Happy Friday, Bionic Friends! You know the drill by now – here’s a fun batch of seventies commercials to bring back the warm fuzzies. Check out spots circa ’73 & ’74 for GE’s Toast-R-Oven, Chevy Vega, Hasbro’s Bonneville Blasters race … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2021
Freddy Fender, ‘Wasted Days And Wasted Nights’ ad via Cash Box, July 26, 1975 Heading back to the summer of 1975, we have an ad for Freddy Fender’s “Wasted Days And Wasted Nights.” The song was co-written by Fender and … Continue reading
**A classic post from the Bionic Disco vault. The following originally appeared December 11, 2017** Las Vegas – Sahara Superstars (‘Billboard’ magazine, November 04, 1972). Here’s a rather splendid November 1972 ad for the Sahara hotel in Las Vegas promoting … Continue reading
Today’s assortment of vintage commercials ran in the early-to-mid 1970s. First in line, we have Erin Gray in a spot for Prell Shampoo. Following that, it’s the fantastic Pub Lounge on Continental Airlines (with Pong tables!), Purina Cat Chow, and … Continue reading
Johnny Cash, along with Carl Perkins and The Tennessee Three, created music for the motion picture Little Fauss And Big Halsy and the soundtrack was released on Columbia Records in November of 1970. One of the standout tracks on the … Continue reading
We’ve reached 1979 and the end of the decade. Don’t worry, there’s many more seventies commercials to come, but they’ll be sprinkled out in a more random fashion for a while. This year-by-year thing takes five weeks every time I … Continue reading