Written by Carpenter and Don Schlitz, the fast-paced song follows a 36-year-old homemaker who leaves her husband, and was inspired by a 1970s series of Geritol commercials in which a man boasts of his wife's seemingly limitless energy and her many accomplishments, then concludes by saying, " My wife ... I think I'll keep her.

Geritol was introduced as an alcohol-based, iron and B vitamin tonic by Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in August 1950 and primarily marketed as such into the 1970s.

Geritol was folded into Pharmaceuticals ' 1957 acquisition of J.

The earlier Geritol liquid formulation was advertised as " twice the iron in a pound of calf's liver ," and daily doses contained about 50 – 100 mg of iron as ferric ammonium citrate.

Geritol was the subject of years of investigation starting in 1959 by the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ).

Although subsequent trials and appeals from 1965 to 1973 concluded some of the FTC demands exceeded its authority, Geritol was already well known and continued to be the largest American company selling iron and B vitamin supplement through 1979.

In the early days of television, the marketing of Geritol was involved in the quiz show scandal, as the sponsor of Twenty-One.

For many years after that, Geritol was largely marketed on television programs that appealed primarily to older viewers, such as The Lawrence Welk Show, What's My Line ?, Hee Haw, and Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour.

The primary sponsor of The Lawrence Welk Show was Dodge ( automobile marque ), later to be followed by Geritol ( a multivitamin ), Sominex ( sleep aid ), Aqua Velva ( aftershave ), Serutan ( laxative ), Universal Appliances ( manufacturer of home appliances ), Polident ( a denture cleanser ), Ocean Spray ( fruit juice ) and Sinclair Oil ( automobile fuel ) served as associate sponsors for a short time.

As the years went by, the audience for this program aged as well ; the best proof of this was that the CBS Sunday-afternoon version of the 1960s was invariably sponsored by Geritol and other patent medicines manufactured by their long-time sponsor, J. B. Williams Company.

Geritol is famous for a controversial 1973 television commercial tag line, " My wife, I think I'll keep her.

Geritol is a US trademarked name for various dietary supplements, past and present.

Geritol is currently a brand name for several vitamin complexes plus iron or multimineral products in both liquid form and tablets, containing from 9. 5 to 18 mg of iron per daily dose.

Since then, supplemental iron products, including Geritol, have been contraindicated because of concerns over hemochromatosis, and serious questions raised in studies for men, postmenopausal women, and nonanemic patients with liver disease, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, or cancer.

* GSK's official Geritol information site for U. S. residents

Richard Carpenter apparently first heard the track as background music for a commercial for the US health food supplement maker, Geritol, and loved it straight away.

Goodwin believes he is on the verge of a victory against Geritol and the network, but instead realizes that Enright and Freedman will not turn in their bosses and jeopardize their own futures in television ; he silently watches the producers ' testimony, vindicating the sponsors and the network from any wrongdoing.

The movie implies that NBC conveyed to Enright the desires of Twenty-One sponsor Geritol that Stempel be replaced, with network president Bob Kintner ( Allan Rich ) telling Enright " You're a producer, Dan.

It eventually emerged that the Twenty-One debut on September 12, 1956 had gone so badly that sponsor Geritol called producers Barry and Enright the following day and demanded changes.

four-ounce bottle of Geritol tonic

But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.

One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

this was the form in which their private feud most often appeared in the Tory press, especially the Examiner.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.

Quiney was in London again in June, 1601, and in November, when he rode up, as Shakespeare must often have done, by way of Oxford, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge, and home through Aylesbury and Banbury.

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.

It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion.

It was often re-enacted in less wild form at the Wednesday night prayer meeting.

When Papa went out to do God's work, Stevie often accompanied him in the buggy, which was drawn by Violet, the new black mare.

Rector was often curious ; ;

At that time it was a series of sophisticated social dances whose steps were often combined with other steps devised by the choreographer.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.