Leslie Pearl Folgers is promoted with the slogan "The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup!" It is well associated with a jingle featured in almost every advertisement since 1984, with lyrics by Susan Spiegel Solovay and Bill Vernick, and music by Leslie Pearl.

Alan's character, while nameless, was also inspired by one of the set producers' sons, who had joined the Peace Corps that year. He and Catherine Combs, the actress playing the sister from the commercial, didn't meet until the first day of filming on set in a house covered with fake snow in Santa Monica.

But then there's the little fact that the commercial was based on the late scriptwriter's real experience missing his son, who at one time worked overseas with the Peace Corps. “I really connected with the writer, Doug Pippin,” recalled the commercial's director, Ray Dillman.

Instead of using a new spokesperson, we created the slogan, "The Best Part of Wakin' Up Is Folgers in Your Cup®". The jingle went on to become one of the most recognizable pieces of advertising in American culture.

Folger m (strong, genitive Folgers, plural Folger, feminine Folgerin) agent noun of folgen; follower.

1984 The jingle was written in 1984 by Leslie Pearl, a Pennsylvania-born singer-songwriter who had a semi-hit two years earlier with her song "If The Love Fits Wear It." That song made it to #28 on the Billboard Hot 100, and to #7 on the Adult-Contemporary chart.

Virginia Christine, 76, a character actress who had appeared in more than 400 movies but is best known for portraying the helpful and kindhearted Mrs. Olson in TV commercials for Folgers Coffee, died July 24 at her home here. She had a heart ailment.

Anyway, that got me and my wife laughing and reminiscing about the first time we saw that commercial. Turns out, the girl from that ad is Catherine Combs, the daughter of Jeffrey Combs. Who'da thunkit? If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device.

1. The winner: Folgers. By the narrowest of margins, Folgers edged out Starbucks for the top spot. Most of our testers saw it as an average-to-good cup of coffee that was mild with a bit of bitterness, but not a whole lot of flavor.

In the 1850s, company founder James Folger traveled from Massachusetts to California. He hoped to get rich from gold mining but instead partnered with a coffee roaster. By the end of the Civil War, Folger had taken over the company and renamed it J.A. Folger & Co.

25 Coffee Quotes to Fuel Your Fire

• "Coffee is a hug in a mug." -
• "Coffee is a language in itself." -
• "Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with." -
• "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." -
• "Life's too short to drink bad coffee." -
• "Behind every successful person is a substantial amount of coffee." -

"Never trust anyone who doesn't drink coffee." "Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second." "Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break." "The smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the world's greatest inventions."