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Jack Grimsley is responsible for some of the most recognisable Australian music of the 1960s and '70s.
He wrote a lot of memorable advertising jingles and TV theme music, with his music being heard...
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This retro Woman's Day TV ad from 1982 uses race-calling to sell issues during Melbourne Cup week.
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A look at the creation of the iconic 'Louie the Fly' jingle, named by the NFSA in 2018 as one of the Sounds of Australia.
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Nick Herd drew on the NFSA collection to research his new book, Networking, which places the history of Australian commercial television in its proper context.
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'The richest, reddest, roundest, tastiest, tomato there is for soup.'
Jack Grimsley composed this jingle for Heinz Tomato Soup.
Advertising proclaimed that the soup was produced from the ‘Heinz...
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Jack Grimsley composed this jingle for Brockhoff Chocolate Biscuits.
Brockhoff Biscuits was a Melbourne-based company founded in 1880. In the 1950s it combined with Arnott’s and Guest’s to compete...
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'How are you ever going to write what you really want to say?'.
Jack Grimsley composed the jingle for this advertisement, in which Olivetti ponders how many works ‘Will Shakespeare’ could have...
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'Hong Kong – marketplace of the Orient; city of million lights; exotic, colourful, fascinating. You can stop over in Hong Kong when you fly BOAC, west to Europe and Britain or east to Tokyo and...
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'Jet there by BOAC, world leader in jet travel.'
Jack Grimsley composed the music for this advertisement for British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), the British state-owned airline created in...
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This very short, jaunty jingle was produced by Jack Grimsley. This is one take of four that we have in the collection.
It's not clear what the association was between Skippy and this tune. It may...