Special K had an ad campaign called “The Ball and Chain,” which likened extra weight to carrying around, well, a ball and chain. For a sound effect they used a popping cork. Made no sense. The Ball and Chain is a heavy thing; this sounds like someone popped his cheek with an index finger. There’s a chipper campy singing intro, which probably plays off the success of Bette Midler’s “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” the previous year.
Then there’s the voice of the female character - a tired, whiny New Yorker. The male voice sounds like Paul Frees at first, but I don’t think it is. |
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| Another "Ball and Chain," with two more 70s staples: the ditzy woman, and the cliche "no, but if you hum a few bars." These really, really annoy me. |
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| Special K aims at people who loved the Firesign Theater album "Don't Crush That Dwarf." |
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| Happy 60s-style ad for Margie's dress shop in Dallas |
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| The ad that tormented every insomniac unpublished author for YEARS |
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Funky Bud! |
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| Country Bud! |
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| Bouncy, if cluttered, ad for Wyatt's Cafeteria in Dallas |
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| Good Lord, it's just life insurance. Everything that wasn't explicitly rock or Lawrence Welk sounded like this between 1968 - 1975 |
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| Got any Tiny Time Pills, Lloyd Bridges? |
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| Suburban savings, where syllables are crammedtogethertomakethemfit |
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| Hey Ma, what's for dinner? |
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| The Spaghetti Store, which sold spaghetti. Listen as some hip upcoming singer completely sells out to The Man |
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| Another breathy choral work devoted to V8 |
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| Chances are people who are around back then have forgotten how TV Guide used this strange electronic blurbling sound |
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| Kellogg's tries the Choral approach, and reminds you of the other ads that have a sound effect |
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| We'd like to sing for a while about candy bars |
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| Together at last: Ed McMahon and Flip Wilson |
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