About Ted
Ted Naron is a writer who has won every major advertising creative award with television work for United Airlines, Sony, General Motors, Kellogg’s, and other clients. He invented The Special K Pinch and the “Times Like These Are Made for Taster’s Choice” campaign, and with a series of superb creative partners was responsible for many United Airlines “Rhapsody in Blue” commercials between 1987 and 1996.
What drove him is this: a desire to amuse, to entertain, to move emotionally, in short, to make the lives of Americans a little more interesting if only for 30 or 60 seconds at a time. In the same spirit of giving back, today Ted teaches Sunday school, serves on a temple committee to help create a text for future b’nai mitzvah of his congregation, and shares his insights about the world on this blog.


Hello Ted.
Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know that you have a distance relative living here in Seattle, Wash. Not to many Naron’s in the USA so I thought I would introduce myself. I am also a fan of blogging but I mainly talk about the audio recording world.
Mark Naron
Seattle, Wash.
fastbackstudios.net
You have a picture of Custer’s Last Stand on your entry for 25 March. We are interested in using this picture for a book jacket, and I wonder if you can tell me its source please. Many thanks.
Jaqueline
Sorry, Jacqueline, I don’t remember where I found that. Good luck with your search.
Ted
Hey, Ted,
John here, John Meyer; looking forward to seeing you in June,
maybe Sunday the 13th, either lunch or dinner. Are there any unique/provocative/fun shows playing in Chicago that we should see? God of Carnage is our new fav’rit play. Funny.
John
Better picture on your front page.
I like it.
Are you sniffing a poppy?
No, silly, I’m stopping to smell the roses, because that’s the kind of upbeat, happy-go-lucky, nary-a-care-in-the-world guy I am.
Ted,
I have read them all, from Hitler to Dick Clark,to silly Charlie,the Oscars and more,enjoyed them all.
sheer talent you have with words.
Dominick
Thank you, Dominick.
Write something.
Write something else.
OK.
Just saying hello… I have very rarely ran across any other Naron’s. I live in Atlanta,GA and was wondering where do you call home?
Hi Ted,
I’ve been enjoying the great American songbook and songwriters sections of your blog.
Particularly, the post about “The House That George Built”, which is like a bible to me, made me think you might be interested in my little project, a video blog about the old songs:
This one deals with Cole Porter’s musical “Gay Divorce”, and it’s film adaption.
Hope you enjoy it. Blog on.
~Ben
Hey Ted,
I stumbled onto your blog and thought I’d say hello. Hello from Steve Samler
Hey Steve, good to hear from you. Hope all is well. Let’s have some coffee. (Taster’s Choice?) I’ll give you a call soon.
Ted