# Commericals of yesteryear. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-of-yesteryear/503493 "2009-07-19T00:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-of-yesteryear/503493/1 "2009-07-19T00:49:41Z")
Light up a Lucky."]Fred Flintstone sells cigerettes. [Light up a Lucky.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IhOdwa0Apc) [LS/MFT](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU49DSS1ibc) [Wiki link to Luckies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Strike) Somewhere in my cassette collection, I have old time radio commericals which has a corker of combining a familiar classical music spring tune and the Lucky Strike ad campaign of “LS/MFT”. " In spring, a young man’s fancy always turns to Luckey Strike. So clean, to firm and tender, ( something x3)" My love of radio jingles of by gone years pretty much started with the cigerette jingles. Considering airplay of cig ads stopped in 1971, when I was a lass, that shows you just how well written and catchy the jingles were. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-of-yesteryear/503493/2 "2009-07-19T00:53:06Z")
[Mr. Magoo sells beer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLNhH2F3mb0&feature=fvsr) ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-of-yesteryear/503493/3 "2009-07-19T01:41:09Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > ( . . . ) > > “So clean, to firm and tender, ( something x3)” > > ( . . . ) Not sure whether this is asking for clarification, but just in case: [So round, so firm, so fully packed](http://www.archive.org/details/LuckyStr1948). Later applied to (unofficially) womens’ anatomy and the associated undergarments. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-of-yesteryear/503493/4 "2009-07-19T02:29:25Z")
[Salem cigarettes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNN0L2UoPvQ). That might be Candice Bergen. Not so sure. Possibly Roger E. Moseley? Maybe. Loris Saunders–definitely! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-of-yesteryear/503493/5 "2009-07-20T07:39:34Z")
I used to record radio programs in the early 80’s. I stumbled on a box of these cassettes recently and have been playing them in the Jeep while off-roading (too rough for cd and the MP3 keeps getting beat-up). Ah, man! Flashback to some weird shit! Local companys that are long since gone, promotions for concets for dead or otherwise defunct artists, or who are now so “big” wouldn’t step foot within 300 miles of this joint now! I also have a bunch of recordings of me being broadcast winning shit in “on-air” contests. (I had very little to do back then, but call into radio stations) One clip of me ended up as a station promo! It was me, saying, “Aw, Man! I’m Sportin’ Wood!” after I just got tickets to something or another. Man. I need a hobby. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-of-yesteryear/503493/6 "2009-07-20T08:20:59Z")
And don’t forget the classic Lucy and Ricky commercial [Call For Philip Morris](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcaibMaZAuk). I love stuff like this - one of the joys of catching old episodes of Let’s Make A Deal on the Game Show Network is seeing some of the commercial products that no longer exist and some of the product labels that were about as generic and bland as you could get. The most fun is seeing people jumping for joy at winning orange shag carpeting, ugly furniture and putrid appliances - did you know there were refrigerators that had built in 8 track tape players on the front panels?! Seriously. Then again, I am sure future generations will be rolling on the floor laughing as they watch our commercials for Viagra. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-of-yesteryear/503493/7 "2009-07-20T16:44:16Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > And don’t forget the classic Lucy and Ricky commercial [Call For Philip Morris](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcaibMaZAuk). > > I love stuff like this - one of the joys of catching old episodes of Let’s Make A Deal on the Game Show Network is seeing some of the commercial products that no longer exist and some of the product labels that were about as generic and bland as you could get. The most fun is seeing people jumping for joy at winning orange shag carpeting, ugly furniture and putrid appliances - did you know there were refrigerators that had built in 8 track tape players on the front panels?! Seriously. Then again, I am sure future generations will be rolling on the floor laughing as they watch our commercials for Viagra. What intrigues the Ottlets about this sort of thing is that they’re jumping for joy over $750 (21" CRT) televisions, $400 microwave ovens (with knob timers) and $250 (tape) telephone answering machines. The $3000 cars can be accounted for by inflation; what’s fascinating is the deflation of so much of the rest. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-of-yesteryear/503493/8 "2009-07-20T17:25:17Z")
Overheard at an imaginary bank: _Bank Customer:_ (pointing to a little sign) Member FDIC? _Silver Haired Teller:_ Oh, sure, I 'member that! You 'member LS/MFT? 🙂