1st Oct 2021, 12:54 pm | #41 |
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Please tell me if I’m making this up but was there ever a Samsung ad jingle based on Sam’s Song?
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I don't recall that but the song origin was:-
"Sam's Song (The Happy Tune)" is an American pop song written in 1950 with music by Lew Quadling and lyrics by Jack Elliott.[1] It was first released as a Capitol single by Joe "Fingers" Carr and the Carr-Hops in May 1950. By June of that year, Carr's single had made it to all three of Billboard's music popularity charts, and several other artists had released the song, including bandleaders Freddy Martin and Victor Young.[2][3] Gary and Bing Crosby's release of the song in July 1950 was a hit, ranked as the 4th best selling record of 1950 according to Billboard.[4] Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. also released a recording of the song which hit the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962.[5] ( Ex Wikepedia ). It would probably be little known to 21st century electronics buyers Samsung would market product in the UK, USA and Japan. The company started in 1938 I gather.
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From across the pond:
"DuMont Do More".
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"I told 'em Oldham" , for Oldham Batteries.
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Ads have been responsible for revival of long lost/obscure music and the resultant fads and trends. Though going a bit OT, Chanel No 5 gave whole new lease of life to Nina Simone’s music, then there was Perez Prado’s Guaglione used in a Guinness Ad which started a whole mambo craze – I was invited to a works do (I was regularly on-site) and all the youngsters were dancing to this stuff recorded twenty years before most of them were born. And then Kentucky Fried Chicken used a series of northern soul tracks including Frank Wilson’s Do I Love You of which for years there were only two known pressings in existence and known only to those who frequented Wigan Casino. Then there’s Maxell: I don’t think I’d heard of Mussorgsky until Night on a Bare Mountain was used and British Airways took things to a whole new level with Delibes’ Flower Duet from Lakmé. Back on topic I’m now trying to thing of other classical pieces used in electronics ads. |
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My Dad used to recite the following little ditty which I believe I recall him saying was a Radio Luxembourg advertisement. The Philco Factory at Perrivale was set up in the early 1930s [before then the sets were imported from America], and by 1935 the long wave transmissions of Radio Luxembourg would have been an easy signal to pick up in Eastbourne on the south coast where Dad was working as a Telegraph Boy.
P, is for Perrivale, where balanced radio was born H, is for Happy Hour, Philco bring you every morn I, for Invitation, to have a fireside test L, for Local Agent, who will give you of his best C, for Constant Service…[can’t remember the next bit, and Dad’s not here to remind me!] O, for only Philco, Britain’s balanced superhet Jim M0GJD |
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I like the Mazda lamp commercials of the 60’s
“Always ask for Mazda” “Always ask by name for Mazda Netabulb” And the cartoons with flashy and dim Nice and simple advertising. Christopher Capener
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Amazing what this thread has thrown-up... lots of memories!
Does anyone remember the ads for Black and Decker power-tools which where shown doing drilling/sawing/sanding duties with the soundtrack being "BlackanddekkaBlackanddekkaBlackanddekkaBlackandde ka" ?? There's one of the "On, and On, and On, and Ariston" ads on Youtube ... https://youtu.be/YUVs7vXNZiw here's the one featuring the Trio "Da Da Da" theme . https://youtu.be/yRXIwi1q6fw The Scotch "re-record not fade away" ad narrated by Robin Bayley[?sp?] is here - I love the skeleton-budgie! https://youtu.be/oJzRpgXvM2I Last edited by G6Tanuki; 1st Oct 2021 at 6:52 pm. |
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and Reggie who advertised the 'Rediffusion Wire" It went something like this... [Reggie on aerial] "High up here Rediffusion have an aerial" [Reggie flies to the wire] "Its connected to this wire; The Rediffusion Wire" (something like) "Beings you the clearest possible pictures and sound right into your home" (that line was reproduced with severe bass cut, the voice had a telephonic quality that the public in those days perhaps confused with hi-fi(?)) The ad ended with something like "See if you can get on the Rediffusion Wire today.
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Rumbelows... We save you money and serve you right!!
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I think the BlackanddekkaBlackanddekkaBlackanddekkaBlackanddek a ad was initially for hedge trimmers? I always thought Scotch was Brian Wilde (Foggy – Last of the Summer Wine) but, having listened to the ad, a similar voice. He could have done it. Ad budgets were so large in those days of one and later only two channels that TV ads were mini-epics. Film directors said that whilst in feature films you had to let some imperfections go, ads were so short that they were able to be honed to perfection. |
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Best known as the school janitor in 'Please Sir!' That aristonandonandon advert is superb, you can't stop watching it. I'd only seen the short broadcast version before. David
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Whilst the Memorex ads were impressive in the cinema, what has always stuck with me were the words” it’s electric” in a whispered female voice.
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Not a strapline but an image, who remembers the brainy Tefal scientists with their impossibly high foreheads?
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The 1950's Hoover upright vac TV ads:
" All the dust, all the grit, Hoover removes every bit, 'cause it beats as it sweeps as it cleans" ... to the sound of an American marching tune. |
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Mazda lamps stay brighter longer,
Always ask for Mazda.
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