In public memory, Andy Lambros will forever be that dangerously cute, curly-haired kid with the fishing pole, singing the Oscar Mayer Bologny jingle.
Ad agency J. Walter Thompson gets credit for producing the jingle, but the commercial's enormous success couldn't have occurred without little Mr. Lambros, who played his part to perfection.
The ad first appeared in 1974 or perhaps 1975.
Few of us stay as cute as we once were, and like all flesh, Lambros moved on to other things. He got into computers and the aquarium business while still a teenager, went to college, ran a pet shop business, and started an Internet firm. He has continued to act on the side. His appearances have included a child part in the 1980 movie Fatso, starring the hilarious Dom Deluise, and, in 2005, a part in a Chicago production of the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
Mostly, though, we will picture Lambros as a 4-year-old kid telling us, in song, about his favorite bologny's first and last names.
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