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BUSINESS, Page 47Business NotesNOSTALGIAQuick, Name That Jingle!
Snap, crackle, pop? Callow youths who hear that riff might
mistake it for the opening of a new rap song, but anyone old enough
to have endured the 1950s and '60s knows the refrain as the opening
of a TV-commercial jingle for Rice Krispies cereal. Now the old
standby is getting play once again as part of a popular new record
called Tee Vee Toons: The Commercials. The album features such
Madison Avenue jingles as Brylcreem's A Little Dab'll Do Ya,
Alka-Seltzer's Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz and Noxzema's The Stripper
(Take It All Off). Since its release last month, the album of
musical doggerel has sold more than 100,000 copies. The Commercials
even appears on Billboard's chart of the 200 top-selling record
albums (currently No. 186).
The record's producer is Steven Gottlieb, 32, a Harvard Law
School graduate and erstwhile corporate lawyer who four years ago
produced two albums of TV-show theme songs titled Television's
Greatest Hits. Total sales: more than 1 million. Gottlieb does not
take his records completely seriously, however. Says he: "It's like
musical candy." And the sales are pretty sweet.