I believe that was a Mobil commercial with a guy known as Mister Dirt.

 

They used a motor UNOG built for that commercial.

 

I remember it, but can't remember what brand it was advertising.

Did you search on YouTube?

 

 

this is not it.
it was a black and white cartoon.
yes I searched youtube and only found the "bringin home the oil "one

 

I found this on a old tv commercial discussion forum. I guess it wasn't the Clancy bros............


I recall fondly a couple of spots in the early '70s that featured Irish-style jingles. Mobil was promoting its "detergent gasoline" in animated commercials (one had the voice of Rodney Dangerfield; another, Phyllis Diller), and one spot had a Clancy Brothers-type group singing: "We're the rocker arm as-sem-ba-lee, as-sem-ba-lee, as-sem-ba-lee, we're the rocker arm as-sem-ba-lee, and we don't like dirt!" This was before Mobil had those live action spots with Ronny Graham as "Mr. Dirt."
Around the same time, Gulf Oil was running spots (mostly on NBC News) with shots of one of their tankers in Bantry Bay, with the Celtic-flavored jingle: "Bringin' home the oil, boys, bringin' home the oil... sailin' home to Bantry Bay, bringin' home the oil..."
I think these commercials contributed to an early appreciation of Celtic music. (That said, I'm not impressed with the recent Miller 64 spots' attempts at an Irish jingle.)

 

I think that was a FRAM commercial. "I'm Dirt, I'm Dirt, and cars are what I like to hurt"?

 

That's definitely Mobil with Mr. Dirt.

 

It was a Chevron commercial

.The Rovers were my first exposure to Irish music when I was a wee tad.
Aside from their freak hit with Shel Silverstein's "The Unicorn," their
greatest contribution to American culture was their role as the Rocker Arm
Assembly in a Chevron gasoline commercial, singing the immortal lyrics...
"We're the rocker arm assem-ba-lee, assem-ba-lee, assem-ba-lee
We're the rocker arm assem-ba-lee and WE DON'T LIKE DIRT!

(Bridge

A detergent gas-o-leeen
Can keep your engine
running smooth and clean!

We're the rocker arm assembalee and we don't like dirt!"

After their brief stateside vogue they were very popular in Canada, and
appeared on the CBC many times. Others will probably give you more
specific information.

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Mobil:


"We're the rocker arm assembly,
Assembly, assembly,
We're the rocker arm assembly
And we don't like dirt!
A detergent gasoleeeeeene
Helps keep your engine running smooth and cleeeeeeen -
It's Mobil, oh 'tis Mobil gasoline!"

 

Hit the newbie thread you PHUCKSTICK!!:smt097

 

mobil

 

There's an "old commercial discussion forum?"

If that doesn't prove we have too much time on our hands, nothing will.

 

I probably changed the channel. I hate fucking commercials!

 

Yeah but with as old as this was you probably had to get up to do it and only had 3 other channels to chose from. I'd bet you sat through it lol

 

My family had six kids in it.

That's all the remote control my dad needed......

 

Ah yes, the good old days of playing remote. I remember them.

 

Aw shucks, a lot of commercials are/were better than the network shows.

 

i just had to get back to you guys on this.
ive finally found it!

 

Sooooo .... it's great that you found the commercial, but the bigger question is, did you ever hit the newbie thread? (LOL)

Honestly, this must have been driving you crazy to keep looking for it this long. Well done sir, well done.

 

Cool commercial noob. Now phuck off.

 

I've watched my fair share of t.v. and do not remember this one at all..

 

Who lubes rocker arms with gasoline?

 

Before my time but they did carry the oil swishing around in the Mobil logo for a while, do remember that.

 

"a detergent gasolineeeeee, helps keep you engine running smooth and cleannnnn so use Moibl gasoline"

 

I’m older than most of you phaauucks.. I remember a “Mister Dirt” commercial “I’m DIRT, and I Make Your Engine HURT!” Seems like there was a hood Slamming a few times..

 

This song has haunted me. Once it gets in my head I cant shake it off. Loved the commercial as a kid. Sang it to my kids years later.