BK on a Vespa*. Doesn't get much cooler than that.
*Yes, I know, it could possibly be a Lambretta or some other scooter, but the idea of a pre-Quadrophenia Buster ride is still too good.
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 8:07 am
by Scoundrel
This was included among many others in Laughsmith's
INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH KEATON.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 9:08 am
by Arndt
Didn't they make great commercials in those days? They work, too! I immediately took an Alka-Seltzer.
However, bearing in mind Buster's alcohol problems the slogan "Relief is just a swallow away!" is in itself a bit hard to swallow.
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 1:17 pm
by Richard M Roberts
Arndt wrote:Didn't they make great commercials in those days? They work, too! I immediately took an Alka-Seltzer.
However, bearing in mind Buster's alcohol problems the slogan "Relief is just a swallow away!" is in itself a bit hard to swallow.
When I used to run these commercials in my programs, I would say there was one Alka Seltzer commercial missing tailored to Buster's own personal situation:
"Hey Buster!
You've woken from a bender with a blonde you don't remember and now Natalie's Detectives are beatin' down the door!
Bless that relief-giving Alka Seltzer!"
RICHARD M ROBERTS
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 6:02 pm
by Brent Walker
You really have to give it to Alka-Seltzer for consistently great commercials and jingles over the years. After the "Plop Plop Fizz Fizz" and "Down Down Down the Stomach" jingles, in the mid-60's they had "No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In." Then in the 70's the "Try It You'll Like It" commercials, and besides Buster, I remember George Raft did the prison mess hall one, and Sammy Davis Jr. in one as well.
Great Alka Selzer Commercials
Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 6:59 pm
by SFBOB
And leave us not forget the classic "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" commercials from the early 1970's.
Re: Great Alka Selzer Commercials
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 10:31 am
by Richard M Roberts
SFBOB wrote:And leave us not forget the classic "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" commercials from the early 1970's.
"Mama Mia, at'sa one spicy meatball!"
RICHARD M ROBERTS
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 4:46 pm
by BenModel
Call me a cab, but the "Down Down Down the Stomach" jingle in the BK spots is basically "La Cucaracha" in 4/4 time (swung).
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 4:24 am
by Penfold
You're a cab.
But I see what you mean....there's a hint of the chorus to High Hopes, too....."there goes another rubber tree plant",
silentfilmmusic wrote:Call me a cab, but the "Down Down Down the Stomach" jingle in the BK spots is basically "La Cucaracha" in 4/4 time (swung).
That's an accusation that probably can be made about many songs (if indeed La Cucaracha, which I know goes way back, was the first song to use 3 bars of the root, 4 bars of the 5th and 1 more of the root). A lot of latin songs, and a whole bunch of calypso songs use that progression too (for some reason the one that's most coming into my head right now is the one on the 45 for that old Wham-O Limbo game).
By the way you are indeed a cab--a Tijuana Taxi to be precise!
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 6:05 pm
by dr.giraud
There's a pizza place on S. Pearl Street in Albany that has some Hollywood memorabilia up on the wall by the cash register. In the last week they added a print ad for rye bread, featuring Buster Keaton holding a big sandwich: "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's."
Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 10:29 pm
by Richard M Roberts
dr.giraud wrote:There's a pizza place on S. Pearl Street in Albany that has some Hollywood memorabilia up on the wall by the cash register. In the last week they added a print ad for rye bread, featuring Buster Keaton holding a big sandwich: "You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's."
Which was most likely the last public appearance Buster Keaton made. That was photographed in December, 1965.