Page Morton Black, Who Sang Heavenly Jingle (Chock Full o'Nuts), Dies at 97

[joeybee12]

For Gothamites of a certain vintage, it was as much a part of life as BUtterfield, ALgonquin and Horn & Hardart — a jaunty little waltz, its lyrics connoting warmth, fiscal security and celestial reward:

Chock Full o’Nuts is that heavenly coffee,

Heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee.

Chock Full o’Nuts is that heavenly coffee,

Better coffee a millionaire’s money can’t buy.

Page Morton Black, the cabaret singer whose sprightly rendition of that song in radio and television ads was indelibly engraved on New Yorkers’ brains at midcentury, died on Sunday at her home in the Premium Point enclave of New Rochelle, N.Y. She was 97.

Her death was announced by the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, of which Mrs. Black, a noted philanthropist, was a past chairwoman.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/nyregion/page-morton-black-who-sang-heavenly-jingle-dies-at-97.html?_r=0

Boy, that takes me back...very catchy...RIP

[immoderate]

1. The original jingle sang about "Rockefeller's money."

The family didn't like that.

--imm

[kestrel91316]

2. I remember Horn & Hardart from when we lived in upstate NY when I was a kid and visited the big city

Weren't they an "automat"? Food in coin-op dispensers?

[joeybee12]

4. I think you're right but I can't say that with 100% certainty...and on edit...yes

[kestrel91316]

6. That's the look I remember!

[joeybee12]

7. If you watch a movie like Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson...

There's a scene in a cafeteria like this where they (not Day and Hudson together, but Day and someone else, I think) get their meal this way...

[GigiMommy]

12. It was in the movie "A Touch of Mink"

...with Doris Day and Cary Grant. I thought they were so cool. Wish they were around now.

[joeybee12]

14. I always get those sorts confused...

Doris did a few with Rock, also with James Garner too, those giggly sort-of-sex romps.

[CatWoman]

3. takes me back too

thanks.

dammit -- now that jingle is stuck in my head!!!

[joeybee12]

5. It's in mine, too!

Not bothering me now, but if it's still there by this afternoon, well....

[CatWoman]

13. ....

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Me three

Edit to add -

[joeybee12]

11. That was great...thanks!

[GigiMommy]

9. LOVED that jingle. Sad to hear.

I was born and raised in Detroit but I remember that jingle and commercials here too. That takes me right back to the 60s. I drink Chock full o'Nuts TODAY because of it. Thanks for the memories.

R.I.P. Mrs. Black

[joeybee12]

10. I don't drink coffee so I didn't even know it was still around!

My mother would drink it, so I remember their distinctive cans.

[KittyWampus]

15. RIP, so many remember your voice Page.