Buster Keaton Alka-Seltzer commercials

[silentfilm]

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/xk ... vertis_fun

[tlanza]

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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[Scoundrel]

This was included among many others in Laughsmith's
INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH KEATON.

[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.

[Richard M Roberts]

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

[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.

[SFBOB]

And leave us not forget the classic "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" commercials from the early 1970's.

[Richard M Roberts]

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

[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).

[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",

[FrankFay]

One of my favorites is their ad "The Blahs"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuvkvXUZF84

[Brent Walker]

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!

[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."

[Richard M Roberts]

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.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

[JFK]

[radiotelefonia]

This ad is far more effective than Dali's: