Native NYC/Tristate Area Old School TV/Radio Ad Thread

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Because I now have the jingle for “Sid’s Pants” in my head and can’t get it out.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:28 (six years ago)

Vaguely feel like JBRL may have posted that on social media.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:31 (six years ago)

Nope.

Did just find this personal ad in the Sep 20, 1982 issue of New York Magazine:

Barry • I'll Always remember the begin-
ning in "Sid's Pants." I loved you then
and more so now. Lisa

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:41 (six years ago)

1994 Rangers/Devils game was on the TV last night and there were the large WIZ ads in the corner boards does this count (nb I remember watching these games on ESPN or whatever and having no idea what a Wiz was apart from the musical with Diana Ross et al)

YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:06 (six years ago)

Yes, that’s good.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:07 (six years ago)

(Ladies sing)
If you want style and selection
Come see our collection
Get into our pants - Sid’s Pants!

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:08 (six years ago)

I didn't grow up in the area but I have a semi-fascination with Action Park (as I assume most people do).

Yerac, Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:24 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwlvkUMsDgI

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:39 (six years ago)

What about Raceway Park?

( Woody Woodpecker voice)
Ah-ha-ha Raceway Park!
(macho DJ voice)
Funny cars
Drag racing funny cars
Etc.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:41 (six years ago)

haha I just watched that one 2 seconds ago

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:43 (six years ago)

my parents would never let me go to action park because they said it was a deathtrap

my parents were smart

the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:43 (six years ago)

xp oh my god lullaby of broadway forever ingrained

heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:43 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS6ki8D7zQA

heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:44 (six years ago)

I grew up about 20 miles from Action Park, but I never went.

tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:46 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81YRIYnWg-M

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:47 (six years ago)

^this

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:47 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6CdviTKMd0

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:48 (six years ago)

What about the blue on black ( or vice versa) cameraman animation they used to show before movies on WABC?

.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:51 (six years ago)

Because at Syms, an educated consumer is our best customer.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:51 (six years ago)

i'm just going to assume this one wasn't nationwide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQHQkuv9l0

i remember first hearing simon and garfunkel's "at the zoo" in ads for the bronx zoo but i couldn't find any of those ads

the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:53 (six years ago)

Don’t forget Eli Wallach talking about stickball for The Dime.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:54 (six years ago)

Found it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2es-lfRSDOI

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:54 (six years ago)

Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLgXH56bY1k

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:55 (six years ago)

And this tiny variant of the first one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWxylm5RyVc

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:57 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGsqBn9pog

if this is a simulation.. i gotta say, it's a pretty good simulation! (esby), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:58 (six years ago)

the njn jingle is burned into my brain from all those hours spent watching "doctor who"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_jRYtOGGI

the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 March 2019 21:59 (six years ago)

Don’t forget Eli Wallach talking about stickball for The Dime.

I can find no mention of this of the intranetz, but I have a very strong memory of it.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:01 (six years ago)

Raceway Park video as discussed upthread, although I mostly remember the radio version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTrr16dW9k

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:05 (six years ago)

kinda funny you made this thread since the entertainment at my friend's house the other night was 'we watch weird old regional commercials on youtube'. florida memories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13s0J1wHhDs

if this is a simulation.. i gotta say, it's a pretty good simulation! (esby), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:08 (six years ago)

thread is killing it

heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:10 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL9psc1t1mY

heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:17 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rp2PNdnoLg

heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:20 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlBpl_T8Xl4

heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:23 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8p6-LconE

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:25 (six years ago)

And here’s a free minute from Pippin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo4Tz-4rkvs

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:28 (six years ago)

Don’t twiddle your thumbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF5izstBRrk

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:34 (six years ago)

Have never been able to find video for this:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/studioz7/42461803065

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:36 (six years ago)

Ah, doesn’t seem to work. Link is https://www.flickr.com/photos/studioz7/42461803065
leading to a print ad for the Kenny Rogers Quick Pickin’ ‘N Fun-Strummin’ Home Guitar Course.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:38 (six years ago)

Also assume that one was probably national.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:40 (six years ago)

i remember seeing this ad (the first one) constantly as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLY49fHkJQQ

the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:43 (six years ago)

oh, can't forget about this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYghEYb-gjE

the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:45 (six years ago)

i remember seeing this ad (the first one) constantly as well:

For some shows it’s hard to locate the original promo since they have been revived so many times. Just went looking for Pump Boys and Dinettes, although that wasn’t as ubiquitous as the one’s we’ve mentioned so far.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:49 (six years ago)

AND IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL

IS THE MILFORD PLAZA

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 00:40 (six years ago)

this wound up being precisely parodied on SCTV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o98FxOza6-s

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 00:43 (six years ago)

^^^When i was working at one bank and reviewing some broker statements, I sae some illiquid shares of Crazy Eddie in someone's account, like 20 years later. OMG that was one of the first scams that I remembered from my childhood.

Yerac, Sunday, 3 March 2019 00:46 (six years ago)

this wound up being precisely parodied on SCTV

Andrea Martin as Indira, no?

If they were parodying it on SCTV, does that mean these Broadway ads were not just local?

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2019 01:00 (six years ago)

yeah, once it opened in Toronto I imagine they used the same ad.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 01:05 (six years ago)

(I've really never gotten over hating Mandy Patinkin since that ludicrous NOT MUCH TO ASSSSK FOR!)

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 March 2019 01:06 (six years ago)

Ha, forgot that was him.

Elly Mae Bumpit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 March 2019 01:20 (six years ago)

Sorry if cud was posted as I can’t see but “we’re not candy, even though we look so fine and dandy…we are serious we could make you delirious. You should have a healthy fear of us” etc is my all time fave. Busta Rhymes as well.

Also Milford Plaza, beautiful Mt Airy Lodge…

dan selzer, Sunday, 3 March 2019 01:27 (six years ago)

The Wiz was mentioned way upthread, remember looking for a video but couldn’t pick one that seemed canonical.

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:08 (five years ago)

So it is, as well it should be. Not sure how I missed that.
I couldn't find a video that seemed canonical, either.

Deflatormouse, Monday, 17 February 2020 03:18 (five years ago)

Like they all seemed from too late in the game, all the ones I could find anyway.

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:20 (five years ago)

Don’t remember this place having TV ads but posting this link anyway. Seem to remember it lasting longer than this date.

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/27/archives/jimmys-music-world-scratched-high-hopes-of-jimmys-music-world.html

Did find this Korvettes ad though, which I don’t remember, but it does seem to accurately represent the store:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7i5KdtfJM8

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:30 (five years ago)

And another one for the fashion wing, The Other Korvettes, of which I have no memory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7eueSrwaEQ

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:32 (five years ago)

There are a couple of early ones on Youtube now but they're not representative samples.
This one has the older jingle, the later jingle I had in mind was more ostentatious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc0LZGOoFSA

Deflatormouse, Monday, 17 February 2020 03:33 (five years ago)

Finally, this one features the Korvettes department I spent the most time in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I7l-jntCeQ

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:34 (five years ago)

Korvette's was before my time. I remember the site of the Douglaston Pkwy location as Toys R Us and its record department as Movie World.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Kc-7CYvTo

Deflatormouse, Monday, 17 February 2020 03:38 (five years ago)

Radio ad for JGE, with interesting write-up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIKyB8Ufh7Q

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:39 (five years ago)

Don’t know what to say about this roundup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2dS9eOzA2Y

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:46 (five years ago)

Posting without watching the whole thing, twenty minutes of ads on WPIX:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhOjGwgPnq8

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:51 (five years ago)

Jerry's Disco!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TmZ7EyYWAZg

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:52 (five years ago)

Yeah, was wondering whether we had that yet.

More ads from WPIX:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s56O-sKEwPs

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:54 (five years ago)

Not local but all from 1977:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zzRp-jxx0E

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 03:56 (five years ago)

There’s a bunch more anthologies of late 70s commercials that I will refrain from posting for now.

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 04:00 (five years ago)

Playworld

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e3b00NZ3se8

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 17 February 2020 04:05 (five years ago)

Randazzo's
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EjoMyrhMgGE

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 17 February 2020 04:10 (five years ago)

Okay, another bunch of WPIX spots, from November 10th, 1978:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0nAKUTbvLs

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 04:11 (five years ago)

Lenny's. Take yer goomah.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kh_oIeOgO1s

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 17 February 2020 04:12 (five years ago)

B-b-but how come it doesn’t have Rocky Graziano in it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJob1BNjIXQ

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 04:23 (five years ago)

Watching those extended blocks of commercials is some serious La jetée-level time travel stuff.

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 February 2020 04:40 (five years ago)

RIP Sy Sperling.

Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 February 2020 03:00 (five years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ok I’m three vids in and just remembered every word to the mt airy lodge song. This is already my fave thread.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:02 (five years ago)

Omg the Dagastino commercial. Aww I’m getting crazy nostalgic now.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:07 (five years ago)

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs)
Posted: February 17, 2020 at 2:58:10 AM


“You’ll love it at Levitz.”

Popped into my head before I even clicked play.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:13 (five years ago)

Ok did I miss it or did you all really forget about


https://youtu.be/tDfsr1vvqy4

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:15 (five years ago)

Omg that Lenny’s commercial is slightly before my time but it is so good. Ahhhh.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:17 (five years ago)

Omg
Omg

Apex Tech!!


https://youtu.be/eStm731Emdc

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:20 (five years ago)

I never actually went there but were Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom commercials aired a lot? I remember those and the Action Park ones.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:24 (five years ago)

Jerry and Anne did these for years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTt1uuA2rnI

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:28 (five years ago)

Ha that was great.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:30 (five years ago)

I’m still stuck on the Dagostino one. I remember as a kid on Long Island thinking that it was such a real city supermarket. Years later I transferred to NYU and was housed in a midtown hotel during my first semester. The day I moved in my mom took me to a Dagostino to get groceries and I remember thinking - Wow I really live in the city now! Lol.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:36 (five years ago)

Omg
Omg

Apex Tech!!

Call for financial aid if you qualify

Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:15 (five years ago)

Jerry and Anne did these for years

Feel like I was even more likely to hear the radio commercials when I was upstate.

There was a pretty good Steve Coogan Alan Partridge joke involving this beverage which surprised me at the time because I for some reason thought it was Tri-State- or at most US-only.

Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:21 (five years ago)

There’s still a Lenny’s Clam Bar in Howard Beach!

tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:43 (five years ago)

vicarious enjoyment at ENBB slamming these all at once

Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:22 (five years ago)

Indeed. Hoping she saved some for today.

Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 10:02 (five years ago)

four weeks pass...

https://www.facebook.com/wpixarchives/videos/924254468002974/

Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 April 2020 00:14 (five years ago)

I can't help but feel this is undermining all of our hard work

then again I could watch Scooter bloopers all night long

Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 April 2020 01:15 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Not sure how local this was, but RIP anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTt1uuA2rnI

Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 May 2020 22:36 (five years ago)

two months pass...

In case we missed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0hC0BzuD28

Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:08 (four years ago)

This is interesting:
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/24/archives/advertising-rca-shifts-color-tv-strategy.html

Many spokesmen on radio and TV commercials have become celebrities, particularly when they are the principal owners of the businesses they talk about. If you don't believe it, catch the “Midday Live!” program on Channel 5 today at 11:30 A.M.

For in addition to what may be considered typical talk show guests—such as Rita Moreno and Jerry Stiller of the new film, “The Ritz”—five “stars” of the world of commercials are slated to appear. They are Frank Perdue of Perdue Inc., Tom Carvel of the Carvel Corporation, Sam Goody of the recordstore chain bearing his name, Leo Wiser of the Automobile Club of America and Sy Syms of Syrns clothiers.

What's the story?

Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:09 (four years ago)

HI DERE!

Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:55 (four years ago)

two months pass...

https://www.pix11.com/entertainment/carole-and-paula-announce-new-magic-garden-animated-series-in-the-works

Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 October 2020 17:20 (four years ago)

will watch

error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 16 October 2020 19:16 (four years ago)

Figured

Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 October 2020 20:14 (four years ago)

:)

error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 16 October 2020 20:38 (four years ago)

three weeks pass...

Thank heaven for 7-Eleven
And our Labor Day of Love

Meet the Anti-Monks! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 November 2020 12:15 (four years ago)

I guess that’s supposed to start with “Oh” and I can’t find any intranetz reference to the second part but it seemed to bubble up from some deep cranial fold and out through the brainwaves.

Meet the Anti-Monks! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 November 2020 12:58 (four years ago)

one year passes...

WPIX posted this Jordache Look spot with an "available at Gimbel's!" tag.https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=486586959515543

Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2022 01:59 (three years ago)


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