It's so funny how Budweiser created a song and ad that mirrored the "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coca-Cola's famous ad. I'm not knocking it. It's catchy. It just cracks me up.
4:12 the singing voice of Valerie Simpson for Budweiser. 0:38 this is also Valerie Simpson for Mounds and Almond Joy. Valerie Simpson went on to great fame as part of the duo of Ashford & Simpson.
For a long time, I've been looking for an Orange Crush commercial. It was psychedelically colourful, and the jingle was "Break away, discover life today, discover lively taste, discover Orange Crush. It's got the lively taste of today." It played (I believe) in 1970, when I was ten years old. It doesn't seem to be anywhere on the internet.
It's really sad that I remember these ads half a century after some of them aired, but I can't remember the things I should and really want to remember. Clearly the creative people at the various ad agencies knew their business. Damn you, Don Draper.
8:36- That 1970 Great American Soups commercial WAS memorable {Dave Willock was the husband}. But it hardly pushed Heinz's sales of it at all (in fact, some people assumed it was CAMPBELL'S "Great American Soups"!). A rare flop for writer/producer Stan Freberg. The "Great American" brand was eventually sold for restaurant and food service use- and the name became associated with a line of Heinz canned gravies before they withdrew it altogether.
I can't get HOW people could confuse Great American Soups with Campbell's. Even if people thought it was a line made by Campbells, If they BOUGHT enough of it Heinz would have still made money. There was an ad in here for POST "Raisin Bran" But KELLOG'S also makes "Raisin Bran", NO ONE is confused by THAT, But are confused by soups whose names and labels are nothing alike?!? Hmm, I have another Theory: Andy Frickin' Warhol! Warhol was from Pittsburgh, PA (Home of the H.J. Heinz Company...) Warhol hated Pittsburgh. He became famous for painting CAMPBELL soup cans. (WHY copying grocery labels is considered "art", I don't know...) But I'm Convinced that Warhol put a voodoo curse on Heinz's efforts at selling soup. 😜
I remember the Honeycomb commercial, with Jimmie Rodgers, the man who had a hit with that song in the '50s, singing a sponsor-friendly version of it in the ad.
I'll tell you 1 thing that's great about all these commercials compared to the crap that's on the TV and radio today. You don't hear the phrase DOT COM every few seconds. Today's commercials are completely worthless.
The McDonald's ad IS a classic, But The Budweiser on is my favorite (musically), The "Great American Soup" one is HIGH ART for a dang soup ad, And I'm drinking an R.C. Cola right now so there's at least ONE ad on here that still has influence 50+ years later 😜
I forgot some of these ads - but hearing them brought the memories back. 😂
It's so funny how Budweiser created a song and ad that mirrored the "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coca-Cola's famous ad. I'm not knocking it. It's catchy. It just cracks me up.
It's amazing how these jingles stay in your head through the decades.
Agree 100%
So good. Especially the ones without blacks.
4:12 the singing voice of Valerie Simpson for Budweiser.
0:38 this is also Valerie Simpson for Mounds and Almond Joy.
Valerie Simpson went on to great fame as part of the duo of Ashford & Simpson.
Greatness
"...have you tried the soup that's good enough to eat..." Well, THAT'S a ringing endorsement! 😂
For a long time, I've been looking for an Orange Crush commercial. It was psychedelically colourful, and the jingle was "Break away, discover life today, discover lively taste, discover Orange Crush. It's got the lively taste of today." It played (I believe) in 1970, when I was ten years old. It doesn't seem to be anywhere on the internet.
Ironically I think of "Honey Comb" without thinking of TV. It was my "go to" TV snack right out of the box! (Ok, I STILL do this sometimes 😊).
You can almost Rock n Roll with the Almond Joy jam.
Right more class and quality
not
It's really sad that I remember these ads half a century after some of them aired, but I can't remember the things I should and really want to remember. Clearly the creative people at the various ad agencies knew their business. Damn you, Don Draper.
Back when ads had more class.
Absolutely..
The world was a simpler and nicer place back then. What happened.
what is it with fast food and musicals
Honeycomb-1966; RC w/Nancy Sinatra-1968.
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8:36- That 1970 Great American Soups commercial WAS memorable {Dave Willock was the husband}. But it hardly pushed Heinz's sales of it at all (in fact, some people assumed it was CAMPBELL'S "Great American Soups"!). A rare flop for writer/producer Stan Freberg. The "Great American" brand was eventually sold for restaurant and food service use- and the name became associated with a line of Heinz canned gravies before they withdrew it altogether.
I can't get HOW people could confuse Great American Soups with Campbell's. Even if people thought it was a line made by Campbells, If they BOUGHT enough of it Heinz would have still made money. There was an ad in here for POST "Raisin Bran" But KELLOG'S also makes "Raisin Bran", NO ONE is confused by THAT, But are confused by soups whose names and labels are nothing alike?!? Hmm, I have another Theory: Andy Frickin' Warhol! Warhol was from Pittsburgh, PA (Home of the H.J. Heinz Company...) Warhol hated Pittsburgh. He became famous for painting CAMPBELL soup cans. (WHY copying grocery labels is considered "art", I don't know...) But I'm Convinced that Warhol put a voodoo curse on Heinz's efforts at selling soup. 😜
I remember the Honeycomb commercial, with Jimmie Rodgers, the man who had a hit with that song in the '50s, singing a sponsor-friendly version of it in the ad.
Well, crap. Now I want to go to Kentucky fried chicken.
I'll tell you 1 thing that's great about all these commercials compared to the crap that's on the TV and radio today.
You don't hear the phrase DOT COM every few seconds. Today's commercials are completely worthless.
I especially hate the ads for meds, first saying how wonderful they are, then listing the dozens of possible side effects.
i remember all except royal crown nancy sinatra and muriel cigarettes and i remember Ann miller the dancer
Muriel was a brand of CIGARS.
thanks barry i knew it was cigars i wrote cigarettes quick,my grandfather smoked them
You're welcome. They're still available, from Altadis USA.
Back when they put though in their work..now a days not at all.
mcdonald and jfk go hard
..lol. Lots of Great commercials on here,, But hands down (3:10) McDonalds is the BEST !!!!
The McDonald's ad IS a classic, But The Budweiser on is my favorite (musically), The "Great American Soup" one is HIGH ART for a dang soup ad, And I'm drinking an R.C. Cola right now so there's at least ONE ad on here that still has influence 50+ years later 😜