A compilation of vintage commercials found on KZfaq.
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@meropealcyone2 жыл бұрын
I hate how I keep getting interrupted by a bunch of commercials when I'm enjoying watching a bunch of commercials.
@ChuckSannel8 ай бұрын
These are GOOD commercials though... The new ones stink.
@karinanur78446 ай бұрын
магазин аудио стерео тв и игровых приставок - для своего времени это было нечто , можно представить счастье людей тех лет , и до чего мы сегодня докатились , прощай мой мир , прощай моя вечность , прощай !!!!!
@punktexas11 жыл бұрын
I remember when there used to be stores (brick and mortar) that only sold stereos. Those were the days.
@jimcarlson61574 жыл бұрын
there still are, but the gear is pricey
@tonymctony45514 жыл бұрын
The sound idea on Fredericksburg rd
@brianchisnell15484 жыл бұрын
D O W Dow! Dow stereo in San Diego. 'Still have my 1979 Pioneer rig. Store is long gone.
@DeadKoby4 жыл бұрын
Although the still exist, but nice stereos at decent prices are history... It's either JUNK, or crazy high end.
@qua77714 жыл бұрын
@@DeadKoby Yeah right. My new Marantz receiver isn't built anything like the old ones. Their $5,000 and up components are. I can't complain about the sound quality though.
@BioCYTE111 жыл бұрын
It's heartwarming to know I'm not the only one that sits here watching these things in the wee hours of the morning in a leisure suit. Great post! - Lj
@donhosmer81595 ай бұрын
2024 66 years old Still listening to the Pioneer receiver my father purchased in the early 70's
@musicgroovin9 жыл бұрын
I love it when people post these commercials on KZfaq. Good job. Bringing back electronic memories. And too many hours spent in front of my parents TV.
@Fersomling9 жыл бұрын
+Steven Harp Here's an old commercial you may remember, and it's right here on KZfaq: Punch in: Chef Boyardee Bells Ring a Medly 1986. Enjoy!
@GlAcKeNbUrGeN8 жыл бұрын
A fucking stereo sofa? A STEREO SOFA. I WANT A STEREO SOFA
@Watcher32238 жыл бұрын
+GlAcKeNbUrGeN No, you don't. If you're napping on it, there's always some jerkoff who will wake you up by turning the volume up on your stereo sofa and playing the sounds of army artillery...
@nenchiyakushevdevoselichdo97578 жыл бұрын
+GlAcKeNbUrGeN does it has a beer holder ?
@sirmugman8 жыл бұрын
+GlAcKeNbUrGeN ITS THE COOLEST THING EVER! okay it might be hard to replace the belts on the tape and 8 track but its a freegin cool thing okay its a fire harzard but who cares ITS A STEREO SOFA!!!!
@ronwilliams7176 жыл бұрын
My friend had that stereo bar. It had the disco lights. I remember that very well.As ghetto as they were they probably got this deal. They might of has that TV too.
@RUfromthe40s2 жыл бұрын
this with low-fi woman with very limited volume(in sound) was perfect, i remenber that was fashion to buy a bed with a stereo system on it and shelf´s to put books and cassettes ,a king size one
@MrTopsoil9119 жыл бұрын
Old audio equip. Is way more superior than todays crap. The clarity is better and more reliable.
@Watcher41114 жыл бұрын
Its reliability of made in japan gear
@MMID3037 жыл бұрын
Nice! I got a Pioneer direct drive turntable, Pioneer CD cd player, and Sansui 661 receiver. The 70s and into the mid 80s was the golden age of stereo.
@Watcher41114 жыл бұрын
True. I have Pioneer elite separates from 80s. Still in original condition on japanese parts
@southwestxnorthwest4 жыл бұрын
I pay for KZfaq premium to eliminate ads, yet here I am watching commercials on KZfaq
@bosco20234 ай бұрын
It’s 2024 3 years later and I haven’t paid AOC you liberal garbage . Your an rectum
@brewcrew58544 жыл бұрын
oh the vintage receivers and that illumination the roller bearing and rubber bands at the tuner dial ! so cool . i always dreamed of that fisher component system behind the glass door ! saw one not long ago on curb side bulk pick up . some one cut all the cords for copper . i still grabbed it and am rewiring
@NathanThePrezPretlow2 жыл бұрын
I remember the Stereo warehouse back in the 70s.Some these commercials bring back memories 50 years from now today's digital technology will be showing just like this.
@New-tu3mn6 ай бұрын
Thanks, for that childhood TV memory blast from the past!
@socksumi Жыл бұрын
I'm 64 and don't recall any of these Stereo TV ads back then where I lived in Canada except for Radio Shack which advertised heavily.
@anonymoushuman83444 жыл бұрын
I had forgotten that Burgess Meredith used to narrate commercials. I didn't know his name back then, but I knew his distinctive voice and face.
@2574mcu4 жыл бұрын
My sister had a take n tape cassette player, I forgot all about that. Late 70s early 80s was a great time for home audio. I miss those days.
@jondubb354 жыл бұрын
I think I still owe Columbia House... 😂
@RJ-luci4 жыл бұрын
Jon's Record Rack I still have nightmares of not returning the “do not ship this months selection” card.
@plcc077774 жыл бұрын
Me too !!!
@steelydanfan1004 жыл бұрын
Jon, Columbia House is still looking for you . Keep living out of your van ....👀😳
@jamesy56074 жыл бұрын
Dam what a memory - that 12 records for a buck opening offer was enticing - I had several aliases 😀. Your comment made me bust out loud laughing
@cardtrix19704 жыл бұрын
Too...funny! Me...too!
@rickhunt31834 жыл бұрын
Those vintage stereos were well built. Especially the High end pioneers like the SX1980. I guess I should have had it repaired instead of throwing it away in the 80's. I ran it wide open most of the time.
@ManInTheBigHat7 жыл бұрын
That first ad for Pioneer is Burgess Meredith. The Penguin. That guy really got around.
@evhvariac24 жыл бұрын
ManInTheBigHat what does this mean? He got around
@Buisness14 жыл бұрын
WOW! That Korvettes commercial REALLY took me back a ways. You can't GEt good stuff that lasted from your teens til your CHILDREN'S teens anymore hahahah! The time when we were young and never thought of getting old (smile). great sound, GREAT food, before they told it it wasn't good for us anymore hahhha.
@wingmanalive5 жыл бұрын
You know tech has come a long way since then. It's smaller, faster, does more and fits in your hand. BUT, There's nothing like the feel and sound of a quality stereo with big speakers in your house. Tall speakers with 12" woofers, equalizers with dancing lights, tape decks, ect. I miss the old times. You can't rattle the house with your music with a smart phone!
@jimmiesmith58114 жыл бұрын
yeah those were the days
@NickyNicest3 жыл бұрын
people just don’t prioritize them like they used to when they have a speaker everywhere they go. Stereos sound even better today
@daveidmarx829611 ай бұрын
I still have a stereo system (7.1 actually) with huge front speakers. It sounds amazing.
@toneyisaiah4084 жыл бұрын
The way stereo equipment used to be on top of the world.
@DeckardCain19867 жыл бұрын
I need to enter a time machine and go back to 70s so I could buy all the best stereos
@macdonelldouglas6 жыл бұрын
U are right my friend, let's build a time machine together.
@timcoker46856 жыл бұрын
Take a lot of money with you. Electronics were very expensive back then!!
@Kehila_ahrizona_YT5 жыл бұрын
If you do,go to korvettes
@rennrodriguez89094 жыл бұрын
Yeah! Now I'm a Multimillionaire. Time Machine.
@beezertwelvewashingbeard87034 жыл бұрын
@@brianchisnell1548 I have some reel to reel tapes that were recorded directly off Chicago FM radio. One from 1980 has several Pacific Stereo ads with their old jingle. So it must have been a national chain store?
@michaelwerbick4 жыл бұрын
I remember my first CD player. $300 single disc no remote and CDs were $20...
@jimbarrofficial4 жыл бұрын
Burgess Meredith narrating the first commercial. Awesome.
@brentmann29882 жыл бұрын
17:43 This Pacific Stereo jingle was a classic! Terry McGovern provides the voice-over. 10:39 Ed Grover was a great voice-over talent... and here he is for the Apple IIc.
@mrbizzarro11 жыл бұрын
A Stereo SOFA!!!! SWEET!
@Nektar101410 жыл бұрын
Wow! Reminds me of how much back then we were more focused on the sound of our music than the sound of our tv's. Still gotta love the sound of LP's!
@Nektar10149 жыл бұрын
goatstaog I agree! Music is a bigger part of my life as well :)
@Watcher41114 жыл бұрын
I still focused on sound of my music and hi-fi. I even dont have big screeny TV lol
@jogmas124 жыл бұрын
Home theatre systems rule for most people but for music lovers like myself I only listen to music via a dedicated “just audio” hi fi system
@Yooyangs4 жыл бұрын
I had a pioneer SX-780 back in the day
@Vinyltar5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this, this is awesome!!!!
@bulchit4811 жыл бұрын
Great Commercials, back in the day when i would lust after all that equipment and couldn't afford nothing because I didn't make any money. Now i Have the money and the new equipment today sucks.
@gideonkloosterman4 жыл бұрын
If you think the equipment today sucks, you're looking in the wrong places.
@edstephens89554 жыл бұрын
@@gideonkloosterman how much is that great equipment of today ?
@gideonkloosterman4 жыл бұрын
@@edstephens8955 Mine was €1000 5 years ago. It's a very nicely built 2x120W class A/B amplifier. Sounds expensive, but adjusted for inflation it'd be $160 in 1970. The amp I have and am comparing is a Block V120 made in Germany.
@ArmpitStudios10 жыл бұрын
My parents had that Sanyo compact stereo at 31:27, which I put through hours of use, listening and recording. It was a great unit, and ran speakers all over the house (kitchen, bathroom, outside, etc). It last for years until they wanted to finally get a CD player.
@user-dq5xx9hi4q6 ай бұрын
In town we had Pacific Stereo, Cal Stereo, Stereo West, Stereo Habitat, Systems Warehouse plus stereo departments (some with soundproof listening rooms) at Sears, JC Penneys, Alco TV & Stereo, Liberty House, Best Products, Federated and Gemco. Within a short driving distance were The Soundworks, Layfette Stereo, Quement Electronics, Good Guys and many more. Fun days!
@claudiosalvatore7549 жыл бұрын
still own the pioneer 710 tuner @20.00m still works after 35 years! needs a little recap though...
@adeh5036 жыл бұрын
Please I'd like to go back in time with a very large wad of cash 😂😂
@chuckmcilvaine83245 жыл бұрын
When I was in high school in the seventies, everybody wanted a Marantz receiver stereo system.
@jondubb354 жыл бұрын
Who would of thought in 2020, that people still want a 1970s Marantz Receiver Stereo System.
@1ring2rule3pigs4 жыл бұрын
23:06. "Hey, hey, heyyy!"
@afistfulofpimples17454 жыл бұрын
I was in high school in the 40's.
@carstenvang91934 жыл бұрын
We still do.
@ArcadeDude449 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing these awesome ads!
@mrhoffame11 жыл бұрын
OMG I never get tired of watching, laughing, and drooling at this video lol. The kid at 14:25 just makes me break down laughing every single time lol
@hifijohn6 жыл бұрын
yes there was a time when there was a hifi store everywhere.
@htwoos2811 жыл бұрын
I love this collection......Ahhhhh, the good ol' days..... thanks!
@cbennet14 жыл бұрын
Wow! Spent many an hour walking through the local Federated drooling on stuff I couldn’t afford. Bought my first ever receiver and speakers at Pacific Stereo. Lived walking distance from the HQ for Marantz and the original MFSL. Thanks for the memories!
@johnnyevans4728 Жыл бұрын
I was hoping federated commercial would be here, God how I miss that store, spent a lot of my childhood hood shopping stereo equipment there!!!
@danielknepper68846 ай бұрын
Oh yeah I loved Federated
@Giondenver9 жыл бұрын
I had to watch this ... What I found funny is the Columbia house order forms ... Lol ... I used 2 different name to get double the albums as a kid ... Then I used another ... And I got them !!! Who did not rip off that company as a kid . I would never do it now but being a kid in the 70"s ???? Lol
@sarcasticallyrearranged7 жыл бұрын
Am I one of the few that didn't rip off that deal?
@caturdaynite72177 жыл бұрын
I did that too. twice under two names. It felt so naughty. How did they every make money on this deal. Did anybody every actually buy anything? I never did. I still have an old Judas Priest (Sad wings of destiny, I believe) cassette from 1978. All the rest are lost in the mists of time.
@daniellaubach75444 жыл бұрын
RCA music service was the other one opposite of Columbia house music service. I was a member of RCA for about 4 years.
@dougg10754 жыл бұрын
Ah! Back when audio was important to people.
@onefatstratcat4 жыл бұрын
I just got back into vinyl and even though you wouldn't call my rig audiophile quality I am enjoying music so much more now
@adamweston41524 жыл бұрын
Oh how I long to go straight back to that time, greatest era and all the adverts were brilliant.
@G-ra-ha-m4 жыл бұрын
@@adamweston4152 The 70s were a real boom time for HiFi and a time of least inequality, even the CEO of IBM was nowhere near as greedy as Zuckerberg, Musk etc. It was the heyday of the middle class, a great time to be alive!
@jogmas124 жыл бұрын
Still is. Check out Schiit Audio’s web site
@jogmas124 жыл бұрын
......also with the merging of audio/video as in home theater systems, audio has taken a quiet back seat but for people like myself, I still have a separate just audio hi fi system made up of mostly modern components. So “just “ audio systems are certainly not dead.
@Paneeks196011 жыл бұрын
20:06 times have surely changed. Amazing. These are true gems. After seeing some of these makes me wonder if the iPad and iPod are going look archaic in the next fifty years? Thanks John, flashback central to simpler times~ Rob/Boston
@gideonkloosterman4 жыл бұрын
They will, but that's alright.
@jerryjackman16574 ай бұрын
Dude,Totally enjoyed the commercials.But you threw me right off a cliff with the wal-mart commercial at the end.I live in Ft.Walton.
@Billytwotimes48 жыл бұрын
Had a smile on my face the whole time- thanks for the upload.
@phren130698 жыл бұрын
I wish I could find Stereo Super Store ads from the late '70s Portland Oregon. Used to work on Jantzen Beach in one. Oh what days those were!
@dr.jamesolack85043 жыл бұрын
@punktexas.....thanks for the flashback! thoroughly enjoyed the ride!
@christopherwilde50805 жыл бұрын
I still own a vintage Pioneer RT-909 Reel To Reel!!
@afistfulofpimples17454 жыл бұрын
I doubt it
@timhollis33904 жыл бұрын
Why do you doubt it?
@christopherwilde50804 жыл бұрын
Tapes for 4 track reel to reel are not easy to find these days.
@neillowy4 жыл бұрын
I still have my JVC-RD1969. You can get blank 7" on Amazon and also EBay. Main reason why we liked using those open reel machines was for the Sound on Sound recording feature.
@cbennet14 жыл бұрын
Completing a refurb on one right now. I could never have afforded one back in the day.
@MickeyMishra4 жыл бұрын
This was a real joy to watch. I really liked the Pioneer comercial at the end.
@handsomepackage70048 жыл бұрын
I used to like the old University Stereo Commercial from 1977, here in L.A
@toneyisaiah4084 жыл бұрын
Classic commercials. I remember the Pioneer tv advertising from the 1980s.
@FedUpLurker10 жыл бұрын
I have a very fulfilling and healthy fetish for 1970's Japanese mainstream audio classics. My Sony, Pioneer and TRIO amplifiers from that era are delicious mature babes with all the right knobs and dials that are ideal for fiddling with....
@Watcher41114 жыл бұрын
I have separates Pioneer components from 80. IT will outlive made in china crap
@saturnfirepaw11 жыл бұрын
I love nostalgia.
@afistfulofpimples17454 жыл бұрын
It gets old fast.
@donaldgeorge66564 жыл бұрын
Sherwood, Advent, Garrard. Those were the days shopping at Federated
@ballroom2311 жыл бұрын
Thank you for putting that together. Love old commercials.
@gregargendeli29733 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you liked the pacific stereo ads so much you lifted them from my channel, complete with the editel headers.
@pippofan4 ай бұрын
Love the Keep America Clean ad with Iron Eyes Cody, who's real name was Espera Oscar de Corti of Sicilian descent.
@joeygonzo2 жыл бұрын
2:14, remember when phone numbers had no area code ? LOL The whole LA and OC was under one code
@k9yk10 ай бұрын
The Pioneer ads with Burgess Meredith are the best!
@BlasterBryan196211 жыл бұрын
Thanks brings back TV memories
@jazzman16267 жыл бұрын
Half of my hifi is from the 1970s. Stuff I couldn't afford back then.
@Buisness14 жыл бұрын
Stuff we couldn't afford back in the 70s, that folks think as junk now.
@hifijohn4 жыл бұрын
Same here, who could afford a $1000 receiver, decades later I was buying the same stuff for $20 at garage sales.I had so much stereo stuff my house looked like a stereo store.
@danjakobsson24254 жыл бұрын
The Good Old Days! Real HiFi. 😊
@jimmiesmith58114 жыл бұрын
@@danjakobsson2425 not this cheap phony fake ass plastic junk we got now
@Watcher41113 жыл бұрын
Only made in Japan. No China crap
@train59744 жыл бұрын
Bought my Realistic STA 2100 Reciever over 40 years ago and it still plays nice. Never needed repair.
@mikerose44984 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice that the first ad (for Pioneer) is narrated by Burgess Meredith?
@ericjensen90917 жыл бұрын
I miss the seventies, of course I was just 13 in 1979.
@jazzman16267 жыл бұрын
Eric Jensen So do I, I was in my late teens to my twenties back then.
@jimmiesmith58114 жыл бұрын
I was 11 i miss those days going downtown in Chicago window shoping for ghetto blasters or going on 63 and halsted or 47 and Ashland or 14 and halsted the maxwell street area the good old days
@ArcadeDude446 жыл бұрын
What an awesome video! Thanks for taking me back!:)
@styldsteel14 жыл бұрын
I just bought a Marantz. Lighted blue background with a white tuner. Dual meters. There is nothing in the world like the sound of analog. And I will tell you. even today. The Marantz is no where near inexpensive.
@lukapopovik2174Ай бұрын
I would've loved to be able to browse an electronics store in the 70s/80s
@nathanc65164 жыл бұрын
That moment when a KZfaq video of commercials is interrupted by a commercial, and you're just livid.
@carloalbertobirocco62644 жыл бұрын
Amazing commercial's compilation! Thanks for sharing!
@BioCYTE111 жыл бұрын
Mine too. Shhhh....watching this again while rifling through duplicate lp's. This is freakin' awesome!
@inbredagogo9 жыл бұрын
If you call right now we'll include this stereo receiver toilet with built in phonograph commode tank.
@booteddestroyers55197 жыл бұрын
Those Must Be Rare. Never Seen A Couch Stereo Before.
@passqualecaiazza77288 ай бұрын
I want to go back in time, so I can enter the stereo shops.
@Foxstang4life10 жыл бұрын
Awesome video and what a job gathering all that vintage footage ..NICE WORK!!!! BTW that first commercial was mickey from Rocky 1 2 3 .. Again nice job on the vid
@triumphlover74554 жыл бұрын
Time travel back to my childhood years. The forgotten memories buried in my subconscious relived through ads I don't remember, pretty cool. Cheers!
@eduardleon96365 жыл бұрын
Old school audio forever .
@punktexas11 жыл бұрын
You busted me again Lj. This video is really about leisure suits. I remember my old man always wearing a baby blue leisure suit. OMG...lol.
@sirmugman8 жыл бұрын
this is why you buy old vhs recordable tapes, so that you don't lose classic ads like these
@punktexas11 жыл бұрын
I've watched this video 3 or 4 times and it keeps getting funnier.
@danpatterson8009 Жыл бұрын
I still have gear like that- plug my phone into AUX or TAPE PLAY and listen to the world.
@mrhoffame11 жыл бұрын
OMG!! I was drooling the entire time!!!!!
@punktexas11 жыл бұрын
The sofa was the shit !!
@pjo19644 жыл бұрын
All people have today is Alexa or Google Home or a Bluetooth Speaker. Gone is the teenagers bedroom with a stereo and big speakers and records tapes cds.
@TheMatsushitaMan4 жыл бұрын
I've got small (6 inch woofers) speakers in my bedroom, complete with a Yamaha amp.
@FromMusicToMusic5306 жыл бұрын
Ty for sharing..I love it !
@jimbarrofficial4 жыл бұрын
4:13. Barry Manilow? They ought to pay YOU to take that album.
@timhollis33904 жыл бұрын
When I was a teenager if you said you liked Barry Manilow you got your ass kicked!
@punktexas11 жыл бұрын
True. I still dig the vintage gear.
@tomt67264 жыл бұрын
the 1980's was the best time's and I sure do miss it....and now I'm a old man Lol
@lindaeasley43364 жыл бұрын
I want to go back to the 1980s and buy me a huge boom box 😎 Columbia House music club .Oh yes , I remember .By the late 1980s it was a CD club. Used to buy ALOT of cds from them
@johnanderson38534 жыл бұрын
Columbia House. Yup. 12 "free" LPs to start or whatever the number. But what a rip-off. Forget to send the postcard back in time each month, and get stuck with some crappy LP for twice or three times the local price. Total scam.
@pumapunkudevelopment33762 ай бұрын
22:05 I have that exact equalizer and its equalizing the sound coming out of my tv right now. Made in JAPAN. We will never see electronics made with such quality. Ever.
@Peter-pv8xx4 жыл бұрын
My first job after graduating HS in 1977 was selling stereos and cameras in a dept store called Sterns.
@jeffsvinylscene11 жыл бұрын
felt like i took a trip in a time machine...nice!
@Rams_hobby Жыл бұрын
Thanks Nice advertisement video of audio systems Love from india 🙏
@JoeyM19913 жыл бұрын
I want that fireplace & that sofa with built in receiver....
@rogerwillams28145 жыл бұрын
the sound chamber had the hookup toy center for me lol !
@ivansbacon4 ай бұрын
Burgess Meredith. . I wish there where still stereo stores. I joined the Columbia tape club and i bought at Kmart. Pop Rocks was a very disconcerting sensation. But wait, there's more, if you act now - - - - PONG.
@MrDoneboy4 жыл бұрын
In Houston, we had Hank Williams Stereos and TVs in the early 70's, then, The Stereo Warehouse, in the early 80's
@steelydanfan1004 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget CMC Stereo , close to the corner of I-10 and what is now Beltway 8 in Houston. I bought my Marantz 2275 stereo receiver there in 1977 for the princely sum of $325. I still have that receiver , built like a brick outhouse. Ahh, the memories. The owner’s manual is a parchment paper bound book that will last as long as the receiver. The cool blue lighting and that horizontal flywheel FM tuning feature...
@MrDoneboy4 жыл бұрын
@@steelydanfan100 And All Star Audio, was just around the corner from CMC.
@participantparticipant5066 ай бұрын
"Something's up at Silo, but the prices are doooowwwn!"
@OofusTwillip Жыл бұрын
8:36 - "Crying Indian" PSA - Indian played by Iron Eyes Cody (actually an Italian-American). Voiceover by William Conrad.
@harryhenderson7926 жыл бұрын
thanks Columbia, my entire CD collection from the eary 90's was built for 10 cents, hahahahahah