Man who had generations humming Oscar Mayer wiener song dies
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, September 30, 2016 02:28 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 30, 2016 02:40 PM EDT
CHICAGO — The man who got generations of hot dog lovers humming along to the Oscar Mayer Weiner song has died.
An obituary posted online by a northern Illinois funeral home says Richard Trentlage died on Sept. 21 at age 87.
With the words, “Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener,” Trentlage helped solidify the company’s hot dogs as a piece of Americana.
The jingle he wrote appeared in a 1960s television commercial featuring cartoon children marching along and singing. The tune remained a fixture for the next half a century.
Trentlage was born in Chicago and began penning jingles as a high school student. Later, he transformed his living room into a recording studio, inviting his own children to sing on audition tapes.
In this March 7, 2000 photo, Richard Trentlage, of Fox River Grove, who was the creator of the Oscar Mayer Weiner Jingle "I wish I was an Oscar Mayer Weiner " and other jingle songs, smiles in Fox River Grove, Ill. An obituary posted online by a northern Illinois funeral home says Trentlage died on Sept. 21, 2016, at age 87. (Jim Prisching/Chicago Tribune)
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, September 30, 2016 02:28 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 30, 2016 02:40 PM EDT
CHICAGO — The man who got generations of hot dog lovers humming along to the Oscar Mayer Weiner song has died.
An obituary posted online by a northern Illinois funeral home says Richard Trentlage died on Sept. 21 at age 87.
With the words, “Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener,” Trentlage helped solidify the company’s hot dogs as a piece of Americana.
The jingle he wrote appeared in a 1960s television commercial featuring cartoon children marching along and singing. The tune remained a fixture for the next half a century.
Trentlage was born in Chicago and began penning jingles as a high school student. Later, he transformed his living room into a recording studio, inviting his own children to sing on audition tapes.
In this March 7, 2000 photo, Richard Trentlage, of Fox River Grove, who was the creator of the Oscar Mayer Weiner Jingle "I wish I was an Oscar Mayer Weiner " and other jingle songs, smiles in Fox River Grove, Ill. An obituary posted online by a northern Illinois funeral home says Trentlage died on Sept. 21, 2016, at age 87. (Jim Prisching/Chicago Tribune)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUasW1-x9eg
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