my head... tonight it occured to me it must be on RU-vid, and sure enough, at LAST, I heard the original again, slightly better than I remembered it, but basically the same jingle. I had forgotten the cartoon completely, just remembering the jingo, and the audacity that pigs dream of being slaughtered on a frosty day
@@Yarbullz Lol, I thought the very same thing about the pigs and their death wishes, lol, that's a hoot! I remembered the cartoon as well as the theme song, but wanted to hear it so badly. What wonderful memories!
When I was in kindergarten through probably the 3rd grade, back in the mid 1960s, this was on in the mornings very often here in NW Florida. My dad even ordered for me a Frosty Morn little stuffed toy pig for Christmas. It was an offer on the packaging of the meat. But that little piggy was lost decades ago, unfortunately. . . There was also another company named Clarkes that sold frozen beef steak patties and veil patties, back during that same time frame. I don't think either of those companies exist any more.
@@jman3254 Lol, thanks for sharing. I don't now why this commercial means so much to me. I guess that it was cute and I was a kid and it brings back so many innocent memories. Take Care.
@@chiefdreambig9178 We have been having a lot of frost and cold temps here in the panhandle of Florida lately, and I posted about how cold it has been on FB and used the term frosty morn in describing the cold to see if anyone would pick up on it. A friend of mine who lives in the everglades with her husband commented that she caught the reference, and she like myself (and yourself) has also had this little ditty pop into our heads since our childhood back in the 1960's---- for me it's mostly whenever I'm on the mower or in the shower. lol and merry Christmas
The same with me. And I have a friend who grew up about an hour from me and she still has it in her head sometimes. I really don't know any other song or jingle that does that to me. lol. Man, weren't the 1960s the best, especially in a small town.
I certainly remember this from my childhood growing up in the South. And here in Seattle on a frosty morn I had this tune in my head decades later! But even as a kid I found it vaguely disturbing that the pigs desire was to grow up to be eaten. Shades of Douglas Adams's talking pig in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , genetically bred to desire to be eaten: What's the problem Earthman?" said Zaphod, now transferring his attention to the animal's enormous rump. "I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there inviting me to," said Arthur, "It's heartless." "Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be eaten," said Zaphod. The animal staggered to its feet. It gave a mellow gurgle. "A very wise choice, sir, if I may say so. Very good," it said, "I'll just nip off and shoot myself." He turned and gave a friendly wink to Arthur. "Don't worry, sir," he said, "I'll be very humane." It waddled unhurriedly off to the kitchen.
The 1950's and 60's were great years for tv commercials. Frosty morn, the purity dairy kangaroo, the kelly chili commercial and can't forget the "Take home a package of tennessee pride".
Oh for goodness sakes, LIGHTEN UP people!! It was a very catchy commercial from the 50's/60's. With all the smut, sex, and innuendos that are in commercials on TV now this was nothing :)
Wow, thanks for finding and posting this. Remember it well from the early 60's when the family was living in ham-loving Tidewater Virginia (Langley AFB). I was in 9th - 10 grade when this aired, along with similar ones. The message -- the greatest ambition a piggy has is to be a Frosty Morn! -- was creepy but funny at the same time. I do think the ad's sick humor was one reason for it's success. I sure never forgot it!
I remember these spots!! Being from Nashville! As a kid, I also remember Elm Hill Bill Commercials. "I'm Elm Hill Bill, I;m big and Strong, I chop down Elm trees all day long.."
Thanks for the video. Like someone said below, I used to hear/watch this commercial frequently during the late 50's/early 60's as kid. The tune has never left my head, and have found myself uncomfortably humming it throughout my adult life, sort of like an ear bug if that makes sense. Today was the first time I've seen it or heard it in its originality in over 50 years.
Nouncer98 how did you get this clip and how did you put it on youtube? I wonder about this often, especially when the clip is so old and so obscure. Thanks
The pigs are like Al Capp's delicious Schmoos, the tasty beings who wanted to please so much they willingly offered themselves for slaughter. One version of the commercial features a pig actually turning into a packaged ham.
I’ll never forget the jingle or the cartoon advertisement. Although I never thought of the implications of the little piggies WANTING (hoping?) to be slaughtered just to get a chance to be on my breakfast plate 😂🙄…It wouldn’t change my mind about having bacon/ham/sausage. In fact, ribs, pork chops, Boston butt, pork rinds…dang it, I’m getting hungry just thinking about it! 🐷🥓🍖🥡
Thank you for posting this. I have been looking for this commercial for over 15 years. To the point that I contacted on several occasions the folks at the Tenn offices of what remains of the company.
The Frosty Morn piglets are obviously related to the shmoos made famous in Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner. They also loved to be slaughtered and eaten. I remember the song and Capp's great strip very well.
Another jingle from my Nashville childhood, it sticks in one's brain like bubble gum. But the imagery revisited in adulthood is troubling. These cartoon piglets are celebrating being slaughtered, pumped with sugar and gassed with hickory smoke. Not only that, but they are parading around in ecstasy with a hind part of one of their comrades who has not only been butchered, sugar cured and hickory smoked, but also wrapped in a celebratory shroud to be sold and eaten with guileless relish. Tasty!
I seem to remember a Frosty Morn Bacon commercial as well, with the same singing pigs. Actually they might have been drawn in a bit more of a "Porky Pig" style.
I remember this commercial when I was a little boy. I love it so much, I use to cry cause I wanted to see it again and again. Now I'm 63 yrs. old. And I pull it up on internet. Old black and white floor model tv.
Fine with me, I don't own any rights to it. I just posted it for the world to enjoy over and over and over again. It was created by the Noble Dury ad agency in Nashville way back in the early 60s. And just like the piggies, they are long gone.
From Norfolk, VA in those days. Remember the sausage commercial where they smiled as they jumped in the machine and came out as sausages as the fairy sang? 1959 or 1960?
+genoteleno I can't respond to Gene's comments down this list, but I will vouch for him on the era this represented. I would call this "Pre-Postmodernism" myself.
As an 77 yr. old adult, I now see what a stupid commercial this was. Pigs are grossly abused from birth to their horrible deaths. Youthful ignorance is bliss.
Brings back a lot of memories. Comments remind me of an Oscar Meyer spot that addresses a similar issue. If you remember the Oscar Meyer jingle: Oh I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener... That is what I'd truly like to be.... Cuz if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener.... Everyone would be in love with me! Their own ad department came up with the following response: Oh I'm glad I'm NOT an Oscar Meyer wiener... That is what I;d NEVER want to be... Cuz if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener... There would soon be NOTHING LEFT of me! How;s that for Point / Counter Point?
It was a simpler time, television was young and represented a generation who where concerned with not offending anyone (i.e. censors). Censorship wasn't always the evil villain it was made out to be and the current generation who is in "charge" of television seems need a lesson in this. Countless commercials (and TV shows) who constantly offend by taking God's name in vain, who show too much flesh, all the drinking and "talk" shows discussing things which should be in private, all the commercials about menstruation and erectile dysfunction... the list goes on and on. I'm ashamed of all the degeneration in virtually every form of entertainment. today!
The jingle writer left out the part about each cartoon piggy catching a metal bolt to the skull, followed by having its throat slit so the blood can drain out, etc....
I'm sure every little pig born wanted to grow up to be butchered for frosty morn. Don't get me wrong, I eat pork, I just thought that line was a bit odd. LOL
I remember the jingle, I never paid any attention to the lyrics. What a disturbing commercial, if I had been an adult then, there is no way that I would have purchased this product.
