Presenting commercial breaks, news and other short clips from VHS tapes - generally secondhand and most from the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area. All clips are presented under fair use.
If you have behind-the-scenes info to offer, details to add, "hey, it's that guy!" sightings to report or memories to share, please do! Friendly, thoughtful comments are always welcome.
Videos with a [CC] box have manual captions, because accessibility is awesome and RU-vid's automatic captions are hilariously bad. I'm working to add more all the time, on both new and old videos.
I was surprised the school I went to was going to attempt to give me the strap for this legit thankyou, Dad, for some reason not joking from that day on noone was beaten at public schools in Canada. Not everyone 😢was requested to tolerate abuse from prison or should I note schools.
I was 13, and I remember Hagar belting this anthem, and being blown away. REMEMBER, this was the era of Nirvana, and Van Halen was still at the top. I don't remember what it tasted like, but the re-release had the same great looking packing, but just awful flavour.
As a non-American, my first exposure to this was from the move Hot Shots! It wasn't until this month I found out it was from an ad after heard about it on a podcast
I wrote that tune. Long story but I knew the VP at Trophy and she used to laugh at my ansering machine messages. She asked if I could write a funny promo for Trophy. This was the result.
It's the dream you've had for years It's happened, you've earned it Through the laughter and the tears Hey Houston, you've got it! The spirit of Texas Is alive on 11 Come up and celebrate The spirit of Texas on 11!
You're not beaten when you fall You'll prove it, you'll do it Now you're proud riding tall Hey Houston, you've got it The Spirit of Texas Is alive on 11 Come up and celebrate The Spirit of Texas on 11!
Anybody remember the “Black Hole” it was super high and dark with strobe lights and played Ghost Busters on repeat?!?! I grew up on that ride…and the super dangerous Wave Pool…
