I am a Yank who lived in England from '63 to '66. I remember the paraffin commercials the most. Esso Blue and Alladin Pink. Also, the Cadbury Fruit and Nut one. "Are you a fruit and nut case?" Loved England and the people very much. I very much miss the fish and chips. Yanks can't make them for doodly-squat. And It's the English food they always trash? No way. Loved pork pies too. Cheers !!
@@philjamieson5572 Thanks Phil. I have always wondered why us Yanks can't make good fish and chips and I think I have found the answer. I met a older chap at work who was from Nottingham originally and we discussed why American establishments can't make great fish and chips. He told me this: His father owned and operated a mobile "chippy" in the late '50s and early '60s and he told me his father used beef drippings to cook the fish AND chips in. He also says he used Irish potatoes, not from Idaho, and of course had access to the great North Atlantic cod. Makes perfect sense to me. Now everyone is worried sick about fat, cholesterol and God knows what. Back then, taste mattered. My best English friend, Simon Hill, and I would scour the neighborhood for deposit soda bottles and when we had a couple of bob, we would head to the fish and chips shop in Putnoe, a neighborhood in Bedford, and lay down our money for a huge piece of cod and all the chips anyone could eat. There was a park right next to the shops and we would sit on a bench and devour our fish and chips with the gusto of a hound dog. We'd finish it off with a lemon/lime Corona soda and lean back and rub our bellies like Mr. Bumble. I would give a years pay to do it one more time. Many people don't understand what it's like to be an Air Force brat but my story should explain it all. The little things like this are the ones I remember the most. All my best to you Phil !! Cheers indeed !!
@@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy A citrus cold drink with fish and chips. You, Sir, are a true connoisseur. Many years ago I heard a good scientist explain that the acidity creates a satisfying contrast on the palate with the fat and starch and a compliment to the fish. But I haven't seen Corona pop for many a long year.
Sat cross legged on a mat 8 feet away (to mitigate the X ray output from old cathode ray tubes) staring at a 13" flickering screen with a wonky picture - those were the days.
The Sunsilk look....the Sunsilk look....listen to my voice....the Sunsilk look....you are feeling sleepy....the Sunsilk look.....your eyes are feeling heavy....the Sunsilk look.........
Yes,women did look like women back then....not like today`s examples...who act like men ,look like men,and drink like men,and dress like men...I pity the young men today..looking for a `normal` women today,is like looking for rocking horse sh-t??
soundnicetome Same could be said for the boys, no point moaning about people nowadays if you're only going to focus on the women. What about the boys who wear snapbacks? Who sag their trousers? Buy £800 trainers just for a label?
@@southwest3671 An advertising philosophy summed up by Douglas Adams in 1977 when one of his characters ended up marooned with a bunch of advertising executives. "You haven't invented fire yet." "It's not that easy, Mr Wiseguy.... We need to know what people want from fire, how do they relate to fire-" "Oh stick it up your nose" "Which is exactly the sort of thing we need to know; do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?"
In the early 1960s, I watched a commercial for Park Drive cigarettes being filmed in the Old Market Square in Nottingham. They were being handed out to members of the public, who lit up, and then were filmed saying: "Why do I smoke Park Drive? Because I Like them!". I would have joined in, but the queue was too long for my lunch break.
+Liam Jb Yes TV began at around 4.30pm beginning with Children's TV,before going into the News. Then you sat back to around 5 hours of variedTV programmes, Comedies, Variety Shows, Game Shows, Documentaries.etc etc. Yes, for me who remembers Less was More. Less Crap TV likethat of the Multi-Channel 24-7 TV of today, and more Variety of programmes to suit everyone.
@@paulashe7460 Yeah, so much better than today with it's racism, religious fundamentalist terrorism, antibiotic resistant diseases, fast mutating virus outbreaks, air pollution, carcinogenic microplastics and internet paedohile rings. All eras have bad aspects, there's no need to belittle people for having fond memories of their youth.
@@garethbramley1 Absolutely! So much marvellous and iconic music in so many styles. A great and underrated composer. I bought the Standby For Adverts album and it was such a brilliant moment for me when it included Barry counting the orchestra in. The voice of the man who wrote the soundtrack to my childhood.
If all the crap that detergent manufacturers have made over the years were true, you'd only have to wave a packet near clothes nowadays to make them clean!
Old ads and other broadcast material are kept in archives, such as by those who made them and the TV stations that broadcast them. Of course they were recorded (typically 16mm film) for the purposes of editing to create the original ad and subsequent playings.
Love the "lively boy" who was shown in this old persil advert. Some lively boys and girls of course lives today in miserable families, go to bad schools and they have no perspective to get a better life in future times. That's a crime for me. This happens in Europe everywhere, also in my home country.
Do people still use talcum powder after a bath? My mother used “Fair Lady” and it smelled lovely, and I knew when I was home, because home smelled familiar and always the same scent.
manofweed1 Yes they did and they acted more like women. So many so called Feminists nowadays just want to emulate the most boorish behavior of men eg getting drunk/being loud/showing off etc
+manofweed1 They did their housework wearing a nice dress,stiletto heels and seamed stockings.I got my wife to do that but she didn't get round to doing any work. Happy days.
+BlackJackMulligan used to have a girlfriend who wore fully fashioned Black nylons and White Stiletto's (often with a white skirt or dress too), and she knew full well the effect it had on me (and her later ) !
***** yes (lol) But the one thing I loath most about young (and not so young sadly) women nowadays is "bare legs" - when I started work a woman in bare legs would have been regarded as low class. In some businesses they would have been sent home to "dress properly" !
still I hope you had a merry christmas and your day has been full of joy and wonderment that this wonderful day brings peace to you and your's and may the coming year be special for you all . And especially good for you ,
Next to last advert - 'Persil - Today's Children' was either 1964/5 - there were 2 adverts titled the same according to BFI records. I believe the music is by John Barry but have not had this confirmed.
Gibbs SR sount just like a certain TV comedy duo nowadays - word perfect... I was there for many of these, and remember them well: I didn't realise how much I'd cringe - hearing them 50/60 years later!
well try my very best to be good I promise and you as well let the ignorance go and embrace the world but really have a teeth free year. And I really meant that sincerly.
I could see how you might be nervous about body odor at your first dinner party. That's why you'd be better off having the party professionally catered, so you can spend more time getting cleaned up and deodorized beforehand. Nothing against having good culinary skills, but when it comes to body odor, it's better to be sure!
anyway have a great new year and I really mean that and thanks for the convo it's been real but now it's time to move on and put this down to debate we will have to agree to disagree on I respect your opinion I really do but as I always say you can't agree with everyone take care and I hope you remain as you are.
Women - and men too - paid a formidable price for the apparent advantages we see in these films. There is no ideal society. We are no better off, but no worse off.
You are so right about all the hate in the world in the ords of a famous man who lived on earth Jesus you must love your neighbor as yourself and in the words of a famous song what a wonderful world it would be if only Eileen
Use Knight's Castile and your new boyfriend will turn his back on a possible 3-some.
When you didn't need a degree to understand what the hell they were talking about!
Thanks for posting 👍🏻
Thanks commenters for making me laugh as I felt a bit down today....British humour, you cant beat it.
I am a Yank who lived in England from '63 to '66. I remember the paraffin commercials the most. Esso Blue and Alladin Pink. Also, the Cadbury Fruit and Nut one. "Are you a fruit and nut case?" Loved England and the people very much. I very much miss the fish and chips. Yanks can't make them for doodly-squat. And It's the English food they always trash? No way. Loved pork pies too. Cheers !!
Great comment. Whenever anyone says the word, 'indulgence', I picture pork pies, fish n' chips, and a pint of beer. Cheers!
@@philjamieson5572 Thanks Phil. I have always wondered why us Yanks can't make good fish and chips and I think I have found the answer. I met a older chap at work who was from Nottingham originally and we discussed why American establishments can't make great fish and chips. He told me this: His father owned and operated a mobile "chippy" in the late '50s and early '60s and he told me his father used beef drippings to cook the fish AND chips in. He also says he used Irish potatoes, not from Idaho, and of course had access to the great North Atlantic cod. Makes perfect sense to me. Now everyone is worried sick about fat, cholesterol and God knows what. Back then, taste mattered. My best English friend, Simon Hill, and I would scour the neighborhood for deposit soda bottles and when we had a couple of bob, we would head to the fish and chips shop in Putnoe, a neighborhood in Bedford, and lay down our money for a huge piece of cod and all the chips anyone could eat. There was a park right next to the shops and we would sit on a bench and devour our fish and chips with the gusto of a hound dog. We'd finish it off with a lemon/lime Corona soda and lean back and rub our bellies like Mr. Bumble. I would give a years pay to do it one more time. Many people don't understand what it's like to be an Air Force brat but my story should explain it all. The little things like this are the ones I remember the most. All my best to you Phil !! Cheers indeed !!
Everyone's a fruit and nut case.
@@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy A citrus cold drink with fish and chips. You, Sir, are a true connoisseur. Many years ago I heard a good scientist explain that the acidity creates a satisfying contrast on the palate with the fat and starch and a compliment to the fish. But I haven't seen Corona pop for many a long year.
Why did you go back to America if you love d England that much ?
O for the days when men were men and women were glad oƒ it.
Women are still glad of it. It’s the PC imbibed media that would have us believe that women prefer effeminate, emasculated men.
@@jazzman1626 I know I don't.
How about Tony Hancock's "Go to work on a hegg" for the Egg Marketing Board? Each stamped with the British lion, of course!
The slogan was supposedly written by Fay Weldon, later to write The Life and Loves of a She Devil.
wish we had a Time Machine to go back to the 60's and 70's. I really miss those days
Me to Dave loved it 😃
Bring back the mini-skirt
Listening to pop songs and being able to tell them apart, while our dads moaned that they all sounded the same.
Oh.
Sat cross legged on a mat 8 feet away (to mitigate the X ray output from old cathode ray tubes) staring at a 13" flickering screen with a wonky picture - those were the days.
I still use SR tooth paste today in 2018
A pack of OMO in the window meant "Old Man Out" for housewives of a welcoming nature.
l love these old adverts.
The Sunsilk look....the Sunsilk look....listen to my voice....the Sunsilk look....you are feeling sleepy....the Sunsilk look.....your eyes are feeling heavy....the Sunsilk look.........
+numberstation My eyes are closed now goodnight 🌌
Nice to see, but thank god people don't talk like that anymore
I remember Alan Freeman also advertising OMO, and Jimmy Young was in a 'Flash' floor-cleaner ad
Yes,women did look like women back then....not like today`s examples...who act like men ,look like men,and drink like men,and dress like men...I pity the young men today..looking for a `normal` women today,is like looking for rocking horse sh-t??
soundnicetome Did you also have old geezers back then who said" Back in the day everything was better" ?
Aqw aq Sorry I`m not an old `geezer`,but Im clever enough to realise today`s society sucks!
+soundnicetome GIRLS USED TO MAKE GUYS CHASE THEM, NOW THEY CHASE THE GUYS
where??
soundnicetome Same could be said for the boys, no point moaning about people nowadays if you're only going to focus on the women. What about the boys who wear snapbacks? Who sag their trousers? Buy £800 trainers just for a label?
Ads have changed. Notice how these ads concentrate on the products and their alleged benefits. Today ads are all about the personality of the product.
eugene johnson it’s all Psychology these days and messing with your mind.
@@southwest3671 An advertising philosophy summed up by Douglas Adams in 1977 when one of his characters ended up marooned with a bunch of advertising executives.
"You haven't invented fire yet."
"It's not that easy, Mr Wiseguy.... We need to know what people want from fire, how do they relate to fire-"
"Oh stick it up your nose"
"Which is exactly the sort of thing we need to know; do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?"
In the early 1960s, I watched a commercial for Park Drive cigarettes being filmed in the Old Market Square in Nottingham. They were being handed out to members of the public, who lit up, and then were filmed saying: "Why do I smoke Park Drive? Because I Like them!". I would have joined in, but the queue was too long for my lunch break.
Sodium Risinoleute, that’s what SR stands for.
Must be .
I switch off the ads these days. Lot of noise and supposed "cleverness" but its sometimes hard to discover exactly what they are selling!
The day's when TV started at 4;30 pm & closed at 11 pm, TBH I think we'd have been better off without it lol!
+Liam Jb Yes TV began at around 4.30pm beginning with Children's TV,before going into the News. Then you sat back to around 5 hours of variedTV programmes, Comedies, Variety Shows, Game Shows, Documentaries.etc etc. Yes, for me who remembers Less was More. Less Crap TV likethat of the Multi-Channel 24-7 TV of today, and more Variety of programmes to suit everyone.
Television was great until they realised how powerful a propaganda machine it could be.
@@garydunn3037 The more channels we have, the less choice there is. As Eddie said in Ab Fab " We don't want more choice; we want nicer things".
I live for this stuff, amazing 😁
Can't say that I was ever influenced by any of the adverts from back then, but I do recall some of the slogans used, particularly the John West one.
The Sure ad music sounds like a medieval banquet. Those kids must be grandparents now.
i feel so sad , better days
+linda lunken Me too. So nostalgic. We're getting old which makes it worse LOL xx
linda lunken racism thalidomide TB rickets Rackmanism filthy air. After brexit say hello
@@paulashe7460 Yeah, so much better than today with it's racism, religious fundamentalist terrorism, antibiotic resistant diseases, fast mutating virus outbreaks, air pollution, carcinogenic microplastics and internet paedohile rings.
All eras have bad aspects, there's no need to belittle people for having fond memories of their youth.
4:18 Woman brushing her teeth isn’t using Gibbs S.R. toothpaste !
See how much more fun we had before joining the eu,good days that i remember..
The erm..frisky women.. would leave a packet of OMO in the window to let the boyfiend know it was safe to come in. The message was "Old Man Out"
omos do a better wash
+Boot Neck and a better one up the bum
+conan howard ..we call it dobi dust on th in
+Boot Neck I agree.
The music for this early 'Sunsilk' ad was composed by the great Barry Gray who scored most of Gerry Anderson's series.
Anyone who can listen to his Zero X theme and not find themselves standing a little taller after has no soul.
@@chrisparkes2179 Yes indeed. The original film version is the best. 80 piece orchestra going full tilt!! Wow.
@@garethbramley1 Absolutely! So much marvellous and iconic music in so many styles.
A great and underrated composer. I bought the Standby For Adverts album and it was such a brilliant moment for me when it included Barry counting the orchestra in. The voice of the man who wrote the soundtrack to my childhood.
If all the crap that detergent manufacturers have made over the years were true, you'd only have to wave a packet near clothes nowadays to make them clean!
I love old ads from the UK and Ireland! Thanks for uploading.
stop at the esso signs...we are going well, we are going shell...
I like the voice on the Sunsilk advert!
How come anyone actually has these ads? Did they record them (somehow) just in case one day there would be RUclips?
Yes, it was the Time Lords.
Old ads and other broadcast material are kept in archives, such as by those who made them and the TV stations that broadcast them. Of course they were recorded (typically 16mm film) for the purposes of editing to create the original ad and subsequent playings.
Ha ha, that's exactly what I thought!
Love the "lively boy" who was shown in this old persil advert. Some lively boys and girls of course lives today in miserable families, go to bad schools and they have no perspective to get a better life in future times. That's a crime for me. This happens in Europe everywhere, also in my home country.
(3.33) J S Bach"s Psychedelic variations for flute and harpsichord?
Do people still use talcum powder after a bath? My mother used “Fair Lady” and it smelled lovely, and I knew when I was home, because home smelled familiar and always the same scent.
Probably not, it's been linked with female cancers.
Gibbs SR toothpaste very long appear on ITV from 1955 until end 1960s
the gibbs sr commercial is from 1955.the first ever tv ad on the new ITV.not 1960s.
Sadly ,most of these people haven,t got any teeth left to clean.
oh yes they have ,cost a lot tho
Is it just me, or did women look more like women then ?
manofweed1 Yes they did and they acted more like women. So many so called Feminists nowadays just want to emulate the most boorish behavior of men eg getting drunk/being loud/showing off etc
+manofweed1 They did their housework wearing a nice dress,stiletto heels and seamed stockings.I got my wife to do that but she didn't get round to doing any work. Happy days.
+BlackJackMulligan Nope, American tan and Scholl sandals.
+BlackJackMulligan
used to have a girlfriend who wore fully fashioned Black nylons and White Stiletto's (often with a white skirt or dress too), and she knew full well the effect it had on me (and her later ) !
***** yes (lol)
But the one thing I loath most about young (and not so young sadly) women nowadays is "bare legs" - when I started work a woman in bare legs would have been regarded as low class.
In some businesses they would have been sent home to "dress properly" !
lol, "The faaabulous sunsilk look", delivered in the voice actors best Leslie Phillips accent.
Thanks for this!.
Not Leslie Philips voice!
*****
I never said it was, I said the voice actor is trying to sound like him.
***** It was an standard middle class southern english accent, the best examples being Leslie Phillips and Terry Thomas. OK ?
Regional accents weren't allowed. They started to sneak in when The Beatles made them acceptable.
Fantastic use of lighting to make black and white look glamorous.
Most of these adverts are totally nauseating....did they only sell bloody toothpaste back in the 60s????
still I hope you had a merry christmas and your day has been full of joy and wonderment that this wonderful day brings peace to you and your's and may the coming year be special for you all . And especially good for you ,
All frightfully middle-class, wasn't it?
OK I'm hooked. Anyone know where I can get a bar of 'Knight's Castile'?
+Eamonn Clifford Or Camay? LOL.
+Eamonn Clifford Still available on line.
Eamonn Clifford . in New Zealand New World still stocks that old brand. what about Breeze the stripe Soap can't find that any were
The gays loved omo.
the angry ppl on your reply thread never got to see the real world theyve only seen todays ugly supreme.. pity them ...
thanks i was 1 when this was made mam used omo from the uk
I wanted to look like the Sunsilk girl.
Put some SR on thee Clit and you'll get a tingling alright
@TheRenaissanceman65 To clean it?
Next to last advert - 'Persil - Today's Children' was either 1964/5 - there were 2 adverts titled the same according to BFI records. I believe the music is by John Barry but have not had this confirmed.
The girl in the signal toothpaste commercial is cute, but only in England would her teeth be used in a toothpaste commercial lol
Good old days
totally different speech accent back then
OMO was crap my mother used Persil
The miners washed themselves with it
removes the coal dust out yer ershole
Gibb's Frozen Toothpaste! Buy it today and we'll throw in an ice pick ...and maybe a fishing rod!
Gibbs SR sount just like a certain TV comedy duo nowadays - word perfect...
I was there for many of these, and remember them well: I didn't realise how much I'd cringe - hearing them 50/60 years later!
Signal...can you still get it? They were always advertising toothpaste in the 60s.
well try my very best to be good I promise and you as well let the ignorance go and embrace the world but really have a teeth free year. And I really meant that sincerly.
I could see how you might be nervous about body odor at your first dinner party. That's why you'd be better off having the party professionally catered, so you can spend more time getting cleaned up and deodorized beforehand. Nothing against having good culinary skills, but when it comes to body odor, it's better to be sure!
anyway have a great new year and I really mean that and thanks for the convo it's been real but now it's time to move on and put this down to debate we will have to agree to disagree on I respect your opinion I really do but as I always say you can't agree with everyone take care and I hope you remain as you are.
Obviously the toothpaste didn't work 😂😂😂
Yes you are, and no need to thank me for raising you at least one point above your ignorance ,glad to do it.
"Four kinds of Sunsilk shampoo - which one's for you?"
Close up toothpaste - now less radioactive but still tingly fresh flesh=)
Soap is soap. Buy products to fill that emotional hole. At that age you can use lemon pledge on your skin.
You will wonder where the yellow went when you wash your drawers with pepsident
Many of these brand names established in the U.K. before being established in the states.
So many toothpaste ads. They must have had dirty teeth back then.
ps merry christmas and I hope your new year is all teeth worrying free.
No it isn't British standards for teeth have always been low.
Women - and men too - paid a formidable price for the apparent advantages we see in these films. There is no ideal society. We are no better off, but no worse off.
my dad was born a month after in october 1955
That hostess in the Sure ad didn't ' alf pong !!
1:34 *GASP* Oh, yeah, baby... Right there, baby...
Does anyone else pause it and try to mimic the accent?
is it me or are the toothbrushes like scrubbing brushes hahahahah
Yep I did the gibbs sr ad will be in head for ages now hahaha
ps there is enough hate in the world and if you wanna hate the brits go for it but I don't subscribe to it sorry peace and love to you.
You are so right about all the hate in the world in the ords of a famous man who lived on earth Jesus you must love your neighbor as yourself and in the words of a famous song what a wonderful world it would be if only Eileen
Persil gets the stains outta his bed sheets
1960's... where the only adverts were toothpaste adverts.
Itsmeeman1
I miss cigarette commercials on tv. They were the best, and liquor too.
Sunsilk model is Celia Hammond.
charming 1960s attitude there fella
Ahh back when all you had to do was wash the old mans Y fronts in Daz and hed never run of with his bit on the side...😆
A pack of OMO in the window meant "Old Man Out" to housewives of a welcoming nature.
I like the old adds0
very tongue on cheek my friend
Who remembers Calum for madame a soap advert ?
Oooops I meant cadum for Madame soap advert
The sad thing is I remember them :o(
Yes, I know what you mean....LOL
Adverts really haven't changed much.
whole lotta "things were better back then hurr durr" one dimensional nostalgia in here.
nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.........
March the Tailer dress you well. A suit for 50 Bob..£2:50. Can’t imagine they quite Saville Row 🧐
1:34 Absolutely the worst way to brush your teeth.
The sunsilk look.
So these adverts tell me that there was a lot of kissing in the 60s.
Persil the same advert for 60 years.