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About Thomas Scott Cadden
- Thomas Scott Cadden (December 2, 1923 – November 2, 2007) was a pioneering television commercial producer, director, writer, and songwriter during the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
- He is best known for composing the famous Mr.
- Clean advertising jingle written in 1957 for use with the product's introduction in 1958.
- He produced, directed and wrote the Mr.
- Clean commercials until the 1970s.
- The Mr.
- Clean jingle is still used today in a more contemporary arrangement. Other Cadden highlights were commercials written for Curad adhesive bandages, Pringles potato snacks, Head & Shoulders anti-dandruff shampoo, and Alka Seltzer, and scores of other commercials and jingles.
- Cadden was a part of a Chicago trio of jingle writers featuring Bill Walker and Dick Marx (father of singer/songwriter Richard Marx). Cadden was born in Baxter Springs, Kansas, in 1923.
- He learned to play the piano at a very early age.
- In 1941 he attended the University of Kansas, but his college was interrupted by World War II military service in Europe and the Pacific from 1942 to 1946.
- Cadden returned to the University to finish his degree in journalism.
- Cadden was initiated into Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism Society in 1977.
- He was also a very active member of the Kansas Alpha Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in Lawrence, Kansas.
- Cadden retired from advertising in the 1980s and wrote What a Bunch of Characters, a book on fifty film actors.
- In the 1990s and early 2000s Cadden would make special appearances as a guest of Procter & Gamble during Mr.
- Clean advertising promotions.
- Thomas Scott Cadden passed in Glenview, Illinois, of complications from pneumonia.
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