12 radio jingle 'earworms' we've all still got stuck in our heads

People on Merseyside who grew up listening to radio will likely have an unshakable advert or jingle still lodged in their heads from decades before.

An 'earworm', or sometimes 'brainworm', is a catchy piece of music, or saying, that occupies a person's mind long after first hearing it. No doubt, the advert jingles we heard on radio growing up would qualify as they still claim a place in our collective psyches many years later.

Growing up in Merseyside, one of the main suppliers of unshakably 'sticky' earworm jingles was Radio City. Launched in 1974, it became the main commercial radio station in the region, making much of its revenue through advertising unlike the BBC funded Radio Merseyside.

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Anyone with Radio City playing in the background as they got ready for school, or work, will have been subject to many 'classic' advertising jingles that still rattle about in your head to this day. Whether that was for car dealerships, solicitors, or cab companies, the adverts once sprinkled with repetitive and catchy phrases for radio, have now a permanent home in our brains.

It's a well-worn tactic of the advertising industry that still works wonders to this day. Some more recent examples of the art-form from both radio and TV advertising include 'Autoglass repair, Autoglass replace', 'Moooonpig Dot Com', or who could forget, 'Ohhh Bodyform, Bodyform for yooooou.'

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What's even more remarkable is that some of these are so catchy, they can even make us real off their old telephone numbers easier than our own. So now that you have the urge to flush these commercial jingles out of your head, we've put together a list of 12 'earworms' most of us still can't get rid of.

If you can think of any other obvious radio jingles we've missed, let us know in the comments below.

12 commercial radio jingles people on Merseyside just can't shake

1. Ian Skelly - Everyone loves Ian Skelly. I-AN-Skelly!
2. Davy Liver Taxis - Call 708 7080, if you need a cab just let us know. Call Davy Liver Cabs.
3. St Helens Glass - St Helens Glass, has the class!
4. Maincrest - Maincrest car and van hire! Seven double three three two oh one!
5. Moore Lane Car Centre - See me, John Leach at the Widnes Car Centre, 420 2000, that's 420 2000.
6. John Williams Windows - John Williams Windows call 0800 660055
7. Panorama kitchens - Where kitchen dreams come true.
8. Mortgage Point - The Mort-gage Point!
9. Bogans Carpets - Bogans Carpets, Berry Street, top of Bold Street, Liverpool.
10. Chapelhouse - Chapelhouse, Chapelhouse, Chapelhouse, Chapelhouse, Chapelhouse, Chapelhouse, Chapelhouse, Chapelhouse...[continue forever].
11. Chris Kelly Driving School - 625 3300, Chris Kelly Driving Schoooool.
12. DC Cook - Looking for a car? Looking for advice? Remember the name, remember the price, look for the DC Cook sign! At the end of the M62.

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