They left off the ending! When he looks at the camera and says now I take a bite? They retook the commercial several times but he always asked should he take a bite at the end of it instead of just taking the bite. It was so cute because they just ended up leaving it in and he stole everyone's heart. Now I take a bite? ❤
The Tang ad made more sense than you might think. When that commercial was made, it was common knowledge that NASA astronauts used the drink powder on space missions.
Dude, the commercial with the kid singing bologna... was huge back in the day. And adored. Watching it now brought me right back to the 1970s. In fact, I remember just about ALL of these commercials. Some, I haven't seen in the past 45-50 years.... until now. Thank you.
Great reaction to a great compilation. Our middle school marching band played that Budweiser song as one of our stand tunes, lol! I wished they had included Nair's, "We wear short shorts" and Mr. Microphone's, "Hey, good looking, I'll be back to pick you up later!" Thumbs up!!!
I just looked it up. From Wikipedia: For many years, Mikey was the subject of an urban legend that purported that he had died after consuming Pop Rocks and Coke, supposedly causing a fatal stomach rupture. He’s still alive. 😂
I'm 70 years old and I could sing along with every single one of those jingles! It really made me nostalgic. You don't see commercials like that on TV anymore. Thanks for doing this… I really enjoyed it!
In Deadpool, he does an homage to the car commerical that Ricardo Montalban is in when he says "soft Corinthian leather" in the scene where Deadpool is in the car fighting. Not many people catch it but us Gen Xer's did :)
The Oscar Mayer Bologna commercial was indeed iconic for GenX. If you are any of us we can recite that song by heart. It is also the way we all learned how to spell Bologna at an early age.
On the Bounty paper towel commercial, of course those aren't words but that's kind of the point. You still know what they mean and it's very memorable. Even today, the Bounty website still uses the phrase "the quicker picker-upper." The actress in the commercial, Nancy Walker, did those ads for 20 years. She was on numerous television shows from the 1970s until her death in the early 1990s. I'm surprised that there wasn't an ad for Palmolive dish soap with Madge the manicurist. Those ads ran for many years, too.
"Picker-upper" existed before as a phrase, but Bounty truly employed it well. Yes, that is the product slogan now 40/50 years later. Most of those slogans have changed, and a few of those products no longer exist. Bounty's slogan hasn't changed. You can occasionally STILL(!) see the Tootsie Pop and its brother Tootsie Roll commercial on television!
BTW, the middle of a tootsie pop is chewy chocolate...basically a tootsie roll but smaller (I was born in 1983 but I remember that commercial...I think they played it for a long time)
The "taste great/less filling commercial" was full of very famous people. I think you recognized Rodney Dangerfield, but everyone in the scene were famous authors, athletes, performers, and celebrities of all kinds.
@@gkiferonhs tastes great less filling was our call and respond to our teams college rivals. We'd scream it to each other before each half and kickoff. We also had a keg in each endzone. Things we could do in the 80s.. Yowza. Granted we were the Ultimate Frisbee team but we were still a recognized and sanctioned team.
This really took me back!!! I remember almost all of these commercials... just a couple of them I didn't. Lordy youngun you made my day!! Thank you!!😀 Love and prayers from western NC❤❤🙏🙏
When I think about all the great jingles from childhood in the 70s, I think the Oscar Meyer Bologna one was the best. It was great to see how it can still garner such a positive response from someone some 45 or 50 years later.
The bad thing about the compilation is there were partial clips mixed in with full clips. The crying Injun uh crying Italian is actually what opened a lot of people's eyes to it being bad to throw trash out of the car. The spicy meatball ad is the first commercial to be a victim of cancel culture. Italian groups complained and got it pulled. The next was the calgon ad.
@@LoriPeace A ppart of the commercial was omitted that made the thing "work": After all the takes with pronunciation mistakes, wheen it was finally spoken perfectly, the door on the oven fell off----thus ruining the correct pronunciation goal.
Exactly! I remember the Indian, Give a Hoot and don’t pollute, and Smokey the bear, growing up. It made a difference to our generation. Seems that consideration has faded now.
These commercials were just slightly before my time, but I was surprised how many of them i knew! Some of them kept on playing through the 80s, or were remade with the same jingles. The tootsie roll pop one was on forever. I think i even saw it on TV at one point LAST YEAR! It always makes me smile. As a kid, i tried so hard to answer the "how many licks" question. I had more patience than the owl, but not enough to keep licking the whole way. I never saw the Frito Bandito one, but immediately recognized it. My parents used to sing it all the time!
That person wasn't really an Indian he was Italian. His name was Espera Oscar de Corti he changed his name to Iron Eyes Cody. Putting drugs in coke was a myth.
Not a myth, that's where coca-cola got its name. In the 1800s they bragged about how much coca leaves were in the product. It was gradually reduced over time, until 1929 as previously mentioned, when the coca ingredient was completely discontinued. My great grandfather was born in 1882, he remembered it having a "kick" when he was a kid.
Iron Eyes Cody, the “Indian“ in the littering commercial, as I understand it, was actually not of American Indian origin/decent/heritage. I believe he was actually of Italian descent. However, he played American Indians throughout his long film career.
Back in the day we used to eat this candy called Pop Rocks. Basically you put them in your mouth and they create all these little explosions in your mouth. We were all convinced that if you had Pop Rocks and Coke together you would die. Rumor was Mikey from the cereal commercial expired from doing that. But it was an urban legend. And yes the Bologna commercial was very popular. I was singing along...😂
4:48 This is supposed be the making of a commercial and since the guy was eating the meatballs over and over as they were constantly doing retakes, he was getting heartburn from the spicy meatballs. He would need Alka Seltzer to relieve the heartburn.
part of the story was omitted.. After many takes ruined by pronunciation errors--the words came out correctly--they all felt relief, but the oven door fell off----then the Alka Seltzer ad appeared.
Okay, here's some olde skool observations: 1. "Have A Coke and a Smile" with Mean Joe Greene was filmed in my home town of Mount Vernon, NY. The arena was Memorial Field. 2. The Dr. Pepper dude is An American Werewolf in London. 3. Geoffrey Holder, in the 7UP commercial starred as William Shakespeare in the original Doctor Doolittle, starring Rex Harrison. 🙃
The cologne commercial for Charlie was very good. I went to high school with the spokeswoman for it. Her boyfriend was the lead singer of the rock group Alice Cooper.
The sound quality of the commercials were fine when they were originally aired 50 or 60 years ago, but quality of film and audio can deteriorate and not sound as good as when it was originally aired.
I was thinking the same thing. These commercials are over 50 to 60 years ago! I don’t think it was connecting for the guy. I mean, going back 50 years from 1970, would be 1920, when the films were silent! 😅
5:21 Burt Bacharach was a singer/composer who wrote a lot of music for Dionne Warwick. The woman in the commercial is Angie Dickinson. She’s most famous for her role in Police Woman.
Coca-Cola did originally contain a small amount of cocaine, hence the "coca". It was originally a patent medicine, and the plain syrup could be bought in small bottles OTC into the 70s for stomach upset.
When my daughter was two, early 21st century, I told her about the Oscar Mayer commercials. She was learning to sign, and knew the alphabet. I signed the letters as I sang it. That way, she could sing along. She loved the game, and after a few times, she got ahead of my signing, and was singing it herself. That was how I realized she was ready to learn to read. I did little spelling games with her. After she turned three, she read her first book without help. It was a simple, cardboard book, but she attempted it when she was alone in her room, and came running to brag about it. Commercials used to be entertaining, and clever things families could enjoy together. Now people sing and dance to celebrate how good their drugs make them feel. Scare tactics attempt to force sales. Advertising is a dirty business. I enjoyed this trip down memory lane. Several of those commercials had the same jingle, or tagline used in various different settings. Other kids sang O S C A R, etc., but everyone love the little fishing boy the best. ❤😊👍🏼
I remember back in the early 70s, my grandparents actually gave me a high karate aftershave/cologne gift set. Wish I still had it. I can still smell that stuff now. EightHHH… Memories. :-)
You're completely messing up the Coca Cola history. When Coke came out in the late 1800s cocaine was a primary ingredient. That's where the name came from. Eventually they phased it out
It started out as a patent medicine with coke leaves and kola nuts used for caffeine. When the temperance movement started, the cocaine was removed and it was sold as a nonalcoholic drink.
Nothing like those cars especially in the '60 & into the '70's, with those white wall tires!! And if it was a convertible, WOW!. My friend & I drove up to the country on a warm summer night in her white 1960 Ford Thunderbird convertible, red leather interior, white wall tires -- what a feeling. Something young(ish) people will never experience. What a shame. And there were no worries about the constant outrageous non-stop crimes that are going on now all over the world. Take a look at the Caddy's, the 1972 Buick Le sabre. At 5:19 is famous composer Burt Bacharach & actress Angie Dickinson, 5:33 is famous football player Joe Namath & the blond looks like actress Farrah Fawcett. Mikey cereal commercial ran for 12 yrs. -- the 2 boys are his brothers. Info says "Many untrue stories were spread about him. The most famous one was that he died while consuming both soda and pop rocks. That of course never happened." He works in the film industry & lives in NY State with his wife & 3 children. Yes I remember the Oscar Meyer commercial with the cute little boy. 21:54 actor Scott Baio for Dr..Pepper. There were also a lot of ads for cigarettes back then.
Tootsie roll was a type of candy best description UK would understand is chocolate Taffy (chewy like gum but you eat it). White Owl were cigarettes, yes we had ads for them back then. The Oscar Mayer adverts I still randomly catch myself singing even today.🙃 Along with I'm a toys r us kid and sometimes you feel like a nut even have a dog named nut...lol. Alka Seltzer is an antacid. Cocaine in coke ended in 1929. The Budweiser commercial I'd forgotten until I heard it. Great Video
Since it’s in black-and-white, the Fritos corn chips commercial must have been from the 60s. Television in the US went to color in the early 60s and by 1970, everything was in color (other than old shows that were still being aired).
The quality of the video is because they were recorded on VCR’s which is analog and has quality loss not only when recording, but the quality also goes down as the video tapes age.
The "Mikey" commercial at 6:44 was one of the most famous commercials of all time. The little boy who played Mikey was able to finance his college education with the money he made from this. The anti-pollution commercial at 3:39 was also very famous. The man playing the Indian was not even a Native-American. He was Sicilian,but married to an Indian woman and lived with her on a reservation. He often portayed an Indian in movies and TV because of his looks. The little boy in the Oscar Meyer balonie commercial grew up to be quite successful. I believe he's a software developer. Children of the 1970's would always quote the "Please don't squeeze the Charmin" commercial.
I remember pretty much all of these ads. And yes, the bologna kid was very popular back then! I never thought I would be nostalgic for commercials, but when you're suffering through 10,000 advertisements for pharmaceuticals nowadays, it really does make you wish for the old days.
❤ I'm 49 and took piano lessons in 1982-86. My teacher had me playing from a book of about 30 tv commercial jingles. I remember about 3/4 of these. What stands out the most was how many black people were in them. I thought we weren't that accepting back then. But I was sheltered in a small rural town of 7,000 in central california. Thanks for the video!
Tang was very associated with space. It was what the astronauts drank, supposedly. So there was a lot of space-related advertising. AquaNet wasn't so much advertised all the time as it was super cheap. Coke had cocaine WAY back, I think, but not by the time it was a popular drink. The "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coke commercial was fun. It was based on Woodstock, and they got all the same people to re-do it I think 20 years later. (It's from one of the hokey old folk songs I love most, which was the same thing except with less Coke involved.) I'm a Pepper was definitely a Barry Manilow jingle. My babysitter was a Manilow fan and she literally switched soft drinks just because he wrote the jingle.
There was an urban legend going around that if you ate Pop Rocks and drank soda, the combined fizzing would make you explode, and when people asked if that ever actually happened to anyone, they would always say it was Mikey from the Life Cereal commercial. (Although, I also heard a version where it was Zack the Lego Maniac.)
Back before Internet, we did not wait for commercials (television advertisements were called commercials while print or radio advertisements are recorded). What we waited for was for the commercials to be over to get back to our shows. There were some good commercials, but that is not what we wanted to see.
Hey, back in the day we didn't have a way to pause a program-- commercials were the things that let us run to the bathroom or grab something from the kitchen before the show "came back on". The music/jingles followed you around and let you know how your timing was going! If you missed something, you had to wait for "reruns" in the summertime to see what you missed!
The Indian named Iron Eyes Cody with the one year made an impact when it first aired but later down the line it came out that the "Indian, Iron Eyes Cody" was actually an Italian American named Espera Oscar De Corti and people were upset that they didn't use an actual native American to portray the "Indian"
I remember all these commercials and the words to the jingles too. My friends from grade school and I used to do the fig newton dance 😁. Thanks for the memories, it was fun to watch all those commercials again.
Rula Lenska in the VO5 commercial was in a British TV show called Rock Follies. It aired in the states for a short time, but you should look for it as part of your TV history.
The commercial with the football player was Mean Joe Greene, notorious being mean and tough on the football field. The joke is that he was nice to the kid and gave him the shirt thanks to Coke making him smile.
Here is some context for the Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop. The lollipop has a Tootsie Roll in the center. The context of the commercial is that as kids we would suck/lick the lollipop but eventually we would bite it to get to the center. The commercial leads us to believe that we would finally get an answer, but the owl does exactly what we did.
A Purdue University in Indiana (the state I live in) study found it took an average of 364 licks to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop using a licking machine. A tootsie roll is a chewy chocolate Carmel sort of candy. A tootsie pop surrounds a lollipop shell outside this candy. They’re kind of addictive. Yes, the Oscar Mayer commercials were super catchy during that time. I still use Aqua Net hairspray but it isn’t as effective as it used to be.
A small tootsie roll center was in the relative middle of the Tootsie Roll Pop. The Alka Seltzer commercial was heavily based on a different commercial that was, if I remember correctly, for Prego or Ragu spaghetti sauce. Martini & Rossi : Burt Bacharach was wildly famous for his songs and the lady was Angie Dickenson, who was famous for being both beautiful and an actress that had a cop show way back when where she was the main star. She did other acting before and probably after. Very cool lady! Coast Soap: backstroke: it was raining, thundering outside. Its better to see the full commercials for less confusion but you can hear it in the background.
The crying Indian!!! who turned out to be Italian... And "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." That's still one of my favorites. 😁 Tang was supposedly made for astronauts to take into space with them. It was an orange drink mix that was very high in vitamin C. The 'space age' was a BIG selling device back in the 60's and 70s.
I wish they had included more of the original commercials. I think the one "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" was for a margarine that fooled her into thinking it was butter. My favorite is the Mean Joe Green commercial, but from the snippet they showed you'd never guess what was going on.
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The Oscar Mayer commercial was how we all learned how to spell bologna😂.
Facts!!! 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂 Me too!
They left off the ending! When he looks at the camera and says now I take a bite?
They retook the commercial several times but he always asked should he take a bite at the end of it instead of just taking the bite. It was so cute because they just ended up leaving it in and he stole everyone's heart. Now I take a bite? ❤
It's true! IT'S TRUE!!!🤣
@@terrimobley6067 I remember him saying "how's that?"
The Tang ad made more sense than you might think. When that commercial was made, it was common knowledge that NASA astronauts used the drink powder on space missions.
Dude, the commercial with the kid singing bologna... was huge back in the day. And adored. Watching it now brought me right back to the 1970s. In fact, I remember just about ALL of these commercials. Some, I haven't seen in the past 45-50 years.... until now. Thank you.
Oh, yeah, definitely. Was that one of Barry Manilow's jingles? I don't remember.
sux they cut the last part of the commercial
Me, too.
They cut off the end when the kid says, "How's that?"
That Oscar Mayer commercial was how I learned to spell B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
ABSOLUTELY and I still sing that song
You're an old soul .. very cool ! Loved this post! 😂 Excellent commercials from my day. Keep them coming please
Some of these commercials have been shortened so you don’t get the real gist of the commercial.
Great reaction to a great compilation. Our middle school marching band played that Budweiser song as one of our stand tunes, lol! I wished they had included Nair's, "We wear short shorts" and Mr. Microphone's, "Hey, good looking, I'll be back to pick you up later!"
Thumbs up!!!
I just looked it up. From Wikipedia:
For many years, Mikey was the subject of an urban legend that purported that he had died after consuming Pop Rocks and Coke, supposedly causing a fatal stomach rupture.
He’s still alive. 😂
Wasn’t it also purported to be a kid that did die of mixing pop rocks and coke?
I didn't have to look it up.
I tried the pop rocks and coke. So glad it was a small amount and I didn't swallow it. Thank God!!
Never again!!
Ok!!! Who here remembers the Frito Bandito campaign, where they put pencil erasers of the bandit in the bags?!? I managed to get all the colors!!!😂😂😂
I had them too!! Lol
I'm 70 years old and I could sing along with every single one of those jingles! It really made me nostalgic. You don't see commercials like that on TV anymore. Thanks for doing this… I really enjoyed it!
In Deadpool, he does an homage to the car commerical that Ricardo Montalban is in when he says "soft Corinthian leather" in the scene where Deadpool is in the car fighting. Not many people catch it but us Gen Xer's did :)
Yes! 😂 It used to be a running joke back then.
"picker-upper" is now a word thanks to that diner waitress. she was a pretty famous actress.
The Oscar Mayer Bologna commercial was indeed iconic for GenX. If you are any of us we can recite that song by heart. It is also the way we all learned how to spell Bologna at an early age.
I remember every single one of those thanks for the memories. Hey Mikey.
On the Bounty paper towel commercial, of course those aren't words but that's kind of the point. You still know what they mean and it's very memorable. Even today, the Bounty website still uses the phrase "the quicker picker-upper." The actress in the commercial, Nancy Walker, did those ads for 20 years. She was on numerous television shows from the 1970s until her death in the early 1990s.
I'm surprised that there wasn't an ad for Palmolive dish soap with Madge the manicurist. Those ads ran for many years, too.
"Picker-upper" existed before as a phrase, but Bounty truly employed it well. Yes, that is the product slogan now 40/50 years later. Most of those slogans have changed, and a few of those products no longer exist. Bounty's slogan hasn't changed.
You can occasionally STILL(!) see the Tootsie Pop and its brother Tootsie Roll commercial on television!
BTW, the middle of a tootsie pop is chewy chocolate...basically a tootsie roll but smaller (I was born in 1983 but I remember that commercial...I think they played it for a long time)
Yep, at least 2 decades.
The "taste great/less filling commercial" was full of very famous people. I think you recognized Rodney Dangerfield, but everyone in the scene were famous authors, athletes, performers, and celebrities of all kinds.
@@gkiferonhs tastes great less filling was our call and respond to our teams college rivals. We'd scream it to each other before each half and kickoff. We also had a keg in each endzone. Things we could do in the 80s.. Yowza. Granted we were the Ultimate Frisbee team but we were still a recognized and sanctioned team.
and Marv Throneberry. ;-)
This really took me back!!! I remember almost all of these commercials... just a couple of them I didn't. Lordy youngun you made my day!! Thank you!!😀
Love and prayers from western NC❤❤🙏🙏
Coke got rid of cocaine early in 1929
It was legal back then.
My grandmother always drank Coke in a shot glass, even in the 1960's-- she was a newlywed in WWI.
I still sing the bologna and the oscar meyer weiner songs im 54 😂
Yep. It's how we all learned how to spell bologna😊
Yep. Me too!
When I think about all the great jingles from childhood in the 70s, I think the Oscar Meyer Bologna one was the best. It was great to see how it can still garner such a positive response from someone some 45 or 50 years later.
Ooo...Mandela effect. If you watch the commercials again, they spell it Mayer, not Meyer. I remember it being spelled Meyer .
WOW. This wrenched out some long-forgotten memories.
The B-O-L-O-G-N-A song was a very successful campaign for Oscar Mayer and they used it for decades.
Oh boy, these took me back to my childhood. Commercials were more entertaining.
I love the old commercials. They were the best.
I'm old. I knew them all.
That's so crazy that somebody across the ocean has heard the rumors of little Mikey from when the early '80s late '70s lol
The bad thing about the compilation is there were partial clips mixed in with full clips. The crying Injun uh crying Italian is actually what opened a lot of people's eyes to it being bad to throw trash out of the car. The spicy meatball ad is the first commercial to be a victim of cancel culture. Italian groups complained and got it pulled. The next was the calgon ad.
Yes! That was my objection as well. Too many of the commercials were just little bits instead of the whole thing.
@@LoriPeace A ppart of the commercial was omitted that made the thing "work": After all the takes with pronunciation mistakes, wheen it was finally spoken perfectly, the door on the oven fell off----thus ruining the correct pronunciation goal.
Exactly! I remember the Indian, Give a Hoot and don’t pollute, and Smokey the bear, growing up. It made a difference to our generation. Seems that consideration has faded now.
These commercials were just slightly before my time, but I was surprised how many of them i knew! Some of them kept on playing through the 80s, or were remade with the same jingles. The tootsie roll pop one was on forever. I think i even saw it on TV at one point LAST YEAR! It always makes me smile. As a kid, i tried so hard to answer the "how many licks" question. I had more patience than the owl, but not enough to keep licking the whole way.
I never saw the Frito Bandito one, but immediately recognized it. My parents used to sing it all the time!
The "Indian w tear" isn't Indian.
He's an Italian that had recently moved to the US. Didn't even speak english..
Martini and Rossi was a brand of vermouth, hard liquor. Back then, there were alcohol and cigarette commercials.
That person wasn't really an Indian he was Italian. His name was Espera Oscar de Corti he changed his name to Iron Eyes Cody.
Putting drugs in coke was a myth.
Sorry! You’re wrong about the drugs in Coke-they Did put it in the Original CocaCola!!!
@@cynthiamgrooms8195Yes! It was common knowledge back then… I guess, not so much now?!
Not a myth, that's where coca-cola got its name. In the 1800s they bragged about how much coca leaves were in the product. It was gradually reduced over time, until 1929 as previously mentioned, when the coca ingredient was completely discontinued. My great grandfather was born in 1882, he remembered it having a "kick" when he was a kid.
@QueenAstroParticle they no longer do that. People say they do, thats what I meant when i said it's a myth. Sorry for the confusion.
Iron Eyes Cody, the “Indian“ in the littering commercial, as I understand it, was actually not of American Indian origin/decent/heritage.
I believe he was actually of Italian descent. However, he played American Indians throughout his long film career.
That's correct.
Mom had a 1975 Cordoba. Was an awesome car.
Bounty is paper towels not toilet tissue. There wouldn’t be toilet tissue in a restaurant’s kitchen.
Back in the day we used to eat this candy called Pop Rocks. Basically you put them in your mouth and they create all these little explosions in your mouth. We were all convinced that if you had Pop Rocks and Coke together you would die. Rumor was Mikey from the cereal commercial expired from doing that. But it was an urban legend. And yes the Bologna commercial was very popular. I was singing along...😂
4:48 This is supposed be the making of a commercial and since the guy was eating the meatballs over and over as they were constantly doing retakes, he was getting heartburn from the spicy meatballs. He would need Alka Seltzer to relieve the heartburn.
part of the story was omitted.. After many takes ruined by pronunciation errors--the words came out correctly--they all felt relief, but the oven door fell off----then the Alka Seltzer ad appeared.
Okay, here's some olde skool observations:
1. "Have A Coke and a Smile" with Mean Joe Greene was filmed in my home town of Mount Vernon, NY. The arena was Memorial Field.
2. The Dr. Pepper dude is An American Werewolf in London.
3. Geoffrey Holder, in the 7UP commercial starred as William Shakespeare in the original Doctor Doolittle, starring Rex Harrison.
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Cool facts! Thank you for sharing 😊
OMG! I was just laughing that I know all of this stuff - you got your chocolate in my peanut butter! Hahahaha
No, you got peanut butter on my chocolate! LOL
The cologne commercial for Charlie was very good. I went to high school with the spokeswoman for it. Her boyfriend was the lead singer of the rock group
Alice Cooper.
The sound quality of the commercials were fine when they were originally aired 50 or 60 years ago, but quality of film and audio can deteriorate and not sound as good as when it was originally aired.
I was thinking the same thing. These commercials are over 50 to 60 years ago! I don’t think it was connecting for the guy. I mean, going back 50 years from 1970, would be 1920, when the films were silent! 😅
Unfortunately, they've clipped these commercials so short that you don't get the full effect.
Bain de solie turned you orange as hell along with sun in turning a lot of peoples hair orange we all looked like a bunch of tall ooompa loompas
Don’t forget to add the Sun In! 😂
I remember one summer afternoon with QT and Sun In, my skin was orange and my hair was copper!
I use to love the way it smelled and made u all glisteny
I almost forgot about QT! My best friend and I looked like tigers!😂
5:21 Burt Bacharach was a singer/composer who wrote a lot of music for Dionne Warwick. The woman in the commercial is Angie Dickinson. She’s most famous for her role in Police Woman.
21:30 from 1886 to 1929 Coke did have cocaine in the soda.
@@Jerry-c6x2c Hence the antiquated slogan, “The pause that refreshes”. 😉
Coca-Cola did originally contain a small amount of cocaine, hence the "coca". It was originally a patent medicine, and the plain syrup could be bought in small bottles OTC into the 70s for stomach upset.
Tang came out as a drink that NASA used for the astronauts. Hence the moon rocks and the space aliens advertising tang
When my daughter was two, early 21st century, I told her about the Oscar Mayer commercials.
She was learning to sign, and knew the alphabet. I signed the letters as I sang it. That way, she could sing along. She loved the game, and after a few times, she got ahead of my signing, and was singing it herself.
That was how I realized she was ready to learn to read. I did little spelling games with her. After she turned three, she read her first book without help. It was a simple, cardboard book, but she attempted it when she was alone in her room, and came running to brag about it.
Commercials used to be entertaining, and clever things families could enjoy together.
Now people sing and dance to celebrate how good their drugs make them feel. Scare tactics attempt to force sales.
Advertising is a dirty business.
I enjoyed this trip down memory lane.
Several of those commercials had the same jingle, or tagline used in various different settings. Other kids sang O S C A R, etc., but everyone love the little fishing boy the best.
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……remember 95% of these commercials ❤️
I remember back in the early 70s, my grandparents actually gave me a high karate aftershave/cologne gift set. Wish I still had it. I can still smell that stuff now. EightHHH… Memories. :-)
We are now in an alternate universe.
10 minutes out of ever 30 minutes were commercials. I remember all of these. Lol
Omg... This was my childhood. Almost made me cry... MEMORIES
Advert jingles are insidious... I remember most of these, and I can sing along, I even still know all the ingredients of a Big Mac!
Did you recite it along with the commercial like I did? Couldn't help myself.
@nightthornkvala94132 yep
Remember the Bumble Tuna commercial? 😊
@BeanMacdui nope... Never heard of it. I'm Canadian so I may not have seen it. 🤷♂️
@@BeanMacduibum-bumble bee tuna!!!!!!!
7:20 i think you are talking about the urban legend that he ate pop rock and drank a coke-a-cola, and his stomach exploded and died.
I wonder if mentos and Coke would kill you if you swallowed a couple mentos then Chugged some Coke?
@@mousepolice55That certainly seems a lot more probable than pop rocks.
You're completely messing up the Coca Cola history. When Coke came out in the late 1800s cocaine was a primary ingredient. That's where the name came from. Eventually they phased it out
It started out as a patent medicine with coke leaves and kola nuts used for caffeine. When the temperance movement started, the cocaine was removed and it was sold as a nonalcoholic drink.
True.
Some of those 70s commercials are bringing back my youth.
Nothing like those cars especially in the '60 & into the '70's, with those white wall tires!! And if it was a convertible, WOW!. My friend & I drove up to the country on a warm summer night in her white 1960 Ford Thunderbird convertible, red leather interior, white wall tires -- what a feeling. Something young(ish) people will never experience. What a shame. And there were no worries about the constant outrageous non-stop crimes that are going on now all over the world. Take a look at the Caddy's, the 1972 Buick Le sabre. At 5:19 is famous composer Burt Bacharach & actress Angie Dickinson, 5:33 is famous football player Joe Namath & the blond looks like actress Farrah Fawcett. Mikey cereal commercial ran for 12 yrs. -- the 2 boys are his brothers. Info says "Many untrue stories were spread about him. The most famous one was that he died while consuming both soda and pop rocks. That of course never happened." He works in the film industry & lives in NY State with his wife & 3 children. Yes I remember the Oscar Meyer commercial with the cute little boy. 21:54 actor Scott Baio for Dr..Pepper. There were also a lot of ads for cigarettes back then.
That was not Scott Baio in the Dr. Pepper commercial, it was David Naughton. It does look like Scott though. But I looked it up - it was David.
@@LoriPeace Oky. Scott did a 1981 version.
David Naughton was the Dr.Pepper guy until he starred in American Werewolf in London, I think they dropped him because of the nudity (?)
@@carolhayar3037 I didn't know that. But I don't think the version shown in this video is Scott, is it?
@@LoriPeace I think you're right, but they look so much alike.
Tootsie roll was a type of candy best description UK would understand is chocolate Taffy (chewy like gum but you eat it).
White Owl were cigarettes, yes we had ads for them back then.
The Oscar Mayer adverts I still randomly catch myself singing even today.🙃 Along with I'm a toys r us kid and sometimes you feel like a nut even have a dog named nut...lol.
Alka Seltzer is an antacid.
Cocaine in coke ended in 1929.
The Budweiser commercial I'd forgotten until I heard it. Great Video
White Owls were cigars
More 90s, but hilarious; check out the "Bud Light Present- Real Men of Genius Commercials."
Since it’s in black-and-white, the Fritos corn chips commercial must have been from the 60s.
Television in the US went to color in the early 60s and by 1970, everything was in color (other than old shows that were still being aired).
You had to buy a TV that would play in color. Commercials were the first things filmed in color We’d wait for commercials
I’m 60 and I remembered all of the words and tunes ! 😂. Thank you for posting !
Oh boy, the memories!
There was a chewy chocolate candy called a toosie roll. You could and still can get both tootsy pops and tootsy rolls.
Back stroke swimming in the rain storm outside. Listen to the thunder?
The quality of the video is because they were recorded on VCR’s which is analog and has quality loss not only when recording, but the quality also goes down as the video tapes age.
The "Mikey" commercial at 6:44 was one of the most famous commercials of all time. The little boy who played Mikey was able to finance his college education with the money he made from this. The anti-pollution commercial at 3:39 was also very famous. The man playing the Indian was not even a Native-American. He was Sicilian,but married to an Indian woman and lived with her on a reservation. He often portayed an Indian in movies and TV because of his looks. The little boy in the Oscar Meyer balonie commercial grew up to be quite successful. I believe he's a software developer. Children of the 1970's would always quote the "Please don't squeeze the Charmin" commercial.
70's commercials are so memorable to me. I know all the jingles (songs). Thanks for reacting. This was fun.
10 yr old boy joke, back in the day: Q: What does Raquel Welch sing in the shower? A: "I love my Mounds..."
I hate when commercials interrupt watching commercials ⁉️
My favorite is the Oscar Mayer with the little boy. I can still sing it word for word. 🤍
I automatically did sing it.
I remember pretty much all of these ads. And yes, the bologna kid was very popular back then! I never thought I would be nostalgic for commercials, but when you're suffering through 10,000 advertisements for pharmaceuticals nowadays, it really does make you wish for the old days.
I remember all of them. I will never forget the indian crying, that always affected me not to litter...
Me woo, they even had big billboards around town.
❤ I'm 49 and took piano lessons in 1982-86. My teacher had me playing from a book of about 30 tv commercial jingles. I remember about 3/4 of these. What stands out the most was how many black people were in them. I thought we weren't that accepting back then. But I was sheltered in a small rural town of 7,000 in central california. Thanks for the video!
Tang was very associated with space. It was what the astronauts drank, supposedly. So there was a lot of space-related advertising. AquaNet wasn't so much advertised all the time as it was super cheap.
Coke had cocaine WAY back, I think, but not by the time it was a popular drink.
The "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coke commercial was fun. It was based on Woodstock, and they got all the same people to re-do it I think 20 years later. (It's from one of the hokey old folk songs I love most, which was the same thing except with less Coke involved.)
I'm a Pepper was definitely a Barry Manilow jingle. My babysitter was a Manilow fan and she literally switched soft drinks just because he wrote the jingle.
Thanks for doing this! There's only one I didn't recognize! Such a blast from my childhood!
1.2.3! It’s a Tootsie roll in the center of the lollipop. I am officially old. 😭
its crazy how some of those commercials were so popular they were still going strong in my childhood during the 1990s.
I just found out at age57 that the Indian in the commercial wasn't even Indian.
There was an urban legend going around that if you ate Pop Rocks and drank soda, the combined fizzing would make you explode, and when people asked if that ever actually happened to anyone, they would always say it was Mikey from the Life Cereal commercial. (Although, I also heard a version where it was Zack the Lego Maniac.)
That "people can stop pollution" ad was also famously a campaign from a group funded by packaging manufacturers.
Back before Internet, we did not wait for commercials (television advertisements were called commercials while print or radio advertisements are recorded). What we waited for was for the commercials to be over to get back to our shows. There were some good commercials, but that is not what we wanted to see.
The commercials were our bathroom break time.
Hey, back in the day we didn't have a way to pause a program-- commercials were the things that let us run to the bathroom or grab something from the kitchen before the show "came back on". The music/jingles followed you around and let you know how your timing was going! If you missed something, you had to wait for "reruns" in the summertime to see what you missed!
Probably the main reason we have these commercials was the fact it was hard to edit out commercials with early VCRs.
The Indian named Iron Eyes Cody with the one year made an impact when it first aired but later down the line it came out that the "Indian, Iron Eyes Cody" was actually an Italian American named Espera Oscar De Corti and people were upset that they didn't use an actual native American to portray the "Indian"
The shaving cream ad starred Joe Namath, NY Jets quarterback, and Farrah Fawcett, the television star. Both were very famous at the time.
I remember all these commercials and the words to the jingles too. My friends from grade school and I used to do the fig newton dance 😁. Thanks for the memories, it was fun to watch all those commercials again.
Rula Lenska in the VO5 commercial was in a British TV show called Rock Follies. It aired in the states for a short time, but you should look for it as part of your TV history.
The commercial with the football player was Mean Joe Greene, notorious being mean and tough on the football field. The joke is that he was nice to the kid and gave him the shirt thanks to Coke making him smile.
Here is some context for the Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop. The lollipop has a Tootsie Roll in the center. The context of the commercial is that as kids we would suck/lick the lollipop but eventually we would bite it to get to the center. The commercial leads us to believe that we would finally get an answer, but the owl does exactly what we did.
For those of us who grew up during this time, these commercials are practically in our blood stream.
A Purdue University in Indiana (the state I live in) study found it took an average of 364 licks to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop using a licking machine. A tootsie roll is a chewy chocolate Carmel sort of candy. A tootsie pop surrounds a lollipop shell outside this candy. They’re kind of addictive. Yes, the Oscar Mayer commercials were super catchy during that time. I still use Aqua Net hairspray but it isn’t as effective as it used to be.
ahhh, yes, the oscar mayer bologna commercial. i'm 65 years old and remember it well. one of my favorites. i still sing that song to this day....lol
A small tootsie roll center was in the relative middle of the Tootsie Roll Pop. The Alka Seltzer commercial was heavily based on a different commercial that was, if I remember correctly, for Prego or Ragu spaghetti sauce. Martini & Rossi : Burt Bacharach was wildly famous for his songs and the lady was Angie Dickenson, who was famous for being both beautiful and an actress that had a cop show way back when where she was the main star. She did other acting before and probably after. Very cool lady! Coast Soap: backstroke: it was raining, thundering outside. Its better to see the full commercials for less confusion but you can hear it in the background.
The crying Indian!!! who turned out to be Italian...
And "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." That's still one of my favorites. 😁
Tang was supposedly made for astronauts to take into space with them. It was an orange drink mix that was very high in vitamin C. The 'space age' was a BIG selling device back in the 60's and 70s.
I wish they had included more of the original commercials. I think the one "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" was for a margarine that fooled her into thinking it was butter. My favorite is the Mean Joe Green commercial, but from the snippet they showed you'd never guess what was going on.
I'm glad that you and I were not born in these two decades. Your parents were born back then. : )
There is a tootsie roll in the middle of a tootsie roll pop. Lol! That commercial used to come on all the damn time.
Have you never had a tootsie pop before ?
Aqua Net has been around since 1941
I stillsing the Oscar Mayer song to spell bologna correctly! 😂 I remember all of these commercials.
Big sister: pick up that wrapper, you don't want to make the I Indian cry.
I grew up during this time. I remember all of these.