This has nothing to do with the prominent actors in this particular commercial, but I was the keyboardist in the band performing on stage in the background. We were an actual band playing clubs around Los Angeles in the late 80's and searching for a record deal. The lead singer / songwriter / guitarist was a child actor who starred in TV commercials, shows ("Silver Spoons" / "Parker Lewis Can't Lose"), and films ("Just One of the Guys" / "Cujo") during the 80's. He's still acting today under another name. The drummer is a TV and film composer and we've been friends since grade school. The bass player is still a musician and songwriter as well as an actor and magician. We screen-tested for this commercial in L.A. twice in mid-December 1986, performing one of our original songs to get the part. This is actually the second Cherry 7UP commercial. The first (can't find online anywhere) showed the four members of the band performing on stage and ended with us walking away from the camera into a pink back-lit hall (a quick part of that shown in this commercial). It was supposed to air introducing the new product for the first time on New Year's eve, but Pepsi bought out the spot with a commercial featuring Michael J. Fox. Shorter versions subsequently aired on MTV for several months in 1987. We filmed that first commercial at a sound stage in New York in December 1986. It took 6 hours of rehearsing for the computer controlled light timing and then 6 hours of filming with full shot, hand, foot, and face close-ups of each band member during every part of the song. On another stage, a crew was filming all the slow-mo ice and soda splash shots. The second commercial (shown here) was filmed at Six Flags Magic Mountain north of Los Angeles in January 1987. This seems to be the long cut meant for theaters as noted in a previous post. We had to recreate every move, wardrobe element, instrumentation, etc. from the first commercial because they used parts to intercut into this one. We learned the song (take off of "Every Breath You Take" from the Police) note-for-note, word-for-word to look as if we were actually performing live. Pretty cool to see it again after all these years, so thanks to Jonathan for posting it! Wish he had the first one to post.
Hey you guys did amazing jobs and I like your performance! Thanks for sharing the precious informations too! I really would like to know about the main actor. There are many info about the girl but I can't find anything about the guy. He looks so familiar though! Do you happen to know who he is and what he is doing lately? Thanks!!!
man, if only the full version of this song came out, it would be awesome to listen to in the car or something, even if it's made to advertise a product such as cherry 7up.
This gave me goosebumps then and now. It's so 80's in the best way. All of these original Cherry 7UP commercials were just the best. Smooth, cool, and innocent. It helped that the product was great too. Most commercials these days are crap. This is the kind of commercial that you go back looking for almost 40 years later. They can make or break a product and even a company, by turning your viewers on or off to the product. Case in point, most people like or love a Kit Kat bar. Sweet and simple. Sugar wafers with chocolate. I didn't eat one for like a decade or however long it was because, while their "give me a break" jingle was mildly annoying, what they did to it after, making that jingle with nothing but snaps and crunches annoyed me to no end. I bought one when I quit hearing it. Now imagine something like that, that irritates most people, and your stock is dropping. Then again, most people won't even stand for their principles and still support companies that crap all over their standards, principles, and beliefs. Meanwhile i I boycott just because their ad sucks. 🤷🏻♂️ 😂
The only sad part of this is that it's 16x9, when it was originally 4:3 (1.33) and so, similar to an old pan & scan movie, you're missing picture on the top and bottom from being stretched out. I wish people would just let nostalgia be and stop trying to improve what didn't need to be improved.
Shot on film transfered to video for sfx then outputed back to film for theatrical play...the short version...pretty damn stupid process and it looks Terrible
This was also shown before these movies: Some Kind Of Wonderful Blind Date Making Mr. Right Beverly Hills Cop II The Untouchables The Witches Of Eastwick Roxanne Dragnet Harry And The Hendersons Predator Spaceballs Innerspace Full Metal Jacket RoboCop The Lost Boys Summer School Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds In Paradise Who’s That Girl Dirty Dancing Fatal Attraction
This has nothing to do with the prominent actors in this particular commercial, but I was the keyboardist in the band performing on stage in the background. We were an actual band playing clubs around Los Angeles in the late 80's and searching for a record deal. The lead singer / songwriter / guitarist was a child actor who starred in TV commercials, shows ("Silver Spoons" / "Parker Lewis Can't Lose"), and films ("Just One of the Guys" / "Cujo") during the 80's. He's still acting today under another name. The drummer is a TV and film composer and we've been friends since grade school. The bass player is still a musician and songwriter as well as an actor and magician. We screen-tested for this commercial in L.A. twice in mid-December 1986, performing one of our original songs to get the part.
This is actually the second Cherry 7UP commercial. The first (can't find online anywhere) showed the four members of the band performing on stage and ended with us walking away from the camera into a pink back-lit hall (a quick part of that shown in this commercial). It was supposed to air introducing the new product for the first time on New Year's eve, but Pepsi bought out the spot with a commercial featuring Michael J. Fox. Shorter versions subsequently aired on MTV for several months in 1987.
We filmed that first commercial at a sound stage in New York in December 1986. It took 6 hours of rehearsing for the computer controlled light timing and then 6 hours of filming with full shot, hand, foot, and face close-ups of each band member during every part of the song. On another stage, a crew was filming all the slow-mo ice and soda splash shots.
The second commercial (shown here) was filmed at Six Flags Magic Mountain north of Los Angeles in January 1987. This seems to be the long cut meant for theaters as noted in a previous post. We had to recreate every move, wardrobe element, instrumentation, etc. from the first commercial because they used parts to intercut into this one. We learned the song (take off of "Every Breath You Take" from the Police) note-for-note, word-for-word to look as if we were actually performing live. Pretty cool to see it again after all these years, so thanks to Jonathan for posting it! Wish he had the first one to post.
Hey you guys did amazing jobs and I like your performance! Thanks for sharing the precious informations too! I really would like to know about the main actor. There are many info about the girl but I can't find anything about the guy. He looks so familiar though! Do you happen to know who he is and what he is doing lately? Thanks!!!
man, if only the full version of this song came out, it would be awesome to listen to in the car or something, even if it's made to advertise a product such as cherry 7up.
That's so cool!
What was the name of your band? Got any tracks from the 80s music you played?
Thanks for this!!
Back when marketing advertisements suggests a pure rock and roll theme for their product.
Best theatrical commercial ever!
Jake "Ziggity" Steven It was the 80's after all.
I wish commercials can do this again this decade!
We all do. Rock kinda died at the start of the century I find.
Same here.
I saw this first run in an old Manhattan movie theatre Summer of 1987. It was part of a block of commercials before the Predator. It was magic 😢
Commercials were amazing back then!
I remember that cool commercial when I was 7 yrs old and the drink was the bomb.
Omg I remember this commercial. I was only a kid but it might’ve been the first time I ever saw color isolated in a predominantly B&W setting lol.
Spielberg actually got the idea for the girl in the red coat in Schindler's List from the Cherry 7-Up commercials.
This is SOOO RED!
1987 + Cherry = Extremely RED
Same here.
The childhood memories one chooses to remember...
Great news! They still make Cherry 7up!
This gave me goosebumps then and now. It's so 80's in the best way. All of these original Cherry 7UP commercials were just the best. Smooth, cool, and innocent. It helped that the product was great too.
Most commercials these days are crap. This is the kind of commercial that you go back looking for almost 40 years later.
They can make or break a product and even a company, by turning your viewers on or off to the product. Case in point, most people like or love a Kit Kat bar. Sweet and simple. Sugar wafers with chocolate. I didn't eat one for like a decade or however long it was because, while their "give me a break" jingle was mildly annoying, what they did to it after, making that jingle with nothing but snaps and crunches annoyed me to no end. I bought one when I quit hearing it.
Now imagine something like that, that irritates most people, and your stock is dropping. Then again, most people won't even stand for their principles and still support companies that crap all over their standards, principles, and beliefs. Meanwhile i
I boycott just because their ad sucks. 🤷🏻♂️ 😂
Can I live in this ad please 😭
Christine Harnos is the girl. She was later in Dazed & Confused & on E.R.
You sir, are a saint.
This is the clearest sound so far.
= “...Every breath you take, every move you make, I’ll be watching you.” 😂
"Every sip you take, every can you shake..."
Anybody knows who that actor is? What's his name? He is soooo cute! 😍
The only sad part of this is that it's 16x9, when it was originally 4:3 (1.33) and so, similar to an old pan & scan movie, you're missing picture on the top and bottom from being stretched out. I wish people would just let nostalgia be and stop trying to improve what didn't need to be improved.
Cherry 7up is liquid pink!👍😎
Annie Redfeather's Black Converse Sneakers (Adventures from the Book of Virtues 25th Anniversary Special)
Sound is same than every break you take by The Police
Isn't it so cool.....in pink...
You can tell this commercial was shot in video.
Shot on film transfered to video for sfx then outputed back to film for theatrical play...the short version...pretty damn stupid process and it looks Terrible
Jonathan Froes Wow
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@@nadianadia9497 sure anything else?
Yeah. The chyron at the bottom right at 0:24 just looks....eeeckkk!!
Jerry Seinfeld and Hillary Swank flirt and enjoy Cherry 7up® at The Police concert 👌😉
The Crimson Pirate (Redford Theatre 100th Anniversary Special)
Michael E. Knight from Date with An Angel.
Nice. Man where you finding all of these 80s commercials on 35mm? I’ve only managed to find a very few 35mm trailer reels like this.just recently.
😍
Christine Harnos from Rick Linklater’s Dazed and Confused?
She's my cousin. She also played Dr. Greene's wife, Jennifer, on E.R.
Yes.
Therese Williamson do you happen to know who the actor is also? Thanks!
Song name?
Actually, this is Cherry 7UP jingle.
Ironically, they are parodying "Every Breath You Take" by The Police.
@@EDP2000 So this is "Every Sip You Take".
@@arfansthename Lmfaoooo good one
This was shown in movie theaters before Lethal Weapon (1987), Adventures in Babysitting (1987) and James Bond 007: The Living Daylights (1987).
This was also shown before these movies:
Some Kind Of Wonderful
Blind Date
Making Mr. Right
Beverly Hills Cop II
The Untouchables
The Witches Of Eastwick
Roxanne
Dragnet
Harry And The Hendersons
Predator
Spaceballs
Innerspace
Full Metal Jacket
RoboCop
The Lost Boys
Summer School
Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds In Paradise
Who’s That Girl
Dirty Dancing
Fatal Attraction
We get it Captain Obvious.
Oh yeah. The good old days.
Who did the remastering and where on earth did they get the print?!
Jumanji (Alabama Theatre 100th Anniversary Special)
Who's the actor?
7up 1980
So yummy!
Very cool, how'd you get a 35mm HD copy?
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This commercial is 45 seconds too long
I thought it was 45 seconds too short.