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Dion & The Belmonts - "The Dion Years" (Record Offer, 1976)

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Here's a record offer from GRT for "The Dion Years" by Dion & The Belmonts, with 22 original recordings of both the group and Dion's early solo hits, all originally released on Laurie Records between 1958 and 1962. The album cover was a mockup of vintage Life magazine covers.

Note, on the mailing address of where to send for this album, a glaring error on the address (the zip code of 06909 would theoretically be within the perimeters of Stamford, CT!).

Main vo...

WBKB Channel 7 - Midwest Sports Special - "Inside the World of Hockey with the Chicago Blackhawks" (Part 3, 1964)

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Here's Part 3 of Midwest Sports Special - "Inside the World of Hockey with the Chicago Blackhawks," hosted by Frank Sweeney, as aired on WBKB (now WLS) Channel 7. This was transferred from the original film, and thus has no commercials. Featured in this part is the team's coach Billy Reay, with demonstrations by players Bobby Hull, Bill Hay, Elmer "Moose" Vasko, Phil Esposito, Matt Ravlich, Glenn Hall, John Brenneman, Fred Stanfield, Stan Mikita, Eric Nesterenko and Wayne Hillman. I...

Atari Home Computers - Kiosk Videodisc Presentation (Part 2, 1982)

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Here's Part 2 of an interesting time capsule - the presentation from a videodisc that ran on an in-store kiosk display to demonstrate the Atari Home Computer. This was around the time of Dragon's Lair and other laserdisc games which made the medium very popular for encorporating with computers.

The label on the laserdisc says "E.R.I.C. POP". I know POP stands for Point of Purchase - not sure about the ERIC part.

Starring Brooke Alderson as "The Mom" (not sure of ...

Atari Home Computers - Kiosk Videodisc Presentation (Part 1, 1982)

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Here's Part 1 of an interesting time capsule - the presentation from a videodisc that ran on an in-store kiosk display to demonstrate the Atari Home Computer. This was around the time of Dragon's Lair and other laserdisc games which made the medium very popular for encorporating with computers.

The label on the laserdisc says "E.R.I.C. POP". I know POP stands for Point of Purchase - not sure about the ERIC part.

Starring Brooke Alderson as "The Mom" (not sure o...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "This Is Dracula!" (Break #5, Show #181)

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Here is break #5 of WFLD Channel 32's Son of Svengoolie show #181.

Includes the sketches, "This is Dracula!" (parody of "This is Elvis") and "American Abcess" (parody of the American Express commercials with Karl Malden)

Starring Rich Koz as Dracula, Son of Svengoolie, and Karl Malden.

Not sure when this aired originally, although this airing in Show 181 was a re-run.

Atari Home Computers - Kiosk Videodisc Presentation (Part 3, 1982)

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Here's Part 3, the last part, of an interesting time capsule - the presentation from a videodisc that ran on an in-store kiosk display to demonstrate the Atari Home Computer. This was around the time of Dragon's Lair and other laserdisc games which made the medium very popular for encorporating with computers.

The label on the laserdisc says "E.R.I.C. POP". I know POP stands for Point of Purchase - not sure about the ERIC part.

Starring Brooke Alderson as "The Mo...

Homer's Furniture - "Bedroom Furniture Sale" (Commercial, 1978)

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Here's a commercial for Homer's furniture, offering a sale on bedroom furniture in such styles as authentic American, elegant provincial, exciting modern and smart contemporary, and ranging from timeless classics to flexible modular groupings. Sale ends April 30th. Five showrooms in Chicago, Lombard and Skokie.

Voiceover by Ron MacAdam (who was also an impressionist who did many voices as well as being the puppeteer for "Tracer the Dog" on The Dick Tracy Show featuring...

WLS Channel 7 - Friday Night - "Steve & Garry" (Part 1, 1981)

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In honor of Steve Dahl's new foray into the world of Podcast Broadcasting (which begins today - check out Dahl.com for more info) - here is a vintage Steve & Garry appearance on WLS Channel 7's Friday Night with Jay Levine.

Part 1 begins a couple minutes into the program, and the audio take a few seconds to kick in. Steve talks about his being fired from WLUP FM 98.

(Commercials were cut out of thi...

Community Family Centers - "Meet The Lone Ranger" (Partial Commercial, 1976)

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Here's a really old (and unfortunately incomplete) commercial for Community stores featuring a promotion at the end for a live event where you could come out and meet the original Lone Ranger - Clayton Moore in person, on Saturday, June 19th 1976! Pretty cool. (this was before the famous lawsuit that tried to prevent Clayton Moore from wearing the mask)

"The Lone Ranger Ride...