List of Mc Donald's Ad Programs - Jingles

Jingles

Perhaps the best-known jingle was "You deserve a break today" (a song sometimes incorrectly attributed to a young Barry Manilow, who did sing it in one version of the commercial and thus included it in his "Very Strange Medley" of product theme songs, with others he had written) in fact, written by jingle singer/song writer Kenny Karen. In the accompanying TV commercial, there was almost no mention of food. Instead, the ad featured an all-male McDonald's cleaning crew, singing after-hours about their individual tasks, and emphasizing that "at McDonald's it's clean!" just before launching into the almost operatic chorus: "You deserve a break today / So get up and get away / To McDonald's!" Another well known jingle was the "McDonald's is your kind of place / It's such a happy place / Hap, hap, hap, happy place..." from 1967, sung to the tune of "Down by the Riverside". This jingle was parodied by many older kids at the time when it aired.