I have a VHS that is filled with old Australian commercials from the 60s and 70s, so decided to upload them so others can see. I do not own any of this. All rights to their owners
I was born in 1960 but I remember that TV ads changed drastically from about 1968 to 1973. One big difference was the dropping of stuffy English accents. Ads became a lot more fun and creative too. Great era.
I could watch these commercials all day. I'm from that era and this brings back so many memories.People had time out from work because the shops closed Saturday 12noon.No one really thought about buying stuff all the time.More time with family and social activities.Kids out in the fresh air.Family holden to the beach.Choc wedge icecreams.Fish and Chips Friday or Saturday night.Footy,MCG cricket.
never had a holden. had heaps of fords and my favourite i wanna get off my uncle is the the '63 supersnipe with red vinyl interior. it really should stay in the family. right bit of family xx
OMG! That TAA ad hit me right in the nostalgia glands. I must have been 7 or 8 when I saw it last, and the thought of jetting off somewhere was unimaginably exciting.
Oh wow that TAA ad with the 727. Though most of these ads are before my time (born 1972), I do remember the old TAA, and even Ansett, the days when there was actual competition in Australian commercial aviation.
I remember seeing an old Bedford truck with the TAA logo on it, just a couple of days after they'd gone out of business. A lonely figure in a back street near Sydney Airport. Poignant.
4:50 TAA and Ansett Airlines - Now defunct. Ansett owner, Reg Ansett also owned *Station ATV-Melbourne* which gave us the all-time classic variety show, *"Young Talent Time"* which would've been 50 years old this year, The 50th Anniversary of the show's debut falls on the exact date, and day, Saturday, 24th April, 2021, the show debuted on Saturday, 24th April, 1971.
@@jenniferschmitzer299 I lived in an apartment block in Perth with that nickname. Sometimes the mail would go astray because people would address it to No. 96 West Coast Highway! 😆
It was based on the hit song My Beautiful Baloon. I think it was written by Burt Baccarat. He wrote Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head and a heap of other classics.
@@leannesmith5818 I reckon so. I'm a truckie and I have ABC radio on wherever I go and a couple of years back I heard reported in relation to some matter (perhaps court) she was living in a caravan with her partner. I do so much driving all the years flow together so it could've been four or six years ago LOL. Edit turns out it was 10 years ago heck: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b_nIX3-0UkA.html Here you go from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_(actress) Retirement from acting Her last television appearance was in 2002, when she briefly became a spokesperson for weight-loss company Jenny Craig. She claimed to have lost 17 kilograms in seven weeks. Abigail was interviewed on Sydney radio station 2GB on her 60th birthday in 2006. At that time she was living on the Gold Coast, Queensland. In March 2011, Australian current affairs program Today Tonight produced a story on Abigail, claiming that she had fallen on hard times, and claiming she was living as a squatter in a derelict church. A rebuttal story was aired the following evening by rival current affairs program, A Current Affair. In fact she had been living there with permission, with her husband, as her home had been partially destroyed by floods. Her damaged home was being prepared for rebuilding. The Today Tonight story captured some hidden camera footage of Abigail. She did not appear on camera consensually.
@@leannesmith5818 She's still alive. She's in Queensland. She and her husband stay out of the limelight these days. They went through a bit of a rough time during the floods a few years back but they're back on their feet now.
Thank you RU-vid algorithms for brining me here. What a great package, it reminds me of how very lucky I am to have grown up in Australia in the 60s and 70s ... Good vid, GreenYoshi93 👍👍👍👍
I actually found this quite depressing. It took me back to an era when life was simpler, happier and cheaper. We will never see the like of those days again.
They were clumbsy days allright, lots of gays by the name of warren or Nigel,people wrapping their licence in a ten dollar bill & smoking was sexy & had suffistaction to it!
oh Plz.. "Ok so lets think, wat did we have her in Australia, hardly anything n always 20 years behind Europe n the State's not to mention when it cam to food before the 60's wat all it was 'was ''meat n 3 veg, 'how backwards more like it buddy.
@@davechristian7543 How backwards Oh plz At Woolworths or Coles now you cannot even purchase Australian bacon without checking the packet and then only one brand made in OZ and the only Asparagus is made in venezuela! And now you pay 50-100K for a car from Europe and that money leaves the country, then they hit you for 5K to service it. "the 60's wat all it was 'was ''meat n 3 veg, " maybe in your house not mine
Wow! I was a tiny child and I instantly remembered the music from that lemonade ad, and that judge dropping something... but I wouldn't have known it was lemonade haha. Funny how random things stick with you forever, but others don't. Talk about a freaky sentimental feeling from a time when life was magical.
Tarax factory was in Huntingdale Vic had a printing business around the corner in 70. fred Parslow the Anticol man, a friend of Noel Ferrier & Frank Thring, I met them in 1963.
I plan to soon re-upload this video in higher quality. This is very choppy. I have a better way of editing videos now, compared with how I used to do it back when I started.
Please do this, Yoshi, these ads are a great look back into TV history, and you're on par with Retrontario (a Canadian RU-vidr who does similar videos showing local Canadian TV ads from the early '80's onward) for doing them. Keep up the great work. From Canada, Neville6000
Mary Pevitt well, if what you say is true about all the ads you see on tv then you need to watch something else. There are many ads like you mentioned but I wouldn’t say that’s all there is. The old ones seemed to be very long.
Me too. I can't say I relate to life here today. I think it's better to be out of touch. No more dance halls, no more street parking when shopping, no more Coles Variety Stores, all too many ppl I knew back then are dead, never saw old school friends since the 70s, work places have changed, schools are producing ppl without manners today, who BTW know nothing, etc.
@dahlia noir To be fair, I was a little kid growing up in Australia in the 70's. I had no idea about the White Australia policy - you just didn't think about such things, and nobody ever talked about it. Wasn't til I was at school and I was about 15 that I heard about it.
Yeah, the glory days if the stolen generation and aboriginals needing permission to marry, interracial marriage and gay sex being criminalised. The good old days, for the rich whites.
Im from Adelaide too and have never ever heard any of these either! I used to know all the ads we had and would sing along with all of them like the majority of us would I think these need to go back into the woodwork for eternity.
Great to see this again. I put it together for some collector / nostalgia event in Melbourne many years ago. A LOT of work went into it. In fact, I also seem to remember making a video cover for it as well ... an old TV screen with a Holden Monaro in the middle. Thanks for the upload.
Retro Thingz it's good to find out where the video originated from, as I found it at a swap meet in South Australia. It still has the cover too, and is exactly how you described it. The car on the front looks like it was coloured in with an orange highlighter :)
It was ! Don't think I even had a computer at the time (about twenty years ago). From memory, it was cobbled together as a prize in a competition and originally shown on a big screen at one of the major collector fairs over here. The first few commercials came off 16 mm film which I had to transfer. Most of the other ads from Iced Vo Vo onwards came from another VHS compilation tape which was created by a fellow collector. Although, I only included the best quality items on this final tape that you've got. And, as I recall, it also, originally, included all the car commercials as well (several of which were also on 16 mm) which you've uploaded separately elsewhere on your channel. There have always been nostalgia buffs getting around making an effort to preserve this sort of material. Thanks again
Yeah I separated them, the cigarette and coke commercials are from the tape as well. It's good that you did this back then otherwise these commercials could have been lost forever. They are great to watch and are an important part of Australian history. Thank you for putting the video together all those years ago :)
Kevin Dennis was actually two people, Dennis Gowing and Kevin Heffernan.. They combined their first names to make the name Kevin Dennis. When they split Dennis Gowing kept the name and we all thought he was actually Kevin Dennis.. His real name was Marshall Dennis Whyte born in London before he was adopted. Amazing what you find with google.
I still think the best Australian commercial of that era was one for Kellog's Rice Bubbles, where the man lamented the lack of Rice Bubbles, (sung to the aria ''Vesti la Gubba'') and was further depressed by the arrival of his mother in law, bearing Rice Bubbles, but announcing she was staying for six weeks!
There was an AMCO ad from @ 1972 for which I remember the jingle. It went Take a look at the world we're in, things aint the way the used to b'in, we all go in for the Amco thing it's a groovy way to be.....AMCO....AMCO.....its an AMCO kind of world. Cant find it anywhere.
TAA! The government-owned airline I flew to Canberra in as a schoolboy to see Parliament House (the old one of course!). I remember maybe half or less of those ads but this one stood out. Also, of course, Abigail - 'Vanessa the Undresser'... :)
Yes Stephen. And now the ads are double the volume of the programs we're watching, and they dumb us down as well, which I loathe. Now when turning on the tv, everything is Covid, death insurance, riots, murders, ppl disappearing, stupid idiots smashing their cars into others, sponsor not the usual 3rd world kids, but an Aussie child, etc. Don't see many ads for Aussie products these days. Life these days is really depressing.
Poor people, the joy of youth. They're all in their 60s now. Sigh! Anyone still remembers Rowena Wallace from 'You can't see around corners'? I don't think so. It was my favorite.
I don't remember "You can't see around Corners" but I certainly remember Rowena Wallace in TV shows like Matlock Police, Cop Shop, Homicide, Skyways, etc.
@@utha2665 You forgot Prisoner. She starred in every drama series. Lovely woman. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%2527t_See_%2527Round_Corners_(TV_series)&ved=2ahUKEwim0uW21-nuAhVb7HMBHQKdCY8QFjAMegQIHxAB&usg=AOvVaw2Sa8iy_xxGRFXRMHe4fXO_ www.gettyimages.no/detail/news-photo/in-the-late-60s-rowena-wallace-starred-in-the-then-news-photo/1079133994
Rather than 'Screamin Demons' we had 'Rumblers'. I recall the add; 'Rumblers keep riding into town. Rumblers; really mean machines, the wildest bikes around. Rumblers keep riding into town....." Haven't heard it since 72, but I still remember. Man, I wish I lived then, not now.
AUSTRALIA WAS MUCH BETTER BACK THEN KIDS OF TODAY WILL NEVER KNOW HOW GOOD IT WAS THE LUCKY COUNTRY IS GONE DOOM AND GLOOM AHEAD IF ONLY WE COULD GO BACK ?
Joes the whip chocolate Up up and away with TAA Always remember that add on the radio in the mornings,tea and toast was about 4 yrs old and tarax,amco jeans used to save up pocket money to buy them as teenagers 1970's Memories are the best Time does move fast God Bless us all xx
Try telling that to the following generation. They never believe it. They think bcz they have technology, that our lives was boring crap from the dark ages. Funny they should say that bcz they WEREN'T there!
Can anyone identify the tune in the Sparklets commercial ? , I can remember GTV 9 commonly used an orchestrated version as background music to their test pattern prior to 7AM commencement of transmission in the early 70's.
I'm sorry I can't watch 15 mins of commercials, but can you tell me if there's a Bex ad in there. It's the one where the woman asks the man returning home in his Holden and she asks, "How was the trip Tom?"
Ahh yes,when Iced Vo Vos had a decent layer to the jam and icing,these days the layer is so thin you literally see the biscuit through the layer of jam.
the biscuit base is downsized, the topping is thread bare and of course, you are paying more than ever. That is standard practice in food manufacturing,.incrementally reduce the portion size while raising the price. Profit is all that matters.
Kevin Dennis..... lol! I remember him, although I was too young in 69 to recall this add. (My first year at school.) I like be how the 'update' is a 69 HT. I had one myself, in another life. 😁
Shelly Williams I got these commercials from a video that was filled with them that I found at a garage sale. These are all that was on there. I doubt I will find any more commercials from the 70s
Crikey...Scream'n Deamons...remember the ad! The Matchbox Scorpions cars had a small rechargeable battery inside. After some hours of use and recharge, it could barely hold half charge. The speed control rotated a magnet under the plastic track. What an Aussie accent from Richie. Back then, accents were much stronger. The TAA balloon ad was everywhere on the TV. Many ads were intentionally satire.
Gasoline! What State was that from? In fact I don't think I ever saw more than 20% of these. The TAA goes West Coast America theme, still resonates today though.
I turned 14 in 1970, but didn't recognise any of these commercials until 4.37 the TAA 'Come Fly the Friendly Way' commercial, which I loved at the time & still love seeing again. The TRIX advert rang a vague bell, but that one didn't particularly stick in my young mind...I wonder why... Barter shoes - school's starting again soon, yuk. As for Cornsilk face powder, Cadbury's "caramel whip" & Amco jeans.....they look pure 1970's, not 60'.
And Australia since then has been on a down hill roller coaster in every way from manufacturing ,education ,wages, to civilization ,human behaviour ,intelligence and mens bravery .
Yu can blame the heartless selfish CIA for that. From the time or even before they got your Prime Minister sacked in 1975. Its all been downhill ever since. & all the morons in politics or unions who secretly joined the CIA in 1 form or another. Also look at how ruthless companies like Coles & Woolworths have become. They also helped USA become the wreck it is today.
@@arteCee no just the above,.ie an occurance due to many influences and lack of .maybe not engineered .but surely in the very recent times it is definitely engineered.very sinister indeed.,
Geez the black label lemonade ad must be older than me I cant remember it!! i can the frank sinatra version. That old black magic has me in a spell.. that jingle from the 70s i think.
I was comparing and contrasting them to what I can remember from US Television around the same time, In the 1960s we DID start seeing the first color commercials. by 1970 it was ALL newly-produced stuff , programs or commercials , all color Fly the Friendly Skies was United Airlines. Up Up and away was TWA One airline used both hype phrases And while TWA was an early adopter of the 707, neither of those can be considered an early operator of the 727 shown in that ad, although both airlines did eventually fly them