THUMBS DOWN for chopping the top & bottom off the original commercial. It was not widescreen when created, and creating a fake widescreen damages the original content .
The idea was for people to find what they have in common to share, and keep their focus there. How do people miss the big, glittering, flashing neon sign? Coke itself took a backseat to their own commercial.
Why does everything have to be ruined? I am so sorry for those of you that missed the 70s and 80s. Some of the best times to be alive. No cell phones, no internet, no social media. And as a kid we had literally thousands of things to do. Even in a small town of 600 people. Memories to cherish for a lifetime. Peace to everyone.
I remember Vietnam, violent protests, oil shortages, a disgraced president, hyperinflation, and a general atmosphere of malaise. You can keep that lousy decade. I’ll take the 80s or 90s .
I remember Vietnam, violent protests, oil shortages, a disgraced president, hyperinflation, and a general atmosphere of malaise. You can keep that lousy decade. I’ll take the 80s or 90s .
I miss the 70s as well ...I remember when I was a kid how people were nicer towards each other...I'm 52yrs old now time is going all so fast now. 🏃♀️🏃♂️💨💨💨💨💨
I remember Vietnam, violent protests, oil shortages, a disgraced president, and a general atmosphere of malaise. You can keep that shitty decade. I’ll take the 80s or 90s .
@@electrictroy2010 Truth is you are right. The seventies were not perfect but I will take that decade over this one easily. Some things never change though. For instance, we are dealing 9alveit indirectly) with a war. We are dealing with a disgraced former resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Av. But I will still take that over this decade.
When this advert hit England, my Grandmother want me to write down the words, I spent ages with a small tape recorder, going back and forth to get the words for her. God knows why she wanted them.
I think Coca-Cola needs to redo this commercial and display it on the airwaves. To remind people no matter who we are. Regardless of race and or gender we all want to spread love and respect.
THUMBS DOWN for chopping the top & bottom off the original commercial. It was not widescreen when created, and creating a fake widescreen damages the original content .
I remember Vietnam, violent protests, oil shortages, a disgraced president, hyperinflation, and a general atmosphere of malaise. You can keep that lousy decade. I’ll take the 80s or 90s .
Only remembered the original first one 49 years ago in 1971 of which fell in love with, buying the New Seekers single, and getting the Coke ad single as well, as a friend at that time was a projectionist at a cinema - good old days was the 1970’s 👍.
I remember Vietnam, violent protests, oil shortages, a disgraced president, hyperinflation, and a general atmosphere of malaise. You can keep that lousy decade. I’ll take the 80s or 90s .
ABSOLUTELY. Ignore those who'd love to erase soda pop from our world, they're the same mad dogmatic people who'd like to erase meat from our world. Most of them must have some problem with the way nature works, they're probably seriously repressed so they can't stand other people have the freedom to choose whatever they want to do in life. This so far from being moderate and healthy without the need to erase anything...
I was just little boy when I heard this song for the first time brings back memories when my parents were alive how I miss my parents I am an old man now I still miss the times that I was a boy
Well, just like then, it takes people refusing to engage and insisting on coming together to make it happen. That’s what they did in the 70’s. Plenty of bad things were going down, that’s what inspired the commercial. They really ought to re-run the original.
I remember Vietnam, violent protests, oil shortages, a disgraced president, hyperinflation, and a general atmosphere of malaise. You can keep that lousy decade. I’ll take the 80s or 90s .
THUMBS DOWN for chopping the top & bottom off the original commercial. It was not widescreen when created, and creating a fake widescreen damages the original content .
I love the Coca-Cola (aka Coke) "Hilltop" commercial and its most famous jingle, "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)/ I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke", which became a popular pop song performed by The Hillside Singers and The New Seekers simultaneously. The original aired in 1971, 4 years before I was born, but I watched it in TV specials in the late 1990s. I love every version, even Coca-Cola Classic's (Coke Classic) "Hilltop Reunion" (1990) and Coca-Cola Zero's (aka Coke Zero) "Rooftop" with G. Love's "Everybody Chill" (2005), except the final one (2015), because of a sad reality. I even love the 2002 spoof made by one of Coca-Cola's competitiors, 7Up. Takes me back to my toddler years.
Great walk down memory lane, i miss those commercials & i miss the first Coca Colas before the started changing it. This wold have been so much nicer if some people hadn't decided to sing the Christmas greeting with negativity and the kind of reality we have everyday. At least they could have left Christmas with peace, love & innocence. Thank you people who refuse to let some memories remain and live on without degrading & slinging your foul mud on them. Did that add an iota of good to that beautiful & gone but not forgotten memory most hoped to see. I hope it will make you live a few minutes longer in you unhappy, love less world.
I know. So sick of these killjoys. Just because certain people abuse sugar doesn’t make them victims and it doesn’t make Coke bad. Personal accountability is in order.
For a short time coke came out with a Splenda version. I liked that. Not too long ago I saw and spoke to a coke man stocking the shelves at the grocery store. He told me they stopped making it.
Let us be THANKFUL to God that we are ALIVE whatever ERA we are born... for many were aborted, and some were killed like animals... Facts and Truth of the Matters.
As a diabetic. Please don't blame the company for your diabetes doctor said to change your diet thats your fault if ypu didn't change. And yes it hereditary. I'm diabetic i did it to myself but i changed my diet as the doctor says
Our Daily Bread biblical study book mentions this commercial's popularity the reading for July 28, 2022. Thanks for posting not only the original but all the versions. 😇😇😇
The original had beautiful lyrics, "I'd like to teach the World to sing, in perfect harmony, with honey bees .... Trouble is many times we abuse of a good thing, There would be no health problems, if we did not abuse sugary drinks. They are fine once in a while, but not to be drunk several times a day, unless we are sportsmen who burn lots of sugar. The original song promotes unity between mankind, which is sadly so lacking today. We are in danger of another World War. May GOD help us to be in peace, with one another!
notice in the original from 1971. no fat kids. there simply were not any fat kids in 1971. not where I lived 35 miles south of Los Angeles in 1971, I was in the 7th grade. there was not a single overweight kid in the entire school. we all exercised and rode bicycles to school. this was back in the days when there were no large parking lots at high schools to accommodate the fact that all kids drove cars to school. none did in 1971. it was absolutely a better time for kids obviously.
I remember Vietnam, violent protests, oil shortages, a disgraced president, hyperinflation, and a general atmosphere of malaise. You can keep that lousy decade. I’ll take the 80s or 90s .
50 years later this commercial is more relevant than 1971 and by the way did you know the black guy in the 1st commercial is Rodney Allen Rippey's brother
I well remember the first two songs. Especially the Christmas one. Christmas commercials back in the 60s, 70s, 80s and part of the 90s was really great. It was very nice to sing about world peace (I enjoyed it) but true peace only comes from a relationship with Jesus Christ after repentance. HE will bring peace one day.
I saw the commercial in the apartment of my friend before it aired on TV (but I don't remember many details about it). He invited a group of us to watch it and comment on it to add to his review.
ON DECEMBER 21, 1971 MY FATHER GAVE US FOUR LEGGED BLACK AND WHITE TELEVISION, BRAND "ADMIRAL". THE FIRST THING I SAW WAS THIS COMMERCIAL. AT THE SAME TIME I ASKED MY SELF WHY PEOPLE CAME OUT IN "PIECES" IN SOME PARTS AND IN OTHERS THE WHERE WHOLE? THE AGE OF MY INNOCENCE. WHAT IS 50 YEARS?
It was like after this commercial,l can hear my dad say"Time to go to bed, get ready for school tomorrow", stay a kid as long as you can, don't be in hurry get older so fast.
Finally, 1701spacecadet, someone who sees through the sappy BS. It's just a f___ing commercial, that's it. It's a corporation tapping into the hipness of peace and love at the time. Cringe on that.
I have always loved this song. The newest version about Coke and other soft drinks giving you Type 2 Diabetes hit home because I have Type 2 Diabetes and am on 4 different drugs to combat it. I also drink Zero Sugar soda now.
I grew up in a Pepsi Family. When this commercial first aired I was Nine years old. I loved the it but not enough for my Mom to buy Coke. 3 years ago I stopped drink all soda pop and Coffee. I few days ago I accidentally took a sip of Pepsi. It felt like the back of my head was going to explode and the sugar rush incredible.
I take this to mean Coke is admitting that their product contains small amounts of unrefined cocaine. Don Draper was a sly genius to sell it and tell it like it is. It's the real thing, indeed.
They didn't. There is still coca leaves in Coca-cola. And coca leaves are cocaine, before the alkaloids are synthesized to create it. We do have a lot of fun drinking Coke. That's why everyone loves it so much...
James Pietruch, where did I say anything even CLOSE to giving Kim Jun Un anything? Please keep me out of your fantasyland scenarios? I merely stated that GLUTTONY was the problem, not the sugar...
For years we have had Tab, and later diet coke/coke zero. It's all about balance!! Blame sweets, cakes, desserts...the list goes on! But nobody was forced to eat/drink the sugar!!
Did you all not watch to the end? @@krisfann6020, 5:00 - *"Beverage companies spend about $1 billion per year advertising sugary drinks."* David Sprague, Let's say that along with selling cars, you pump money into advertising your cars. And if your commercials happened to promote the operation of cars in a manner that had little regard for the safe operation of your cars... then YES, in this case you WOULD bear a certain amount of responsibility for the destruction measured in human lives from car crashes.
I remember getting a floppy (and square, yes square) record off of some packaging that had the New Seekers version on one side and the Coca-Cola version on the other. Wore that sucker plumb out.
I SWEAR coke did a "reunion" commercial during the super bowl one year (late 80s/early 90s) Please tell me I'm not having so "false memory". I remember they had the cast of the original hilltop ad recreate it. I asked my parent what the heck was that all about and they explained the original ad to me.
I see this diversity as people of different colors living peacefully in the world. Not necessarily living together in one country. Now that I’m thinking about it, immigration is not really the best solution to improve people’s lives. Instead of bringing them over here in the US, would it be better if we help other countries be more successful so they don’t have to leave their home. After all, there is no place like home, and home will always be where our heart is.
And all the US Citizens that Emigrate, does your comment mean their emigration; it's not the "best solution" for the destination countries of those emigrating, would you like to curtail or stop that, too: What about their Hearts, as regards their Home? Are the US Citizens, Foreign Policies and International Development Programmes just so good that it really doesn't matter what US Emigres, Orgs or it's Military do, because: apparently, they'll be unable to do anything other than "help other countries be more successful so they don’t have to leave their home..." ? Are those large numbers of Immigrants who are currently residing in the US, from countries that don't need "help" ie; Russia, UK, Poland, Germany and Canada not representative of diversity because they are all the same colour - should they not Immigrate to the US, due to having different languages and cultures, even though they have the same colour, or does having the same colour make it OK for them, with you? If "Immigration is not the best solution to improve people's lives", what on Earth, and Across The High Seas, were those who sailed in The Mayflower thinking... or those that escaped the Potato Famine in Ireland.. and the Religiously Persecuted and Economically deprived of Mainland Europe... or they who fled Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Communist China and Russia... or the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Korea... Or The Ayatollah's Iran... or the dictators of Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria... or Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Liberia... or Rwanda, Serbia and Ukraine... Not to mention the countries who were suffering the ruination wreaked by (Euro & US) Capitalism and Colonialism ? WWI & WWII were primarily initiated and fought between people of the same colour, weren't they...? And what of the many Civil Wars between people of the same colour, from Europe, to Africa, to the Middle East; what happened to their peacefully living together? As of June 2016, the State department's consular section estimated that there are 9 million non-military U.S. citizens living abroad,[3][4] an increase from the 4 million estimated in 1999.[5] However, these numbers are often disputed as being underestimated en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration_from_the_United_States I realise it may be very difficult for you to see beyond isolation and nationalism because you may've suffered as a result of Immigration or have been taught to value separatism above integration, or both, which i understand is just part of reality. Sadly with Immigration as with all matters their will come those who abuse it and those who are 'just plain bad' - i get that! And you do not have to change your thinking either, of course, neither does anyone have the right to compel you to do so : i would encourage you to look into more solutions, though, because i think your proposal is divisive, shortsighted, unrealistic and contrary to all that is good about Humankind. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King Jr 8/28/63
Like my mother always said: “Don’t drink that stuff. Your toes will fall off.” Diabetes does cause poor circulation and your toes actually could fall off.
EL 21 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1971, MI PADRE LLEGÓ A CASA CON UNA TELEVISIÓN EN BLANCO Y NEGRO DE CUATRO PATAS MARCA "ADMIRAL". LO PRIMERO QUE VÍ, FUE ÉSTE COMERCIAL. ¿QUÉ SON 50 AÑOS?
