I know, it was my 1981 High School yearbook quote. After dusting off my yearbook, I found this quote, "It is characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone."
One more thing wrong, it's too freaking late when you find out. Even though some of us think it's pretty shitty right now, myself included. Just think about what's up ahead.
I was born in 1972. Thank you for making me feel so young when I've been feeling so old. I think everyone feels nostalgic about childhood no matter when we were kids. It was the best time of our lives.
@@orchids3332: How could you POSSIBLY feel old when you weren't even BORN until 1972?? I was born in 1963, so if you are "old", what the heck does that make ME???
You think you're old.... I tell ya', I'm so old, even my vile of Botox is getting wrinkles!🥁(((rimshot)))🥁 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 Actually, I was born in 1959, and so, this is like a 'Magical Memory Tour", when life was simpler back then.
A great time to grow up. I remember every one of these! The '70s weren't the best for our parents, energy crises, inflation, etc but for my sister and me they were pretty awesome
Thanks go out to Fred Flix for letting me re-live a snippet of my childhood. A time I thought was gone forever. These memories are so precious. Even if just for a few minutes. Thank you!!!!
My family's first remote control television was a Magnavox. Our TV crashed dung half time. I went with my dad when he purchased the new TV, brought it home and had it up and running before the second half of the game started. I'd lo to have another console television. They were actually part of the furniture and no two were ever completely alike.
Our first cool TV was a then-new late 70s Zenith System 3 with “Space Command” remote. Picture was remarkable and the mono speaker had great output too.
Fred, for the past 26 min you transported me to a better time in my life. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip. The Roadrunner and the Duster commercials were awesome. It's amazing how something as simple as a television commercial can bring back such emotions. Thank you so much.
@Foxonian Correct. I was just a little kid back then but we did go to Kentucky Fried Chicken occasionally during that time and the food was excellent. I miss the old ads with the real Colonel! Sadly after the company has changed hand over the years the quality of the food isn't that good anymore.
GreatGarloo: It really seems to depend on what time of the day you go. I love Kentucky Fried Chicken, and usually it is very good. We went one time, just before they were closing, and the chicken was dried out and tasteless.
The Coke a Cola ad brought back memories to me as a 12 year old kid that year. It brought tears to my eyes 👀. All the other ads were fantastic. Thank you for uploading these memories of my yester years.
The best years of my life.. 1970, 71 and 72.. the memories! Thanks once again Fred, these old commercials are like a tonic for me, makes me feel young again, even if it's just for a few minutes, it's still great!
Pressed Steel ~ You had a TV repair man make a home visit in 1985? Where did you live? I could see it happening if it was 1965, but by '85 it was practically unheard of.
@@slimshine953 we used to get tv repairman in the UK. Most of us couldn't afford to buy a TV so used to rent them along with a VCR. If they couldn't fix it there and then they'd swap it for another out the van and it would be a bit of a lottery on what model you'd get. Then (as kids) we'd spend the next few days teaching our parents how to use them.
@@alexkije What's with the goofy sounding, I was going to type jingles, but they don't even qualify as jingles... Somebody, or some sound effect whistling in accompaniment to another sound effect of a strummed ukelele and a glockenspiel. This?! is a jingle?! Those Go Daddy, and Peleton ads make me so sick to my stomach that I wanna roll a seven.
16:16 the voice of Len Gochman for "the dry look." He was the VO talent on all those famous "Be all that you can be" commercials for the U.S. Army in the 80s.
David Hendrickson. Don't forget funeral planning commercials, or my personal favorite, A Place For Mom. Sheesh! I told my kids, the only place for THEIR mom is Nieman Marcus!😉
@@ChristopherUSSmith Ouch! I was thinking more along the lines of shopping at the Tom Ford cosmetics counter... Now I have to think about my ashes?! 😮 Now I must go have a glass of wine...
@John Bold Life insurance, yes. But that isn't in all the home and car bundles being hawked on TV these days by a gecko, the Allstate guy, and a comedian named Stephanie better known as Flo (or some of Flo's relatives).
At 24:28 The voice of Ken Nordine voicing the Levis commercial...he just passed away early 2019 at 99 years old...also the voice of Tasters Choice coffee ...and all the Word Jazz albums he recorded. Prolific right up to his death
Funny. We were the last of my friends' families to get a colour tv. And just last week I purchased my first (used) flatscreen tv. Same dynamics....different stuff.
A strange world indeed where coach passengers on a 747 got near first class service and pocket calculators the size of a brick cost $345.00. I miss it so.
Autostade67 ~ Lol it wasn't strange at the time, but yeah I hear ya. Flying was a much more pleasant experience, practically glamorous. Look at all that space between the nice, comfortable seats, with arm rests, those clean, white thingies for your head, wine, liquor, and what appears to be a full course meal!!! As for the calculator, it was like the early VHS and Beta players, or the first cell phones... over the top expensive. Gosh if you had one of those calculators you were important!
Born in '71...they pushed that stuff like crack during the Saturday morning cartoons (Pebbles and BamBam! Hong Kong Fooey!) the sugar content in 70's cereals was TOXIC...responsible for many a baby tooth cavity...not to mention many a smack at the A&P aisle for jumping up and down like an addict in the cereal aisle for the fix
Those Dodge commercials with Joe Higgins as the "county mountie" ("You're in a heap o' trouble boy!") inspired Kenny Price to record the country novelty hit "The Sheriff of Boone County" that same year. Flash forward a couple of more years and they would both be together in the cast of :"Hee Haw."
I remember my Grandmother shopping around for the best price one day in '69-'70 and she asked me to keep track of the prices so she could concentrate on driving. I remember the average being around 38¢ to 40¢ per gallon, and she found one on a road leading out of town that had a gallon of ethyl at 36¢ People don't believe me when I tell them that.
I graduated HS in ‘71. I really didn’t watch much TV then and until 1979. I do, however remember the commercials always playing in the background of our lives at home. I super enjoy these old commercials. Thanks so much for bringing them to us.
1971 was the season the Dallas Cowboys won their very first Super Bowl. One year before I was born. 2:15 shows just how beautiful black women look keeping it all natural. None of that hat hair garbage. This whole video shows how well made commercials used to be. They actually allowed the story to play out. Not like how rushed and crammed commercials are nowadays.
Todd Foret: There was also "Fruit Brute", with a werewolf mascot. Remember that one? It was the fourth of the "monster cereals", which included Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo-Berry, and Fruit Brute...
Does anyone remember Baron Von Redberry and Sir Grapefellow cereals? They came out in the fall of 1972, I believe, and they had a World War I flying ace theme, with WWI fighter pilots "Sir Grapefellow", a tall British flying ace, and "Baron Von Redberry", a short German flier who was supposed to be like "The Red Baron". I think they were from the same company (General Mills, I think it was?) that put out Count Chocula and Frankenberry (and Boo-Berry, and Fruit Brute). Of course, Sir Grapefellow was grape flavored and colored purple, and Baron Von Redberry was strawberry flavored and pinkish-red, and both had miniature marshmallows. I used to love those!
@@ckeilah You can still get Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry. I've bought boxes of all three at Dollar Tree within the past two years. Fruit Brute hasn't been available since the '70s, though. I loved the Monster Cereals. I even had a Monster Cereals flag on my bike.
My Mom's 1968 Pontiac Lemans never hesitated, vroom vroom, I drove the heck out of that car on twisty back roads, used to scare my friends lol, good times
It was fun walking down memory lane. Thank you! My kids were around four and eight; we were still young, my husband was alive, and we had our little dog, "Scotty." We drove a 1970 Dodge "Swinger." They were great days! So much more innocent than now. 😊
@sentforth5 Indeed. There was real character and "soul" in these ads back then you could tell that it was the efforts of individuals with their own ideas. Now it's all by committee and surveys with computer processing all the data.
I was 2 in 71, and these are the first commercials I remembered. Especially the Coke commercial and the Frankenberry. I had a bunch of GAF Viewmaster cards.
I was 3 in '71, but I can't believe there were any commercials I truly remembered from that age. Most people cannot remember the vast majority of things that happened before the age of 4, forgetting most of those things by age 7 in what is called childhood amnesia. My guess is with the Coke commercial, specifically, it was a long-running commercial (the sequel was shown at Christmas for years), thus MY memory is not from seeing it in 1971 but rather probably seeing it sometime in 1972-73.
@@royrowland5763 + I remember things as far back as 2 years old. I have a photographic memory they say. I easy remember my dads 26th birthday, and I was 2 and a half. He couldn't believe I remembered what we ate and everything. Blew his mind with that one.
zim1966: I remember the Burger King cartoon king! He had the "royal motorcycle", which was a really cool chopper. Way cooler than that live human "king" wearing the plastic king's head they had recently. I still remember that cartoon Burger King commercial from that time (around 1971 or '72), where he had the "magic clerk" at the Burger King counter, who would magically wave his hands and whip up their food, then, at the end, the cartoon king says "Give me a bill", and the clerk waves his hands and says "You've got a bill!", and the king suddenly has a duck bill on his face, and he says "Burger King! Where kids are king!" in a funny Donald Duck voice.
Kenneth Butler: '71 Plymouth Road Runners were (and still are) the coolest cars and, in a way, it's a shame that they have become such valuable classic cars, only because, as a result of being considered such classic cars now, I can't afford to buy one!
At 23:54, that jogged my memory. I'd forgotten that all these years, to wit, "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer". I remember another Schlitz jingle-"If you don't have Schlitz, you don't have gusto, and brother you don't have beer!"
We had that same Coke ad in the UK and in 1971 I was doing my basic training in the army. Our sergeant made us sing the song. Unfortunately he was killed on active service in Northern Ireland a few years later.
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I just love vintage tv commercials and what I miss the most nowadays is the catchy jingles and original tunes there used to be. You've put a smile on my face. Thanks a lot. You sure are "the real thing". :)
I swear that “in another life” or something that I lived in the 60s. All of this seems so familiar to me but I wasn’t born until the 70s. All of your stuff takes me back to a simpler way of life that I guess I crave. I love the pics of nurses back in the day cuz I’m a nurse now. Love the commercials of “most doctor recommended cigarettes “. Thanks Fred!
A brief moment when parents were still here and the hardest decision was trying to figure out how I was getting to and from band practice... A huge Thank You...
Vintage TV commercials. All great picks. Memories brought forth of a time long forgotten. Thank you Fred for good quality content. No channel compares to yours. Thumbs up...everytime.👍👍👍
@@ChristopherUSSmith I'm not familiar with him so I looked up some videos of his work. He's good, but I still think Nordine's cooler. I've always thought that the guy who seemed to do all the voiceovers for movie trailers was really over the top. I like this Geico ad that has fun with it: th-cam.com/video/ZJMGS7l0wT8/w-d-xo.html
I remember many of these vividly, from beginning to end, even though I was probably barely 4 years old when I last saw them. Great channel by the way!! Cheers!! :)
Dang it man!!! I remember some of those commercials...I must be getting old. How many remember the telephone booth you stepped in and closed the bi-fold door?
Oh yes, I remember those phone booths with the glass door. I tell my little sister about those phone booths and that I actually used them in the late 70's early 80's and she is quick to tell me " Damn, your old". I was 15yrs old when my little sister was born. Anyway, these commercials really took me back to my childhood. Thank you for sharing.
Jeff polara: They were pretty cool, and what was even cooler and more high-tech was that, by the early 1970s, there were "Talking View-Master" viewers and later, there were "talking", rear-screen projector View-Masters! I always wanted each of those, but never got to have either. Those were really cool, and talk about being the TH-cam of the 1970s!
I love that Sharp calculator, big as a brick and it only cost $345 (over $2000 in today's dollars). And just to show how modern it was, there's a guy using it as he talks to someone on a pay phone. I love that guy on the TWA ad barking out all the advantages of flying TWA, the message seems to be, "Fly TWA or I'm gonna come and kick your ass."
I was born in December 1966 i too feel very sorry of kids of today. I have listened kids of today how they would love to actually be there back then. They love those 📺 commercials, cartoons, music well especially those psychedelic 🎶 music? TV 📺 shows, games, the way of living. I love that song I want the world to sing in perfect harmony.
True, yet the first and third commercials advertise two products that contain substances that have become the bane of modern-day diets. Refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, empty carbs, etc have contributed to the obesity epidemic we now face-granted it’s not the only factor. Imagine what we’d look like if we didn’t consume this crap for the last 50 years? (Again, I realize it’s not the only contributing factor.) As for myself, I quit consuming this garbage, started focusing on healthy eating, and focused on portion control. I also exercise 4-5 times a week-weight training, calisthenics, yoga, swimming, cycling, and HIIT cardio. In the last 16 months, I’ve lost almost 50 lbs, greatly cut body fat percentage, and increased muscle mass and strength. All at 47 years old. Insofar as hair color... well, that’s a whole other issue... actually, non-issue. 😆 Choose wisely ‘Merica!
I remember being able to get a McDonalds burger fries and coke for just under a dollar. We had a McDonalds about six blocks from school and you could just get there , get your meal to go, and walk back in time to eat before having to go to the next class.
LOL oh man, I VIVIDLY remember "The Wethead is dead" because my older brother thought he was the coolest dude around when he got a can of men's "hairspray" for this 15th birthday in 1971! we STILL tease him about that to this day! LOL!!
Fantastic Fred !!! My family was watching a Charlie Brown (Halloween or Christmas) special, the first time we heard the Coca Cola " teach the world to sing" commercial... A song that always made me smile !! Cheers from Detroit 🇺🇲
What a step back in time that was. I think I enjoyed the car ads best. I'm sure you caught the familiar voices of Tom Bosley and Casey Kasem too. Btw, the ball in the box of Pink Panther Flakes was one of the best.
I read something funny about Franken Berry cereal... when it first came out, the pink coloring was indigestible, and came out still pink. Moms were taking their kids to the doctor, sure that they were bleeding. lol Count Chocula's coloring probably did the same thing, but since it was brown, it wasn't noticed.
I always 😁 ear to ear!! ...yet gets me so melancholy. I had a bowling version of that tennis game! 😱 it was loud! Only allowed to play with it in the basement 😂. Still trying to figure out how to build my time machine 🤔.... 'till then at least we've got Fred!! 😃
Someone once said The only thing wrong with "the good old days" is that you don't know your living them at the time.
That's wise and profound !!!!😊
So true.
Very true
I know, it was my 1981 High School yearbook quote. After dusting off my yearbook, I found this quote, "It is characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone."
One more thing wrong, it's too freaking late when you find out. Even though some of us think it's pretty shitty right now, myself included. Just think about what's up ahead.
Being a kid in the 70's was the best times in my life...Thx for the awesome memories..
You're welcome, TS.
70's were an amazing time to be young
Yes they were. Born in 62.
J Hart agree ! ✌
I agree
It was the best. And 1971 is my favorite year. When it opened with the classic beautiful Coke commercial I started crying.
amen!
The singers in the commercials are better than 90% of the “musicians” of today...voices clear, harmonious, understandable...and not obscene.
I graduated from high school in 1971 and viewing these commercials is like a mini vacation back to a less complicated time. I didn’t want this to end!
I was born in 1972. Thank you for making me feel so young when I've been feeling so old. I think everyone feels nostalgic about childhood no matter when we were kids. It was the best time of our lives.
@@orchids3332: How could you POSSIBLY feel old when you weren't even BORN until 1972?? I was born in 1963, so if you are "old", what the heck does that make ME???
@@mel1nda12ax7 Old as dirt
I graduated in 71 as well. Time sure flies.
You think you're old....
I tell ya', I'm so old, even my vile
of Botox is getting wrinkles!🥁(((rimshot)))🥁
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Actually, I was born in 1959, and so,
this is like a 'Magical Memory Tour",
when life was simpler back then.
It hurts my heart,that we don’t get a do over. My life was so simple back then.
I hear you! It’s. Nostalgic but gives you a melancholy feeling and yearning for as you say those simpler days
ghost2527A,I feel the same.I miss those days so much,and would give anything to be able to go back.
The melancholy physically hurts me at times...
That can't be healthy.
Of course you were a kid.
Maybe when we die we are allowed to loop back into past and relive...maybe that is why we get Deja Vu.
Man , what a different world! Fifty years later now and not better, sadly. I wish I could go back.
The Coke commercial was great. 1971 :-)
I remember nearly all of the commercials vividly, except one or two!
A great time to grow up. I remember every one of these! The '70s weren't the best for our parents, energy crises, inflation, etc but for my sister and me they were pretty awesome
You can't help but smile at these commercials. Everything back then was so promising and uplifting.
Never thought I would enjoy watching commercials 🤣
LOL !! right, who knew? but, these are fabulous!
Commercials were actually fun to watch then.
I like them too.
It's not the commercials we miss , it a life in a more simpler time .
Back before Facebook , 24hr day news bombardment , cameras everywhere , and everybody in the country so tense and polarized
I was 72 years old in 1971..brings back good memories. Thanks!
You ain't dead by now? Ha ha
So, born in 1899? Turning 125 in 2024? Congrats!
Wow! You shouldn't be on here. You should be on the National News....
I remember all these commercials. Thanks for posting this!
I still love to watch old tv commercials. You are so wonderful to show these trips to the past. Thank you!!
You're welcome, James.
I have been adding these segments to my Classic TV1 Play list. Thank you, Fred!
Thanks go out to Fred Flix for letting me re-live a snippet of my childhood. A time I thought was gone forever. These memories are so precious. Even if just for a few minutes. Thank you!!!!
AAAhhh ! The days you bought an American TV MADE IN AMERICA !!!
Magnavox, RCA, Electrohome, Pioneer...
With REAL WOOD cabinet...
My family's first remote control television was a Magnavox. Our TV crashed dung half time. I went with my dad when he purchased the new TV, brought it home and had it up and running before the second half of the game started. I'd lo to have another console television. They were actually part of the furniture and no two were ever completely alike.
@@hankcovey4420
Great story, fantastic memories !
This football game was not during Sunday, lucky for you !...
"Zenith , the quality goes in before the name goes on"!
Don't forget Admiral, GE, Zenith, and Motorola!
Our first cool TV was a then-new late 70s Zenith System 3 with “Space Command” remote. Picture was remarkable and the mono speaker had great output too.
You know, Growing up in the 60s and 70s was awesome. I remember all of this like it was yesterday.
Agree ! ✌
Fred, for the past 26 min you transported me to a better time in my life. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip. The Roadrunner and the Duster commercials were awesome. It's amazing how something as simple as a television commercial can bring back such emotions. Thank you so much.
I liked Sammy Davis Jr.'s commercial for GE cassette recorders.
Nice to see the Real Colonel Harlan Sanders in an ad for KFC again after all these years.
I actually met him when I was six years old in Greenwood Indiana at a Benjamin Franklin Five and Dime.
Michael Jackson did the Pepsi commercial from Billie Jean
@Foxonian
Correct. I was just a little kid back then but we did go to
Kentucky Fried Chicken occasionally during that time and the food
was excellent. I miss the old ads with the real Colonel! Sadly after the company has changed hand over the years the quality of the food isn't that good anymore.
@@jetstream6389 Yes. That chicken is greasy. It's awful.
GreatGarloo: It really seems to depend on what time of the day you go. I love Kentucky Fried Chicken, and usually it is very good. We went one time, just before they were closing, and the chicken was dried out and tasteless.
1971--2021 fifty years have passed. Great commercials.
The Coke a Cola ad brought back memories to me as a 12 year old kid that year. It brought tears to my eyes 👀. All the other ads were fantastic. Thank you for uploading these memories of my yester years.
You're welcome, Daniel.
The best years of my life.. 1970, 71 and 72.. the memories! Thanks once again Fred, these old commercials are like a tonic for me, makes me feel young again, even if it's just for a few minutes, it's still great!
Glad to be of service, Hank.
We used to chip in to get a buck of gas and ride around. There were no kid places to stop at so we just rode around.
I was only 5 in 1971. Very vivid memories thanks to creative commercials. Miss those days.
i turned -37 back in 1971, i miss those days very much
I was 7 back in 1971. When the Coke commercial came on, I was surprised I still knew most of the words. Lol
We never had the Dixie Cup Dispenser like those rich kids.
Ha! Good One !
Wonderful!! Great memories from my childhood. 💖
Remember your dad yelling don't turn the dial so hard you'll break it! But, you would and out come the vise-grips.
Hahaha. Yep.
Not us. My mother's (sensible) rule was, either use the TV right, or we wouldn't get to watch it. We knew she meant it, so we were gentle.
The 70's avl great decade to grow up in. Good commercials, great music. I want to go back.
I can remember people coming to the house to fix the T.V. ................. Please bring back 1985 I don't like 2019 anymore !!!!!!!!
Pressed Steel: 2019 DOES totally suck!!!
Pressed Steel ~ You had a TV repair man make a home visit in 1985? Where did you live? I could see it happening if it was 1965, but by '85 it was practically unheard of.
@@Stranger Danu The Mandela Effect is working perfectly
I have repaired the color tv s from Phillips and Slyvania great televisions great to work on could get parts shipped easy great company in USA
@@slimshine953 we used to get tv repairman in the UK. Most of us couldn't afford to buy a TV so used to rent them along with a VCR.
If they couldn't fix it there and then they'd swap it for another out the van and it would be a bit of a lottery on what model you'd get. Then (as kids) we'd spend the next few days teaching our parents how to use them.
So thankful 2 have grown up in the 70s! America still had its innocence.
So true ! ✌
Simple common human decency was once appreciated in AMERICA...
right?! it is all SO RACIST!
Yes! Now its sucky dicky with queer rights, ISIS how want to chop off our heads and other body parts. And very poor sound mixing of ads!
@@alexkije
What's with the goofy sounding, I was going to type jingles, but they don't even qualify as jingles...
Somebody, or some sound effect whistling in accompaniment to another sound effect of a strummed ukelele and a glockenspiel.
This?! is a jingle?!
Those Go Daddy, and Peleton ads make me so sick to my stomach that I wanna roll a seven.
@@maxiepattie85
Uh uh...we are from the past, we don't say racist, we say prejudiced, remember?
wow almost 50 years ago, and I remember these...
The year I joined the Army and changed my life forever
Bad time to join. Did you get to see Nam? So sorry if so. Thank you for your service.
16:16 the voice of Len Gochman for "the dry look." He was the VO talent on all those famous "Be all that you can be" commercials for the U.S. Army in the 80s.
these were good back in the day, Today all we get is pill pushing commercials and insurance
David Hendrickson. Don't forget funeral planning commercials, or my personal favorite, A Place For Mom. Sheesh! I told my kids, the only place for THEIR mom is Nieman Marcus!😉
@@janupczak5059 So they're gonna sprinkle your ashes in Dallas? lol
And commercials for rotten over-priced vehicles and stupid over-priced movies.
@@ChristopherUSSmith Ouch! I was thinking more along the lines of shopping at the Tom Ford cosmetics counter... Now I have to think about my ashes?! 😮 Now I must go have a glass of wine...
@John Bold Life insurance, yes. But that isn't in all the home and car bundles being hawked on TV these days by a gecko, the Allstate guy, and a comedian named Stephanie better known as Flo (or some of Flo's relatives).
Kentucky Fried Chicken, Back When The Chicken Was Good!
He was still alive back then. So we got the original recipe.
Back when chicken was.. chicken
U mean when the chiken was actually chiken & not by product compressed to resemble a chicken piece
in youtube watch....mercy for animals commercials.....all true
At 24:28 The voice of Ken Nordine voicing the Levis commercial...he just passed away early 2019 at 99 years old...also the voice of Tasters Choice coffee ...and all the Word Jazz albums he recorded. Prolific right up to his death
Plus the voice of Tom Bosley in one of the commercials.
@@maureen669 The Shasta commercial, right? (That was John Fiedler as the cashier.)
Wow cool. Thanks for the trip back to a better time.
We didn't get a colour T.V. until 1975!
Funny. We were the last of my friends' families to get a colour tv. And just last week I purchased my first (used) flatscreen tv. Same dynamics....different stuff.
That's the year we got our first color TV as well! Before that, if we wanted to see color TV we had to go to the neighbor's house!
A strange world indeed where coach passengers on a 747 got near first class service and pocket calculators the size of a brick cost $345.00. I miss it so.
Autostade67 ~ Lol it wasn't strange at the time, but yeah I hear ya. Flying was a much more pleasant experience, practically glamorous. Look at all that space between the nice, comfortable seats, with arm rests, those clean, white thingies for your head, wine, liquor, and what appears to be a full course meal!!! As for the calculator, it was like the early VHS and Beta players, or the first cell phones... over the top expensive. Gosh if you had one of those calculators you were important!
I ate an entire box of Franken Berry in one sitting and never had another bite, i can still recall the taste after 45 years
Yeah, but Count Chocula was the SHIT!
I could eat Boo Berry till I overdosed.
Born in '71...they pushed that stuff like crack during the Saturday morning cartoons (Pebbles and BamBam! Hong Kong Fooey!) the sugar content in 70's cereals was TOXIC...responsible for many a baby tooth cavity...not to mention many a smack at the A&P aisle for jumping up and down like an addict in the cereal aisle for the fix
How many cereal boxes did you dig into for the toy surprise?
@@Dkymoby That Is Hilarious!!! You nailed it! LOL!!!
Those Dodge commercials with Joe Higgins as the "county mountie" ("You're in a heap o' trouble boy!") inspired Kenny Price to record the country novelty hit "The Sheriff of Boone County" that same year. Flash forward a couple of more years and they would both be together in the cast of :"Hee Haw."
Great to see the Colonel again....this was what I watched when I was growing up....
Ok, I remember a lot of these...........it's official, I'm old.
Remembering commercials from the 1970s does NOT make you old. Unless you enjoy calling yourself old.
oneblackhorse: It certainly does NOT make a person "old", all right! What next, if you remember commercials from the early 2000s, you're old?
If you're Methuselah, you're just a Spring Chicken. It's all just relative.
Hell no.
We're just getting started.
2 grand for a calculator, next commercial: "I need gas; one dollars worth please?" LOL.
.18 to .23 cents per gal. you could go somewhere for a buck
I remember my Grandmother shopping around for the best price one day in '69-'70 and she asked me to keep track of the prices so she could concentrate on driving.
I remember the average being around 38¢ to 40¢ per gallon, and she found one on a road leading out of town that had a gallon of ethyl at 36¢
People don't believe me when I tell them that.
Filling an empty tank with a dollar of gas today, you wouldn't reach the end of the street, LOL.
I graduated HS in ‘71. I really didn’t watch much TV then and until 1979. I do, however remember the commercials always playing in the background of our lives at home. I super enjoy these old commercials. Thanks so much for bringing them to us.
I was 13 in 1971...brings back memories. Thanks!
You're welcome, Teresa.
Me too! Fred is the man!
You poor thing.
1971 was the season the Dallas Cowboys won their very first Super Bowl. One year before I was born.
2:15 shows just how beautiful black women look keeping it all natural. None of that hat hair garbage.
This whole video shows how well made commercials used to be. They actually allowed the story to play out. Not like how rushed and crammed commercials are nowadays.
Mercy Fred, all the memories attached to these commercials. Good old Count Chocula! Candy for breakfast but with 8 vitamins. I loved it. Thanks Fred!
Most welcome, Mindy.
Todd Foret I thought the exact thing. Do they no longer exist?
Todd Foret: There was also "Fruit Brute", with a werewolf mascot. Remember that one? It was the fourth of the "monster cereals", which included Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo-Berry, and Fruit Brute...
Does anyone remember Baron Von Redberry and Sir Grapefellow cereals? They came out in the fall of 1972, I believe, and they had a World War I flying ace theme, with WWI fighter pilots "Sir Grapefellow", a tall British flying ace, and "Baron Von Redberry", a short German flier who was supposed to be like "The Red Baron". I think they were from the same company (General Mills, I think it was?) that put out Count Chocula and Frankenberry (and Boo-Berry, and Fruit Brute). Of course, Sir Grapefellow was grape flavored and colored purple, and Baron Von Redberry was strawberry flavored and pinkish-red, and both had miniature marshmallows. I used to love those!
@@ckeilah You can still get Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry. I've bought boxes of all three at Dollar Tree within the past two years. Fruit Brute hasn't been available since the '70s, though. I loved the Monster Cereals. I even had a Monster Cereals flag on my bike.
My Mom's 1968 Pontiac Lemans never hesitated, vroom vroom, I drove the heck out of that car on twisty back roads, used to scare my friends lol, good times
It was fun walking down memory lane. Thank you! My kids were around four and eight; we were still young, my husband was alive, and we had our little dog, "Scotty." We drove a 1970 Dodge "Swinger." They were great days! So much more innocent than now. 😊
I was 9 in 71. Brought back memories for me. Boo 👻Berry was another fruity flavoured cereal.
Yep I remember those.
Yup. Born in 62. We were lucky.
26 minutes of melancholy...2019 just seems so junky. Thanks, Fred!
You're welcome, sentforth5.
@sentforth5
Indeed. There was real character and "soul" in these ads back then you could tell that it was the efforts of individuals with their own ideas. Now it's all by committee and surveys with computer processing all the data.
"2019 just seems so junky." ... Then 2020 hit with Covid. And now inflation is sky high. 2019 seems like the good old days!
Now it’s Woke-a-Cola
I miss my childhood….
@@elvis13577 Ahh the good ol days, when men were getting away with murder on the daily and war was rampant 🤘🏻
I was 2 in 71, and these are the first commercials I remembered. Especially the Coke commercial and the Frankenberry. I had a bunch of GAF Viewmaster cards.
I was 6 and remember all these commercials Burger king had a cartoon king back then also
I was 3 in '71, but I can't believe there were any commercials I truly remembered from that age. Most people cannot remember the vast majority of things that happened before the age of 4, forgetting most of those things by age 7 in what is called childhood amnesia. My guess is with the Coke commercial, specifically, it was a long-running commercial (the sequel was shown at Christmas for years), thus MY memory is not from seeing it in 1971 but rather probably seeing it sometime in 1972-73.
@@royrowland5763 + I remember things as far back as 2 years old. I have a photographic memory they say. I easy remember my dads 26th birthday, and I was 2 and a half. He couldn't believe I remembered what we ate and everything. Blew his mind with that one.
I was 4!
zim1966: I remember the Burger King cartoon king! He had the "royal motorcycle", which was a really cool chopper. Way cooler than that live human "king" wearing the plastic king's head they had recently. I still remember that cartoon Burger King commercial from that time (around 1971 or '72), where he had the "magic clerk" at the Burger King counter, who would magically wave his hands and whip up their food, then, at the end, the cartoon king says "Give me a bill", and the clerk waves his hands and says "You've got a bill!", and the king suddenly has a duck bill on his face, and he says "Burger King! Where kids are king!" in a funny Donald Duck voice.
Roadrunners were sharp in 1971 and are quite valuable today.
Kenneth Butler: '71 Plymouth Road Runners were (and still are) the coolest cars and, in a way, it's a shame that they have become such valuable classic cars, only because, as a result of being considered such classic cars now, I can't afford to buy one!
Indeed nobody drives them anymore, they are only show pieces,
it's a shame because they were meant to be driven hard.
As our we !!!
A friend of mine has a 1971 RR, orange with black stripes. Car looks mean as hell and he drives it all the time.
The Coke/Pepsi ads were so much better than those Britney Spears etc ones they did when I was young! They actually cheer you up a bit.
So true
These commercials brought back great memories! Reminds me how much times have changed...Some of those products went out of existence long ago.
Carol Harris yeah. I wish I could have some Pink Panther cereal with a pink glow ball! :-)
ckeilah: I remember the "RPX Racer" car that came free inside Pink Panther Flakes! They really should bring those back!
Good stuff Fred. All the cars back then were way better looking and cooler than all the cars today.
That's very true.
At 23:54, that jogged my memory. I'd forgotten that all these years, to wit, "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer". I remember another Schlitz jingle-"If you don't have Schlitz, you don't have gusto, and brother you don't have beer!"
Yup
Schlitz gives you the 💩
We had that same Coke ad in the UK and in 1971 I was doing my basic training in the army. Our sergeant made us sing the song. Unfortunately he was killed on active service in Northern Ireland a few years later.
Ahh yes, The Troubles.
Cheers Army!
Grew up with these commercials ♥️
FredFlix, Thank you for this trip down memory lane! Also, this is the kindest gentlest comment section on all of yootoob! :-)
ckeilah The comments reflect the inner natures of the writers. We’re fortunate to have been brought up when courtesy was the norm.
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1971 the year I was born. Such different times. Every commercial made you feel good.
The "small" calculator priced at $345 is $2,177.77 in today's dollars (2019). 😲
Thanks. I was gonna try & figure it out.
Except for the fact that electronic items are one of the very few areas that have become less expensive and better as the years go by.
People were smarter and didn't rely on calculators to do math
2 grand for a calculator, next commercial: "I need gas; one dollars worth please?" LOL
Especially the analyst calculator
I just love vintage tv commercials and what I miss the most nowadays is the catchy jingles and original tunes there used to be. You've put a smile on my face. Thanks a lot. You sure are "the real thing". :)
And I don't rot your teeth.
@@FredFlix LOL :)
I swear that “in another life” or something that I lived in the 60s. All of this seems so familiar to me but I wasn’t born until the 70s. All of your stuff takes me back to a simpler way of life that I guess I crave. I love the pics of nurses back in the day cuz I’m a nurse now. Love the commercials of “most doctor recommended cigarettes “. Thanks Fred!
You're welcome, Nicole.
I sometimes feel like I was born in another Era as well *60s also
I have not seen that Pepsi commercial in decades and I still remember the words to the song.
A brief moment when parents were still here and the hardest decision was trying to figure out how I was getting to and from band practice... A huge Thank You...
I can only watch one or two of your videos at a time. the nostalgia is overwhelming...
My beloved wife was born in April 1971.
Jack Aubrey: Just like Shannen Doherty!
My baby sister was born in July 1971.
I was 12 , wow this brings back memories .
Me too ! ✌
Remember these commercials like it was yesterday...I watched way to much television..
I was born in 1971. This was AMAZING to see!
Vintage TV commercials. All great picks. Memories brought forth of a time long forgotten. Thank you Fred for good quality content. No channel compares to yours. Thumbs up...everytime.👍👍👍
I appreciate that very much, Larry.
XLNT!!!! Really like the catchy musical tunes, and such optimism was conveyed as well, great creativity!!
Ken Nordine, creator of "Word Jazz", doing the Levi's voice over. RIP Ken. Thanks for the memories.
You're welcome, John.
The coolest voiceover guy ever.
@@FawleyJude Peter Thomas was better. ;)
@@ChristopherUSSmith I'm not familiar with him so I looked up some videos of his work. He's good, but I still think Nordine's cooler.
I've always thought that the guy who seemed to do all the voiceovers for movie trailers was really over the top. I like this Geico ad that has fun with it: th-cam.com/video/ZJMGS7l0wT8/w-d-xo.html
Ken Nordine also did ads for The Chicago Blackhawks. His unique voice saying ... " The Chicago Blackhawks ... Cold Steel On Ice ". Classic.
I remember many of these vividly, from beginning to end, even though I was probably barely 4 years old when I last saw them.
Great channel by the way!! Cheers!! :)
Thanks, Dizz.
A vintage, 1971 Farrah. Be still, my heart.
It was also weird seeing a young Tom Selleck.
And she didn't need to be identified either. But I appreciate it 😊
What commercial?
@@RussDRocker 12:44 The Mustang commercial with Father Mulcahy. Too bad the '71 Mustang was a piece of crap.
@@ClayLoomis1958 Did you see the video of her on the 1969 Dating Game show? She was so damn cute!!
Dang it man!!! I remember some of those commercials...I must be getting old. How many remember the telephone booth you stepped in and closed the bi-fold door?
I do lol
Same lol
Yup
I always had trouble getting out of them!!!
Oh yes, I remember those phone booths with the glass door. I tell my little sister about those phone booths and that I actually used them in the late 70's early 80's and she is quick to tell me " Damn, your old". I was 15yrs old when my little sister was born.
Anyway, these commercials really took me back to my childhood. Thank you for sharing.
ViewMaster was the TH-cam of 1971.
I remember having one...😏
I STILL HAVE VIEW MASTER. L.O.L..
Jeff polara: They were pretty cool, and what was even cooler and more high-tech was that, by the early 1970s, there were "Talking View-Master" viewers and later, there were "talking", rear-screen projector View-Masters! I always wanted each of those, but never got to have either. Those were really cool, and talk about being the TH-cam of the 1970s!
I still have mine. I have View-Master reels of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Captain Kangaroo, and the Monkees!
@@erilaz7 Awesome..trying to get back all the old toys I had via Ebay...can be expensive..
I love that Sharp calculator, big as a brick and it only cost $345 (over $2000 in today's dollars). And just to show how modern it was, there's a guy using it as he talks to someone on a pay phone.
I love that guy on the TWA ad barking out all the advantages of flying TWA, the message seems to be, "Fly TWA or I'm gonna come and kick your ass."
By the mid-70's, a basic Texas Instruments calculator was down to $90, which was still a lot of money at the time.
You can avoid ring around the collar by having a clean neck. :)
MOM? is that you? LOL!! that's exactly what my mother used to tell my brother, Dad and myself!
Also, any guy that doesn't keep clean can scrub his own shirts.
a: And any girl or woman that doesn't keep clean can scrub HER own shirts, too!
Someone said on here that just applying hair shampoo on the ring and scrubbing will get it out.
Well back then we were raised to work hard so there you go
Wow...I remember 1971 very well.....great days
I was born in December 1966 i too feel very sorry of kids of today. I have listened kids of today how they would love to actually be there back then. They love those 📺 commercials, cartoons, music well especially those psychedelic 🎶 music? TV 📺 shows, games, the way of living. I love that song I want the world to sing in perfect harmony.
I miss watching missing watching the old commercials I miss the old commercials
I didn't see 1 tattooed, obese or blue/green/purple haired person in this clip. It was just so much nicer then.
joseph raccuia That says it all I laugh to myself and think 🤔 am I the only one who is thinking this way and I read this thanks
I thought I was the only one who thought that way! I feel sometimes like we're living in the twilight zone.
We are screwed when we become seniors.
Not to mention, no big pharma pushing drugs and lawyers suing them in that order.
True, yet the first and third commercials advertise two products that contain substances that have become the bane of modern-day diets. Refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, empty carbs, etc have contributed to the obesity epidemic we now face-granted it’s not the only factor. Imagine what we’d look like if we didn’t consume this crap for the last 50 years? (Again, I realize it’s not the only contributing factor.)
As for myself, I quit consuming this garbage, started focusing on healthy eating, and focused on portion control. I also exercise 4-5 times a week-weight training, calisthenics, yoga, swimming, cycling, and HIIT cardio. In the last 16 months, I’ve lost almost 50 lbs, greatly cut body fat percentage, and increased muscle mass and strength. All at 47 years old. Insofar as hair color... well, that’s a whole other issue... actually, non-issue. 😆 Choose wisely ‘Merica!
I was 7 years old in 1971 and I still remember most of these commercials
The COKE commercial is considered the best cpmmercial ever made. It brings backa good memories! THANK YOU.
Now that Pepsi jingle is stuck in my head. I was 10 in '71.
The "large" McDonalds drink would probably count as "small" now.
I remember being able to get a McDonalds burger fries and coke for just under a dollar. We had a McDonalds about six blocks from school and you could just get there , get your meal to go, and walk back in time to eat before having to go to the next class.
Was no such thing as restaurant freakouts then people got along better then in part to the coca cola 😃😃commercial
Amazing I was 11 in 71. Graduated in 78. Thanks for the memories.
You're welcome, qtrhors1.
I have NEVER seen the Shasta commercial in such great visual and audio quality! Thank you!
You're welcome, manofmanyinterests.
LOL oh man, I VIVIDLY remember "The Wethead is dead" because my older brother thought he was the coolest dude around when he got a can of men's "hairspray" for this 15th birthday in 1971! we STILL tease him about that to this day! LOL!!
Hank Austin: And what's wrong with hairspray for men? I think that's really cool, and they still have it now! Nothing a guy should be teased about!
@@mel1nda12ax7 yeah.. I know.. we just like to tease him anyways, cause it's fun!
Fantastic Fred !!! My family was watching a Charlie Brown (Halloween or Christmas) special, the first time we heard the Coca Cola " teach the world to sing" commercial...
A song that always made me smile !!
Cheers from Detroit 🇺🇲
Thanks, Tony!
Love the old commercials even the 40s 50s 60s 70s 90s and today is awesome love the 80s as well !!
I miss ESSO. ⛽
Geez….just watched this and what a throwback!! Felt like I was watching TV in 71 when I was a 9/10 year old.
What a step back in time that was. I think I enjoyed the car ads best. I'm sure you caught the familiar voices of Tom Bosley and Casey Kasem too. Btw, the ball in the box of Pink Panther Flakes was one of the best.
@RochelleEskue
At 19:43 is Dallas McKennon He was the Voice of Archie Andrews from the Archies Cartoon Series.
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I read something funny about Franken Berry cereal... when it first came out, the pink coloring was indigestible, and came out still pink. Moms were taking their kids to the doctor, sure that they were bleeding. lol Count Chocula's coloring probably did the same thing, but since it was brown, it wasn't noticed.
I remember what my mom thought when she feels me Boo-Berry, I can still hear the scream.
I was 10 years old in 1971 .. remember not all but a lot of these!! Awesome!
Me to
So many memories. Thanks Fred for your tireless work. Simply wonderful.
I always 😁 ear to ear!! ...yet gets me so melancholy. I had a bowling version of that tennis game! 😱 it was loud! Only allowed to play with it in the basement 😂. Still trying to figure out how to build my time machine 🤔.... 'till then at least we've got Fred!! 😃
Thanks, W2m3.
Great post! Yep..Freds the man! If you ever figure out how to make that time machine just let me know..Ill ride with you!!
W2mnm 928: Oh, you mean the Aurora "All American Skittle Bowl"? I had that!
KC Casey: Me too!
@@mel1nda12ax7 Omg! 😂 Yes!! Swing that heavy ball and knock out any kid that was sitting too close! 🤣