Sounds of the 70's 

I saw this commercial so often in the 90s that the pattern of clips play out a like an actual whole song to me. Great to find this and relive something that has been bouncing around my head for the last 20 years.

Everytime I hear this I go back to my childhood when everything seemed perfect. It's amazing how a commercial can do that.

This infomercial encapsulates my time growing up in the '90s...It touches my soul with a ghostly haunt whenever I see it...What an era!... '90s BEST!!!

Thanks to seeing this commercial 10000000 times as a child, I'm unable to think of "The Night Chicago Died" and "Hitchin' a Ride" as separate songs.

I don't seem to be the only one that can sing this verbatim start to finish. I must have seen it that many times as a kid that even now 30+ years later it's still memorized. I've had my older relatives cry laughing hard when I sing it front to back....crazy.

I have had the order of the songs memorized in my head for years, sometimes I sing them to myself as a medley, so glad I finally tracked this one down

Wow after reading the comments, I realized I'm not the only person that sings this as a medley

My sister and I have sing this VERBATIM for years!! There came a point we thought we imagined it. So glad this video exists.

Omg I still remember the order the songs play in 🥰🥰

This was the most heavily played commercial for about two years. I remembered the entire commercial as if it were one song.

Born in 1975 and I remember the exact order of the songs in this commercial. Brings back memories!

You ain't lyin! I used to have this commercial memorized! lol

I was born in 1963 & can't image not living through the 70s & hearing this music on the radio & in my record collection. I feel a little sorry for the young people who didn't exist then.

because of this commercial, the trio of Hitchin a Ride, Chevy Van, and Shannon have been stuck in my head for 20 YEARS!!!!! 20 YEARS!!!!

omg they played this commercial every 30 mins back in 1996 ..I was 17

😍😍😍😍😍 nostalgic cravings has definitely been cured

I miss waking up in the middle of the night with this commercial blaring on the TV.....😞

I deliberately searched for this commercial! I'm with you all!

Finally, I found it. All of these songs have blended in my brain for decades thanks to this ad.

I actually bought this CD back in the day. That Pilot song at the end of the commercial was not on the CD. It still pisses me off till this day.

This commercial is my favorite song

Great song after all these years 💗.

I hate how I still can't listen to ANY of these songs without automatically thinking of the song that came after it in this commercial. I wasn't even born until the 80s but I must have seen this commercial a billion times.

I wasn't really around for the 70's but damn this takes me back to high school in 1996

I just heard "Beach Baby" in a grocery store and instantly thought of this commercial.

I've been looking for this commercial and/or album for years and my brother found it for me. Every summer, I'd stay up late, watching cartoons on cable as I just got a TV in my room. And I remember how relaxing it was to keep hearing this commercial. What I love the most is that there are others out there that have fond memories as something as simple as a CD spot. It certainly makes you long for a simpler time. I'm glad to see it again.

My sisters and I also use to sing to this commercial and laugh about some of the music. Oh 1995, come back to me!

Takes me was at Back! 10 years old

I’m still singing it in ‘23 it’s Magic!!!!

I’m glad I’m not the only one who sings this as one song in their head lol I don’t think they played this commercial enough in the late 90s lol

Dude. I JUST found this. I watched this commecial everyday in 6th grade before our school news. Im 36 years old me and Eric Dion used to sing the songs outloud in class in front of everyone. My wife freaked out that I could still sing the entire commerical verbatim. Thank you for posting this. It meant the world to me to be able to find this and impress my wife. My cats on the other hand couldn't give a S*it..

I use to see it every Saturday night, from 1990 to about 1996, on sports channel chicago, durinf windy city wrestling..I memorized it and couldn't sleep if I didnt see it!

I never saw this commercial growing up, but my parents had this CD (and still do). Probably the first CD I ever listened to!

i was watching cartoon network and saw this commercial in 1996 (i was 7 that time), this commercial gave me interest of listening to music for the first time in my life

This commercial sums up the ‘90s!

I remember this airing in 1995. Ahhh.. the good old days, with a compilation from even older days.

Gotta squeeze every dollar out of these one-hit wonders.

I’m only 14 and I remember I saw these commercials on TV and I fell in love with the 50-90s songs and I still remember the order the songs were in

Hated the commericals when they came out, now I'm listening attentively in OCTOBER 2020, times change!

Hello Steffano, Antonia, Al D, Chandlerjoed79, Caleb and everyone else who commented on this commercial. I produced it, back in the day, and I am so glad that it was so meaningful to you! The songs were very meaningful to me back then too! Thank you for making me feel great!

I remember trapin and this commercial would come on so much that when it came on every one sang all the words even the price, address, and phone number

I didn't have cable growing up until the late 90's, so I would barely see music videos unless I stayed up until midnight to watch the pay per music video channel The Box. While waiting, hours of Time Life commercials would be the fillers. It's because of these commercials I love oldies and sort my songs by decades then genre. Like seriously, watching The Guardians of the Galaxy, I remember THIS Time Life infomercial.

Thank you so much. I've been looking for this for 20 years.

I watched this so much as a kid. I was born in the early 80’s but heard so much music from the 70’s thanks to my parents.

Randomly my brain started playing 'ahhh heard my maaaamaa crahhhhhh. I heard her pray the night chicago diiiiied. Then ride ride ride hitchin a ride. I got past shannon and couldnt remember what came next. Unbelievable to make one search and one click and find my answer. Also refresh my mind on the other songs. Yo ho ho its claaassic

LOL. I used to wonder why in the world would they air a commercial like this on the Cartoon Network? But, they did. I never bought the CD, however, I did search for this video on RU-vid. So their marketing efforts were sorta effective with me.

My sister and I still laugh at this. We remember every song too!

Thank you for posting! great to see there are many of us that have this memorized!

"Beach Baby" by First Class and "Hitchin' A Ride" by Vanity Fare are both the sounds of summertime.

I searched for this commercial...damn this used to come on in the 90s when I was a kid....over and over and I loved it....I know the order of the songs by heart

My brother and I used to randomly sing the hole commercial as if it was just one song we heard this commercial so many times. For some reason I also remember when he said the drummer for Pilot looked like Sarah Connor.

We used to sing this commercial at school in the 90' and die laughing 🤣

I was born in 74 and remember a lot of these songs from a really early age. :)

My 10yr old son just laughed at me for still knowing all the words.

I just heard the song "Shannon" and had never heard it outside of this commercial before. I had to go an look this up. Thanks for posting this. Thousands of times i saw this commercial growing up.

Omg best day of my life I also have been looking for this my bf and I are very happy thanks.

That blue screen at the end is legendary. I remember when they used to say “sorry, no COD’s!”

Oh man this is so throwback!!!The good ole days of infomercial

I remember that SHAAANON IS GONE so distinctly...right after Chevy Van

Did anyone else see this commercial 10,000 times while watching Star Trek TNG in syndication back in the day?

GREAT!!! I remember these commercials! Before the Internet and RU-vid, I used to record and watch these infomercials because it was all I had of footage from this era.

Historic commercial

Started my Time-Life collection with this very tape.

OMG this is exactly what i was looking for! We had it memorized too!

This and Freedom Rock in the 80's😂

Little Billy's Willy won't lay low.

"This commercial reminds me of better-times back in 1977-1978 long before the covid-19 pandemic" 🇺🇸🤠📻🎤🎸🪕🎻🎹🥁.

This commercial had the same effect on me. I thought it was earlier than 95 though. I'm sure there were other variants from earlier on. But it played incessantly during a heavy TV watching era for me. I think it influenced me during my run as an aspiring DJ too. thanks for the memories

I miss those day’s

holy shit I haven't seen this commercial in years, I've discovered so many great songs from this commercial and it sure brings me back lots of great memories! :)

I used to see this commercial on Cartoon Network ALL THE TIME. I memorized it, as well, and I'm sorry to say this but looking back, most of these songs seem like the novelty songs of that time.

I remember the commercial it made me happy to sing

Rip Sammy johns! :(

I remember seeing this commercial over and over. I think I might have even seen a half-hour infomercial version once

Omg to this day i sing this commercial as one whole song 😂

Oh good lord I’m back in my childhood.

This commercial reminds me of getting ready for school

I remember this like it was yesterday

Commercial from 1995, I was a year-old!

Lol up late Saturday night at Grandma's

Awesome Mix Vol. 3

They aired this heavily back in 1989. The only difference is you could order records. I would choose the records over the Cd's or the double length cassettes.

Oh hell ya

loved this commercial

Hooked on a Feeling ....

Each day after high School in the 90s watching reruns of The Incredible Hulk on the Syfy channel they played this during every single commercial break

I must say I'm pretty impressed by the song selection. Shut up and take my money!

Saw this commercial alot back in the day especially on the USA and TNT networks, the funny thing is that years later when I worked for a department store they played songs like this on the speakers.

Great ad.

"God-bless youtube for bringing back this commercial".

After a few days, I'm really thinking that this ad had to come from before 1995. I grad high school in 1994 and moved out of the area, and I'm pretty sure I saw this many numerous times while in school.

The introductory CD featured in the "Sounds of the 70's" commercial was "One-Hit Wonders".

Good Stuff

watching this infomercial thought me most of the 70s I know!

Great commercial. Not one ridiculous song in the bunch.

Double length cassette - twice the listening time, twice the annoyance of rewinding.

I’m convinced anyone could record and cut a record back them.

thanks

Nowadays, we can either download or stream all these songs and more.

I love Shannon my favorite