1979 AMERICAN EXPRESS CARD TV COMMERCIALS LUCIANO PAVAROTTI PELE SIR EDMUND HILLARY XD44754k

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This reel of American Express card commercials with the tagline "Don't Leave Home Without It!" features opera star Luciano Pavarotti, soccer star Pele, mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, tennis star Virginia Wade, Barnum & Bailey big cat trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, Triple Crown winner Steve Cauthen and football and rugby player Fran Tarkenton, and runner James "Jim" Fixx.
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[@ef7952]

Probably one of the most successful ad campaigns ever.

[@stuan1989]

The song “Zero to Hero” in Hercules even recreated the familiar typing-letters sequence

[@karellt2355]

RIP Pele!!

[@kendallevans4079]

Back when AmEx was a little special. They had AmEx offices and cashiers checks too. They weren't a revolving CC, balance due every month. Kind of shows where we have evolved to as a society

[@jamesslick4790]

I've had an American Express card for 39 years. People STILL don't know who I am. 🤔 But, hotel clerks talk nicely to me. ✈🏢💸

[@BaarBear]

Let me guess....you flash the Black American Express Card (the one for the elites) ;D

[@jamesslick4790]

@@BaarBear Nah, I "only" rate a Gold card. 🤫

[@gynandroidhead]

Thank you

[@djinnko]

thanks for posting this! I remember and got a kick out of “Are you Miss Wade…really?!” I’d love to see the one with Sen. Sam Ervin who called himself a plain ol’ country lawyah.

[@roachtoasties]

That woman next to Pavarotti can't seem to get enough of his right shoulder and arm.

[@gardensofthegods]

I think Sir Edmund Hillary sort of admitted that it was Tenzing Norgay , the sherpa with him , who actually was the first to reach the summit but of course it was not presented that way to the world

[@midann]

Funny to think it was "discovered". Like everyone who lived there was blind

[@LogoMan7777]

The timecode blocks Pele's translation.

[@Aislanzito]

the soccer king

[@christophersantana5895]

TRUE INDEED.

[@kingfish4575]

Neat

[@makarov-qp6mp]

lol , I wish I can get the EXPRESS Black card.

[@danorthsidemang3834]

Steve Cauthen, you are a kid.

[@marksantucci4230]

Member since 1978 how classic is that and the paper applications how classic is this?

[@manateemilk1]

Did they have something similar to membership rewards points back then

[@marksantucci4230]

@@manateemilk1 nope just membership rewards . and only the Green and the gold were around back then no revolving credit cards on their line just open credit cards!

[@marksantucci4230]

How classic was Pele's clothes? member since 1975, Steve Cauthen does look like a 15 year old kid? number 10 member since 1967?

[@brentmann2988]

0:26 The voice of Peter Thomas.

[@7thwheel]

I think Pete Conrad (The third man on the moon) did one of these.

[@winternow2242]

Didnt Len Deighton do an AMEX commercial?

[@winternow2242]

...or Ludlum

[@jlasf]

@@winternow2242 Ludlum did one.

[@BaarBear]

I knew that Stephen King and Mel Blanc shilled for American Express cards but i didn't know that these people did as well.

[@jlasf]

I did the commercial with Stephen King. "Shill" is kind of pejorative.

[@BaarBear]

@@jlasf Why do you say that?

[@jlasf]

@@BaarBear Here is a definition of "shill": "an accomplice of a hawker, gambler, or swindler who acts as an enthusiastic customer to entice or encourage others." It is usually used in a negative sense. Perhaps you weren't aware of that.

[@benitez147]

1:11 Bolsonaro kkkkk

[@albear972]

Luciano Pavorotti was thin! 2:44 did that puberty going through crackly voiced kid need his father to cosign for his American Express card application? and James F. Fixx died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age. He wasted so much time doing that boring stuff. 🤣

[@jethro1963]

Jim Fixx has always been my best excuse for not exercising. When it's your time it's your time, we have no control over that, much as we like to think so :)

[@jethro1963]

Steve Cauthen earned 6 million at 17 and the Triple Crown at 18. I had to think about it for a second but I got him before the name showed. Gunther Gebel-Williams was the only one I couldn't guess but I had heard of him. Virginia Wade looked nice.

[@albear972]

@@jethro1963 Heck yeah!

[@albear972]

@@jethro1963 And dang! 6 million bucks in the 70's is nearly 30 mil today! The kid did well! As for that Gunther guy, I was leaning towards thinking he was part of Siegfried & Roy. I was wrong.

[@jethro1963]

@@albear972 At first glance I thought he was Siegfried but I'm an old amateur magician and knew it wasn't him.

[@user-xm6ey5hq9l]

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