Jingles and their albums

If you weren't paying attention last week, let me see how succintly I can summarize this: I have a program called Synergy that, when I'm playing MP3s on my computer (as I often do), pops up a window with the title and artist at the beginning of every track. Newer versions of Synergy also put the album cover in the window, and to do that, it apparently "steals" the artwork from amazon.com.

Now, I happen to have a lot of radio/TV jingles as MP3s on my computer, all saved with an appropriate title, plus a set of call letters or a product name as the artist. When one of these comes up, Synergy dutifully looks for the album cover artwork...but it also seems to have some kind of "fuzzy logic" that allows it to download something that's not an exact match, to account for misspellings in people's MP3 ID3 tags.

And so here are some of the albums it's come up with for these jingles, or at least the ones from A through S:

7-Up: Roy D. Mercer, "#7: Hangin' It Up"
Barbie: Velva Blu, "Barbie Girl"
Barrelhead Root Beer: Jimmy Somerville, "Root Beer"
Budweiser: "Frank and Louie's Greatest Hits" (those are the Budweiser lizards, as seen in their commercials a few years back)
CBS: "Survivor Official Soundtrack"
Cheerios: Playa, "Cheers 2 U"
Close-Up Toothpaste: The Kingston Trio, some "2 albums on 1 CD" thing including "Close-Up"
Dairy Queen: Queen, "A Day at the Races"
Dial Soap: They Might Be Giants, "Dial-a-Song"
Dr Pepper: The Beatles, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Extra Gum: Gum Machine, "Extra Chewy" (or perhaps it's actually Extra Chewy, "Gum Machine")
General Electric: Shihad, "The General Electric"
Green Giant: Jack Greene, "The Jolly Green Giant"
Kawasaki: Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, "Speaking in Strings"
KCAL (TV, Los Angeles): "Now That's What I Call Music! 12"
KCBA (TV, Sacramento): Ibrahim Ferrer, "Buenos Hermanos"
KFI (Los Angeles): Kofi, "Harlem Nocturne"
KFWB (Los Angeles): "KFWB's Battle of the Surfing Bands!"
KING (Seattle): B.B. King, an album I couldn't read the name of
KLIF (Dallas): Jimmy Cliff et al., "The Harder They Come" soundtrack
KMGK (Des Moines): The Kinks, "The Kink Kronikles"
KNOX (Grand Forks): Buddy Knox, "She's Gone...: The Liberty Years"
KNX (Los Angeles): Buddy Knox, "She's Gone...: The Liberty Years"
KOY (Phoenix): "AM 1230 KOY Collectible Classics, Volume 1"
KROQ (Los Angeles): Hagfish, "On KROQ's Loveline" (yes, KROQ had jingles in the olden days)
KRTH (Los Angeles): Kurth & Taylor, "Freedom"
KSON (San Diego): Jason Mraz, "Waiting for My Rocket to Come"
KVIL (Dallas): "Ken Burns' The Civil War" soundtrack
KZZP (Phoenix): The Kills, "Keep on Your Mean Side"
McDonald's: Michael McDonald, "Motown"
Metropolitan Life: Lil Suzy, "Life Goes On"
NBC: "The '60s" soundtrack
Opel: Syd Barrett, "Opel"
Ovaltine: Harry "The Hipster" Gibson, "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?"
PBS: "Ken Burns' New York" soundtrack
Pop-Tarts: The Pop Tarts, "Woman is the Fuehrer of the World"
Simon Electronic Game: Simon & Garfunkel, "The Best of Simon & Garfunkel"
Sprite: Jewel, "Spirit"

Up next, T through Z. There are a lot of W's, thanks to all those radio stations. "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?" -- hee hee.