A number of future sitcom celebrities can be found in today’s batch of ancient commercials. You can spy Charlotte Rae and Sorrell Booke in a Charmin spot and Pam Dawber in one for Prell shampoo. You’ll also enjoy spots for … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2021
Peter Frampton live in ’75 A quartet of music-related seventies stories in the news this week. Read on for details. FRAMPTON ON FRAMPTON Vulture interviews guitar god and former teen idol Peter Frampton. The topic of discussion is the 45th … Continue reading
The Partridge Family – ‘Doesn’t Somebody Want To Be Wanted’ ad via Record World Feb. 20, 1971 Pulling the needle back 50-years-ago this week, let us have a listen to pure bubblegum bliss with the latest release from The Partridge … Continue reading
The latest advertising time capsules are up on the Bionic Disco YouTube channel and below. Tune in for Wal-Mart, The Chisholms, Post Honeycomb cereal, and the 1979 Fiat Strada. Vintage Wal-Mart Commercial (1979) Wal-Mart “Super Inflation Buster Sale” commercial aired … Continue reading
Opening a 50-year-old copy of Cash Box magazine and feasting our eyes on the Top 100 song chart for this week, February 20, 1971, we find some rather amazing tunes making their debut. Coming in at #46 it’s George Harrison … Continue reading
Lots of fun to be had in today’s quartet of seventies commercials. You’ll find Barry “Greg Brady” Williams dancing in a suit of armor for Shasta, the famed “Burger King And I” jingle, Pillsbury’s Figurines, and the Pontiac Grand Prix. … Continue reading