Black Folks Sell You Stuff: TV Commercials From The 1970s
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Short compilation of vintage TV ads starring African-Americans from the 1970s. How many actors do you recognize? Feel free to like/comment/subscribe. Presented for historical purposes. Thanks to the original posters on CZcams and archive.org
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I like how relaxed the commercials were...not rushed, brain zapping images and gimmicks. The commercials seemed more personable to me.
Right! Don’t take you to see it 3 or 4Xs to even get the point of it!
Airtime was more affordable
Enjoyed watching them. Back then I sure didn't mind watching commercials. Now, most of the time I put them on mute.
That Bounce commercial was long as hell
Might of been the Superbowl promo lol
you knew it was going to be as soon as the white people showed up.
🤣
it was lit tho
My pajamas are clean!
Whoever posted this with all of these back in the day commercials should be given a Grammy lot of memories thanks for posting👏👏
@fluffyknight Player well when it comes to African American entertainers who back in the days would not even see our face on TV or TV shows we were just Butler's or Maids with these commercials we as African Americans we are up front on these commercials and not being played as Butler's or maids now that a good reason for a Grammy😊
With all of the stuff these days watching old school stuff eases a special corner of the soul.
@@c.glazercrush3994 tell me why I like you it makes me even happier to know I grew up in the sixties and I can proudly say I'm glad I did
@@TheBluesmanBlue I'm a 80s kid but could still grasp that element of those simpler times.
delterbluesman yesssssssss yessssss📼📽❤️
Does ANYONE remember when you could cut a Jackson Five "record" out of the back of the cereal box and play it on your record player??
A. It really played astounding
Omg yesssss. I wish those days would come back 1nce more.. In my Stevie wonder voice 👍🏼
Aww shucks, you're showing your age, lol...... but I do remember that lol.
I don't remember the Jackson 5 records inside cereal boxes but I recall a Booberry, Countchocula record in a cereal box. Oh, my family still has Jackson 5 Albums.
Yeah...wow..i remember that...😁
Glad I was a 70s kid. I experienced a lot of awesome black culture!
Oh, yes! We had self love, then...
No doubt.
Afro style
Loved being s teen in the 70’s. I still miss those years.
@Snaggle Toothed -- I was 10 when roots aired and my family enjoyed every night of it. Very eye opening..
R.I.P. Sherman Hensley, Rufus Thomas, Michael Jackson, Sammy Davis Jr., and Redd Foxx
And Heathcliff Huxtable... he died when Bill got called out 🤦🏽♀️😔
@abobjenkins why not?
Madison Green Because they lived by Hollyweird’s laws
You know Sammy Davis jr. Was a piece of s*** Satanist right?
@@johnsmith6217 : He sure was .
McDonald's definitely is not the same as it used to be.
Thomas Ray nope never will be, that's when it was real ingredients.
Bring back the fried apple pies and McDLT!!✌🏾
Today Mc. Donalds feeds the masses chemicals and fake foods - GMO
They never danced like that when you went in
They food is gross, nasty now
That Schlitz Malt Liquor took me clean out 😅😅😅🤦🏽♀️
I remembered.
Lol 😂
🤣🤣🤣 used to be my drink in my 20s
I was like wow
The damn shorts, Cape, and BOOTS🤣🤣🤣🤣
ALL THESE COMMERCIALS REMIND ME OF MY CHILDHOOD, I,M TELLING MY AGE, LOL.
Sylvester
I know..We had the best
It's all good, those were the carefree days.
Sylvester a few more thumbs up and we’ll have your age
Me too and I am 60.
Sylvester : It’s ok to tell your age. It’s actually a blessing to still be alive. There are many others who have not made it this far.
I don’t care what they said about Grape Nut cereal .. they were hard enough to break all your teeth.. immediately 😂. That natural flavor was carboard😂 Some commercials I remember some I don’t.
I heard it was hard to wash off your bowls like throw the whole bowl away hard lol..
I never understood why they made it seem like it was sooooo🙄 "nutritiously delicious"😂
Yeah I remember it would stick to your if you let it dry 😄
They WERE AWFUL back then and NOW
Eating grape nut cereal was like eating really tasty gravel
Damn James worked for McDonald’s then owned McDowell’s..
and in between he was a cop.
😂
Lol
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣 said the same thing
“We’re gonna get ya sooner or later” Bill Cosby
Spooks McGhie That’s exactly it!
He never saw it coming.
Wow... that damn owl.
I put Quaaludes in all my cigars
Bloodclaat Bill Cosby...............I'm gonna use that as a threat
Damn Bill Cosby was promoting white owls??.. Today we break them down and y'all know the rest😏
@Hebrew Aboriginal notice how nobody takes a bit or sip of any of that stuff
...One of the cop characters from Hill Street Blues gets killed going in a convenience store to get a White Owl Cigar?
if he only heard cypress hill spark another owl before he did this
My favorite brand to roll blunts
He wasn't talkin' about cigars...
It’s funny seeing John Amos as an employee on the McDonalds commercial and remember him owning the knock of McDonalds on Coming to America “McDowells”. I had never seen these commercials(born in 76) they had all of my favorites in them. Thanks for sharing!
Bill Cosby saying "We're gonna get ya' is priceless yet prophetic.
You peeped the irony too.😆😆😂😂😂😂
They got HIM.
his nasty ass prolly had a chick passed out at his crib while he was filming. SMH
“Why, why did you have to show up” Bill in the court
Ladies and Gentlemen.....
“It’s only a matter of time and we’re gonna get ya.”
But who's gonna get u Bill🤔
Jerome Brown They sho’ nuff did get him too didn’t they, scary 😳
Y'all remember the Jackson 5's cartoon?
Cartoon yea,
Alpha-Bits commercials no?
Yep. Watched it ALL the time.😊😊😊
Yep
Yes
YESSSS that means Im how old!?😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
That malt liquor commercial was head shaking worthy
Exactly. Dude sold out
sosouth15 indeed
You fail to realize back in the 70s whites drank malt liquor too. Watch the old schlitz commercials until the 80s thats when malt shifted towards blks.with Billie Dee Williams with colt 45 commercials in the 70s malt liquor ads was posted all over blk neighborhoods until the 80s.so technically Rufus Thomas didnt sell out..
Dude was dressed and acting just like a KKKoon. This was when Michael Jackson was still a Black man and not the sellout that he became.
@@pwhales264 youre stupid thats ex memphis D.J. n singerRufus Thomas he always dressed like that when hes performing.look up watts staxx concert in he had that outfit on.that was early 70's where malt liquor didnt hit blk neighborhoods until the 80"s that schlitz malt liquor was what whites used to drink in the 70s.few blks.ppl always speaking n saying shit they dont know what they're talkin about.some blk folk just found the internet now theyre suddenly conscious😂😂😂😂 rufus Thomas was a singer who sang the break down which rapper eazy e sampled for eazy does it..he had dance songs.the break down.the funky chicken.the funky penguin.the push n pull..walkin the dog.look rufus Thomas up
Grape nuts taste like small dirty rocks
Euell Gibbons the health nut. 🍇 🐿
Looked like lil' rabbit poops.
I have never tried them, but this sounds accurate.
Unpopular Opinion I would use water on mine
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
You actually saw black women with a man in the house
And with thère real hair too
Everyone looked natural
Yeah talent has gone down
naturally coining though lol 😂✌🏾
@@jtillmon what coining
In Canada we have backwoodz n Century Sams; same end result though.
Excuse me are you saying you don't like seeing little boys dressing up as little girls and being put on puberty blockers? You damn bigot
O-o-only Sammy could put soul into Alka Seltzer. Loved It!
@Shock LOL
who's in the commercial with him playing the trumpet?
Timmie Rogers
@Shock 😂😂😂😂
Dang.....Bill Cosby😔Black folks can sell stuff. They should've figured that out long ago😂😂😂😂😂😂
The irony of bill Cosby saying "we're gonna get yah , u know we're gonna get yah, sonner or later we're gonna get yah " 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
&& Years Later They Turned Around && Got His Ass Smh😩😂😈😈 !
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 im done
RUFUS THOMAS took me all the way out in that pink short set 😂. Enjoyed these.
That's his outfit from the Wattstax music festival.
💕
Ooooh Mr. Jefferson was stepping out on Louise !
Oldmanriver77 those aren’t real people dipshit
...Over there getting babied by his side chik?!
I thought the same thing "that ain't Weezie!" lol..
Oldmanriver77 😆😆😆
LOL IKR
as a sixties child..
i remember them all!!
great memories
Me too!
I pressed "Skip Ads" so I could get back to watching the ads.
That was cute
😂
Lol! 😂
Rufus Thomas play too much.. He should have been in a commercial for pepto bismol with that outfit 😂
Bhahahaha and those boots 👢👢😂🤣😂🤣
I think Rufus had that Vita brite lol
You can just hear his knees screaming "negro don't!"
😂😂😂
🤣😂🤣
That was priceless, bruh. Thanks. Lot of childhood memories there.
DeAngelo Starnes terrible racist childhood memories lol
When people ate Grape Nuts for the first time they went straight to the Dentist for new teeth after realizing the cereal was made up of rocks, pebbles, and sand.
They should combine the crest commercial with the grapenuts. Brush with Crest so that you can enjoy crunching on Grape nuts.
Tweety Tweet 😄lol!
@morenazo952 use Crest before you eat it will harden your enamel lol
I haven't had it for awhile, but a hot bowl of Grape Nuts with honey is amazing.
I remember visiting my grandmother when my mom and dad would drop us off at the house. She had it in her refrigerator. I grew up being taught not to waste food. You were "not allowed to leave the table until you cleared your plate." So she served me a bowl and I think I had a couple of bites. I think I set at the table and feel asleep while my siblings were playing out side. She finally threw it away. It was horrible. The secret is now that I am an adult, let it soak in the milk and add a little sugar. Still taste like dirt and rocks!!! 🤢🤮
It was great to be a child/teen in the 70s! Life was so much simpler . People had to socialize and you got a person's undivided attention. Now...everyone stares at their phone all day.
Yet you most likey used a cellular device to type that🤦🏽♀️
@@urmom777 Using this device to look up old 70s commercials, along with responding back to your crusty azz is about all it's good for 🤷♀️
That is EXACTLY how The Jackson Five looked; when I spent an Afternoon meeting with them together, along with My Mother; and their Dad Papa Joe Jackson in the room. Times of INNOCENCE.😍💥👊😎❤👑
The Fifth Dimension sound good singing anything!
Kathy Miller, Age of Aquarius, Jello, Lol 🤣🤣🤣
Rufus Thomas is literally a stereotype of any involved with the term “70s”😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Bill Cosby "White Owls" had me concerned. Just who were they gonna get?
So James Evans was a cop, and he worked at Mc Donalds before Mc Dowells?
yeah he had all of those good jobs and had Florida,J.J.,Thelma and Michael living in poverty in the ghetto.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣
House of Yasharahla haha!!!
😀😀😀😀😀
I will be 57 years old next Monday February 17th I know I'm aging myself but I remember every one of these commercials St Louis in the house
Since when 10 or 11 year old boys cared about their jeans being soft; socks not clinging; or the coats not stinking?
Back then, kids actually performed and completed chores. It help alot that the laundry separated easier and the clothes smelled fresher.
Lol irk
Ummm....when they were paid to.😄
@@alleyoop9698 You're right. We sure did.
@@goddessnoele 🤣
Love these vintage commercials. It reminds of my childhood when it was more fun being a kid. It was fun viewing a young Angela Bassett in the Bounce commercial, Bill Cosby was a staple in commercial back in the day. John Amos (James Evans ) from Good Times in the Mc Donalds Commericals and other African American Actors from back in the day. Thanks for the upload.
Alisa Jones Angela Basset was not in the bounce commercial
Alisa Jones a xtra
@@georgegavins751 where?
Young Kim Fields...that made my day.
She became thick and rich just like Mrs. Butterworth
That commercial had me scared of the Mrs. Butterworth bottle my mom had sitting on the kitchen window sill when I was a kid. I was afraid to be in the kitchen alone eating breakfast because I thought the bottle would come alive and start talking! 😊
The entire reel is priceless, but Rufus Thomas 😂😂😂
What's up with all that pink he has on? Doing the breakdown. Lol...remember that song? Smh...
Social Engineering
reformer6666 YES!!! do the breakdown chill’en, break on down!
@@reformer6666 he rode his hit The Funky Chicken to his grave. I still grimace or laugh when I see him in those hot pants and his cape.
@@featherstonecraig9 yes an obvious example of social engineering. He tried to get paid, by reinforcing the 1970s image of a "pimp-hustler" in a comedic way. It's a funny, but sad commentary.
McDonald's clean? Yeah, this is old.
Thanks to Corona, they're ALL singing the same tune.
@@Sugabug75 -- 🤣🤣🤣
If they had to sing about it this soon.... it wasn't. Not 3 months after they opened a new restaurant.
R.I.P Michael
Back when he was BLACK! AND ALL 5 HAD THEIR ORIGINAL NOSES!😂😂😂😬😬
@@dythiaviney430 Shirley from What's Happening and the Jackson Five had best the fros bar none
@@dythiaviney430 that was mad unnecessary and corny asf. A skin disease doesn't change a person's race dumbass. His skin getting lighter ain't change nothing. He was VERY much treated like a black man
Rufus had the crackhead swag way before it’s time 😂😂
WHAAAAT THHHEEE FFFFUUUCCCKKKK?!?!
Carlos Farmer What The HELL is a CRACK-HEAD SWAGG?!!!😞😬
He was the Singer Carla Thomas's Dad..billed Himself as the Worlds Oldest Teenager & was responsible for the Funky Chicken dance craze....
Carlos Farmer no wonder why they had Bobby brown play him in a movie lolz
U need trademark that one..."crackhead swag"🤣
The Ny-Quil spot stars the late Sherman Hemsley ("The Jeffersons", "Amen") and Hattie Winston ("The Electric Company", "Becker"). Lloyd Nolan ("Julia") is the announcer.
It would be great if in a secret shared universe that McDonald's commercial was tied to Mcdowell's in Coming to America.
Oh snap! I scrolled down to the comments when the Cosby/White Owls commercial came on and found your comment. When I unpaused and saw thhat McDonald's commercial...I LAUGHED MY ASS OFF AND CAME BACK HERE!
McDonald's tasted better then!!!
Bring back the fried apple pie and McDLT.✌🏾
It had to be
I've never seen McDonald's employees that happy. The commercial is buffoonish as hell.
Great to see us in commercials and remembering the moments of that time I grew up on these wonderful memories
Precious memories of days gone by.
Were you one of the actors?
I almost forgot about when you used to get toys in your cereal box!!! Brought back sooo many memories!!!
I want to go back to this time..
Tony me Too!!
Awe Bill lol them words came back to haunt u my man
Hearing it was creepy, Everything was always right in your face. Seem like they was telling him what they was going do him in the script.
😂😂😂😂
White owl, or black sausage
The Pampers ad was one of the first ads with black people. The first day it came on my mother in law who grew up under jim crow.in the south cried. We all knew we saw history that day .
Remember when toilet paper and paper towel use to come in colors😳
Who remembers the old Soul Train commercial where Frederick Douglas was selling Afro-Sheen?
No one
@@SoulSearch11110
czcams.com/video/g8ffzI2czHs/video.html
I do 🙋♀️🤣😂
Ain't nobody gone believe this
I don't but I remember the one with Abraham Lincoln ...You remember that one ?
James Evans in 2 commercials. Good Tiiiiiiimes
and in both he had good jobs.lol
See, McDonalds has the golden Arches we have the Golden Arcs.
COMING TO AMERICA
@@stephanieg4342 The beginning of Mr. McDowell's thievery!
Back then McDonald's actually tasted good and grown folks could earn a decent living working there.
McDonald's has always been a getting by type of job no matter what decade it was.
When did McDonald's not pay well. I'm confused by that one
INFINITY that may have easily been the cleanest McDonald's restaurant I ever saw in my life, I can't believe white folks actually used to work in fast food restaurants
Patrick William The fast food restaurants in New York City now pay $15 an hour
@Patrick William That's nice, but you need to go to school on your time off to get an education. They are designing robots to do your job.
That bounce commercial was a mini movie lol damn!
And also you see they saved the best commercial for last👍🏿
Such an better time in the world. I miss the 70's and 80's. Better television and commercials.
Me and my sister be reminiscing on those times. Ate at McDonald's in peace and got what we order. Nowadays nothing but compilations of fights in these fast food. McDonald's was at its best back then.
I never in my whole life saw a Jello commercial like that. FUNKY JELLO LOL🌈
BSG BSG ,Age of Aquarius, Jello, Lol
Wow!!! Those outfits; I like that polyester look. 😜😂
Damn. I Was born in 79' and these joints older than me.. Respect!!!
Damon Richardson Right, i was born in 1980, these commercials before our time.
79’🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
November 1961 Remember every drop............
Black vintage? This is gold!
God bless the edtior and uploader of this video.
Bill Cosby went from white owls to crest then pudding pops wow who knew😂😂
If this generation only knew who Bill Coby is and was. I wish Black people had stood behind him like they did George Floyd. Cosby did so much for black people and we let him down. No disrespect to George Floyd losing his life, but they tried to do the same to Cosby.
I know I would have been running to the tv to do the bull slide with Rufus! They probably showed it every Saturday morning during Soul Train 😀
Only Afro Sheen products. They sponsered the show.
Rodney Allen Rippy and Jack In The Box. That takes me way back. They had some good onion rings.
souljazzrb Jack in the crack was definitely the place to go to
Rodney Allen Rippy told everyone to "take life a little easier" going to Jack In The Box.
Yep, he was adorable back then.
That taco actually looks like a taco...
Diabeetus never look so good.
Aww the Jackson 5 commercial was so cute. 😍
My takeaway from watching: Bill Cosby can sale the hell out of some crest. Lol
I'll never turn my back on Mr. Tooth Decay, Mr. Bill Cosby! These ad brought back many a memories, Thanks!
SELLING TACTICS:
"Repeat after ME!"
"Repeat after ME!" 😝😝😝
Looks like Kim fields in the miss butters worth commercial.
Anthony Allen
That is Kim Fields
70’s kid
It is
that was her first acting job.
It was definitely Kim Fields then.She looked to been no more around 7 years of age.
Lololol... tootie
“You ain’t got no Schiltz malt liquor! You ain’t representing! You ain’t keeping it real!”
gee i seen that and i've never seen something so styperopically indicative of a race.. i laughed so hard.. i thought those kind of commercials were myths.. but they're not!!!. and the bull is symbolic of how you feel after you drink it! all he was missing was a hoe and a bucket of friend chicken
4:03...James Evans didn't really die, he just got out of Chicago and that other family.
James evans fell in this mcdonalds commercial and started McDowells with the proceeds.
True that!!!
Very good
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I ain't mopping no mo damn floors. I'm bout to own this b**** in my own damn name.
this Grape-Nuts commercial convinced me as a child. Boy was I disappointed when I ate the real thing! I almost broke my little Chiclet teeth! 😬
Slider puzzles at 11:46 (Alpha Bits). Lord, I don't think I've played with one of those in 45 years. Thanks for the memories.
John Amos played a similar McDonalds mgr in Coming to America.
Yep shot at Wendy's Elmhurst Queens I was a extra and manager in training
He was the owner not manager.
They was still showing that Mrs. Butterworth commercial with Kim Fields in the 80's.
They sure were. 👍 I remembered that one as a kid.
Mrs Butterworth thick as hell...damn girl...
Back when commercials didn't blast loud music to get your attention. They just told you what the product was, and had some dialogue. Also, they were only thirty seconds long back then. I miss the seventies.
I remember many of these commercials! It is amazing we ignored many of these show interruptions but now they are classics. I also love how clearly they talk back then.
Mrs. Butterworth was my sister's favorite commercial.
Carolyn Howell, Yeah, it was The Facts of Life, Lol🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely, Positively, Fantastic!!!!!!! Thanks for the upload!!!!!!!
It's interesting how commercials have evolved
“Mrs Butterworth ..?”
“Yes”..
“How come you taste so good?”😍
My Thick Sweet Ooze Baby
KIM FIELDS
WTF is goin on in here!? - Mr. Butterworth
Oh Shit....Bill "we gonna getcha sooner or later" how ironic
I remember all these commercials especially the Jackson five all the girls had a crush . I always wanted my misses butterworth bottle to talk me . An cereal surprises fun fun fun.
all these i remember growing up as a kid brings back the memories thks for showing
The guy in the Sammy Davis Alka seltzer commercial was the MC who tried to screw over the five heartbeats. Excellent post like always reelblack
Some of the commercials bring back memories for me. I'm getting old for sure. 😜📺
This brought back my childhood.
If you can check out the print ads directed to the Black market during that time. A excellent reference is the annual CEBA Awards (Communications Excellence to Black Audiences). An awards ceremony was given every year at the Hilton Hotel in NYC, where awards were given to Madison Avenue agencies who depicted Black in a positive light in their commercials, radio spots, and print advertising.
rufus Thomas in that Schlitz malt liquor commercial was FIRE!!! hahahahaha!!!
Grew up on these commercials!! Love the memories ♥️😎
Aww Kim fields ❣
Of all the commercials shown, that's the only commercial I remember seeing when it aired.
Which one was she in?? 👀
@@ohhsooill Ms Buttersworth
zheahra. me too. that commercial must gave ran for years
@@ohhsooill mrs. Butterworths.
Wow 😮 I truly appreciate the brainstorming you do to provide us with this . . . Man this is the paradigm of our thinking /conditioning
Great work☀️☀️🙏🏿👋🏾
I hope that Schlitz dont make me wear pink boots with heels 😂 Did I mention they're squeezing the Charmin 😂😂😂😂
You can tell the frequency back then was much calmer SMH!
Look like he had a little too much Shultz Malt liquor.
This cracked me up as it brought back the memories. Mr. Whipple scolding customers not the squeeze the Charmin is a hoot!
I miss those days!!! The good old days!!
I was waiting to see some hair product ads (we know we can buy some hair products) but overall great video and memories.
2:32 Sooner or later, they gotcha, Bill. They gotcha. 🤷🏽♀️
Lol😂
Damn! Damn! Damn! (In my Florida Evan's voice)
Good one
@@hisbeautifultruth5931 My grandfather smoked these his whole life and had lung cancer.
I know right lmao.
Man, you are amazing. Thank you for your job. I will work hard to bring quality to our black family.
Cosby Kid 4eva💯 I'll never forget learning with Picture Pages and Mortimer the pen in the mornings before school. Gave me confidence growing up in the suburbs of Central Texas for sure.