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Larry, if there was an award for posting pictures of yourself drinking beer(hamms) while flipping people off...I'm sure you'd win it.
Posted by: dylan on November 12, 2004 08:35 AMLC,
Since I saw the picture of your middle-index salute to Hamm's (... the beer refreshing...) I thought I'd send you this obit.
ST. PAUL - Ernie Garven, who penned that catchy Hamm's beer jingle about the "land of sky-blue waters" even though he didn't drink beer, died last week at his home in Rotonda West, Fla. He was 90.
Some credit the 1952 jingle with boosting sales of Hamm's beer enough to turn it from a small St. Paul brewery into a minor national brand. Hamm's still survives as property of Miller Brewing Co.
Born in Baker, Garven was the youngest of eight children growing up on a farm in Barnesville, near Fargo. He and his brother Hal, who died about a year ago, got their start on Fargo radio, singing and playing instruments.
Ernie Garven played the accordion and the keyboard. With the late Dick Link, the brothers performed as the Red River Valley Gang, which played live on WCCO-AM in the Twin Cities for decades.
Jeanne Arland Peterson worked with the Garvens at WCCO, where Ernie was a staff musician in the 1940s and 1950s. She remembered his reserved personality, noting one time when he politely urged her not to sing a song with the words "Be gone now, I love you too much" because he considered it risque.
Garven didn't encourage his children to pursue musical careers because he didn't want them working in nightclubs and bars, said his daughter Renee Garven of Edina.
Garven, a longtime Edina resident, also wrote advertisements - at least 70, including notable ones for Dairy Queen, Mars candies and Malt-o-Meal. But the most famous by far was the Hamm's beer campaign, which was first featured on radio. The later television version featured a cartoon bear and forest critters frolicking in the north woods.
Despite the jingle's widespread success, Garven once said he earned only $350 for the tune and words. He once said that the advertising agency that hired him to do the gig originally wanted a catchy Caribbean tune. But he wrote its familiar tom-tom beat after hearing American Indian drummers while vacationing in Wisconsin.
To get just the right sound, he beat on an empty cardboard box when recording the jingle with his brother.
The tune is so well known that in 1998, when Kirk Schnitke was doing research to launch the Hamm's Collectors Club, three Minneapolis librarians got together and serenaded him with the jingle:
"From the land of sky blue waters (waters),
"From the land of pines, lofty balsams,
"Comes the beer refreshing,
"Hamm's, the beer refreshing."
Said Schnitke: "I knew right then I had to start the club." It now has 1,200 members.
Survivors include Garven's wife of 68 years, Mabel and six children.
That was my grandpa. Ernie Garven. He was a great guy... I miss him. My dad, his son, Tom also died in august of lung cancer. I dunno who you are or anything... haha... but this is my only real claim to fame. Heh.
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