Green Giant (Billboard Hot)

In 1964 The Kingsmen scored a hit at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "The Jolly Green Giant," a novelty tune about the Giant's love life. In 1999 the marketing industry's leading publication, Advertising Age, posited a list of the twentieth century's top ten advertising icons, and placed the Green Giant third (behind the Marlboro Man and Ronald McDonald, and ahead of Betty Crocker, the Energizer Bunny, the Pillsbury Doughboy, Aunt Jemima, the Michelin Man, Tony the Tiger, and Elsie [the Borden cow]).