I love this commercial an I was just a teen when I heard this on our console floor model zenith color tv the music is,so beautiful, took me 32 yrs to find it . wow I could remember the music an,how,it went but now I found it , awesome!!!
I remember when I was young I always hated the sound of his music as it sounded so depressing now I listen to it and I reminisce as a child life was so much easier back then
This has to be one of the very BEST wine commercials ever made!!!! I used to love watching it when it was on tv. Vangelis did record a version of this song but it is so different in sound and slower, too, and a BIG disappointment compared to whoever recorded this version on this commercial. I think there were one or two other Gallo commercials with this song but I cannot remember for sure. Thanks so much for the posting and the memories!!!
I remember as a kid I used to hear this on TV in 1986 long before my sister was bornI didn't like change a lot and the thing was the commercials now day they don't make them like they used to
@@Flyingaceful My brother, Harry Drnec, was the sales manager for E & J and made this commercial. He also introduced Bud Light to the market earlier when he was with Budweiser and then went on to introduce Red Bull internationally.
Back then music played a prominent part in advertisements. Who that saw them, would forget the Marlboro ads with the music from "The Magnificent Seven", or the immortal Coca Cola ad with "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"? The ads themselves were often miniature cinematic shorts, with wide, scenic views that showed more than the product. This Chanel no. 5 ad, also scored with Vangelis music, is another example: czcams.com/video/jBLFCQD76zk/video.html To borrow from what another poster has said, if ads today were this good, people would watch them more and mind them less. I know I would.
Both Joseph Hanwright and Joe Pytka shot spots for Gallo. I think Pytka was first. I worked with Joseph on the next campaign as his 1st AC. We shot so much and so many spots that it's interesting to see that only this and a few others survive. In the end, I think this is a combination of shots from both directors which is fairly normal for an agency to do.
Yes really nice footage. I worked with Hanwright & the Pytkas during the mid 80’s We shot a 90-second spot for Gallo, it was shot in SF, Marin County and Napa Valley. It featured 5 different international wedding parties, all exterior shoots, 35mm Panavision. TV spots like that used to take us 6-15 days to shoot. It was hard work but those were some really nice creative commercial gigs. We used to call them “high-budget short films“. The wine & liquor commercials, some of the beer commercials, and Perrier spots (long before Nestlé bought them.). I always love the motion picture production but it takes very long days to shoot on-location , so much logistics, the casting, set dressing, getting all of the needed camera package, and grip & lighting gear… HM, location scout, 2nd AC, 2nd AD, grip, etc. U.S, Mexico, Europe
@@HunterMann Worked with Joe on several occasions as AC. Ha! What an experience! Ended up working for Hanwright & Kira/H Films pretty steady for 20 years. Yeah, we always loved Pytka's work forever! In fact, for Gallo, we shot many of the like scenes. My memory fades a touch but I'd say this spot is a "mash-up" of both directors as I distinctly remember the red pick-up shot but others are distinctly Pytka's. BTW, I'm using a Pytka net on the pickup shot for Hanwright! Ha!
Yup, There was also a Christmas holiday ad with this from Gallo too if I remember correctly. Everyone being seated around a table with the same beautiful music playing.
I want to play this when I'm close to my death so that I can go back to when I was a child and remember these commercials so many little things we forget about so little time to know everything changes especially with covid-19
@decline2state No, I think it was Hal Riney with his GREAT voice which, together with the LOVELY music and stunning footage, made this commercial the BEST wine commercial ever made!!!!! Hal is featured on CZcams and there are two other 1986 Gallo wine commercials with this sweet music. One is an award-winner with a wedding theme and the other is a shorter one with a Christmas theme. Both can be seen on CZcams. Just click on them in the right-hand column on the same page as this ad. Cheers!
Well would you look at this full-circularity! My dad liked this tune so we found Opera Sauvage but he didn't like the *actual* version and wanted to get rid of the LP but I held onto it instead... and thus began my love for new-age music. And here I was thinking about this all last night.
Thanks for posting this. In the past, I contacted Ernest and Julio Gallo marketing department trying to get copies of these commercials, but I wasn't successful. You don't happen to have the wedding one do you? Bt the way, the marketing department told me that Vangelis made a special arrangement of Hymne just for these commercials. Thanks again!!!
The song being played is "Hymne" by Vangelis... BUT it's NOT Vangelis's arrangement. Vangelis's is MUCH slower and is heavy on the synthesizers. Still a beautiful song, but I wish I could find the actual arrangement/version of the song used in these commercials!!!
@WikeddTung This particular version is also performed on synthesizers. Vangelis re-did it specifically for this commercial. Never released on CD or record though, sadly...
When this ad was done, I was really into California wine. However, Gallo was not on my list. I tried their varietal wines, a Cabernet, Zinfandel and a Chardonnay as a result of the ads. I was very impressed with the flavor, body, nose and quality. If they are making their varietals now as they did then, it is a great wine at a great price.
Thanks for replying! Just wanted to let you know that even though Vangelis did create this song called "Hymne", this version in this wonderful commercial is NOT by them but by someone else. Vangelis is heavy on synthesizers and this song is, like you said well, "less electronic and more symphonic" and that is what it makes it so beautiful. The version created by Vangelis was really inferior to this version since it was much slower and had too much synthesizer sound which was unfortunate.
I have the Vangelis soundtrack album Opera Sauvage with this version of Hymn and I also have the Chariots of Fire (also one of my favorite movies), soundtrack that has the more synthesized version. I enjoy both.
MARY, both versions of "Hymne" are nice but the one in this Gallo commercial by someone else is the one I love the most. There was also a second Gallo commercial with this song that takes place at a wedding and it is even nicer. It is also on CZcams.
@@DougCeleste yes I remember that other commercial. I need to look for it! I also specifically remember one with a woman holding a bottle of wine dancing around in slow motion. My mother fell I love with the music from the commercials and somehow I found out Vangelis had his version on the Opera Sauvage album so I bought it for her for Christmas ❤️
@@marymares3512 Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Those two Gallo commercials from 35 years ago are some of my all-time favorites. LOVE the video footage that goes along well with the music. Not sure who did that version of "Hymne" for the commercials but I always LOVED it! And I vaguely remember the third commercial that you are referring to and I will have to see if it is on CZcams. Not sure if that one had the "Hymne" music, also. Cheers and Happy July 4th from New Mexico!
Thanks for your notes and the clarification on Vangelis. I appreciate that but I had read that this version of this song in this commercial was NOT by Vangelis but by someone else, I guess I read wrong from what you are saying.
not by the music....im on the remember for the yesterday...that music convrge in a really motion sense could be a fantasy, an anymous felling.... sensation ....and femembranse from the 80s--thanks for you....master piece for the past
If they made ads like this today, I'd actually listen to them.
This commercial is a work of art!
I've had this song in my head since I saw this ad in 1986.
ORslh same here. And I was only 4 when I heard it, and it stuck with me all this time.
Same here.
Me too!
The song is made by Vangelis
I used to live in dorms at UNT in Denton-Texas in 1986. This commercial went on air in 1986-87. Have fond memories with it.
My bride marched down ailes on our wedding day in to this music in 1996. My heart can still hear it. She was so beautiful!
My mother (RIP) Loved the Vangelis music in this commercial
They need to bring back these commercials! So beautiful.
I love this commercial an I was just a teen when I heard this on our console floor model zenith color tv the music is,so beautiful, took me 32 yrs to find it . wow I could remember the music an,how,it went but now I found it , awesome!!!
Has me too I was 16 when I fell in love with the music...
Wow! We all have something in common! I was a youngster back then.
I was 16 also.
I remember when I was young I always hated the sound of his music as it sounded so depressing now I listen to it and I reminisce as a child life was so much easier back then
This has to be one of the very BEST wine commercials ever made!!!! I used to love watching it when it was on tv. Vangelis did record a version of this song but it is so different in sound and slower, too, and a BIG disappointment compared to whoever recorded this version on this commercial. I think there were one or two other Gallo commercials with this song but I cannot remember for sure. Thanks so much for the posting and the memories!!!
Hal Riney, a true genius of the advertising industry!
I remember as a kid I used to hear this on TV in 1986 long before my sister was bornI didn't like change a lot and the thing was the commercials now day they don't make them like they used to
Same here! I was a kid when I saw this on TV. It took me all these years to find it. Lol
@@Flyingaceful My brother, Harry Drnec, was the sales manager for E & J and made this commercial. He also introduced Bud Light to the market earlier when he was with Budweiser and then went on to introduce Red Bull internationally.
@@johndrnec718 wow! How cool is that!!! 👍
Back then music played a prominent part in advertisements. Who that saw them, would forget the Marlboro ads with the music from "The Magnificent Seven", or the immortal Coca Cola ad with "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"? The ads themselves were often miniature cinematic shorts, with wide, scenic views that showed more than the product. This Chanel no. 5 ad, also scored with Vangelis music, is another example: czcams.com/video/jBLFCQD76zk/video.html
To borrow from what another poster has said, if ads today were this good, people would watch them more and mind them less. I know I would.
Gracefully Done !
My favorite commercial ever. I remember nearly 37 years later.
One of my favorite commercials of all time! Love the Vangelis. Kudo's to those that picked up on the arrangement and speed being different :)
We had this played at our wedding 26 years ago! Simply beautiful music!
Good choice!
Shortly after this commercial came out I remember hearing that Vagelis made the music. This commercial is a special moment in time.
They played this at my grandmas funeral
What a beautiful hymn to play at a funeral! I absolutely love this hymn!!!
I have this song Hymne by Vangelis on cassette tape . RIP vangelis. A great song you did
The beginning reminds me just a bit of:
"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you...."
( All my loving", Beatles, 1963)
Wonderfully shot. Whoever the director of this video was, knew how to make a commercial look awesome.
Both Joseph Hanwright and Joe Pytka shot spots for Gallo. I think Pytka was first. I worked with Joseph on the next campaign as his 1st AC. We shot so much and so many spots that it's interesting to see that only this and a few others survive. In the end, I think this is a combination of shots from both directors which is fairly normal for an agency to do.
Yes really nice footage. I worked with Hanwright & the Pytkas during the mid 80’s
We shot a 90-second spot for Gallo, it was shot in SF, Marin County and Napa Valley. It featured 5 different international wedding parties, all exterior shoots, 35mm Panavision. TV spots like that used to take us 6-15 days to shoot.
It was hard work but those were some really nice creative commercial gigs. We used to call them “high-budget short films“. The wine & liquor commercials, some of the beer commercials, and Perrier spots (long before Nestlé bought them.).
I always love the motion picture production but it takes very long days to shoot on-location , so much logistics, the casting, set dressing, getting all of the needed camera package, and grip & lighting gear…
HM, location scout, 2nd AC, 2nd AD, grip, etc.
U.S, Mexico, Europe
@@HunterMann Worked with Joe on several occasions as AC. Ha! What an experience! Ended up working for Hanwright & Kira/H Films pretty steady for 20 years. Yeah, we always loved Pytka's work forever! In fact, for Gallo, we shot many of the like scenes. My memory fades a touch but I'd say this spot is a "mash-up" of both directors as I distinctly remember the red pick-up shot but others are distinctly Pytka's. BTW, I'm using a Pytka net on the pickup shot for Hanwright! Ha!
Outstanding commercial!
Yup, There was also a Christmas holiday ad with this from Gallo too if I remember correctly. Everyone being seated around a table with the same beautiful music playing.
I want to play this when I'm close to my death so that I can go back to when I was a child and remember these commercials so many little things we forget about so little time to know everything changes especially with covid-19
@decline2state No, I think it was Hal Riney with his GREAT voice which, together with the LOVELY music and stunning footage, made this commercial the BEST wine commercial ever made!!!!! Hal is featured on CZcams and there are two other 1986 Gallo wine commercials with this sweet music. One is an award-winner with a wedding theme and the other is a shorter one with a Christmas theme. Both can be seen on CZcams. Just click on them in the right-hand column on the same page as this ad. Cheers!
Well would you look at this full-circularity! My dad liked this tune so we found Opera Sauvage but he didn't like the *actual* version and wanted to get rid of the LP but I held onto it instead... and thus began my love for new-age music. And here I was thinking about this all last night.
Simply gorgeous. My alltime fave.
This version of the song is the one I love!
Thanks for posting this. In the past, I contacted Ernest and Julio Gallo marketing department trying to get copies of these commercials, but I wasn't successful. You don't happen to have the wedding one do you? Bt the way, the marketing department told me that Vangelis made a special arrangement of Hymne just for these commercials. Thanks again!!!
Ah those 80's Christmas times. These ads and the overpowering smell of Brut cologne :) .
The song being played is "Hymne" by Vangelis... BUT it's NOT Vangelis's arrangement. Vangelis's is MUCH slower and is heavy on the synthesizers. Still a beautiful song, but I wish I could find the actual arrangement/version of the song used in these commercials!!!
@WikeddTung
This particular version is also performed on synthesizers. Vangelis re-did it specifically for this commercial. Never released on CD or record though, sadly...
Turned me into a career wino at 23. In fact, I've got a glass of sauvignon blanc I'm working on now and I think it's time for a refill.
The music is Vangelis' "Hymne" composition.
This is by far my favorite version of this piece on CZcams.
When this ad was done, I was really into California wine. However, Gallo was not on my list. I tried their varietal wines, a Cabernet, Zinfandel and a Chardonnay as a result of the ads. I was very impressed with the flavor, body, nose and quality. If they are making their varietals now as they did then, it is a great wine at a great price.
Cool story, bro.
Beautiful melody an yes I’m here in 2023 day of 12th of July at 2 pm break
"We will sell no wine for more than a dollar forty-nine!"
LOL
Ah YES!! For the longest time I thought the music was used in a Korbel ad ... D'OH !!
I believe that's the voice of Hal Riney
Does anyone know who the actors were in this commercial and the others many thanks to anyone who can help
They played this at my parents wedding
Thanks for replying! Just wanted to let you know that even though Vangelis did create this song called "Hymne", this version in this wonderful commercial is NOT by them but by someone else. Vangelis is heavy on synthesizers and this song is, like you said well, "less electronic and more symphonic" and that is what it makes it so beautiful. The version created by Vangelis was really inferior to this version since it was much slower and had too much synthesizer sound which was unfortunate.
I have the Vangelis soundtrack album Opera Sauvage with this version of Hymn and I also have the Chariots of Fire (also one of my favorite movies), soundtrack that has the more synthesized version. I enjoy both.
@John Cline My typo on "them."
MARY, both versions of "Hymne" are nice but the one in this Gallo commercial by someone else is the one I love the most. There was also a second Gallo commercial with this song that takes place at a wedding and it is even nicer. It is also on CZcams.
@@DougCeleste yes I remember that other commercial. I need to look for it! I also specifically remember one with a woman holding a bottle of wine dancing around in slow motion. My mother fell I love with the music from the commercials and somehow I found out Vangelis had his version on the Opera Sauvage album so I bought it for her for Christmas ❤️
@@marymares3512 Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Those two Gallo commercials from 35 years ago are some of my all-time favorites. LOVE the video footage that goes along well with the music. Not sure who did that version of "Hymne" for the commercials but I always LOVED it! And I vaguely remember the third commercial that you are referring to and I will have to see if it is on CZcams. Not sure if that one had the "Hymne" music, also. Cheers and Happy July 4th from New Mexico!
SNL: because the wine remembers, you can forget!
How true.
I still have a box of 12 bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon bought in 1985. I wonder if it still good?
I wonder if this ad was where I got the idea to use that music in in one of my videos...
Vangelis also composed the "Chariots of Fire" theme.
Was the narrator of the ad Dick Tufeld, who voiced the robot in "Lost in Space"?
Thanks for your notes and the clarification on Vangelis. I appreciate that but I had read that this version of this song in this commercial was NOT by Vangelis but by someone else, I guess I read wrong from what you are saying.
🍷😍
What IS the name of this very beautiful piece of music and who composed/performed it?
Vangelis used this soundtrack in the Chariots of Fire.
No he didn’t. It was on his Opera Sauvage album.
The song used in this sounds to me to be a cross between "Canon in D" and "Silent Night."
No I Think It's Hymne By Vangelis!
Does anyone know who the actors are
Not really sure but this song stuck in my head since I was just a kid. It took me all these years to find it! Love the music!
not by the music....im on the remember for the yesterday...that music convrge in a really motion sense could be a fantasy, an anymous felling.... sensation ....and femembranse from the 80s--thanks for you....master piece for the past