Union…garment industry…humming this song – hell, no, I didn’t need a mouseover. I started hearing it without clicking the link (though I clicked it anyway, for old times’ sake).
Thanks for posting the SNL link, Little Nemo; that skit is another fond memory.
Yes, for me, the second line is always “When you buy that joint, lid or pound”.
Maybe it’s a difference of browser. When I pull up the forum page page, all I see is the title of the OP ‘40 years ago’. I have to do a mouseover to see any of the content. Yeah, I knew exactly what the OP was referring to when without clicking on the link, but without a mouseover, I don’t see jack except ‘40 years ago,’ which would take a dramatic leap of prescience to connect that to the ILGWU jingle.
The Fifth of July (the play) was set on July 5, 1977. Saw it on Broadway with Christopher Reeve whose character was in a wheelchair long before he really needed one.
And I remember the ad.
I remember a similar ad for the NEA, where a very entitled-looking elderly woman looked down her nose at the viewer and asked where education would be without the NEA: “It would be in a sorry state!”
Regardless of the merits of the NEA, the ad basically reinforced all the negative stereotypes about teachers you could possibly come up with.