http://www.roadode.com/xmas_1.shtml this is an excellent resource for cool commercials especialy old christmas commercials and it does have my favorite norelco ridin santa!  ::)

http://www.roadode.com/xmas_1.shtml this is an excellent resource for cool commercials especialy old christmas commercials and it does have my favorite norelco ridin santa!  ::)


OMG, thank you for the link....not only did I see some old commercials (which was great, btw) but I also saw some really rare Carpenters videos and a video of Ricky Nelson singing the Christmas song. I had never actually seen Ricky Nelson sing and I could not get over how cute he was, hehehehe :) I know all the ladies on this board know what I mean ;) I also saw the Coca-Cola Christmas hilltop commercial which was nice.

Anyone remember the Lemon-Up shampoo ad "Lemon-up and make peace with grease"

I also remember vaguely an ad for Vitalis that aired in the late 50's or early 60's

Anyone remember the Lemon-Up shampoo ad "Lemon-up and make peace with grease"

I also remember vaguely an ad for Vitalis that aired in the late 50's or early 60's


Vitalis..."a little dab will do ya' " and there was "Use Wild Root Cream Oil Chaaaarley"

Hot Wax

Anyone remember the Lemon-Up shampoo ad "Lemon-up and make peace with grease"

I also remember vaguely an ad for Vitalis that aired in the late 50's or early 60's



I remember:

You are my lemon, my only lemon.
You make me happy when skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear, how much I love you.
So please don't take my lemon away.

I think that was used for Lemon-up. And yes, it did smell just like lemons.



Cat

Vitalis..."a little dab will do ya' " and there was "Use Wild Root Cream Oil Chaaaarley"

Hot Wax




CORRECTION....Brillcream was " A little dab will do ya" and later on in the 60's I think Vitallis used the catch phrase " The wet head is dead"

Hot Wax

How about the 'Say Hi to Dodge(or Plymouth)Neon' ads? I liked the one where the corn starts popping in the field when the Neon passes by!

Why they even changed the Neon's 'smiley' front, I don't know..the newer Neons aren't as cool as the original ones! They even discontinued some of the original colors that Neons were available in!

The old Chrysler adds where the cop walks up and says "You in a heap'a trouble boy." Or the Volkswagon commercial where the narrator asks "How does the man who drives the snowplow get to the snowplow?"

Were the "Dodge Boys" ads for Dodge cars national or just a local thing...they could have just been ads for Geisel Dodge which was a local dealership here in the 60's

I loved "Showdown,showdown, in Dodge City"....

Not technically ads..but ABC's color show opening with the peppy music,moving colored rings, and 'this is an ABC COLOR presentation!' and CBS where the letters spring up and the announcement that 'CBS presents this show in COLOR!' are just as cool as the Peacock.

Candy coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize, that's what you get in Cracker Jack!

I think it's somewhat unusual that Boscov's department stores have a "Cracker Jack Days" promotion where they give out free boxes of the sweet stuff....

Also Remembered:

"Let Hertz Put You In The Driver's Seat" - with the people floating into a convertible Ford.

"See The USA In Your Chevrolet"

"It's Invisible, Man" - Code 10 hair product

Speedee, the Alka-Seltzer kid

Obviously, hardly classics, but the first television commercial I can remember was Bucky Beaver for Ipana toothpaste. Maybe because the animation was done by some of the same animators who worked for Disney Studios.

And not so much the commercial, but the theme song still runs through my head, even after all these years. "Oh, here he comes. Run for your lives. It's the giant monster from outer space." For a pull-string toy called Horrible Hamilton, I believe.

Anyone remember the Samsonite luggage ad where the gorilla in a zoo beats the heck out of the Samsonite suitcase with no damage sustained?  I still see those hard shelled vinyl clad cases at flea markets too; a testament to their durability.
And the other monkey - featuring ad for Scope- "AAAAAAAHHHH!!  Jungle Breath!" the man exclaims as he looks in the bathroom mirror and sees a chimps reflection.

Who remembers the Sominex sleeping pill ad with the little genie type character on a flying carpet

Some places post the words to famous memorable commercials but there were silly ones that were hard to understand and cannot find the words...Is there a site?

1)Cracker Jacks: What do you want when you gotta havbe something and it's gotta be sweet and it's gotta be a lot and you gotta have it now?...?????? unintelligible....chorus

20 Puffa Puffa rice commercial song...from the 60's

anyone else remember?

There is a new version of Alka-Seltzer's 'I can't believe I ate the whole thing' commercial, I saw the newer one just now...

20 Puffa Puffa rice commercial song...from the 60's

anyone else remember?


YEP! I used to like Puffa Puffa Rice. Speaking about cereal, who remembers these:

Obviously, hardly classics, but the first television commercial I can remember was Bucky Beaver for Ipana toothpaste. Maybe because the animation was done by some of the same animators who worked for Disney Studios.

And not so much the commercial, but the theme song still runs through my head, even after all these years. "Oh, here he comes. Run for your lives. It's the giant monster from outer space." For a pull-string toy called Horrible Hamilton, I believe.
"Brusha Brusha Brusha with the new Ipana"...I saw that ad when it was used in the movie 'Grease' when Rizzo and some of the Pink Ladies were in Rizzo's bedroom trying to give Sandy a make-over!

'Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun'..Mc Donalds Big Mac ad from the 1970's!

Chuck Wagon dog food where the pooch folllows the chuck wagon into the kitchen...

and 'Aren't you glad you used Dial..don't you wish everybody did?'

'Ajax Laundry Detergent, it's stronger than dirt' with the white knight on his horse.

When Tropicana Orange Juice was breaking into the New York market in the the early 60's, they had a pitchman promoting the idea that a "Glass of Tropicana Orange Juice in the morning is like being in Miami Beach" and he goes on to say "So drink Tropicana Orange Juice and come down to Miami, it's on me!" and one man in New York to him seriously and went down to Miami and charged all of his expenses to Tropicana Orange Juice Company. After a short legal dispute from Tropicana the Judge sided with the man and ordered Tropicana to pay for all his expenses under the "False Advertisement Law" saying Tropicana invited him down on them and so went...on them! Tropicana rewrote the script after that.

Hot Wax

 

"Good and Plenty...Good and Plenty..Good and Plenty.Good and Plenty...WOOO WOOO "
as the two cartoon kids shake their box of "Good and Plenty " candy to the rhythm of the locomotive train they were riding on. It was a standard promo ad for "Good and Plenty" back in the 50's and 60's, I think I even seen it aired in the 80's at one time, is it still being played today? I liked the white one's best.

Hot Wax

Truth in Advertising..."Carter's Little Liver Pills" had nothing to do with aiding your liver problems and was odered to Food and Drug Administration to drop the word "Liver" from the package and it's advertising.

Dinah Shore singing "See the USA in Your Chevrolet" slogan sold more cars for GM than any other commercial selling cars back in the 50's and even today's car Ad campaigns don't have the same staying power in their slogans like that "See the USA in Your Chevrolet" slogan, everyone was singing that slogan as if was a hit song back then making the Chevrolet first in the minds when buying a new car...
 

"How many licks does it take to finish a Tootie Roll Lollipop?" great gimmic to sell a product and it did by the billions. Kids and adults who never ate a Tootsie Roll Pop before bought Tootsie Roll Pops just to see how many licks it does take to finish it without biting into it to finish it. It made closet Tootsie Roll Pop junkies out of many of us today...right?

Buy a couple and count the licks before you bite into one and then try to stop buying them afterwards...I'm a junkie for the cherry and chocolate pops only the rest of the bag I throw away...and I think around 300 licks should do it. 

When I was real little back in the early 50's, "Ovaltine" commercials had kids buying Ovaltine not for the nutritional value but for their "Secret Decoder Ring" that you had to have to decode a secret message given to you by the Hero or Heroine of the show. I remember my older brother would listen for the message from the "Little Orphan Annie" " Lone Ranger"" Boston Blackie"  and "Captain Midnight" shows. Numbers to letters were decoded to drink Olvaltine for one reason or other but always drink Ovaltine was the main message.

If you ever seen the "Christmas Story", when Ralphie hides in the bathroom to decode his secret message and is very disappointed after he decodes a message saying to "Drink your Ovaltine everyday" and he says it's only a dumb commercial and that's just what it was but sold millions of jars of Ovaltine...smart idea! 

B...O...N...O...M...O spells Bonomo...OH! OH! OH! it's Bonomo...taaaffy. "just smack it and crack it" and share it with your friends. Does any one remember that commercial? does Bonomo taffy still exsist today?

Ivory soap was 99 44/100 % pure...pure what? they never said what, but they did say "It was the only soap that floats" and that floating idea sold billions of bars of soap...smart! Do thay still sell Ivory soap bars? 

There is a new version of Alka-Seltzer's 'I can't believe I ate the whole thing' commercial, I saw the newer one just now...


I just saw the new one also. It had the Frank and Marie Barrone in character from the "Everybody Loves Ramon" show doing the bit...it's funny!

HW

Does anyone know when that "Energizer Bunny" started beating his drum? 

Ivory soap was 99 44/100 % pure...pure what? they never said what, but they did say "It was the only soap that floats" and that floating idea sold billions of bars of soap...smart! Do thay still sell Ivory soap bars? 
Oh yes! Someone told me that Ivory soap is not all that great for your skin though.

Dinah Shore singing "See the USA in Your Chevrolet" slogan sold more cars for GM than any other commercial selling cars back in the 50's and even today's car Ad campaigns don't have the same staying power in their slogans like that "See the USA in Your Chevrolet" slogan, everyone was singing that slogan as if was a hit song back then making the Chevrolet first in the minds when buying a new car...
 
Do you remember the 90's era ads for the Dodge/Plymouth Neon..."Say Hi to Dodge Neon" is burned into my memory...same with "The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC!" Did the Peacock help sell color TV's..eventually, as the prices came down, people started buying them! And from what I've read about color television history, it was RCA's standard, now known as NTSC, that won out over CBS's proposed 'field sequential' color TV standard..It was make or break for RCA, they had a lot invested in their technology...http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/rca-nbc_firsts.html Sorry I went off on that little tech tangent...

"Good and Plenty...Good and Plenty..Good and Plenty.Good and Plenty...WOOO WOOO "
as the two cartoon kids shake their box of "Good and Plenty " candy to the rhythm of the locomotive train they were riding on. It was a standard promo ad for "Good and Plenty" back in the 50's and 60's, I think I even seen it aired in the 80's at one time, is it still being played today? I liked the white one's best.

Hot Wax




Charlie says, "I love my Good and Plenty". Charlie says, "It really rings a bell."



"Iy yi yi yi. I am the Frito Bandito. I love Fritos corn chips, I love them I do. I get them, I get them, I get them from you."


"I'm Chiquita Banana and I'm here to say, eat a banana every day"



Cat

Charlie says, "I love my Good and Plenty". Charlie says, "It really rings a bell."



"Iy yi yi yi. I am the Frito Bandito. I love Fritos corn chips, I love them I do. I get them, I get them, I get them from you."


"I'm Chiquita Banana and I'm here to say, eat a banana every day"



Cat


Hi Cat, yes that part of that that Good and Plenty commercial, you know, I can still hear her voice in my head saying " Charlie Says" and the Chiquita Banana, I remember her commercial way back in the early 50's maybe one of the first commercials on TV. Chiquita Banana sexy dance and there is that melotic song "Chock Full of Nuts is that heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee...etc. that too was another pioneer in TV commercials.

Now you brought back some more memories..."Gillette Razor Blades" sponcerd the "Friday Night Fights" it open the show with their jingle "To look smart! and to feel smart too! choose the razor that is made for you..." and then those M&M candy characters that would dive into a pool of candy coating and jump out all candy coated with M&M on their chests ending it saying "M&M candies melt in your mouth and not in your hand", I didn't give them a chanch to melt in my mouth, I took thier 5 cent bag of M&M's and dumped all in my mouth in one shot and crunched them all down in less than a minute, no time to melt...and still do on occasions.

Aerosol cans were a new invention back then and "Rise" shaving cream had a TV commercial demonstration of it by emptying a small can of shaving cream and it was amazing, we couldn't believe the pile of shaving cream that it produced, about 2 feet high and 2 feet wide and then droped the can onto the plie of cream showing how rich and thick it was and the can didn't sink into it, it just stayed there on top of the pile...that was a big deal back then.

Communism was our cold enemy and Senator McCarty would show this commercial of an Iron Curtain with barbed wire all it while scaring the crap out of us telling us that we will be behind this Iron Curtain if the Communism takes over our country and watch out for suspicious people and report any anti-American activities, I would have nightmares of that commercial when I first saw it, and turn the channel every time it went it was shown, he had everyone crazy with suspicion of their neighbors being Commies...bad commercial.

This wasn't a selling commercial, but there was advertisement for "The Letter" the Church would run this commercial about a letter that was to be open on a certain date predicting the future and the end of the world. It was a message given to, I think it was, Bernadette who saw the a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1917. I think it was to be opened May 1959 on the day of "the "Immaculate Conception" they would run this ad around every Christmas and Easter from what I can remember, from 55'/56' and 1959 then seemed like 100 years away but it scared us kids thinging that the world would end on that day and we would all die...well we're all still here! but it was scary for us kids then.

Cat, you made babble on to long, see ya'! HW   

8) Since I am Native American I guess you all know what I will pick..Iron Eyes Cody..I cried every time that came on...and.on a serious note, if you want to give to a legit charity, American Indians Childrens Hunger Fund...PLEASE at least look at the website...Indians were forced onto small reservations and things are still no better than they were 50 yrs ago!...most dont even have running water...the conditions are pitiful..

8) Since I am Native American I guess you all know what I will pick..Iron Eyes Cody..I cried every time that came on...and.on a serious note, if you want to give to a legit charity, American Indians Childrens Hunger Fund...PLEASE at least look at the website...Indians were forced onto small reservations and things are still no better than they were 50 yrs ago!...most dont even have running water...the conditions are pitiful..


Green67, I will look into this web site and help where I can...I'll get back to you.

Heinz Catsup "Anticipation"...anyone remember that one? or 'Janitor In A Drum"..or "What would you do..for a Klondike bar?"

Of those listed, I like the 'crying Indian' one the best.

RedRose Tea commercial with the swinging chimp orchestra. 

Maybe that was the 60s, either way, still my favorite.

NozmoKing

did i mention "the 70s dimension" totally has the indian PSA on it.

it's just as good as you remember!

it's also got a bunch of other stuff too, like "he never drinks my coffee at home" and "ring around the collar" and a buncha other ones you forgot.

no mikey likes it, that i can remember...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/70s_dimension/

Ummm, thought this board was before the 70's? The crying Indian an many others listed here are post-1970.

Ummm, thought this board was before the 70's? The crying Indian an many others listed here are post-1970.


this thread is experiencing "mission creep."