When I was a kid, and this commercial came on... we'd all jump to the TV and watch. It was a highlight of the day. They used to play it after school during the Paul Shannon Adventure Time on channel 4 Pittsburgh. Got introduced to the Little Rascals, Deputy Dawg and Ruff & Reddy on that show. Good Times.
Do you remember, NOSMO KING? He was played by Paul Shannon. NOSMO would drive his car on the Parkway! NOSMO King is No Smoking but the letters are spaced differently!
I went to college with the drummer. He lived for fruit and was a wiz in Anthropology class. He married a gorgeous brunette and became a successful lawyer in Tennessee. He gave a stirring speech at the Scopes Monkey Trial.
I remember this commercial from 1963-64. I was 8 years old. we had a 25in. black and white T.V. with rabbit ears to adjust the picture, no cable. We were lucky if we could get 3 stations at that time. Man, things have really changed.
Michael Carr In 1963 UK we had two channels, BBC TV and Independent Television. In 1964 we got BBC 2 as our third and in 1982 Channel 4 aired for the first time.
We were blessed to have a Tenna Rotor that my father and my uncle installed up on our roof. We could pull-in the New York Stations on most days. We lived 30 miles outside of Philly and about 55 miles from NYC as the crow flies. Those were the days. It wasn't like today as we have almost everything at our fingertips but it was like magic at any rate 60 years ago.
How the heck does anyone NOT go out and by a box of Red Rose tea after seeing this? Regardless of how many boxes of Lipton, Salada, Twining's, etc. you have on hand.
This commercial aired probably more than a decade before I was born, but I was still hearing about it years later, it was so legendary. Thanks to RU-vid, I can now appreciate why my dad would only drink Red Rose Tea.
Love. Many many thanks to the poster. A childhood favorite, always remembered. Only now, I'm adult, and know, Red Rose IS great tea! Better ice tea than Lipton.
I remember it from the Jerry Booth and Larry Sands afternoon kids show "Razzle Dazzle" from childhood in Dearborn, Michigan 1960-1963 from a Canadian station.
Channel 9 out of Ontario. I don't remember the call letters. From some reason this particular commercial indelibly etched itself in my memory as a child.
(2/1/18) I bought a box of Red Rose English Breakfast Tea yesterday... Not having thought of the brand in over 40 years, I was immediately reminded of this commercial, which I remembered from the early '60's, and wondered, "RU-vid? Is it possible?" Of course it is, and here it is, exactly as I remembered it. I showed it to my son, age 20, just to share a slice of my youth, and he liked it... But he also said, "Dad, you know that this commercial could not be produced today, right? Not only would PETA object about what the chimps are being made to do, but, also, a lot of people would see chimpanzees playing Jazz, with its African-American roots, as a racist parody." I thought about that, and agreed that, indeed, it could not be made today... ...and that's kinda sad, isn't it?
Very popular TV commercial in the early 1960's, esp on Saturdays. Weekends were full of fun shows: Tarzan (going after the Nazis), Fireball XL5, Kung Fu theater, Sky King reruns, and Coyote versus Roadrunner. All the old explosive fun cartoons now forbidden on "modern" television.
Brings back memories. I recall in addition to the TV commercials, they also had Red Rose Chimp poster ads attached to the light poles in the parking lot of our local A&P food store. I wonder who the ad agency was. Sterling Cooper? Did Don Draper make the pitch to the Red Rose folks?
I went to the store looking for some Oolong tea but they didn't have any so I bought Red rose because I remembered this commercial from when I was a kid.
As I brew myself a cup of Red Rose Tea, I recall this commercial from 60 odd years ago. The old woman who looked after me used to serve me tea and toast after school.
I haven't seen this commercial since I was in the 6th grade; it was a show stopper, in black & white, back when TV was FREE. Probably sold more tea than Lipton
I was about 4 years old when this commercial for Red Rose Tea first came out. I'd drop whatever I was doing and watched it. It's still pretty funny! That time period was so innocent (ca. 1963), before JFK was assassinated. There were so many different companies that made our coffee, tea, and foods in general. There were few huge conglomerates that bought out these smaller companies. Now, there are maybe 3 huge corporations that own what used to be many competitors; now, they're all in bed with one another.
Red Rose Tea was (and still is) sold in Canada where we routinely saw this and other variations of the Marquis Chimp's tea commercials. Didn't know they sold Red Rose Tea in the U.S. (unless it was an import) since other non-chimp Red Rose TV ads announced, "...only in Canada, you say?". This particular brand was originally part of Brooke Bond, its British parent company.
So does this mean that both Red Rose and PG Tips are exactly the same tea? I have yet to perform a taste test side-by-side to determine this. I suspect that many teas have the same blend but are renamed and marketed differently in various parts of the world.
Red Rose Tea has been sold in the US for at least seventy years. As to the determination of whether it's an import or licensed for domestic production, I don't think I could come to a conclusion based upon the content of a television advertisement.
About 1964, WMTW-TV (channel 8) Poland Spring, ME, Portland's ABC affiliate, ran this ad during "Talent Spotlight," a local amateur talent series that aired each week.
Approximately, what year was this commercial popular? I remember it from childhood but am not certain if I saw it when it was originally. I remember my brother and I driving our mother crazy singing, "red rose, red rose....", for hours after we'd see the chimps, lol
I thought about this commercial this morning and just wondered if I could find it here. I did. I remember when I use to see it as a kid in the 60's, I'd laugh my head off. Today, now I'm older, the commercial makes me sad. As a Black man, now I see what Madison Avenue thought of our race, when they'd, blatantly, discribe us as monkeys in our natural habitat (a jazz club). It was funny as a kid, but now I'm a man, not so much. To quote, the Apostle Paul, "when I became a man, I put away childish things".
When I was a kid growing up in Detroit they only show this commercial occasionally on Channel 9 which was from Windsor Ontario in Canada I believe there was some kind of trouble with the n-double-acp or this commercial so they weren't showing it on the other stations only occasionally have kids shows on the Canadian stations I'm glad I found it again it happened what we put together great from the music is cool
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OMG ! I would like to Dedicate this song to All of My CB Radio friends that have passed away . We all talked on channel 10 (the Zoo channel) There are only 2 of Us left out of about 15 Guy's.
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