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There's a jingle completely missing from the Internet or any record I can find. It's the "Sport Chalet" jingle common on Southern California radios in the late

There's a jingle completely missing from the Internet or any record I can find. It's the "Sport Chalet" jingle common on Southern California radios in the late 80's and early 90's. It goes "Sport Chalet!" in this heroic way, then "we take you to the limit!". It's very distinctive, and I've found people singing it on YouTube, but no recording of the original. It probably exists on someone's random cassette tape of radio from those days, and nowhere else. Remarkable!

function_seven 3y ago
Here's a commercial with that jingle at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M76ABmdbkTI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M76ABmdbkTI
- topato 3y ago
  That was a terrible commercial. But I did enjoy the teacher pulling her glasses down to check out that HOT math at the end.
- javajosh 3y ago
  Wow! The last time I looked was more than 2 years ago, so this video was uploaded since then. Thanks for posting. I don't recall the vocal being a choral group, but rather a very masculine solo voice, but it's definitely the same jingle.
  - function_seven 3y ago
    I remember it the same way you do. Maybe they had multiple versions of it?
thaumasiotes 3y ago
Not music, but in the late 90s or maybe early 2000s there was an anti-smoking PSA involving an old man encouraging a baby to take its first steps. After much encouragement, the baby starts walking, walks over to the old man, and passes right through him as he fades into partial transparency. The message then rolls that you shouldn't smoke because your early death will deprive you of important moments like this one. This PSA made far more of an impression than most do -- for example, it's mentioned on Friends -- and I think about it often as an example of how the same basic argument can be made in weak or strong terms. It may have been too strong for its own good; I once asked a friend for help finding a video of it and the response was "Oh, I know exactly the commercial you're talking about. I won't help you look for it; I hate that commercial and I don't want to see it again." I never was able to find it.

function_seven 3y ago

Here's a commercial with that jingle at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M76ABmdbkTI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M76ABmdbkTI

topato 3y ago
That was a terrible commercial. But I did enjoy the teacher pulling her glasses down to check out that HOT math at the end.
javajosh 3y ago
Wow! The last time I looked was more than 2 years ago, so this video was uploaded since then. Thanks for posting. I don't recall the vocal being a choral group, but rather a very masculine solo voice, but it's definitely the same jingle.
- function_seven 3y ago
  I remember it the same way you do. Maybe they had multiple versions of it?

thaumasiotes 3y ago

Not music, but in the late 90s or maybe early 2000s there was an anti-smoking PSA involving an old man encouraging a baby to take its first steps. After much encouragement, the baby starts walking, walks over to the old man, and passes right through him as he fades into partial transparency. The message then rolls that you shouldn't smoke because your early death will deprive you of important moments like this one. This PSA made far more of an impression than most do -- for example, it's mentioned on Friends -- and I think about it often as an example of how the same basic argument can be made in weak or strong terms. It may have been too strong for its own good; I once asked a friend for help finding a video of it and the response was "Oh, I know exactly the commercial you're talking about. I won't help you look for it; I hate that commercial and I don't want to see it again." I never was able to find it.