When You Eat Your Smarties Do You Eat the Red Ones Last? [Jack Creley] (1967)

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5 жыл бұрын

The original, and still magnificent Smarties jingle that ran for 30 years. Featuring Jack Creley. Music by Tommy Ambrose, lyrics by Gary Gray.

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@briankrahn2000 3 жыл бұрын

I have always remembered this add. They played it during Saturday morning cartoons. We can now relive the past

@sarniatownreggae Жыл бұрын

If you're a Baby Boomer or a Gen Xer born and raise in Canada, this jingle was part of your childhood!

@Room142 7 ай бұрын

Millenials too! At least us Xennials 😉 except by our generation, all Smarties tasted the same regardless of colour. I heard the red ones were banned and the recipe had to be changed

@randolphstead2988 7 ай бұрын

I'm a Boomer, still remember this one. Do any of you other Boomers remember the ads for the "Bar Six" chocolate bar? It was my favourite chocolate bar in the 1960s but it went off the market. At least the Jersey Milk bar is still available.

@email5023 5 жыл бұрын

I remember the jingle from other commercials but I didn't know it went back to at least 1967.

@blehkelekwet9642 Жыл бұрын

I'm 63 and I still eat the red ones last. 🤭

@firestormlivingsolutions 2 жыл бұрын

50 years on and I still knew all the words

@joadhenry 5 жыл бұрын

This is THE one! Thank You!!

@specialkdivine 5 жыл бұрын

Best song ever ! All us kids use to sing it Awesome !

@arthurathanassiou3948 3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow - loved this from the first time I saw it ... great stuff this ... I can only sing it in a strong British accent .. Haaa

@puirYorick 4 жыл бұрын

I was able to sing the jingle right the way through. This ad was well before my time though.

@JosephJamesScott Жыл бұрын

Wow, I was born in the 70s and I remember that commercial.

@CaptainRetroStation 2 жыл бұрын

“When you pick your boogers, do you eat the red ones last?” Ugh… the things we would sing when we were kids. 😣

@Pocockable Жыл бұрын

Grotie!

@OofusTwillip 7 ай бұрын

I think that's Jack Creley as the main character, and singing the jingle.

@SPTO 5 жыл бұрын

I know the jingle very well but this commercial definitely predates me. I have very VAGUE memories of that box and the way Smarties looked then.

@zickey100 2 жыл бұрын

It's because of this commercial that I did eat the red ones last.

@nickmalcom6360 3 жыл бұрын

this jingle was clearly inspired by the song "does your chewing gum lose it's flavor" by lonny donagon (of which bob singleton did a cover in 1992), but it also bears a resemblence to inu no amawari san, a japanese kids song better known in the west by way of it's use as the iconic game start music in the arcade classic frogger.

@Raider577 3 жыл бұрын

@Nick malcom. Inspired by 'Does your Speamint lose its flavour which is the original. Lonnie Donegan covered it and changed it to chewing gum. This ad is Canadian so they may have heard the original before hearing Lonnie Donegan.

@brucehanson6427 Жыл бұрын

It has a definite Bonzo dog doo-dah band flavor.

@trevorr.eagles5377 5 жыл бұрын

I remember this commercial back in the early 1970's! The price was 10 cents on the box!

@sarniatownreggae Жыл бұрын

I remember as a kid the outrage when Smarties, and other chocolate bars, went up to FIFTEEN CENTS!!!

@marmaly 4 жыл бұрын

This ad was brought back several times during the 70s. I found this character scary and remember changing the channel when the ad came on.

@specialkdivine 5 жыл бұрын

Always loved this commercial. Pretty bad that I can remember the entire jungle word for word ... 30 years later lol

@OofusTwillip 5 жыл бұрын

This must have aired for several years, because I remember it so vividly, but it was created before I was even born.

@Retrontario 5 жыл бұрын

The jingle remained the same until the early 2000s. This version probably came back every few years until the mid/late 70s

@ChristopherSobieniak 5 жыл бұрын

@@Retrontario Got a lot of mileage out of it.

@OofusTwillip 7 ай бұрын

@@Retrontario True, but I even remember the visuals.

@joannbartuccio4690 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't mean to to just say my my uncle was born in 1967

@hollycollins8289 5 ай бұрын

I always ate the brown ones last!!

@senhowler 5 жыл бұрын

David Willis' confusion about Smarties sent me here.

@1888bry 2 жыл бұрын

Great commercial. I should of saved a candy box

@mfinchina__117 3 жыл бұрын

There was another one where somebody was in a bathtub full of red Smarties.

@jayd1261 5 жыл бұрын

Wtf was this a real commercial? It scares the hell outta me

@evolvingminds 3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@sarniatownreggae Жыл бұрын

Yup! it was real, and it was SPECTACULAR!

@ricka7747 5 жыл бұрын

Wow - did not know this went back to the 60's. Also, Jack Creley - from not only Dr. Strangelove, but also Write On! (And you had a Paul Brown video just the other day. Is Diane Dewey next???!!!)

@plauditecives 5 жыл бұрын

I thought "Write On!" was brilliant. I work in government comms with a lot of young people who don't know how to write. They could benefit from a series like that.