Classic Crazy Eddie Commercial 'Bathroom DooWop' (1977-1979)

[@Barb5001]

It should be understood that Eddie Antar never defrauded his customers. He was arrested for defrauding his investors.

[@davidjames9935]

How can someone defraud investors without defrauding customers? An investor buys into the company so in a way they are a customer since one definition of customer is a person of a specified kind that one has to deal with. An investor seems to fit into that category.

[@Barb5001]

Simple.....He defrauded investors by pretending to have much more stock that he actually had by moving the same stock from warehouse to warehouse.....only showing the newly filled warehouse to a given investor.. This made it seem like he had a much larger company to investors then he had in reality ...as they never knew that the other warehouses were emptied, just to fill the one that they they were viewing. Then, when he when bankrupt, the investors were left holding the empty bag . However, he never defrauded customers and stood behind what he sold...at the lowest prices around .

[@MrSloika]

He also defrauded the US government. Eddie skimmed millions in cash from the business.

[@jdquinitchette6114]

Well, he SAID he was *"CRAZY"* Eddie!

[@Rayomoonshine]

Well, I knew a service manager who said that one way for employees to get extra money was "lunching", i.e. working your lunch period repackaging returned item boxes to look new. They had all the tape and other things needed to make it look new. So returns went right back on the shelves. Also, they were big enough so that while they would match any price for the same make and model, they were big enough to have the manufacturers give them their own product numbers. So while you checked Macy's and found an RCA tv model GXW-34445A, Crazy Eddie would have GWX-34445D. DIfferent model, no price matching.

[@vincewhirlwind574]

This was an awesome commercial, I grew up in North Jersey and remember is well

[@SoothUrMental]

It was just the best commercial and for some reason, it came to me tonight and had to look it up! Glad to find it here and hit those high notes with the video. Wonder where those guys are now...

[@joannehines7806]

This was one of my favorite's growing up!! Loved Crazy Eddie!!

[@laurahicks9558]

This is the most memorable commercial ever!

[@IDiggSocialMedia]

I haven't heard this in almost 40 years! Thank for posting it!

[@mikemanne8112]

Amazing ! I loved that store ! great tv commercial !

[@mycolortv1]

Ahhhh those great Brooklyn accents

[@tbirdboy]

Ahhh...the memories. Used to hum this tune walking to Blessed Sacrament Catholic School in The Bronx as a little kid.

[@VJ_Johnny_Blitz]

I remember this commercial when I was a little kid late at night watching shows like Don Kirshner’s rock concert and Wolfman Jack hosting The midnight special. I saw this commercial so many times I clearly remember, singing along just like any song on the radio. Such sweet memories….❤❤❤ thank you for posting this

[@franklinslamo]

This brings back some great memories of the past. :)

[@genecasciari748]

I remember when this commercial first came out in the late 70s, and it's one of those songs you just can't get out of your head every once in awhile, even though the owner got into legal trouble it was still a very cool song, like a Billy Joel Innocent Man album, for all these old classics

[@BrooklynAvenue]

This should have been in the top 40

[@Kenny-The_Wine_Guy]

🍷Agree 100%!! I think they could have, if they gave it to Sha-Na-Na, it could've worked. Since they were an established and legendary act. These awesome and talented guys in the ad were unknown. Better than a lot of music today tho. 👍🏻

[@johnnyintrieri]

@@Kenny-The_Wine_Guy Agreed!!!! 😎👍🏻

[@islandboy7432]

Omgosh! I remember this commercial while I was growing up in QUEENS...

[@DR-xt9ux]

Same Ridgewood ,Queens

[@joyceboone8206]

I remember that store, Crazy Eddie. I used to buy my records from him.

[@ednichols9351]

This takes me back...I'd forgotten I knew the lyrics..so much fun! Thank you!

[@derekharris4922]

Me and a couple of my friends did this song in front of my building when it first came out.

[@jcolorful9815]

Thanks for posting this PURE GOLD. Reading RETAIL GANGSTAR currently, amazing book, GO ANTAR FAMILY TAX EVASION MASTERS !! HIS SCAMS WERE......INSANE !!! Again, thanks for this amazing gem from another time and place.. Kids these days have no clue how cool original home electronics were .....

[@robertortiz8540]

I remember this commercial when I was 17 years old.

[@Kenny-The_Wine_Guy]

🍷 I was about 10 or 11. Some things stay with you forever. 👍🏻

[@derrickgrant9427]

I love that commercial

[@Wickedthtz]

Derrick Grant. I remember this commercial as a kid. and his prices were "INSANE "

[@safetydave720]

Freakin' CrAzY. I loved watching Crazy Eddie commercials - they lightened me up. Know what I mean? He was probably framed by rivals.

[@Kenny-The_Wine_Guy]

🍷You never know.... could be. 👍🏼

[@kennethduonola4292]

Ty for the video aunt Candida. XOXO. Give my love to your family from Kenny Jr and Sage. Miss u all. God bless.

[@charleslassiter1116]

LOL Damn, thanks for taking me back. I needed that.

[@Kenny-The_Wine_Guy]

You're welcome pal'!👍

[@rb10465]

I was in my teens when this commercial first aired, but I think it's the best DOOWOP commercial EVER, and I've never seen any commercial match it, not even to this day! 🤣😂😆

[@melofacertainage]

That was Bryant High school in Astoria, Queens. My alma mater.

[@thiscorrosion900]

wow, fancy padding on the stall doors there! My HS bathrooms had no fucking doors on 'em. Assholes.

[@daveidmarx8296]

@@thiscorrosion900 How else are they gonna watch ya poop?

[@johnnyintrieri]

@@thiscorrosion900 🤣🤣🤣Same here! Only for commercial they probably put black leather on the door.

[@johnnyintrieri]

My wife's father went there. Cool...👍🏻😎

[@colossusforbin5484]

I've been searching for this commercial for years and couldn't find it because I couldn't remember what the commercial was for. I could only remember these guys singing in the bathroom and the one guy singing 'whole wide woild'. I was looking at old Crazy Eddie 'classic' commercials now and I saw this as a recommended video, recognizing the thumbnail image right away. It's nothing like the other Crazy Eddie commercials which is probably why I forgot this was a Crazy Eddie commercial. I was always thinking it was some sort of PSA.

[@firefightervic]

RIP Crazy Eddie. gone to that store wide sale in the sky.

[@Slammo]

Never gets old

[@x60hz]

Seem to remember this airing very late during the last few breaks of SNL in the 70s.

[@charleslassiter1116]

Yo, thanks for the flash-back. 👍

[@Wickedthtz]

the Lil guy in the back always made me laugh with his dancing.

[@Kenny-The_Wine_Guy]

Wickedthtz true. Lol!!

[@brianstorm5488]

Best doo wop jingle! Honorable mention, 5th Ave Candy Bars & Coke Adds Life

[@edwardanthony7283]

That was a great commercial..

[@gtc1961]

Possibly the best commercial ever.

[@PeterEdwardCaceci]

Jerry Carrol was InSaNe! I’m 62 and here his voice bellowing 645-1196!! I remember that number to this day!

[@LIBERTUPASTORBEY]

A discount Sha Na Na. But I love it. When Crazy Eddie's expanded to Philly in the mid-1980's, this is one of its commercials I remember.

[@tobyrusso2094]

LOVE IT!

[@johnnyintrieri]

Great To See This Again!! Thanks to Joe Cool Leone Jr. For Sending It. BTW my wife Maria is from Astoria, Queens & her father went to Bryant H.S. Coolsville Man! 😎🎲😎

[@BabbaZee1111]

oh how I used to love that thing

[@rc6147]

The guy with the beard was in SHA NA NA

[@gboogie360]

Good days

[@wingitprod]

Insane.

[@ms.leewilliams18]

I ued to love this song lol🎤💯❤🎙

[@NickName-qh9dz]

Okay. Now I feel old.

[@vincewhirlwind574]

An' so de story's told... across the whole wide woild...

[@projekt888]

This won a Clio

[@anubis1751]

I want to visit the restroom they sang in.

[@maxwestcomics]

It was filmed at a restroom in the cafeteria of the Pratt Institute.

[@usaffiredawg8654]

I remember this commercial from when I was a kid growing up in New York. I always wondered and still do to this day... were those guys really singing or were they just lip syncing? And if they were really singing, are they Doo Wop performers from any well known groups? Always wondered that.

[@ericnoah]

I shot a film in film school starring the lead singer as a hipster trumpet player.

[@thepeternetwork]

Surprisingly, I don't remember this Crazy Eddie commercial. Yet somehow I remember Phil Rizutto for The Money Store.

[@rsprockets7846]

Antiques

[@JMFabiano]

This ad was reaired in the late 80s too, IIRC.

[@jamesquirk4999]

Great High School 🏫 Doowop from men restroom 🚹 from Crazy Eddie discount electronics store 😅

[@cdgoldmine8402]

I bought a portable cassette player at the 8th street 6th Avenue store. Brought it out to the car and took it out of the box and the knobs on it were all broken. I brought it back to the store immediately and they wouldn’t accept a return. So when they got busted I had the last laugh. Still love the commercials though but a shitty business. Then came The Wiz and they allowed you to return everything

[@johnnyintrieri]

Payback is a Bitch! 👍🏻😎

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

These guys are surprisingly good singers, does anyone know if they were an actual group, or just some randos that Crazy Eddie's picked up.

[@zemxxi2765]

I misremembered, thinking that they were Sha Na Na....But now I know it couldn't be. No Bowser.

[@zemxxi2765]

Is this Sha Na Na sans Bowzer?

[@a.nevillechamberlain7612]

I brought a Sylvania tv from Crazy Eddie, Brooklyn. A sucker for advertisement, Sylvania beat Sony, again!!.

[@MrWomenswrestlingfan]

1977?

[@Bentom86]

It was earlier than that. More like ‘75 with the Doo Wop/Happy Days craze & a little modern day Welcome Back Kotter mixed in.

[@robertolaboy7216]

Crazy Eddie

[@marty9660]

is that Jeff Conaway Bobby Wheeler?

[@garysmith6421]

The commercials were great. Ran into Joey Ramone a couple of times at the store on 8th and 6th Ave. He was picking up Atari video games. But the store was shit. I bought a boom box there for $75. Took it out of the box and all the knobs fell off. Brought it right back to the store like 30 minutes after I bought it and they wouldn’t take it back. So, surprised the asshole got arrested? Nope. But I laughed my ass off

[@Surferjo]

so did any one EVER find out whom the DOO WOP guys are?

[@johnnyintrieri]

The Surferjo Show..Great question!! 🤔👍🏻😎

[@snuggybearkids]

www.singers.com/vidplayer/?v=MPQ_HjbzeGU

[@blackwunk]

He got released from jail in '99.

[@joedimaggio3687]

50 year old high school students?

[@davidmoody718]

This has to be sha na na related.

[@zealousjay1993]

0:03 0:32

[@zenbeer]

I wonder if he's out of jail now.

[@daveidmarx8296]

I think he ded

[@silentvalentina727]

Sha Na Na?

[@IggynEnzo]

Nah

[@daveidmarx8296]

@@IggynEnzo Nah nah nah

[@hodgepodgebuhgodge3739]

Nah.

[@OldHeathen1963]

Hey....ey ...ey...good bye.

[@rc6147]

The guy with the beard was in SHA NA NA I'm pretty sure

[@benquicks]

the sweathogs are better singers than them.

[@erroljr.7480]

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