It's a rare gift to write even a single line that people remember. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat - raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens and... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE ...

"Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener." The jingle, called "The Wiener Song," has become so ubiquitously known that there are few who can't hum along with it. It all started with a contest out of ...

The New York Times is reporting that Richard Trentlage, the author of a number of popular advertising jingles—most notably “the Oscar Mayer wiener song”—has died. Trentlage was 87. A veteran of the ...

The man who wrote the Oscar Mayer Wiener song has died, according to a report from the New York Times. Richard D. Trentlage died on Sept. 21 in Libertyville, Illinois. Among the songs he wrote during ...

In 1962, Richard Trentlage recorded an advertising jingle in his living room that began "I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner..." He was no... Richard Trentlage, Oscar Mayer Weiner Song Writer, Dies At ...