Archive for December 10th, 2008
Opal Fruits commercial from 1991.
Twix advert from 1991.
Twix is a chocolate-covered chocolate bar made by Mars, Inc., consisting of a butter cookie centre topped with caramel and coated in milk chocolate. Being somewhat smaller in cross section than other candy bars, Twix are typically packaged in pairs. Twix was first produced in the UK in 1967, and introduced in the United States in 1979.
80’s commercial for Ready Brek. ‘Get up and glow with Ready Brek’.
TV Times - Puzzle Pieces commercial from 1986
80’s commercial for Wrigley’s Spearmint Gun. ‘Tastes so great you’ll just love to chew it’
The William Wrigley Jr. Company was founded on April 1, 1891 originally selling products such as soap and baking powder. In 1892, William Wrigley, Jr., the company’s founder, began offering chewing gum with each can of baking powder. The chewing gum eventually became more popular than the baking powder itself and Wrigley’s reoriented the company to produce the popular chewing gum.
1994 Advert For Walkers Crisps With Terry Venables
Walkers Crisps ‘woods’ advert 1990
Now That’s What I Call Music! 7 (1986) UK TV Advert - Version 1.
Now That’s What I Call Music 7 or Now 7 was released in 1986. The album is the 7th edition of the (UK) Now! series. It was #1 on the UK Albums Chart for five weeks.
The original 1986 release featured a bonus track “A Kind of Magic” by Queen. On the LP this featured as a 9th track on Record 2 Side 1 (NOW72A). Read the rest of this entry »
Now That’s What I Call Music! 6 (1985) UK TV Advert
Now That’s What I Call Music 6 or Now 6 was released in 1985. The album is the 6th edition of the (UK) Now! series. It made it to #1 in the UK initially for two weeks, then returned for another two weeks in January 1986 after Now - The Christmas Album had replaced it at the top. It was also the first Now album to go 4x platinum, selling over 1.2 million copies. Read the rest of this entry »
80’s advert for Nescafe instant coffee.