The top 10 best Tv commercials of the 70's
Squa...@webtv.net
10. Kellogg's rice krispies cereal. (1976)
9. Pepsi-cola. (1977)
8. Mcdonald's. (1978)
7. Prell shampoo. (1974)
6. Ragu spaghetti sauce. (1973)
5. Beneficial loan company. (1974)
4. Oscar mayer products. (1978)
3. Certs mints. (1973)
2. V05 hair care products. (1975)
& 1. Coca-cola. (1972)
now how's that for good stuff!
& if anyone's got a top 10 favorite? please let me know, see you all!
DavisK
1. Life cereal - "Give it to Mikey, he hates everything"
- "Hey Mikey! He Likes It!"
2. Calgon Detergent - "We need more Calgon!"
- "Ancient Chinese secret, huh?!".
Runner-up: I was too young to remember this one - the Kodak commercial with
Laurence Olivier. It was supposed to be popular in its time, and from what
I understand, it helped increase sales.
;>)
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Dennis
>You forgot two important commercials:
> 1. Life cereal - "Give it to Mikey, he hates everything"
> - "Hey Mikey! He Likes It!"
> 2. Calgon Detergent - "We need more Calgon!"
> - "Ancient Chinese secret, huh?!".
I liked those two.
Also "I can't believe I ate the whole thing"
The hair coloring/shampoo? commercial "and she told two friends...and she told
two friends" was cutting edge tv effects at the time and kind of impressive.
The Prell commercials where the women were getting manicures and soaking in
Prell.
B*O*L*O*G*N*A
The Frito Bandito commercials with Avery Schrieber
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Dennis wrote:
> >
> >You forgot two important commercials:
> > 1. Life cereal - "Give it to Mikey, he hates everything"
> > - "Hey Mikey! He Likes It!"
> > 2. Calgon Detergent - "We need more Calgon!"
> > - "Ancient Chinese secret, huh?!".
>
> I liked those two.
>
> Also "I can't believe I ate the whole thing"
>
> The hair coloring/shampoo? commercial "and she told two friends...and she told
> two friends" was cutting edge tv effects at the time and kind of impressive.
> The Prell commercials where the women were getting manicures and soaking in
> Prell.
I think that was an ad for Palmolive... the manicurist would say, "You're soaking
in it", then the horrified woman would pull her fingers out of the bowl of soap
and say, "_Dishwashing_ liquid?!?"
Becky
Raphael
>The Prell commercials where the women were getting manicures and soaking in
>Prell.
Wasn't Prell the "I was flat till I went fluffy" ads? (prompting many a
stuck out chest in comparison....)
>
>B*O*L*O*G*N*A
ACK!! On my way to work I go through one of the hotels in the downtown area,
and parked in the hotel parking lot was an OSCAR MEYER HOTDOG! They're
doing some sort of cross country promotions, I guess, but it's REALLY weird
to see a huge weiner in a parking lot (kinda reminded me of the Big Bologna
in an odd way.........)
How about "Tweet, tweet, twiddle, twiddle, there's only one candy with a
hole in the middle"?
Erin ">
DavisK
do dishes - Palmolive? I remember that Avery Shreiber guy too. I don't
remember if it was a 70's commercial, or very very early 80's (i.e. '80 or
'81), but I remember that Crackerjack jingle - '...and they called that kid
a Cracker jack kid!'. Also, the Almond Joy and Mounds chocolate bar
commercials (do they still make those?). I also remember some commercial
with a bathroom cleaner that had these little bubbles with big eyes and
bristle-like legs that would scrub around the inside of a bathtub, leaving
it clean. And of course, the good old Chuck Wagon commercial, where the dog
chases that claymation chuck wagon all the way into the kitchen. Some
cutting edge technology there, too. ;>)
Dennis wrote in message <19990729190125...@ng-fr1.aol.com>...
>
>I liked those two.
>
>Also "I can't believe I ate the whole thing"
>
>The hair coloring/shampoo? commercial "and she told two friends...and she
told
>two friends" was cutting edge tv effects at the time and kind of
impressive.
>
>The Prell commercials where the women were getting manicures and soaking in
>Prell.
>
Aerin Caputo
know if it was regional or national, but the jingle goes, sung in a mellow
Carpenters style (for lack of a better analogy)
"milk milk beautiful milk"
"pour it down, drink it in, wipe your chin, drink your milk"
or something like that. Anyone remember this?
or what about "weebles wobble but they don't fall down"
everybody had a hard year
everybody had a good time
everybody put their feet up
everybody saw the sun shine
James Dobrovicz
could pass it on, but unfortunately it crashed with my old hard
drive---there is actually a web site with an interactive history of the
Weinermobile.
-- James C. Dobrovicz
"Let me put my glasses on so I can hear you better"
--Brett Somers on MG74
Raphael wrote in message ...
FitNFeisty
10. Kellogg's rice krispies cereal. (1976)
9. Pepsi-cola. (1977)
8. Mcdonald's. (1978)
7. Prell shampoo. (1974)
6. Ragu spaghetti sauce. (1973)
5. Beneficial loan company. (1974)
4. Oscar mayer products. (1978)
3. Certs mints. (1973)
2. V05 hair care products. (1975)
& 1. Coca-cola. (1972)
now how's that for good stuff!
& if anyone's got a top 10 favorite? please let me know, see you all!>>
I liked the following commercials from the seventies:
1. Bumblebee Tuna
2. Levi's c. 1976
3. Charms Ice Cream Flavored Lollipops
4. Miller Lite
5. Sacramento Valley Tomato Juice (?). Part of the song was: "From the
Sacramento Valley, tomato, tomato, tomato juice."Around 1974 or 1975.
6. Any Ronco commercial.
7. An Ad(K-Tel?) for a British Invasion compilation record. The actress, in a
fake Britsh accent, listed some of the great groups, "including Billy J. Kramer
& The Dakotas."
8. Another compilation album, this time of bubble gum rock. The ad had
actresses, in pigtails and nightgowns, at a pajama party blowing bubbles and
having pillow fights to such songs as "Sugar,Sugar and "Yummy,Yummy,Yummy.
9. Honeycombs cereal.
Squa...@webtv.net
AirRazor
DavisK <Dav...@globalserve.net> wrote in message
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> You forgot two important commercials:
> 1. Life cereal - "Give it to Mikey, he hates everything"
> - "Hey Mikey! He Likes It!"
dinosaurs weren't used to hthe new plants on the island, and they did "I'm
not gonna try it, you try it," bit, and it came to "Let's get Spike! He
likes everything!"
Dennis
bad.
LizzieZ
told
> two friends" was cutting edge tv effects at the time and kind of impressive.
shampoo) What goes around comes around - now she's doing L'Oreal hair color
spots!
Liz (still trying to think of other great 70s spots....)
Retro Man
fitnf...@aol.com (FitNFeisty) wrote:
> 8. Mcdonald's. (1978)
1978? Why not the singing cleanup crew from 1971?
> 5. Sacramento Valley Tomato Juice (?). Part of the song was: "From the
> Sacramento Valley, tomato, tomato, tomato juice."Around 1974 or 1975.
I think the lyric was, "Tomato, tomato, Sacramentomato juice." It's
Sacramento brand tomato juice. Some people swear it's the best tomato
juice available. I can't find it locally anymore, but they all taste fine
to me.
Sparki
listless-looking African-American gent slogs his feet to the shower, lathers up
with coast, and springs into the bedroom saying, "Man, I feel great today!" and
the guy's wife said "How are you getting to work today?" and the guy said
"backstroke."
I think the guy MAY have been the studly Joseph C. Phillips from the
Cosby Show (he played Denise's husband Martin)
***SPARKI***
"By the way, I'm real, and I'm SPARK-tacular!"
Sparki
>told
>two friends"
That gal was HEATHER LOCKLEAR, no lie
Sparki
studly guy naked from the waist up enthuses about how Mennen Skin Bracer
tingles and make him feel sensational. I tell ya, that guy looked pretty
sensational himself and produced sparks in parts of my then barely pubescent
body that I was only beginning to think about. :-)
Lady Molly
Jodi B.
Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?
Retro Man wrote in message ...
Retro Man
wrote:
> 7. The commercial with the crying Indian, who I later found out wasn't
> really an indian, I think.
Iron Eyes Cody was Cherokee. He died of natural causes at the beginning
of this year.
> 9. Volare, with real Corinthian leather, and Ricardo Montalban.
No, that was a different car. Montalban did the Chrysler Cordoba with
rich, Corinthian leather.
Dennis
>juice. She got involved in some controversy later so they dropped her.
That was Anita Bryant who spoke out against gays in Dade County Florida and was
black listed from the commericial industry because gays threathened to boycott
anything she advertised.
Her husband later left her, I can't remember if it turned out he was gay and
that was who her anger was really at.
Rebecca
CGI wrote:
> I don't remember half as much from the 70s as you guys, but here's the
> commercials I can remember
>
> 1. Life cereal: let Mikey eat it. He'll eat anything.
> 2. Coke: kid gives a coke to Mean Joe Green and he throws the kid his
> towel.
> 3. OJ Simpson running through the airport for Hertz car rentals.
> 4. Some kind of shampoo commercial with Dorothy Hamill.
What the heck was that anyway? I remember something along those lines
too.
> 5. Some commercial with Rodney Allen Rippey, what was it about?
Jack In The Box, specifically the Jumbo Jack, I believe. He was such a
cute kid... wonder what happened to him.
> 6. The honey comb commercials, bunch of kids in a tree house
I loved these! Kids in a tree house being "bullied" by some big
mean-looking bikers. They'd placate them with Honeycomb. "Honeycomb's
got a big, big bite!"
> 7. The commercial with the crying Indian, who I later found out wasn't
> really an indian, I think.
> 8. The big wheels commercials, vaguely
> 9. Volare, with real Corinthian leather, and Ricardo Montalban.
> 10. Slip and slide, that plastic strip you connect to a garden hose
> and you slide over.
Jodi B.
guess!
CGI wrote in message <37a8f7f1...@news.giganews.com>...
>On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 16:15:51 -0400, "Jodi B."
><7260...@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper, he's a Pepper, She's a Pepper...
>>Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?
>
>I thought that was an early eighties commercial??
>
Raphael
Rebecca wrote in message <37A4B4DB...@ix.netcom.com>...
>> 4. Some kind of shampoo commercial with Dorothy Hamill.
>
>What the heck was that anyway? I remember something along those lines
>too.
"Short n' Sassy" was the hair style. It's possible that the product was the
same name. Anyone else?
>> 10. Slip and slide, that plastic strip you connect to a garden hose
>> and you slide over.
Ouch! My friend had one of those, long before they were available here in
Canada (her father was military and had been to the US). I recall us
putting it on this hill probably about as long as the S&S was and going
down. You can REALLY build up a lotta momentum with those things!!
And, unfortunately, yours truly was the guinea pig that found out that, with
the right momentum, you can go off the end of the S&S, over the grass and
onto the gravel driveway! Talk about 'gravel butt'.....
Erin ">
Cha...@webtv.net
2 Trident gum ("4 out of 5 dentists recommend sugarless gum for their
patients who chew gum". Apparently, 1 dentist out of 5 recommended gum
with sugar.)
3 Gino's commercials with Muhammad Ali.
Rebecca
Raphael wrote:
Owwwww! That sounds painful; and I thought the hidden tree roots were bad!
Becky
Rebecca
CGI wrote:
> 1. The chuckwagon commercials with a little covered wagon rolling
> through a kitchen.
>
> 2. Rice A Roni, the San Francisco Treat
>
> 3. Mr. Clean, with the bald headed guy
>
> 4. McDonalds commercials, with the original Ronald McDonald and all
> those people singing "At McDonalds, We do it al for youuu ooo ooo"
Remember the characters? Let's see, there was that big purple thing
called Grimace (?) which used to freak me out when I was little, then
there was The Hamburgler (saw an original, _huge_ old playground
Hamburgler hanging from a local club's ceiling. Any others?
>
>
> 5. That commercial where the woman sings "I can bring home the bacon,
> fry it up in a pan, and make you feel like a man" Was it a perfume
> commercial?
"I can bring home the bacon *da da da da da*, fry it up in a pan *da da
da da da*, and never, never let you forget you're a man, cause I'm a
woman... Enjoli!" LOL I used to sing that all the time!
>
>
> 6. OK this is my FAVORITE commercial of all time: the perfume
> commercial with the bottle that had two doves on it. I think it was
> called "L'air Du Temp." They always used to show it around christmas
> time. I thought the commercial was the most romantic thing ever.
> Anybody buy that stuff? Do they still sell it?
>
> 7. The lonely Maytag Repairman, who never got any work to do.
>
> 8. Agree shampoo. Do they still sell that?
>
> 9. The cheesy ronco commercials, with the Ronco records, the Popeel
> pocket fisherman, the can of stuff to spray on bald spots. The
> announcer for those commercials was the guy who marked those products
> and he still does infomercials for new cheesy products.
>
> 10. Mr. Microphone: Hey good looking, I'll be back to check you out
> later. (hehehe) They parodied this commercial in an episode of the
> Simpsons.
Yep, Bart threw his into a well and made everyone think there was a kid
trapped down there.
>
>
> 11. The billboards for coppertone suntan lotion or something like
> that, where there was a dog pulling on a little girl's bikini bottom.
Coppertone... somewhere a long time ago, I saw a billboard which
electronically pulled the bikini bottom up and down.
Becky
Afioresi2
>fry it up in a pan, and make you feel like a man" Was it a perfume
>commercial?
Yep! "Cause I'm a woman, Enjoli
">8. Agree shampoo. Do they still sell that?
Yep! And it still smells soooo good!
ang
Squa...@webtv.net
al...@my-deja.com
slide out of garbage bags (LOL go easy on me, i was just a child!), and
we taped a bunch of them together and put them on this huge hill in her
backyard, and i was the first to go down, and when i dove onto the
"slip and slide" i took the whole damned thing along with me, and by
the time i got to the bottom of the hill i was completely tangled up
with these garbage bags...LOL it's funny now but it hurt like hell back
then!!!
>
> >> 10. Slip and slide, that plastic strip you connect to a garden hose
> >> and you slide over.
>
> Ouch! My friend had one of those, long before they were available
here in
> Canada (her father was military and had been to the US). I recall us
> putting it on this hill probably about as long as the S&S was and
going
> down. You can REALLY build up a lotta momentum with those things!!
>
> And, unfortunately, yours truly was the guinea pig that found out
that, with
> the right momentum, you can go off the end of the S&S, over the grass
and
> onto the gravel driveway! Talk about 'gravel butt'.....
>
> Erin ">
>
>
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Rebecca wrote in message <37A524FC...@ix.netcom.com>...
> 4. McDonalds commercials, with the original Ronald McDonald and all
>> those people singing "At McDonalds, We do it al for youuu ooo ooo"
>
>Remember the characters? Let's see, there was that big purple thing
>called Grimace (?) which used to freak me out when I was little, then
>there was The Hamburgler (saw an original, _huge_ old playground
>woman... Enjoli!" LOL I used to sing that all the time!
Hmm...Grimace, Hamburgler, Mayor McCheese, Ronald (of course...) -- was
there one for the Big Mac? (probably was called, "Big Mac", right? <G>).
Later on they added Birdie and the Fry Guys and dropped Mayor McCheese. I
remember thinking how much McCheese reminded me of HR Pufnstuf.
Well....
Ok, one too many falls as a child, OK? <G>
Erin ">
Rebecca
Raphael wrote:
Oh yeah, Mayor McCheese! He _did_ resemble HR Pufnstuf... how weird.
Becky
Retro Man
<raphe...@sprint.ca> wrote:
> Hmm...Grimace, Hamburgler, Mayor McCheese, Ronald (of course...) -- was
> there one for the Big Mac? (probably was called, "Big Mac", right? <G>).
As I was reminded in the commercials newsgroup, Big Mac was the police
officer with the Big Mac for a head, sort of like Mayor McCheese. I miss
those old characters. Wonder why McDonalds decided to get rid of them?
Dennis
>those people singing "At McDonalds, We do it al for youuu ooo ooo"
I'm not sure if this was late 70s or early 80s but the Ronald McDonald clown
army fighting the Burger King army, a Wendy's commerical I think.
Who wears short shorts, Nair commerical. Seemed like they were having so much
fun.
>7. The lonely Maytag Repairman, who never got any work to do.
>
My mom had a broken Maytag at the time and was having trouble getting them to
come out and repair it. When Jesse White was dreaming he was in the boat
rowing...to a voice calling for help....my mom would get up..wave her arms and
yell...OVER HERE......I NEED YOU OVER HERE. It got to where we all started
doing this everytime a Maytag commerical came on. It became a "family joke".
>9. The cheesy ronco commercials, with the Ronco records, the Popeel
>pocket fisherman, the can of stuff to spray on bald spots. The
>announcer for those commercials was the guy who marked those products
>and he still does infomercials for new cheesy products.
Remember the Party Ring? pronounced pawdee ring. Everyone's got to have a
pawdee ring.
>10. Mr. Microphone: Hey good looking, I'll be back to check you out
>later. (hehehe) They parodied this commercial in an episode of the
>Simpsons.
Had forgotten that one. Good one.
Dennis
>called Grimace (?) which used to freak me out when I was little, then
>there was The Hamburgler (saw an original, _huge_ old playground
>Hamburgler hanging from a local club's ceiling. Any others?
Mayor McCheese. The little fry thingys whatever they were called.
Jodi B.
those? They had bodies like Barbie, but huge heads and their eyes changed
four different colors by pulling a string in the back of their heads. (eye
colors: blue, green, orange & pink!)
CGI wrote in message <37a52bf1....@news.giganews.com>...
>On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 23:56:29 -0500, Rebecca <pink...@ix.netcom.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Remember the characters? Let's see, there was that big purple thing
>>called Grimace (?) which used to freak me out when I was little, then
>
>Haha. That reminds me of my cousin. She was freaked out by troll
>dolls. I had one and I held it out to her and chased her around the
>house while she screamed.
>
francis j mccloskey
zero. What were you thinking when you posted this?
Squa...@webtv.net wrote:
> The top 10 best tv commercials of the 70's are,
> 10. Kellogg's rice krispies cereal. (1976)
> 9. Pepsi-cola. (1977)
> 8. Mcdonald's. (1978)
> 7. Prell shampoo. (1974)
> 6. Ragu spaghetti sauce. (1973)
> 5. Beneficial loan company. (1974)
> 4. Oscar mayer products. (1978)
> 3. Certs mints. (1973)
> 2. V05 hair care products. (1975)
> & 1. Coca-cola. (1972)
>
> now how's that for good stuff!
> & if anyone's got a top 10 favorite? please let me know, see you all!
AirRazor
Jodi B. <7260...@compuserve.com> wrote in message
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> My little sister used to get freaked out by our Blythe dolls. Remember
> those? They had bodies like Barbie, but huge heads and their eyes changed
> four different colors by pulling a string in the back of their heads.
(eye
> colors: blue, green, orange & pink!)
to brunette!
Unknown
Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is!
Dennis
>>pawdee ring.
>
It was a cheap, cheesy looking mood ring. The ones that changed color
supposedly according to your mood. Black meant bad mood, lighter colors good
mood. The commercials showed a bunch of 20somethingish kids having a party.
One would say "Have you gotten your party ring?" Another "No what is it?" the
first "Everyone has to have a party ring girl" or something like that. They
all pronounced it pawdee ring.
Jodi B.
francis j mccloskey <fmccl...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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80s Child
endy...@aol.com.invalid (Dennis) wrote:
> The Prell commercials where the women were getting manicures and
soaking in
> Prell.
Wasn't that Palmolive diswashing detergent? With Madge the manicurist -
"You're soaking in it."
--
Put rubber bands around your pant legs to keep the
evil spirits out of your trousers.
- Dogbert ("Dilbert" 7/18/99)
80s Child
I have a vague recollection of Imperial Margarine, where some kid eats
it and a crown appears on his head.
Surfer
wrote:
>I have a vague recollection of Imperial Margarine, where some kid eats
>it and a crown appears on his head.
Oh yea, they had a lot of those commercials. I think it was supposed
to make you feel like a king.
How about those Parkay commercials? How exactly did those go?
Didn't people insist it was butter, then the tub of Parkay spoke and
said "it's Parkay"?
TrueToBrad
with a little boy.
I also liked "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" (Chiffon margarine)
The Trix Rabbit "Trix are for kids"
Coca Cola "I'd like to teach the world to sing"
Bob Uecker and his Miller beer commercials
Coca Cola - Mean Joe Greene
American Tourister withthe Gorilla throwing the luggage around in the cage
Geoff Miller
truet...@aol.com (TrueToBrad) writes:
: Can't remember if this was the 60's or 70's, but do you remember
: when Kool-Aid named their flavors Goofy Grape, Loud Mouth Lime,
: Rootin Tootin Raspberry, Choo Choo Cherry. I can't remember any
: of the others. Anyone else?
That wasn't Kool Aid; it was a brand called Funny Face. I believe
it was made by General Mills.
The cherry and orange flavors were originally called Chinese Cherry
and Injun Orange. They were later changed to Choo-Choo Cherry and
Jolly Ollie Orange, in the earliest example of political correctness
that I was ever aware of. I believe this was after the stuff had
been on the market for two years or so.
I can think of several new flavors that Funny Face could put out to
broaden their range a bit and perhaps make the whole concept a bit
more contemporay. How about:
AIDS Victim Apple
Pukin' Prune
Gimpy Grapefruit
Lunger-Horking Lime
Transvestite Tangerine
Sexual Harassin' Strawberry
Crotch-Grabbing Cranberry
Turgid Tangelo
Chemotherapy Kiwi (or Kaposi's Sarcoma Kiwi)
Pedophile Peach (and his cousin, Restraining Order Raspberry)
Boner-Poppin' Banana
The possibilities, as they say, are endless.
Geoff
--
"I'll give you kids some candy if you let me hump your dog."
-- Space Moose
Geoff Miller
I remember a series of Timex commercials from the 70s that
featured some guy named Papa Joe Griesedieck (sp?). He
identified himself in a way that made it sound like people
were supposed to know who he was; I just sort of shrugged and
assumed that he was a public figure from before my time. My
friends and I laughed whenever any of the commercials came on,
and we'd call the guy "Pape Joe Greasydick."
But my nominations for the top commercials of the 70s are
two Alka Seltzer ads -- the first being the one in the prison
mess hall where the convicts start banging their metal cups
on the tables while shouting "Alka Seltzer! Alka Seltzer!",
and especially the classic "Mama Mia! That's a spicy meatball!"
one. Didn't some Italian-American group get pushed out of shape
over the latter one and succeed in getting it pulled?
jharoo...@tmcc.edu
I am recalling a great little commercial with a little black boy playing the piano and the Mom watching on. then the announcer says "you seem skeptical .... then she says I heard Him play"
What commercial does this go to and was it late 70's or the early 80's
On Thursday, July 29, 1999 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, DavisK wrote:
> You forgot two important commercials:
> 1. Life cereal - "Give it to Mikey, he hates everything"
> - "Hey Mikey! He Likes It!"
> 2. Calgon Detergent - "We need more Calgon!"
> - "Ancient Chinese secret, huh?!".
>
> Runner-up: I was too young to remember this one - the Kodak commercial with
> Laurence Olivier. It was supposed to be popular in its time, and from what
> I understand, it helped increase sales.
>
> ;>)
>
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