4 thoughts on “who remembers this guy? what about the song?”

  1. Ai, yi yi yi, I am the Frito Bandito, YEE-HEE!
    I like Fritos Corn Chips, I love them, I do.
    I want Fritos Corn Chips, I’ll get them from you.

    Ai, yi yi yi, I am the Frito Bandito.
    Give me Fritos Corn Chips and I’ll be your friend.
    The Frito Bandito you must not offend.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbYj7ZyqjYY

    I knew and could hear in my head, and sing, the first verse just now, from the picture you showed, but the second verse was a surprise. I remember many of the cigaret and cereal and soda pop and beer and muffler and medicine and car songs, and the Save On Drug Store song is as fresh in my mind’s ear as it was blasting out of the radio in the early 1960s, except: my memory turned the kettle drum sound into either battleship cannons firing or the men actually singing /BOM-BOM/ SAVE ON! The cereal that was /shot from guns/ used a cannon sound. Anyway, Save On:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcgQt6V3QKY

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