AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Advertising's jingle-writing king dies.(Cliff Adams)(Obituary)
Cliff Adams, the doyen of the ad jingle writers, whose prodigious output included "For mash get Smash" and "All because the lady loves Milk Tray", has died aged 78.
Adams, who together with Johnny Johnson, was responsible for about 80 per cent of the jingles heard on commercial TV since its beginning in 1955 until the mid-60s, died in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington after a short illness.
Although famous in his own right as a composer and as the arranger and presenter of BBC Radio 2's Sing Something Simple (the world's longest-running continuous music show), it is for his jingles that Adams will always be best remembered.
The latest Milk Tray commercials still feature his theme and his other well-known scores spanned products from confectionery (Murraymints and Fry's ...
- Just because the lady loves old ads!; CADBURY'S MILK TRAY MAN COULD...
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) September 23, 2003 700+ words
...not be mission impossible. The suave Milk Tray man may return to our screens after bosses...has not been made whether to axe the Milk Tray man and there are no TV adverts lined...avalanche -all because the lady loves Milk Tray. A recent move to revive the Milk Tray...
- Who needs a Milk Tray man when you've got chocolate?(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) Gordon, Jane February 20, 2000 700+ words
...been able to buy into the notion of the Milk Tray Man. That devilishly handsome bloke...famous line went "because the lady loves Milk Tray". It was, I always thought, a flawed...chocolate there is no connection between the Milk Tray Man and a box of Milk Tray. If you ...
- All because the lady loves; STAR ROBBIE IS BRUM'S IDEAL MILK TRAY MAN.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) November 3, 2003 700+ words
...ALISON DAYANI ROBBIE Williams is the real Milk Tray man as far as Birmingham women are concerned...to mark the launch of the new-look Milk Tray selection. Research also discovered...Cadbury's have relaunched the famous Milk Tray selection with new additions in milk...
- All because the lady didn't love ... ... Eating eight flavours in one chocolate...
- Newspaper article from: Brand Strategy Doonar, Joanna July 1, 2004 700+ words
The Milk Tray Bar, an extension of Cadbury's Milk Tray chocolate box, had a relatively long life launching in...Essentially a bar of chocolate made up of a selection of Milk Tray Favourites, consumers could get the tastes of Almond...
- MILK TRAY MAN JILTS HIS BRIDE TWO WEEKS BEFORE WEDDING.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) Schaverien, Tracy February 8, 1998 700+ words
THE actor who played the dream hunk in the Milk Tray adverts dumped his fiance just two weeks before their wedding...final dress fitting. And the man chosen as the new face of Milk Tray chocolates when Cadbury decided to replace its action hero...
- Find my Milk Tray romeo.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) June 10, 2001 700+ words
A WIDOW is desperately seeking the Milk Tray man whose heart she broke 55 years ago. Lily Barnes became...Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, kept in touch with letters and boxes of Milk Tray chocolates. But the couple lost contact when she sent Alan...
- Lighter touch, because..(Promotions--Products--Packs)(Cadbury to rebrand Milk...
- Magazine article from: Grocer September 20, 2003 700+ words
Cadbury is to drop its famous Milk Tray advertising slogan because it is no longer deemed to be relevant...Morgan, said: "We look forward to seeing continued success for Milk Tray this autumn. The campaign will back up the contemporary new...
- MILK TRAY MAN OF THE [...]; Power's People.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) July 4, 2009 700+ words
Byline: Brenda.Power@dailymail.ie MILK TRAY MAN OF THE WEEK: HOW kind of the mysterious Mr Collins to reunite UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband with his suit jacket, after...
