1973-4 Television Commercials Breaks 1 hour 

Didn't Manilow write the McDonald's jingle?

I thought that was Mason Adams. Good catch!

​@@smichelle65Yes, and he also wrote the State Farm "Like a Good Neighbor" jingle you hear on this video as well.

Barry Manilow was at the opening of the McDonald’s museum and restaurant in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

McDonald’s has been ubiquitous for nigh on 70 years. I wonder what it will take to put those bustards out of business.

@@russellgrimes3491 “bustards” 😂😂

Definitely Barry!

Back then, the French fries were cooked in beef tallow.

@@luisreyes1963 yes they were and were better for you if eaten once in awhile. Now it’s scary what they will feed you to save a penny!

I think it’s they didn’t use microwaves yet? And those beef tallow fries I’ve heard so much about from older folks, I was really young when they quit doing that.

@@kmjeffelssmaller menu in those days no Happy Meals until 1979 tho

@@oldradiosnphonographs commercial microwaves were out mid 70’s and we had our first microwave in 83’. I do remember some really cool happy meals!

Richard B. Schull as the customer.

@@luisreyes1963 Skull!

Manilow wrote the State Farm jingle as well.

@@tkaye2 Yes, he composed the music for that famous jingle.

Eagle eye!

“Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?”

Yeah but most people couldn’t afford them.

@@russellgrimes3491 1973 was a record year for Cadillac.

@@jameswillett7186 Yeah. I guess the people who could afford them are the ones complaining on social media about how everything was less expensive in the ‘70s.

Shasta and RC were mixers for many a ‘70s alcoholic. Plus poor people served Shasta at get togethers because it was cheaper than Coke.

You already know!

Can’t miss that laugh of Charles Nelson Reilly’s!

Sony Eiaj Reel To Reel no I didn't use software on this

@@obsoletevideo6048Do you have more variety shows?

And that was before Kraftwerk, which were considered the pioneers of techno. (They came along in the late-1970s)

@@RandyDubin Actually, Kraftwerk started back in 1970 in Germany. They had a few albums out by 1973.They didn't become well known in the west until their 1978 album "The Man Machine" hit big. It's very possible the person who composed this music had heard one of their early albums.

@@Foxonian the only thing is this sounds nothing like Kraftwerk especially their early stuff.

Gary Merrill. That is who is providing the voiceover.

Makes it sound fancy.

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Actually, the early 1980's had cigars last advertised on TV.

I remember seeing cigar, chewing tobacco, and pipe tobacco advertising into the early 80s.