[Electronics-Talk] retromercials

[Pamela Dominguez]

Does anybody remember Speedy Alcacelzer?  (don't know if I spelled that 
product correctly)  Also, remember "More park's saussages, Mom!"?  And 
somebody must have complained, because later on, they spliced in a "Please!" 
And you could hear the difference.  There was some kind of commercial in the 
late sixties that had little bits of things that went by quickly, one of 
which was some kids, one of which was banging on the piano the way kids do, 
and then running somewhere, maybe into the kitchen.  Also, the Bustelo 
commercial with that little kid singing:  "En mi casa toman Bustelo!  Pam.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Sandra Streeter via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:01 PM
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Cc: Sandra Streeter
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] retromercials

To an OT response from Vince, my answer—to keep the conversation going:

I couldn’t tell whether you shared your faves with the group, but you 
should! And if this “reply all” doesn’t go out to the entire group, I’ll 
make sure I send my answer to them, as well. I’m going to return to this 
paragraph after I finish, once I’ve had time to think of some of my faves. 
Really glad for the on-list response that sent me another link to try. Okay, 
let’s see: there was the one for the American Lung Assn., “it’s a matter of 
life... and breath,” with the ascending melodic line between and after the 
two phrases; one for legal blindness that was highly visual (don’t you love 
that) with three little tones, several times; a cystic fibrosis commercial 
that started with a kid coughing and saying,  “I’m Mike. Everybody has a 
problem. My problem is CF”, and another introducing Tracy, and in a watery 
voice typical of severe CF saying, “But we need help”; there was a radio 
spot for MS where it was described as “the mysterious crippler of young 
adults”; I also liked the fairly recent one about computer viruses that 
warned you to watch out for them so that “your computer can play with other 
computers”; I liked the Windex commercial that was a take on the Fifth 
Dimension’s “Let the Sun Shine,” and the Pledge one based on the Peter, Paul 
and Mary song, “Lemon Tree,” and the cough med commercial with the mother 
acting like a doctor with her waiting line of children, going, “Ne-e-ext?” 
Then there was the old aspirin commercial (I forget for which product) that 
used to run during “One Life to Live,” which talked about someone having a 
fever, and in the background at some point were these violins on tremalo, 
aptly capturing the headachy, tremulous feel you get when you have a fever; 
I also used to like the ones for KMart with Chrissy and her brother; and the 
Kraft Mac and Cheese ones with Annie and her brother; and what about the 
ones for a phone company with Melissa, her brother and a rather ornery 
father—I distinctly remember him yelling, ‘GUAM”, during one of them, to a 
snide question from one of the teenagers. And many more. I’m going to 
copy-paste this into a group message, in case it doesn’t go out, but this is 
really fun, and I hope this exchange goes on for a while...

The Indian-war-whoop one was shown late evenings (say, around 10:00) on the 
CBS and/or ABC affiliates in Hartford (WTIC) or New Haven (I BELIEVE, WNHC) 
respectively. As I said before, I have no recollection of what it marketed, 
but as an older person no longer scared by it (I’ll probably start a bit if 
I do find a source and hear it, just because it would re-start that old 
reflex from when I was a kid), I still want to see it.

Oh, what about the cerebral palsy one with just a repeated melody (I can’t 
account for the visuals, obviously)? I think folks were more into PSA’s 
about various medical issues then more than now.

So, thanks!




Sandra
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is 
invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince


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