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Post by robby on Dec 18, 2005 20:43:15 GMT
those sandyman cherie ads
were spooky man
i hid behund the sofar in case i wet me trassers
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Post by Stephen Doran on Dec 19, 2005 8:23:40 GMT
that was orson welles from 1974. ;D
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Post by Stephen Doran on Dec 19, 2005 8:31:46 GMT
  Esso Blue. I can remember the school playground: "Whats got four bums and keeps you warm in winter? Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum - Esso Blue."
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Post by robby on Dec 19, 2005 11:22:13 GMT
that was orson welles from 1974. ;D nah it wernt orson he did dommec sandyman yer never see . running abart in spooky cape. orson girth monster to big to run abart |
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Post by David C Taylor on Dec 29, 2005 17:01:22 GMT
Sorry to the contributer I mixed 'McVities gingernut biscuits' up with Maxwell house, think it must have run at a similar period to one where someon shakes the coffe jar like a musical instrument. Presumably that would be the same Maxwell House advert that Michael Caine saw while staying in one night, where he became so obsessed with the girl who starred in it he tracked her down and married her! Would this not make Michael Caine a stalker? Perhaps it's a case of one law for the rich and famous, and another law for the poor. |
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Post by Stephen Doran on Dec 29, 2005 17:47:44 GMT
yeah but caine was a stalker with money. ;D
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Post by John Stewart Miller on Jan 5, 2006 0:21:35 GMT
Esso Blue. I can remember the school playground: "Whats got four bums and keeps you warm in winter? Bum, Bum, Bum, Bum - Esso Blue." The 'Bom - bom - bom - bom, Ess -o blue..' ad I seem to recall from the 1965 - 66 period. I wasn't aware what went earlier till Xmas 1969 or 1970. ITV then ran a reel which seemed to compile all the Esso Blue animations from around 1957 onwards. My Auntie sang along with loads I'd never heard before as is off by heart. I suspect these were the slogans before my time. I think there was about 10 in all, edited back to back. One had a set of singing petrol pumps with faces (!) The singers were a 1950s style ensemble. I recall the Esso blue man I recall having a Northern accent and being dressed like a scientist (white coat). Though this item survives (I've seen it), I don't know if the reel I saw in c '70 would, though expect the NFA has got some. Heres another forgotten ad (hope didn't mention this already). A foreign guest is outside a british pub. He points at a name on a glass he can't pronounce 'Gwin - Gw - Guince, Goo - in'. The bar man 'Oh! GUINNESS'. Slogan 'Guiness, a name too good to forget' (or something. It was a funny one. about 1977 I think. don't know if it survives! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2014 17:24:53 GMT
I remember the McVities gingernut advert ... he did the song, then said, "Ah knows it, Ah grows it, you don't think your ma would give anything but the best." Then you had the chorus singing, "McVities bake a better biscuit," then Norman said, "Ask your ma." A friend & I used to recite it for some reason and "ask your ma" was one of our in phrases. This was one of a series of McVities ads tied to various locations, each done in the local vernacular. Poor Cold Ted ... I forgot all about that one. There was one about the gas board which brought the phrase "slaving away over a hot stove" to national attention. There were some egg ads too around 1969 which featured this young lad having his breakfast egg and wanting to be like George Best: the tag went, "E for B and be your best." The next ad in the series featured a clip of George Best playing football and the young lad was watching him, after having enjoyed a hearty & eggy breakfast, and he was chanting "E for B and Georgie Best." The rolo sensation ad with the commuters, I'm wondering if it featured Morcambe & Wise ... This is a good link, btw www.headington.org.uk/adverts/ |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2014 17:36:47 GMT
Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate. Annoyingly whispered.
Galaxy, so full of milk it almost moos.
I recall the Esso Blue joke too. AND ... if you turn up the fade out of Message In A Bottle loud, for the last "sendin' out an S.O.S.", you can hear Sting sing, "Sendin' out an Esso Blue" ...
Happiness is a cigar called Manakin
There was another cigar ad which featured Manfred Mann's "A B. Side" as the music.
And on the subject of tobacco, there was an ad for pipe baccy that featured this rather prim looking woman bringing home her new boyfriend to meet her dragon of a mother, "Mother, this is Tony." They both sit down and Tony lights up his pipe and mother is appalled at first by the smoke, looks at her errant daughter, who looks back beseechingly. Then mother notices the brand and hits on the alleged wonderful aroma, and then looks at Tony flirtatiously. Tony, totally oblivious to the consternation he's caused, looks back, smiles and winks. The tag was "live in peace with your pipe."
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Post by Alan Turrell on Feb 22, 2014 17:59:16 GMT
What about Deep Heat spoken in a very deep accent and the one i'd really like to see again is light up the sky with standard fireworks.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2014 18:18:53 GMT
Deep voice accents ... "Denim, for the man who doesn't have to try too hard."
Standard fireworks ... I still put that phrase in where I can on bonfire night.
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Post by John Green on Feb 22, 2014 20:31:18 GMT
Deep voice accents ... "Denim, for the man who doesn't have to try too hard." Standard fireworks ... I still put that phrase in where I can on bonfire night. Apparently 'Standard' was one of two possible trade-names.Good job they decided against 'Run-of-the-mill'. |
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Post by Brian Denton on Feb 22, 2014 21:38:31 GMT
Happiness is a cigar called Manakin Hamlet, surely? |
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Post by Ian Wegg on Feb 23, 2014 9:30:35 GMT
Standard fireworks ... I still put that phrase in where I can on bonfire night.
The fifth of November,
Light up the skies with Standard fireworks.There was also, of course, a Standard car company. Victims of a change in language where the word standard went from meaning high quality to just normal. |
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