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More on the Retro Commercials! PART 3

Here is some more of those dang Retro Commercials stuck in our minds forever!

Morris the Cat
Morris the Cat (voiced by John Erwin of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) is the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials. A large red tabby tom, he is "the world's most finicky cat", and prefers only 9Lives brand, making this preference clear by means of humorously sardonic voice-over comments when offered other brands. Every can of 9Lives features Morris's "signature".

Morris has appeared in other media over the years. He starred in the movie Shamus with Burt Reynolds and Dyan Cannon in 1973. He also appears as a "spokescat" promoting responsible pet ownership, pet health and pet adoptions through animal shelters. To this end, he has "authored" three books: The Morris Approach, The Morris Method and The Morris Prescription.

Over the years several cats have portrayed Morris on television. The original Morris was discovered at the Hinsdale Humane Society, a Chicago-area animal shelter, in 1968 by professional animal handler Bob Martwick. All cats to play Morris have been rescues, either coming from an animal shelter or a cat rescue. The current Morris lives in Los Angeles with his handler, Rose Ordile.

In 2006, Morris was depicted as adopting a kitten from a Los Angeles animal shelter, L'il Mo, who represents the first in a campaign known as Morris' Million Cat Rescue.

Doublemint & the Twins
Doublemint is a flavor of chewing gum made by the Wrigley Company. It was launched in the United States in 1914, and has had variable market share since that time.

One of the most notable aspects of this brand is the advertising campaign, begun in 1956, which utilized twins as spokespersons for the gum, as a play on the word "double" in the name. The original "Doublemint Twins" were Jayne and Joan Boyd of Hammond, Indiana, who appeared in advertisements for Doublemint until Joan became pregnant in 1963.

The company however continued sporadically to promote the campaign; later "Doublemint Twins" included Patricia and Cybil Barnstable, Cynthia and Brittany Daniel, Tia and Tamera Mowry (future co-star of The Game). Heidi and Alissa Kramer, and Jean (née Barbara) and Elizabeth Sagal (daughters of TV director Boris Sagal and sisters of Married... with Children's Katey Sagal). The Sagal twins enjoyed a brief run as the stars of a sitcom, Double Trouble, in 1984.

Later twins projected more sex appeal in keeping with trends in American advertising; the Barnstable twins were later asked to pose for Playboy magazine due to their popularity as spokeswomen for the gum.

Alka-Seltzer
The original Alka-Seltzer was invented by pharmacist Mikey Wiseman in 1931 but was used in the 1920s as a remedy for back aches, diarrhea, leg cramps, and heartburn. Sodium bicarbonate in Alka-Seltzer also makes it effective in treating mild blood acidosis associated with allergy (see citation).

Alka-Seltzer is a combination of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3), and citric acid, designed to treat pain and simultaneously neutralize excess stomach acid (the "Alka" being derived from the word "alkali"). It is provided in the form of large effervescent tablets, about 1 inch (25 mm) in diameter, which are dissolved (two at a time for the usual adult dosage) in a glass of water.

As the tablets dissolve, the base (bicarbonate) and the acid (citric acid) react vigorously producing carbon dioxide gas (hence the "Seltzer"), which also produces enough agitation to allow the active ingredients to dissolve slowly (it dissolves in water). The patient then ingests the resulting solution.

The product has been extensively advertised since the beginning of the mass media era in the U.S. It was formerly marketed as something of a cure-all; at one time its ads even suggested taking it for "the blahs.

" Subsequent regulation has taken into consideration that aspirin is a relatively powerful drug which is not tolerated by everyone and should not generally be taken at all by children or adolescents due to its linkage to Reye's syndrome; the product is no longer marketed in this fashion.

It comes in various flavors
At one time the product was available in both long glass tubes and foil packets; the latter is the primary way the product is provided today, with two tablets in each packet.

TV commercials•
An animated mid-1960s commercial shows a man and his own stomach sitting opposite each other in chairs, having an argument which is moderated by their therapist (voiceover). The stomach accuses the man of purposely trying to irritate it, the man accuses his stomach of complaining too much about the foods he likes. The therapist suggests Alka-Seltzer, and further suggests that the two need to take care of each other. The closing words are the stomach saying: "Well, I'll try - if he will".

• Alka-Seltzer had a series of commercials during the mid 1960s which utilized a song called "No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In," a different version of which was recorded by the T-Bones and was released as a single which became a hit in 1966. The ads were unique in that they featured only the mid-sections (no faces) of people of all shapes and sizes.

• In an Alka-Seltzer commercial from 1970, an actor (played by Jack Somack ) in a commercial for the fictional product "Magdalini's Meatballs" has to eat a meatball and then say "Mamma mia, that's-a spicy meat ball-a!" in an ersatz Italian accent. Take after take is ruined by some comedic trial or another. By the commercial's end, "Jack" has eaten so many meatballs that it's "Alka Seltzer to the rescue". With his stomach settled, Jack does a perfect take, except the oven door falls off.

The director (off-camera) sighs and says, "OK, let's break for lunch." Although it has been said that this commercial was dropped because it was allegedly demeaning to Italians, more likely it was dropped because it failed to increase sales of the product (even today most people think it was a commercial for spaghetti sauce).

• Another 1970 commercial shows a newlywed couple in the bedroom after his wife (played by Alice Playten) has finished serving him a giant dumpling; the implication is that her cooking skills are severely lacking. She lies on the bed in delusional triumph. She offers her beleaguered husband a heart-shaped meatloaf; he disappears to take some Alka-Seltzer.

When she hears the fizzy noise coming from the bathroom, he quickly covers the glass of dissolving Alka-Seltzer as she wonders aloud if it is raining. Just when he has recovered his well-being, he hears her misreading recipes for dinner the next night: "marshmallowed meatballs," and "pouched (actually poached) oysters". He returns to the bathroom for more Alka-Seltzer.

• A 1971 commercial featured the catch-phrase, "Try it, you'll like it!" It was remade by Kathy Griffin in 2006.

• In 1972, an actor spent the commercial moaning, "I can't believe I ate the whole thing!" while his wife made sarcastic comments and finally advised him to take some Alka-Seltzer.

• Another Alka-Seltzer commercial from the same era is one concerning "The ultimate businessman's lunch". Seeking "revenge" on his underlings for former bad suggestions, "The Boss" [aka "Mr. J.G.", played by character actor Milton Frome ] is taking his "boys" out to lunch in the most out-of-the-way place imaginable.

In this instance they are seen trudging through the snow in a howling windstorm towards their destination, a Chinese restaurant in the mountains of Tibet. Once inside the restaurant and removing their parkas, J.G. and the boys are greeted by the proprietor, "Moo Chee" [a thinly veiled reference to other oriental food], played by character actor and voice artist Marvin Miller [best-known for playing Michael Anthony, personal assistant to John Beresford Tipton [III] on the 1950s TV series "The Millionaire", and the voice of "Robby the Robot" in the 1950s film Forbidden Planet ].

Moo Chee directs them into the dining room where J.G. orders all the food, including roast yak in a special hot sauce followed by "chocolate moose". One of the boys complains "but J.G., that's a French dessert!". J.G. responds "No, this is a real moose!" followed quickly by Moo Chee chiming in "with special hot chocolate sauce!" [as in hot peppers].

In the next scene J.G. and the boys are eating and getting sick, when in comes Moo Chee announcing "Important phone call for In the next scene, the hung-up telephone is seen [just a prop in the ruse to get away from the boys], and J.G. is finishing his Alka-Seltzer, thanking Moo Chee for his timely "rescue" from the awful food. Relieved, the boss returns to the now-empty dining room with Moo Chee. "Where are the boys?" asks J.G. The final remark is by Moo Chee "Maybe they too have important phone call, Mr. J.G." All of this detail is conveyed in a 30-second spot.

Plop-plop, fizz-fizz
Oh, what a relief it is.


Starkist Tuna & Charlie

In more than 85 TV commercials, Charlie® tried to prove that he was a tuna with “good taste” - a lover of Shakespeare and the finer things in life. Unfortunately for Charlie®, StarKist® has always wanted only one thing: tuna that tastes good. A very important difference! So the answer was always “Sorry Charlie®. StarKist® wants tuna that tastes good, not tuna with good taste.”


The Old TV Spots & 1 New! "Charlie Plays Tennis"

"Charlie's Girlfriend"

"Charlie Reads Poetry"

"MasterCard Priceless"


Ricardo Montalbán & Chrysler
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican-born American radio, television, theatre and film actor.

He had a career spanning seven decades (motion pictures from 1943 to 2006) and multiple notable roles. During the mid-to-late 1970s, he was the spokesperson in automobile advertisements for the Chrysler Cordoba (in which he famously extolled the "soft Corinthian leather" used for its interior).

The New Small Chrysler! 1977 Cordoba line First Spot
The Commercial (Ricardo Montalbán appears and stars in)

"I know my own needs."
"And what I need from an automobile I know I get from this new Cordoba!"

"I grasp for nothing beyond the quality of Cordoba’s workmanship!"
The tastefulness of its appearance!"

"I request nothing beyond the thickly cushioned luxury of seats available even in soft Corinthian Leather."

"Yet, it is on the highway where Cordoba best answers my Demands!"

"I have much more in this small Chrysler than great comfort at a most pleasant price."
"I have great confidence for which there can be no price."

"In Cordoba, I have what I need."

See The You Tube Video xxx.youtube.com/watch?v=vIL3fbGbU2o
(Replace the xxx with www)


"Soft Corinthian leather!"

R.I.P. Mr.Montalbán!

I Own One!! A rare Specialty! Low Mile, Near Mint 1979! Drive It Daily!!


Kenner's Spirograph

Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. The term has also been used to describe a variety of software applications that display similar curves, and applied to the class of curves that can be produced with the drawing equipment (so in this sense it may be regarded as a synonym of hypotrochoid). The name is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc.

The Spirograph was invented by British engineer Denys Fisher who exhibited it in 1965 at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair. It was subsequently produced by his company. Distribution rights were acquired by Kenner, Inc., which introduced it to the United States' market in 1966.

Spirograph consists of a set of plastic gears and other shapes such as rings, triangles, or straight bars. There are several sizes of gears and shapes, and all edges have teeth to engage any other piece. For instance, smaller gears fit inside the larger rings, but also can engage the outside of the rings in such a fashion that they rotate around the inside or along the outside edge of the rings.

To use it, a sheet of paper is placed on a heavy cardboard backing, and one of the plastic pieces is pinned to the paper and cardboard. Another plastic piece is placed so that its teeth engage with those of the pinned piece. For example, a ring may be pinned to the paper and a small gear placed inside the ring – the actual number of arrangements possible by combining different gears is very large.

The point of a pen is placed in one of the holes in the moving piece. As the moving part is moved the pen traces out a curve.

The pen is used both to draw and provide locomotive force; some practice is required before Spirograph can be operated without disengaging the fixed and moving pieces. More intricate and unusual-shaped patterns may be made through the use of both hands, one to draw and one to guide the pieces.

It is possible to move several pieces in relation to each other (say, the triangle around the ring, with a circle "climbing" from the ring onto the triangle), but this requires concentration or even additional assistance from other artists.

Oscar Mayer Weiners
well-known advertising jingle, written in 1963 by Richard D. Trentlage and set to music by Philip Bova:
Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
That is what I truly want to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me.

A 1965 version of the Oscar Mayer Wiener song goes:
Oh, I'd love to be an Oscar Mayer wiener.
That is what I'd truly like to be.
'Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener,
Everyone would be in love with me.
Oh, I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Mayer wiener.
That is what I'd never want to be.
Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.
There would soon be nothing left of me!

Oscar Mayer Bologna (My Boloney Has a First Name...)
Another product's jingle is almost equally well well-known:
My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R
My bologna has a second name, it's M-A-Y-E-R
Oh, I love to eat it every day, and if you ask me why, I'll say,
"'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A."
“How’s That!?!”
This jingle was sung by Keith Bailly in 1976 in a famous commercial.

Tang
Tang is a sweet and tangy, orange-flavored, non-carbonated soft drink from the United States. The original orange flavored Tang was formulated by William A. Mitchell[1] for General Foods Corporation in 1957 and first marketed (in powdered form) in 1959.

It was initially intended as a breakfast drink, but sales were poor until NASA began using it on Gemini flights in 1965 (researched at Natick Soldier Systems Center), which was heavily advertised. Since that time, it has been associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program, so much so that an urban legend emerged that Tang was invented for the space program.

Tang was famously used by the NASA Gemini space program. A NASA engineer working with the Gemini Space Program on a life-support module explained the story of how and why it was used. Paraphrased:
"... There was a particular component of the Gemini life support-system module which produced H2O (water) among other things. This was a byproduct of a recurring chemical reaction of one of the mechanical devices on the life-support module.

The astronauts would use this water to drink during their space flight. The problem was, the astronauts did not like the taste of the water because of some of the byproducts produced, which were not harmful of course. So, they added Tang to make the water taste better ..."

However, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin has stated that Tang was not used on his lunar landing mission: "We... instead chose a grapefruit-orange mixture as our citrus drink. If Tang was on our flight, I was unaware of it."

The inventor of Tang, William A. Mitchell, also invented Pop Rocks.

Tootsie Roll Lollipops
Tootsie Pops are hard candy lollipops filled with chocolate-flavored chewy Tootsie Roll. They were invented in 1931 by Luke Weisgram, an employee of The Sweets Company of America. The company changed its name to Tootsie Roll Industries in 1966.

In addition to chocolate (the original flavor), Tootsie Pops come in cherry, orange, grape, raspberry, strawberry, watermelon, blue raspberry and pomegranate flavors. Another release of Tootsie Roll Pops, named Tropical Stormz, features six swirl-textured flavors: orange pineapple, lemon lime, strawberry banana, citrus punch, and berry berry punch.

In 2003, sixty million Tootsie Rolls and twenty million Tootsie Pops were produced every day.

In 1970, Tootsie Roll Industries aired an animated television commercial featuring a boy asking various animals how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. A shortened version of this commercial still airs on television today, making it one of the longest running commercials of all time.

In the original ad, a boy poses this question to a cow, a fox and a turtle. Each one tells the boy to ask someone else, explaining that they'd bite a Tootsie Pop every time they lick one. Eventually, he asks an owl, who starts licking it, but eventually bites into the lollipop, much to the chagrin of the boy.

While the original commercial is 60 seconds long, an edited 30-second version and 15 second version of this commercial are the ones that have aired innumerable times over the years.

The dialogue to the 60-second version is as follows:
Boy (voiced by Buddy Foster): Mr. Cow...
Mr. Cow (Frank Nelson): Yeeeeesss?
Boy: How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
Mr. Cow: I don't know, I always end up biting. Ask Mr. Fox, for he's much clever than I.
Boy: Mr. Fox, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
Mr. Fox (Paul Frees): Why don't you ask Mr. Turtle, for he's been around a lot longer than I? Me, heheh, I bite.
Boy: Mr. Turtle, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
Mr. Turtle (Ralph James): I've never even made it without biting. Ask Mr. Owl, for he is the wisest of us all.
Boy: Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
Mr. Owl (Paul Winchell): A good question. Let's find out. A One... A.two-HOO...A three..
(crunch sound effect)
Mr. Owl: A Three!
Boy: If there's anything I can't stand, it's a smart owl.
Narrator (Herschel Bernardi): How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
(crunch sound effect)
Narrator: The world may never know.

The 30-second commercial dialogue:
Boy: Mr. Turtle, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
Mr. Turtle (Ralph James): I've never even made it without biting. Ask Mr. Owl.
Boy: Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
Mr. Owl (Paul Winchell): Let's find out. A One... A.two-HOO...A three..
(crunch sound effect)
Mr. Owl: A Three!
Narrator (Herschel Bernardi): How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
(crunch sound effect)
Narrator: The world may never know.

The over 15-second commercial only shows the boy and Mr. Owl, and a different narrator speaks the same above line, but without the scene showing the Tootsie Roll pops slowly disappearing, and with a different tune playing in the background. The question still stands unanswered.

After the commercial, Mr. Owl became the mascot for Tootsie Roll Pops, appearing in marketing campaigns and on the packaging.

In the 1990s, a new commercial was made featuring a boy asking a robot and a dragon how many licks it takes to get to the center.

Parkay Margarine ConAgra Foods, Inc
The Return of the Talking Tub

Since 1973, Americans have loved the Parkay Talking Tub. 2009, Look for its triumphant return!

Actor: Parkay!
Tub Of Butter:Butter!
Actor: Parkay!
Tub Of Butter: Butter!
MMM, Butter!
Tub Of Butter: Parkay!!

Dr. Pepper-I'm a Pepper
Dr Pepper is a soft drink that is sold in North America, South America, and Europe by Dr Pepper Snapple Group.

It was invented by Charles Alderton. There is also a no-sugar version, Diet Dr Pepper, as well as a line of flavored versions, first introduced in the 2000s. Its taste most resembles that of a cherry cola, though W.W. Clements, a former CEO and president of the Dr Pepper/7-Up Company, described the taste of Dr Pepper as one-of-a-kind, saying "I've always maintained you cannot tell anyone what Dr Pepper tastes like because it's so different. It's not an apple, it's not an orange, it's not a strawberry, it's not a root beer, it's not even a cola. It's a different kind of drink with a unique taste all its own."

This became grist for a number of pop culture references and parodies. One of the first was a sketch on the program SCTV, in which an overly-excited injured man (Eugene Levy) extols the work of a "Dr. Shekter" (Rick Moranis) who's been treating him. Levy and a group of patients wearing casts and crutches engage in their own elaborate dancing and singing (Would not you like to have my doctor, too?), all to the alarm of Shekter (These people should not be dancing!).

In the 1982 sex farce Beach Girls, the slogan became "I'm a popper, he's a popper..."

After appearing in a commercial, David Naughton had his breakthrough film role as the main character in the John Landis film An American Werewolf in London.

Naughton also had a major Top 40 hit in 1979 with the disco flavored "Makin It". Another famous "I'm a Pepper" dancer was Ray Bolger, the actor who played the Scarecrow in the film "The Wizard of Oz.


Lyrics written by: Barry Manilow, Jake Holmes and Randy Newman, 1977
"I drink Dr Pepper and I'm proud.
I used to be alone in a crowd.
But now you look around these days,
There seems to be a Dr Pepper craze.
(Oh Pepper) I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, She's a Pepper, we're a Pepper, Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?
I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, She's a Pepper, we're a Pepper, Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?
If you drink Dr Pepper you're a Pepper too"
"Us Peppers are an interesting breed,
an original taste is what we need. Ask any Pepper, and he'll say Only Dr Pepper tastes that way.
I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, She's a Pepper, we're a Pepper, Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?
I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, She's a Pepper, we're a Pepper, Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?
Be a Pepper, Drink Dr Pepper. Be a Pepper, Drink Dr Pepper... (repeat and fade)

Lyrics by Barry Manilow (additional lyrics Jake Holmes) Music by Jake Holmes

"I'm a Pepper, He's a Pepper, We're a Pepper.", "Be a Pepper.", "Would not you like to Be a Pepper too?"


Fun Fact: Barry Manilow wrote jingles back in the 70's! McDonalds, Dr. Pepper and Band-Aid were a few!

Band-Aid
Band-Aid is the brand name for Johnson & Johnson's line of adhesive bandages and related products. It has also become something of a genericized trademark for any adhesive bandage among the consuming public in the United States, India, Canada, Brazil and Australia.
"Band-aid" has also entered usage as a term for any temporary fix. (e.g. "Band-aid solutions were used to fix the leak.")
The Jingle
I am stuck on Band-Aid brand 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me!
I am stuck on Band-Aid brand 'cause germs don't stick on me!
'Cause they hold on tight no matter what on fingers, toes, and knees.
I am stuck on Band-Aid brand 'cause Band-Aid helps heal me!

NESTEA
Go on! Take the plunge with NESTEA! Crisp, cool refreshing iced teas in powder, chilled, refrigerated and liquid concentrates.

Nestea is a brand of iced tea manufactured by Nestle and distributed by Nestle company's beverage department in the United States and by Beverage Partners Worldwide (BPW), a joint venture between The Coca-Cola Company and Nestle, in the rest of the world. It competes with Unilever's Lipton Iced Tea. It provides a variety of "tea products", in regular and diet forms, including liquid and powdered tea concentrates, refrigeratable teas, and ready-to-drink bottles dispensed by vendor or vending machine. The beverage comes in several flavors, depending on the country.
Nestea Geography

Nestea is available in Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Finland, France, French Guiana, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malta, Mariana Islands, Martinique, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Turks & Caicos Islands, Ukraine, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States and Venezuela. Nestea's biggest markets are the United States, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Vietnam.

Take the NESTEA plunge!


I really do not think I can come up with much more! Again, these were the ones that I remember growing up along with the shows in this thread.

Now somebody needs to do a Retro Movies and Music post here!

I will step aside and let someone else do that!

If I go on I am afraid I will fry my brain, overload and blow a fuse I may need later during my mid-life crisis!

Thanks to Sandy Blosser & Melissa Peters for a couple of the ones mentioned throughout this thread I posted!

K E V I N

 

[AcWxRadar]

I hate to post this "you-tube" video, but I honestly got to!

Some members on dial up may be disenchanted with this as it may not be available to you. I apologize, but for the few that can load this, Please have a Coke and enjoy!



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAgh86j5alI"]YouTube - Coca-Cola HILLTOP I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing[/ame]


I'd Like to Buy The World a Coke
The song "I'd Like to Buy The World a Coke" had its origins on January 18, 1971, in a fog. Bill Backer, the creative director on the Coca-Cola account for McCann-Erickson, was traveling to London to join two other songwriters, Billy Davis and Roger Cook, to write and arrange several radio commercials for The Coca-Cola Company that would be recorded by the popular singing group the New Seekers. As the plane approached Great Britain, heavy fog at London's Heathrow Airport forced it to land instead at Shannon Airport, Ireland. The irate passengers were obliged to share rooms at the one hotel available in Shannon or to sleep at the airport. Tensions and tempers ran high.
The next morning, as the passengers gathered in the airport coffee shop awaiting clearance to fly, Backer noticed that several who had been among the most irate were now laughing and sharing stories over bottles of Coke.


They Like It
In that moment, I began to see a bottle of Coca Cola as more than a drink. I began to see the familiar words, "Let's have a Coke," as a subtle way of saying, "Let's keep each other company for a little while." And I knew they were being said all over the world as I sat there in Ireland. So that was the basic idea: to see Coke not as it was originally designed to be - a liquid refresher - but as a tiny bit of commonality between all peoples, a universally liked formula that would help to keep them company for a few minutes. - Bill Backer as recalled in his book The Care and Feeding of Ideas (New York: Times Books/Random House, 1993)

A Song Is Born
Backer's flight never did reach London. Heathrow Airport was still fogged in, so the passengers were redirected to Liverpool and bussed to London, arriving around midnight. At his hotel, Backer immediately met with Billy Davis and Roger Cook, finding that they had completed one song and were working on a second as they prepared to meet the New Seekers' musical arranger the next day. Backer told them he thought they should work through the night on an idea he had had: "I could see and hear a song that treated the whole world as if it were a person—a person the singer would like to help and get to know. I'm not sure how the lyric should start, but I know the last line." With that he pulled out the paper napkin on which he had scribbled the line, "I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company."

Lyrics - I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke
I'd like to buy the world a home and furnish it with love,
Grow apple trees and honey bees, and snow white turtle doves.
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony,
I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company.
(Repeat the last two lines, and in the background)
It's the real thing, Coke is what the world wants today.

They Don't Like It
On February 12, 1971, "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" was shipped to radio stations throughout the United States.
It promptly flopped. The Coca-Cola bottlers hated the ad and most refused to buy airtime for it. The few times the ad was played, the public paid no attention. Bill Backer's idea that Coke connected people appeared to be dead.

Backer persuaded McCann to convince Coca-Cola executives that the ad was still viable but needed a visual dimension. His approach succeeded: the company eventually approved more than $250,000 for filming, at the time one of the largest budgets ever devoted to a television commercial.


A Commercial Success
The television ad "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" was released first in Europe, where it garnered only a tepid response. It was then released in the U.S. in July, 1971, and the response was immediate and dramatic. By November of that year, Coca-Cola and its bottlers had received more than a hundred thousand letters about the ad. At that time the demand for the song was so great that many people were calling radio stations and asking them to play the commercial.
"I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" has had a lasting connection with the viewing public. Advertising surveys consistently identify it as one of the best commercials of all time, and the sheet music continues to sell more than thirty years after the song was written.

 

[AcWxRadar]

Now this following commercial always made me happy! It was just a very uplifting view of the diesel railroading industry. Most people who were old time railroaders at the time, were rather putout by the advent of diesel locomotives through the late 50's and 60's.

Here came the Union Pacific in the early to mid seventies to present a promotion of the best mode of goods transportation available and they harmonized it and romanticized it into a song....

We're a great big rollin' railroad
One that everybody knows
We were born of gold and silver spikes
A hundred years ago

We're a million miles of history
A-shinin' in the sun
We're the Union Pacific
And our story's just begun

From the Great Plains of Nebraska
To the California seas
From the summits of the Rockies
To the mighty redwood trees

We're a thousand wheels of freight train
Hear the diesel engines power
We're the Union Pacific
Doin' ninety miles an hour!

Doooooooo, Dooooooo, Doooooo, Dooooo, Doooo, Dooo, Doo........

Bound from Omaha to Portland
Through Cheyenne and Laramie
We're a-headin' west for Boise
On the mainline to the sea

'cross the flats at Salt Lake City
On to Vegas and L.A.
We're the Union Pacific
And we've got the right of way

From the green fields of the prairies
To the blue Pacific shores
We deliver your great cargo
And come rollin' home for more

On the backbone of our nation
You can see us make the climb
We're the Union Pacific
And we're gonna be on time

From the green fields of the prairies
To the blue Pacific shores
We deliver your great cargo
And come rollin' home for more

On the backbone of our nation
You can see us make the climb
We're the Union Pacific
And we're gonna be on time


Doooooooo, Dooooooo, Doooooo, Dooooo, Doooo, Dooo, Doo........

 

[AcWxRadar]

Americana!

I don't know what anyone else may think, but I personally believe that some of these commercials and songs and tributes and old time TV shows and radio shows are still a part of America! These songs, even if they are simply and merely lyrics to a commercial, were something to be proud of! These little items, insignificant as they may have appeared at the time, were a measure of our country's pride and dignity!

We need to reinvent this feeling amongst ourselves.

God Bless!

God Bless the USA!

Gordy

 

[AcWxRadar]

No words are necessary... This explains FREEDOM!

 

[FTABman0]

More on the Retro Commercials! PART 4

Eggo

Eggo is a brand of frozen waffles in Canada, Mexico and the United States, which is owned by the Kellogg Company.
In Fortune magazine,it was stated that Eggo has a 65% share of the frozen waffle. Eggo Waffles are enjoyable when toasted in a conventional oven as well as in a toaster oven or toaster.

History
In 1953, an entrepreneur named Frank Dorsa introduced the ever-popular Eggo "Leggo of My Eggo®" frozen waffles to supermarkets throughout the United States. Now waffles were available to everyone, even if no waffle iron was available.

“Let go of my EGGO!”

Crying Indian (On Horseback) Keep America Beautiful PSA with the Ad Council

Remember the Keep America Beautiful 30 second Public Service Announcement commercial!

On Earth Day, 1971, a PSA featuring Native American actor Chief Iron Eyes Cody and the tagline line, "People Start Pollution. People can stop it." aired for the first time. Iron Eyes Cody became synonymous with environmental concern and achieved lasting fame as, "The Crying Indian." The PSA won two Clio awards and the campaign was named one of the top 100 advertising campaigns of the 20th Century by Ad Age Magazine.

In 1982, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored Iron Eyes Cody, whose film repertoire included three Western films with President Ronald Reagan, with a star bearing his name on the Famous Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.

During the height of the campaign, Keep America Beautiful reported receiving more than 2,000 letters a month from people wanting to join their local team. By the end of the campaign, Keep America Beautiful local teams had helped to reduce litter by as much as 88% in 300 communities, 38 states, and several countries.

The success of the Keep America Beautiful anti-litter campaign led to hundreds of other environmental messages through the years, from many different sources, including the Ad Council.


The Video PSA Links:
Pollution: Keep America Beautiful - Iron Eyes Cody (1961-1983)
Sponsor: Keep America Beautiful
Volunteer Agency: Marsteller, Inc.
Watch the PSAs:

Keep America Beautiful-Canoe

Keep America Beautiful-Horseback


Lite Brite (For Gordy!)
Lite-Brite is an electric toy introduced in 1967 by Hasbro that allows lighted pictures to be created.

Description and operation
Lite-Brite allows the artist to create a "glowing" picture by placing multi-colored translucent plastic pegs through opaque black paper. The light from an illuminated light bulb is blocked by the black paper except though where the pegs conduct the light. When lit, the pegs have an appearance similar to that of LEDs. Most Lite-Brite toys come with a series of pre-prepared patterns. Classic patterns include the "Wizard of Light" (a picture of a wizard with the "Lite-Brite" name above), and the clown.

Denver artist Lori Kanary created the World's Largest Lite-Brite in 1999 with her work "Giant Lite-Brite," setting a new Guinness World Record. It was shown in collaboration with the Redshift Gallery and the Denver Art Museum's Impressionism show that year. Kanary is responsible for establishing the Lite-Brite as art craze in 1996.

The world's former largest Lite-Brite object was certified by Guinness as a rendering of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" by Malvern, Pennsylvania artist Mark Beekman. The picture took over 15 months to construct and measures 5'5" by 11'. It was constructed with 124,418 pegs, which was over double the previous record. Hasbro sent him the first 100,000 pegs.

He had to purchase the rest of the pegs by purchasing individual Lite-Brites from his local area.The picture was auctioned on Ebay (auction no longer active) with the proceeds going to the Milton & Catherine Hershey Heritage Foundation.
This record was beaten October 7, 2008 by ASICS America Corporation in collaboration with Vitrorobertson and artist Lori Kanary. The new sneaker design is 2.74 m (9 ft) by 4.27 m (14 ft) in size and was made with 347,004 original size pegs.

The battery powered Peg-A-Lite by Magic Maker was a similar toy.

Advertising
The famous Lite-Brite commercial jingle begins: "Lite-Brite, makin' things with light. Outta sight, makin' things with Lite-Brite." Another jingle featured "Lite-Brite, Lite-Brite, turn on the magical shining light!" Another popular jingle included the lines: "We're making things with light. Lite-Brite makes them glow so bright! A steamboat, a chicken, a tropical fish. A lemonade sign or whatever I wish!"

Play-Doh
Play-Doh is a modeling compound used by children for art and craft projects at home and in school. Composed of flour, water, salt, and other ingredients, the product was first manufactured in Cincinnati as a wallpaper cleaner in the years following World War II.

When a classroom of children began using the wallpaper cleaner as a modeling compound, the product was reworked and marketed to Cincinnati schools in the mid-1950s. Play-Doh was demonstrated at an educational convention in 1956 and prominent department stores opened retail accounts. Advertisements promoting Play-Doh on influential children's television shows in 1957 furthered the product's sales.

Since its launch on the toy market in the mid-1950s, Play-Doh has generated a considerable amount of ancillary merchandise such as The Fun Factory. In 2003, the Toy Industry Association named Play-Doh to its "Century of Toys List".

History / Origin
The non-toxic, non-staining, reusable modeling compound that came to be known as Play-Doh was originally a pliable, putty-like wallpaper cleaner concocted by Noah McVicker for Kutol Products, a family-owned Cincinnati-based soap company. Following World War II, McVicker's nephew, Joseph McVicker joined Kutol and discovered the wallpaper cleaner was being used by nursery schoolchildren to make Christmas ornaments.

With his uncle and brother-in-law Bill Rhodenbaugh, Joseph reworked the product in 1955, named it Play-Doh, and formed Rainbow Crafts to manufacture and distribute the compound in single-gallon containers of red, yellow, and blue to Cincinnati-area schools.

Launch
Joe McVicker took Play-Doh to an educational convention for manufacturers of school supplies, and Woodward & Lothrop, a department store in Washington, DC began selling the compound. By 1956, a three-pack of 7-ounce cans was added to the product line, and, after in-store demonstrations, Macy's of New York and Marshall Field's of Chicago opened retail accounts.

In 1957, chemist Dr. Tien Liu reduced Play Doh's salt content (thus allowing models to dry without losing their color), and Play-Doh ads were telecast on Captain Kangaroo, Ding Dong School, and Romper Room. In 1958, Play-Doh realized nearly $3 million in sales.

Mascots
Play-Doh packaging was briefly illustrated with children in the mid-1950s, but replaced by an elfin mascot which, in 1960, was superseded by Play-Doh Pete, a smock and beret-wearing cartoonish boy. In 2002, Play-Doh Pete's beret was replaced with a baseball cap.

Ingredients
Play-Doh's current manufacturer, Hasbro, reveals the compound contains water, salt, and wheat flour. While its 2004 US patent indicates its composed of water, a starch-based binder, a retrogradation inhibitor, salt, lubricant, surfactant, preservative, hardener, humectant, fragrance, and color. A petroleum additive gives the compound a smooth feel, and borax prevents mold from developing.

Usage
Play-Doh is a nontoxic, easy-to-use, easy-to-clean up modeling compound packaged in a variety of colors used principally by children for arts and crafts projects at home and in school. Besides being hand-molded into animals, flowers, and other objects, Play-Doh can be sent through extruders created for the purpose to produce ropey strands of different shapes.

Besides molding and extruding, children simply enjoy squashing, mashing, and rolling the compound.

In addition to children's projects and play, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello has been constructed with more than 2,500 bricks of Play-Doh and, to celebrate Play-Doh's fiftieth anniversary in 2006, a larger-than-life birthday cake with more than 40 pounds of Play-Doh as its main ingredient was "baked" at New York City's American International Toy Fair by Warren Brown, host of Food Network's Sugar Rush.

Related merchandise
In 1960, the Play-Doh Fun Factory (a toy press that extrudes the compound in various shapes) was invented by Bob Bogill and Bill Dale.The Play-Doh Fuzzy Pumper Barber & Beauty Shop of 1977 featured a figurine whose extruded "hair" could be styled.

Making its debut in 1996 for computer-savvy young modelers was an educational software CD-ROM game, Play-Doh Creations, and, in 2003, the Play-Doh Creativity Table was made available. Play-Doh related merchandise introduced during the 2007 anniversary year included the Play-Doh Birthday Bucket, the Play-Doh Fifty Colors Pack, the Fuzzy Pumper Crazy Cuts (a reworking of the 1977 Fuzzy Pumper Barber & Beauty Shop), and the Play-Doh Creativity Center.


Silly Puddy
Silly Putty (originally called Nutty Putty, and also marketing by other companies as Thinking Putty, Bouncing Putty and Potty Putty) is the Crayola owned trademark name for a class of silicone polymers known as Bouncing Putty. It is marketed today as a toy for children, but was originally created by accident during research into potential rubber substitutes for use by the United States in World War II.
It was after its success as a toy that other uses were found.

The material's unique properties have found niche use in medical and scientific applications. It is used in large quantity by physical therapists for rehabilitative therapy of hand injuries. A number of other brands have emerged which alter the material's properties offering different levels of resistance for this market. Power Putty and TheraPutty are examples.

Though primarily used as a toy for children the material is also used therapeutically for stress reduction. In the home it can be used to pick up dirt, lint and pet hair, and because of its adhesive characteristics it was even used by Apollo astronauts to secure their tools in zero-gravity.

History of Silly Putty
During World War II, Japan invaded rubber producing countries as they expanded their sphere of influence in the Pacific Rim. Rubber was vital for the production of rafts, tires, vehicle and aircraft parts, gas masks and even boots. All rubber products were rationed, with citizens being encouraged to make their rubber products last until the end of the war and to donate any spare tires, boots and coats that they might own.

Meanwhile, the government funded research into synthetic rubber compounds to attempt to solve this shortage.

Credit for the invention of Silly Putty is disputed and has been attributed to both Earl Warrick, of the then newly-formed Dow Corning, Harvey Chin, and James Wright, a Scottish inventor working for General Electric in New Haven, Connecticut. Throughout his life, Warrick insisted that he and his colleague, Rob Roy McGregor, received the patent for Silly Putty before Wright did, but Crayola's history of Silly Putty states that Wright first invented it in 1943.

Both researchers independently discovered that reacting boric acid with silicone oil would produce a gooey, bouncy material with several unique properties. The non-toxic putty would bounce when dropped, could stretch farther than regular rubber, would not collect mold and had a very high melting temperature.

Wright found that the substance did not contain all the properties needed to replace rubber and so it spent several years languishing as a mere laboratory curiosity. In 1945, hoping there was a use for his new developed putty, Wright sent a sample to scientists all around the world, but no practical use was ever found.

Finally, in 1949, the putty reached the owner of a toy store, Ruth Fallgatter, who contacted Peter Hodgson, a marketing consultant, to produce her catalog and discuss selling bouncing putty. The two decided to market the product by selling it in a clear case for $2. The putty proceeded to outsell every item in the catalogue except for 50 cent Crayola crayons. Despite the fortune it made, Fallgatter did not pursue it further, but Hodgson saw its potential.

Already $12,000 in debt, Hodgson borrowed $147 to buy a batch of the putty to pack one ounce portions into plastic eggs for $1, calling it Silly Putty. After making progress in the industry, even selling over 250,000 eggs of silly putty in three days, Hodgson was almost put out of business in 1951 by the Korean War.

Silicone, a main ingredient in silly putty, was put on ration, harming his business. In 1952, a year later, the restriction on silicone was lifted and the production of Silly Putty was resumed. Initially, it was primarily targeted towards adults. However, by 1955 the majority of its consumers were aged 6 through 12. In 1957 Hodgson produced the first televised commercial for silly putty, which aired during the Howdy Doody Show.

In 1961, Silly Putty went worldwide, becoming a hit in the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Switzerland, even reaching the Moon by 1968, courtesy of the Apollo 8 astronauts.

Peter Hodgson died in 1976. A year later, Binney and Smith, the makers of Crayola products, acquired the rights to Silly Putty. By 1987, Silly Putty had pushed sales to over two million eggs annually.

Carol Haynes indicates that Ruth Fallgater owned a toy shop in New Haven named the "Block Shop". From personal knowledge, (her father was the Vice President of Silly Putty from shortly after its inception until his death in June 1976) she knows that when Peter Hodgson decided to market the toy to Yale students he initially worked at the Block Shop with a few Yale students. Very soon thereafter,though, he asked William Henry Haynes, whose family members worked at the Block Shop, to join him in selling and marketing the toy.

At some point in the very early years a recent Yale law school graduate, Mac Kilpatrick, also joined the team. From the beginning until 1976 it was this trio who ran the company. Peter Hodgson was the President of the company, William "Bill" Haynes was the General Manager & Vice President of Silly Putty and also the VP of Arnold Clark, Inc. (an advertising and marketing company)), and Mac Kilpatrick was a V.P and the lawyer for the companies.

Since sales were mostly seasonal there were not ever many full time, yearly employees. Temporary workers were brought in during the peak periods of Easter and Christmas. Haynes indicates that she never knew of Silly Putty being more than $1.00 per egg from its inception to the time that her father died, one month before Peter Hodgson. It was, however, sold at one store in the early years in a silver egg.


Rubik's Cube
The Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ern? Rubik. Originally called the "Magic Cube", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toys in 1980 and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year. As of January 2009, 350 million cubes have sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy.

In a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by 9 stickers, among six solid colours (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow). A pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid colour.

Prior attempts
In March 1970, Larry Nichols invented a 2×2×2 "Puzzle with Pieces Rotatable in Groups" and filed a Canadian patent application for it. Nichols's cube was held together with magnets. Nichols was granted U.S. Patent 3,655,201 on April 11, 1972, two years before Rubik invented his Cube.
On April 9, 1970, Frank Fox applied to patent his "Spherical 3×3×3". He received his UK patent (1344259) on January 16, 1974.

Rubik's invention
In the mid-1970s, Ern? Rubik worked at the Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest. He sought to find a teaching tool to help his students understand 3D objects. Rubik invented his "Magic Cube" in 1974 and obtained Hungarian patent HU170062 for the Magic Cube in 1975 but did not take out international patents.

The first test batches of the product were produced in late 1977 and released to Budapest toy shops. Magic Cube was held together with interlocking plastic pieces that were less expensive to produce than the magnets in Nichols's design. In September 1979, a deal was signed with Ideal Toys to bring the Magic Cube to the Western world, and the puzzle made its international debut at the toy fairs of London, Paris, Nuremberg and New York in January and February 1980.

After its international debut, the progress of the Cube towards the toy shop shelves of the West was briefly halted so that it could be manufactured to Western safety and packaging specifications. A lighter Cube was produced, and Ideal Toys decided to rename it. "The Gordian Knot" and "Inca Gold" were considered, but the company finally decided on "Rubik's Cube", and the first batch was exported from Hungary in May 1980. Taking advantage of an initial shortage of Cubes, many cheap imitations appeared.

Finally in the next post, Sorting 1970's Shows by Popularity!

B~Man

 

[FTABman0]

Sorting 1970's Shows by Popularity!

You Can't Do That On Television
Pinwheel
The Muppet Show
Land of the Lost
School House Rock
The Price Is Right
Fat Albert
M*A*S*H
Scooby-Doo Where Are You?
The Dukes of Hazzard
Happy Days
The Electric Company
Diff'rent Strokes
H.R. Pufnstuf
The Brady Bunch
The Incredible Hulk
The Facts of life
Three's Company
WKRP in Cincinnati
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Little House on the Prairie
Z00M
The Littlest Hobo
Hong Kong Phooey
Battle of the Planets (Anime)
Mork & Mindy
Battlestar Galactica
Sanford and Son
ABC Weekend Specials
Wonder Woman
Spider-Man (Japanese)
Are You Being Served?
Candy Candy
B.J. and the Bear
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics
CHiPs
Spider-Man: Live Action Series
The Pink Panther Show
Wacky Races
Taxi
Alice
Soul Train
Dallas
ABC Afterschool Specials
The Banana Splits
All in the Family
Saturday Night Live
Angel (Anime)
Polka Dot Door
The New Sesame Street
The Bullwinkle Show
The Jeffersons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
The Magic Garden
The Godzilla Power Hour
Spider-Man (1967)
Spectreman
I Dream of Jeannie
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Rupan Sansei (Lupin the 3rd), Red Jacket series
Spider-Woman
Emergency!
Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings
The Waltons
Welcome Back Kotter
Charlie's Angels
Isis
Cyborg 009
Vegetable Soup
Superfriends
Ant and the Aardvark
Good Times
The Tom & Jerry Show (1975)
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters
Chico and the Man
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
The Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Show
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Land of the Lost (Original TV Series)
Starsky & Hutch
Partridge Family, 2200 A.D.
The Tomorrow People 70's series
You Can't Do That On Television
Mr Men
The New Adventures of Batman
Benson
Kamen Rider
The Carol Burnett Show
What's Happening!!
Jabberjaw
Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch
The Hilarious House of Frightenstein(Childrens Show)
Angie
One Day at a Time
Hart to Hart
The Partridge Family
Challenge of the Superfriends
Shazam
The Odd Couple
Lidsville
Casshern Robot Hunter
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Adam-12
S.W.A.T.
Barney Miller
The Streets of San Francisco
Quincy
Laverne & Shirley
The Adventures of Rupert the Bear!
Gatchaman
Gigantor!
Star Trek (Animated)
Cell Block H (Prisoner)
Space Giants
The Scooby Doo Show
Wait Til Your Father Gets Home
Cutey Honey
The Love Boat
Pinwheel (Nickelodeon)
The Gong Show
The Goodies
Maude
Mission: Impossible
The Beverly Hillbillies
Wheel of Fortune
Trapper John, MD
Wonderbug
Yogi's Gang
The New Shmoo
Inch High Private Eye
Lupin the 3rd
The Young and the Restless
Wacky and Packy
Family Affair
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Night Gallery
The All-New Popeye Hour
Soap
Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
Love, American Style
Fables of the Green Forest
The Bugaloos
The New Animated Adventures of Flash Gordon
Black Sheep Squadron
Barnaby Jones
The Hot Fudge Show
The Ghost Busters
Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch
Space Sentinels
The Rockford Files
Ark II
Bewitched
Baretta
Family Feud
Fantasy Island
Curious George
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Ultraman
Far Out Space Nuts
The Jackson 5ive
Battle of the Planets
Josie and the Pussycats
Eight is Enough
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl
The Ropers
Sabrina the teenage witch (70s)
Dark Shadows (Original)
Bionic Woman
Archie Bunker's Place
Lucky Luke
Kojak
Logan's Run
The Brady Kids
UFO
Dr. Shrinker
Bigfoot and Wildboy
Creature Features
Concentration
The Lost Saucer
Chiller Theatre
The NFL Today
Salvage 1
Land of the giants
The Red Hand Gang
Big Blue Marble
The New Pink Panther Show
Family
Movin' On
The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show
In Search of...
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Hogan's Heroes
Mr. Ed
Sport Billy
Wonder Woman (Korean )
Archie's Bang-Shang Lalapalooza Show
The Mod Squad
The Scooby-Doo Show
SCTV
Super Friends
Alvin Show
Starblazers
The Rookies
Hello Larry
Bonanza
Doctor Dolittle
Space 1999
Whew!
Valley of the Dinosaurs
Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
I've Got a Secret
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Run Joe, Run
Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle
Groovie Goolies
Out of the Blue
Doraemon
The White Shadow
That's My Mama
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
That's my mama
Mumbly
The Kids from C.A.P.E.R
The Gemini Man
When Things Were Rotten
Crystal tipps and Alistar
Rainbow
Blake's 7
Dance Fever
Dusty's Trail
The Robonic Stooges
WONDERAMA
The Froozles
room 222
Name that tune
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
Jamie and the Magic Torch
M.U.S.H
Drak Pack
Porky Pig Show
The Hardy Boys
Addams Family cartoon (70s)
The New Zoo Review
Planet of the Apes
The Professionals
Columbo
Fawlty Towers
240-Robert
The Magician
Clue Club
The Shari Show
Return to the Planet of the Apes
El Chapulín Colorado
El Chavo del Ocho
Mannix
Ellery Queen
The F.B.I.
The SFM Holiday Network
Petticoat Junction
Here Comes the Grump
The Harlem Globetrotters
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
ABC's World News Tonight
Noddy
The Bob Newhart Show
Himitsu Sentai Goranger
Condorman
McMillan & Wife
The Flip Wilson Show
Zoom
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
Police Woman
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
In the News
The Lost Islands
NBC Nightly News
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
Kung Fu
Rentaghost
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
Mila Superstar (orig. Attck No.1)
All About You
These Are the Days
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
The Osmonds
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
Daniel Boone
Danguard Ace
Fangface
Alias Smith and Jones
Cannon
C.P.O. Sharkey
The Flying Nun
Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon Show
The Tim Conway Show
Funky Phantom
Sesame park
Archie's Funhouse
Jeanie (cartoon)
Grandizer
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Chapi Chapo
Daimos(shogun Warriors spinoff)
Marlo and The Magic Movie Machine
Space Kidettes (rebroadcast)
All-New Super Friends Hour
McCloud
The Bay City Rollers Show
Worzel Gummidge
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series)
Fantastic Voyage (Animated)
The Trouble with Tracy
Porky Pig Show
Last of the Summer Wine
Man About the House
Robins Nest
Captain Future
Roobarb & Custard
Knots Landing
Super Sentai Secret Squardron Five Ranger
Antiques Roadshow
Man from Atlantis
Yogi's Space Race
High Rollers
Password Plus
Lassie's Rescue Rangers
The Joker's Wild
Tic Tac Dough
It Takes a Thief
All My Children
The Barkleys
The Fantastic Journey
Mission: Magic!
The Jacksons
The Young and the Restless
Battle Fever J
The CBS Late Movie
Animals, Animals, Animals
Porridge
The Oddball Couple
Karen
Rhoda
The Brian Keith Show
The Captain & Tennille Variety Show
The Tony Orlando & Dawn Show
The Galloping Gourmet
Carter Country
Phyllis
Julia
The New Waltons
Barbapapa
Holmes and Yoyo
The Invisible Man
The Brollys
Mr. Benn
Monday Night Football
The Great Grape Ape Show
Monkey
Devlin
Card Sharks
Siempre en Domingo
Android Kikaider
Rickety Rocket
Apple's Way
The Barbary Coast
US of archie
Shields & Yarnell
Speedy Buggy
Sealab 2020
The Pink Panther Laugh and the Half Hour and Half Show
Now You See It
Terrytoons Show
The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
Swap Shop
Police Story
Marcus Welby M.D.
Bridget Loves Bernie
Ghost Story
Fish
Division 4
Goober & the Ghost Chasers
ABC Wide World of Entertainment
The NBC Mystery Movie
Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Skatebirds
Fred Flintstone and Friends
Buford and the Galloping Ghost
Uncle Croc's Block
Fabulous Funnies
Shannon,s Mob
Simon Locke
The Waterville Gang
Kamen Rider V3
The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Super Globetrotters
Monster Squad the series
Starblazers
Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down
Supertrain
Black Beauty
Real People
Combattler V
Soap
Name That Tune
King of Kensington
Batman Action 60's
Far Out Space Nuts
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Spider-Man (1967)
Black Sheep Squadron
Emergency! +4
Rising Damp
George and Mildred
The Cliffwood Avenue Kids
Brett
Grange Hill
Space Academy
The Sweeney
The High Chaparral
Songs of Praise
Magic Mongo
Scotch and Wry
Cartoon Town ( aka BJ and Dirty Dragon )
Infinity Factory
Tattletales
Ryan's Hope
Name of the Game
Search
You Don't Say
Ironside
Green Acres
My Favorite Martians
Mobile Suit Gundam
20/20
The Mouse Factory
Department S
Nova
Open All Hours
Banacek
Here's Lucy
McCoy
The Bobby Goldsboro Show
The Doris Day Show
The Little People
The Quest
This is Tom Jones
Captain & Tennille Variety Show
The Betty White Show
The Bobby Vinton Show
Sapphire and Steel
Maya the Bee (Biene Maja)
Good Morning America
Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell
Sammy & Company
Delta House
Co-Ed Fever
Ball Four
The Better Sex
Chopper One
Spyder's Web
Who's Watching the Kids
Readalong
Vega$
Parlez-Moi
Math Patrol
Help!It's The Hair Bear Bunch
Truckers
The Brady Bunch Hour
The Cat in the Hat (1967)
Kid Power!
Space-Kateers
Bosco
The Dudley Do-Right Show
The New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show
Anna and the King
America 2Night
The Blue Knight
Bracken's World
Bless This House (UK)
Bearcats!
The Curse of Dracula
Chase
Centennial
Cade's County
The D.A.
Doomwatch
The Feather and Father Gang
The Evil Touch
Flying High
Fernwood 2Night
To Life
The Girl With Something Extra
Gunsmoke
Good Heavens
Girl in My Life
Hawkins
Harry O
Archie's Funhouse
The Virginian
The Secret Empire
The MacNeil-Lehrer Report
Nichols
Lancer
The Sixth Sense
Tabitha
Survivors
Lucan
Heidi
A Man Called Sloane
The Young Rebels
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law
The Hardy Boys (animated)
What's My Line?
To Tell the Truth
The New Treasure Hunt
The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle
Super 7
Jambo
Toma
The Sandy Duncan Show
The Paul Lynde show
Police Women
Petrocelli
Pat Paulsons half a comedy hour
Nanny and the Professor
Diana
Delvecchio
Arnie
Le vagabond
The San Pedro Beach Bums
The David Frost Show
Switch
Stop Susan Williams
Serpico
Evening Magazine
Getting Together
THE YOUNG LAWYERS
The Paper Chase
The Bold Ones
Lou Grant
Joe Forrester
Fay
Bronk
Banyon
Whitney And The Robot
I, Claudius
Magic roundabout
Medical Center
JAKQ Dengeki Tai
ABC Evening News
yogi's Galaxy Goof-Ups
Galloping Ghost
Flintstone Comedy show
Cattanooga Cats
ABC Late Night
Space 1999 (Cosmos 99)
Gaiking
Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines
The New Fred and Barney Show
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
Jot
Fraidy Cat
Witness to Yesterday
Shannons Mob
the Boy with Two Heads
Quark
Bluey
Ryan
Boney
Shanana
The Sylvester & Tweety Show
Johnny Quest
The Adventures Parsley
The Adventures of Sir Prancelot
Kickstart
240 Roberts
New Mickey Mouse club 70s series
That's Cat
House Calls
Peters Grip
Raggydolls
Where's Huddles?:
Roman Holidays
Motormouse and Autocat
Mighty Mightor and moby dick
The Fun World of Hanna-Barbera
C.B. Bears
Pinocchio
The Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad Show
Hot l Baltimore
Loveboat
Triton Of The Sea
Sylvester and Tweety
ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
Jungle Kurobe
Gemini Man
All That Glitters
Today
When the Boat Comes In
The Return of Captain Nemo
the new mickey mouse club
Just William
Ivor the Engine
Bailey's Comets
BOD
Working Stiffs
The New Adventures of Gilligan
The Dean Martin Show
The Cheap Show
The Bill Cosby Show
Inside the NFL
CBS Children's Film Festival
Disco Step-by-Step
Battle of the Network Stars
Pebbles and Bamm Bamm
O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
The Price Is Right
Card Sharks
Concentration
The Cross-Wits
The Joker's Wild
The Mumbly Cartoon Show
Adventures of Rupert the Bear!, The
The Adventures Parsley
The All-New Popeye Hour
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Test Pattern
Fantastic Four (1978)
Longstreet
On The Buses
World Wide Wrestling
Mr Men
Doraemon
Grange Hill
King of Kensington
Junior Almost Anything Goes
Kids Are People Too
Runaround
The Bad News Bears
A.M. Weather
Cop Shop
Dragnet (1967)
Ironside
Hot Hero Sandwich
Festival of Family Classics
Catweazle
Ace of Wands
Come Along
Chico and the Man
Casper and the Angels
Jana of the Jungle
Peppermint Place
NBC Children's Theater
My World & Welcome To It
The CBS Festival Of Lively Arts For Young People
The Generation Game
Animals, Animals, Animals
The Krofft Supershow
The Persuaders
The New Soupy Sales Show
The Two Ronnies
Way Out Games
Truth Or Consequences
Cartoon Town ( aka BJ and Dirty Dragon )
Definition
Gunsmoke
Land of the Lost
Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl
Mork and mindy
Sanford and Son
Starblazers
Land of the Lost
Stop Susan Williams

B~Man

 

[AcWxRadar]

I could definitely go for seeing all of those shows once again! Just in a bit of nostalgic humor, I noticed "SPEED BUGGY"! That was a good cartoon, along with Scooby Doo!

Ruh Roh Raggy!

h++ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_C2HJvtRDY

Gordy

 

[AcWxRadar]

An American Hero An American Icon!

I LOVE MY COUNTRY!

I Love my Dad, I Love my Mom! I Love my Grandparents and I love my Sister and Brothers! I Love my Uncles and Aunts and Cousins and Nephews and Nieces! I Love my Friends and I love my Heros! And I Love this Man - John Wayne! A True and Noble man in life as well as on the Silver Screen! No one can replace this man and no one could replace my Dad. In my heart they are the two greatest people who ever lived! I lost my Dad in 2005, but he is always with me as I think of him whenever I watch a John Wayne movie or go fishing or hunting or go to church or watch Leave it to Beaver or the Andy Griffith Show.

My Dad was bigger than life to me, as a kid and even now when I am growing older and he is gone.

You guys and gals got to know John Wayne and your Dad. But, I am privelaged..... I got to know MY DAD!

Gordy

 

[FTABman0]

I LOVE MY COUNTRY!

I Love my Dad,

No one can replace this man and no one could replace my Dad.

My Dad was bigger than life to me, as a kid and even now when I am growing older and he is gone.

You guys and gals got to know John Wayne and your Dad. But, I am privelaged..... I got to know MY DAD!

Gordy

I hear ya there Gordy!

I lost my Dad in 2006 after the fifth fight with cancer! Nobody can replace him as well and I miss him everyday! Coming up on the three year mark that he passed. June 20th, he is with me everyday!

We were about to go motorized FTA right before he went into the hospital for the last time. He loved my setup and wanted one so bad to add to his Skyangel programming!

He never got to see his own system. He thought the motorized KU thing was the neatest thing, had his system picked out but it was not in the cards! I too remember some of these shows mentioned in this thread watching with my Father.

Some at the time I thought was quite lame but love them now for the fact that they remind me of him!

I can tell you a move he absolutely loved that was not old was the move Super Troopers by Broken Lizard (no pun intended there Anole)!

He especially loved the “Cat Game” scene in that movie!

[Foster and Mac have pulled a man over for speeding and are deciding what game to play]
Mac: All right, how about "Cat Game?"
Foster: Cat Game? What's the record?
Mac: Thorny did six, but I think you can do ten.
Foster: Ten? Starting right 'meow?'
[Mac laughs - they walk up to the car, and Foster taps on the driver side]
Larry Johnson: Sorry about the...
Foster: All right meow. (1) Hand over your license and registration.
[the man hands him his license]
Foster: Your registration? Hurry up meow. (2)
[Mac ticks off two fingers]
Larry Johnson: Sorry.
[the man laughs a little]
Foster: Is there something funny here boy?
Larry Johnson: Oh, no.
Foster: Then why you laughing, Mister... Larry Johnson?
[pause]
Foster: All right meow, (3) where were we?
Larry Johnson: Excuse me, are you saying meow?
Foster: Am I saying meow?
[Mac puts his hands up for the fourth one, but makes an "eehhh" facial expression, as he is considering the last one]
Larry Johnson: I thought...
Foster: Don't think boy. Meow, (4) do you know how fast you were going?
[man laughs]
Foster: Meow. (5) What is so damn funny?
Larry Johnson: I could have sworn you said meow.
Foster: Do I look like a cat to you, boy? Am I jumpin' around all nimbly bimbly from tree to tree?
[Mac is gut-busting laughing]
Foster: Am I drinking milk from a saucer?
[feigned anger]
Foster: Do you see me eating mice?
Foster: [Mac and the man are laughing their heads off now] You stop laughing right meow! (6)
Larry Johnson: [the man stops and swallows hard] Yes sir.
Foster: Meow, (7) I'm gonna have to give you a ticket on this one.
Larry Johnson: But...
Foster: No buts meow. (8) It's the law.
[rips off the ticket and hands it to the man]
Foster: Not so funny meow, (9) is it?
Foster: [Foster gets up to leave, but Mac shakes his hands at him, indicating only nine meows] Meow! (10)

My dad busted a gut on that to the point of tears when I took that movie over for us to watch! Never heard the end of that for months, he would call and leave messages on my machine “Kevin, call your Dad back right Meow!”

Funny move if you have not seen it yet! It was the last movie he got to see!

He got me into electronics and it is hard to talk about stuff with anyone, we bounced things off each other all the time. It has not slowed me down, but sure do miss him!

He is in a much better place now, I would not trade him here now in the same shape he was in then for no suffering now for anything! He had 13 years the hard way with that cancer crap! Colon, rectal and the last was stomach cancer!

I do miss him!!

Great words!!

Great post RADAR!!

K E V I N

 

[AcWxRadar]

My Dad suffered from multiple "mini-strokes" or TIAs. He fell bedridden towards the end. He always liked to have the TV on in the background even if he didn't watch it and dozed off for most of the programs.

I remembered that he always loved Hee Haw, so I bought the entire set of Hee Haw on DVDs and bought him a DVD player for his bedroom.

He watched every one and was so thrilled that he would watch them over and over again and not fall asleep during the shows. His favorite was the song they sung - "You Met Another and SPSSFFTTT~~ You were Gone!"

h++p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqnm3A10m8I

I am going to have to watch Super Troopers: Altered State Police! That sounds very FUNNY~!

 

[FTABman0]

Hee Haw is also showing on RFD-TV on AMC 1 at 103.0°W C-Band FYI!!
Back on TV again!!
You most likely knew that!

K E V I N

 

[AcWxRadar]

Hee Haw is also showing on RFD-TV on AMC 1 at 103.0°W C-Band FYI!!
Back on TV again!!
You most likely knew that!

K E V I N

Thanks FTABman0!

I didn't know that, but now I do! Thanks!

I don't have any C Band set up yet, but I am getting ready to dabble with a small setup to get what I may. This gives me an added incentive!

 

[FTABman0]

AcWxRadar: Thanks FTABman0!

You are Welcome!!

Going to music side of the Retro Days, how about [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem"]Casey Kasem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Casey_Kasem.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Casey_Kasem.jpg/170px-Casey_Kasem.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@commons/thumb/6/6d/Casey_Kasem.jpg/170px-Casey_Kasem.jpg[/ame]& [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Top_40"]American Top 40 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Americantop40.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Americantop40.jpg/200px-Americantop40.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@en/thumb/f/ff/Americantop40.jpg/200px-Americantop40.jpg[/ame]!

I Loved that every weekend tuning into that with my old Pioneer Stereo with AM/FM Stereo 8 with turntable and large floor speakers that my Mom hated!

If you remember, he also did "Shaggy" the voice in the Scooby-Doo Cartoons back in the day for Hanna-Barberahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna-Barbera_Productions!

Casy: “And Now, Here’s your Long Distance Dedication!”

K E V I N

 

[AcWxRadar]

I sure remember that. As well as American Bandstand! Ole Dick Clark! And Barry Manilow's opening theme song. I really hated Barry's music then, I guess I still do. But, I sure wish it was back on now instead of the crap available today! What is this "American Idol" thing? That has to be the most lame show I have ever witnessed. Is it a real show or an infomercial for birth control?

Nothing compares to the days of TV when we were younger! Sure wish they would bring it all back! I really do miss the good old days of PROPER TV viewing! I guess that is gone.

Car 54 Where Are You?

h++p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMCgSMPeuc

 

[AcWxRadar]

Rawhide

This is my favorite!



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl2fONPgIJE]YouTube - Rawhide - TV - opening - ending[/ame]

 

[Tron]

This is my favorite!

(Rawhide opening)

Looks like one of the astronauts servicing Hubble today thought the same thing. He was singing it while "rolling" the thermal blankets onto Hubble, and tried to get the rest of the crew to sing along

 

[FTABman0]

REMEMBER SOUL TRAIN??

Soul Train
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Soul Train was a syndicated, music-related television program. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by rhythm and blues, soul, and hip hop artists, although jazz musicians and gospel singers have also appeared.

The series was created by Don Cornelius, who also served as its first host and executive producer, and aired from 1971 to 2006, with reruns continuing until 2008.

The origins of Soul Train can be traced to 1965, when WCIU-TV, an upstart UHF station in Chicago, began airing two youth-oriented dance programs: Kiddie-a-Go-Go and Red Hot and Blues. These two programs—specifically the latter, which featured a predominantly African American group of in-studio dancers—would set the stage for what was to come to the station several years later.

Don Cornelius, a news reader and backup disc jockey at Chicago radio station WVON, was hired by WCIU in 1967 as a news and sports reporter. Cornelius also was emceeing a touring series of concerts featuring local talent (sometimes called "record hops") at Chicago-area high schools, calling his travelling caravan of shows "The Soul Train".

WCIU-TV took notice of Cornelius's outside work, and in 1970 allowed him the opportunity to bring his road show to television.

After securing a sponsorship deal with the Chicago-based retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co., Soul Train premiered on WCIU-TV on August 17, 1970 as a live show airing weekday afternoons. The first episode of the program featured Jerry Butler, the Chi-Lites, and the Emotions as guests. Its immediate success attracted the attention of another locally-based firm—the Johnson Products Company (manufacturers of the Afro Sheen line of hair-care products) -- and they later agreed to co-sponsor the program's expansion into syndication.

Soul Train began airing in selected cities across the United States, on a weekly basis, on October 2, 1971. When it moved into syndication, the program's home base was also shifted to Los Angeles, where it remained for the duration of its run. Syndication of the program was initially handled by Syndicast Services until 1985, when Tribune Entertainment took over those responsibilities.

Though Don Cornelius moved his operations west, Soul Train continued in Chicago. Cornelius hosted the local Chicago and Los Angeles-based national programs simultaneously, but soon focused his attention solely on the national edition. He continued to oversee production in Chicago, where WCIU-TV aired episodes until 1976, followed by three years of once-weekly reruns.

Cornelius ended his run as host in 1993, and guest hosts were used from that time until 1997, when comedian Mystro Clark began a two-year stint as host. Clark was replaced by actor Shemar Moore in 1999. In 2003, Moore was succeeded by actor Dorian Gregory, who hosted through 2006.

The show was known for its animated opening titles and sequences between musical performances featuring the popular cartoon train created by various cartoon studios. As a nod to Soul Train's longevity, the show's opening sequence (during later seasons) also contained a claim that it was the "longest-running, first-run, nationally-syndicated program in television history," with over 1,100 episodes produced from the show's debut through the 2005-06 season.

Production of first-run episodes was suspended at the conclusion of the 2005-06 season, the show's thirty-fifth. For two seasons starting in 2006-07, the program aired archived episodes (all from between 1974 and 1987) under the title, "The Best of Soul Train".

The future of Soul Train was uncertain with the announced closing of Tribune Entertainment's syndication division on December 18, 2007, which left Don Cornelius Productions to seek a new distributor for the program.

Cornelius soon secured a deal with Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

In May 2008, the rights to the Soul Train library were purchased by MadVision Entertainment, whose principal partners come from the entertainment and publishing fields. The price and terms of the deal were not disclosed.

However, by the start of the 2008-09 television season, the Tribune-owned stations (including national carrier WGN America) that had been the linchpin of the show's syndication efforts dropped the program, and many others followed suit.

The move coincided with Trifecta Entertainment and Media's transfer of its only other major syndication effort, American Idol Rewind, to network television, indicating it may have exited the syndication business as well. Soul Train's website acknowledged that the program had ceased distribution on September 22, 2008.

Despite this, in years on air, Soul Train will continue to hold the honor of the longest, continuously-running first-run syndicated program until at least 2016, if and when its nearest competitor, Entertainment Tonight, completes its 35th season. (If ET does not complete a 35th season, Wheel of Fortune would pass in 2017 if it continues to air.)


Theme music
Soul Train used various original and current music for theme songs during its run, including:

1971-1973: "Hot Potatoes", by King Curtis, and later redone by the Rimshots.
1973-1975: "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)", composed by Gamble and Huff and recorded by Philadelphia soul studio group MFSB with vocals by The Three Degrees. Released as a single, this song became a pop and R&B radio hit in 1973.
1975-1976: "Soul Train '75", by the Soul Train Gang, which was later released as a single for the newly formed Soul Train Records.
1976-1978: "Soul Train '76 (Get on Board)", by the Soul Train Gang.
1978-1980: "Soul Train Theme '79", produced by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band with vocals by the Waters.
1980-1983: "Up on Soul Train", first by the Waters and later by the Whispers, whose version appears in their 1980 album Imagination. [8]
1983-1987: "Soul Train's a Comin'", by R&B artist O'Bryan. [9]
1987-1989: "TSOP '87", a remake of the original "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)", composed and produced by George Duke.
1989-1993: "TSOP '89", a remixed version of "TSOP '87", also by George Duke.
1993-1999: "Soul Train '93" (Know You Like to Dance)", by the hip-hop group Naughty by Nature with a saxophone solo by Everette Harp.
1999-2006: "TSOP 2000", with rap vocals by hip hop artist Samson and music by Dr. Freeze, and again featuring an Everett Harp saxophone solo. However, a portion of "Know You Like to Dance" was still used in the show's second-half opening segment during this period.

 

[AcWxRadar]

Soul Train

Yeah! I remember Soul Train!

Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't they open the show at one time with some sort of a animated steam locomotive rolling down the tracks or something like that? It was a really short clip at the very beginning of the show (just a few seconds) and then they went into some other video stuff as the show opened.

Am I remembering this right? And it was usually on in the afternoon on Saturdays?

 

[FTABman0]

Yeah! I remember Soul Train!

Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't they open the show at one time with some sort of a animated steam locomotive rolling down the tracks or something like that? It was a really short clip at the very beginning of the show (just a few seconds) and then they went into some other video stuff as the show opened.

Am I remembering this right? And it was usually on in the afternoon on Saturdays?

Animated steam locomotive?

You bet ya! Yes you are Right ON Track!! He He!

The days it was on I can't remember though!

K E V I N