Frosty Morn Ham - Starring The Singing Pigs!

[@joancreel5269]

😊cute

[@toneyburkhart3278]

I use to work at Frosty Morn back in Clarksville, TN in the early 1960's. My father worked there when it first opens up and worked there for 28 years. The owner was Mr. Newhoff. My Father gave Mr. Newhoff the name because he told him the best time for a farmer to Pigs & Cows slaughtered for consumption as food is in the late Fall when they first see Frost on the ground. Then they take the meat to there smokehouse to be cured to have food to survive on and share with others. Frosty Morn became the best Meatpacking house in the South and I think it opens 9 other Meatpacking houses in the South. I do know we supplied meat to the Army during the Vietnam War and Fort Campbell.

[@1EchoFree]

thanks for sharing that

[@jonnyh6978]

Very informative thank you!

[@mrgroovestring]

Toney Burkhart I remember frosty morn products very well in the early 60s. Great sausage, bacon, and ham. I was thinking about that little jingle just a few days ago. Thank you for the information!

[@Duvmasta]

Your English isn’t very good, is it?

[@michaelcorvin4330]

@@DuvmastaNeither are your manners.

[@jimmyscott2241]

I am 66 years old and I remember rocking in my crib to this song when I was between 1 and 2 years old...The first time I had ever heard harmony...lol

[@BattlecatRed]

yep, I remember this well from my childhood...

[@monicawright1803]

This commercial is too cute!

[@Legaltype1963]

I was born in December 1963 and I remember this commercial when I was little. I loved it! lol

[@pamalford8319]

I was 12 in 1963 and remember it airing on all the Atlanta TV stations. Catchy tune!

[@PolkRidgeAesthete]

Touching as ever!

[@LR-my2di]

"Touching" ??

[@PolkRidgeAesthete]

@@LR-my2di Certainly! That shouldn't be hard to understand; it's both a lovable melody and evocative of childhood in the '60s and earlier.

[@LR-my2di]

@@PolkRidgeAesthete Yes it was during those earlier times of my innocent youth! That is, until I later comprehended that such sweet little cartoon piggies never knew a day of compassion in their entire little piggy lives before being brutally slaughtered. Now it's "touching" for a different reason. ... Larry Rose; M.D.

[@PolkRidgeAesthete]

​@@LR-my2di I was always affected by the pathos of the very concept of the piggies' ambition to become your meal as well as the beauty of the lastingly bittersweet melody. Each reinforced the other for me, rendering it simultaneously a disturbing and tearfully affectionate experience. I even wrote an experimental fantasy for piano utilizing the theme in the days when the commercial was still running. All of this comes into contemplative play when I'm reminded of it, as I movingly was here. ---David Thomas Roberts composer, pianist, painter and poet

[@LR-my2di]

@@PolkRidgeAesthete You're a thoughtful and compassionate person. I wish you well.

[@julianhermanubis6800]

I say we bring this ad back to broadcast television just to mess around with PETA. And I will eat a ham sandwich while it's airing for the first time. LOL

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I wouldn't mind triggering people with this!

[@jman3254]

hahaha

[@paulamiles9559]

Thank you so much for this. I still love it! I, too, questioned the motive of the piggies.

[@kennethaycock2871]

i have one of the original rca records of the pigs....with frosty morn cha cha on back

[@thagard7]

One of my earliest TV memories. I’ve been singing that jingle to myself for decades. I didn’t know why the pigs wanted to be eaten but they sure looked happy

[@curtphillips140]

No pig lives FOREVER!!! 🙂

[@paulamiles9559]

My sister and I turned this into our party piece.

[@originaljgf]

Growing up in and around Montgomery, AL (home of one of the Frosty Morn plants), in the sixties, i heard this commercial incessantly and have never gotten that jingle out of my mind. Though even as a kid I thought it odd that "The height of a pig's ambition, from the day he is born..." is to grow up and get slaughtered. But at least this was unique, unlike the unending string of cut-rate auto insurance ads which now blanket TV.

[@ixlr8677]

f--k political correctness

[@jonnyh6978]

Hell yeah

[@paulamiles9559]

I lived in Columbus, GA. I didn't know if Frosty Morn was a local business or what. Thank you for the info! I thought what the piggies didn't know wouldn't hurt them.

[@jman3254]

I grew up in, and still live in, my little hometown in the panhandle of Florida. I know a few people, like myself, who still have this jingle in their heads, and it surfaces quite regularly. It sounds like that's your experience, as well. Thanks for sharing.

[@mikemcgahan1798]

😍😍😍😍😍

[@garrysilver7608]

People I talk to can't remember. Do you remember sugar in the morning and sugar in the evening song???

[@darrellgoodin101]

I remember this from when I was 4 years old and it still rings in my head every once in a while.

[@jman3254]

The same with me. And I have a friend who grew up about an hour from me and she still has it in her head sometimes. I really don't know any other song or jingle that does that to me. lol. Man, weren't the 1960s the best, especially in a small town.

[@darrellgoodin101]

@@jman3254 I remember it from the late 50's. Lol

[@sunny6ville]

I certainly remember this from my childhood growing up in the South. And here in Seattle on a frosty morn I had this tune in my head decades later! But even as a kid I found it vaguely disturbing that the pigs desire was to grow up to be eaten. Shades of Douglas Adams's talking pig in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy , genetically bred to desire to be eaten: What's the problem Earthman?" said Zaphod, now transferring his attention to the animal's enormous rump. "I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there inviting me to," said Arthur, "It's heartless." "Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be eaten," said Zaphod. The animal staggered to its feet. It gave a mellow gurgle. "A very wise choice, sir, if I may say so. Very good," it said, "I'll just nip off and shoot myself." He turned and gave a friendly wink to Arthur. "Don't worry, sir," he said, "I'll be very humane." It waddled unhurriedly off to the kitchen.

[@michaelmcdonald8298]

It's OK the piglets were racist anyway They hated cows

[@tammyherndon5722]

So glad I found this jingle again..I remember it as a little girl

[@miguelperez-gb5kr]

I know? So how old are you for being an childhood about commercial, and even as you?

[@jayjay-bz3rr]

You know it’s gotta be good since it’s government inspected 0:30

[@dvagt]

Thank you for posting this. I have been looking for this commercial for over 15 years. To the point that I contacted on several occasions the folks at the Tenn offices of what remains of the company.

[@chiefdreambig9178]

OMGosh!!! My life is now complete! I have had this jingle in my head for years, and I just wanted to hear it one more time, and I found it tonight!!! Thank you so much for posting this wonderful commercial!!!

[@Yarbullz]

Yes, me too. Over 60 years ago, been randomly popping into my head... tonight it occured to me it must be on KZbin, and sure enough, at LAST, I heard the original again, slightly better than I remembered it, but basically the same jingle. I had forgotten the cartoon completely, just remembering the jingo, and the audacity that pigs dream of being slaughtered on a frosty day

[@chiefdreambig9178]

@@Yarbullz Lol, I thought the very same thing about the pigs and their death wishes, lol, that's a hoot! I remembered the cartoon as well as the theme song, but wanted to hear it so badly. What wonderful memories!

[@jman3254]

When I was in kindergarten through probably the 3rd grade, back in the mid 1960s, this was on in the mornings very often here in NW Florida. My dad even ordered for me a Frosty Morn little stuffed toy pig for Christmas. It was an offer on the packaging of the meat. But that little piggy was lost decades ago, unfortunately. . . There was also another company named Clarkes that sold frozen beef steak patties and veil patties, back during that same time frame. I don't think either of those companies exist any more.

[@chiefdreambig9178]

@@jman3254 Lol, thanks for sharing. I don't now why this commercial means so much to me. I guess that it was cute and I was a kid and it brings back so many innocent memories. Take Care.

[@jman3254]

@@chiefdreambig9178 We have been having a lot of frost and cold temps here in the panhandle of Florida lately, and I posted about how cold it has been on FB and used the term frosty morn in describing the cold to see if anyone would pick up on it. A friend of mine who lives in the everglades with her husband commented that she caught the reference, and she like myself (and yourself) has also had this little ditty pop into our heads since our childhood back in the 1960's---- for me it's mostly whenever I'm on the mower or in the shower. lol and merry Christmas

[@guitarcomet5]

I’ll never forget the jingle or the cartoon advertisement. Although I never thought of the implications of the little piggies WANTING (hoping?) to be slaughtered just to get a chance to be on my breakfast plate 😂🙄…It wouldn’t change my mind about having bacon/ham/sausage. In fact, ribs, pork chops, Boston butt, pork rinds…dang it, I’m getting hungry just thinking about it! 🐷🥓🍖🥡

[@michaelmcdonald8298]

I remember when Our band tours with UFO scorpions and Judas praise and Judah's priest we always opened with that song then pigs were awesome man

[@TyChee]

Wow! I haven’t see this since I was about 5 years old. This jingle has popped in my head from time to time over the years. It was awesome to finally see it again! Thanks for sharing.

[@LR-my2di]

Me too, and that's why I googled it ~70 years later. Then laughed at it's ridiculousness.

[@TyChee]

TV was fun back then 😊

[@edwardharding9354]

Haaa! Did you notice toward the end of the commercial when the two pigs pick up the ham, the third pig not only walks off to the right, he's walking on air because his feet are not touching the floor! Bwahahahahaha!

[@Mikado8848]

Ham tastes thrice as good when the pigs are fatalistic and self sacrificing.

[@marlanaedwards5296]

Wow! Looking at commercials like these just makes you miss the old days.

[@cardog666]

My li'l brother loved this commercial.

[@LR-my2di]

Poor lil' feller, like me, he didn't understand the real truth.

[@alwellus]

I remember this when I was around 3 or 4. Thanks for the memory! I wish life was that simple again.

[@lorettatayor5840]

Wow! That brings back good memories!! I thought the elf made the hams magical. 💘 the singing pigs!

[@guillermoadcox01]

Brings back childhood memories.

[@LR-my2di]

Yes, long before we knew about the horrors and filth of Factory Farms.

[@mansize6622]

Nuttin better than a frosty hog baked in cola glaze Mmmmmm

[@douglasdyer6704]

Watched this as an 8-year-old in Fayetteville, TN from the Nashville. TN stations in 1960.

[@roothunterchristy3551]

I remember this one very well, used to hum it all day long! Thank you!

[@ul7185]

Various 35mm Commercials (Classic Cartoon Celebration Hosted by Steve Stanchfield Only)

[@Redhand1949]

Wow, thanks for finding and posting this. Remember it well from the early 60's when the family was living in ham-loving Tidewater Virginia (Langley AFB). I was in 9th - 10 grade when this aired, along with similar ones. The message -- the greatest ambition a piggy has is to be a Frosty Morn! -- was creepy but funny at the same time. I do think the ad's sick humor was one reason for it's success. I sure never forgot it!

[@randallbarnes207]

The 1950's and 60's were great years for tv commercials. Frosty morn, the purity dairy kangaroo, the kelly chili commercial and can't forget the "Take home a package of tennessee pride".

[@LR-my2di]

Hmmm ... never heard of those.

[@marlanaedwards5296]

Great commercial.

[@wyldebyll3089]

I remember this well from the 50's. Even as a 5 yo I wondered why a pig would want to he slaughtered. I guess it's a Charlie The Tuna thing.

[@ToddMiller-nl2wn]

Now that would make a great commercial! “Sorry, Herbie. Only good pigs get to be Frosty Morn. Good prime shoulder and butt.”

[@LR-my2di]

Agreed! You were more thoughtful than I at age 5.

[@F104G826]

Camp Lejeune Mar '65, turned on the RCA black and white, anthropomorphic pigs singing and dancing... I knew what Easter ham to eat. OORAH!

[@austinreed7343]

Did these black-&-white commercials even use cels for their animation?

[@originalkingalpha5116]

📌Wow! What a succulent, delicious, mouthwatering looking ham! So juicy, tender and enticingly delectable!🍖😋

[@padrethomas]

As a child living in Nashville, we enjoyed eating breaded ham sticks by Frosty Morn. Sure wish they were available here in Florida.

[@pete49327]

Thanks for the video. Like someone said below, I used to hear/watch this commercial frequently during the late 50's/early 60's as kid. The tune has never left my head, and have found myself uncomfortably humming it throughout my adult life, sort of like an ear bug if that makes sense. Today was the first time I've seen it or heard it in its originality in over 50 years.

[@ixlr8677]

now where is the odom sausage commerical. then some odoms magic blends all 3 thats the secret of the secret reciept.

[@clairwilliams1284]

I won a bet with my husband over this commercial!! He didn't believe me!

[@LR-my2di]

About WHAT??

[@budscin]

I remember seeing this as a child many years ago. Wish there were more of those old TV commercials from the Nashville, TN area available to see.

[@visaspawnzz1385]

This factory is right down the street from my house 😂😂

[@SgtBilby]

were there singing pigs at that factory?

[@LR-my2di]

Few songs but many screams of terror and smells of death.

[@TheUbermensch9]

As youngsters living in Marietta, Georgia in the early 1950s, we would sing all of the verses of this catchy sales jingle 'over and over again' on church bus trips or hay rides, mindlessly parroting the company's pitch. What fun!

[@mcashnv]

exactly the effect what they wanted

[@Nouncer98]

Thanks, Danny.

[@LindaBF19]

I remember this commercial and song so well!

[@bcl1953]

Oh for goodness sakes, LIGHTEN UP people!! It was a very catchy commercial from the 50's/60's. With all the smut, sex, and innuendos that are in commercials on TV now this was nothing :)

[@1EchoFree]

amen...pass the cornbread

[@jman3254]

Nouncer98 how did you get this clip and how did you put it on youtube? I wonder about this often, especially when the clip is so old and so obscure. Thanks

[@robmarais]

Another jingle from my Nashville childhood, it sticks in one's brain like bubble gum. But the imagery revisited in adulthood is troubling. These cartoon piglets are celebrating being slaughtered, pumped with sugar and gassed with hickory smoke. Not only that, but they are parading around in ecstasy with a hind part of one of their comrades who has not only been butchered, sugar cured and hickory smoked, but also wrapped in a celebratory shroud to be sold and eaten with guileless relish. Tasty!

[@ixlr8677]

now thats articulate.

[@savgal1211]

I remember these spots!! Being from Nashville! As a kid, I also remember Elm Hill Bill Commercials. "I'm Elm Hill Bill, I;m big and Strong, I chop down Elm trees all day long.."

[@jsat5609]

And the Purity Dairies talking cow...

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It is pretty weird looking back on what we liked seeing without thinking that far as we do in adulthood.

[@UnknownVentures]

I'm working on a video about Frosty Morn and wanted to ask if it is OK to use this as the intro for my video. I will definitely give credit.

[@michaelbohan5308]

Fine with me, I don't own any rights to it. I just posted it for the world to enjoy over and over and over again. It was created by the Noble Dury ad agency in Nashville way back in the early 60s. And just like the piggies, they are long gone.

[@jonnyh6978]

Over And and over again!!!!!! 😀

[@Doug-In-TN]

When I was a small child, I rode with my Daddy lots of times hauling pigs from the farm here to Frosty Morn in Clarksville, TN. There was a kitchen beside the unloading ticket house..they made and gave away Sausage and Biscuits. Parts of the place is still standing.

[@jman3254]

Nice memory.... I wonder how these old clips get posted here, on FB. . .

[@LR-my2di]

And you had not a clue of the horror that would be going o inside ... for those hapless animals, at least. Me neither. Until more recently I saw the "undercover" videos.

[@cdgjr]

There was a color version of this add in 1975.

[@Mikado8848]

I just KNEW I remembered it, but NOT from the sixties.

[@planetiowa]

The pigs are like Al Capp's delicious Schmoos, the tasty beings who wanted to please so much they willingly offered themselves for slaughter. One version of the commercial features a pig actually turning into a packaged ham.

[@emmanuelmcneill6260]

I remember this commercial when I was a little boy. I love it so much, I use to cry cause I wanted to see it again and again. Now I'm 63 yrs. old. And I pull it up on internet. Old black and white floor model tv.

[@brianadams1907]

You GO guy ! I loved it also and we're of the same age...I'm a sentimental old guy about the '50's and '60's.

[@alwellus]

Now what pig, in its right (or left, for that matter) is going to sing that they want to be killed to be a damn ham?

[@matthompson]

I seem to remember a Frosty Morn Bacon commercial as well, with the same singing pigs. Actually they might have been drawn in a bit more of a "Porky Pig" style.

[@dndmusic37]

From Norfolk, VA in those days. Remember the sausage commercial where they smiled as they jumped in the machine and came out as sausages as the fairy sang? 1959 or 1960?

[@charliesommers494]

The Frosty Morn piglets are obviously related to the shmoos made famous in Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner. They also loved to be slaughtered and eaten. I remember the song and Capp's great strip very well.

[@Duvmasta]

Frosty morn? Is it called that because it’s frozen?

[@alanstrong3295]

Sing all the way to the slaughter house. I was happy with a Rath ham.

[@tflood3]

this is sick

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

+genoteleno I can't respond to Gene's comments down this list, but I will vouch for him on the era this represented. I would call this "Pre-Postmodernism" myself.

[@katrus]

Since the moment of their birth, they are imbued with the unnatural desire to be consumed.

[@tablature6121]

Ironic, ain't it? Best eatin' ever: country ham. The ass end of a filthy pig. Pass the red eye gravy and cathead biscuits. Love it.

[@RathouseFilmworks]

Looks like something that would come from a later Walter Lantz cartoon.

[@richardburkard9839]

Are these still on sale somewhere? Did they outlast PETA?

[@JamesBrasher-lt8io]

No it's not 😅

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

8 people are piggies!

[@grogi6760]

Brings back a lot of memories. Comments remind me of an Oscar Meyer spot that addresses a similar issue. If you remember the Oscar Meyer jingle: Oh I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener... That is what I'd truly like to be.... Cuz if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener.... Everyone would be in love with me! Their own ad department came up with the following response: Oh I'm glad I'm NOT an Oscar Meyer wiener... That is what I;d NEVER want to be... Cuz if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener... There would soon be NOTHING LEFT of me! How;s that for Point / Counter Point?

[@bruiser]

Was Frosty Morn the company that used the rockabilly dancing pigs, or was that another outfit?

[@jsat5609]

I think that was Jacobs, not Frosty Morn. Seems like there were a lot of singing pigs on tv back then.

[@brendabrannon6598]

No, that was Jacob's Preferred.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

"Wasn't it nice when the public was naïve and innocent and didn't have Political Correctness raping their psyches?" Sometimes I wish we still did.

[@Karswell]

SUPER!!

[@charliesommers494]

Just curious, are you a vegetarian? Would you prefer a commercial that shows pigs cowering in fear of their pending demise and consumption?

[@ixlr8677]

only if they were smart enough to know what was pending.

[@Nouncer98]

@robmarais What a well written comment! And of course, I felt the same way, but couldn't articulate it as well as you did! Thanks...

[@walldoo99]

I'm sure every little pig born wanted to grow up to be butchered for frosty morn. Don't get me wrong, I eat pork, I just thought that line was a bit odd. LOL

[@purpdrank83]

I loved the suicide food blogpost. such sheer unbridled lunacy going on here.

[@sprintcess01]

Jesus Christ. Suicide food blogpost brought me here. I wish it hadn't. That is so disturbing.

[@julianhermanubis6800]

Calm down, vegan. LOL

[@LR-my2di]

As an 77 yr. old adult, I now see what a stupid commercial this was. Pigs are grossly abused from birth to their horrible deaths. Youthful ignorance is bliss.

[@DannyHellman]

The jingle writer left out the part about each cartoon piggy catching a metal bolt to the skull, followed by having its throat slit so the blood can drain out, etc....

[@1EchoFree]

This is from a person ..who'd criticisze the morning sun...then bitch about our childhood dreams...like Ralphies B.B. gun.

[@ixlr8677]

too graphic. if that route was taken it would be bloody morn.

[@julianhermanubis6800]

Pork is delicious, and self-righteous vegans smell.

[@GeneJenkins]

It was a simpler time, television was young and represented a generation who where concerned with not offending anyone (i.e. censors). Censorship wasn't always the evil villain it was made out to be and the current generation who is in "charge" of television seems need a lesson in this. Countless commercials (and TV shows) who constantly offend by taking God's name in vain, who show too much flesh, all the drinking and "talk" shows discussing things which should be in private, all the commercials about menstruation and erectile dysfunction... the list goes on and on. I'm ashamed of all the degeneration in virtually every form of entertainment. today!

[@chrisbrantley9081]

Did you see the excitement in those piggies eyes hoping one day they too could be a Frosty Morn ham?!!! Priceless!

[@GeneJenkins]

Chris Brantley LOL YEP, I caught that as well! Am so glad that I'm on the level of the eater not the "eatee"!!

[@pamalford8319]

I remember this commercial well. It was 1964 when it aired on Atlanta TV stations, a reminder of how original ads used to be.

[@dougandlina]

I remember the jingle, I never paid any attention to the lyrics. What a disturbing commercial, if I had been an adult then, there is no way that I would have purchased this product.

[@jsat5609]

Yeah, but you remember it, don't you? The commercial was a great success, which is why it ran as much as it did.

[@ixlr8677]

still a sissy.