Ads (Twist) - 1979 single

“Ads” was the second single from “This is Your Life” (Twist, 1979), featuring Elvis Costello, with Peter Marsh on lead vocals.
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The music video includes some iconic UK television adverts from the 1970s and early 1980s. ADVERTS IN VIDEO:
Barclays Bank: soundtrack: “Go to Barclays - it will save you a lot of trouble”
Cadbury’s Flake with Janis Levy as gipsy girl “Only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate”
Lancia “THE MOST ITALIAN CAR”
Cadbury’s Milk Tray “And all because the lady loves Milk Tray”
Goodyear Tyres “The Choice of Champions”
Mars bar “A Mars a day lets you work, rest and play”
Barclaycard
Nimble bread with Emily Jones in a hot air balloon “Only 40 calories a slice”
Sekonda Watches “A lot of watch for a little money”
Fairy washing up liquid “Now hands that do dishes can feel as soft as your skin with mild green Fairy Liquid”
The Midland Bank (now part of HSBC)
Coca Cola’s Lilt “Lilt - with the Totally Tropical Taste”
Cadbury’s Smash instant mashed potato - Smash Martians laugh at humans preparing mashed potatoes. This ad was voted No.2 UK commercial of the 20th Century after the 1990s Guinness advert. “For mash get Smash”
Batchelors canned steak pie fillings “New Steak Pie Fillings from Batchelors”
Texaco - with comedians, Morecambe and Wise (as mechanics for a racing car), and Formula 1 driver, James Hunt “You can trust Texaco - the World Champion does”
Cadbury’s Flake
Cadbury’s Fruit & Nut with Frank Muir “Everyone’s a Fruit and Nut Case”
Ever Ready Batteries (‘Spy” series) “Ever Ready The first name in battery power”
Lyons Maid ice cream (Space 1999)
Cadbury’s Fudge chocolate bar “A finger of Fudge is just enough”
Campari
Brooke Bond Dividend D Teabags “A cup of D”
Renault cars “Talk to your Renault Dealer. There’s one near you”
Birds Eye Beefburgers “Beefburgers with at least 80% beef.”
Fiat cars: The Fiat 131 Mirafiori mirafiori.
Stork SB with Bruce Forsyth “Stork Super Blend Margarine helps a good mum become a super mum”
Bird’s Angel Delight dessert
Glade Shake n’ Vac with Jenny Logan. Named as one of ITV’s best-ever commercials in 2005. “do the Shake n’ Vac, and put the freshness back”
Mr Kipling Cakes “Exceedingly good cakes”
R White’s Lemonade. This advert was written and performed by Ross MacManus, Elvis Costello’s father. Elvis Costello performed the backing vocals for the original advert, when his Dad sings “I’m a secret lemonade drinker”.
Elvis Costello performs with Peter Marsh on the Twist single “Ads”, singing the chorus “Ads, Ads, Ads, Television…”. In the Twist “Ads” music video, it’s Elvis Costello’s voice which is heard when the footage of his Dad’s advert appears - with his Dad, Ross, singing (in the original): “I’m a secret lemonade drinker”
Tweed by Lentheric (ladies’ perfume)
Dolby Stereo Sound Systems
Brut 33 with Henry Cooper (Boxer) and Barry Sheen (Motor cycle rider). "Brut for men"
Birds Eye Cod in Parsley Sauce (Rodney Bewes)
Bovril Beef Yeast Extract “Bovril gives you beefy goodness”
Swingball - totem/ball and tether tennis game
Cadbury’s Drinking Chocolate “Cup Hands, Here Comes Cadbury’s”
Mother’s Pride bread with Dusty Springfield “Fantastic Mother’s Pride”
Ribena with Tim Bentinck “Early to rise, early to bed makes a man”
Rowntree Mackintosh Polo Mints “People like Polo”
Walls Ice Cream Cornetto “Just One Cornetto”
Campbells Soup “Coming Home To Campbells”
Cadbury’s Fruit & Nut “They don’t make commercials like this anymore”
Lyrics (by AJI):
Give us all your money coz your money’s safe with us
10% of half a live is 5% too much
I pay for life with credit cards, with which I am au fait
I used to deal in real pound notes - I’m told that’s passe
Ads Ads Television..
I have crease-resistant cauliflowers that will not wilt or die
Some guaranteed potatoes that avoided the black eye
I have short term HP Beans - an unrepeated buy!
Money back cucumbers if they fail to satisfy
All the ads on the telly
Oh they fill my mind with bargains every night
Oi you out there square eyes - yes you
Watch the telly turn the darkness into light
Ads Ads Television..
I have one year’s crash bang warranty that covers all the wife
And a million dollar insurance plan incase I lose my life
When I was born the debt was paid - cash on delivery
Look at me now, he did a good job
Well didn’t he? Didn’t he? Didn’t he?
All the ads on the telly
Oh they fill my mind with bargains every night
Oi you out there square eyes - yes you
Watch the telly turn the darkness into light
Ads Ads Television
Ads Ads Television
Ads Ads
I have an ultra modern, plastic, wooded hi fi quadraphonic
They call this music centre DOLBY system supersonic
I’ve big bulging biceps - my triceps are bionic
The more I move my mind the more I am moronic
Moronic
All the ads on the telly
Oh they fill my mind with bargains every night
Oi, you out there square eyes - yes you
Watch the telly turn the darkness into light
Ads Ads Television...

[@CepagesWINE]

😂😅❤

[@DestroyER82]

Timeless!

[@ThePetermarsh]

Thanks! Video might not mean so much to anyone outside the UK and a bit younger than me!

[@DestroyER82]

@@ThePetermarsh I really feel that the idea beyond it is timeless, because nothing really changed since then.