JSngry Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 the miles one is the craziest of the bunch as its an ad that only would make sense for people who had their old prestige records, thats a very specific target group Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mark Stryker Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Re: that Arethan Franklin ad for Harmony House posted earlier. Harmony House was a metro Detroit chain of excellentall-round record stores, including one all-classical stores that was as fine a classical store as you could find anywhere. When Neeme Jarvi was music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, he also did a commercial for Harmony House. Not jazz but fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted July 28, 2019 Report Share Posted July 28, 2019 You know you are old if I mention the phrase "And they call it Charlie" and you can instantly start humming the tune which once accompanied those words. Here are different versions of that long ago ad campaign. Bobby Short and Mel Torme are each featured singing the jingle in separate versions. It's interesting seeing that right after the Torme version, the ad company took things in a whole new direction with a country western themed ad. I'm guessing this was around the time Urban Cowboy was a box office hit and the whole country discovered country (and jazz fell even further into neglect). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted November 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2019 (edited) Does anyone remember the commercial with Jon Hendricks? I remember seeing it back in the 80s. I don’t remember what product he was pitching. I want to say the commercial was for butter or margarine. Edited November 26, 2019 by Hardbopjazz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 26, 2019 Report Share Posted November 26, 2019 9 hours ago, Hardbopjazz said: Does anyone remember the commercial with Jon Hendricks? I remember seeing it back in the 80s. I don’t remember what product he was pitching. I want to say the commercial was for butter or margarine. It was Mazola. It was audio only, but it was memorable. I used it as the opening cut on one of my BFTs here, so it should still be on file at Thom Keith's site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duaneiac Posted May 18, 2020 Report Share Posted May 18, 2020 Here's an Anita O'Day radio spot for Dr. Pepper: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted May 18, 2020 Report Share Posted May 18, 2020 Nobody seems to remember any more, but Harold Vick, who was a great looking guy, was in a commercial for a bank - can't remember which one - in the '70s. I remember seeing him one night and he was talking about how he was able buy a Mercedes with his earnings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted July 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) This is a print ad and not a tv commercial. Any others in this media? Edited July 1, 2020 by Hardbopjazz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazztrain Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 Al Hirt for Miller Beer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SARe8LbW_Y Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMP Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 I swear I saw Greg Abate on a commercial for a local furniture store on a trip to Providence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) another one with Ron Carter... Edited July 1, 2020 by Rooster_Ties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 38 minutes ago, DMP said: I swear I saw Greg Abate on a commercial for a local furniture store on a trip to Providence. He gets everywhere ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 Ellis and Branford... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rooster_Ties Posted February 11, 2022 Report Share Posted February 11, 2022 Just stumbled on this one with Pops… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted February 11, 2022 Report Share Posted February 11, 2022 I remember Rosemary Clooney singing on camera about Coronet toilet paper prior to her comeback on Concord Jazz. I remember Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald in a Memorex print ad, but was there also a commercial? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted February 11, 2022 Report Share Posted February 11, 2022 Without a doubt there was an Ella tv ad for Memorex - many in fact. If there any with Count Basie the same search below doesn't turn them up. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ella+firtzgerald+memorex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 11, 2022 Report Share Posted February 11, 2022 Chuck Mangione for MegaLoMart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted February 11, 2022 Report Share Posted February 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Dan Gould said: Without a doubt there was an Ella tv ad for Memorex - many in fact. If there any with Count Basie the same search below doesn't turn them up. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ella+firtzgerald+memorex Yeah, that Ella Memorex ad even made it over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted February 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted June 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2022 Urbie Green in a Schaefer beer commercial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted November 18 Author Report Share Posted November 18 I thought there was a discussion on jazz in commercials. I couldn't locate that thread, but here's a commercial. "The Sidewinder" Not a jazz musician in a commercial, but a jazz tune in one. https://instagram.com/p/DCAniQaMhNz/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavenport Posted November 18 Report Share Posted November 18 (edited) Here in the UK we had Sacha Distel hawking Mandate after shave. I had no idea until a few years ago that Sacha Distel had jazz credentials. To 10 year me he was a funny Frenchman. "Is orat, she's ma waf" was a common refrain in school for a while. Andrew Preview hawking hi-fi. Again, I was ignorant of Previn at the time; he was a somewhat mannered man whom Morecambe and Wise took the piss out of on British TV. Edited November 18 by rdavenport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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