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WBBM FM 96 - "Win A Radio Radio" (Promo, 1979)

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Here's a quick bumper promo for a contest on WBBM-FM 96 where you could win a radio shaped like the word radio. Wow, trippy.

Hurry! Contest ends November 16th 1979!

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979.

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Chapstick - "Dr. Chapstick" with Julius Erving (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 1452

Here's a commercial for Chapstick with basketball legend Dr. J - Julius Erving - Dr. Chapstick.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 1st 1981.

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Lincoln Carpeting - "Shag Warehouse" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2140

Here's another commercial for Lincoln Carpeting starring Al Parker, the voice of WLS-TV. Call NA-2900 for Chicago's Largest Shop-At-Home Service!

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979.

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Eagle Discount Supermarkets - "It's In The Bag" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 635

Here's a commercial for Eagle Foods - Eagle Discount Supermarkets.

Ok guys, who's the announcer?

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, January 25th 1981.

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ADA - "It's Time For Milk & Me!" (PSA, 1981)

Views: 1386

Here's a public service annoucement from the ADA - American Dairy Association of Wisconsin - for milk.

Can we be sure he's not saying "It's time for milkin' me!"?

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, January 20th 1981.

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Illinois Lottery Daily Game - "You Can Call It Fun" With Bill Saluga (Commercial #1, 1981)

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Here's a commercial for the Illinois Lottery - The Daily Game - featuring a carnival barker type character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr. played by Bill Saluga. (He was the "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me..." guy.)

(There is also a slightly different version of the same commercial)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 1st 1981.

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Pampers - "Twice As Dry" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2495

Here's one of those Pampers diapers commercials from the 70's where they sit the kid's wet butt down on some paper. Yechhh... ;-)

This one features Sara Jane Whitman (Sara Ramos) as the baby. As she wrote to us in May of 2009:

"Here's my story: I have two older brothers, identical twins, and my mom had an agent trying to help get them into commercials. For whatever reason they weren't selected for any commercials (though I think one was in a TIDE commerc...

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Celozzi-Ettleson Chevrolet - "Where You Always..something something" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 4756

Here's an early Celozzi-Ettleson Chevrolet commercial before they had come up with their trademark catch-phrase of "Where You Always Save More Money!". Here the best they had so far was the infinitely inferior "Hard to find, but tough to beat."

Celozzi-Ettleson Chevrolet in Elmhurst at York and Roosevelt Roads.

Gotta love that Chicago accent. "DIS MUNT..."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 1st 1981.

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WJPC AM 95 With Sammy Davis, Jr. (Commercial, 1979)

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Here's another commercial for a long-gone Chicago radio station - WJPC AM 95 (950 AM) - where Tom Joyner got his start in Chicago. (Along with LaDonna Tittle and BeBe D'Banana)

Featuring Sammy Davis, Jr. doing an impression of Humphrey Bogart.

Is that Tom Joyner doing the voiceover at the end?

WJPC was apparently owned by Johnson Publishing Company, who put out Jet and Ebony magazines.

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV on Su...