Do you remember 1981? - Retro Commercials Vol 411

[@DavesArchives]

Stay tuned for the end to see some SCTV nostalgia :)

[@ChiefExecutiveOrbiter]

Bring it on Long John

[@ChiefExecutiveOrbiter]

Man! I can't find the Genesee brewing commercial, the one with the old man on the docks, with the clam chowder, can't find it for the life of me. If you can find it or have a compilation with it on there please let me know!!!

[@baylinkdashyt]

I never knew their show open showed them in street clothes; a very nice touch.

[@taureanmay7480]

Nice.

[@80sutopia68]

I love SCTV! That was good stuff! I remember going into Long John Silver's growing up and wearing the pirate hat! Great Videos! Thanks!

[@chanfle78]

I love that vintage look from the 80’s

[@jerrygil1965]

Late 70s and Early 80s

[@daveerhardt1879]

I really like to watch old commercials.Commercials were better then and life seemed more simple too.

[@stevegarcia3174]

I wish I could go back to my childhood the 80s was so much fun miss this era

[@L_Qu]

Watching in 2021, this feels like it’s from an alternate universe

[@STEVSGONE]

A lot of this older stuff feels like that now. You want to go on a bit of a trip look up radio, how it's done playlist

[@STEVSGONE]

Never mind the playlist is now hidden

[@STEVSGONE]

Have a look at these channels instead Ellis feaster Dusty old tapes Tapes from the radio

[@SnarkyRC]

Oh it is. We live in bizarro world now.

[@andrewtodaro2874]

What a difference 40 years makes!

[@CommodoreFan64]

1981 was my birth year, so these commercials were so awesome to see. 👍👍

[@DavesArchives]

Glad you enjoyed it, C64!

[@taureanmay7480]

@@DavesArchives me too dave.

[@cdjxman]

Thank you so much Dave for these great memories!!!😀👍

[@DavesArchives]

You're welcome, Charlie! :)

[@devilsadvocate71]

@@DavesArchives Dave, thank you for the wonderful memories from the greatest decade. So nostalgic.

[@taureanmay7480]

@@DavesArchives you too dave.

[@thrillington2008]

When I had the fish tacos and fries during lockdown last spring from Long John Silver's, the food still taste good and its a shame the location near me burned down and never reopened.

[@arricammarques1955]

Deep fryer fire?

[@thrillington2008]

Yes

[@samanthab1923]

We had one open in the town next to ours. It used to be a Burger Chef! Didn't last long though.

[@nickhill8612]

Are you in Staunton Virginia? The Long John's burned down here .

[@thrillington2008]

@@nickhill8612 Newport News. The location nearby in Hampton burned down.

[@paintslinger16]

I turned 18 and graduated in 1981, 40 years, how did it go so quickly?

[@bmaluginthevanishingman6034]

Aw this gives me cold chills. Good morning 76 so watching this is like it takes me to a place that I don't often go and if I do it's only in my dreams. Here within the last year I run across something on KZbin called back to the '80s and it's all SYNTHWAVE. At night when I can't sleep I'm very fond of the bladerunner soundtrack score that helps me drift off

[@patricksmith6796]

Best times were the late 70's and early 80's for so many things.

[@samanthab1923]

Ask any band of any kind of music & they will tell you they made their best stuff in the 70's

[@taureanmay7480]

Yes.

[@Leatricaw]

Totally agree

[@jamzst]

Ultra dangerous high rise construction and lots of beer...great combination 😄

[@guerralg63]

Its better than dancing in the street full of fentanyl!

[@rejectedjeepers7317]

In the future no one will remember commercial because they skip them..we had to watch them and honestly miss most of them because they were so original.

[@trublu71]

I can’t thank you enough for uploading these. A true treasure trove of memories for me. When the world was a better place! And the SCTV ending was the best. That was the CCCP1 episode from October 1981

[@jourdyn414]

This has become my Sunday night ritual as I get ready for bed, watching your videos. Keep up the excellent work!

[@kristy_GT]

I was three!!! I remember some of these. I always love what Dave puts together for us. Now that I'm all old and such it's time for bed, I got work in the morning 😢😢😢😁 G'night y'all!

[@gxdjoeybaby07]

02:18 ....when the stores actually stamped the price on the product!

[@debfan74]

1:15, the Long John Silver's commercial where the kid says bring it on, he would go on to play Buzz in the first two seasons of Mama's Family

[@mikepez]

How exciting 1981 seemed. It’s a shame we can’t say the same for 2021.... 😷 🦠 🥴 🔥 💥 🔥

[@fordmavericksosx3569]

Mike L So true.

[@pannoni1491]

@@fordmavericksosx3569 Well 1981 had its share of inherited problems from the '70s like high inflation, high interest rates, and a sluggish economy, and a lot of Boomers and older still had that "best days were behind us" like the '50s/'60s were, but the new Reagan administration brought about new opportunities, and by 1984, the go-go spirit was back. And keep in mind that Mr. Reagan was nearly killed (as well as the Pope), so there was the same unrest issues going on back then, and crime was going up due to all those cocaine dealers. Instead of a pandemic, 1981 also brought AIDS intro the news. It wasn't as bad as the current situation was, but the fact was that there was no hope of a vaccine, so it really shows that not everything in the past was as rosy as it seemed. At least TV was more fun, there was no Internet or cellphones to make you feel perpetually glued to the outside world, and the new tech at the time made you feel like there was plenty to do without feeling overwhelmed.

[@fordmavericksosx3569]

pannoni14 True. The 80’s were far from perfect, however I still think 1981 sounds more fun than 2021, with the pandemic, so much hatred, literally everything being politicized, everyone being “cancelled” and censored for having a different opinion. It only gets worse from here...

[@gmfd76]

It was a good time to be a little kid :)

[@jamesharv2005]

@@fordmavericksosx3569 everyone being cancelled huh? You cant say that jan 6th terror attack was simply a difference of opinion. Stop with the hyperbole. In 1981 we were close as ever to a civil war. Rights of all were diminished compared to today.

[@papasteel804]

I'd love to see a compilation of retro beer commercials. The funny ones, of course.

[@DavesArchives]

Good idea!

[@SnarkyRC]

It must include Hamm's

[@youngimperialistmkii]

Great idea😀

[@taureanmay7480]

@@DavesArchives nice dave.

[@ambergr46]

Early 80s were the best! I prefer it over late 80s.

[@exerciserelax8719]

Mid 80s for me. But all are great.

[@josebro352]

I agree. Early 80s and late 80s were very different. Early 80s were more like the 70s.

[@ambergr46]

@@josebro352 Yep, I agree! Totally different aesthetic.

[@taureanmay7480]

Come on.

[@raymondkunkel8499]

It's great to see these old ads thanks for sharing

[@critr41]

I was 10 years old and I miss the '80's.

[@samhain4539]

I was 11 lol

[@taureanmay7480]

Me too.

[@larkatmic]

I was 18, dreamed of owning a Saab turbo, but drove a 66 mustang, loved Siouxie and the Banshees, DEVO, X, and Suburban lawns. Hated disco. 1981 was by far my favorite year! LA was a great place to grow up.

[@jerrygil1965]

Curious of why hated disco?

[@nickhill8612]

Hey thank you for the time capsule. I love it.

[@ThommyofThenn]

I wasn't born until 1993 but I respect 1981 for having the Pointer Sisters,Warren Zevon, Iron Maiden all doing some of their best music. Seems like a interesting year

[@GESSO217]

10:20 Leonard Nimoy doing the voiceover for the Bell Commercial.

[@THX--nn5bu]

The year I graduated High School, great times.

[@rubicon-oh9km]

I was 12. Oh to go back for a few days and just feed quarters into the Donkey Kong at my local 7/11.

[@kathiec1333]

The blonde at the beginning of the Long John Silvers commercial looks like Marcy Walker from All My Children (Liza) and Eden on Santa Barbara.

[@VintageEntertainment606]

I think it is Marcy Walker. I didn't know she did commercials before AMC.

[@samanthab1923]

I remember her!

[@b.j.thomas9754]

..and the kid from Mama s family who played Buzz too

[@peggydawson3453]

That's where I saw her before.I was trying to figure out what I had seen her on. ..I use to watch All My Children... 🥰

[@samanthab1923]

Peggy Dawson I did too back in college. Found out Erica Kane went to my school!

[@JK-ky1ce]

Damn... 40 years.

[@DavesArchives]

Right??

[@elgeneralxx]

Pooped pants big old grandma pants

[@pannoni1491]

@@elgeneralxx 40 years ago then meant Pearl Harbor, the Boogie Woogie, and Citizen Kane. It just shows you how time flies and memory eventually turns into history.

[@taureanmay7480]

@@DavesArchives you said it dave.

[@schallrd1]

There was a time you couldn't buy Coors in the east during college days. It was special when somebody drove out west and brought Coors back for a party.

[@scorpleeon]

The year I started college. Man that Comtrex would knock you into next week! It was notorious.

[@27retrodaze]

Great work, Dave!

[@DavesArchives]

Many thanks, Retrodaze!!

[@taureanmay7480]

@@DavesArchives nice.

[@scdevon]

5:55 "Dependable used car". (shows a clapped-out Chevy Vega) Great upload. Thanks!

[@rogerbenest3164]

For $895! As if the Ford Granada two door beside it is much better!

[@michaelkay5142]

I had a black Chevy vega driving around willimantic ct late 80's/early 90's up to no good.

[@taureanmay7480]

Your welcome.

[@hashpling]

Everyone in these commercials are 70 - 80 now...

[@Plastic_Ivory]

Or dead.... :(

[@MarkMeadows90]

Not exactly. There are some children in a few of these commercials that are probably in their 40s or 50s now.

[@pannoni1491]

@@MarkMeadows90 The girl in the Long John Silvers commercial for instance.

[@bob494949]

Some are, but not everyone. I turned 20 in 1981. I’m 59 now.

[@atlasking6110]

wow, you're a mental genius.

[@scottgibson807]

Wow grew up outside of El Paso. Those Pat Goff commercials unlocked a core memory.

[@rayceeya8659]

LOL the unbeatable combination of Renault and AMC. What could possibly go wrong?

[@jrebecca0195]

I turned 10 at the end of that year! 😳 I love the ripoff C3PO in that Hitachi commercial! 🤣

[@devilsadvocate71]

I turned 10 near the end of that year as well. Still the best decade, in my opinion.

[@taureanmay7480]

What.

[@jamiefox1045]

Help me, my life has just went by in a flash 🙁

[@wiseowl2323]

I keep watching these videos with the same morbid sense of horror.

[@GoSlash27]

12:54 that globe rotating the wrong way triggered my OCD so hard!!

[@glendagetagripfull]

No I don't remember '81 but baby, that's when I came through!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 #80sbaby #81fulloffun

[@CommodoreFan64]

I was an 81 baby as well being born July 4th, so to this day my mother calls me an 80's firecracker birth 😂

[@taureanmay7480]

Nice.

[@jtmoore662]

I was 9 in 81 and remembering going to Long John Silvers. That was probably the only time...it was good.

[@c.c.7687]

1:14 - Isn't that the kid from 'Private Lessons' and 'They're Playing With Fire'?

[@nickhill8612]

Wow I was thinking he looked familiar. It could be him.

[@taureanmay7480]

Who knew ?.

[@RetroCirq]

Interesting selection Dave!

[@DavesArchives]

Thanks, buddy!

[@taureanmay7480]

@@DavesArchives okay.

[@jdsrcs8061]

I am craving some hush puppies for some reason!!!! My wife is from el Paso and she started laughing and said she remembers those commercials.

[@robhigh5991]

"bring it on long john" - sounds like a line from a porno flick

[@sweetsongstress7398]

Rob High flick? Lol

[@simplysteve68]

The front lady looked like Shelley Long.

[@Ryan2022]

You are sick

[@sweetsongstress7398]

Patrick Merkel sick rhymes with flick?

[@rexbitten]

@@simplysteve68 She's Marcy Walker she played Liza Colby on All My Children from 1981 to 1984 and Eden Capwell on Santa Barbara from 1984 to 1991.I always liked her

[@seaningram3285]

"Bring it on, Long John." I loved eating at LJS back in the day. in the early 1990s, they had those wraps😍 and I would get either the Fish or Shrimp and grab some tartar sauce and on the way out I would ring that bell.

[@OmeedNOuhadi]

Thank you for your time & upload! But doesn’t this make me horrible consumer? I come here for joy?! 😭😭😭

[@lyahandarissa]

This is awesome!! I live near el paso!

[@elgeneralxx]

Pooped pants

[@taureanmay7480]

Wow.

[@anthonys1325]

1981 - my final year in High school! - fun Memories!!

[@melissah287]

I grew up in Las Cruces with El Paso tv stations, so I even knew the local commercials.

[@MiguelDante]

I believe that is a young Marcy Walker (from the soaps Santa Barbara and All My Children) singing in that Long John Silvers commercial.

[@kathiec1333]

Miguel. I didn't see your comment before I said the same thing, we must be right.

[@taureanmay7480]

Nice.

[@marx686]

Love the Long John Silvers ads. They need Brad Hamilton in his pirate hat!!

[@SuperYova]

"Elvis and the Beauty Queen" -- starring Don Johnson as Elvis. Wowzers.

[@samanthab1923]

About Linda Thompson.

[@taureanmay7480]

Nice.

[@tanhelmet]

That's my hometown NBC affiliate. I was 9 years old when these commercials were played. Great memories

[@ASTPlumbing9090]

I remember my family going to Long John Silvers, Sizzlers, and Pizza Hut to sit down and have a nice dinner in the 80s and early 90s. In that time period I remember Pizza Hut being super busy inside the dining room. Now it’s the opposite: it’s surprising to see people in the dining room. Sadly. And my grandma had her late 80s large RCA tv until 2018 when she moved to a over 55+ community, she was newly widowed and it was too heavy but she loved that thing. And it went into the bedroom of one of her younger great grandkids. And it’s still going strong.

[@SPEEDOFDOG]

Miss those days. We were so laid back. No cell phones or social media. No political correctness.

[@josebro352]

It was the greatest time to be a kid. I remember I was twelve in 1981 and I remember my friends and I riding our bikes to 7-11 for slurpees and then going to see Raiders of the Lost Ark at the movies. No cell phones. No social media. No political correctness. No social justice warriors. Everyone hung out with each other in person constantly instead of communicating though a screen. It feels like it was in a different dimension compared to the world we live in today.

[@Ryan2022]

There was political correctness

[@brianarbenz1329]

Don't you hate people who can't let a vid of old commercials be seen without making a political speech? Get some professional help, buttwuurst, or some medicine, or something. Anyone who thinks there is such an issue as political correctness has been fooled into going on a snipe hunt.

[@taureanmay7480]

Yes.

[@karlastafford9623]

Wow ! I was 12 years old in 1981.

[@elgeneralxx]

Wow pooped pants

[@taureanmay7480]

Nice.

[@Sharptooth100]

The 1981 commercials I like are the Jean Nate After Bath Splash and Gillette Just Whistle ladies razor commercials.

[@noncreativeamateur1926]

Our nearest and only LJS restaurant closed a few months ago. The crumbs were the best! I must’ve been the only ‘94 kid who liked eating there.

[@yvonnejeanbaptiste4090]

I Was in the late 70s they where in the year of 1981 I remember Wendy’s Roland McDonald’s Huckleberry’s And Tower Records And R Price Music Store they was some good times thanks 🙏 Dave 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💋💋💋💋💋💋

[@stevensons78]

SNL with George Kennedy and Miles Davis holy moly Where was I ...oh yeah junior high.....

[@scoobameru2458]

Awesome Memories 👍

[@armybeef68]

3:29 LMFAO.....man, I forgot about that, And no, it didn't actually work....lol

[@nickhill8612]

Oh yeah hahaha.

[@taureanmay7480]

Nice.

[@tradfire]

Love all the El Paso commercials.

[@pannoni1491]

These ads were broadcast from the Tonight Show off KTSM in El Paso on October 9th, 1981. It looks like these may have come from an eBay seller where s/he posted several lots of tapes in 2017. I myself won a lot of Betas (content was recorded from 1981-1986) and a couple VHS lots, mostly recorded from 1984-1992, with a few recordings from the mid-late '90s almost all from the same market. I myself found from the Beta lot the 19th Anniversary Special of The Tonight Show along with a full and partial episode with Joan Rivers guest hosting. Interestingly, I found partial episodes of the ABC soaps One Life To Live and General Hospital recorded on the same day as these ads were shown in that Beta lot. Soon, I'll post a couple videos with spots from January 1982 from NYC stations (one from New Year's Day, so most of the ads there will actually be from '81).

[@zymaymyn]

The George Kennedy SNL aired October 17th 1981. The SNL scene in 12:08 was "The Bizzaro World", which was in the Susan Saint James/The Kinks episode from October 10th, 1981. So this taping was from October 16th of 1981, not October 9th.

[@taureanmay7480]

Okay.

[@brentmann2988]

12:00 the great Casey Kasem puts an extra smile in his voice on this NBC promo.

[@judemelroses9920]

'81 Gems

[@nickydepaolaentertainment33]

I graduated in 1981 ❤️Classic time to have been young growing up in the beautiful BayArea ⭐️

[@fordmavericksosx3569]

The Pat Goff’s commercial jingle is pretty catchy.

[@sweetsongstress7398]

So very very cool!

[@kellswitch]

The main actress in the Long John Silvers ad looks familiar, I wonder what else she did.

[@vivienleigh2121]

She played Liza on All My Children.

[@space.tel-e-grams]

she was also Eden in Santa Barbara

[@heavilyarmedgoy]

The boy at 1:15 too.

[@kellswitch]

@@space.tel-e-grams I just spend the last few hours down a soap opera rabbit hole, I had forgotten about Santa Barbara :O)

[@vivienleigh2121]

@@heavilyarmedgoy He played the grandson in Mama's Family.

[@christopherbayne9061]

Hey LONG JOHN SILVERS in Joliet, Illinois ............ pave your moon cratered parking lot !!

[@christopherbayne9061]

@j Beautiful Carbondale?

[@baylinkdashyt]

Anybody know whose edit suite the Ray Stevens interstitials were shot in?

[@joeshabado1431]

no but the editor of Daves Archives sure does. I've been seeing him a lot dressed as napoleon and it took forever to find out his name

[@taureanmay7480]

Wow.

[@MuvoTX]

is that Lorne Green in the coors commercial? I was 10 in 81!!

[@themig71]

So was I. I woke up and I'm 51. Shit.

[@Freudianslipper85]

My home town!!! I remember the local ads ☺️☺️☺️

[@elijahcaver2152]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that Phylicia Rashad in the Renuzit commercial at 2:05?

[@williamdowden4494]

Long John Silver’s has a special for your young buccaneers. Your pirates eat for peanuts and they cruise away with free souvenirs. You get the best sea food dishes, fries and a whole lot more. You can to (voice of a parrot). So cruise along through, it’s the fun thing to do. Long John Silver’s sea food shops.

[@kennethoats2322]

3:00 completely forgot Renault was a part of AMC

[@rogerbenest3164]

I thought AMC eventually became part of Renault. It was Renault that sold it to Chrysler in the late 80s.

[@taureanmay7480]

# American Motors Company.

[@larkatmic]

Loved that Sun Datsun commercial. Optimizes the laid back time it was.

[@grabasandwich]

There was a Long John's in my local mall, but it was an arcade. I don't know if it *used* to be a restaurant or just a coincidence?

[@godzillafan4033]

Damn that was Leonard Nimoy narrating that PBS promo.

[@Animelover22111]

Our long john silvers and A&W closed this year. ;^; i miss the tartar sauce.

[@freebird0147]

That Bell commercial had Lenord Nimoy doing voice over. Im not surprised. I believe he was hosting In Search Of around this time

[@CommodoreFan64]

He was also doing the ads for Magnavox magnavision Laserdisc players around this time as well.

[@freebird0147]

@@CommodoreFan64 The man was keeping busy between Star Trek movies. Good for him.

[@taureanmay7480]

He is.

[@ricpasley3110]

My birth year nice to see commercials from my birth year

[@cheesegyoza]

Born in 76, a tad too early for me to remember these commercials.

[@curtstride]

Can you give me the name of the short bumper at 7:38-7:42? I like that! They are all on your videos. Usually comes before Ray Stevens

[@agoogleabuser1233]

Can it get any closer at 8:35 without using Arid Xtra dry?

[@williammoseley17]

David Hart A/K/A Parker Williams from In The Heat Of The Night tv show playing cards in the Pillbury commercial. Recognize the young guy in Long John commercial but just can't place him.

[@simplysteve68]

Ah the commercials are from the El Paso, Tx area, cool. ☺👍 1st one the Hitachi with the robot, sounded like Danny Thomas. The front lady on the Long John Silver's one looked like Shelley Long. Bell Dimension PBS was voiceover of Leonard Nimoy.

[@yosef2979]

Dave how can we get these tapes with tv shows and commercials on them? Can we pay for these files to be emailed to us? Do you have the complete files with both tv shows and commercials?

[@robnalu6436]

Bring it ON! Long John!

[@truckermil1717]

Love it Hitachi was our first VHS remember being amazed that we could record off the TV the video we did was Bruce lee Enter the dragon

[@rainmakerii2610]

That lil doughboy still poppin' round here

[@charleswilliamsjr2095]

Dave's archive Bring on Monroe Louisiana Commercials if you can!!!

[@goblinbilly2726]

I remember several of these commercials! I'm an f'ing dinosaur!!

[@williamf.buckleyjr3227]

Man, some of those guys were TWO-FISTING them some Coor's beer. Nice!

[@Stevaside]

Cool to get a little glimpse of the old school Long John Silvers interior. Going there felt like u were boarding a pirate ship when u were a kid. Somewhere along the way they thought it’d be better to get rid of all that & go w a boring ass, basic design

[@GLeibniz1716]

Superb as usual Dave: our ljs is pretty crappy; those datsun's look like matchbox cars and was that the Charlie's angel guy in the chloroseptic (sic)ad?

[@turkeyrunfarms]

Bosley

[@taureanmay7480]

Hmmmm.