2 posts and columns on jingle

Viral Video: Song-a-Day Guy on How He Writes a Song a Day

in News on July 26, 2010 at 2:33 am PT

Here’s a song from the Song-a-Day guy on YouTube–Jonathan Mann–on how he writes a song a day. Mann, as you recall, just had his song about the Apple iPhone 4 antenna issue played at the press conference about the controversy. He also penned the catchy but annoying Bing jingle winner, “Bing Goes the Internet,” in late 2009 about the Microsoft search service.

And You Thought Ask.com Had an Annoying Jingle–Try "Bing Goes the Internet"

in News on November 2, 2009 at 2:38 am PT

Now, BoomTown likes a good jingle as much as anyone else, but this new one from Microsoft’s Bing search service is sticking in my head like a piece of chewed gum. Shot at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pa., it uses 400 very adorable sixth graders, who are dragooned into one very large “Bing Goes the Internet” dance–complete with logo wear. The kids rock, the jingle not so much.
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