I’ll occasionally be posting on the Burma-Shave Jingles which you can find here: “I guess I’m going thataway just as long as it’s paved,Īnd I guess you’d say I’m on my way to Burma-Shave” Burma-Shave is on Waits’ 1977 “Foreign Affairs” album. Tom Waits also captured the magic of the road signs in his lyrical tale of a man’s journey on the road of life. The full list of the 600 or so known sets of jingles can be found in the following two books, but they have frequent mention in a number of other American history and pop culture books as well:ġ) The Verse By The Side Of The Road by Frank RowsomeĢ) Sunday Drives by Michael Larson & Jill Larson Sundberg While they were primarily used to advertise the shaving cream in a humourous way, some of the signs displayed messages about traveling safely. The signs were seen all across America until 1963 when Burma-Vita was sold to Phillip Morris who removed the signs.
What the brand name was mostly known for though was its creative marketing use of rhyming jingles on road signs. Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream that came out in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company.
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