Thanks for these commercials. This was right before my grandmother died in 1977 and Elvis died in August! I remember this year like it was yesterday and I was only 5 years old.
I well remembered August of '77. We had just moved back to our hometown and my youngest uncle (6 years older than me), my brother and I were in my grandmother's living room when the news of Elvis died. I was near 10 and like you, remember it like yesterday. I remember the TV was on CBS at the time.
There are some moments in time that stand still. Whats weird is I was older when John Lennon died but can't remember it. I felt like Elvis was family or something.
I was only 6 years old, and I remember some of these better than most of the commercials from the last decade! Incidentally, this is one of my favorite volumes so far, and one that I find myself coming back to every so often because I love so many of the commercials in it.
The wiener here? A few minutes of flashbacks to a time when people smiled more. The loser here? The eventual ratings of The Brady Bunch Hour. Seriously, thanks for bringing us back to our kid days. A game of kickball, anyone?
Wow... this is even better than some of the 80s ones I've seen... nothin' but love all around in both decades. thank you. Loved the Golden Grahams guy with the hair and mustache.
DisneyBlackJet I remember always thinking that was annoying as a kid at the time! I guess that's how it's spelled but then the little boy says 'Baloney' in one of their other ads right after that.
Jerry Orbach was a panelist on the early 70s syndicated era of What's My Line with Wally Bruner and later Larry Blyden hosted it. ANita Gillette was a theater actress around the same time and also made the game show rounds.
I loved the Nancy Drew show from the 70s. Wow, almost forgot about it. But I knew all the lyrics to all the commercials, lol!!!!!! How did I remember those???
I totally, 100% love the audio on this video... It's so super clear and it reminds me of watching an actual 1970's vintage color console TV...(which we didn't have in those days unfortunately but our neighbors did...) I just about remember all of those commercials since I was just 10 years old and TV was everything... Btw that Boy Scouts commercial looked like it was from the 60's...
These are labeled "70's commercials" because they conclusively all aired in early 1977 (airdates are provided in the video description), not because I claim that all of them were originally produced in the 70's.
@@80sCommercialVault that was just an observation I made about the Boy Scouts commercial and definitely not a criticism of the channel(that I love btw) 70's TV would show a 60's commercial every once in a blue and 80's TV would do the same with an occasional 70's commercial...
The Brady Bunch Hour-the one with the replacement Jan(..?) Six Mil $ Man-good episode,love how he field-goal-kicked that bomb at the end Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew-had a crush on Pamela Sue Martin..speaking of the show itself,shocked that The CW hasnt attemped a revival(yet) The Captain & Tenille-wonder how the Cap is doing nowadays.. Log Cabin Syrup-this commercial shouldve aired right after the Six Million Dollar Man promo LOL
A few "Before They Were Stars" appearances in this volume. Was that Mary Frann as the shopper in the second Oscar Mayer ad? I recognize Betty Buckley in the Triscuit spot, and P.J. Soles in the Soft & Dri one. And of course Jerry Orbach in his pre-Lenny Briscoe days, plus Didi Conn in the pileup in that first Mounds ad.
Wow; some truly classic jingles in this volume! 1:23--"Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A." 2:58 and 8:15--"Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don't." 4:21--That Triscuit jingle is based on the old pop standard "A Tisket A Tasket." 5:44--The first, and arguably the best, Golden Grahams jingle! They used several versions of it throughout the late 1970's and early 1980's. Interestingly, it is based on the 19th-century minstrel song "Oh Dem Golden Slippers." 6:14--"Can you feel a brand new day?" I'm drawing a bit of a blank, but I think that is from a Broadway musical. 9:45--"Coke Adds Life" may not have the staying power of some others, but it is one out of many great jingles used by Coca-Cola over the years. 10:21--Another one based on an old pop standard, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". 12:50--It may not have the staying power of "Muncha Buncha" from a few years later, but I could dance and sing "Life's more fun when you're munchin' one, when you're munchin' one, when you're munchin' Fritos" all evening!
And Suzi Quatro played her younger sister "Leather" Tuscadero. I guess she got too famous as a pre-punk girl guitar player/singer a la Joan Jett to bother with a dying sitcom. Strange though that Suzi was wildly poplar in Europe/Japan, and still is, but her popularity waned in the States.
I don't remember milk chocolate Mounds; they must not have been around for very long. No sadness to me, though, as I'm partial to the dark chocolate version.
While I've seen volumes like this from 1976, the year before, this made me wonder how long VHS has been around. A quick Google search says that VHS was introduced in September 1976 in Japan and in America in "early 1977". This is partially January 1977. So...what IS this sorcery anyway? o_o Amazing.
These almost certainly aren't from a VHS recording from 1977. 99% of these old broadcasts with commercials from the 70's are copies of old network master tapes.
Ah! That explains the actual "sorcery". But that only makes the fact these master tapes were preserved well enough to come out like *this* all the more interesting in its own right. Thanks for correcting me. :)
@@talkieful1710 My family got our first color TV set later in 1977, so unless some of these ads were still airing during the last part of the year, I only saw them in black-and-white back then.
