Yes, I definitely would go back! The Sixties was too turbulent! The Eighties started to get turbulent again. The Seventies was calm at least it was for me!
@@daphne4983 www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1088/protection-of-children-against-sexual-exploitation-act-of-1977. You can start by reading about the Kildee-Murphy Bill. Anything else..
In the 90's, people started to feel that kids playing outside were troublesome. They were either going to be perpetrators of crimes like vandalism, theft, bullying, and noise violations; or they were going to be victims of injury, kidnapping, molestation, or introduced to drugs and poisons. Pressure was put on parents to always have kids at an after-school program, babysat, or locked away in the house with video tapes, cable tv, Nintendo, and Pizza Bagel Bites. If your kid was seen skating on the sidewalk next to their house with no parents or adults around, that was when people began to claim that it was neglectful, or these kids were probably up to no good, etc. Media followed suit with horror stories of kids victimized in one way or another, and many places enacted strict laws that didn't allow kids to exist in places without adults if they were below the age of 14. I even lived in a place around 2006 that threatened to evict parents if their 16-year-old kids were caught again, crossing the street to get candy and sodas from the convenience stores. No lie. This is why the state of Utah recently had to enact a law that allows kids to be "free-roam," without it being a crime, so that kids can return to parks and doing kid things.
My brother had Evel Kenevil action figure and played outside with it all the time! GI Joe too. We were never in the house unless it was dark or below freezing out. We lived in OK panhandle so wind chill was pretty bad at times. Simpler times for kids back then.
I wanted a Big Wheel, but my mom said it was too dangerous. Several kids had gotten run over, including in their own driveways, because the Big Wheel was too low for drivers to see when they were backing up.
@@birdsfan57 Yes, radio stations were getting call-in request to play the Coke commercial when it came out, a first. An actual song was guaranteed to be a hit.
At 21:04, I remember back in the day when getting a stereo system was a major deal. My parents bought me a system like the one in this video for a birthday gift! I got to pick it out at the showroom. The sales associate was so happy with the purchase, he let me choose a free casette tape to play in my new stereo! It was a right of passage in those days...I still have that stereo today, with giant speakers and turntable. It all still works. It was all "made in America" and the quality shows.
Even if you weren't in a place to be able to buy a stereo system at the moment, back then you could peruse fliers and small catalogs from these places, and dream. Some of my favorite dreaming material as a young teen was from stereo system outlets like that, and the used car mags.
My 1973 Sansui Stereo system still works like new and sounds better than any stereo made today. 881 receiver, SE9 EQ., 3060 tutntable, four SP2000 speakers. this bad boy still shakes the house!!!
Even the stereo system I was given as a Christmas gift in 1990 lasted me a good long while. The only thing that stopped it from being usable is that the speaker cords frayed only about ten years ago, otherwise the mechanical parts still work. The VCR my parents bought in 1985 also works even today. I think the only durable things I've purchased within the last few years have been my Macbook (and even then I have to replace the power adapter every six months or so) and my LG smart phone.
@@blueskies1848 Vintage Marantz receivers are the most wanted today. They sound great and were the best looking of the vintage stereos. Their speakers matched up very well with all brands and sound pretty damn good. Most people back in the 70s were loyal to their brand. I like Marantz and Pioneer, but I love my Sansui.
Yes ,great times, great commercials, I was 14 in 75, wow , just reflecting when I had a full head of hair!! Now, oh well 😔 , at least I am alive & healthy to enjoy these commercials on my smartphone today 😊
My God. I would get so angry at these insipid things back in the day, and here I am, voluntarily sitting through over thirty minutes of them without a break, smh.
I treasure these memories of a time long ago that I cannot otherwise get back. Thanks for the tacky, dated, dorky, cringeworthy, amazing commercials and a chance to see people like Jimmie Walker, Robin Williams, and Jamie Farr young again.
You can see Jimmy Walker and commercials again, just commercials for social Security!! He was a favorite of mine since back in the day, at least he's doing something
I miss the simpler times. No technology just shear happiness of a new doll and my mom was graduating highschool in 75 and still wears Charlie to this day.
12:30 - Thanks for adding the commercial for Elton John's Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy ... It's classic pop-culture from one of the most popular and enduring artists of a generation - It was the first album in history to reach #1 on the Billboard Album Chart in it's first week out !
My mom wrote out this song on a yellow tablet and made me and my sister memorize it so we could recite it to my grandmother on the phone long distance around Christmas time....I'm 56yrs old and I still know the words...
God how I remember those ads. When it turned 1975, I was in 8th grade.The Fall of 1975, I started 9th grade.Those were simplistic times.I watch these old ads sometimes just to 'feel' the era, as if I am back then.TV ads of the 1970's-1980s were awesome!!!
Loved these old commercials! I was 8 in 1975 and I got the Star Trek bridge playset for Christmas. I played with that so much it fell apart! Thought the transporter was the coolest thing ever. My brother had the 6 million dollar man figure and rocket/operation table and the Evel Knievel motorcycle. That motorcycle never did anything like in the commercial. It would go out about 3 feet and fall over. These commercials are a great reminder of a better time. People were nicer and more respectful of others. Today so many people are just plain vulgar, obnoxious and self centered. It is reflected in the ads and movies/TV of today- everyone is a badass.
Matthew! Hi, you couldn’t be more correct! If I were to split hairs, I’d prefer 1977 :) But you’re so right about life then versus life in 2022! Things started to turn to s**t in the 90s, and the 2000s have been nothing short of obscene; especially the last couple years. At least, we experienced them first hand! right age at the right place, at the right time! I feel sorry for his new generation! Their growing up experience has SUCKED...
Allow me to correct you, ...Everyone is a badass except men which are portrayed as buffoons, effeminate or weak. Luckily there's badass women now with endless abilities to save us from ourselves! Fortunately we now have the easy option to transform into women!
That Love's Baby Soft commercial gets creepier every time I see it. Still can't believe they marketed that to little girls and grown women at the same time, and in the ways they did.
I didn't think anything was weird about it back in the day when I was a teenager, but it is total cringe now. I never liked that scent, but I absolutely loved the Rain and Fresh Lemon scents!
@@maimy1 I never liked it either. I remember someone getting me some when I was very young, maybe five, and it smelling like a cross between a heavily perfumed old lady and a pile of baby powder. I never smelled the lemon one, it sounds a lot nicer
My Dad was in advertising. He saw the ad in a magazine I was reading and he got so mad he took the magazine away. I think it was the magazine Seventine. I was maybe 13 at the time. I get it now. I thought he was crazy
WOW ROBIN WILLIAMS in a commercial! even at the quality I knew it right off the bat! RIP Robin..what a talent. and there he was in a commercial from 1975?? wow! and if that commercial was from 1975 it is before Mork and Mindy! wow FredFlix what a find.
I remember so many of these. Many of the jingles seem to be hardwired into my brain, because I immediately started singing along to the Charlie ad, as well as the McDonalds Big Mac song!
I’m in my 60s and remember many of these! We sure thought we were on the cutting edge of hip and cool, and I guess we were. Thanks for the memories of somewhat happier times.
I was 14 back in '75. The Coke commercials are classics. I can still remember them and sing along, how many commercials now a days can you do that today! Can you run parchment through a Xerox?
I was 9 in 1975! What a great trip down memory lane. I had some of those toys, Star Trek and Evel Knievel. Gotta love that Elton John cartoon promo for Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
So was I! And strangely I remember many of these promos and commercials as if they were still on v. The theme songs, all the words, wow. Amazing what a 9-year old human brain can retain & then pull up so many years later
In 75 I got back from SE Asia & discharged after 4 yrs. In reading your replies it occurred to me the brain washing 4 me (age 9, 1961) to this day I remember slogans & jingles etc...too! I guess I'm one of the original advertising "guinea pigs"!!! Amazing how they learned how to manipulate our desires, dreams, buying habits etc... Just think about... the "bastards" live in our brains... RENT FREE! Enough Said, WWG1WGA!
That JC Penny commercial with the robot had me wide-eyed as a kid and I thought it was an actual robot. And super denim was their version of the even more tacky Toughskins from Sears
SuperBoomshack The Big Mac used to be so much better than what we get now. I also miss the McDLT. Tons of styrofoam on that one though. The whole McDonald’s bag would squeak when you left the store.
Aaron Francesconi I remember turning the Big Mac Styrofoam into troop transports for my Star Wars figures. I would draw Windows and tank tracks on the Styrofoam and sit action figures in it. I liked the McDLT.
Man, I miss those days. Tv on every night...GREAT SHOWS...radio was great, too..the music. Family watching shows together. The commercials weren't even annoying! LOL...
19:25 William Schallert as Milton the Toaster. He played the dad on The Patty Duke Show. 22:25 Jack Eagle as Brother Dominic for Xerox. 10:50 The voice of Jackson Beck. 24:54 Ralph Bell on the voice-over for Brylcreem. 16:10 The voice of John Erwin. 27:40 Bob Landers on the v/o for Sears. 13:54 The voice of Dan Ingram. 29:49 Alexander Scourby for Chevrolet. 14:04 The obligatory Peter Thomas v/o.
Every decade has it's good and bad. '70s bad: the economy spiralled downhill from 1973 until about 1982. Cars were generally slow, quickly rusted out, and driveability suffered from early emission controls. We gave up on winning the war in Vietnam AND didn't generally honor our returning servicemen (truly shameful, that last part). Two gas shortages: 1973 and summer of '79. Gas prices tripled. "Stagflation": the economy is stagnant, but there's still double digit inflation. Watergate, then two ineffective Presidents, Ford and Carter. The Cold War. '70s good: everybody seemed less hung up about everything. Easy-listening music, disco, and southern rock music. The Pontiac Trans-AM. Mazda Wankels (when the engine was still right). The BiCentenial (1976) celebrations. Streaking. The summer blockbuster (started with "Jaws"). Short shorts on everybody. No terrorism or mass shootings in the USA. Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. See? It all depends how you look at it.
Mean Matts World They had the best music and movies. But everything - clothes, cars, furniture, hair - was so friggin' ugly! I can't believe these cars 👀
Oh, oh, oh. The Charlie song was sung by Bobby Short of the Cafe Carlyle. I want a Big Mac now. I mean right NOW. The best car I ever owned was a '74 Oldsmobile Cutlass. Oh, and one more thing. Love's Baby Soft...
Just pointin' out: 1975 had inflation, recession, corruption, teen drinking and drugs. People in 1975 said, give us the better says of the '50s. Nostalgia can be such a trap.
@@brianarbenz1329: I think what you and others are conflating, is the nostalgia of the era I was referring to, and not the specific news issues facing the world in that decade, as there is, in any decade. I can say I enjoy the slow paced lifestyle, due to the fact, that once you left work for the day, your bosses couldn't just reach you 24/7/365, by cell phones, home phones, instant messages, and emails. I also could say that I enjoyed watching television then, even though, there were only three major networks, three substations, and PBS, yet to me, there was more things to watch then, than there is for me to watch now, with thousands of channels, on cable and satellite. These are just a few things, but there others.
Wow Fred! There are commercials here that I haven't seen since the 70's! You are so damn good at what you do Fred and I mean that sincerely.👍 I hope everything is going well with you and your family and things are back to normal for you.
That Panasonic tape recorder at 15:00! I had the yellow one. Got it for Christmas ‘74. I was 12 almost 13. Recorded songs off the radio and myself and my siblings and friends. Loved it so much!
Fred, this showed up in my feed this morning, I know it's old, but I just love your videos. I will admit, it was a great time to grow up in, but LOL it's tough getting old......
@@kidmack1121 What they would today call Great American Songbook, music like Cole Porter, Gershwin, etc. You could call it "cabaret" or "sophisticated piano lounge" music, he had a standing gig at the Carlyle Hotel in New York for decades. Michael Finestein would be a current example of someone working this genre. There's overlap between jazz and pop in the Songbook genre because over the years lots of jazz musicians have done covers of those tunes.
@@FawleyJude I just looked him up. I see, that I didn't know enough about him. He was in my "oh, there's that guy again" category, for along time before I actually knew his name. Once knowing his name, I don't remember hearing his records played on our local jazz station, more than once or twice if that. And, after reading about him just now, I really wished they had played his records more. He reminds me of a similar artist (material wise) that immediately comes to mind, the Late Great Bobby Scott, who released two terrific dates just before his death, and rightly so, received lots of air time on the station, and my personal stereo. I wonder if Short's recordings will undergo a "renaissance" one day.
Needed to go to bed early, today, But started watching this, and oh well, Definitely Worth Staying UP for. Great Memories Fred ! Thanks ! 😃 #FredFlixForever
Thankyou Fredflix for a selection of mini nostalgia videos,i was only a little girl then but i love the late 1960s & earoy 1970s for all sorts of reasons,i recently list my dad & it sort of reminds me of when he was young & healthy,having decided to pack up & move from England to Canada then Haight Asbury in San Francisco in 1967 🙂🙂🌸🌷🌸🌼🌱🌱 keep them coming 🌷🌷 Paula,England x
That's the Big Jim SPORTS camper. I had it too, got it as a present for my 9th birthday. Sure looked a lot better in the TV ads, than it actually did. Did you have many of the sports uniforms? I had the football, soccer, baseball, basketball, track suit, judo, scuba, and my favorite; the ski racer, which I got as a Christmas present. All of them had the number "9"
Love that 1976 Chevy Impala Custom Coupe & 1976 Chevy Monte Carlo Landau! My 1st car was a '76 Monte Landau! I want one like my old Monte or a 2 door Impala like one of my friend's parents had! 😍
That's Robin Williams in the Illinois Bell spot, with William Schallert providing the voiceover. Also, that's John Irwin providing the voiceover for Green Giant with Len Dresslar doing the ho,ho,ho. The Pop-Tarts ad has Schallert voicing perhaps his greatest character in Milton the Toaster. Alexander Scourby was the voice of Chevrolet during the 1970s. Edward Andrews is the father in the DieHard Car Battery ad.
Sears is gone thank you Internet the mall is gone thank you Internet the cinema Is gone.thank you Internet No more paper applications Thank you Internet. I hate you Internet
I think she is supposed to be a mixed race person. One thing that struck me in these old ads was how unselfconscious they were about race. This was only a decade after the Civil Rights struggles of the 60's.
That's Jack Jones in the New Yorker commercial before he sang The Love Boat theme and by the way that is Herschel Bernardi doing the voice of Charlie tuna in the starkist commercial
From his wiki page: "...was the narrator of a long running Tootsie Pop commercial, saying "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know."
Dear Fred, I was born in the beginning of the 2000s but my parents always spoke fondly of the '70s. As a history nerd myself and lover of '70s music and "culture", it is wonderful to be able to see these beautiful commericals and "go back in time". However, like with all good things, there is a negative part to it in the sense we can sadly never go back to these simpler, happier, and, ultimately, friendlier times. We have willingly put ourselves in this horrendous, lonely, and dark digital age that I see only progressing further and getting worse. Thankfully we can at least see these gems to take ourselves away from the present reality. Thank you for your contribution.
You're welcome, Selene. But just remember it wasn't all peaches and cream back then. The racism and sexism were far worse than today. There weren't as many medical advancements. There was more violent crime because there weren't cameras everywhere. And TV shows were very formulaic. All that said, the '70s WERE better (and the '60s very much better still).
Oh man I haven't thought of a big wheel for years! That commercial takes me back. Oh well, it's worth getting older to be able to say I lived then. What an incredible time to be young.
Remember, in 1974 the Supreme Court ruled that porn was protected by the First Amendment. T.V. could have gone down the "X" rated road.But they were afraid to offend the majority of the public.
My uncle Phil had a New Yorker like the one shown in the ad. His was white as well but was a two door model with white leather seats. It was beautiful, super smooth ride, and automatic everything. Talk about luxury. I was a little kid and it felt like everything that ad said it was.
I was 15 in 1975....I remember so many of these....didn't know Robin Williams did a phone commercial.I guess it was before he was discovered...I wore Charlie perfume when I got to high school..one of my favorite Elton John LPS too,captain fantastic....
Some observations on the products in the commercials: * The Pizza Hut Super Supreme Pizza WAS (definitely not IS) the best pizza restaurant pizza. It was the go-to place for my fiance and me. (Where I grew up there were no New York pizzas which I grant you are darn good.) * My mother would NEVER purchase any dog food including Gravy Train. Our dogs ate stewed chicken and table scraps. Although I constantly asked why, she never would explain. After watching an episode of Mad Man about the heir to a dog food manufacturing plant in the 60's, I think the answer was that my mom thought it was made from 🐎. * Green Giant Le Seuer Peas Combinations were fantastic. I can't find them anywhere anymore and I miss them greatly. * Many young ladies had a bottle of Charlie, but after I used it once, it became a decoration that showed I was a (sort of) member of the modern women's generation. * I will still say, "It's a miracle!". Actually, XEROX machines really are one of the greatest inventions ever. * The Coke Perfect Harmony ad is probably the best ad ever. (With the Coke Santa ads and the polar bear campaign coming in second and third.) Watching it here tonight brought me back to the days when I did have hope that we all could just get along if we tried. Well, it's 43 years later and how's that going? Hmm.... Another video composed with imagination and hard work, Fred!
@S Schmidt I wonder what was in that can of Alpo that Johnny Carson "ate" when Hernandez the dog refused to eat it. Great save of a sponsor by Carson and McMahon on that "live" commercial.
@@pegbutwin7189 Later today I will be heading to Sam's to purchase my favorite staples. If I don't have to purchase 5 pounds of the frozen (not canned!) LeSeuer peas I will try them! Whereas my dogs would eat their peas mixed in with canned non-horsemeat dog food, my cats can separate and toss out any vegetable matter (AKA "poison") they might find in their food bowls.
1975, my second year of high school. The best days of better times. Three people could go out to breakfast for five dollars, smokes were fifty cents a pack, and a four finger lid of decent weed was ten bucks. Oh, and gas was around forty cents. I need a time machine.
super compilation of these great commercials from 1975 fred! many of these I remember and some I don't. that one with robin Williams and the telephones was great to see because I don't think it was shown in the boston area. love watching all these 70s commercials, really fun to view these again after all these years! thanks rob
Don’t ever recall seeing that Elton John TV spot…until now….the captain Fantastic album dominated charts in late spring and summer of 1975. He was at the absolute height of eltonmania in 75.
My first grade boyfriend and I would bring our Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman dolls to school and play with them during recess. Complete with the “bionic” ch-ch-ch jumping sound effect. Also, I LOVED my brother’s Evel Knevil doll and cycle that threw off sparks!
Would go back to 1975 in a heartbeat!
amen
Just don't cause CoVid-75
Me too! I was only 6
Makes me miss my mom..but brings back so many memories..
Yes, I definitely would go back! The Sixties was too turbulent! The Eighties started to get turbulent again. The Seventies was calm at least it was for me!
Loves Baby Soft commercials were extremely CREEPY
Yes, very gross and inappropriate. The crack down on pedophilia and child pornography didn't occur officially until 1977.
5:39 - *You're welcome*
@@rodneylee4026 source?
@@daphne4983 www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1088/protection-of-children-against-sexual-exploitation-act-of-1977. You can start by reading about the Kildee-Murphy Bill. Anything else..
@@rodneylee4026 thx
I love that they always showed toys being played outside. No one plays outside these days .
In the 90's, people started to feel that kids playing outside were troublesome. They were either going to be perpetrators of crimes like vandalism, theft, bullying, and noise violations; or they were going to be victims of injury, kidnapping, molestation, or introduced to drugs and poisons.
Pressure was put on parents to always have kids at an after-school program, babysat, or locked away in the house with video tapes, cable tv, Nintendo, and Pizza Bagel Bites. If your kid was seen skating on the sidewalk next to their house with no parents or adults around, that was when people began to claim that it was neglectful, or these kids were probably up to no good, etc. Media followed suit with horror stories of kids victimized in one way or another, and many places enacted strict laws that didn't allow kids to exist in places without adults if they were below the age of 14. I even lived in a place around 2006 that threatened to evict parents if their 16-year-old kids were caught again, crossing the street to get candy and sodas from the convenience stores. No lie.
This is why the state of Utah recently had to enact a law that allows kids to be "free-roam," without it being a crime, so that kids can return to parks and doing kid things.
My brother had Evel Kenevil action figure and played outside with it all the time! GI Joe too. We were never in the house unless it was dark or below freezing out. We lived in OK panhandle so wind chill was pretty bad at times. Simpler times for kids back then.
What is this “outside” you speak of lol
Right, it's a real shame.
orlando de la paz what is this “outside” that you speak of?!? LOL sincerely, every parent of boys in 2018
My Big Wheel was bad ass. XMas Day 1975 I was skidding all over the sidewalk all day. Awesome.
I wanted a Big Wheel, but my mom said it was too dangerous. Several kids had gotten run over, including in their own driveways, because the Big Wheel was too low for drivers to see when they were backing up.
Had a blast on my Big Wheel! Eventually I got a Green Machine! And that was fun too!
Coke always had the best Christmas Time commercials! Whoever wrote the jingle in 1975 was a genius!
WhoKnowsWhy Probably Don Draper 😁
It was actually from a Coke commercial in 1971.
Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway wrote it and The New Seekers hit #1 with the record.
@@JoseyWales44s AND became a hit song that same year, minus the reference to Coke.
@@birdsfan57 Yes, radio stations were getting call-in request to play the Coke commercial when it came out, a first. An actual song was guaranteed to be a hit.
At 21:04, I remember back in the day when getting a stereo system was a major deal. My parents bought me a system like the one in this video for a birthday gift! I got to pick it out at the showroom. The sales associate was so happy with the purchase, he let me choose a free casette tape to play in my new stereo! It was a right of passage in those days...I still have that stereo today, with giant speakers and turntable. It all still works. It was all "made in America" and the quality shows.
Even if you weren't in a place to be able to buy a stereo system at the moment, back then you could peruse fliers and small catalogs from these places, and dream. Some of my favorite dreaming material as a young teen was from stereo system outlets like that, and the used car mags.
My 1973 Sansui Stereo system still works like new and sounds better than any stereo made today. 881 receiver, SE9 EQ., 3060 tutntable, four SP2000 speakers. this bad boy still shakes the house!!!
Even the stereo system I was given as a Christmas gift in 1990 lasted me a good long while. The only thing that stopped it from being usable is that the speaker cords frayed only about ten years ago, otherwise the mechanical parts still work. The VCR my parents bought in 1985 also works even today. I think the only durable things I've purchased within the last few years have been my Macbook (and even then I have to replace the power adapter every six months or so) and my LG smart phone.
@@timcoker4685 : does anyone remember Marantz speakers? Great bass boom.
@@blueskies1848 Vintage Marantz receivers are the most wanted today. They sound great and were the best looking of the vintage stereos. Their speakers matched up very well with all brands and sound pretty damn good. Most people back in the 70s were loyal to their brand. I like Marantz and Pioneer, but I love my Sansui.
I was 12 years old in 1975 and I remember a lot of these commercials. It was a great time to be a kid.
I was 6 years old and in 1st grade
Yes ,great times, great commercials, I was 14 in 75, wow , just reflecting when I had a full head of hair!! Now, oh well 😔 , at least I am alive & healthy to enjoy these commercials on my smartphone today 😊
Me too!
My God. I would get so angry at these insipid things back in the day, and here I am, voluntarily sitting through over thirty minutes of them without a break, smh.
I treasure these memories of a time long ago that I cannot otherwise get back. Thanks for the tacky, dated, dorky, cringeworthy, amazing commercials and a chance to see people like Jimmie Walker, Robin Williams, and Jamie Farr young again.
You can see Jimmy Walker and commercials again, just commercials for social Security!! He was a favorite of mine since back in the day, at least he's doing something
I love the announcers voices from the '70's. And the singers. Anytime I hear those I want to go back. Some of the best times of my life.
@Bobby Brady If I could I sure would. That would be the best thing ever
I was born in 1970. This is so much fun seeing the actual toys i grewup owning. Especially the Bigwheel w-racing brake and my favorite Evil Kneival.
I miss the simpler times. No technology just shear happiness of a new doll and my mom was graduating highschool in 75 and still wears Charlie to this day.
The dolls were the best even the jingles were fun.
I remember the kool aide commercial before the Guyana tradgedy of course 3 years.
12:30 - Thanks for adding the commercial for Elton John's Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy ... It's classic pop-culture from one of the most popular and enduring artists of a generation - It was the first album in history to reach #1 on the Billboard Album Chart in it's first week out !
It's weird how the lyrics to the "Two all beef patties special sauce" commercial stick in my mind verbatim decades after this commercial.
Tom from the Jeffersons in the Xerox, commercial.
My mom wrote out this song on a yellow tablet and made me and my sister memorize it so we could recite it to my grandmother on the phone long distance around Christmas time....I'm 56yrs old and I still know the words...
In the 1970s I'd get up and go to the kitchen when the commercials came on,,,,
In 2018 I'm sitting here watching hours of them on CZcams!
God how I remember those ads. When it turned 1975, I was in 8th grade.The Fall of 1975, I started 9th grade.Those were simplistic times.I watch these old ads sometimes just to 'feel' the era, as if I am back then.TV ads of the 1970's-1980s were awesome!!!
Loved these old commercials!
I was 8 in 1975 and I got the Star Trek bridge playset for Christmas. I played with that so much it fell apart! Thought the transporter was the coolest thing ever. My brother had the 6 million dollar man figure and rocket/operation table and the Evel Knievel motorcycle. That motorcycle never did anything like in the commercial. It would go out about 3 feet and fall over.
These commercials are a great reminder of a better time.
People were nicer and more respectful of others. Today so many people are just plain vulgar, obnoxious and self centered. It is reflected in the ads and movies/TV of today- everyone is a badass.
Matthew! Hi, you couldn’t be more correct! If I were to split hairs, I’d prefer 1977 :) But you’re so right about life then versus life in 2022! Things started to turn to s**t in the 90s, and the 2000s have been nothing short of obscene; especially the last couple years. At least, we experienced them first hand! right age at the right place, at the right time! I feel sorry for his new generation! Their growing up experience has SUCKED...
Allow me to correct you, ...Everyone is a badass except men which are portrayed as buffoons, effeminate or weak. Luckily there's badass women now with endless abilities to save us from ourselves! Fortunately we now have the easy option to transform into women!
That Love's Baby Soft commercial gets creepier every time I see it.
Still can't believe they marketed that to little girls and grown women at the same time, and in the ways they did.
I didn't think anything was weird about it back in the day when I was a teenager, but it is total cringe now. I never liked that scent, but I absolutely loved the Rain and Fresh Lemon scents!
@@maimy1 I never liked it either. I remember someone getting me some when I was very young, maybe five, and it smelling like a cross between a heavily perfumed old lady and a pile of baby powder.
I never smelled the lemon one, it sounds a lot nicer
My Dad was in advertising. He saw the ad in a magazine I was reading and he got so mad he took the magazine away. I think it was the magazine Seventine. I was maybe 13 at the time. I get it now. I thought he was crazy
@@tisenhow Props to your Dad
Yes, creepier than ever.
Fred I think you're the only guy that could make me happy to sit and watch a half an hour of commercials
Glad you enjoyed them, tolfan.
WOW ROBIN WILLIAMS in a commercial! even at the quality I knew it right off the bat! RIP Robin..what a talent. and there he was in a commercial from 1975??
wow! and if that commercial was from 1975 it is before Mork and Mindy! wow FredFlix what a find.
Glad you liked it, Glenda.
Mork and Mindy started in 1978. Happy Days started in '74. Mork didn't appear on Happy Days until '78.
Ridiculous as usual....
Was that Georgia Engel with Robin Williams. Sure sounded like her.
@@TheHoppesl I think it's Didi Conn, who went on to play Frenchy in Grease a few years later. Georgia Engel was blonde & was on MTM at that time.
I remember so many of these. Many of the jingles seem to be hardwired into my brain, because I immediately started singing along to the Charlie ad, as well as the McDonalds Big Mac song!
I love these commercials. Brings back great memories!❤️
I’m in my 60s and remember many of these! We sure thought we were on the cutting edge of hip and cool, and I guess we were. Thanks for the memories of somewhat happier times.
RIGHT ON, HIGH TECH OF WHAT WE THOUGHT THAN IS NO WAY COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAVE NOW. CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THE WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE AFTER WERE GONE !!
I was 10...it's amazing how these little songs stay with you all your life!
I was 8, so true.
I was 14 back in '75. The Coke commercials are classics. I can still remember them and sing along, how many commercials now a days can you do that today!
Can you run parchment through a Xerox?
I was 9 in 1975! What a great trip down memory lane. I had some of those toys, Star Trek and Evel Knievel. Gotta love that Elton John cartoon promo for Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
Tim Carroll I was 9 as well in 1975.
@@RussDRocker So you enjoyed the trip too, Russ? Yeah, imagine if we kept a lot of our toys, how much they'd be worth
So was I! And strangely I remember many of these promos and commercials as if they were still on v. The theme songs, all the words, wow. Amazing what a 9-year old human brain can retain & then pull up so many years later
I was 8 it was fun time to be a kid back then.
In 75 I got back from SE Asia & discharged after 4 yrs. In reading your replies it occurred to me the brain washing 4 me (age 9, 1961) to this day I remember slogans & jingles etc...too! I guess I'm one of the original advertising "guinea pigs"!!! Amazing how they learned how to manipulate our desires, dreams, buying habits etc... Just think about... the "bastards" live in our brains... RENT FREE! Enough Said, WWG1WGA!
That JC Penny commercial with the robot had me wide-eyed as a kid and I thought it was an actual robot. And super denim was their version of the even more tacky Toughskins from Sears
FRED! I am always amazed at your creativity and you didn't disappoint on this one at all, just fantastic!!
Anyone else notice Big Mac's and Whoppers are nowhere near as big or delicious as they used to be?
SuperBoomshack The Big Mac used to be so much better than what we get now. I also miss the McDLT. Tons of styrofoam on that one though. The whole McDonald’s bag would squeak when you left the store.
Aaron Francesconi I remember turning the Big Mac Styrofoam into troop transports for my Star Wars figures. I would draw Windows and tank tracks on the Styrofoam and sit action figures in it. I liked the McDLT.
Whoppers were bigger than Big Macs and tasted better. Today though, you get one Whopper for the price of four back then.
kurtb8474 yeah, even the original chicken sandwich at bk was bigger and tasted better
Naw they’re the same. Might just seem like it because we’re older. Actually I’d be willing to bet that the patties were a teeny bit bigger.
Man, I miss those days. Tv on every night...GREAT SHOWS...radio was great, too..the music. Family watching shows together. The commercials weren't even annoying! LOL...
Used Loves Baby Soft & my absolute favorite, Clairol Herbal Essence Shampoo!!! Miss them.
Herbal Essence Shampoo smelled so good then.
19:25 William Schallert as Milton the Toaster. He played the dad on The Patty Duke Show.
22:25 Jack Eagle as Brother Dominic for Xerox. 10:50 The voice of Jackson Beck.
24:54 Ralph Bell on the voice-over for Brylcreem. 16:10 The voice of John Erwin.
27:40 Bob Landers on the v/o for Sears. 13:54 The voice of Dan Ingram.
29:49 Alexander Scourby for Chevrolet. 14:04 The obligatory Peter Thomas v/o.
Ahem 5:03 Robin Williams.
Thanks for identifying Bob Landers. I heard him in dozens upon dozens of commercials when I was a kid. Am 59 now. posting 9-10-22.
@@TheBrooklynbodineBob Landers was a really great commercial voice-over talent. He voiced some fun Yoplait yogurt spots in the late 70s.
@@brentmann2988 I know. He also did a (at least one) Peter Pan peanut butter spot.
isn't that Liz Sheridan? (Jerry's mom in Seinfeld who recently died at 90 something) as one of the office workers in the KFC commercial?
Oh I love watching old commercials!!! They take me back to a time I thought I forgot!
I was born in 84, ive always had a fascination with the 70s
Ive got to see commercials, shows and music
may dad was 17 and my mom was 18 going on 19
Every decade has it's good and bad. '70s bad: the economy spiralled downhill from 1973 until about 1982. Cars were generally slow, quickly rusted out, and driveability suffered from early emission controls. We gave up on winning the war in Vietnam AND didn't generally honor our returning servicemen (truly shameful, that last part). Two gas shortages: 1973 and summer of '79. Gas prices tripled. "Stagflation": the economy is stagnant, but there's still double digit inflation. Watergate, then two ineffective Presidents, Ford and Carter. The Cold War.
'70s good: everybody seemed less hung up about everything. Easy-listening music, disco, and southern rock music. The Pontiac Trans-AM. Mazda Wankels (when the engine was still right). The BiCentenial (1976) celebrations. Streaking. The summer blockbuster (started with "Jaws"). Short shorts on everybody. No terrorism or mass shootings in the USA. Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.
See? It all depends how you look at it.
Jack, you mean I can't drag everyone down into the mud? LOL! Sorry about being a killjoy. The yellow '70s smiley face and I say, "Have a nice day!".
Mean Matts World They had the best music and movies. But everything - clothes, cars, furniture, hair - was so friggin' ugly! I can't believe these cars 👀
Thanks Fred. Another Home Run!
I appreciate that, Chuck.
Oh, oh, oh. The Charlie song was sung by Bobby Short of the Cafe Carlyle. I want a Big Mac now. I mean right NOW. The best car I ever owned was a '74 Oldsmobile Cutlass. Oh, and one more thing. Love's Baby Soft...
Thanks. I always wondered who that guy was.
I also remember that he sang in a Woody Allen film: The Manhattan Murder Mystery
That was Rachel Longacre in the Kool Aid commercial. She played Aimee Godsey on The Walton's.
Take me back in time to 1975...I so miss those days...I wanna go back....people more friendlier...life was more slower paced. Give me back my youth!
Just pointin' out: 1975 had inflation, recession, corruption, teen drinking and drugs. People in 1975 said, give us the better says of the '50s. Nostalgia can be such a trap.
@@brianarbenz1329: I think what you and others are conflating, is the nostalgia of the era I was referring to, and not the specific news issues facing the world in that decade, as there is, in any decade.
I can say I enjoy the slow paced lifestyle, due to the fact, that once you left work for the day, your bosses couldn't just reach you 24/7/365, by cell phones, home phones, instant messages, and emails. I also could say that I enjoyed watching television then, even though, there were only three major networks, three substations, and PBS, yet to me, there was more things to watch then, than there is for me to watch now, with thousands of channels, on cable and satellite.
These are just a few things, but there others.
Wow Fred! There are commercials here that I haven't seen since the 70's! You are so damn good at what you do Fred and I mean that sincerely.👍 I hope everything is going well with you and your family and things are back to normal for you.
El Camino. The mullet of cars
Ha ha ha ha!
That's a good one Donna.
Three in the front, four in the back!
I was 15 in 1975. I sure miss the 70s America. It just isn't the same today and lacks substance in every aspect.
I was 19 when these commercials first aired !! Loved the old commercials of the 70s 60s 80s 90s 2000s and this decade too as well !!
That Panasonic tape recorder at 15:00! I had the yellow one. Got it for Christmas ‘74. I was 12 almost 13. Recorded songs off the radio and myself and my siblings and friends. Loved it so much!
Fred, this showed up in my feed this morning, I know it's old, but I just love your videos. I will admit, it was a great time to grow up in, but LOL it's tough getting old......
Back when Detroit was still building cars!! I was 8 years old in 1975 , glad I grew up when I did!!
I was 9.....best times ever
Me too I was 8 also we were blessed to be a kid and remember those times.
Wow. I haven't heard that Charlie jingle since the 5th grade. 1975 sounds about right.
The Six Million Dollar Man commercial blew me away. I remember it like yesterday. I'm 53
Memories,, beautiful memories because my uncle was alive back then and thank you very much for this nice and beautiful video.....
16 years old in '75..........what a time !!!
15 here... oh hell ya... the mid 70's was a non-stop party!!
Me, too! Not a partier, but OMG, the memories!
Rick Laino
I was one of them! Miss the “old” days.
Me too! Agreed! The best part our parents never knew where we were or what the heck we were doing no beepers cells no nothing. My poor kids🤣
I was 6 lol! But I remember having a big wheel! It was awesome!
How I miss these commercials!! Wish I could go back to 1975 I was 15and remember them well. Had so much fun then
That Chrysler New Yorker was beautiful!
oddly,the woman in the Charlie spot became the last Charlie's Angel.
Shelley Hack
My girlfriend in grade 9 used Charlie, and had a "Kate Jackson" hairstyle.
Never understood the niche that Bobby Short fit into.
Not Pop, not Jazz... Broadway shows?
@@kidmack1121 What they would today call Great American Songbook, music like Cole Porter, Gershwin, etc. You could call it "cabaret" or "sophisticated piano lounge" music, he had a standing gig at the Carlyle Hotel in New York for decades. Michael Finestein would be a current example of someone working this genre. There's overlap between jazz and pop in the Songbook genre because over the years lots of jazz musicians have done covers of those tunes.
@@FawleyJude
I just looked him up.
I see, that I didn't know enough about him.
He was in my "oh, there's that guy again" category, for along time before I actually knew his name. Once knowing his name, I don't remember hearing his records played on our local jazz station, more than once or twice if that.
And, after reading about him just now, I really wished they had played his records more.
He reminds me of a similar artist (material wise) that immediately comes to mind, the Late Great Bobby Scott, who released two terrific dates just before his death, and rightly so, received lots of air time on the station, and my personal stereo.
I wonder if Short's recordings will undergo a "renaissance" one day.
That was the late Alexander Scourby doing the voiceover for that Chevy commercial, and by the way Fred awesome job on this video brings back memories
Thanks, wnychevy09.
Ken Berry and Kinney shoes...💕
I had such a crush on him in the 1970's! All my friends liked the Cassidy brothers.
Britt H we wore kinnyshoes
Kinney’s was the place to get Earth Shoes! Far out 👍
Kinney was such a sh*t brand; might as well go to Thom McAn and get a pair of Hush Puppies...
Looks like he just passed away at 85 a week ago, RIP
Not sure how to feel about that Baby Soft commercial! Lol. 😳😍😲🤯
The 70 was one of the BEST times in my life..I can't thx you enough for bring back my awesome childhood...God bless you my friend..
Charlie was one of those awful cheap perfumes we bought for our mom that she never wore. I loved the Coke commercial as a child.
Needed to go to bed early, today, But started watching this, and oh well, Definitely Worth Staying UP for. Great Memories Fred ! Thanks ! 😃 #FredFlixForever
You're welcome, Mark. Excellent hashtag!
Thankyou Fredflix for a selection of mini nostalgia videos,i was only a little girl then but i love the late 1960s & earoy 1970s for all sorts of reasons,i recently list my dad & it sort of reminds me of when he was young & healthy,having decided to pack up & move from England to Canada then Haight Asbury in San Francisco in 1967 🙂🙂🌸🌷🌸🌼🌱🌱 keep them coming 🌷🌷 Paula,England x
i was 6 in '75, and remembered a surprising number of these commercials, especially the toy commercials.
The Robin Williams and Morgan Freeman commercials were cool. So nice to see non narcissistic stuff on tv
I had the Big Jim action figure along with the Big Jim camper. The camper was a tan motor home with a vinyl finish
That's the Big Jim SPORTS camper.
I had it too, got it as a present for my 9th birthday.
Sure looked a lot better in the TV ads, than it actually did.
Did you have many of the sports uniforms?
I had the football, soccer, baseball, basketball, track suit, judo, scuba,
and my favorite; the ski racer, which I got as a Christmas present.
All of them had the number "9"
Thank you for another FUN stroll down memory lane!
Love that 1976 Chevy Impala Custom Coupe & 1976 Chevy Monte Carlo Landau! My 1st car was a '76 Monte Landau! I want one like my old Monte or a 2 door Impala like one of my friend's parents had! 😍
That's Robin Williams in the Illinois Bell spot, with William Schallert providing the voiceover. Also, that's John Irwin providing the voiceover for Green Giant with Len Dresslar doing the ho,ho,ho.
The Pop-Tarts ad has Schallert voicing perhaps his greatest character in Milton the Toaster. Alexander Scourby was the voice
of Chevrolet during the 1970s. Edward Andrews is the father in the DieHard Car Battery ad.
OMG that Xerox machine is bigger than my bedroom lol
Yeah. That ad won a Clio award because it was so clever.
Sears is gone thank you Internet the mall is gone thank you Internet the cinema
Is gone.thank you Internet
No more paper applications
Thank you Internet.
I hate you Internet
dusty the doll looks like she's been in the tanning booth too long. :D
My thoughts exactly!
I think she is supposed to be a mixed race person. One thing that struck me in these old ads was how unselfconscious they were about race. This was only a decade after the Civil Rights struggles of the 60's.
Very well done... this cracks me up and brings memories back.
08:30 Damn, I wish I had that New Yorker!
Now there was a car..not like the cheap junk thats produced today...
Fun Fact: the Dodge Colt was actually manufactured by Mitsubishi.
Oh wow, the memories. TFS!
That's Jack Jones in the New Yorker commercial before he sang The Love Boat theme and by the way that is Herschel Bernardi doing the voice of Charlie tuna in the starkist commercial
wnychevy09 Interesting. Jack Jones was cool back then. And Hershel B one doesn't hear about much. 👍
Britt H. Hi, Britt! Herschel passed in 1986. Just not the same without him.
From his wiki page: "...was the narrator of a long running Tootsie Pop commercial, saying "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know."
Sounds like Andrew Robinson on the Coke commercial voiceover near the end.
Thank you for putting this together. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Dear Fred, I was born in the beginning of the 2000s but my parents always spoke fondly of the '70s. As a history nerd myself and lover of '70s music and "culture", it is wonderful to be able to see these beautiful commericals and "go back in time". However, like with all good things, there is a negative part to it in the sense we can sadly never go back to these simpler, happier, and, ultimately, friendlier times. We have willingly put ourselves in this horrendous, lonely, and dark digital age that I see only progressing further and getting worse. Thankfully we can at least see these gems to take ourselves away from the present reality. Thank you for your contribution.
You're welcome, Selene. But just remember it wasn't all peaches and cream back then. The racism and sexism were far worse than today. There weren't as many medical advancements. There was more violent crime because there weren't cameras everywhere. And TV shows were very formulaic. All that said, the '70s WERE better (and the '60s very much better still).
An awesome selection. The Captain Fantastic ad is... fantastic! I've never seen that before. Thanks for the time trip.
You're welcome, HDF.
The stoners enjoyed it more.
23:25- Franklyn Cover, at the time he started appearing on "THE JEFFERSONS".
I want my big wheel for Christmas
So I can ride it back in time.
Oh man I haven't thought of a big wheel for years! That commercial takes me back. Oh well, it's worth getting older to be able to say I lived then. What an incredible time to be young.
Weird to see Dan Hicks for a moment in the McDonalds ad. I always loved his band.
Ok I feel old. Loved my mickey phone. Excellent video. A+
Thanks, Kathy.
My first husband had the Mickey phone.
My family had a Mickey phone too! They were still available and still highly popular even in the late '80s.
That baby soft commercial is naughty 😈.
I love it. Damn. Bring it back.
You fiend...🤨
Remember, in 1974 the Supreme Court ruled that porn was protected by the First Amendment. T.V. could have gone down the "X" rated road.But they were afraid to offend the majority of the public.
Precious! Thank you! I miss that time 💟💟💟💟💟
I remember so many of these..such a great time!!! Thanks
You're welcome, Erik.
Wow!! Just came across this channel. I was born in 1975 and it's so cool to see what things were like the year I was born.
I was born in 75 too and watched this for the same reason
I 2 was born in 75, Feb 2 be exact
I'd go back to the entire decade of the 70's if I could.
So would I.
My uncle Phil had a New Yorker like the one shown in the ad. His was white as well but was a two door model with white leather seats. It was beautiful, super smooth ride, and automatic everything. Talk about luxury. I was a little kid and it felt like everything that ad said it was.
I was 15 in 1975....I remember so many of these....didn't know Robin Williams did a phone commercial.I guess it was before he was discovered...I wore Charlie perfume when I got to high school..one of my favorite Elton John LPS too,captain fantastic....
Some observations on the products in the commercials:
* The Pizza Hut Super Supreme Pizza WAS (definitely not IS) the best pizza restaurant pizza. It was the go-to place for my fiance and me. (Where I grew up there were no New York pizzas which I grant you are darn good.)
* My mother would NEVER purchase any dog food including Gravy Train. Our dogs ate stewed chicken and table scraps. Although I constantly asked why, she never would explain. After watching an episode of Mad Man about the heir to a dog food manufacturing plant in the 60's, I think the answer was that my mom thought it was made from 🐎.
* Green Giant Le Seuer Peas Combinations were fantastic. I can't find them anywhere anymore and I miss them greatly.
* Many young ladies had a bottle of Charlie, but after I used it once, it became a decoration that showed I was a (sort of) member of the modern women's generation.
* I will still say, "It's a miracle!". Actually, XEROX machines really are one of the greatest inventions ever.
* The Coke Perfect Harmony ad is probably the best ad ever. (With the Coke Santa ads and the polar bear campaign coming in second and third.) Watching it here tonight brought me back to the days when I did have hope that we all could just get along if we tried. Well, it's 43 years later and how's that going? Hmm....
Another video composed with imagination and hard work, Fred!
I enjoyed your comment, Martha.
@S Schmidt I wonder what was in that can of Alpo that Johnny Carson "ate" when Hernandez the dog refused to eat it. Great save of a sponsor by Carson and McMahon on that "live" commercial.
I too love the Le Seuer peas and just bought them at Sam’s Club!!
@@pegbutwin7189 Later today I will be heading to Sam's to purchase my favorite staples. If I don't have to purchase 5 pounds of the frozen (not canned!) LeSeuer peas I will try them! Whereas my dogs would eat their peas mixed in with canned non-horsemeat dog food, my cats can separate and toss out any vegetable matter (AKA "poison") they might find in their food bowls.
Great video. That Loves Baby Soft Ad is messed up 😲
It's kind of disturbing.
It’s made to be unsettling to most people
1975, my second year of high school. The best days of better times. Three people could go out to breakfast for five dollars, smokes were fifty cents a pack, and a four finger lid of decent weed was ten bucks. Oh, and gas was around forty cents. I need a time machine.
super compilation of these great commercials from 1975 fred! many of these I remember and some I don't. that one with robin Williams and the telephones was great to see because I don't think it was shown in the boston area. love watching all these 70s commercials, really fun to view these again after all these years! thanks rob
You're welcome, Rob. I'm planning more commercial complications.
Wow! I remember about 98% of these. I was 4 when they aired. I can feel the shag carpet in our den!
Wow I’d forgotten all about the pop tarts talking toaster... so cool,
dandanthetaximan Until the war on sugar frosted everything began.
Me too! Lol
How we miss Milton the Toaster.
I was 7 in '75 and we had a Olds Omega....Robin Williams pre-MORK! Thanks for the memory lane trip.
Oh...a spot, (which I don't, ever, recall seeing)for "Captain Fantastic...." That is cool! Thank-you, Fred, for another fine compilation.
You're welcome, Don.
Don’t ever recall seeing that Elton John TV spot…until now….the captain Fantastic album dominated charts in late spring and summer of 1975. He was at the absolute height of eltonmania in 75.
Awesome times. People seemed so much more normal then. And looked better too.Loved the 70s. My favourite decade. Such a guilty pleasure!
Good job, you hit me nostalgia again!
Thanks, Spikester.
your welcome
Excellent montage! Enjoyed it!
Appreciate it, RRRVR.
loved the Elton/ Captain Fantastic album commercial definitely grabs your attention
My first grade boyfriend and I would bring our Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman dolls to school and play with them during recess. Complete with the “bionic” ch-ch-ch jumping sound effect. Also, I LOVED my brother’s Evel Knevil doll and cycle that threw off sparks!