Roy Eaton

Just about anyone who watches television knows the music of Roy Eaton. His ad jingles are classics of the genre, and if you're not old enough to have seen them aired during their heyday, they can still be seen in reruns on nostalgia networks like TV Land. While catchy product advertisements like the ones he wrote for Texaco ("You can trust your car to the man who wears the star") and Beefaroni ("We're having Beefaroni, it's made with macaroni") paid Eaton's bills, they don't begin to tell his musical story. Eaton was the offspring of Jamaican immigrants. His mother worked in ...