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Post by teleadm on Jun 23, 2018 20:19:35 GMT
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Post by snsurone on Jun 23, 2018 22:01:06 GMT
Salem's slogan was "Take a puff, it's springtime" which was used for several years afterwards. The name still exists and is owned by Imperial Tobacco Group since 2015. Oh, s**t--I'll never forget those TV and magazine ads depicting an idyllic setting that was probably littered with Salem cigarette butts! And the actors in those ads were always young, white, and upper middle class. Of course, this was the '60's, so it was natural that there wouldn't be any people of color in those ads. But that was probably for the best, at least as far as minorities were concerned. As I said on the OP, I was (and still am) deeply grateful that the FCC banned cigarette ads in 1970. |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 23, 2018 22:10:45 GMT
![]() " King Size " … " Martin’s in the handsome gold packet has a quality, a quality you can trust! "
The 1976 Australian TV commercial features our very own, Frank Thring, the character actor was well known having appeared with memorable performances in a number of notable grand epics eg. King of Kings, El Cid and Ben Hur. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 23, 2018 22:17:24 GMT
Strand - as smoked by Billy No-mates! Woodbines
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Post by teleadm on Jun 23, 2018 22:21:57 GMT
I wish I never became a slave under those mini-chimeys
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Post by snsurone on Jun 24, 2018 11:36:29 GMT
Tele, I'm sorry, but your image here didn't come through. Could you try it again? |
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Post by gspdude on Jun 24, 2018 13:11:26 GMT
My 1st cig was a Tareyton. 2 friends & I chipped in a dime a piece (age give-away) and decided on Tareyton because they were charcoal filtered!?!? The guy who looked oldest (we were 12-13) went in the store to buy a pack. Told the lady they were for his mom. Went to the woods and smoked them. The good old days!
On a side note I happily quit at 28.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 25, 2018 6:41:20 GMT
Tele, I'm sorry, but your image here didn't come through. Could you try it again? Sorry, it seems like I've forgotten where I found it... |
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Post by snsurone on Jun 25, 2018 13:36:26 GMT
Tele, I'm sorry, but your image here didn't come through. Could you try it again? Sorry, it seems like I've forgotten where I found it... Well, c'est la vie. And there's more of it now that Big Tobacco has been defeated! :-D |
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 25, 2018 15:15:52 GMT
...mentioned earlier in this thread...Woodbines.
I remember smoking those in Ireland when I was there in the early 1970's.
Another long gone US brand was "Oasis". "Marvel" was another brand that vanished in the early 1960's...
And "LS/MFT" = Lucky Strike means fine tobacco... |
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Post by telegonus on Jun 25, 2018 19:32:12 GMT
Ah, those menthol cigarettes! I always hated the taste of them.
My mother smoked Newports. I think they're gone now. She's long gone.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jun 25, 2018 20:04:36 GMT
I'm of the age where I can remember the saturation of cigarette ads on TV. Their claims were that smoking made a person sexy and sophisticated, really! Well, cigarette ads were banned on TV in 1970 (thank goodness!). In fact, in the face of so much opposition to smoking, from the public and medical associations, did some brands cease to exist? Is there still Old Gold, Chesterfield, Parliament, Viceroy, or Salem? I believe that Winston, Camel, and Marlboro are still around, and I've seen ads for Newport in magazines. I've never smoked, so I really don't notice the shelves of cigarettes in stores. And I haven't seen a cigarette vending machine in decades. you don't get MAX cigarettes anymore. "Men of the world smoke Max" was their tagline in the ads.  |
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jun 25, 2018 20:11:55 GMT
When I was in the army nearly 40 years ago I smoked TEXAN PLAIN. They were the strongest smokes on the market, and my fingers were always yellow. I smoked 60 of these a day and washed them down with brandy and coke. Those were the days, I can still smell and taste those toasted TEXAN PLAIN somewhere deep in my subconscious. Hell, you can probably still buy them in South Africa.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2018 20:39:50 GMT
I am just old enough to remember the Marlboro Man. It is a pleasant "blast from the past" to have the old familiar jingles playing in my head again. Good for the synapses or whatever. But like snsurone, I am very happy that those ads aren't on TV anymore.
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Post by snsurone on Jun 25, 2018 21:45:50 GMT
I am just old enough to remember the Marlboro Man. It is a pleasant "blast from the past" to have the old familiar jingles playing in my head again. Good for the synapses or whatever. But like snsurone, I am very happy that those ads aren't on TV anymore. Actually, the "Marlboro Man" music was the theme from the movie THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. I wish that theme was played more often in the movie; I might have liked it then. |
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Post by neurosturgeon on Jun 26, 2018 0:40:43 GMT
I am just old enough to remember the Marlboro Man. It is a pleasant "blast from the past" to have the old familiar jingles playing in my head again. Good for the synapses or whatever. But like snsurone, I am very happy that those ads aren't on TV anymore. Actually, the "Marlboro Man" music was the theme from the movie THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. I wish that theme was played more often in the movie; I might have liked it then. Around 1969, Elmer Bernstein did summer film music concerts in the park with our city's symphony orchestra, featuring his music and others. My high school orchestra director played clarinet in the symphony and asked if he could borrow his hand-written MAGNIFICENT SEVEN for our school. It was extremely difficult, but those who didn’t know the music from watching the film on The Million Dollar Movie eight times a week, knew it from the commercials. The music changes meter constantly, but knowing how it goes helps to defeat the psychological barrier. I got to thanks Elmer for the experience when I met him at the LACMA film festival honoring him in 2001. He remembered the concerts and I told him how much it meant to a 15 year old film music lover to hear an orchestra play my favorite type of music. |
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Post by snsurone on Jun 26, 2018 12:23:17 GMT
Linda, the theme from MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE was the Tara theme from GWTW, written by the great Max Steiner.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 26, 2018 15:55:40 GMT
...another one was Virginia Slims which were aimed at the female consumer.
Carleton was another so called low nicotine ciggie offered and now long gone.
The poster who mentioned Newport, those are still available and one of the more popular menthol brands, though I have never understood the attraction with menthol ciggies...
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Post by snsurone on Jun 26, 2018 16:52:24 GMT
I have never understood the attraction to ciggies...period!
BTW, if anyone remembers the early version of the "Andy Capp" comic strip by the late Reg Smyth, the title character always had a cigarette butt dangling from his lower lip.
When the strip was revived, that habit ceased--as well as his showing his "love" for his wife by beating her to a pulp and then stealing her money!
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 26, 2018 16:58:22 GMT
Linda, the theme from MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE was the Tara theme from GWTW, written by the great Max Steiner. The Million Dollar Movie was packaged for RKO-General stations around the country, one of which was KHJ-TV in Los Angeles (Linda and I both grew up in that area). The music they used for intros and bumpers may have varied from region to region and been changed over the years. I don't specifically recall The Magnificent Seven being used, but in the mid-'60s, the L.A. station was using Miklos Rozsa's 1952 Ivanhoe overture. |
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