CBS ABC NBC 1974-5 Channel Changing Great Commercials...

[@davidcampbell591]

1:11 This tune has been in my head for 49 years. I (and a handful of far-flung '70s kids) have been searching for a recording of it since at least 2000. I nearly joined a lost media subreddit to find it, but OVS saved me from searching through some dark rabbit holes in search of it. THANK YOU! 🎉 🥳 🥹

[@bretmoleta1860]

I laid 5 farts to the drumming when it started. Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack

[@Iscariot666]

@@bretmoleta1860Hells yeah, brother!

[@tinydancer62]

What’s the name of it?

[@davidcampbell591]

@@tinydancer62 It’s a song written for a Nightly News promo. I would be shocked if it even has a name.

[@smichaelb1980]

Judging by the NFL games advertised,this set of videos dates from Saturday Dec 13th 1974 and Dec 21st,the following Sunday

[@joshuaturnage5243]

Exact date 47:37 Dec 22,1974 at three Rivers stadium Buffalo vs Pittsburgh AFC playoff game final score Buffalo 14 Pittsburgh 32

[@smichaelb1980]

Ahh,i didnt get that far in the video!😂

[@Frip36]

Santa Clause in nearly every commercial back then got annoying.

[@trudimarrapodi6722]

53:39 OMG!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!! Someone posts the "Season's Greetings from CBS" interstitial from the '70s...the one I remember best from my childhood...don't get me wrong, the one from 1966 with the birds and the guy about to cut down the tree is a classic, but this is the one I remember seeing for years...THANK YOU!!!!

[@joshuaturnage5243]

54:28 Young Frankenstein Movie trailer release date Dec 15 1974 This movie would later be used as inspiration for the band Aerosmith to use the Marty Fieldman line he says to Gene Wilder Walk this way. The "Song Walk this way" was recorded on the album Toys in the attic released in 1975.

[@gerry-p9x]

That's Mel brooks doing voice over and. MANNNNIX😅

[@AmbroseOLippe]

There recordings were made by a private party using an EIAJ reel-to-reel video recorder. The master tapes that these recordings came from are now being housed at the UCLA Film and Television archive located in Santa Clarita, California

[@maynardsmoreland]

59:35 News of Jack Benny's "near death" would place that section on 12/26/74. Word spread rapidly that day. During the first half-hour of the "The Tonight Show" that evening, NBC Los Angeles broke into the West Coast network feed to announce his passing.

[@footwork216]

Oh wow! That screenshot is unsettling though lol

[@tkaye2]

37:46 A great Tonight Show performance by Sammy Davis.

[@jeffbowen2608]

This was when my aunt & late uncle lived in La Mirada, CA. I visited SoCal for the first time as a 4-year old over the 4th of July Weekend, just a few months before these commercials aired.

[@Mr.Grinch510]

I lived in Whittier in my youth. Lambert and Leffingwell. Went to leffingwell elementary 🤪

[@jeffbowen2608]

@@Mr.Grinch510 do you know where Midcrest Dr. is located? I lived in a house on Midcrest Dr. from 1997-1999 while I was going to seminary at Biola University. Not far from Mulberry Dr.

[@markjeffels3327]

Boy, memories. I started school this year

[@Mr.Grinch510]

What a fn time machine😂 I’m soooooooo blown away at 59. Still Cali💯

[@luisreyes1963]

32:44 CLOSET KILLER!! 😱

[@charlesrobinson7469]

That was good. Thank You for Uploading. Looking forward to seeing "76" & onward.👍🏾

[@impalaman9707]

I never really knew how much of a badass Sammy Davis Jr. was! Gettin' down with his bad self on the Carson Show! What an entertainer and a cool cat!😎

[@headfullofbees5468]

Only Sammy could pull off that suit!

[@Frip36]

Adult I knew thought there's be a national outcry after bla*k guy moving his hips like that. I said there will not be, it's 1975 not 1955. But it was hard to tell about 'outcries' back then. I'm sure a lot of white families were upset over it. But '75 was about the time where you had to start holding your tongue about blac*s.

[@tkaye2]

1:03:12 A quick snippet of Sandy Hill on the KNXT news only a few months after she came from KIRO in Seattle.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Hal Douglas speaks for Sine-Off.

[@joshuaturnage5243]

33:17 ktell album these albums had more songs but they were shorter versions

[@ernestcruz6316]

That particular album was a two record set with full length versions of those songs. Every once in a while they'd release one like that. Their 1975 album Super Hits of the Superstars was another one containing full length songs.

[@jeffbowen2608]

Most of these songs were hits a good 3-5 years earlier at the dawn of the 70s. By this time late 74 into 75, disco music was beginning to ramp up.

[@luisreyes1963]

The DiFranco Family...Cringe. 🤢

[@Frip36]

You don't have to shorten the songs. But putting too many songs on an album seriously reduces sound quality cuz grooves crammed together like sardines in a matchbox.

[@brentmann2988]

17:12 & 43:05 William Schallert; 35:44 Pam Dawber 27:16 Casey Kasem; 7:22 Wolfman Jack 50:21 Linda November, a great singer! 49:23 & 48:09 Len Gochman; 15:35 Hal Douglas 0:12 Norman Rose; 48:38 Vic Roby 18:37 The obligatory Peter Thomas v/o. 😊

[@LuvTadnDixie]

56:57 the girl with the braids is Melissa Gilbert

[@brentmann2988]

@@LuvTadnDixie Good catch!

[@guerralg63]

Was that Tom Selleck on the Soap Opera commercial for Somerset?

[@brentmann2988]

@@guerralg630:52 That is actually an actor named Joel Crothers.

[@guerralg63]

@brentmann2988 oh, thank you. From the profile he resembled Tom selleck

[@JChow-e1c]

This sure brings back memories. Thank you for this post. ☮️

[@johnshields6852]

My earliest memories are dancing cigarettes commercials, as a toddler I'd pull myself up standing and be face to face with big glass ashtrays with smoldering cigarettes smoke wafting up my nose, no wonder I still smoke.

[@michaelterry1000]

My father bought a similar watch 7:50 in the early 1970’s for about $300 ($2,080.00 today). The value of these watches dropped so much that by the 1980’s I saw one as a prize in a gum ball machine.

[@hoagie1978]

Actor Colby Chester in the Pro-max commercial.

[@Frip36]

You mean Chester Colby.

[@hoagie1978]

Actually his first name is Colby.@@Frip36

[@Frip36]

It's Chester Colby and it's Max-pro.@@hoagie1978

[@trudimarrapodi6722]

The "Max Hatter" is just hysterical...I don't remember anyone I know having one of those! And I never saw the commercial before! Thank goodness blow dryers came along and made it obsolete...and all I can say is the fact that this collection includes not one, but two, ads for Paul Anka's "You're Having My Baby" says all you need to know about 1974. "Irwin Allen's Winter Wonderland" at Marineland? I would've been terrified to go! I would've assumed it involved an avalanche and a broken ski lift from which you might plummet to your death!

[@ernestcruz6316]

15:24 - The woman in the Sine-Off ad was in tons of commercials in the '70s and '80s, but I have no idea what her name is. 27:15 - Arthur Fiedler for Boeing. 41:47 - Vikki Carr for Christmas Seals.

[@Lupton2000]

That woman in Sine-Off might have been Laurel Goodwin.

[@ernestcruz6316]

@@Lupton2000 Thanks for the help. As I said, I never knew her name but she was all over the TV screen in different commercials back then.

[@Frip36]

Older lady in Folger's commercial was surely a popular stage actress in her younger days. Different accent. Maybe Danish. Really good.

[@ernestcruz6316]

​​@@Frip36That was Virginia Christine. She's best known for her role as Mrs. Olson for nearly 20 years in commercials for Folger's. Her character was supposed to be Swedish, I think. She was in a lot of B movies in the '40s and '50s, and in addition to her Folger's commercials she also had a recurring role as Mrs. Crandall, the lady who ran the boarding house on The Virginian during the '60s.

[@Frip36]

Thanks. @@ernestcruz6316

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Joel Crager for Arm and Hammer Oven Cleaner.

[@luisreyes1963]

A shame they don't make it anymore.

[@davidhileman8251]

21:41 Merlin Olsen for Busch Gardens. It would have been cheaper just to send flowers.

[@Frip36]

The "Kick a duck" like was a hit back then. Threw a curveball at the end.

[@TheRecordSaver]

37:18 the great Jack Clark 57:00 a very young Melissa Gilbert

[@Frip36]

Pre heroin Gilbert.

[@tomservo56954]

11:10 Charlie perfume didn't make a mark until they teamed Shelley Hack and Bobby Short...

[@Frip36]

I remember adult women back then saying 'why would I want to smell like every other woman?"

[@joshuaturnage5243]

47:37 Dec 22,1974 at three Rivers stadium Buffalo vs Pittsburgh AFC playoff game final score Buffalo 14 Pittsburgh 32

[@micmac99]

6:41 The Toys for Tots PSA looks like it was done by Disney.

[@toddkalk1470]

30:45 - Candy Clark ("American Graffitti") for Folgers.

[@gerry-p9x]

Never remember the tv so guzzy even we had a new RCA. XL100..25INCH. CONSOLE

[@larryzehnder8161]

Mannix at 55:00 sure brings back memories

[@fromthesidelines]

20:03- ....but watch out for the avalanches and endless explosions!!!!!!!! 😉

[@joshuaturnage5243]

21:02 all in the family cbs promo

[@hoagie1978]

Melissa Gilbert and Michelle Stacy in the McDonald's ad.

[@Frip36]

do you research this stuff?

[@hoagie1978]

No. I have absorbed a lot of useless info after watching TV for 45 years.....🤣@@Frip36

[@FlavioGirl]

that looks like aunt charlene from general hospital in that romilar commercial

[@byrd56]

37:22 - Game show personality Jack Clark for FSLIC.

[@jeffbowen2608]

He used to host the game show “Dealer’s Choice.”

[@byrd56]

@jeffbowen2608 Followed not too long after by "Cross-Wits"

[@King_Colombia_Inc]

7:09 ELTON! Count me In!! 😃

[@jamieschmidt939]

This aired Fri. 12/13/74 on ABC

[@tomservo56954]

​@@jamieschmidt939Who knew he would be giving her a decades long goodbye?

[@davidhileman8251]

49:50 Ricard Montalban for Cordoba and its Fine Corinthian Leather

[@timdailey2690]

Legendary!!

[@jeffbowen2608]

This was before he became well-known on “Fantasy Island.”

[@tomservo56954]

3:43 I had a Novus Mathbox...

[@trudimarrapodi6722]

I will also add, the BankAmericard (now VISA) Christmas commercial looks like the kid dropped acid before bed,

[@timdailey2690]

45:20 and Buddy Rich on drums

[@ThamiumOne]

The drummer isn't Buddy Rich, it's Louie Bellson. Different face, but he does seem to have a haircut similar to Buddy's here. Here's the two of them together on the show for a "drum battle" a few years earlier: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2Wsop-Empx2oM0si=9xjwTuAfbKSSvULn

[@headfullofbees5468]

Doc Severinsen and his band absolutely tearing it up. The Tonight Show footage is great.

[@timdailey2690]

@@ThamiumOne thank you I stand corrected

[@Frip36]

Pro Tip: How to tell the difference. One looks weird. One looks cool.

[@luisreyes1963]

32:15 The saddest commercial for facial tissues (Scotties) in TV history. 😢

[@KESSLERPARK]

i trust you are baking your tapes!

[@jchow5966]

Thank you!!!!!

[@jerrygrefenstette4310]

Do the tapes these came from contain the entire Bills/Steelers playoff game from 1974, or is that one second of footage literally all there is?

[@briangushue8648]

If not the whole game, I hope somewhere out there someone has highlights from NBC's telecast. It would be a shame if this one second is all that survives of this broadcast.

[@impalaman9707]

Property of NFL and cannot be re-broadcast without expressed written consent of the National Football League. they say this all the time on their broadcast but everyone ignores it

[@jerrygrefenstette4310]

@@impalaman9707 Thanks, but that wasn't my question. I'd like to know if it exists more than just the one second, not why he isn't airing more.

[@davidhileman8251]

35:45 Pam Dawber for Fotomat

[@jeffbowen2608]

Before she got her star role as Mindy…

[@luisreyes1963]

17:41 The predecessor to ASMR. 😌

[@luisreyes1963]

47:39 And that's how the Japanese wound up buying Firestone. 😆

[@joshuaturnage5243]

53:56 James Bond the man with the golden gun movie trailer Dec 20, 1974 U. S. Release date

[@davidhileman8251]

19:45 Ernie Anderson for Miami Vice- I mean, "Caribe"

[@joshuaturnage5243]

Wow that was pretty much Miami Vice in 1975

[@davidhileman8251]

30:46 Virginia Christine as Mrs. Olson for Folgers Coffee

[@rick3747]

I miss those Folgers commericals with Mrs Olson.

[@davidhileman8251]

44:02 Rodney Allen Rippy for Jack-in-the-Box

[@Frip36]

That was a weird one.

[@zaq55]

@ 24:36 - Slugworth!

[@luisreyes1963]

Günter Meisner was his name.

[@coreysouthwell9979]

Daysofourlives

[@wmbrown6]

43:58 - Don Stanley on NBC ID 45:13 - Donald Rickles on KNBC ID

[@davidhileman8251]

3:42 Danny Dark for National Semiconductor

[@sherryhannah9262]

@davidhileman8251 this was a decade before Danny Dark became the voice of NBC…..I hope you will reply to this

[@Frip36]

Back when company names were manly instead of quirky.

[@davidhileman8251]

@@sherryhannah9262 He was too busy being Superman.

[@davidhileman8251]

13:22 Susan Blakely for Sunbeam

[@luisreyes1963]

42:52 NEKOS!! 😸

[@davidhileman8251]

21:11 Arthur Hill for Mercury Monarch

[@AllenJones-w3p]

Arthur ought to be back at Wildfire investigating the Andromeda Strain!

[@davidhileman8251]

8:22 Didi Conn for Lucky Supermarkets

[@Foxonian]

Pretty sure the Toys for Tots ad was made by the Walt Disney Co. for the USMC.

[@tomservo56954]

Disney designed the "train" logo...

[@NOcode]

7:23 😳

[@davidhileman8251]

12:47 Paul Burke for Radio Shack, A Tandy Company

[@davidhileman8251]

13:48 Joel Crager for Arm & Hammer Oven Cleaner

[@davidhileman8251]

16:35 Pam Dawber for Head & Shoulders

[@davidhileman8251]

22:57 Oliver Clark for Rockwell International

[@davidhileman8251]

43:22 Maree Cheatham for Romilar III

[@davidhileman8251]

56:55 Michelle Stacy and Melissa Gilbert for McDonald's

[@jamieschmidt939]

21:02 CBS Sat. 12/21/74