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At the time of the "I Want My Maypo" ad, Maltex became a subsidiary of Connecticut-based Heublein Inc. When the brand was not selling well, Maypo advertisers decided to push the product very heavily using advertising. The result was the famous Maypo commercial featuring the character 'Marky Maypo.' [2]
Dinah Shore singing "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet" in a television advertisement for the 1959 Chevrolet Impala. "See The USA In Your Chevrolet" is a commercial jingle from c. 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday [1] and Leon Carr [2] of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
The 100 Greatest TV Ads is a British TV entertainment programme that first aired on 29 April 2000 on Channel 4. It is part of the channel's 100 Greatest strand of programmes, and was presented by Graham Norton .
Farfel the Dog is a hound dog ventriloquist's dummy created by Jimmy Nelson.The Farfel character is best known for television commercials for Nestlé's Quik which ran from 1953 to 1965. [1]
In 2010 the group Victorious Secrets won a contest to replace the faux band in a new series of ads. In 2012 the faux band returned in a new series of ads. Wendell the baker: French Toast Crunch cereal: 1995–late 1990s: Frito Bandito: Fritos: 1960s: voiced by Mel Blanc: The Frito Spokesbag: 2012–present: Frito Kid: 1952–1967: used for ...
An example of a matchbook ad for Muntz car lots in the 1950s. In 1934, Muntz opened his first used car lot, in Elgin, with a $500 ($11,000 in 2023) line of credit. [8] He was only 20 years old, and his mother had to sign the car-sale papers because legally he was too young to close his own deals. [7]
High culture dominated commercial network television programming in the 1950s with the first television appearances of Leonard Bernstein (on Omnibus) and Arturo Toscanini, the first telecasts from Carnegie Hall, the first live U.S. telecasts of plays by Shakespeare, the first telecasts of Tchaikovsky's ballets The Sleeping Beauty and The ...