When I was a kid, and this commercial came on... we'd all jump to the TV and watch. It was a highlight of the day. They used to play it after school during the Paul Shannon Adventure Time on channel 4 Pittsburgh. Got introduced to the Little Rascals, Deputy Dawg and Ruff & Reddy on that show. Good Times.
Do you remember, NOSMO KING? He was played by Paul Shannon. NOSMO would drive his car on the Parkway! NOSMO King is No Smoking but the letters are spaced differently!
I went to college with the drummer. He lived for fruit and was a wiz in Anthropology class. He married a gorgeous brunette and became a successful lawyer in Tennessee. He gave a stirring speech at the Scopes Monkey Trial.
I remember this commercial from 1963-64. I was 8 years old. we had a 25in. black and white T.V. with rabbit ears to adjust the picture, no cable. We were lucky if we could get 3 stations at that time. Man, things have really changed.
Michael Carr In 1963 UK we had two channels, BBC TV and Independent Television. In 1964 we got BBC 2 as our third and in 1982 Channel 4 aired for the first time.
We were blessed to have a Tenna Rotor that my father and my uncle installed up on our roof. We could pull-in the New York Stations on most days. We lived 30 miles outside of Philly and about 55 miles from NYC as the crow flies. Those were the days. It wasn't like today as we have almost everything at our fingertips but it was like magic at any rate 60 years ago.
This commercial aired probably more than a decade before I was born, but I was still hearing about it years later, it was so legendary. Thanks to RUclips, I can now appreciate why my dad would only drink Red Rose Tea.
I thought about this commercial this morning and just wondered if I could find it here. I did. I remember when I use to see it as a kid in the 60's, I'd laugh my head off. Today, now I'm older, the commercial makes me sad. As a Black man, now I see what Madison Avenue thought of our race, when they'd, blatantly, discribe us as monkeys in our natural habitat (a jazz club). It was funny as a kid, but now I'm a man, not so much. To quote, the Apostle Paul, "when I became a man, I put away childish things".
How the heck does anyone NOT go out and by a box of Red Rose tea after seeing this? Regardless of how many boxes of Lipton, Salada, Twining's, etc. you have on hand.
Love. Many many thanks to the poster. A childhood favorite, always remembered. Only now, I'm adult, and know, Red Rose IS great tea! Better ice tea than Lipton.
Very popular TV commercial in the early 1960's, esp on Saturdays. Weekends were full of fun shows: Tarzan (going after the Nazis), Fireball XL5, Kung Fu theater, Sky King reruns, and Coyote versus Roadrunner. All the old explosive fun cartoons now forbidden on "modern" television.
I remember it from the Jerry Booth and Larry Sands afternoon kids show "Razzle Dazzle" from childhood in Dearborn, Michigan 1960-1963 from a Canadian station.
Channel 9 out of Ontario. I don't remember the call letters. From some reason this particular commercial indelibly etched itself in my memory as a child.
As I brew myself a cup of Red Rose Tea, I recall this commercial from 60 odd years ago. The old woman who looked after me used to serve me tea and toast after school.
I went to the store looking for some Oolong tea but they didn't have any so I bought Red rose because I remembered this commercial from when I was a kid.
I haven't seen this commercial since I was in the 6th grade; it was a show stopper, in black & white, back when TV was FREE. Probably sold more tea than Lipton
Brings back memories. I recall in addition to the TV commercials, they also had Red Rose Chimp poster ads attached to the light poles in the parking lot of our local A&P food store. I wonder who the ad agency was. Sterling Cooper? Did Don Draper make the pitch to the Red Rose folks?
About 1964, WMTW-TV (channel 8) Poland Spring, ME, Portland's ABC affiliate, ran this ad during "Talent Spotlight," a local amateur talent series that aired each week.
I was about 4 years old when this commercial for Red Rose Tea first came out. I'd drop whatever I was doing and watched it. It's still pretty funny! That time period was so innocent (ca. 1963), before JFK was assassinated. There were so many different companies that made our coffee, tea, and foods in general. There were few huge conglomerates that bought out these smaller companies. Now, there are maybe 3 huge corporations that own what used to be many competitors; now, they're all in bed with one another.
(2/1/18) I bought a box of Red Rose English Breakfast Tea yesterday... Not having thought of the brand in over 40 years, I was immediately reminded of this commercial, which I remembered from the early '60's, and wondered, "RUclips? Is it possible?" Of course it is, and here it is, exactly as I remembered it. I showed it to my son, age 20, just to share a slice of my youth, and he liked it... But he also said, "Dad, you know that this commercial could not be produced today, right? Not only would PETA object about what the chimps are being made to do, but, also, a lot of people would see chimpanzees playing Jazz, with its African-American roots, as a racist parody." I thought about that, and agreed that, indeed, it could not be made today... ...and that's kinda sad, isn't it?
Red Rose Tea was (and still is) sold in Canada where we routinely saw this and other variations of the Marquis Chimp's tea commercials. Didn't know they sold Red Rose Tea in the U.S. (unless it was an import) since other non-chimp Red Rose TV ads announced, "...only in Canada, you say?". This particular brand was originally part of Brooke Bond, its British parent company.
So does this mean that both Red Rose and PG Tips are exactly the same tea? I have yet to perform a taste test side-by-side to determine this. I suspect that many teas have the same blend but are renamed and marketed differently in various parts of the world.
Red Rose Tea has been sold in the US for at least seventy years. As to the determination of whether it's an import or licensed for domestic production, I don't think I could come to a conclusion based upon the content of a television advertisement.
When I was a kid growing up in Detroit they only show this commercial occasionally on Channel 9 which was from Windsor Ontario in Canada I believe there was some kind of trouble with the n-double-acp or this commercial so they weren't showing it on the other stations only occasionally have kids shows on the Canadian stations I'm glad I found it again it happened what we put together great from the music is cool
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Approximately, what year was this commercial popular? I remember it from childhood but am not certain if I saw it when it was originally. I remember my brother and I driving our mother crazy singing, "red rose, red rose....", for hours after we'd see the chimps, lol
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When I was a kid, and this commercial came on... we'd all jump to the TV and watch. It was a highlight of the day. They used to play it after school during the Paul Shannon Adventure Time on channel 4 Pittsburgh. Got introduced to the Little Rascals, Deputy Dawg and Ruff & Reddy on that show. Good Times.
me too, same show, same city!!!!! love it
WTAE-TV's after school programming was my first exposure to the legendary commercial. Mom used to hate it when I did the "Teee-ea Yow!" part.
Me too 😂as a kid in Detroit we would jump up and dance😂😂
Apparently my grandmother was on the Paul Shannon adventure time show as a kid.
Do you remember, NOSMO KING? He was played by Paul Shannon. NOSMO would drive his car on the Parkway! NOSMO King is No Smoking but the letters are spaced differently!
I went to college with the drummer. He lived for fruit and was a wiz in Anthropology class. He married a gorgeous brunette and became a successful lawyer in Tennessee. He gave a stirring speech at the Scopes Monkey Trial.
That's hilarious ! Thanks
It probably took a million takes to make this commercial, but it was one of the best one's ever made.
Hands down the greatest TV commercial ever made!!!
Fifty plus years later and this commercial still cracks me up....Think I'll go have a cup of tea...LOL
Ever since the 1960s and when I see Red Rose tea, I think of this commercial. Great fun.
I remember this commercial from 1963-64. I was 8 years old. we had a 25in. black and white T.V. with rabbit ears to adjust the picture, no cable. We were lucky if we could get 3 stations at that time. Man, things have really changed.
Michael Carr In 1963 UK we had two channels, BBC TV and Independent Television. In 1964 we got BBC 2 as our third and in 1982 Channel 4 aired for the first time.
We were blessed to have a Tenna Rotor that my father and my uncle installed up on our roof. We could pull-in the New York Stations on most days. We lived 30 miles outside of Philly and about 55 miles from NYC as the crow flies. Those were the days. It wasn't like today as we have almost everything at our fingertips but it was like magic at any rate 60 years ago.
Best commercial with chimps ever!
This is my all time favorite commercial. I taught myself the trombone solo in high school.
That means you should have a career playing 👍🏻
Most memorable ad we saw as kids back in the day! Hey, those chimps play a mean jazz!
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I have not seen this in going on 60 years. Thank you!
My two brothers and I thought this was hilarious when it first aired back in (I'm guessing) the early 1960s.
This was my favorite commercial...I never pay much attention to ads but this grabbed me. I bought the tea and I still do and I'm now 65.
Yep! 64 here…this always cracked me up! We would laugh & dance to it as kids! 😂
This commercial aired probably more than a decade before I was born, but I was still hearing about it years later, it was so legendary. Thanks to RUclips, I can now appreciate why my dad would only drink Red Rose Tea.
I want some of that tea!! The joint is jumping.
All these years later and I am still a devoted fan of Red Rose Tea.
As a child...
THIS COMMERCIAL WAS OFF THE CHAIN!
😂🤣😂🤣😭
i remember this add when i was very very young , i am drinking a cup of red rose tea as i comment i will be 79 soon and enjoy my cuppa.
Vocals are awesome.
When I was a kid this commercial used to crack me up!
Searched for this and there it was!!!! Love this!!!! Brings back memories from the early 60's.
I thought about this commercial this morning and just wondered if I could find it here. I did. I remember when I use to see it as a kid in the 60's, I'd laugh my head off. Today, now I'm older, the commercial makes me sad. As a Black man, now I see what Madison Avenue thought of our race, when they'd, blatantly, discribe us as monkeys in our natural habitat (a jazz club). It was funny as a kid, but now I'm a man, not so much. To quote, the Apostle Paul, "when I became a man, I put away childish things".
My all time favorite commercial!!
How the heck does anyone NOT go out and by a box of Red Rose tea after seeing this? Regardless of how many boxes of Lipton, Salada, Twining's, etc. you have on hand.
My favorite all time comercial
I remember this commercial when I was a kid!
Love. Many many thanks to the poster. A childhood favorite, always remembered. Only now, I'm adult, and know, Red Rose IS great tea! Better ice tea than Lipton.
Very popular TV commercial in the early 1960's, esp on Saturdays. Weekends were full of fun shows: Tarzan (going after the Nazis), Fireball XL5, Kung Fu theater, Sky King reruns, and Coyote versus Roadrunner. All the old explosive fun cartoons now forbidden on "modern" television.
Vocals are awesome. This has been stuck in my brain for a while.
I remember it from the Jerry Booth and Larry Sands afternoon kids show "Razzle Dazzle" from childhood in Dearborn, Michigan 1960-1963 from a Canadian station.
Channel 9 out of Ontario. I don't remember the call letters. From some reason this particular commercial indelibly etched itself in my memory as a child.
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Do you remember Milky the Clown? Or Bobbin' with Robin, starring Robin Seymour. A teen dance show out of Windsor?
i remember watching these in the mid 1960s, 63 64. this is around when we got our first tv. they may have started earlier.
Absolutely right I remember this commercial and Paul shanon he used to have the Munsters the three stooges also
The greatest Stoner tune ever written for the 1970s.
This is probably my favorite commecial of all times!
As I brew myself a cup of Red Rose Tea, I recall this commercial from 60 odd years ago. The old woman who looked after me used to serve me tea and toast after school.
I went to the store looking for some Oolong tea but they didn't have any so I bought Red rose because I remembered this commercial from when I was a kid.
I haven't seen this commercial since I was in the 6th grade; it was a show stopper, in black & white, back when TV was FREE. Probably sold more tea than Lipton
it's available on a 45 rpm record at attic record shop Pittsburgh pa.
Precisely where I got my copy 👍
So glad you put this on, i remember this commercial when i was a kid !!🤣
One of the best ever....
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The trombone player was my grand father bill dadson
REmember this from when I was a kid . My favorite and THE BEST COMMERCIAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD . EEEOWE.
I loved this commercial back in the 60s.
I love this commercial.
Besides this one...they made one with the chimps on the golf course...and as astronauts...1960...
Oh! The Memories!! I remember seeing this daily! Sometimes they would run it almost every hour!!
WYDD, an album rock station in Pittsburgh, used to play the as filler between sides of the night's featured album.
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Mad Mike used to play this at West View Danceland when I was a teen. Great tune!
I completely forgot about that! WYDD was probably where I first heard it in the 70’s
Miss YDD. Soundtrack of my youth.
Brings back memories. I recall in addition to the TV commercials, they also had Red Rose Chimp poster ads attached to the light poles in the parking lot of our local A&P food store. I wonder who the ad agency was. Sterling Cooper? Did Don Draper make the pitch to the Red Rose folks?
love that commercial
love this commerical
I remember this commercial. It was hilarious.
Hahahahaha! I remember this like it was yesterday!!
This was also used in England to advertise PG Tips tea and spun of into a series of it's own there.
Kevin Smith brought me here...
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sooo freaking adorable!
About 1964, WMTW-TV (channel 8) Poland Spring, ME, Portland's ABC affiliate, ran this ad during "Talent Spotlight," a local amateur talent series that aired each week.
I was about 4 years old when this commercial for Red Rose Tea first came out. I'd drop whatever I was doing and watched it. It's still pretty funny! That time period was so innocent (ca. 1963), before JFK was assassinated.
There were so many different companies that made our coffee, tea, and foods in general. There were few huge conglomerates that bought out these smaller companies. Now, there are maybe 3 huge corporations that own what used to be many competitors; now, they're all in bed with one another.
LOVE that jazz!
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The exact same footage was used by the UK company PG Tips for their tea ads. There was a whole series of them.
They were both owned by the same company. There was a Red Rose version of every one of those PG Tips commercials with the chimps.
(2/1/18)
I bought a box of Red Rose English Breakfast Tea yesterday...
Not having thought of the brand in over 40 years, I was immediately reminded of this commercial, which I remembered from the early '60's, and wondered, "RUclips? Is it possible?"
Of course it is, and here it is, exactly as I remembered it.
I showed it to my son, age 20, just to share a slice of my youth, and he liked it...
But he also said, "Dad, you know that this commercial could not be produced today, right? Not only would PETA object about what the chimps are being made to do, but, also, a lot of people would see chimpanzees playing Jazz, with its African-American roots, as a racist parody."
I thought about that, and agreed that, indeed, it could not be made today...
...and that's kinda sad, isn't it?
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Yep…sad, but so happy we got to enjoy it as kids!! 😂
Trivia Question: What was the name of the chimp bandleader?
Answer: Banana Bread Brown
The best commercial ever. There hasn't been a better one since. KILL YOUR TV.
So this is what cut up Bruce Willis on the set of Cop Out? Okay...
IN EVERY ADVERT NOW
red rose tea!
all time fav commericial!
1960...
Red Rose Tea was (and still is) sold in Canada where we routinely saw this and other variations of the Marquis Chimp's tea commercials. Didn't know they sold Red Rose Tea in the U.S. (unless it was an import) since other non-chimp Red Rose TV ads announced, "...only in Canada, you say?". This particular brand was originally part of Brooke Bond, its British parent company.
That was why this advert was also shown in the UK but for PG tips advertising
So does this mean that both Red Rose and PG Tips are exactly the same tea? I have yet to perform a taste test side-by-side to determine this. I suspect that many teas have the same blend but are renamed and marketed differently in various parts of the world.
Red Rose Tea has been sold in the US for at least seventy years. As to the determination of whether it's an import or licensed for domestic production, I don't think I could come to a conclusion based upon the content of a television advertisement.
When I was a kid growing up in Detroit they only show this commercial occasionally on Channel 9 which was from Windsor Ontario in Canada I believe there was some kind of trouble with the n-double-acp or this commercial so they weren't showing it on the other stations only occasionally have kids shows on the Canadian stations I'm glad I found it again it happened what we put together great from the music is cool
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love that commercual
I just bought red rose yesterday and was thinking if the little statues that you would keep
Anyone watching this classic Red Rose Tea commercial New Years Day 2020?
Bruce Willis fav commercial..
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Nice job!!! Loved it, 63 here, dog's a little freaky LOL (mine)
They stopped these commercials because black people thought they were making fun of them
What fun!
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Happy Birthday Surgar Bush.
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I'll Always Love you Surgar Bush.
As Honest as any Chimpanzee,
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It is funny some of the things I remember from my childhood.
HAVE a cup today!!!!
So cute I can't stand it.
This commercial scared the shit out of my little brother when we were kids!
Approximately, what year was this commercial popular? I remember it from childhood but am not certain if I saw it when it was originally. I remember my brother and I driving our mother crazy singing, "red rose, red rose....", for hours after we'd see the chimps, lol
Love this.
Orginal full flavored tea red rose sent me here
Song ?
My favorite commercial when I was a kid. 🥰 I never thought of it as racist & I hope the creators didn't intend to be. 🐵
OF COURSE someone would start in with the "it's racist" bullshit.
"I never thought of it as racist ..." You just did.
Who played the theme for the Red Rose Tea chimp commercial
OMG ! I would like to Dedicate this song to All of My CB Radio friends that have passed away . We all talked on channel 10 (the Zoo channel) There are only 2 of Us left out of about 15 Guy's.
I dedicate this song to the Irish Blue shirts
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OMG!!
The 'human' singing "Red Rose Tea" sounds remarkably like Gary Moore, of The Gary Moore Show, and To Tell the Truth fame.
apparently, the tea has meth in it. 😁
Bozo or Major Mudd here in Boston….
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