It was 50 years ago today..........

In a purchase of radio station gear and tapes last year, I came across this reel on this post. Usually, commerical tapes get wiped for reused for dubs of tapes for other stations or work tapes, etc, so I didn't have a lot of hope that the original content on this reel was intact. I put it on the machine and almost jumped for joy that it actually was and in great shape. 50 years ago was a different time, and this spot certainly reflects that, in a good way. I held off posting this given it's 50th was coming up (based on the box date) but worth it to respect the 50th anniversary of a spot likely lost and forgotten over time. Let's enjoy it again shall we?



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It's 2022......Relax and have a beer.........commerical from the 70s.

It's about timne I dropped by. Just under a year since my last post. Still it's an occasional thing now. The main project is to get the Jetsam exhibits over to our friends at archive.org for safe keeping for the end of eternity. Well, i'm hopeful for the eternity anyway. Brewster Kahle seems to be a bit eccentric rich guy, but I applaude him for preserving a lot of what wouldn't necessarily be preserved if he didn't do it. That's sort of the philosophy around here, so just glad to have a place to put my exhibits that don't disappear when the monthly hosting ends because I can't pay the bill. You know, the 6 feet under thing. The Grim Reaper won't do it for me. I've been thinking of preserving my work here somewhere, and as I use the internet archive for other things, it seems like a natural fit. So far this date, 2010, 2011 and 2012 exhibits are all now on the internet archive, with links working accordingly. Any bad links, let me know, as tedious work as it is, I can miss a few things. This however, is the first exhibit to go straight to the internet archive and linked here.


Based on a date label on the tape that the radio station put on the box, from September 1976 a rather lifestyle oriented leaning campaign for Miller High Life Beer. It seems to be a blue collar focus, but aren't a lot of these things? The refined gentleman sips fine wine, which the average working guy chugs down pitchers of beer as a reward for a hard working day to deal with. I get it.



In any event, here it is.....til next time.


Miller High Life Tape AT 120 (September 1976)

Miller High Life-Skin Diver-A-5-60-0108

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Miller High Life-White Water-A-5-60-0109

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Miller High Life-Smoke Jumper-A-5-60-0110

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Miller High Life-Mountain Climber-A-5-60-0111

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Miller High Life-Trucking-A-5-60-0112

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Miller High Life-Motorcycle-A-5-60-0113

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Miller High Life-There Comes a Time-A-5-30-0116

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Miller High Life-Day Is Done-A-5-30-0117

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Miller High Life-Call It a Day-A-5-30-0118

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Flotsam-PSA's of the dead celebrity kind....

This exhibit has a theme, continuing the Public Service message even after the celebrity has passed. I suppose it's a bit morbid, but the message is still valid, albeit a bit dated and fun nostalgia at the very least. Here's 3 celebrities that i'd be surprised you didn't know who they are if you are a certain age...

Frank Sinatra turned this PSA for Easter seals in 1976


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Johnny Cash about Stop Smoking for the Seventh Day Adventists (date unknown)

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Finally John Candy for the Canadian Wildlife Federation

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Enjoy, Until the Next Exhibit

MMMMMMMMMAX HEAD ROOOOOOOMMMMMMMM and Coke....an 80s advertising Megaforce!

It's time for an exhibit of Commerical Flotsam...from the 80s.

Undeniably, Max Headroom (as portrayed by Canadian actor Matt Frewer) has to be an iconic symbol of the 1980s that lasted beyond the short lived Max Headroom TV series about Network 23. The whole bad stutter and what amounts to primitive graphic of the 80s on what the future would look like makes me think of a slightly simpler time.

Does it make me think about Coke? well not really. Still, Max was HOT circa 1987, and appealing to the young and if anything is a perfect vehicle for Coke, was Max Headroom.

It was a advertising marriage made in heaven you could probably say.

These two radio spots from that year remind you when max is new, stuttering with a artificial looking computer image was cool and you just wanted to "catch the wave" of hype that was the soft drink's slogan for that era.

Funny though, just coming off the new taste of coke, drinking trhe old taste of coke, I don't remember buying into the hype myself, but I just drank the product, but Max Headroom was still fun and decades later, it still is.

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Coca Cola Ltd Max Headroom "Good Taste" # 87-72-30
McCann Erickson Advertising June 4th 1987

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Coca Cola Ltd Max Headroom "Classroom" # 87-330-30
McCann Erickson Advertising June 18th 1987

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More Chewing of the Gum....

Back in 2014, we looked at Wrigley's Spearmint Gum jingles from the 1960s. the actual link to that post here HERE! Recently I found another disc from what seems to be around the same time, and a similar campaign, but here's the spots that are slightly different.

This one sided disc contains four spots

Picket Fence





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Bricklaying





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Driving




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Window Washing





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Enjoy Until Next Time!!!

Celebrating a decade of the Jetsam.....

Today March 26th, marks a decade this little project I started because I collected all these tapes, and it's time to come up with something to do with them. Working in radio production for a couple of radio stations, I tended to take a few tapes home after the commericals were finished airing, before they were erased to be reused for other purposes. Stuff that caught my ears one way or another. My wife actually came up with the name, and I wrote the purpose as posted on this page. Everything came together, and over time, I've had people contact me looking for "that one spot" that they cannot find anywhere. I wish I was a miracle worker, but the reality is, I only have so many, and this is why posts have not been frequent over the last few months. This will continue, but this blog will not be considered dead in my mind. If I find something of interest, it will be posted.

For our 10th Anniversary, I have a rather incredibly nice package that is a time capsule of the mid 1960s that a friend gave me cleaning out his records. the "now sound" of the 1960s reflects in this jingle package that is more a PSA then anything else, about taking a portable radio everywhere you go a "lively companion" as it were. It was done right, top 40 artists and stars of the time, with the Johnny Mann Singers, who sang a majority of the big top 40 radio station jingles in the US and beyond of that time.



The whole package is colorful with distinctive artwork and coloring, so I have included lot of pics of the package.

As for the AUDIO......



SIDE ONE

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SIDE TWO

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Until Next Time!

Generic Jingles for a Funeral Home? Yep.....

With halloween tomorrow, I thought I'd go a bit creepy, because, well, nothing says talking about death then a jingle, no matter how tasteful you try to make it. At least in my mind. WKRP did the wole ferriman up tempo funeral home jingle thing back in the 70s, and well they were shooting for laughs, this set of jingles was serious business. I'd love to hear the copy someone would have come up with for these jingles...It would be interesting.


That's not to say there isn't other fun stuff here, The garden side of the disc has some bad puns in the lyrics you sort of expect. Just add a hypy over the top used car salesman type announcer and you'll have a great spot.


The image ideas disc has some very generic comments about sales that you can almost use anywhere....campy as they are.

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Disc 5021-Side One

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Disc 5021-Side Two

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Disc 5121-Side One

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Disc 5121-Side Two

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