Ruth Marx, whose singing voice was heard on classic TV commercial jingles that likely reached as many ears as the pop songs of her famous son Richard Marx, died of lung cancer at her home in ...

Ruth Marx sang many of his jingles, as well as one for Quasar electronics in the 1970s. Ruth Marx. Facebook. Richard, the couple's only son, was born in Chicago in 1963.

Ruth Marx, whose singing voice was heard on classic TV commercial jingles that likely reached as many ears as the pop songs of her famous son Richard Marx, died of lung cancer at her home in ...

Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole. For a half-century, until 1980, many were made in Erie and Girard by Marx Toys. The company founded by "Toy King ...

Dick Marx, 73, a jazz pianist, arranger and composer, created the music for and produced some of the most popular advertising jingles on American radio and television from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Ruth Marx, who sang backup for son Richard Marx after Big Band, jingles career, dead at 85 You might know her voice from TV commercial jingles her husband Dick Marx wrote, like for Chicken of the ...

Marx developed hundreds of toys through the years and created concepts for many more. "For every 100 ideas, only three actually became Marx Toys," said Stormer, 75, now of Troy, Ohio.

Ruth Marx, mother of musician Richard Marx and television jingle singer, died Aug. 24. She was 85 years old. Richard Marx told the Chicago Sun Times Aug. 30 that his mother died of lung cancer at ...

The first Marx Toys factory in Erie opened in 1927. The company bought the Girard Model Works, which had already been making toys for Marx, in 1935.