# Old TV advertisements for compilation albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [May 14, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126 "2021-05-14T23:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/21 "2021-05-17T16:06:07Z")
I want to see the commercial for a compilation video of commercials for compilation albums. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/22 "2021-05-17T16:06:15Z")
I loved the way they trimmed the songs to fit as many on the album as possible, and on some of them the music seemed a little compressed. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/23 "2021-05-17T17:08:58Z")
That scene goes through my head at least once a week. The acting was so hammy! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/24 "2021-05-17T17:40:58Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Here’s a half-dozen of their ads I remember the “Golden Greats” and “Dance Machine” commercials very well. I especially enjoyed watching the Dance Machine commercial back then because I was a young male teen and some of the outfits the dancing women had on were, well, quite…form fitting and not too substantial. In fact, I may have seen the commercial while watching “Soul Train” for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/25 "2021-05-17T21:08:03Z")
B-b-b-but it’s four easy payments of only $29.99! ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/26 "2021-05-17T21:25:45Z")
In the mid-to-late 70s, there was a commercial for a compilation of 50s music. I think there was a car or motorcycle and a greaser saying, “Four _wicked_ albums…” ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/27 "2021-05-17T22:47:01Z")
I remember that one! ( after you jogged my memory ) A greaser and his grease-ette girlfriend. “_Seventy two hits baby. Seventy two!_” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/28 "2021-05-18T21:54:27Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I’m sure you recognize this lov-e-ly melody Stranger in Paradise. But did you know the original theme is from the Polovetzian Dance #2… I’ve always loved [“40 Great Unclaimed Melodies!”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbXi4TMBmQQ), but had no idea it was parodying a specific ad! _“It’s by a great Eye-talian composer. He’s dead now… but lives on, in steeereo hi-fiiii. Hello, I’m Don G. O’vanni…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/29 "2021-05-18T22:02:44Z")
I used to love those commercials. In fact, every once in a while I’ll still catch myself mindlessly watching one. And it always seems to be for old country music. I think I ended up watching an entire infomercial a few weeks ago for something like the best country performances at Austin City Limits. ---
**Author:** ![halifax83](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@halifax83](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/halifax83)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/30 "2022-08-10T20:17:12Z")
Think about one advert that was on MTV UK around 1999 and like op could sing whole thing. One had “my name is Lucas, I live on the second floor”. Literally goes round my head. ---
**Author:** ![halifax83](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@halifax83](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/halifax83)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/31 "2022-08-10T20:32:47Z")
So found an old advert break for MTV UK and there was one of the compilation adverts in there. Wasn’t one I was thinking of but bet it was same company - insight music ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/32 "2022-08-10T21:21:24Z")
> [@halifax83](#): > > One had “my name is Lucas, I live on the second floor”. > **[Luka (song)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_(song))** > > "Luka" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, released as the second single from her second studio album, Solitude Standing (1987), in May 1987. It remains her highest-charting hit in the United States, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Worldwide, the song charted the highest in Sweden, peaking at No. 2, and reached the top 10 in Austria, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. Shawn Colvin sings background vocals on the record. > "Luka" earned Vega nom... ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/33 "2022-08-10T21:56:02Z")
what no one remembers the “70s preservation society”? i remember target and BMG had an exclusive top 40 compilation that came out 2-3 times a year that you could buy through the 1800 number or target that ran for like 15 years Hansen was on the first or second one ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/34 "2022-08-10T22:48:50Z")
I had one called “Classical Thunder”, from the Time-Life Treasury of Music. Two cassette tapes, IIRC. Of course, I couldn’t play the tapes any more even if I found them, but I now have CDs of most of the complete works they came from. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/35 "2022-08-11T00:49:02Z")
I remember one time, my brother and I watching TV, stoned, drunk, or just stupid. A compilation album commercial came on, full of dumb kid songs like The Farmer in the Dell, and I popped up my middle finger and pressed it to the screen to more fully convey my emotions about the undesirability of the product. Then a cartoon dog appeared on screen, jigging to the music, and did something rude with my finger. We near about died laughing from that one! ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/36 "2022-08-11T02:17:34Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MS6QYKhu8XE/hqdefault.jpg "Popeye Meets Beach Boys") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS6QYKhu8XE) I always wanted to get this album after I got a copy of this commercial on a freeware Amiga disk in 1990. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126/37 "2022-08-11T14:03:42Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > what no one remembers the “70s preservation society”? Their best one was the disco one! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-advertisements-for-compilation-albums/942126.md?page=1)