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- BUSINESS, Page 47Business NotesNOSTALGIAQuick, Name That Jingle!
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- 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).
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- 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.
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