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Today, with the ever-increasing cost of licensing preexisting music, a growing number of businesses are rediscovering the custom jingle as a more affordable option for their advertising.

This is an incomplete jingle list, currently in use or abandoned:

• Burger King - "Have it your way"
• Campbell's Soup - "M'm! M'm! Good!"
• Crocodile mile - "You run, you slide, you hit the ramp and take a dive!"
• Folgers - "The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup!"
• Kit-Kat - "Gimme a break, gimme a break, break me off a piece of that Kit-Kat Bar!"
• Klondike Bar - "Oh, what would you do for a Klondike Bar?"
• Maybelline - "Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline."
• Mazda - "Zoom, zoom"
• McDonald's - "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun." and "I'm lovin' it" (see McDonald's TV campaigns and slogans)
• Oscar Mayer - "My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R, my bologna has a second name, it's M-A-Y-E-R. I love to eat it every day, and if you ask me why I'll say, 'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A!"
• Rice Krispies - "Snap! Crackle! Pop!"
• Rice-a-Roni - "The San Francisco Treat"

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External links

• The Jingle Isn’t Forgotten Metropolitan News-Enterprise