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Next time you go shopping you'll subconsciously be looking for Country Life English Butter ! 😂 ... you can't beat a good Muppet advert (commercial) any time of the year 😀
The Muppet Show is very much British! Jim Henson did produce a couple of pilot episodes in the US but they were rejected by the TV networks, all series of the Muppets were filmed in the UK & later syndicated stateside 😀. Hope you've had a great Christmas Sarah! & Thanks for the trip down memory lane with these classic ads!
Cassettes was how software and games was loaded onto home computers in the 80s, this is why the Sinclair Spectrum +2 had a cassette drive. It took about 5-10 mins to load a game
@@daviniarobbins9298 i guess it wasnt an atari 2600 cos that was cartridge loading and instant. Your envy was misplaced however cos often spectrum owners would sit there for 6 minutes only to get R Tape loading Error appear on the screen.
He is one of the stars of it ain't half hot mum Sarah. People keep recommending you watch it , it's about an army concert entertainment group in Burma during WW2
I used to have a Sinclair Spectrum +2 when I was a kid, it was a good computer for it's time but the games took a while to load lol. You used to put the tape in and it would buzz while it loaded, most games would load in about 5 minutes.
@@DruncanUK I still have my Amiga 500,600, and 1200. My 1200 was the first computer I had with an HDD and I wondered what I would use all that space for. How times have changed. Also, have an Atari st 1040 but it no longer works.
We have workshops but oftentimes we work in sheds, and they keep everything in from our tools to the lawnmower. Roald Dahl wrote his books in his, The Writing Hut, at the bottom of his garden.
You got the "greatest hits" of the Buttermen, there! They were originally separate ads - one song in each - but this was the omnibus version ;) I loved those Country Life Butter adverts, so it was a treat to see them again.
The Muppet Show was English, ABC made 2 pilots but didn't commission a series, so they were made in Elstree Studios and broadcast on ITV in UK before being sold back to US later.
You briefly had a rant about BBC and going to shops for music, etc. Vs Digital..... the BBC (at that point) was an enormous closed shop of making everything in-house (almost), it is a Public Broadcaster of both radio and television, they branched out into recordings of their productions, and tie-in books... particularly with their natural history unit.... this was the 80's and Thatcher's reforms forced them to find alternative revenue streams than the government purse.
DIY/Home improvements is a huge business in the UK. There are several retail outlets dedicated to selling tools and supplies for it. There is also a smaller but dedicated group of people, mostly men, who devote themselves to various practical hobbies/ pastimes. Some years ago I used to restore classic motorcycles and cars with a friend, who is sadly no longer with us.
Yeah. Just like they did with Opal Fruits - now called bloody Starburst. Although I recently bough a bag of original Opal Fruits (with the lemon ones in.)
The garden shed or garage is very much alive and kicking in the UK. All kinds of hobbies are back since lockdown there's been an explosion of interest.
It was called Oil Of Ulay until the early 90s where they changed the branding to match the rest of the world. It originally changed to Olay as the Spanish speaking market found it difficult to pronounce Ulay, if I remember correctly
Yes, about the same time Jif became Cif because Europeans found it hard to pronounce though why Europeans were flocking to the UK in so many numbers that the change became necessary was always a bafflement to me.
@@Captally Huge multinational corporations like Unilever and Proctor and Gamble are obsessed with brand synergy for some reason, probably to do with marketing and being able to produce the product for all of Europe from one factory and not having to produce separate labels for the UK market
That Sinclair Spectrum computer, with cassette deck built in, was the workhorse of my youth. A mighty 128k and all programs had to be loaded in, slowly, via cassettes. Still, I'd learnt to write code by the age of 10 using this thing.
Those computers were 8bit computers, had an operating system on a chip in them and you loaded other programs off the tapes provided. The Sinclair was a major brand, but the one that out sold it was one made for a BBC computer program, the BBC B. Pre internet days.
The cassette player attached to the computer was to load/save programs. These were the days before floppy disc drives became common and affordable. You would buy games etc on cassette tape and wait about 15 minutes for it to load. Happy Days 😄
Once again, a great video! Hoffmeister is a lager (beer) and the catch phrase was "follow The Bear". The Sinclair Spectrum +2 computer, it has a cassette tape deck which was for data storage and also loading and running games. Kind of like the fore runner of the CD-Rom. Boot's Chemist (Pharmacy) is now part of Walgreen's. Asda USED to be owned by Walmart, but it was sold to E.G. Group in 2020.
The British bloke used to make stuff in his garden shed and lot of world beating inventions came about this way. Americans have big garage workshops whereas the British dabbler has an 8' x10" garden shed.
although Jim Henson was American the Muppets are British. He tried to get the Muppet show made in the USA but could not get financing there so came to the UK. the Muppets got made for THAMES TELEVISION and was later broadcast in the US
Asda's jingle - for years it included those two closing slaps of the side pocket, hinting at loose change saved as a result of "Asda price" being competitively lower. "Gold" is used in British cultural parlance as a synonym for "classic" or "great," so the "Gold" records had on them some of the greatest hits in the genres they represented. It's likely that they achieved Gold status in their day. Mince pies are unavoidable in Britain throughout December. The traditional recipe did at one time include meat, mixed with fruits (raisins, apples, citrus peel) and spices, but nowadays they're meat free. Home workshops are perhaps less of a thing in British garages than in the US - they tend to be in garden sheds, but people here certainly are into DIY ("Do It Yourself") when it comes to repair and renovation. Cellnet - the dawn of the mobile phone age in the UK! Hofmeister inserting their trademark bear into a Santa cosplay, in the context of carol singing = more Christmas / New Year sales, I suspect! I commented on crackers on Part 1 - they tend to contain toys or small simple games, though they may also contain sweets or useful items such as bottle openers. They have quite a variety of contents. The PG Tips monkeys were a long running trademark. Back in the 80s, a lot of home computers had cassette drives in lieu of floppy disk drives. The cassette tape contained software to run programmes. Indeed, Olay = Ulay over here, though I think we now call it Olay as well! Who in the 80s would have imagined Country Life replacing the Butter Men decades later with John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols? SoGal, you have made my Christmas with this trip down Memory Lane! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
The whole do it yourself or work with your hands on DIY projects in the garage or garden shed was a thing when this advert was out, but it is much less of a thing today in my opinion. English schools don't really teach hands on skills any more unless its a specialist school. Also, so many aspects of home improvement need to be done by a qualified specialist for the insurance to be valid that it just becomes easier to just get a professional in for everything as they can usually get it done better and quicker than you ever could.
Certainly a lot changed with the revised safety rule that you cannot legally mess with spurs or rings from the distribution box. At least not without qualifications. I endorwehart yiu say reegarding professionals. Find a good one and step back
In some of the ads there were references to long-running themes such as the bear in the beer advert. My favourite game was spotting the actors in them before they were famous.
It is noticable that the vintage adverts are all about the products (and prices). Current UK Christmas adverts barely show any products, and it can often be difficult to guess what is being advertised sometimes. They seem to be all about selling a lifestyle, or a heartwarming story. Modern perfume adverts in particular can be very strange surrealist dream sequences.
ASDA was started as family butchers and merged with local dairies and became Associated Dairies = ASDA. in later years it owned Allied carpets, MFI -furniture, Gateways - another super market chain . In 1999 it was acquired by Walmart for £6.7 billion. Having watched many Walmart videos, I can assure you the customer base it different lol
@@ianpark1805 have they ? I missed that , I`ll have to have a look . Edit So they have ,Walmart wanted to buy Sainsburys and merge the two but were blocked by Competition and mergers commission, so spat their dummies out and have been trying to sell it since 2018 . The two brothers have paid £6.8billion for it , fancy having that much money that you want to invest to make more lol
Hi have a great Christmas, seeing the PG tips tea advert makes me think you should watch the PG tip with Mr Shifter and maybe a few more with chimps. Naturally I don't think they would be permitted today.
Asda came back into British ownership in February 2021. Crackers contain a gift, a joke and a paper crown to wear. Dixon’s closed a number of years ago. It is a game put into the Spectrum I had one of them years ago. It changed in Britain from Ulay to Olay a number of years ago.
Oil of Ulay is the same as Oil of Olay and in 1999 its owners Proctor and Gamble decided to rebrand it and use the same name Worldwide, so it is now Oil of Olay here as well.
Asda Walmart and Waitrose are all the same company In the UK we have something called "men in sheds" where practically minded men have a man cave usually built out of a wooden Garden Shed or a Garage that is turned into a general workshop and a space to escape from the Domesticity of the house which is usually full of the feminine touches. Basically it's a space for men to either invent build or restore things from cars to woodworking inventing or modeling. Or just escape into for a few hours.
The cassette stores the program to run on the computer. That Spectrum+2 is a bit after my time. I had the original ZX Spectrum, where you had to supply your own cassette player.
So later than the ZX81 that I had. I later went on to study computing in Sir Clive Sinclair's original HQ, by then the computer centre for what had previously been the college attended by David Gilmour and Syd Barret and is now part of Anglia Ruskin University. They had a display of all the models of computer which were designed there in its Sinclair days.
Now, the first Asda ad had a voice-over, either by William Rushton himself, or someone doing a decent impersonation of him. Reminds of my time in art college and some voice-overs I did for a couple of animation 'commercials' done as student projects. Two of my impressions at the time were William Rushton and John Innman. William Rushton was one of the bods who starred in the satire series 'That Was The Week That Was' in the early Sixties. John Innman was best known for his character, in 'Are You Being Served', Mr Humphries, which started in the Seventies. The Country Life butter Christmas ad was a compilation of their previous ads with specially drawn links - having them all in one go is a bit much isn't it! Comedian Frank Carson was the face of H Samuel, the jewellers, that Christmas and his usual catchphrase was "That's a cracker!" - meaning a joke he'd - or something someone had said, or a incident - was funny. Some companies would buy up the whole commercial space in a programme at peak viewing time. Woolworths would be one very likely to grab attention pre-Christmas in this way.
It used to be Ulay but was changed to match the USA. Just like opal fruits were changed to starburst and a marathon to snickers. There's loads more too. What a trip down memory lane lol 😊
Between the 70's Atari consoles and the first 386 computers with 5.25 inch disks and a 10 MB hard drive at the start of the 90's, came the Spectrums, BBC and Amstrad home computers. The Cassette decks were the media and storage. You bought them with games on them, or you recorded your own code to them. The Spectrum +3 was the last version which had the new 3.5 inch disk player. The BBC's were only seen in schools and the Amstrads got replaced by the Amiga's. Then the first 386 and 486 personal PCs came out.
But the most popular 8-bit machines were the Spectrum and the Commodore 64. But if your parents were poor you probably ended up with an Acorn or a C16 or Atari unless you got a second hand computer.
A Christmas cracker pulls apart and makes a snap sound similar to a cap gun, it doesn't split evenly and leaves one half with all the goodies in, whoever has this half keeps the goodies which usually consist of a very cheap small plastic toy and a corny 'dad joke'. It also contains a paper crown that absolutely must be worn for the rest of the day, especially whist eating your Christmas dinner.
If I'm not mistaken, the camcorder at 10:25 is the same one that Marty McFly used to record Doc Brown's first time travel experiment in Back to the Future. That would date the Dixons ad to Christmas 1984 at the earliest.
Computers in the late 80s had a cassette player built in to load games and programs! It was pre internet and floppy disks. Some games required you to load both sides of a cassette! 20 minutes to start a game! Lol
Hiya. Earlier this year two British billionaire brothers bought Asda from Walmart and I think Walmart still retained a 15% holding. Stay safe. All the best to you, especially for 2022.
Hello SoGal and Roger. I got a Commodore computer for Xmas. The tape was the predecessor to floppy disc. I still have that hammer drill and work mate. Ulay is Olay now, like how Marathon became Snickers. I am told Almond Mars there that I liked is now Snickers Almond. Walmart sold Asda. I hope the last bit buttered you up for a happy new year.
Happy Holidays to you a Rodger, you asked about Woolworths in the first part of this video, I believe Woolworths is an American store and I believe your equivalent would be Target stores, unfortunately we don’t have this store anymore, they all closed about 8 years ago. The Woolworths ad in part 2 featured tv personalities of the time, everyone in the store was famous person, so this would have been a very expensive ad indeed.
Handyman culture. Its called DIY here, which is very popular among a large part of the population, although not me I prefer to pay a professional to do the work.
It was great to see War Games being advertised I thought it was a brilliant film. Maybe something to consider for a movie night, I haven't watched it for ages.
A long long time ago in a gala... I mean in the real world, most home computers used cassettes to save/read data to because floppy disk drives and hard drives were very expensive. In some cases you just plugged a regular cassette deck into the computer using the audio in/out jacks, while others came with specialised units for the device. Tapes were awful, as reloading the same programme again and again would wear out the tape or it would get mushed up in the deck. It was very very slow to load, and if you had several programs on one tape (which you often did) it could be a pain to find the one you want to play. Most people would start with just using the cassettes, but would upgrade to a floppy drive later if they really got into it/could afford it.
That computer with a cassette 12:44 the Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 i still have mine, the cassette was used to store programs and games on. Also mine still works lol
It used to be called "Oil of Ulay" but it has now been standardised with the US as "Oil of Olay" .... Brand Items often used to have different names on either side of the Atlantic (and sometimes within Europe) but generally these are becoming more standardised over times. What you call Starburst used to be called Opal Fruits over here, but now they are Starburst here too.
With the last one and a couple of the other ones they would make one big ad a as no have places where they could split it soo they could fit it in to the schedule of shows more
The first home computers such as the Apple 2 or Sinclair Spectrum used cassette decks for program storage. This is because people already had cassette decks and a floppy disk drive could add £300 to the price of the computer. I never saw this version of the Sinclair Spectrum with a build in tape recorder. People probably did not need it and so it was not a success. The £49 Commodore computer from the Dixon's add was probably a Plus 4 which was being sold of cheaply because it had failed to sell. The Plus 4 did not sell was because there were no games for it.
The zx spectrum and The commodore 64, are the daddy of the home gaming experience you just plugged them into the tv like you would a games console today. They run on cassette tapes as you pointed out, and the screen was normally only one of the RGB colours. like old computers of the time, say a black background with green text The games are very basic, lots of story based games where you would type in answer with the keyboard.
ZX80 (rare) and ZX81 (much more popular and successful) were the ones to really make home computing popular. A year or two later Acorn produced their BBC model B, supported enthusiastically by the BBC with their programming on TV and radio, but it was far too expensive for most. The S[ectrum was so-named because it featured a colour output.
The Muppets are as big a part of British culture as they are American ,"The Muppet Show " was produced in the UK during the late 70's early 80's. Another UK link is that Frank Oz ,the voice of Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear was born in England .
Yes. Initially the Muppets were not picked up in the US when offered It was Lew Grade of ATV (one of the UK ITV Companies) who saw its potential. You could say that the Muppets were "Discovered in the UK by the UK" 👍😉
the cassette tape is the game or program that had to be loaded every time you had to play it is the same with Commador 64 and after that came the big soft diskettes.
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Sinclair spectrum+2 remember it well replaced my commodore 64 and zx spectrum. For those not as old as I am the programs were stored on the cassette tape. could be very tricky getting the volume just right for the computer to read them properly because it had the tape deck built in the +2 eliminated that problem
The download has really screwed with the music buying experience. Some artists are going back to vinyl. Christmas ads were longer than any others Woolworths put out ads costing over £15m for 3 minutes.
Asda = originally Associated Dairies - a cooperative venture of various dairies in the North of England buying milk from farmers (in the days before a centralised Milk Marketing Board). BBC didn't have adverts on their own channel - so this is advertising BBC branded videos and books etc. on the commercial channel that has adverts. Similarly, BBC Worldwide does this now. Ronco made collections - a bit like your 100 best tunes - so lots of LP records - probably five a box. Cadbury's Dairy Milk have the best advertising slogan ever: "A glass and a half [of milk] in every bar" - doesn't say how big the glass has to be ... Cracker snaps are a very mild bang - similar to the toy cowboy pistols that have a tiny amount of chemical to make a bang on a roll of paper. Still enough to panic Scarlett though, probably. Some of these have instantly recognisable voices as the voice over - Lentheric is Terry Wogan - Irish origin radio/TV broadcaster and the voice of breakfast for many as a DJ on national radio. The Country Life slogan was "you'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife" for many years: the tunes they're singing are mostly rearranged traditional folk songs or in that style.
That was my first home computer in the Dixons advert which has to date it to about December 1985. I know that because it was Christmas 1985 when I got a Commodore 16. It was cheap. Loads of games for it though even though it wasn't originally designed as a games machine.
Hi Happy Christmas from Grimsby in the UK. My first computer was a Commodore VIC 20 and all the programmes were on cassette tape. You could spend 10 minuets loading only to be you have told you have a loading error
Almost nobody "listens" to music any more. We consume music, when you bought a vinyl album, you put it on and listened to it from start to finish. Does anyone do that now? I try to, because I've realised what we are all missing, never hearing that great song on track 9 or 11 that you would nowadays skip over because the first 5 seconds don't sound so good. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I think DIY is even bigger here, from the time I've spent in the US you guys tend to outsource way more, I can't think of any examples now but with stuff I wouldn't think twice about just doing myself (and would be the norm in the UK) loads of Americans (at least in Indiana) seem to be happy to pay someone to do - I mean the big one is yards/gardens, pretty much everyone seemed to pay a landscaper to maintain and mow their yards compared to the UK (although some people do). That's not the best example as that has more to do with the gardening culture in the UK, there were some really small things I was shocked people were paying other people do but for the life of me I can't remember what they were
It would be interesting if you let on every time you recognised any of the voices or faces featured in these ads. The "gold" records will be third rate covers of popular hits or classic tunes that are royalty free, often just instrumental. Didn't the US have home computers that loaded programmes VERY slowly off cassette tapes? Same technology as fax machines & dial up modems with the added thrill of potential failure when you discovered the tape had stretched after half an hour of listening to it buzz & chirp towards failure.
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Next time you go shopping you'll subconsciously be looking for Country Life English Butter ! 😂 ... you can't beat a good Muppet advert (commercial) any time of the year 😀
The Muppet Show is very much British! Jim Henson did produce a couple of pilot episodes in the US but they were rejected by the TV networks, all series of the Muppets were filmed in the UK & later syndicated stateside 😀. Hope you've had a great Christmas Sarah! & Thanks for the trip down memory lane with these classic ads!
Cassettes was how software and games was loaded onto home computers in the 80s, this is why the Sinclair Spectrum +2 had a cassette drive. It took about 5-10 mins to load a game
I always envied Spectrum owners. I had an Atari and the games took half an hour to load.
@@daviniarobbins9298 i guess it wasnt an atari 2600 cos that was cartridge loading and instant. Your envy was misplaced however cos often spectrum owners would sit there for 6 minutes only to get R Tape loading Error appear on the screen.
It also took 5-10 attempts to load a game!
Woolworths advert had lots of famous people in the advert, Windsor Davis with the mustach being one.
He is one of the stars of it ain't half hot mum Sarah. People keep recommending you watch it , it's about an army concert entertainment group in Burma during WW2
I used to have a Sinclair Spectrum +2 when I was a kid, it was a good computer for it's time but the games took a while to load lol. You used to put the tape in and it would buzz while it loaded, most games would load in about 5 minutes.
I still have 3 Spectrums and an Amiga 1200 tucked away in a cupboard somewhere. I really should donate them to a museum or something. Lol
@@DruncanUK I still have my Amiga 500,600, and 1200. My 1200 was the first computer I had with an HDD and I wondered what I would use all that space for. How times have changed. Also, have an Atari st 1040 but it no longer works.
We have workshops but oftentimes we work in sheds, and they keep everything in from our tools to the lawnmower.
Roald Dahl wrote his books in his, The Writing Hut, at the bottom of his garden.
You got the "greatest hits" of the Buttermen, there! They were originally separate ads - one song in each - but this was the omnibus version ;) I loved those Country Life Butter adverts, so it was a treat to see them again.
The Muppet Show was English, ABC made 2 pilots but didn't commission a series, so they were made in Elstree Studios and broadcast on ITV in UK before being sold back to US later.
You briefly had a rant about BBC and going to shops for music, etc. Vs Digital..... the BBC (at that point) was an enormous closed shop of making everything in-house (almost), it is a Public Broadcaster of both radio and television, they branched out into recordings of their productions, and tie-in books... particularly with their natural history unit.... this was the 80's and Thatcher's reforms forced them to find alternative revenue streams than the government purse.
DIY/Home improvements is a huge business in the UK. There are several retail outlets dedicated to selling tools and supplies for it. There is also a smaller but dedicated group of people, mostly men, who devote themselves to various practical hobbies/ pastimes. Some years ago I used to restore classic motorcycles and cars with a friend, who is sadly no longer with us.
Hi Sarah! Oil of Olay used to be called Oil of Ulay in the Uk until about 30 years ago when the name was changed to match the American name.
Yeah. Just like they did with Opal Fruits - now called bloody Starburst. Although I recently bough a bag of original Opal Fruits (with the lemon ones in.)
Hi, before CD drives in computers there were floppy discs, before that there were cassette tapes used to load programs (and it took ages).
The garden shed or garage is very much alive and kicking in the UK. All kinds of hobbies are back since lockdown there's been an explosion of interest.
It was called Oil Of Ulay until the early 90s where they changed the branding to match the rest of the world. It originally changed to Olay as the Spanish speaking market found it difficult to pronounce Ulay, if I remember correctly
Yes, about the same time Jif became Cif because Europeans found it hard to pronounce though why Europeans were flocking to the UK in so many numbers that the change became necessary was always a bafflement to me.
@@Captally Huge multinational corporations like Unilever and Proctor and Gamble are obsessed with brand synergy for some reason, probably to do with marketing and being able to produce the product for all of Europe from one factory and not having to produce separate labels for the UK market
And also around the same time we lost opal fruits and marathon... Grrr...
That Sinclair Spectrum computer, with cassette deck built in, was the workhorse of my youth. A mighty 128k and all programs had to be loaded in, slowly, via cassettes. Still, I'd learnt to write code by the age of 10 using this thing.
Ya never put a better bit o' butter on ya knife! Very nostalgic.
Those computers were 8bit computers, had an operating system on a chip in them and you loaded other programs off the tapes provided. The Sinclair was a major brand, but the one that out sold it was one made for a BBC computer program, the BBC B. Pre internet days.
The cassette player attached to the computer was to load/save programs. These were the days before floppy disc drives became common and affordable. You would buy games etc on cassette tape and wait about 15 minutes for it to load. Happy Days 😄
We do have workshops, sometimes garage. But usually its the garden shed. It all depends on space, because it could be even the living room or kitchen.
100% agree about the music , buying your next record was an occasion .
'Why is his wife human and he's butter-man', last tango in Paris tells you this answer - back to the trifle.
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Once again, a great video! Hoffmeister is a lager (beer) and the catch phrase was "follow The Bear". The Sinclair Spectrum +2 computer, it has a cassette tape deck which was for data storage and also loading and running games. Kind of like the fore runner of the CD-Rom. Boot's Chemist (Pharmacy) is now part of Walgreen's. Asda USED to be owned by Walmart, but it was sold to E.G. Group in 2020.
The British bloke used to make stuff in his garden shed and lot of world beating inventions came about this way.
Americans have big garage workshops whereas the British dabbler has an 8' x10" garden shed.
although Jim Henson was American
the Muppets are British. He tried to get the Muppet show
made in the USA but could not get financing
there so came to the UK. the Muppets got made
for THAMES TELEVISION and was later broadcast in the US
Asda's jingle - for years it included those two closing slaps of the side pocket, hinting at loose change saved as a result of "Asda price" being competitively lower.
"Gold" is used in British cultural parlance as a synonym for "classic" or "great," so the "Gold" records had on them some of the greatest hits in the genres they represented. It's likely that they achieved Gold status in their day.
Mince pies are unavoidable in Britain throughout December. The traditional recipe did at one time include meat, mixed with fruits (raisins, apples, citrus peel) and spices, but nowadays they're meat free.
Home workshops are perhaps less of a thing in British garages than in the US - they tend to be in garden sheds, but people here certainly are into DIY ("Do It Yourself") when it comes to repair and renovation.
Cellnet - the dawn of the mobile phone age in the UK!
Hofmeister inserting their trademark bear into a Santa cosplay, in the context of carol singing = more Christmas / New Year sales, I suspect!
I commented on crackers on Part 1 - they tend to contain toys or small simple games, though they may also contain sweets or useful items such as bottle openers. They have quite a variety of contents.
The PG Tips monkeys were a long running trademark.
Back in the 80s, a lot of home computers had cassette drives in lieu of floppy disk drives. The cassette tape contained software to run programmes.
Indeed, Olay = Ulay over here, though I think we now call it Olay as well!
Who in the 80s would have imagined Country Life replacing the Butter Men decades later with John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols?
SoGal, you have made my Christmas with this trip down Memory Lane! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
The whole do it yourself or work with your hands on DIY projects in the garage or garden shed was a thing when this advert was out, but it is much less of a thing today in my opinion. English schools don't really teach hands on skills any more unless its a specialist school. Also, so many aspects of home improvement need to be done by a qualified specialist for the insurance to be valid that it just becomes easier to just get a professional in for everything as they can usually get it done better and quicker than you ever could.
Certainly a lot changed with the revised safety rule that you cannot legally mess with spurs or rings from the distribution box. At least not without qualifications.
I endorwehart yiu say reegarding professionals. Find a good one and step back
In some of the ads there were references to long-running themes such as the bear in the beer advert. My favourite game was spotting the actors in them before they were famous.
Yep - we use Oil of Olay in the UK. I also remember the 'Better bit of butter on your knife' ad. As I was born and bred in Devon.
We have tools and workshops in the garage, just noone ever uses them. It's like gym equipment.
It is noticable that the vintage adverts are all about the products (and prices). Current UK Christmas adverts barely show any products, and it can often be difficult to guess what is being advertised sometimes. They seem to be all about selling a lifestyle, or a heartwarming story. Modern perfume adverts in particular can be very strange surrealist dream sequences.
ASDA was started as family butchers and merged with local dairies and became Associated Dairies = ASDA. in later years it owned Allied carpets, MFI -furniture, Gateways - another super market chain . In 1999 it was acquired by Walmart for £6.7 billion.
Having watched many Walmart videos, I can assure you the customer base it different lol
And Walmart have just sold ASDA back to a company run by two British guys if I read BBC news correctly.
@@ianpark1805 have they ? I missed that , I`ll have to have a look . Edit
So they have ,Walmart wanted to buy Sainsburys and merge the two but were blocked by Competition and mergers commission, so spat their dummies out and have been trying to sell it since 2018 . The two brothers have paid £6.8billion for it , fancy having that much money that you want to invest to make more lol
@@marcushull12 There’s more detail contained within this thread as I scroll through.
Hi have a great Christmas, seeing the PG tips tea advert makes me think you should watch the PG tip with Mr Shifter and maybe a few more with chimps. Naturally I don't think they would be permitted today.
The country life butter men were using traditional English folk tunes
Asda came back into British ownership in February 2021. Crackers contain a gift, a joke and a paper crown to wear. Dixon’s closed a number of years ago. It is a game put into the Spectrum I had one of them years ago. It changed in Britain from Ulay to Olay a number of years ago.
Seen that butter advert many times and never questioned why the wife was a human. Your comment SoGal made me laugh.
Oil of Ulay is the same as Oil of Olay and in 1999 its owners Proctor and Gamble decided to rebrand it and use the same name Worldwide, so it is now Oil of Olay here as well.
Asda Walmart and Waitrose are all the same company
In the UK we have something called "men in sheds" where practically minded men have a man cave usually built out of a wooden Garden Shed or a Garage that is turned into a general workshop and a space to escape from the Domesticity of the house which is usually full of the feminine touches. Basically it's a space for men to either invent build or restore things from cars to woodworking inventing or modeling. Or just escape into for a few hours.
Possibly not - Waitrose are part of the John Lewis group, I think, and co-operatively owned by the staff (who are normally referred to as partners).
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I heard somewhere that Waitrose was part of Walmart but could be wrong
10:05
Time passes, today you have all those products inside a $ 150 smartphone.
Thanks Sarah I enjoyed this walk down Memory Lane!
The cassette stores the program to run on the computer. That Spectrum+2 is a bit after my time. I had the original ZX Spectrum, where you had to supply your own cassette player.
So later than the ZX81 that I had.
I later went on to study computing in Sir Clive Sinclair's original HQ, by then the computer centre for what had previously been the college attended by David Gilmour and Syd Barret and is now part of Anglia Ruskin University.
They had a display of all the models of computer which were designed there in its Sinclair days.
The cassette had computer programs on them . Before floppy discs.you could record executable programs transmitted by TV or phone.
Or saved onto them after typing in the source code from a magazine.
Now, the first Asda ad had a voice-over, either by William Rushton himself, or someone doing a decent impersonation of him. Reminds of my time in art college and some voice-overs I did for a couple of animation 'commercials' done as student projects. Two of my impressions at the time were William Rushton and John Innman. William Rushton was one of the bods who starred in the satire series 'That Was The Week That Was' in the early Sixties. John Innman was best known for his character, in 'Are You Being Served', Mr Humphries, which started in the Seventies. The Country Life butter Christmas ad was a compilation of their previous ads with specially drawn links - having them all in one go is a bit much isn't it! Comedian Frank Carson was the face of H Samuel, the jewellers, that Christmas and his usual catchphrase was "That's a cracker!" - meaning a joke he'd - or something someone had said, or a incident - was funny. Some companies would buy up the whole commercial space in a programme at peak viewing time. Woolworths would be one very likely to grab attention pre-Christmas in this way.
It used to be Ulay but was changed to match the USA. Just like opal fruits were changed to starburst and a marathon to snickers. There's loads more too.
What a trip down memory lane lol 😊
As for home workshops. Either they take over some of or all of garage space. Quite often a shed in the garden
Assuming it was from 1985, that JVC camcorder in the Dixon’s ad priced at £995 would be the equivalent of £3,200 today!
Between the 70's Atari consoles and the first 386 computers with 5.25 inch disks and a 10 MB hard drive at the start of the 90's, came the Spectrums, BBC and Amstrad home computers. The Cassette decks were the media and storage. You bought them with games on them, or you recorded your own code to them. The Spectrum +3 was the last version which had the new 3.5 inch disk player. The BBC's were only seen in schools and the Amstrads got replaced by the Amiga's. Then the first 386 and 486 personal PCs came out.
But the most popular 8-bit machines were the Spectrum and the Commodore 64. But if your parents were poor you probably ended up with an Acorn or a C16 or Atari unless you got a second hand computer.
The 'long' Woolworths advert was actually full of well known (at the time) stars from TV and radio, so would have cost a bundle to make.
A veritable cavalcade of b list celebs😊
The cassette is how you load the software. Many if not all early home computers, particularly those in the UK used cassette tape.
A Christmas cracker pulls apart and makes a snap sound similar to a cap gun, it doesn't split evenly and leaves one half with all the goodies in, whoever has this half keeps the goodies which usually consist of a very cheap small plastic toy and a corny 'dad joke'. It also contains a paper crown that absolutely must be worn for the rest of the day, especially whist eating your Christmas dinner.
If I'm not mistaken, the camcorder at 10:25 is the same one that Marty McFly used to record Doc Brown's first time travel experiment in Back to the Future. That would date the Dixons ad to Christmas 1984 at the earliest.
Or 85. I believe the Commodore 16 computer featured was reduced to £49.99 in 1985 having been £99.99 the previous year when released.
Yep, that’s the one. The ad is from 1985.
Computers in the late 80s had a cassette player built in to load games and programs! It was pre internet and floppy disks. Some games required you to load both sides of a cassette! 20 minutes to start a game! Lol
Are you trying to BUTTER us up with all these vintage advert reviews? 😁Well, i hope Y'all are having a lovely Christmas anyhow! Take care buttercup.
Hiya. Earlier this year two British billionaire brothers bought Asda from Walmart and I think Walmart still retained a 15% holding. Stay safe. All the best to you, especially for 2022.
Hello SoGal and Roger. I got a Commodore computer for Xmas. The tape was the predecessor to floppy disc.
I still have that hammer drill and work mate.
Ulay is Olay now, like how Marathon became Snickers. I am told Almond Mars there that I liked is now Snickers Almond. Walmart sold Asda.
I hope the last bit buttered you up for a happy new year.
Happy Holidays to you a Rodger, you asked about Woolworths in the first part of this video, I believe Woolworths is an American store and I believe your equivalent would be Target stores, unfortunately we don’t have this store anymore, they all closed about 8 years ago. The Woolworths ad in part 2 featured tv personalities of the time, everyone in the store was famous person, so this would have been a very expensive ad indeed.
Why are these so comfy to watch lmao
Hi, Sarah, you are giving us all a brilliant selection of Christmas videos. Thank you, Scarlet, Roger and Rudolph for all your hard work
Handyman culture. Its called DIY here, which is very popular among a large part of the population, although not me I prefer to pay a professional to do the work.
It was originally Oil Of Ulay, but to standardise across the globe it was changed to Oil Of Olay
It was great to see War Games being advertised I thought it was a brilliant film. Maybe something to consider for a movie night, I haven't watched it for ages.
A long long time ago in a gala... I mean in the real world, most home computers used cassettes to save/read data to because floppy disk drives and hard drives were very expensive. In some cases you just plugged a regular cassette deck into the computer using the audio in/out jacks, while others came with specialised units for the device. Tapes were awful, as reloading the same programme again and again would wear out the tape or it would get mushed up in the deck. It was very very slow to load, and if you had several programs on one tape (which you often did) it could be a pain to find the one you want to play. Most people would start with just using the cassettes, but would upgrade to a floppy drive later if they really got into it/could afford it.
That computer with a cassette 12:44 the Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 i still have mine, the cassette was used to store programs and games on.
Also mine still works lol
Asda used to belong to Walmart but they sold it last year to a British company.
Boots are now owned by Walgreens
It used to be called "Oil of Ulay" but it has now been standardised with the US as "Oil of Olay" .... Brand Items often used to have different names on either side of the Atlantic (and sometimes within Europe) but generally these are becoming more standardised over times. What you call Starburst used to be called Opal Fruits over here, but now they are Starburst here too.
Another name change that comes to mind is "Snickers" candy bar. In the UK, it was originally called "Marathon".
With the last one and a couple of the other ones they would make one big ad a as no have places where they could split it soo they could fit it in to the schedule of shows more
The first home computers such as the Apple 2 or Sinclair Spectrum used cassette decks for program storage. This is because people already had cassette decks and a floppy disk drive could add £300 to the price of the computer. I never saw this version of the Sinclair Spectrum with a build in tape recorder. People probably did not need it and so it was not a success. The £49 Commodore computer from the Dixon's add was probably a Plus 4 which was being sold of cheaply because it had failed to sell. The Plus 4 did not sell was because there were no games for it.
17:50 I think a more pressing question is, why are butter men so keen for us to spread them on our toast?
The zx spectrum and The commodore 64, are the daddy of the home gaming experience you just plugged them into the tv like you would a games console today. They run on cassette tapes as you pointed out, and the screen was normally only one of the RGB colours. like old computers of the time, say a black background with green text
The games are very basic, lots of story based games where you would type in answer with the keyboard.
ZX80 (rare) and ZX81 (much more popular and successful) were the ones to really make home computing popular. A year or two later Acorn produced their BBC model B, supported enthusiastically by the BBC with their programming on TV and radio, but it was far too expensive for most. The S[ectrum was so-named because it featured a colour output.
In the crackers you get a joke, a paper crown, and a toy
Lmao I thought that last ad was never gonna end 😂
Lentheric is actually a small factory in Liverpool North West England UK
The Muppets are as big a part of British culture as they are American ,"The Muppet Show " was produced in the UK during the late 70's early 80's. Another UK link is that Frank Oz ,the voice of Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear was born in England .
Yes. Initially the Muppets were not picked up in the US when offered It was Lew Grade of ATV (one of the UK ITV Companies) who saw its potential. You could say that the Muppets were "Discovered in the UK by the UK" 👍😉
His wife is called Marge, because she spreads so easy. 😳
the cassette tape is the game or program that had to be loaded every time you had to play it is the same with Commador 64 and after that came the big soft diskettes.
Sinclair Computers 💻 back in the day had their game on cassette and you had to load them into the computer in real time about 20-30 mins and it sometimes didn’t load properly either, and you’d have start whole process again (good times) 🥴
Also I’m a huge Star Trek fan and enjoying you podcasts
ahhh memories when memory came in ks not Gigs - the noise of the modem
beeeeeeesqdshklkensaztssdrretbuytrtnndfgeeewdfkbb.. . . . bsqualk silence
No advertising on the Beeb...
Yeah right...
Happy Christmas from England!
War Games was a great movie that some people need to see again today...
No wonder Woolworths went bust using so many celebrities in their adverts.
Sinclair spectrum+2 remember it well replaced my commodore 64 and zx spectrum. For those not as old as I am the programs were stored on the cassette tape. could be very tricky getting the volume just right for the computer to read them properly because it had the tape deck built in the +2 eliminated that problem
The different names Oil of Olay/Olay/Ulag/Ulan were because of copyright issues when the copyright ran out the names were standardosed
Shed in the garden for men's work!
Yeah I’d like an American ads one!
The download has really screwed with the music buying experience. Some artists are going back to vinyl. Christmas ads were longer than any others Woolworths put out ads costing over £15m for 3 minutes.
Asda = originally Associated Dairies - a cooperative venture of various dairies in the North of England buying milk from farmers (in the days before a centralised Milk Marketing Board). BBC didn't have adverts on their own channel - so this is advertising BBC branded videos and books etc. on the commercial channel that has adverts. Similarly, BBC Worldwide does this now. Ronco made collections - a bit like your 100 best tunes - so lots of LP records - probably five a box. Cadbury's Dairy Milk have the best advertising slogan ever: "A glass and a half [of milk] in every bar" - doesn't say how big the glass has to be ... Cracker snaps are a very mild bang - similar to the toy cowboy pistols that have a tiny amount of chemical to make a bang on a roll of paper. Still enough to panic Scarlett though, probably. Some of these have instantly recognisable voices as the voice over - Lentheric is Terry Wogan - Irish origin radio/TV broadcaster and the voice of breakfast for many as a DJ on national radio. The Country Life slogan was "you'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife" for many years: the tunes they're singing are mostly rearranged traditional folk songs or in that style.
That was my first home computer in the Dixons advert which has to date it to about December 1985. I know that because it was Christmas 1985 when I got a Commodore 16. It was cheap. Loads of games for it though even though it wasn't originally designed as a games machine.
Dixon's and Curry's ads are similar as they were both companies in the Dixon's Group.
Chocs is a common abbreviation of chocolate here.
The programs were kept on cassette and took about 20 mins to load onto early computers like the Spectrum, but they were a bit temperamental !
Remember the Sinclair 2 . My friend had one
Curry's and Dixons are same company. Sinclair Spectrum tape drive is for inputting your games an saving your data
Hi Happy Christmas from Grimsby in the UK. My first computer was a Commodore VIC 20 and all the programmes were on cassette tape. You could spend 10 minuets loading only to be you have told you have a loading error
That was a trip down memory lane.
You go back far enough and home computers used tape decks to store software on, and they screamed at you as they loaded...
Almost nobody "listens" to music any more. We consume music, when you bought a vinyl album, you put it on and listened to it from start to finish. Does anyone do that now? I try to, because I've realised what we are all missing, never hearing that great song on track 9 or 11 that you would nowadays skip over because the first 5 seconds don't sound so good. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Asda is now British owned again, Walmart sold it to two British businesses men 😊
The butter was funny ha ha
I think DIY is even bigger here, from the time I've spent in the US you guys tend to outsource way more, I can't think of any examples now but with stuff I wouldn't think twice about just doing myself (and would be the norm in the UK) loads of Americans (at least in Indiana) seem to be happy to pay someone to do - I mean the big one is yards/gardens, pretty much everyone seemed to pay a landscaper to maintain and mow their yards compared to the UK (although some people do). That's not the best example as that has more to do with the gardening culture in the UK, there were some really small things I was shocked people were paying other people do but for the life of me I can't remember what they were
Boots now owned by the US Pharmacy Walgreens.
Never downloaded a book, film or any music. Only buy physical media. Running out of room though!
It would be interesting if you let on every time you recognised any of the voices or faces featured in these ads.
The "gold" records will be third rate covers of popular hits or classic tunes that are royalty free, often just instrumental.
Didn't the US have home computers that loaded programmes VERY slowly off cassette tapes? Same technology as fax machines & dial up modems with the added thrill of potential failure when you discovered the tape had stretched after half an hour of listening to it buzz & chirp towards failure.