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Jewel - "I Made It All By Myself" (Commercial, 1983)
Views: 4927
Here's a commercial for Jewel Food Stores about a girl who shops with her Mom to make her Dad a meal all by herself.
Features Shannon Grimes (now Shannon Bobillo) as the little girl.
As her husband Patrick recounts, "She and her sister did some modeling for print-ads and a bit of commercial acting just for fun when they were kids. They enjoyed it but both gave it up when they started high school and, apart from roles in school plays, neither pursued acting aft...
WCFL AM 1000 - "Hot Ticket" (Commercial, 1981)
Views: 1077
Here's another commercial for WCFL AM 1000 during its "This Is It" days, this one featuring a promotion in coordination with White Hen Pantry stores for a "Hot Ticket" scratch-off game where you could win $1000, or prizes like a Hawaiian vacation or a new car.
Voiceover by Dave Martin, who was WCFL's program director at the time. He later held the same job at WCLR, and voiced this commercial, too.
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Illinois Lottery Daily Game - "You Can Call It Fun" With Bill Saluga (Commercial #2, 1980)
Views: 2647
Here's another commercial for the Illinois Lottery - The Daily Game - featuring a carnival barker type character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr. played by Bill Saluga. (He was the "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me..." guy.)
(This is a slight variation from a previously posted version)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, November 12th 1980.
WPWR Channel 50 - Nanny And The Professor - "1-900 Hall of Shame" (Opening & Break, 1991)
Views: 5340
Here is the opening to an airing of Nanny and the Professor (presenting the episode "The Astronomers") on WPWR Channel 50 and the commercial break that follows, with a sequence of hilariously bad and over-the-top 1-900 phone line commercials - each one more cheesy than the last.
Includes:
WPWR Star Trek: The Next Generation bumper promo (ending voiceover by ??)
Opening to Nanny and the Professor
Girl's Talk - 1-900-230-1700 ($...
GK Chevrolet Of Downers Grove - "General Motors Raises Prices" (Commercial, 1979)
Views: 2153
Here's another commercial for GK Chevrolet in Downers Grove. The last time we saw one it had a really bad technical difficulty moment in it.
GK Chevrolet is now Bill Kay Chevrolet - part of the Bill Kay Automotive Group - still at the same place, 1601 Ogden Avenue in Downers Grove - even has the same phone number, except the area code is now 630 of course. :-)
Ending voiceover by J...
WYEN FM 107 - "Request Radio" (Commercial, 1979)
Views: 3213
Here's a commercial for WYEN FM 107 ("Request Radio," licensed to neighboring Des Plaines - and today Spanish-language WPPN, "Amor 106.7"), featuring snippets of such tracks as "No Tell Lover" by Chicago, "Last Time I Saw Him" by Diana Ross, "Forever In Blue Jeans" by Neil Diamond, and "Too Much Heaven" by the Bee Gees.
The "Request Radio" slogan referred to the station playing music requested by listeners.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 22...
WJPC 95 AM - "The Station All Your Friends Are Listening To" (Commercial, 1979)
Views: 1034
Here's a commercial for WJPC 95 AM, with celebrity endorsements from Michael Jackson (wearing a London police constable's hat and sporting his first nose job as would be seen on his breakthrough album Off the Wall) and his pet parrot named Ricky, Muhammad Ali, Redd Foxx (with Tom Joyner holding the microphone - and being KO'd by him), the Commodores, Soul Train host Don Cornelius, and Slappy White. Also seen with Joyner at the end are fellow WJPC air personalities Jo Jo Bell Wi...
CBS Video Games - Wizard of Wor - With John Madden (Commercial, 1983)
Views: 3130
Here is a commercial for the CBS video game "Wizard of Wor" for the Atari 2600 VCS. (Soon for Colecovision)
Featuring the CBS Video Games Challenge of Champions - Tony Sarkis Vs. Ray Johnson - as well as a money back guarantee (Offer ends January 31st 1983) and some all-star selling by football commentator John Madden.
"Dramatization of actual competition."
This aired on local Chicago TV Saturday, January 15th 1983.
Atari - "Test Facility" (Commercial, 1981)
Views: 2018
Here's a commercial from Atari, depicting a test facility for games from the Atari 2600 VCS (Video Computer System).
Features Kareem Abdul-Jabaar going up against Atari's basketball game, race car legend Mario Andretti testing their Night Driver game, and soccer great Pele testing their Pele's Championship Soccer game - and the games beating them all.
Voiceover by Danny Dark?
"We take our games seriously so you have more fun."