Title: 1970s Coca Cola Commercial - "It's the Real Thing!" (sang by 'The Fortunes') Source:
utube URL Source:https://youtu.be/AhGcHMJ4PbQ Published:Jul 27, 2015 Author:The Fortunes Post Date:2015-07-27 13:10:38 by Liberator Keywords:Coke, Commercial, Jingles Views:5722 Comments:12
If you were of age, you've got to remember this:
Poster Comment:
Time for a 30-second commercial break and nostalgia.
I'd searched a long time to find this jingle from Coke, sung by 'The Fortunes (who also sang, 'Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again', 'You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine'.) Always thought their 'It's The Real Thing' was a great, cheery up-tempo catchy jingle. It seemed as though many of the 1960s and early 1970s jingles were indeed cherry and up-tempo, mini-hit singles unto themselves with memorable hooks. Those commercial jingles of old can be just as memory-evoking and sentimental as hit songs.
The Fortunes' trademark was harmonies. They'd had a couple of notable hits that were mentioned, but were mostly big in Britain. They also wound up doing several Coke jingles in the 60s and early 70s. This particular one was my favorite. (Soon afterward, Coke started their PC ad campaign ("I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke...")
Anyway, this commercial's simple montage of attractive young, modest all-American ladies was message enough. Buy a chick a Coke and you were standing on First Base :-)
Today's vulgar commercials would feature rap or Gaga with and a bunch of blatantly grinding exposed derrieres and boobs in the views' face (for some of you, I realize it replaces your old Penthouse Mag.) In other words, too many of today commercials are like sitting at the front of a bar at a Go-Go joint. It's simply NOT needed. Within the last decade or so, if the commercials aren't vulgar, they're nasty, mean-spirited, and in-your-face insulting. Btw -- back to the commercials of the distant past, a couple of other favorite commercial jingles of mine were Marlboro's recognizable 'Magnificent Seven', and especially one titled, 'Going Home.' What I found of the latter wasn't the actually Marlboro commercial jingle, but a version of the song discovered in a youtube Marlboro compilation of jingles. IF you're interested:
More nostalgia, thanks to youtube. New York's World's Fair, 1964-1965. (Recently some infamous Third World buffoon insisted, "YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT!!")
The Ford exhibit was absolutely awesome. Ford's exhibit was Epcot before Epcot. And BETTER. General Motors exhibit was pretty awesome as well.
You got into a Ford car on a moving track (a thrill for a little kid in a gorgeous '65 T-Bird convertible) as it moved you on thru the "history" of the world. The moving Dinosaurs and "future" were mind-blowing. More so considering this was 70 years ago! Our future was assured to be Jetsons-like by now. Consider 70 years before 1964, and the maximum progress made during the decades from 1894. From 1964 to 2015, we've bogged down to a relative trickle. Our progress has obviously been sand-bagged and stunted by the elites...
Oh wait! What am I thinking?? Technology has made leaps and bounds! There are electric cars that allow one to drive an entire 30 mile round trip to one's gay/tranny lover on a single charge! Then there's the social advance of "gay" marriage, and the amazing technology which allows one to communicate via computer and "talk-dirty" with one's tranny-lover/gay "husband" on-screen. OR a thousand of them.
In other crucially important medical advances in biological science, the organs and body parts of LIVE murdered preborn babies within the womb can be harvested! For other soulless humans, thru scientific technology, genders can be swapped out like a car engine -- vaginas and penises can swapped in, created, as can fake breasts and brand new parts of different faces. And of course, as an option, the latest blow-up doll technology and optional numbers of orifices makes air pumps and actual human companionship obsolete.
So, WOO-HOO! Get into your Subaru with your gay "husband/wife," drive out to Fire Island, and take advantages of the greatest technological advances of the last 70 years!!
