New Jersey Lottery Drawing Show

The New Jersey Lottery Drawing Show has aired on former PBS station NJN and then on other local NYC-Metro area stations such as WLNY 55, WPSG-TV 57, and WPIX 11. But there are lost media on here about the drawings from the 1990s and 2000s.

1990s
In the 1990s, the New Jersey Lottery's motto was, "It Pays to Dream!" Each drawing time, a jingle was played while animated lottery balls with the NJ Lottery logo on them worked to get the NJ lottery logo working on a big screen TV. The jingle went something like:

It pays! It pays!

It pays to dream, New Jersey Lottery!

Then, a male announcer said, "It's time for the (insert date) drawing of New Jersey Lottery, with your host/hostess, (insert name)!"

After the drawing host/hostess, signed off and the numbers were shown, there was an instrumental break, and then the chorus sang:

"New Jersey Lotteryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy (oooooooooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah) It pays to dream!"

Mid-2000s
Shortly after, the jingle had a much jazzier big-band like tune, but the "It Pays to Dream" slogan was dropped. A woman sang, "New Jersey Lottery! New Jersey Lottery! New Jersey Lottery! (scats) (bum, bum, bum) Oooooooooooooooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!"

Clips of this have not been quite found so far, but one person did find a short variant of the 1990s jingle. Skip to 2:13 of this video to hear the jingle: