Here’s a new commercial containing segments of older ads from Lay’s Meats, a fixture on the East Tennessee food scene for 80 years. According to an article in the Knoxville News Sentinel, Lays was founded in 1921 and sold to various investors, who went bankrupt in 2001. For kids growing up in the days of black and white television, Lay’s ads, with their singing three little pigs, were a ubiquitous presence.
The News Sentinel piece states that John Ward, the perennial sportscaster for the University of Tennessee Vols, wrote the three little pigs song while working for Lavidge & Associates, the Knoxville firm that create the ads.
The Lay family still sells meat at Lay’s Market, 622 E. Jackson Avenue in Knoxville.
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My brother-in-law worked at the Lays packing plant back in the 80′s. He said if you took off your work clothes and didn’t immediately stick them in the wash, maggots would be in them the next day. It was a pretty gross place to work.
I would like to know the entire original Three Little Pigs lyrics for Lays meats.
I don’t remember the exact lyrics, but I once did some work for Art Lavidge, the guy who produced the ads. He said that if that jingle had been a real single, it would have made it well up the charts, for he and Lays sent out tons of the promotional record to kids.
would like to know where I can find the 3 little pigs stuffed animals
“Lay’s three little pigs sing merrily, we’re for Lay’s dum-diddly-dee, they’re the best meats at your grocery store. Moms, dads, the kids agree, Lay’s is great just try and see, then you’ll know what the pigs are merry for. Lay’s ham, sausage, bacon, weiners too. Bologna, luncheon meat…government inspected too! So help the pigs sing merrily, we’re for Lay’s dum-diddly-dee, Lay’s the best meat at your grocery store!”
That’s the best I remember it!
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