Great observation! That was ticking in the back of my mind, until you pointed it out. It's been almost completely lost now. Despite this, the accents are not as "Aussie" as we get in ads today. The accents still had some of the "proper" English tinge which was used in broadcasting in the 1970s.
Back then, all ads had to be made in Australia. So, even if it was for a foreign product, their existing ad campaigns were remade locally with Australian actors.
A huge change since the 1970s. Back then, the ads tried to appeal to men, by getting into their world (of physical work and fun, and fatherhood). Nowadays, they make no effort to appeal to men at all. Maybe because 80% of consumer spending is by women, and they like to see men as idiots? Consumer spending rates were probably 80% women in the 1970s also, but the advertisers hadn't discovered yet that trashing men sells stuff to women.
So many memories. I was in my late teens when these ads were airing. Thank you for the reminders. I have early stages of dementia. This has helped. Many many thanks. Richard from Tasmania Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you for your comment and for supporting my channel mate, us Tasmanians are a rare breed. I wish you all the best with your health challenges, take care.
What I REALLY love about 70's and 80's ads is that they are simple and straight to the point. Not like now how it is just crap grabs of some song you don't know and nothing relevant until right to the end of the advert (if they ever get to the point anyway!)
The thing that annoys me about modern ads is that they use old songs rerecorded by some girl pop singer that has no of the nuance or emotion of the original. A lot of the time they are happy songs, remade to sound sad and depressing. I hear it all the time. No respect for the originals.
The thing about all these ads from the 70s, was they actually made you want to buy the product. I can't remember the last time I saw an ad and wanted to buy it. Mostly I'm just annoyed and mute them, that is if I ever watch tv, which is garbage.
I was born in 72, so was 7 when these aired. I remember the silver fishies swimming around in the cat food ad, the Skinny milk, ad, and the fire breathing anticol ad.
The dancer in the skinny milk ad is Rebecca Gilling. She acted in the movies Stone, and The Man from Hong Kong. And later presented the Our House program.
Wow. These are almost half a century ago and I last saw them about half a century ago. Yet somewhere deep in my mind remnants remain as I remember some of these commercials.
Does anyone remember the Woodbine cigarette ads which were a parody of the Marlborough Man on a horse ads. Comedian Norman Gunston would ride his horse sitting backwards!
7:26. The iconic 1970s Rosella TV commercial with the anthemic soundtrack. A full version with appropriate lyrics would have been a #1 music hit. 24:37. The iconic Skinny Milk ad featuring the beautiful and talented Rebecca Gilling
man, these ads are as old as my mum old media like this is always a neat peak into the past, and ads aren't something people usually think to preserve thanks for uploading mate
I remember the old ad for "Have a go". "It's a typical Aussie morning, on a typical Aussie day. And I love this place i was born in, in it's typical aussie way." We were read proud aussies those days!
Eventually the whole Holden range got RTS. I still remember the ad for the HZ Kingswood SL. Filmed on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne, near the Yarra Bend Rd bridge. The freeway was not, at the time, open for traffic.
@@barbz8122 My Teacher at high school had a torana sedan ,and he optioned it with power assist steering, because of a little conflict called the Korean War that left him with a weakness in the torso . And I'm envious as I was priced out of the market by the time I got a job . Would love to have a SS with the lot including the tail gate camper option from NASCO ( HBD ) .
I'm 57, and these ads come back to me like yesterday. Great copies too. This is Australia, the real Australia in the 70s. The country has gone to hell! Brashs' Camberwell was our store. I bought my first TV there in 1987 10 years later. For a split second you saw Johnny Young and the Young Talent Team with the Channel O Melbourne. Palmolive at with The VFL. Robert Morely Hienz add. These are from Melbourne TV😄
I couldn’t believe seeing the old Rosella soup commercial, it’s been virtually impossible to find, as well as Ezi-Clean, I thought I was the only person in Australia who remembers Ezi-Clean.
I'm in here to jot down the dates and the stations from which these commercials were recorded. The ones from the start of the video up until 8:07 appear to come from GTV-9 (from the very briefly glimpsed promo font) and date from June 1977, based on the Tatts Gold Lottery plugs, since there was a full page ad for them in the 7 June 1977 edition of _The Age._ The ones from 8:07 until 16:03 are from ATV-0 Melbourne and date presumably from 8 April 1978. The ones from 16:03 up until 21:41 are again from ATV-0 Melbourne and are from around June 1978. The ones from 21:41 up until the end of the video appear to yet again be from ATV-0 Melbourne and date definitively from 2 June 1979.
Your mostly correct. These all come from 3 episodes of Young Talent Time. The 77 and 78 episodes were birthday specials. The shows anniversary was on the 25th of April each year so they could quite possibly be from June. Their is a book on the show coming out soon which features detailed episode information so if it contains the air dates then I'll let you know what they are.
@aus80srockradio94 Although I didn't record them I believe they were recorded on a National Cartridge Video Recorder. It must have cost a fortune back in the day.
This is really special. Not many recordings off TV in the late 70s exist as VCRs/Betamax were only just in. And for someone to still have the tapes is incredible.
I remember the Uncle Sam deodorant ads - this is the school boy parody of that ad - You need Uncle Sam, you dirty old man, 48 cents for a rusty old can, the perfect connection for cats and dogs, and under your arm is the smell of the frogs!
The one I remember didn't have 'you dirty old man', but it did have: "...the perfect connection for teachers that smell, 'cause under their arm is the bottom of Hell."
The Colgate 'ring of confidence' - I remember when Samuel Johnson created the adverts for their toothpaste, they did a parody of the Colgate ad, and had a square around the woman's head instead of the ring of confidence.
Does anyone remember the awful BrylCream ads from the early seventies, from memory, Bryl Cream - oily cream added to hair to make the hair look shiny. It was in decline with the young 1960s adults. Ad had a conga line with a man saying 'I came back' (to using Brylcream) and a woman behind him followed this by saying, 'And I am glad he did' This ad did not seem to work or work for long, haven't heard of Brylcream in decades.
I still remember the spinning top game in the early 1970s. The reporter asked the champ kid what his secret was, he said - Its all in the wrist action! For a long time, if one of us kids asked another how did something, he would respond with 'its all in the wrist action!'
I remember seeing outtakes from the Dame Edna whitegoods ad at 29.40 Barry starts talking about how "you should jam pack your house with so many Westinghouse goods that you'll need to smear yourself with Vaseline in order to squeeze yourself between just to get into your home possums" while the director (think it may have been Bruce Beresford) was saying "thats enough now. Barry, Barry. BARRY! ENOUGH!!!"
Thanks for some great memories. Possibly the first time I have seen these ads in colour. We didn't get a colour tv until 1983, although it was available from 1975. The Telecom STD ad was a great reminder. When the NBN was connected to my house. The landline had to be replaced. The cable conduit dug up was marked Telecom. Must have been there a while.
Holden was owned by the Yanks before the first "Holden" car. Holden had to send an exec to Detroit to get permission to build a car in Australia. General Motors "hiding" behind a local name.
And the YooHoo flavoured milk ads, showing Jessalenko and a kid with the kid saying YooHoo makes me burst my buttons as all the buttons on his jacket pinged off!
Ads look weird without people of color in almost every one of them, those were the days, I used to buy alot of kit e kat, not bad with tomato sauce in a toasted sanga
That animation style from the first clip is so disturbing and weird. I grew up in the 80s but there was still some of that 70s style lingering around and it just gives me the heeby jeebies.
Possibly I did not watch enough TV, or the ads did not take on me that well. Even though I did actually work in broadcast just after this period! I do remember a lot of the brands or stores, amazed at the prices of things back then. I really need to work on that whole being brainwashed thing. The things I did remember were, the tune from Rosella, the cartoon Mr Sheen. I vaguely remember Palmolive Gold. I do vaguely remember the Heinz tomato soup (series, was it Robert Morley?) the MacLeans (series) and also their packaging. I do remember the Skinny Milk model (I was probably as thin back then, but no skinny milk for me!). Strangely, I remember the Gascor Insulation animation. Hah! I remember the ETA super spread margarine, completely, but primarily because they used Ronald Binge's Elizabethan Serenade - advertisers note, you cannot beat an orchestral piece ("Anyhow have a Winfield" rings a bell, because Tchaikovsky). Anticol yes, remember it. It did not escape my attention that the compilation came from recordings of the ad breaks during Young Talent Time, on the then "Channel 0" (later Channel 10). I do need to try harder on the nostalgia front, maybe in another 10-20 years I will get there. Until then, 70s advertisers, you largely failed.
Yes, my friend, it's sad, i hope it will change, trying to fight it...shrugs. Glad that your with us and made it out of Rhodesian ; Wish we had of fought with you and helped you, but most of the West is controlled by ''Banks''...
