These are incredibly rare recordings in the year 2022. Oddityarchive is doing gods work sharing these with us "I was only 4 years old when last recording was made" and I didn't grow up a farmer so I never would have seen/heard of these. It's terrific this channel archived these for future generations! I had no idea that Farm Equipment advertising was so entertaining but Farmers are a unique breed as in they are as literally down to earth as it gets but also very wealthy. This must have laid the groundwork for a cottage industry of entertaining ads for Farm equipment to be made.
If you've seen the price of farm machinery recently, along with how much a typical farmer has to outlay in costs to put a crop in with no guarantee of success, not all farmers as as wealthy as people think.
@@TheKnobCalledTone. How does that old farmer's saying go- "My heart is in farming my rear end is in debt" (I cleaned it up a bit so as not to offend the youtube powers that be.)
“Also very wealthy” my ass. Most corn & soybean farmers I know from that era went bankrupt and had to quit farming. The number of dairy farmers has likewise plummeted year over year. This is a business where you have no control of pricing and you just aim to keep your head above water. You have to constantly up your technological game and the costs are astronomically high. Most of that farmland is either rented or mortgaged. Most farm families have to supplement with a “town job” so they actually have a reliable income and some health insurance.
As someone who grew up in the 80's, and 90's on a family owned cattle farm, I love these kinds of ads, as I have fond memories of riding in the cab of a tractor with my dad at a young age wearing my overalls, and JD hat thinking I was helping while listening to talk radio in the cab to pass the time while plowing the fields, bailing hay, feeding the cattle, etc.. with these kinds of ads playing in the background for local tractor dealers. 👍🏻
This is an excellent episode, deserves to be in an OA Greatest Hits compilation. Vintage farm implement ads - that's pretty high on the oddity scale. The open reel tape was genuinely funny, and all your riffing was spot-on - I was literally LOL.
Speaking of radio ads, I’ve got a seemingly rare artifact that is a 7” 33 1/3 record on a campaign from farmers insurance (I assume the “we are farmers” guys). I think 5 spots on one side and a behind the scenes on writing the song on the other. It was my grandpa’s, and I assume he got it in some promotion.
My guess is the long vamp out at the end of each radio spot was so the local announcer can say "visit your massey dealer down at first and main in hicksville today!"
Can confirm upon the claim that Massey-Ferguson are popular in Europe. Dad's side of my family has over 5 massey ferguson tractors and many more before.
Yep, Massey-Ferguson is still a big deal in Europe, even though the big Banner Lane factory south of Coventry has long been demolished and replaced with a non-descript housing estate. At least the athletics club is still there.
These ads are brilliant! What's better Massey Ferguson Combine Ads or the British Heinz Beans "Heinz Means Beanz" commercials? Both are amazing! Ads today are do bland in comparison
It's inevitable that Ben would be reviewing rural life-related stuff ever since he moved to South Dakota. Next thing you know he'll be reviewing RFD-TV content like The Big Joe Polka Show or I Love Toy Trains.
Meanwhile in the UK, a Tory (Conservative) Member of Parliament has had to resign after being found to have been viewing Porn on his phone in The House Of Commons - His excuse 'I was looking at a site about TRACTORS, when by accident, my phone went onto an explicit site - HONEST'.......Ahemmmmmm
Malicious ads can redirect, as was common to distribute drive-by downloads or advertise fake antimalware tools (read: antiviral placebos) back in the late '00s. It's not like that excuse is invalid.
_I've got a brand new combine harvester_ _I'll give you the key_ _Come on now let's get together_ _In perfect harmony_ _I got 20 acres_ _And you got 43_ _Now I got a brand new combine harvester_ _And I'll give you the key_
That comment about how the factory building the tractors being just a sound effects tape is the perfect encapsulation of why I absolutely hate radio ads. They make the grown-ass adult consumers imagine tap dancing lobsters or some dumb crap, and all I can imagine is a couple voice actors in a booth reading off a lame script because I am a grown-ass adult consumer. Anyway, throughout that video on the Magic of Closing, I kept expecting the host of the video shouting at someone off screen to "put that coffee down!!!!!"
That one at 22:42 really covers all its bases on tone. It tries friendly, it tries weirdly seductive, it tries demanding. Don't like that no sir. Clearly manipulative stuff is just such a writeoff.
Awesome, my oldest step brother collects Massey-Harris/Ferguson tractors, and does tractor pulls, and has several from the 40's - 70's. My other step bro is an Oliver fan, and also does tractor pulls owning several olivers, and more modern Kubota tractors for use around his property, and I grew up on a family ran cattle farm in the 80's, and 90's my real dad help run who at the time was a JD fan, and also in the early 00's for a few years I worked for a Kubota/New Holland dealer in the sales, and service department. So to me these ads are freaking awesome, and bring back some memories of me riding in the cab of a JD with my dad listening to the radio with these kinds of ads playing on local talk radio.
When you know what you're doing and can do it properly you can get more than "kind of". Also if these were stored in some barn loft or attic and exposed to 35-40 years of poor storage you can't undo that.
You don't realize how close you were to speaking with a rural twang & becoming a Republican after listening to all those Massey-Ferguson propaganda, Benny. 🤠
These are incredibly rare recordings in the year 2022. Oddityarchive is doing gods work sharing these with us "I was only 4 years old when last recording was made" and I didn't grow up a farmer so I never would have seen/heard of these. It's terrific this channel archived these for future generations! I had no idea that Farm Equipment advertising was so entertaining but Farmers are a unique breed as in they are as literally down to earth as it gets but also very wealthy. This must have laid the groundwork for a cottage industry of entertaining ads for Farm equipment to be made.
If you've seen the price of farm machinery recently, along with how much a typical farmer has to outlay in costs to put a crop in with no guarantee of success, not all farmers as as wealthy as people think.
@@TheKnobCalledTone. How does that old farmer's saying go- "My heart is in farming my rear end is in debt" (I cleaned it up a bit so as not to offend the youtube powers that be.)
“Also very wealthy” my ass. Most corn & soybean farmers I know from that era went bankrupt and had to quit farming. The number of dairy farmers has likewise plummeted year over year. This is a business where you have no control of pricing and you just aim to keep your head above water. You have to constantly up your technological game and the costs are astronomically high. Most of that farmland is either rented or mortgaged. Most farm families have to supplement with a “town job” so they actually have a reliable income and some health insurance.
As someone who grew up in the 80's, and 90's on a family owned cattle farm, I love these kinds of ads, as I have fond memories of riding in the cab of a tractor with my dad at a young age wearing my overalls, and JD hat thinking I was helping while listening to talk radio in the cab to pass the time while plowing the fields, bailing hay, feeding the cattle, etc.. with these kinds of ads playing in the background for local tractor dealers. 👍🏻
"Is that a brand new Massey-Ferguson combine harvester in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?" - the Massey Man, probably
This is an excellent episode, deserves to be in an OA Greatest Hits compilation. Vintage farm implement ads - that's pretty high on the oddity scale. The open reel tape was genuinely funny, and all your riffing was spot-on - I was literally LOL.
That ad read over the credits sounded like a community radio sponsorship spot. All it needed was a "station sponsor" tag at the end.
I quiet like it
Good lord... the Willard and Rayfert bit reminds me of The Red Green Show.
Speaking of radio ads, I’ve got a seemingly rare artifact that is a 7” 33 1/3 record on a campaign from farmers insurance (I assume the “we are farmers” guys). I think 5 spots on one side and a behind the scenes on writing the song on the other. It was my grandpa’s, and I assume he got it in some promotion.
That Chrysler "salesman" at 27:47 also did videos for General Motors: ruclips.net/video/20FBN3tdJUg/видео.html
Farm Report Country. They collect old tractors like hot wheels out there. The video, with pan flute, it felt like Kurosawa.
My guess is the long vamp out at the end of each radio spot was so the local announcer can say "visit your massey dealer down at first and main in hicksville today!"
and yup you mentioned that lol
I have to say, this was utterly fascinating. Especially the ongoing comedy bit, which wasn't funny, but was definitely interesting in its attempt.
“Prospect” is up there with “human resource” as a dystopian technocratic term.
TPTB have dehumanized us even further since then... "human resource" is now "human capital".
Hi Ben 😁!!!!!!
Willard sounds like Red Green after he smoked a pack of Camels.
after the 3rd ad I started feeling uneasy. I felt my mind slipping after the 5th ad. But after six ads all was well.
No question about it... I'm financing with Massy Ferguson AND buying before year end❤❤❤
Brilliant
10:29
...you had to stop and clean the tape heads, didn't you!
Did he imply that closing a deal was similar to a magician tricking his audience? 😆
My 11 year old comes out whenever I hear things like "Come to the MF dealer and buy MF parts."
I suppose it doesn’t matter what format these ads were on. Chances are they were run on AM radio stations.
When necessary I too am baked
Dreamy eyes...and lest we forget the Jim Bob Duggar haircut.
Can confirm upon the claim that Massey-Ferguson are popular in Europe. Dad's side of my family has over 5 massey ferguson tractors and many more before.
25:12 thats fly shit
I'm waiting for "Tom Bodat for Massey-Ferguson" tapes.
We'll leave the engine on for you.....
Next time,, its gonna be Case, John Deere, and New Holland
Maybe M-F will hire Ben to play/act in more of their ads? That should solve his budget problem.
The crap you find man 🤣 😂. Crazy stuff which is why I love this channel. For
Some reason I have the sudden urge to play some FS22 😂
Yep, Massey-Ferguson is still a big deal in Europe, even though the big Banner Lane factory south of Coventry has long been demolished and replaced with a non-descript housing estate. At least the athletics club is still there.
These ads are brilliant! What's better Massey Ferguson Combine Ads or the British Heinz Beans "Heinz Means Beanz" commercials? Both are amazing! Ads today are do bland in comparison
It's inevitable that Ben would be reviewing rural life-related stuff ever since he moved to South Dakota. Next thing you know he'll be reviewing RFD-TV content like The Big Joe Polka Show or I Love Toy Trains.
Never heard of either…’til now.
Those ads at the beginning are rip-offs of the Jim Henson coffee commercials
Meanwhile in the UK, a Tory (Conservative) Member of Parliament has had to resign after being found to have been viewing Porn on his phone in The House Of Commons - His excuse 'I was looking at a site about TRACTORS, when by accident, my phone went onto an explicit site - HONEST'.......Ahemmmmmm
Malicious ads can redirect, as was common to distribute drive-by downloads or advertise fake antimalware tools (read: antiviral placebos) back in the late '00s.
It's not like that excuse is invalid.
His problem was even if he stumbled on it accidentally, like he said, he kept looking at it, instead of saying WTF?? and closing it
I presume there was plowing going on, which is kinda farming-adjacent... right?
_I've got a brand new combine harvester_
_I'll give you the key_
_Come on now let's get together_
_In perfect harmony_
_I got 20 acres_
_And you got 43_
_Now I got a brand new combine harvester_
_And I'll give you the key_
Probably not the first time that a Wurzel's song is relevant to an OA episode.
ooo arr!!
*insert screaming Minnesotan reviewer here*
@@bunnybismuth Ah, I see that you're a man of culture, as well.
@@otaking3582 Woman, but I get the reference you're making
and now ...Macho Man Savage for Massey- Ferguson
thank you Benny boy know I want to buy a Maggie Ferguson
That comment about how the factory building the tractors being just a sound effects tape is the perfect encapsulation of why I absolutely hate radio ads. They make the grown-ass adult consumers imagine tap dancing lobsters or some dumb crap, and all I can imagine is a couple voice actors in a booth reading off a lame script because I am a grown-ass adult consumer.
Anyway, throughout that video on the Magic of Closing, I kept expecting the host of the video shouting at someone off screen to "put that coffee down!!!!!"
Funk me, Chrysler!
I hope you did not get hepatitis from the Betamax tape.
Hepatitis of the eyes, definitely did. /s
Are my eyes supposed to be this pink?
@@OddityArchive Honestly gave it 2 whole minutes trying to come up with a response. Got nothing.
I used to own a Massey-Ferguson 760 combine.
yup
Hey Mabel... Please Get Off the Kitchen Table😮🎉🌊🌹🍄🐓
This here's a John Deere channel, I reckon'
The pink wrapper on the right side of the thumbnail is staring into my soul, Ben.
And it doesn’t like what it sees.
That one at 22:42 really covers all its bases on tone. It tries friendly, it tries weirdly seductive, it tries demanding. Don't like that no sir. Clearly manipulative stuff is just such a writeoff.
This might been the crappiest lot Ben's ever gotten.
i see what you did there
Tis video is sponsored by John Deere. The best tractor money can buy.
In, 1957, Massey Harris , merged with Ferguson,, to make Massey-Ferguson,, My Father has a 1952 Massey-Harris Tractor,, heck of a machine
Awesome, my oldest step brother collects Massey-Harris/Ferguson tractors, and does tractor pulls, and has several from the 40's - 70's. My other step bro is an Oliver fan, and also does tractor pulls owning several olivers, and more modern Kubota tractors for use around his property, and I grew up on a family ran cattle farm in the 80's, and 90's my real dad help run who at the time was a JD fan, and also in the early 00's for a few years I worked for a Kubota/New Holland dealer in the sales, and service department. So to me these ads are freaking awesome, and bring back some memories of me riding in the cab of a JD with my dad listening to the radio with these kinds of ads playing on local talk radio.
Considering where you live, going more rural was expected. Those tapes were in horrible shape. Be glad you got anything
Do True Valu ads next
Closing: The power of Bullsh!t.....
It must be fun trying to retore old tapes and only being kind of successful.
When you know what you're doing and can do it properly you can get more than "kind of". Also if these were stored in some barn loft or attic and exposed to 35-40 years of poor storage you can't undo that.
@@MrWolfSnack
Didn't say that wasn't the case.
You don't realize how close you were to speaking with a rural twang & becoming a Republican after listening to all those Massey-Ferguson propaganda, Benny. 🤠
Given where I'm at, I'm probably in greater danger of sounding quasi-Canadian.
This video needs to be moved...via a tractor beam!