Category: 1960’s

Things Go Better With Coca Cola

In 1964 Coca-Cola tapped the Limelighters for their rendition of Things Go Better With Coca Cola. The Limelighters were a popular folk music group that signed with RCA Victor but never had any chart success.
The comic/character actor playing the tall, thin mover was Mr.Will B.Able. Mr.Able was a cast member of the 1955- 1956 version of ABC TV’sSuper Circus! and he was one of the cast members of the famous prince Street Players
The late Mr.Bill McCuutcheon(Who played Dudley Dudleyon CBS TV’s and Mr.Bob Keeshan’s Mr.Mayor and Captain Kangaroo) and Uncle WallyonSessme St.plays the little mover here.

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1969 Lincoln Mercury Cougar

The Mercury Cougar introduced in 1967 was Mercury’s pony or muscle car built off the Ford Mustang. For many years Mercury was identified as “at the sign of the cat” as seen in this commercial.

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Action Play Sets by Marx

Play set carry all’s were very popular toys produced by Marx during the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.  They were sold as sets without “accessories sold separately”.  The play sets provided hours of fun through a child’s imagination.

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1969 Bubba Smith Stopping Joe Namath

Before his acting days in the Miller Light commercials or playing Moses Hightower in the Police Academy movies Bubba Smith discussed with NBC how he and the Baltimore Colts planned on stopping Joe Namath and the New York Jets in the 1969 Super Bowl.

Bubba said that Joe Namath sets deep into the backfield and he hoped they would get a jump on the ball and catch him as he is going back. The Colts only got to Joe Namath twice for total of 11 yards lost for the entire game. The Jets went on to win Super Bowl by the score of 16-7.

Sadly, we lost Bubba Smith at the age of 66 on August 3, 2011.

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Petula Clark- Sign Of The Times

Sign Of The Times was performed by Petula Clark off her My Love album released in March of 1966. The song had much more percussions than in any of her other releases but she just said it was a “straight-ahead love song” with no hidden meanings like many songs of the time.

In 1999 Target Department Stores used Sign of the Times In 1969 B.F. Goodrich used the tune but changed the words to “It’s A Radial Age”.

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