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| Pepsodent with Lucy Arnaz |
Thanks, Marge. You've done it again...
Lucy Arnaz, daughter of Lucy and Desi, taking a break from Here's Lucy to do a sponsor commercial.
Arnaz, like everybody else on the later Lucy shows, tended to be uncomfortably loud...but, nonetheless, was still quite the looker.
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time 0:33 size 802 kb aired 1970
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| Colgate Toothpaste (Dabney Coleman, 1961) |
More future sea captains...and their families...
Here he is again, this time with a different wife. It seems Dabney was in a lot of commercials in the 1960s.
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time 0:32 size 798 kb aired 1961
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| Dippity-Do (1968) |
Nothing holdsl like Dippity-Do!
Very difficult to find commercial; especially one that has good audio. At one time, this ad and other versions were seen all the time. Then, Dippity-Do disappeared from the airwaves...and the stores.
A product by the same name is available through Amazon, but it's doubtful that it is the original product from the '60s.
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time 0:32 size 783 kb aired 1968
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| Head & Shoulders |
I adore going steady, but...
Going steady with snooty little her (for 6 weeks!), making the team, and getting rid of his dandruff, too! Gosh, guys in the '60s were so...empty-headed (you thought I was gonna say cool, didn't you).
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time 0:34 size 496 kb aired 1966 (stereo)
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| Inger Stevens, 1934 - 1970 |
The Original Blonde, for Lady Clairol.
Beautiful, dimpled Inger Stevens, whose rising star ended in suicide (overdose). She, along with William Windom, starred in the short-lived series, The Farmer's Daughter.
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time 0:32 size 600 kb aired 1965
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| Dana Plato, 1964 - 1999 |
For Noxema.
A troubled child actor who went on to become just another casualty of Hollywood excess...and drugs. One of three child stars on Diff'rent Strokes, all of whom experienced troubled lives in later years.
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time 0:13 size 242 kb aired 1980s
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| Wildroot |
...he uses a whistle, a wink, and Wildroot...
This is so cornball '60s. Men were nothing but wolves going after innocent, highly impressionable, sweet young thangs.
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time 0:32 size 482 kb aired 1962
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| Toni Home Permanent |
Say when!
Three dazzling human Barbie dolls, each with a 'do that would withstand a Katrina-type hurricane.
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time 0:31 size 466 kb aired 1969
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| Colgate Toothpaste |
Colgate clean is three ways clean...
The family that brushes together, stays together.
Familiar, ultra brief jingle at the end may jog a few memories.
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time 0:33 size 615-642 kb aired 1962
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| Ben-Gay |
Radiant Action Ben-Gay...
I bet a million dollars they thought we wouldn't know how to pronounce, Bengué, so they spelled it, Ben-Gay.
Anyway, here's a 1963 ad, complete with that atomic modern thing those early '60s people liked so much.
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time 0:32 size 403-431 kb aired 1963
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| Helene Curtis' spray net (1959) |
Here's rhe picture on hair sprays...
Very dated commercial showing the joy of naturally curly hair, including the ever-comical woman with her hair being "set".
You don't often see special effects in vintage ads, but this one employed quite a few.
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time 1:03 size 1.50 mb aired 1959
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| Crest Test (1962) |
Who comes home this happy about a test?
Little Jane Fuller just can't contain her excitement over getting 21 percent fewer cavities in her scientific "test".
I think that after three years, I'd like a grade a lot higher than 21 percent.
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time 1:03 size 1.55 mb aired 1962
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| Ipana Toothpaste |
There's a new Ipana in a new tube, in a new box!
The beatnik beat, talking to the music...this was all part of the "wacky" early '60s. Neat ad.
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time 1:03 size 931 kb aired 1961
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| Gleem Toothpaste |
Look who's here! Dad's real boss, mom!
There is nothing more touching and tender than a mother's love for...your teeth.
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time 1:04 size 952 kb aired 1958
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| Tom Selleck for Chaz |
Chaz Aftershave and Cologne.
Women (and some men) were panting for macho-man Selleck. The very next year (1980) he went on to star in Magnum P.I.
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time 0:32 size 478 kb aired 1979
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| Clairol Blondes Have More Fun |
Is it true blondes have more fun?
This could very well be the catalyst and origin of blonde jokes. Mid-60s, British pop music invasion, and blondes everywhere. The jingle has been forgotten, but it was very famous at the time.
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time 1:03 size 950 kb aired 1965
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| Self-Styling Adorn |
Adorn gives you the brush, and it's free.
I have no idea why they called it a bikini brush, but it was free with self-styling Adorn.
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time 0:33 size 522 kb aired 1969
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| Revlon's Charlie |
Kinda young, kinda now, Charlie...
Harder to find than a hen's tooth, here is Bobby Short and Shelley Hack for Revlon's Charlie perfume.
Shelley later joined the cast of Charlie's Angels (1979); Bobby died of leukemia in 2005 at the age of 80.
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time 0:32 size 601-636 kb aired 1976
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| Ipana-Plus Dentifrice |
The new squeeze-bottle dentifrice.
This starts out like we're counting sheep...for Sominex. Even the voiceover guy tries to lull you to sleep.
Then everything brightens up (get it?)...except for little Timmy. He seems limp-wristed when he shakes that bottle thing. Hmmm...did he like to play house, too?
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time 1:02 size 778-828 kb aired 1958
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