Oscar Mayer, the purveyor of meats who shared a name with the company he chaired, died Monday at age 95. It’s a little odd to feel nostalgia for the passing of a man who, I would guess, most of us did not know except for the name attached to his products. But Mayer’s company, and his name (actually his family name; he joined the family business in 1936), had a legacy on TV, inscribing his moniker in our memories in two of TV’s most persistently memorable commercials.

Compare the two ads after the jump. But don’t blame me if you can’t get the jingles out of your head for the rest of the day: