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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 10:29:37 GMT
The Standard car company ... Standard Vanguard. A touchstone of early 60's motoring ...
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Post by John Green on Feb 23, 2014 10:46:57 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. Or even worse with 'bog standard'. I suppose the idea was that Standard fireworks set the standard by which others would be judged. |
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Post by Patrick Coles on Feb 23, 2014 10:51:21 GMT
Yes you never saw 'Sandman' and Orson Welles drank the same sherry that Harold Steptoe had...!
anyone remember 'Mazda', 'Flashy', & 'Dim' ? - three light bulbs with faces !
- when fitted dull boring 'Dim'just went out...Manic 'Flashy' got in the light socket...and exploded ! but good old Mazda SHONE superbly...with a smug smile
Sammy Davis jnr tap dancing away with the little 'Shell' sign man...who waved him goodbye on the docks as Sammy sailed back Stateside...
I won't mention the Cadbury's flake commercials that today would be classed as pure porn...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 13:02:40 GMT
And the psychedelic Smartie people are happy people ads spoke volumes and the animators' consumption of hallucinogens lol
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Post by robincarmody on Feb 23, 2014 18:41:22 GMT
When exactly did "please to remember" (as in the Bonfire Night rhyme) go out of common usage? I can only ever remember it being "remember remember", but then I'm only 33 (although even I can remember when it was a genuine popular celebration/ritual and still easily the dominant autumn celebration in England).
In the rock music era "please to" has only been used as a conscious archaism so as to create a certain mood, as in Steeleye Span's album title 'Please to See the King', and XTC's use of the phrase in the lyrics to "Greenman".
What tends to be forgotten - or at least not stated openly - in threads like this is the immense and significant role the admen of the 1960s & 1970s played in the prehistory and development of Thatcherism. The implicit message that comes out of this sort of thread is that the ads of that time represent an older, less brashly competitive, less commercial Britain, but they actually laid the foundation stones for the erosion of that world.
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Post by John Green on Feb 23, 2014 18:59:41 GMT
When exactly did "please to remember" (as in the Bonfire Night rhyme) go out of common usage? I can only ever remember it being "remember remember", but then I'm only 33 (although even I can remember when it was a genuine popular celebration/ritual and still easily the dominant autumn celebration in England). In the rock music era "please to" has only been used as a conscious archaism so as to create a certain mood, as in Steeleye Span's album title 'Please to See the King', and XTC's use of the phrase in the lyrics to "Greenman". What tends to be forgotten - or at least not stated openly - in threads like this is the immense and significant role the admen of the 1960s & 1970s played in the prehistory and development of Thatcherism. The implicit message that comes out of this sort of thread is that the ads of that time represent an older, less brashly competitive, less commercial Britain, but they actually laid the foundation stones for the erosion of that world. Well,it's a point of view,but please to remember that not everyone sees it that way! Seriously,I've always believed the present-day attitudes are as likely to appear as naive and absurd as those of the past now seem to many. e.g. Warner Brothers (?) getting royalties on the 'V for Vendetta' anarchist mask.Was it Standard or Wessex fireworks who used the 'Guy Fawkes composed of fireworks' motif? Added: Perhaps the "Please to" bit goes with soliciting funds? I believe that Please to see the king? goes with a ceremony involving carting a dead (wren?) around the countryside,while urchins have collected pennies for the Guy for years. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 20:13:48 GMT
Robin, re: admen, you are right. Under thatcherism, anything's for sale and money can be made from anything. Translate that into advertising ... selling goods via nostalgia for a world that never was. The whole point of commercial tv is advertising and how it works isn't the adverts selling stuff to us, it's the programmes (Coronation Street, Emmerdale, X-Factor etc etc etc) that are being used to sell us to the advertisers.
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Post by Sue Butcher on Feb 25, 2014 1:33:08 GMT
"Ticka-ticka-Timex-tra-la-la!"
"I've made a Lego jelly wobble tester!"
"Find a bin to put it in!"
"Luxury you can afford from Cyril Lord!"
"A million housewives every day..." (I'm sure you don't need me to complete this one.)
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Post by John Green on Feb 25, 2014 1:39:51 GMT
"Ticka-ticka-Timex-tra-la-la!" "I've made a Lego jelly wobble tester!" "Find a bin to put it in!" "Luxury you can afford from Cyril Lord!" "A million housewives every day..." (I'm sure you don't need me to complete this one.) There's no call for coarseness. |
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Post by Peter Stirling on Feb 25, 2014 9:57:22 GMT
Every Christmas you would have the sherry/port adverts (seems to be forgotten drinks now?) Enva Cream (warm images of the Greek Islands). Harvey's Bristol Cream (which had delusions of grandeur ) and the rather mysterious Sandeman Port which the thread mentions earlier. Sandeman have some of the ads on their site. www.sandeman.com/homepage/en |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2014 12:11:35 GMT
And Cockburns, that's pronounced Co'burns ...
There was an ad for that featuring typical tally-ho Royal Navy officer types and a Russian Submarine commander who was trying to get his head round saying co'burns, and then, once the penny dropped, held up a sock and said, "Ah, so ..."
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Post by Ian Wegg on Feb 25, 2014 15:35:43 GMT
Every Christmas you would have the sherry/port adverts (seems to be forgotten drinks now?) Enva Cream (warm images of the Greek Islands). Harvey's Bristol Cream (which had delusions of grandeur ) and the rather mysterious Sandeman Port which the thread mentions earlier. Emva Cream with Hinge & Bracket. Then there was the British sherry with the cartoon Q and C. I thought it was Croft Original that had delusions of grandeur - " One instinctively knows when something is right" |
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Feb 25, 2014 16:12:26 GMT
"Call for Hunts!" (though that's not we used to shout in the playground ... )
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Post by Neil Lambess on Mar 2, 2014 4:16:25 GMT
Yes you never saw 'Sandman' and Orson Welles drank the same sherry that Harold Steptoe had...! anyone remember 'Mazda', 'Flashy', & 'Dim' ? - three light bulbs with faces ! - when fitted dull boring 'Dim'just went out...Manic 'Flashy' got in the light socket...and exploded ! but good old Mazda SHONE superbly...with a smug smile Sammy Davis jnr tap dancing away with the little 'Shell' sign man...who waved him goodbye on the docks as Sammy sailed back Stateside... I won't mention the Cadbury's flake commercials that today would be classed as pure porn... |
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Post by brianfretwell on Mar 2, 2014 10:55:12 GMT
The animated cartoon advert for Esso Blue paraffin singing to the tune of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (of course)
"They asked me how I knew,
It was Esso Blue,
I of course replied,
With other brands you try,
Smoke gets in your eyes"
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