This is a great commercial Neil and the jingle is fantastic. My research tells me that the music was composed by Sid Ramin who had, two years earlier (1967), composed the great 'Music To Watch Girls By' for the Pepsi-Cola 'Girl Watchers' campaign. It appears that their 'Smiling Faces, Going Places' campaign, which launched in April 1969, was not well-received. Hard to believe with a superb ad like this! It might have been more down to the literature that accompanied the campaign. Thanks for uploading this.
Thanks for researching Sid Ramin. Wow, I never knew. It is a great song, for a great Airline.Oh yea, it didn't catch on because the United States was embroiled in the middle of Viet Nam. Not a Lot to be happy about. There was also a draft, and most United states citizens were thinking about a war in SouthEast Asia on their minds. Not traveling , and having fun.
Thanks, Michelle. Because there were so many "Principal' actors required, 10 had to be SAG. The rest could be real people. My mother and some good friends are in the cast. Great fun we had.
@@neiltardiosr.4107 that's great. It is a great ad. At first I didn't get why it was called smiling faces, but it showed all emotions involved with travel. Loved the end shot of everyone waving goodbye.
@@mirobbins6998 Michelle, I tried to make little stories out of the travelers. One of them is worth the telling. Note an older man with a long, lined face looking in the crowd for someone. in the end he finds his son..a soldier. And they embrace. That man was an elevator operator at building where my office was in NYC. The 'residuals' he made from this commercial was enough when added to his savings to retire and move to Florida.
@@neiltardiosr.4107 I love that story! I don't remember what Eastern ad I was looking at on YT, but someone mentioned that they remembered the smiling faces ad the most. I can see why. Eastern had a lot of great advertising, but this one really stands out.
@@mirobbins6998 Michelle, check out Eastern Airlines "Second Summer" and 'Bahamas Ship". American Express 'Venice," Zerox 'Brother Dominick', US Army "Father and Son".
This is amazing! Brilliant! Gorgeous! I love it!
This is a great commercial Neil and the jingle is fantastic.
My research tells me that the music was composed by Sid Ramin who had, two years earlier (1967), composed the great 'Music To Watch Girls By' for the Pepsi-Cola 'Girl Watchers' campaign.
It appears that their 'Smiling Faces, Going Places' campaign, which launched in April 1969, was not well-received. Hard to believe with a superb ad like this!
It might have been more down to the literature that accompanied the campaign. Thanks for uploading this.
Thanks for researching Sid Ramin. Wow, I never knew. It is a great song, for a great Airline.Oh yea, it didn't catch on because the United States was embroiled in the middle of Viet Nam. Not a Lot to be happy about. There was also a draft, and most United states citizens were thinking about a war in SouthEast Asia on their minds. Not traveling , and having fun.
Nice Jingle and a great airline.
there is another ad too, that has a rushing past 720 seen in the hockey stick livery at the last ending moments of the musical verse.
Air travel back then was a privilege, hence the smiley faces.
Today, it's not, hence surly faces!
Love this!
Thanks, Michelle. Because there were so many "Principal' actors required, 10 had to be SAG. The
rest could be real people. My mother and some good friends are in the cast. Great fun we had.
@@neiltardiosr.4107 that's great. It is a great ad. At first I didn't get why it was called smiling faces, but it showed all emotions involved with travel. Loved the end shot of everyone waving goodbye.
@@mirobbins6998 Michelle, I tried to make little stories out of the travelers. One of them is worth the telling. Note an older man with a long, lined face looking in the crowd for someone. in the end he finds his son..a soldier. And they embrace. That man was an elevator operator at
building where my office was in NYC. The 'residuals' he made from this commercial was enough
when added to his savings to retire and move to Florida.
@@neiltardiosr.4107 I love that story! I don't remember what Eastern ad I was looking at on YT, but someone mentioned that they remembered the smiling faces ad the most. I can see why. Eastern had a lot of great advertising, but this one really stands out.
@@mirobbins6998 Michelle,
check out Eastern Airlines "Second Summer" and 'Bahamas Ship".
American Express 'Venice," Zerox 'Brother Dominick', US Army "Father and Son".