Old Australian Commercials 1960s and 1970s
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2016
- I have a VHS that is filled with old Australian commercials from the 60s and 70s, so decided to upload them so others can see.
I do not own any of this. All rights to their owners - Zábava
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Who here remembers Bata Scout shoes with the animal footprints on the soul?
Yep, had them in late primary school
Don't forget the compass in the heel
and a compass in the heel
sole
wore heaps of batas.
I was born in 1960 but I remember that TV ads changed drastically from about 1968 to 1973. One big difference was the dropping of stuffy English accents. Ads became a lot more fun and creative too. Great era.
I could watch these commercials all day. I'm from that era and this brings back so many memories.People had time out from work because the shops closed Saturday 12noon.No one really thought about buying stuff all the time.More time with family and social activities.Kids out in the fresh air.Family holden to the beach.Choc wedge icecreams.Fish and Chips Friday or Saturday night.Footy,MCG cricket.
I liked doing stuff together and less of the buying - it is nice to have purchasing power, but not at the expense of your humanity
never had a holden. had heaps of fords and my favourite i wanna get off my uncle is the the '63 supersnipe with red vinyl interior. it really should stay in the family. right bit of family xx
And the crowds went for Australia not India.
@@jenniferschmitzer299 Remember when we were Holden or Ford and we razzed each other .... no more. 😞
@@justinwellington6448 Nobody ball tampered and whined when they got caught.
I've just been in a time machine to my primary school days have not seen these ads for 50 yrs seems like yesterday
The TAA jingle still comes back to me.
Up, up and away....
TWA in America also used that song as a jingle...
Me too. The commercial was exhibited at the Royal Easter Show in colour so it has a special memory for me in about 1970.
I tried to get my school class to reenact it in grade 6. I was a budding director back then! :DDDDDDDDDD
It was based on the hit song My Beautiful Baloon. I think it was written by Burt Baccarat. He wrote Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head and a heap of other classics.
OMG! That TAA ad hit me right in the nostalgia glands. I must have been 7 or 8 when I saw it last, and the thought of jetting off somewhere was unimaginably exciting.
Abigail had it going on back then. Shows like Number 96, The Box and Alvin Purple titillating young men, Aussie tv and movies were pretty raunchy.
Sleazy!!
Now I remember them and more...
katoomba stn was known as no. 96. for reasons. lol.
@@jenniferschmitzer299 I lived in an apartment block in Perth with that nickname. Sometimes the mail would go astray because people would address it to No. 96 West Coast Highway! 😆
@@lezlezman1843 where was that block? I want to guess… Mossie Park?!
4:50 TAA and Ansett Airlines - Now defunct. Ansett owner, Reg Ansett also owned *Station ATV-Melbourne* which gave us the all-time classic variety show, *"Young Talent Time"* which would've been 50 years old this year, The 50th Anniversary of the show's debut falls on the exact date, and day, Saturday, 24th April, 2021, the show debuted on Saturday, 24th April, 1971.
Wow ! Brought back so many memories of the great days in early Australia.
Wish it was still like the good old days.
The AMCO jeans ad was just lovely..
I think that might be Rory O'Donohue singing? He and Graeme Bond collaborated on a lot of jingles post Aunty Jack.
Bought a few pairs of AMCO flairs due to this ad 😂
They had a couple of iconic adds - This one helped me like ....well I best not say
Abigail - now there's a bit of nostalgia ...
Is she still alive does anyone know
@@leannesmith5818 I reckon so. I'm a truckie and I have ABC radio on wherever I go and a couple of years back I heard reported in relation to some matter (perhaps court) she was living in a caravan with her partner. I do so much driving all the years flow together so it could've been four or six years ago LOL.
Edit turns out it was 10 years ago heck:
czcams.com/video/b_nIX3-0UkA/video.html
Here you go from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_(actress)
Retirement from acting
Her last television appearance was in 2002, when she briefly became a spokesperson for weight-loss company Jenny Craig. She claimed to have lost 17 kilograms in seven weeks.
Abigail was interviewed on Sydney radio station 2GB on her 60th birthday in 2006. At that time she was living on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
In March 2011, Australian current affairs program Today Tonight produced a story on Abigail, claiming that she had fallen on hard times, and claiming she was living as a squatter in a derelict church. A rebuttal story was aired the following evening by rival current affairs program, A Current Affair. In fact she had been living there with permission, with her husband, as her home had been partially destroyed by floods. Her damaged home was being prepared for rebuilding. The Today Tonight story captured some hidden camera footage of Abigail. She did not appear on camera consensually.
@@leannesmith5818 She's still alive. She's in Queensland. She and her husband stay out of the limelight these days. They went through a bit of a rough time during the floods a few years back but they're back on their feet now.
@@leannesmith5818
She's still alive at 74 going into 75. She was a real English goddess in looks and cheekiness. I loved her.
Abigail so very cute indeed. I want a tarax please
I actually found this quite depressing. It took me back to an era when life was simpler, happier and cheaper. We will never see the like of those days again.
I can relate....
I think you may be wearing rose tinted glasses
They were clumbsy days allright, lots of gays by the name of warren or Nigel,people wrapping their licence in a ten dollar bill & smoking was sexy & had suffistaction to it!
Tarax...
In heaven.
Oh wow that TAA ad with the 727. Though most of these ads are before my time (born 1972), I do remember the old TAA, and even Ansett, the days when there was actual competition in Australian commercial aviation.
I remember seeing an old Bedford truck with the TAA logo on it, just a couple of days after they'd gone out of business.
A lonely figure in a back street near Sydney Airport.
Poignant.
Thanks a childhood flashback .
Thanks for the memories a packet of Viscount 20 pack was 40 cents now you need to get finance.
Wow! I was a tiny child and I instantly remembered the music from that lemonade ad, and that judge dropping something... but I wouldn't have known it was lemonade haha. Funny how random things stick with you forever, but others don't. Talk about a freaky sentimental feeling from a time when life was magical.
So that's where Richie's MARVELOUS started.......
At least it reminds us of a time when we actually manufactured products.
oh Plz.. "Ok so lets think, wat did we have her in Australia, hardly anything n always 20 years behind Europe n the State's not to mention when it cam to food before the 60's wat all it was 'was ''meat n 3 veg, 'how backwards more like it buddy.
manufacturing something isn't a sign of anything except the inability to do higher value activities
@@davechristian7543 How backwards Oh plz At Woolworths or Coles now you cannot even purchase Australian bacon without checking the packet and then only one brand made in OZ and the only Asparagus is made in venezuela! And now you pay 50-100K for a car from Europe and that money leaves the country, then they hit you for 5K to service it. "the 60's wat all it was 'was ''meat n 3 veg, " maybe in your house not mine
@@hayekianman "manufacturing" funny the Asians and Germans etc are really into it!
Man, how much better was the music back then!
I dunno, that first ad was pretty awful.
The music is just as good now it's all underground and harder to find
OMG the memories, take me back! I hate the world now and how depressing it is!
The world we live in is degenerate, so is modern day society.
Amen, brother. Somewhere the world took a wrong turn and we can't find our way back.
@@lezzman
I'm a sister LOL. but I so agree...
@@THEELDER1 My apologies, Sister. But yes, where did things go so wrong?
you thought it was bad in 2019,
2021 says hello
Outstanding 1960's, 1970's Old Australian commercial classics!!
Up up and away, with TAA the friendly friendly way 🎶
Tarax factory was in Huntingdale Vic had a printing business around the corner in 70. fred Parslow the Anticol man, a friend of Noel Ferrier & Frank Thring, I met them in 1963.
I plan to soon re-upload this video in higher quality. This is very choppy. I have a better way of editing videos now, compared with how I used to do it back when I started.
I could watch this all day))
Please do this, Yoshi, these ads are a great look back into TV history, and you're on par with Retrontario (a Canadian CZcamsr who does similar videos showing local Canadian TV ads from the early '80's onward) for doing them. Keep up the great work.
From Canada,
Neville6000
2 years later, still waiting...
@@crumble701 I did re-upload it. Have a look at my channel
@@GreenYoshi93 can you provide the link? I can't find it
Today's commercials are all about insurance, life , health, , it's so depressing
Mary Pevitt that’s maybe because you watch Studio 10.
@@seferinorino6951 I do not watch studio 10, can't stand the show , I just can't stand it, I hate the show😬😬😬😬😬😬
Mary Pevitt well, if what you say is true about all the ads you see on tv then you need to watch something else. There are many ads like you mentioned but I wouldn’t say that’s all there is. The old ones seemed to be very long.
@@marypevitt174 and pet insurance! you know just incase your hamster gets run over by the wheel.
@@michaelearthling lol 👍
Life in Australia was just... better back then.
Moo01100 they were the good old days mate, ,long gone
Mick Sydney not that long ago you need to be 60 to experience the 70s
Yeah the higher crime rates, racism and all that.
@dahlia noir To be fair, I was a little kid growing up in Australia in the 70's. I had no idea about the White Australia policy - you just didn't think about such things, and nobody ever talked about it. Wasn't til I was at school and I was about 15 that I heard about it.
Yeah, the glory days if the stolen generation and aboriginals needing permission to marry, interracial marriage and gay sex being criminalised. The good old days, for the rich whites.
Thanks for sharing these.
loved 70s Australia :)
Yeah it was better then today
Me too. I can't say I relate to life here today. I think it's better to be out of touch. No more dance halls, no more street parking when shopping, no more Coles Variety Stores, all too many ppl I knew back then are dead, never saw old school friends since the 70s, work places have changed, schools are producing ppl without manners today, who BTW know nothing, etc.
I remember those days, sex was safe, cars were dangerous and you could expect to live to 57!!!
Stavros
Bang on 57 two weeks ago..... That TAA add reminds me of a lot lost however..
Stavros gave me nightmares as a child (leader of the Darleks in Dr Who)
It all just went downhill after the 70s
except for IVF, cancer treatments and a few other things I can't think of at the moment.
Great to see this again. I put it together for some collector / nostalgia event in Melbourne many years ago. A LOT of work went into it. In fact, I also seem to remember making a video cover for it as well ... an old TV screen with a Holden Monaro in the middle. Thanks for the upload.
Retro Thingz it's good to find out where the video originated from, as I found it at a swap meet in South Australia. It still has the cover too, and is exactly how you described it. The car on the front looks like it was coloured in with an orange highlighter :)
It was ! Don't think I even had a computer at the time (about twenty years ago). From memory, it was cobbled together as a prize in a competition and originally shown on a big screen at one of the major collector fairs over here. The first few commercials came off 16 mm film which I had to transfer. Most of the other ads from Iced Vo Vo onwards came from another VHS compilation tape which was created by a fellow collector. Although, I only included the best quality items on this final tape that you've got. And, as I recall, it also, originally, included all the car commercials as well (several of which were also on 16 mm) which you've uploaded separately elsewhere on your channel. There have always been nostalgia buffs getting around making an effort to preserve this sort of material. Thanks again
Yeah I separated them, the cigarette and coke commercials are from the tape as well. It's good that you did this back then otherwise these commercials could have been lost forever. They are great to watch and are an important part of Australian history. Thank you for putting the video together all those years ago :)
Would you have an ad for "Cherry Ripe" chocolate bar by McRobertsons with Peter Doyle singing the song
Leed lemonade?
4:27 Ritchie said Marvellous 😁
He looked soooooooo young then! :DDDDDDDDDD
Thank you mate, back to the old days...
Just awesome .. thanks for the upload..
Thank you CZcams algorithms for brining me here. What a great package, it reminds me of how very lucky I am to have grown up in Australia in the 60s and 70s ... Good vid, GreenYoshi93 👍👍👍👍
Did you ever see any of these ads back then?
Oh my goodness a very young Richie Benauld. Looks different but sounds JUST the SAME!!!
5:35 Trix commercial with a young Stuart Wagstaff. Still trying to pick the other male voice in the ad. Well known voice.
Nice to see again. I recall most of these adverts. There was promise for Australia then ... but now?
What has changed? What can we do?
These must be mostly Melbourne ads, because I only remember the TAA and Amco ones in Sydney.
God takes me back. To my childhood
Awesome, the memories!
Seriously, some of those commercials must have cost $5 to produce! But of course the nostalgic value is priceless.
There was an AMCO ad from @ 1972 for which I remember the jingle. It went
Take a look at the world we're in, things aint the way the used to b'in, we all go in for the Amco thing it's a groovy way to be.....AMCO....AMCO.....its an AMCO kind of world.
Cant find it anywhere.
That Kevin Dennis ad is very trippy, very 70s. I still prefer to a lot of cars in one place as 'a Kevin Dennis yard'.
Fantastic, thanks so much!!!
This made me realise how regional Australian TV used to be, coming from Adelaide I recognise almost none of these ads
I thought the same. 😬
Same Terry. In Tas we only had 2 channels and didn't even own a tv till '65. I do remember 4 or 5 though.
Yeah, dwell Adelaide was/is always a decade behind the rest of us 😀.
Im from Adelaide too and have never ever heard any of these either!
I used to know all the ads we had and would sing along with all of them like the majority of us would
I think these need to go back into the woodwork for eternity.
I am from regional NSW. I think I recognised the TAA ad but that was it.
Well done! Interesting and also entertaining.
Incredibly, Kevin Dennis Motors still exists
Kevin Dennis Motor Group
268 - 272 Ballarat Road, Sunshine
VIC 3020
Kevin Dennis was actually two people, Dennis Gowing and Kevin Heffernan.. They combined their first names to make the name Kevin Dennis. When they split Dennis Gowing kept the name and we all thought he was actually Kevin Dennis.. His real name was Marshall Dennis Whyte born in London before he was adopted. Amazing what you find with google.
@@kaindog100 is he the same Kevin Heffernan that drove a LJ Torana GTR-XU1 at Bathurst?
@@davidewhite69 I can’t find any info on that but there was a Kevin Heffernan in a commodore in the 90’s.
Pity they're not competitive with their pricing...
Thanks just watched this again!!!!
Loved my Amco jeans 👖
Thanks for this ! My favourites Screamin Demons, aBIGail, Amoco and caramel whip.
not a Kevin Dennis fan i see!
I still think the best Australian commercial of that era was one for Kellog's Rice Bubbles, where the man lamented the lack of Rice Bubbles, (sung to the aria ''Vesti la Gubba'') and was further depressed by the arrival of his mother in law, bearing Rice Bubbles, but announcing she was staying for six weeks!
NO MORE RICE BUBBLES. 😭😭😭
'Guess how long I'll be heeeere.'
'It's her sixteenth visit...this...yearrrrr [sobs]'
My grandpa would give Tarax Black label as a little kid. I miss him and the lemonade.
and Life Lemonade ...it's a beauty
I recognised the man in the Trix commercial. Many years later, he did a commercial for Dynamo Laundry Detergent.
The main man in the Trix commercial is Stuart Wagstaff.
Can anyone identify the tune in the Sparklets commercial ? , I can remember GTV 9 commonly used an orchestrated version as background music to their test pattern prior to 7AM commencement of transmission in the early 70's.
Ads used to be a lot less "in your face"!
Yes Stephen. And now the ads are double the volume of the programs we're watching, and they dumb us down as well, which I loathe. Now when turning on the tv, everything is Covid, death insurance, riots, murders, ppl disappearing, stupid idiots smashing their cars into others, sponsor not the usual 3rd world kids, but an Aussie child, etc. Don't see many ads for Aussie products these days. Life these days is really depressing.
TAA! The government-owned airline I flew to Canberra in as a schoolboy to see Parliament House (the old one of course!). I remember maybe half or less of those ads but this one stood out. Also, of course, Abigail - 'Vanessa the Undresser'... :)
Most of todays ads shout at you. These are much more enjoyable!
Abigail 😍🤪
YES THEY'RE VERY LOUD TODAY.
Wow, that Tarax orange ad (1:41) is a bit raunchy for its time!
Abigail was HOT back then..she was my first major crush growing up..lol
No not then - it was common - Now the Big M add girls..........
...Abigail was a bit raunchy for her time too. Ever watch the No 96 series? 👀👁👁👅
@@repentorperish1405 I haven't seen the series, not old enough for that to have been in my time, but I've seen the specific scene you're referring to.
Back in the day when you had to watch the TV ads. These days I record everything and skip the ads. Yaaaaa.
Who watches TV? It's all streaming and no ads.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be...I'm looking for a Tarax commercial!
Poor people, the joy of youth. They're all in their 60s now. Sigh! Anyone still remembers Rowena Wallace from 'You can't see around corners'? I don't think so. It was my favorite.
I don't remember "You can't see around Corners" but I certainly remember Rowena Wallace in TV shows like Matlock Police, Cop Shop, Homicide, Skyways, etc.
@@utha2665
You forgot Prisoner. She starred in every drama series. Lovely woman.
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%2527t_See_%2527Round_Corners_(TV_series)&ved=2ahUKEwim0uW21-nuAhVb7HMBHQKdCY8QFjAMegQIHxAB&usg=AOvVaw2Sa8iy_xxGRFXRMHe4fXO_
www.gettyimages.no/detail/news-photo/in-the-late-60s-rowena-wallace-starred-in-the-then-news-photo/1079133994
@@mickcarson8504 yeah remember her in prisoner, but I had to stop somewhere 😋
I remember her from 'The Rovers.'
I was actually someone who looked forward to the ad breaks back in the day.
Yer - Put the kettle on or go for a wizz
Thank you
Love the TAA ad.
I couldn't watch Ritchie without thinking of the 12th Man!
4:27 -- So this is where Ritchie Bernard gets his famous tag line... Marvellous!!!
FMD! Richie Benaud with dark hair.I can remember so many of these.
G, O, G, G, O... No! No! Not the dart!
Omg, I forgot about that, funny
Geez the black label lemonade ad must be older than me I cant remember it!! i can the frank sinatra version. That old black magic has me in a spell.. that jingle from the 70s i think.
AUSTRALIA WAS MUCH BETTER BACK THEN KIDS OF TODAY WILL NEVER KNOW HOW GOOD IT WAS
THE LUCKY COUNTRY IS GONE DOOM AND GLOOM AHEAD IF ONLY WE COULD GO BACK ?
Well, aren't you the picture of positivity! All butterflies and rainbows at your place, I see.
Stop shouting.
thank you.
up until the 60s Australia was a genuine island paradise.
Takes us all back, better times that we can only now appreciate. What price progress.
White, santised, boring, racist and sexist.
Try telling that to the following generation. They never believe it. They think bcz they have technology, that our lives was boring crap from the dark ages. Funny they should say that bcz they WEREN'T there!
@@johanna5688 They were, I was there too.
"
*_"...the wife washes, and the dishes dry themselves."_* [peering through fingers] ..oh dear!
but washing up makes woman happy!
@@rods6405 : Klaus Schwab may pick that one up, "You will wash up, and you will be happy!".
Joes the whip chocolate
Up up and away with TAA
Always remember that add on the radio in the mornings,tea and toast was about 4 yrs old and tarax,amco jeans used to save up pocket money to buy them as teenagers 1970's
Memories are the best
Time does move fast
God Bless us all xx
Brilliant! now see if you can get it digitally enhanced? :)
That 1972 Tarax Black Label add conjures an image of grave-grinners and bleaching skulls and impending desth, just outside of frame.
shut up Les.
@@acomment559 who is Les?
Oh COME ON Damien. Just what are you on about? You must be talking about life today with Covid. Life was a blast back then. You missed it all....
@@johanna5688 I remember the ad. That's how I knew the year. 🤣
its marvellous the difference milo makes.... it got me fat!
Rather than 'Screamin Demons' we had 'Rumblers'. I recall the add; 'Rumblers keep riding into town. Rumblers; really mean machines, the wildest bikes around. Rumblers keep riding into town....." Haven't heard it since 72, but I still remember. Man, I wish I lived then, not now.
Heyyyy I remember amco jeans!!!! My godddd I am reallyyyyy old!!!! Hahahahahah!!!
Kevin Dennis..... lol! I remember him, although I was too young in 69 to recall this add. (My first year at school.) I like be how the 'update' is a 69 HT. I had one myself, in another life. 😁
Oh I remember Brashs (not the add but the store) the only ad that is familiar to me is the TAA one - for the jingle
Takes me back to the days I'd play all day in the mud, then go and have a shower with my uncle - those were the days
Richie B! Marvellous, that Milo tonic food.
4:22 Richie Benaud holy shit, even sounds the same back then. Eat a champ. RIP
He's so young here! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Had fun in the 60's and 70's but it went to shit afterwards until the 90's when I got married and had a son and now it's even worse 😁😁
Hahahahaha
I hope your son doesn't read that! lol
All the Kangaroos with Tarax.
And that Brash's ad, quite cool.
Some of these songs are catchy
I must have been a bit too young for most of these but I do remember the TAA ads - I can't hear that song without thinking of TAA. I can't remember any of the Tarax ads specifically (is that Vivian Gray launching the ship?) but I do remember Black Label ads. I imagine that one with the sexy Abigail was probably not shown before 8.30pm!
Haha. TAA, Try Another Airline. Tight Axxx Airline.
By the 5 minute mark, I was expecting it to return me to an episode of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) or something...
How did you find the commercials, I'm trying to find one of my sister & I done in 1975 for twin washing machine?
Shelly Williams I got these commercials from a video that was filled with them that I found at a garage sale. These are all that was on there. I doubt I will find any more commercials from the 70s
Search CZcams I've seen a few
Rory O'Donohue singing the Amco ad?
I was comparing and contrasting them to what I can remember from US Television around the same time,
In the 1960s we DID start seeing the first color commercials. by 1970 it was ALL newly-produced stuff , programs or commercials , all color
Fly the Friendly Skies was United Airlines. Up Up and away was TWA One airline used both hype phrases
And while TWA was an early adopter of the 707, neither of those can be considered an early operator of the 727 shown in that ad, although both airlines did eventually fly them
We sure had a lot of Nestle products, but if we had most of those it was under a different name
TARAX man thats something I haven't seen in decades
About the biscuits at 3:20 I used to always say "I like Iced Vo Vo but Iced Volvo is better!"
Who was the black guy doing the Brash's commercial? I dont recall ever seeing those ads here in South Aus when I was growing up.
Crikey...Scream'n Deamons...remember the ad!
The Matchbox Scorpions cars had a small rechargeable battery inside. After some hours of use and recharge, it could barely hold half charge. The speed control rotated a magnet under the plastic track.
What an Aussie accent from Richie. Back then, accents were much stronger.
The TAA balloon ad was everywhere on the TV.
Many ads were intentionally satire.
I was after a song that featured in the late 70s on a Bushells ad. The song went: "And have a good weekend. Bushells instant coffee, it puts the life in you, puts the life in you" and a few repeats. It showed ppl camping & drinking Bushells coffee. Does anyone know who the original band and the title of this song was? Please help as I've been after it for so long. Anybody out there know it?
I turned 14 in 1970, but didn't recognise any of these commercials until 4.37 the TAA 'Come Fly the Friendly Way' commercial, which I loved at the time & still love seeing again. The TRIX advert rang a vague bell, but that one didn't particularly stick in my young mind...I wonder why... Barter shoes - school's starting again soon, yuk. As for Cornsilk face powder, Cadbury's "caramel whip" & Amco jeans.....they look pure 1970's, not 60'.
Amco was 70s.