Barbara Cason is the waitress in the Maxwell House commercial. She's also in the second Imperial margarine ad, as "Vickie." That Jeno's Pizza Rolls ad was one of several for Jeno's products that were written and directed by Stan Freberg during the mid-to-late '60s. That's George S. Irving and Paul Dooley in the Gillette Foamy lemon-lime ad. Hal Linden does the voiceover in the PanAm Holidays commercial. Hostess Ding Dongs were sold in some markets as Big Wheels, and in some others as King Dons.
Jane Connell is the woman in the Spic N Span "Supermarket" commercial. She was the original Agnes Gooch in the Broadway musical "Mame" and in the movie version. And she played the Duchess of Hareford in the 1980s Broadway revival of "Me and My Girl".
"Closed captioning of tonight's game is sponsored by Household. Providing financial services for the family." Man, when I see the Household ad, I think of Bob Cole of HNIC announcing those words during a Leafs game.
At 20:04, the Philco spot. They also made radios for Ford Motor Company cars as well as TVs and radios for the household. They made stereo sets, too. To those of us of a certain age, remember those?
Philco-Ford at one time was considered the next tech giant. They were the pathfinder for the home computer and electronics revolution to come. It was believed that name would be as ubiquitous as what Microsoft or Amazon have become.
In the USA, Philishave products (by the European company Phillips) were re-branded as Norelco (short for "North American Electric Company"), to avoid confusion with the Philco brand.
Absorbine Jr. - voices by Paul Frees and Paul Winchell. Sugar Smacks - voiceover by Gary Owens, of "Laugh In". Hence the "Smack it to 'em!" tagline. Spic N Span - "Chicken Lickin" Ron Carey (of "Barney Miller") as the restaurant guy. Apple Jacks - Voiceover by Daws Butler. SEGO - Naomi Lewis as the brunette with the cake. Voiceover by Gary Owens. Jeno's Pizza Rolls commercials are by Stan Freberg. The "Lone Ranger" commercial spoofs the Lark Cigarettes "Show Us Your Lark Pack" commercials. The Lark commercials would be spoofed on a very early episide of "SNL", as "Show Us Your Guns!", to demonstrate just how many guns are out there.
I remember that Geno's pizza rolls ad winning an award for cleverest commercial, or something like that. One morning it ran on the Today Show, then as soon as it ended Hugh Downs announced it had won the award. Hugh was his usual wide-eyed innocent in lauding the ad.
I knew I'd heard his voice. Thanks for the ID. And his future boss Barney (Hal Linden) does a voice over on at least one of these ads. Strange how people end up getting together.
I am struck at how nicely folks dressed back then. No one in ratty, ripped jeans and tee shirts. People seemed to take more pride in how they looked then.
There were just commercials. That doesn't mean people in the real world dressed that way. The year 1969 was known for rock concerts, hippies and the drug culture on campuses. People back then complained that people in 1969 didn't take as much pride in how they dressed as in years prior to that.
There were definitely people who wore t shirts & jeans. But riooed jeans as fashion did not haooen until the 1980a. Jeans with patches became a style in the early 1970s.
09:00 7-UP...Prell...this is what I remember... I want to go back to this time...this is when everything was OK...I don't want all this upheaval and strife...I just want to live in peace... I WANT TO GO BACK!!!!!
Patty Regan at 5:30. Genius! Her timing and delivery were spot-on, and were a road map for where comedy was heading in the decades to follow. She never got the attention she deserved. R.I.P. Does anyone know the name of the actress at 10:50? I remember her from so many things in the 60s and 70s but never knew her name. She was great.
@@davidbaise5137 Nope, it's Judy Graubart. She and Skip Hinnant (another "Electric Company cast member) were in many commercials, though never together.
What voice-over talent! 31:18 Karl Weber. 19:33 Ralph Bell. 20:02 Len Gochman. 30:12 Norman Rose. 0:15 John Connell. 17:16 Peter Thomas. 25:41 Gary Owens. 17:54 Danny Dark. 22:12 Hal Linden. 10:50 Judy Graubart on-camera for Cheer.
Peter Thomas and Alexander Scourby pretty much divided the world of voice overs between them. Both were permanently ingrained in the auditory recognition in our minds. They are so comforting.
11:46 - Triactin - Bill McCutcheon (Bob's Uncle Wally on "Sesame Street"), Reta Shaw (the Banks family's cook in "Mary Poppins"), and Bill Fiore (from the Right Guard "Hi, Guy!" commercials).
1:15 Is that Dustin Hoffman? He did several commercials for the VW Squareback. 21:00 I had a Kodak Instamatic Brownie camera. Still remember the sound and smell of the flashcubes firing! ❤️
I have a pic taken while on vacation of me at age 8 holding a used flash cube and smiling into the camera held by my then step-mother, who was taking the pic with another flash cube.
In a future Gillette spot in the late 1970s, George S. Irving would portray a disgraced cashier who is out of Trac II blades, so he tricks the clientele into using another kind of blades.
Paul Dooley was a writer, and occasionally appeared on-camera or voiced segments, on "The Electric Company". The show's Gorilla character was named Paul, after him. He was also in the Bob & Doug McKenzie movie "Strange Brew".
22:10 Sounds like the voice of Hal Linden, future Barney Miller.... Quite a few of these are announced by Peter Thomas, one of the great go-to voices for everything in that time.
@@brentmann2988 He did voiceover for a series of Nationwide insurance ads where the company would go out to sites of actual tornadoes, floods etc. and a real homeowner would talk about how Nationwide surprised them by coming there with a mobile van in 24 hours and writing them an actual check for the full amount. The "on your side" theme was punctuated by Linden's warm and reassuring voice.
The commercial I remember the most from my childhood (late 60s early 70s) is that damn hairspray commercial for Adorn hairspray. I think the tagline was "it's Adorn!" The commercial would end with a large can of hairspray in the foreground on the left and in the back ground and out of focus the woman would be rushing to answer the door because her man is calling and the tag line, "It's Adorn!" I havent seen it since it aired on TV
I love these old commercials, I was a kid when these were playing.....but I forgot how dam annoying some of them are . Especially when kids sing the commercial 🙄
I was 7 years old in 1969. I remember the moon landing, hippies, and watching The Beatles cartoon show. But I would have loved to have been like 25 years old back then, living in San Francisco or New York, working alongside Don Draper in some cool ad agency (of course, I would have to live in New York to do that, not SF). The 60s had the greatest style of any decade(the 1940s would be second best; the 1970s the worst, except for the early 70s).
I turned 11 in 1969. I remember it all. By the end of '69 so many things lost their steam. The moon program became seen as ho-hum by the people. The youth counterculture started to lose its passion after Woodstock. And OMG, Nixon. That name says it all. :(
San Francisco had a pretty reputable advertising agency of its own for many years, the McCann-Erickson agency. They're still around, but now they're known simply as McCann.
My grandmother was absolutely addicted to EoN. It was a strange soap - had a very "film noir" vibe about it. It's a crying shame that there are no existing tapes of the show left. Dan Curtis was smart - he took the tapes of "Dark Shadows" home with him every night to make sure that they wouldn't be taped over.
at 24:57 the animated Beethoven says, "zum teufel." That's the German language equivalent of "go to hell." (It literally means "to the devil," but in German it's a profanity, whereas saying "geh nach hollen," or "go to hell" is mild.) Saying "zum teufel" to someone would be a harsh and profane putdown. I wonder if the networks and advertisers realized that ad has such a statement.
Similarly, the dodos in "Ice Age" chant "Doom on you!" at the heroes, who are trying to take their watermelon. "Du mhan yhu" is Vietnamese for "Go f××× yourself".
@@hermanator74301 my bad 🥲 if you watch his appearances on carson he often talks about how he did tons of commercials before he hit it big and had to change his voice to fit the scene so I thought maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I concur, it's not Charles. But in the second portion of the ad, the seller looks eerily like Werner Von Braun. Yeah, he got us to the moon, but why would anyone buy a house from him? And the man in the couple seated at the table looks considerably like Larry Linville, before he was type cast as a twit at the 4077th.
