It’s a fact that our brains can remember things better when they’re in the form of music - thus the little songs that appeared in these ads. And this is why commercials have used jingles for about 100 years now, since the the 1920s on the radio.
The top prize for a jingle was even earlier. Funiculì, Funiculà’ was composed by Luigi Denza in 1880, to lyrics in Neapolitan dialect by Peppino Turco. The merry Neapolitan tune sings of a young man, who compares his sweetheart to a volcano and invites her to join him on a romantic walk up to the summit. It was written to mark the opening of the first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius - and within the year, the song had done the 19th-century equivalent of shooting to the top of the charts. By 1881, the sheet music had sold a million copies. A million copies of sheet music is massive even now let alone back then. All intended to be played by musically capable people and not just passively listened to. A performance from 2000 : ruclips.net/video/TlBnqttOkFU/видео.html Hard to think of any jingle that would attract a singer of the calibre of Pavarotti and get such a response from a huge audience after well over 100 years. Nearly an unofficial Italian national anthem in the response it gets from Italians especially.
I kinda wish I could travel back in time to visit pre-decimalized UK, SA, and AUS and struggle to figure out £SD and all the in-betweens like florins, and the fractions of a penny in the various farthings.
Go far enough back and the American colonies used £-s-d. New Zealand to just a few ears after Australia. Even 9 year olds in fourth grade were expected and able tp add up simple sums like £2-3-4 plus £1-17-9 back before 1966. To quote the likely lads from TV "Not many people know that 6 shillings and 8 pence is a third of a pound". Go back far enough and there were mites in circulation being one eighth of a penny. Back when a penny was worth so much to buy something useful. Before 200 years of inflation. Farthings gone in Australia much earlier than UK, but hapennies still around in 1966.
I'm British and born years after our own _Decimal Day_ (Yeah, we were a bit slow to that party! 🐌💨🇬🇧😋) but I still carry 10/- around in my wallet... 😳 No, my wallet isn't 50 years old (Even if it might _look_ that ancient!) but after we left the EU, preparing for possible _De-Decimalisation_ seemed like a wise precaution... 😉
I was not borne when we had the change over but I love these ads and now in 2016 we have a other change over in notes so exciting to be able to be a collector and see this happening in Australia
Of course we Americans didn't have to go through any of this aside from whenever that happened at the start of our country, but I'm sure it was a very momentous occasion.
All history now. Hopefully the trauma has subsided. We also changed from imperial measurements to metric; miles to kilometers, pounds to kilograms, Fahrenheit to Celsius etc....
I think the change from _Pound_ to _Dollar_ might've been part of the de-Empiring exercise that HlM QEII was tasked with during her reign. There's quite a difference between them in the basis of the value they express (Pounds have real value, the origin of _Dollar_ comes from Spanish and corresponds to debt) so as well as _decimalising_ the currency it may also have _removed_ the real worth that the Pound carries with it. (N.B: This is from a Laymans perspective, a solicitor in numismatics would offer a much more authoritative explanation. 😇)
It’s a fact that our brains can remember things better when they’re in the form of music - thus the little songs that appeared in these ads. And this is why commercials have used jingles for about 100 years now, since the the 1920s on the radio.
The top prize for a jingle was even earlier.
Funiculì, Funiculà’ was composed by Luigi Denza in 1880, to lyrics in Neapolitan dialect by Peppino Turco.
The merry Neapolitan tune sings of a young man, who compares his sweetheart to a volcano and invites her to join him on a romantic walk up to the summit.
It was written to mark the opening of the first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius - and within the year, the song had done the 19th-century equivalent of shooting to the top of the charts. By 1881, the sheet music had sold a million copies.
A million copies of sheet music is massive even now let alone back then. All intended to be played by musically capable people and not just passively listened to.
A performance from 2000 :
ruclips.net/video/TlBnqttOkFU/видео.html
Hard to think of any jingle that would attract a singer of the calibre of Pavarotti and get such a response from a huge audience after well over 100 years.
Nearly an unofficial Italian national anthem in the response it gets from Italians especially.
I kinda wish I could travel back in time to visit pre-decimalized UK, SA, and AUS and struggle to figure out £SD and all the in-betweens like florins, and the fractions of a penny in the various farthings.
That's some very specialised time travel.
Go far enough back and the American colonies used £-s-d. New Zealand to just a few ears after Australia.
Even 9 year olds in fourth grade were expected and able tp add up simple sums like £2-3-4 plus £1-17-9 back before 1966.
To quote the likely lads from TV "Not many people know that 6 shillings and 8 pence is a third of a pound".
Go back far enough and there were mites in circulation being one eighth of a penny. Back when a penny was worth so much to buy something useful. Before 200 years of inflation. Farthings gone in Australia much earlier than UK, but hapennies still around in 1966.
2 3 4 + 1 17 9 = 4d+9d = 13d = 1s and 1d carry the 1s + 3s + 17s = 21s = L1 + 1s carry L1 + L2 + L1 = L4 we have 4 pounds 1 schilling 1 pence 😄 simple lol 6s 8d you hit the mark on that one 😆
I'm British and born years after our own _Decimal Day_ (Yeah, we were a bit slow to that party! 🐌💨🇬🇧😋) but I still carry 10/- around in my wallet... 😳
No, my wallet isn't 50 years old (Even if it might _look_ that ancient!) but after we left the EU, preparing for possible _De-Decimalisation_ seemed like a wise precaution... 😉
This HD transfer looks great.
Thanks.
And ever since then, the Australian Dollar has never been able to float...
The second commercial music was recorded at Natec Sound Studios in 1965, the late Ross Higgins was the male voice.
I remember the original tune was based on a stockman song. Do you remember the song it was based on?
@@ken48827, “Click Go the Shears”, if I recall correctly.
(I’m American, so I’m prepared to be epically wrong.)
@@emmarose4234 You've got it absolutely correct.
I was not borne when we had the change over but I love these ads and now in 2016 we have a other change over in notes so exciting to be able to be a collector and see this happening in Australia
That is a terrible looking piano in the last ad.
How do the keys even stick up that high?
lakersandi And why does the girl’s piano stool float in mid-air?
Magic!!!
It's the 50th anaversary for desamal currency this year.
@TheRenaissanceman65 he meant decimal!
Even a little old lady could tell this lot to zip it!
+TheZodiacz If only she did.
Of course we Americans didn't have to go through any of this aside from whenever that happened at the start of our country, but I'm sure it was a very momentous occasion.
All history now. Hopefully the trauma has subsided. We also changed from imperial measurements to metric; miles to kilometers, pounds to kilograms, Fahrenheit to Celsius etc....
Except us Yanks, who have clung onto the Old System as we can't quite give Metric a full warm welcome up here.
The States were the first nation to go to decimal money, but the last to adopt the metric system!
I have a sixpence coin from 1908
That grandma was probably born in the 19th century. And that boy is his grandma’s age now
I still have a few round 50c coins
One dollar equals exactly ten shillings; in one dollar, there are one hundred cents.
Ten cents in one single shilling, and five cents equal sixpence.
Countries should change curencies more often to keep people on their toes.
Australia should’ve just decimalised the pound like the UK.
Ditto New Zealand.
@@anglobostonian yes mate!!
I think the change from _Pound_ to _Dollar_ might've been part of the de-Empiring exercise that HlM QEII was tasked with during her reign. There's quite a difference between them in the basis of the value they express (Pounds have real value, the origin of _Dollar_ comes from Spanish and corresponds to debt) so as well as _decimalising_ the currency it may also have _removed_ the real worth that the Pound carries with it.
(N.B: This is from a Laymans perspective, a solicitor in numismatics would offer a much more authoritative explanation. 😇)
hahaha love it
*KIDS!*
Granny teachings 😂😂😂😂
*The Australian Mint* - _You know it makes sense..._ 🪙🇦🇺😋