Oldest Commercials

Ah, yes, The Buster Brown show of both radio and television. Introduces Froggy the gremlin thusly:
Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy.
(doiyoiyoiyoing)
Hi ya kids, hi ya, hi ya, hi ya.

howdy doody gang

Sugar Jets breakfast cereal.

Oh they're great to eat, the taste is new
Shot with sugar through and through
Kellogs Sugar Corn Pops (pop pop)
Sugar Pops are tops

Quaker Puffed Wheat (gun shot)
And Quaker Puffed Rice (gun shot)
The cereals shot from guns (two gun shots)
present Sergeant Preston of the Yukon!
"On King! On you huskies!"
(Dogs barking)

I don't mean to stop the flow here, but I was in a Toni commercial.

My father was the director, they did these at RKO Pathe in New York, and I was one of the kids, as an extra, in some classroom (don't ask, I don't remember the premise of why there was a classroom, perhaps the teacher had the Toni..) I think I was in two Toni commercials....thus my Toni doll.

Howdy Doody was happening in the same building.

Later in similar fashion, I was in two Hallmark Commercials. I think I was 10 1/2. Nepotism, yes, looking back, it must have been, although I wasn't ever the key person. Might have been economics, in part, they needed an extra....... but I am thinking fatherly pride.

Yes! We too are part of history!!

Well...this is actually a sore subject for me. My dad was hired to start the commercial tv division of Foote Cone and Belding in Chicago, a key ad agency. I know there were bosses above him. He didn't last all that long, a year or two, and was totally thrown by not lasting. It was a political time in the country and there were apparently various antagonisms there, and I now know that kind of thing is typical, work politics and sometimes larger politics.

These were McCarthy times, and my dad was one of the founders of the film editor's union a decade earlier.. Let me just guess that he was vocal. I have no idea now, and we got great gold cards from Fairfax Cone for decades later.

But, hey, I was in a Toni commercial at eight...

osso

CI, I am cognizant of what happened for each of us around those times.

Wish you were there with me, as you know...not that you would have been in NY in 1950, but that you/your family wouldn't have had constraints before.

And what do you send when "You care enough to send the very best?"

I don't send Hallmark. Not that I don't like them, although, actually, I don't (do they still exist?). I don't feel attached, and never did. And since I am a little strange, I make my own cards out of stuff. Either artist drawn cards, or my own little concoctions.

I don't know enough about Hallmark to make a reasonable reply.
I think it is nice that they sponsored some of the best early television.
I gawked at Sarah Churchill just as I did for that opera singer on the Sid Caesar show, Marguerite Piazza...
and I still like cards and look at them in stores. I am not too keen, personally, on a lot of manufactured smaltz, but that isn't the worst thing in the whole world.

Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is...

osobuco
That's a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing it.

Eva- For the last few weeks I have been hearing commercials on the radio proclaiming that "Breck is back!

Me too Phoenix - as a teen I used breck hoping against hope to look like one of those women. Thank goddess I grew up!

Thought you all might enjoy this list of advertising slogans. Can you name the product it is from?

1. _______ makes hamburgers taste like steakburgers.


2. _______ is the place for the helpful hardware man.


3. _______ take me away.


4. _______ the San Francisco treat.



5. A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.


6. A diamond is forever.


7. A little dab'll do ya.


8. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.®


9. All the news that's fit to print.®


10. All you add is love.


11. America's freedom fabric.


12. Aren't you glad you use ______ ? Don't you wish everybody did?


13. Be all that you can be.


14. Betcha can't eat just one.


15. Better things for better living through chemistry.


16. Born in fire, blown by mouth and cut by hand with heart.


17. Breakfast of Champions.


18. Bring out the ______ and bring out the best.


19. Celebrate the Moments of Your Life.


20. Does she … or doesn't she?®


21. Don't leave home without it.®


22. Don't treat your puppy like a dog.


23. Double your pleasure.® Double your fun.


24. Fill it to the rim with ______.


25. Finger-lickin' good.


26. Fly the friendly skies of ______.®


27. Good to the last drop.


28. Hair color so natural only her hairdresser knows for sure.®


29. Have it your way.®


30. How do you spell relief?


31. I can't believe I ate the whole thing.


32. I wish I was an ______.


33. I'd like to buy the world a ______.


34. If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde!


35. In the valley of the Jolly, "Ho, ho, ho," ______.


36. It keeps going, and going, and going....


37. It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.


38. It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.


39. It's the real thing.


40. It's the cheesiest.


41. Just do it.


42. Let your fingers do the walking.


43. Like a good neighbor, ______ is there.


44. Look for the union label.


45. Look, Ma, no cavities!


46. Mama mia, that's a spicy meatball!


47. M'm, M'm, Good!


48. No More Tears.


49. Nobody doesn't like ______.


50. Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven.


51. Nothing comes between me and my ______.


52. Once vou pop, you can't stop!


53. Our repairmen are the loneliest guys in town.


54. Please don't squeeze the ______.®


55. Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is!®


56. Promise her anything, but give her ______.


57. Quality is Job 1.


58. Reach out and touch someone.®


59. Ring around the collar.


60. Run for the border.


61. See America at see level.


62. See the USA in your ______.


63. Snap! Crackle! Pop!


64. Something special in the air.


65. St Augustine founded it. Becket died for it. Chaucer wrote about it. Cromwell shot at it. Hitler bombed it. Time is destroying it. Will you save it?


66. Taste them again, for the first time.


67. The best part of waking up is ______ in your cup.


68. The best seat in the house.


69. The best to you each morning.


70. The King of Beers


71. The milk chocolate melts in your mouth-not in your hand.®


72. The Other White Meat.


73. The pause that refreshes.


74. The Un-Cola'


75. They're Great!


76. There are a million and one excuses for not wearing a safety belt. Some are real killers.


77. Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.


78. Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!


79. We bring good things to life.®


80. We do chicken right.


81. We love to fly and it shows.


82. We try harder.®


83. We will sell no wine before its time.


84. When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.


85. When it rains it pours.


86. When you say ______, you've said it all.


87. Where's the beef?®


88. Yo quiero ______.


89. You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.


90. You deserve a break today.®


91. You're in good hands with _______.®


92. You've come a long way, baby.®

I recognize the great majority of them. With so many there are going to be a few missed by most all of us.

Love the new flutterby avatar there, darlin' . . .

The Diamonds are forever theme music, which was commissioned by De Beers, was expanded into a concerto by the composer, Karl Jenkins, i believe the title is Palladio. It is really quite good.

On the back of most magazines and many comics: The bully on the beach kicks sand in the little guy's face, right before a beautiful woman. After taking Charles Atlas's body building course, the little guy bulks up and punches out the bully. "What a man," the beautiful girl says, wrapping both hands on a bicep.

Oh, no, do I really have to answer the questions? I could get a bunch of them, but not recent ones, as I have swanned off to a2k, etc. I can do dsl, or I can get good cable tv, picked the dsl...which was what I felt like anyway. But I am low on new commercial input.

Not a requirement, ossie.

American Seed Company ads were generally in the same comics as Charles Atlas, exhorting kids to sell their product door to door. There was also a salve maker doing the same thing.

On the same pages were also ads for the Red Ryder Daisy bb guns.

~~~~~Gillette~~~~~~~

I remember some of the jingle::


"Look sharp, feel sharp........"
"Hey Mister, how are you fixed for blades?"........................