Perhaps the great ad agencies have vaults where all the old ads are kept. Perhaps some day we will get a full history of who wrote them, who produced them, who wrote the music, who played it, who did the voices.
But I doubt it.
Most old radio shows are missing the commercials - as if that wasn't really an integral part of the show. It's a pity. A full accounting of the era might dispel the suspicion that most of the creative energies went into television. The medium wouldn't get inventive again until the 70s.
Lileks
05.24.15
Zut alors: what better place for a deodorant ad?
Here's Bob & Ray! Actually, no.
Groovy, man: John Farnham does an ad for Fanta.
Doan Koan: the pills that never went away.
More Doans. 1960s campaign aimed at the housewife.
Kingston Trio. Like you've never heard them before!
Kent Cigarettes: #1 in a series from 1962.
Kent Cigarettes: #2. They were a good smoke.
Give to charity. Fight commies and witch doctors!
Commanders. Not a famous cigarette, but I'm sure it satisfied.
Ex-Lax. Take it - for a cold?
Fritos. Delish!
The nice lady with the plates and coupon books.
Here's Maurice for that Gallic-charm angle.
Good Luck Soup did not have enough to stick around.
