Thunderbird Wine - "Shake 'em Up!" (Commercial, 1977) 🍷 🍾

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  • čas přidán 28. 03. 2024
  • Here's a commercial for another of the infamously cheap wines of the 1970s - Thunderbird. Here a slick dude woos his disco lady with a suggestion to "Shake 'em Up! - Together" by adding grapefruit juice and shaking (but not stirring). A "Great New Taste". American Aperitif Wine. Thunderbird, Ltd - Modesto, California.
    "Wow! Totally together - now you get some!"
    This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, July 13th 1977 during the 10:00pm to 10:30pm timeframe.
    About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
    The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
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Komentáře • 65

  • @troynov1965
    @troynov1965 Před měsícem +38

    Fred Sanford approved

    • @andyrose5616
      @andyrose5616 Před měsícem +5

      Especially when Ripple is unavailable.

    • @troynov1965
      @troynov1965 Před měsícem +2

      @@andyrose5616 or mix Thunderbird and Ripple .....he calls it Thipple

    • @libertubey2199
      @libertubey2199 Před měsícem +1

      Stone Cold Steve Austin also approves. Ask Jake " The Snake" Roberts. 😂

    • @MrBeardsley
      @MrBeardsley Před měsícem +1

      Fred was a Ripple man

    • @troynov1965
      @troynov1965 Před měsícem

      @@MrBeardsley He would drink other wine on occasion and or mix it with Ripple

  • @SoUtHMeMpHis
    @SoUtHMeMpHis Před měsícem +14

    Remember seeing these commercials Saturday nights during Soul Train. "What's the word Thunderbird ‼️" "You've got the Style Thunderbird's got the taste‼️" And then there were the Billy Dee Williams Colt 45 commercials along with Afro Sheen and Dark and Lovely 😢

  • @meetjohndoe1078
    @meetjohndoe1078 Před měsícem +13

    What's the word, Thunderbird!
    What's the price, twice as nice!

  • @BenPanced
    @BenPanced Před měsícem +18

    When company was coming over and you needed something classier than Mad Dog 20/20.

    • @KStew9010
      @KStew9010 Před měsícem +1

      Or Wild Irish Rose😂

    • @troynov1965
      @troynov1965 Před měsícem +2

      @@KStew9010 Man.... I got drunk on that one time stuck in a Blizzard. Its all we had to drink. The next day I could have crapped through a screen door lol.

    • @5points185
      @5points185 Před měsícem

      @@troynov1965 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @MelodyJ_123
      @MelodyJ_123 Před měsícem +1

      Hold on now! Ice cold grape Mad Dog 20/20 was da bomb!!

    • @75YBA
      @75YBA Před měsícem

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @joerules829
    @joerules829 Před měsícem +8

    Imagine your whole advertising campaign being “Our wine sucks so much you have to mix it with juice just to enjoy it”.

  • @mr.whipple2953
    @mr.whipple2953 Před měsícem +10

    Ah, the good old days; my favorite was Richard’s Wild Irish Rose 100% Grape Wine and clam juice..

  • @GrannieLee
    @GrannieLee Před měsícem +3

    70s way too cool stuff! 🕺

  • @bradmad8346
    @bradmad8346 Před měsícem +5

    Wow, at 17.5 APV that is stronger than most mixed drinks, plus the fortifying alcohol comes in 55 gallon drums or those big plastic containers.

  • @csumme7
    @csumme7 Před měsícem +7

    Ouch. Had some really bad hangovers with Thunderbird and Mad Dog 2020.

  • @RusstheTroubadour
    @RusstheTroubadour Před měsícem +5

    Thunderbird was produced by Ernest & Julio Gallo.
    Initially released in 1957.

  • @fr3dr02
    @fr3dr02 Před měsícem +7

    They forgot to add its the official drink of wine -o's, and can be used as fuel for combustion engines 😂

  • @feroniafreeman
    @feroniafreeman Před měsícem +5

    the forced "black" accent is hilarious! no folk I grew up with and in my family, and even today, spoke/speak like that...but that's how you got jobs (as shown in "Hollywood Shuffle")😂😂😂fabulous, thank you for the memories!

    • @Been.Here.Since.2007
      @Been.Here.Since.2007 Před měsícem +1

      😂
      True classic film.

    • @feroniafreeman
      @feroniafreeman Před měsícem +1

      @@Been.Here.Since.2007 absolutely🤣🤣🤣

    • @troynov1965
      @troynov1965 Před měsícem +2

      Hollywood Shuffle ....thats the movie I was thinking it reminded me of! I could not think of its title.

    • @Been.Here.Since.2007
      @Been.Here.Since.2007 Před měsícem +2

      @@troynov1965 TOMMMAAAAAY YOU KILLED MY BRUTHUHHHH

    • @troynov1965
      @troynov1965 Před měsícem

      @@Been.Here.Since.2007 Hi Im Robert Taylor....... im a graduate of The Black Acting School,

  • @0tt0z
    @0tt0z Před měsícem +4

    Shake em up!

  • @MrBeardsley
    @MrBeardsley Před měsícem +3

    Fun fact: E&J Gallo created Thunderbird after market research showed stores in “skid row” neighborhoods often sold bottles of cheap white wine alongside packets of lemonade mix and Kool-Aid. Poor people in search of a buzz would dump the powder in the bottle and shake it up. When Thunderbird first launched, Gallo representatives allegedly scattered empty bottles around the same neighborhoods that inspired the beverage.

    • @MelodyJ_123
      @MelodyJ_123 Před měsícem

      You're absolutely right. I had several packets of Flavor Aid, Kool aid, and Lick 'em Aid ready to pour into my bottles of White Port, Mad Dog 20/20 and my Grape Thunderbird wine!!

    • @feroniafreeman
      @feroniafreeman Před 13 dny

      oh wow!!!!!!

  • @gsnfan
    @gsnfan Před měsícem +1

    Pass the word!

  • @TwinPeaksArchive1
    @TwinPeaksArchive1 Před měsícem

    When you want to get drunk on a budget - accept no substitutes!

  • @davep1103
    @davep1103 Před měsícem +1

    My mother did a GOOD JOB keeping Me from seeing STUFF I wasn’t supposed to see in the 70’s.
    I HAD NO CLUE ABOUT THIS COMMERCIAL ! Until JUST NOW ! 🤣
    She didn’t do a GREAT JOB. I STILL snucked and watch “ ON TV & SPECTRUM “
    ( YA’LL ALREADY KNOW WHAT I WAS WATCHING ! I’m a SCORPIO 🦂
    WHAT DID YOU THINK I WAS WATCHING !
    🍆🥑🌊

  • @Dev...
    @Dev... Před měsícem +3

    Hells yeah! ✨🍷✨

  • @nancyg158
    @nancyg158 Před 23 dny

    Wow, A Flea Market in a bottle!😂

  • @cindycampbell3761
    @cindycampbell3761 Před měsícem +2

    I say this is a Saturday Night Live skit

  • @KStew9010
    @KStew9010 Před měsícem

    Oh Yeah, I remember those days. With grapefruit juice.

    • @MelodyJ_123
      @MelodyJ_123 Před měsícem +1

      Nope, I drank my Thunderbird straight! No grapefruit juice here

  • @5roundsrapid263
    @5roundsrapid263 Před měsícem +2

    The grapefruit will get you drunk even faster, it slows down your metabolism…

  • @75YBA
    @75YBA Před měsícem +1

    This isn’t as bad as the Orson Wells spots, but it’s close.😂😂😂

  • @robatsea2009
    @robatsea2009 Před měsícem +1

    This is ten levels of cool😆

  • @jaelinsmith5207
    @jaelinsmith5207 Před měsícem +1

    Pretty 70s Flavor

  • @Legend813a
    @Legend813a Před měsícem +2

    Any fortified wine, especially if it has a metal screw on cap....

  • @fataudra7579
    @fataudra7579 Před 24 dny

    I hate that i missed out on the Disco Era. 😂

  • @wmbrown6
    @wmbrown6 Před měsícem +5

    At least once, Johnny Carson skewered these "cheap wines" in his Art Fern "Tea Time Movie" sketches. One such time was him hawking "Grape Gut Wine."

  • @Pnanasnoic
    @Pnanasnoic Před měsícem +1

    Goodnamufugga! Foreal! Gnomesain?!

  • @scottjeune154
    @scottjeune154 Před měsícem +1

    So bartles n jaymes were appropriators😂

  • @theylied1776
    @theylied1776 Před měsícem +2

    There was a movie made about this type of minority advertising. It was called (Drop Squad).

  • @jasonjaxxson
    @jasonjaxxson Před měsícem

    Shake them up then you throw them up

  • @mikefagan6840
    @mikefagan6840 Před měsícem

    Whats the word.....😂