Ella Fitzgerald sings for Memorex

[michaelleacy]

Reading these comments really brings back memories of old audio cassettes. The amount of times I opened them to fix them because they'd broken. Sticking broken ends of tape together using sellotape - terrible damage to the head of course! How primitive it seems now!

[musicgrl14fam]

we just talked about this in music class today

[TheTScotRhys]

Ah, the bitchy, talentless hacks known as audiophiles.

[mediattackrecords]

@TheTScotRhys ignorant anti music business comment

[TheTScotRhys]

@mediattackrecords ...music business? Isn't that an oxymoron? Remember, musicians make money for the music, "stars" make noise for the money.

[TheTScotRhys]

@mediattackrecords If one is to respect your opinion, then one needs ask, "What's yours of Ella?"

[thatmuse76]

Those Memorex tapes were garbage. The mechanisms were unreliable and the pressure pads would deteriorate prematurely. The worst part is they glued the damn things together so you couldn't fix them.

[AnthonyUK]

They were made in Korea

[kronk99]

1971

[thatmuse76]

@kronk99

Maybe a few years later as that is a Type III cassette (Ferric-Chrome). Maybe more like 1977.

[youtert]

Is life? No. Demorez.

[cisco9x]

They changed their name to Memtek later on

[themasterofmovies]

@cisco9x no, when they produced tape, they were owned my memtek, up until 2006 when they were bought by imation.

[CoolJetta3]

I love Family Guy where Ella Fitzgerald sings this and the glass shatters and blinds Ray Charles

[hyretech]

IRONIC COMMENT ALERT.

This commercial was taped on a Memorex videotape.

[reneecalling]

I think this is 1974 but I could be wrong. But me and a friend of mine used to imitate her whenever the commercial came on while we were practicing our piano lessons as kids.

[WeJustCantGetEnough]

this is amazing! nowadays it would be a very expensive ad

[Keybern]

Also quoted by Seth Brundle (The Fly) !

[AnthonyUK]

The chrome ones were quite good performers.

[MattieSongbird]

Ella is so cute. Is that Earl Nightingale commenting?

[KreemieNewgatt]

Memorex was the "Fram Oil Filter" of cassette tapes.

Nice TV ads though.

[newstart2009]

lol i liked how you phrased that , and so true..., but the ads were great.

[eud1558]

that wome looks like esmeray - an african-turkish woman singer-

[valgehiir]

as everybody has sayd here, probably the worst the. maxell and TDK were the best, memorex was not just bad, it was really really bad :) Catchy slogan though

In europe Maxell ran some cool commercials with a guy in a orbusier chair blown away by sound pressure.. and posters with the same image

[gallowspole]

wow they let colored people on tv back then?

[BabyZora]

I think she really broke that glass with her voice.

[wildbilltexas]

Memorex back then used a foam pressure pad, and over the years, the foam breaks down. And theres no way to replace it besides putting the tape in a new case.

And I sadly bought a lot of Memorex tape because it was always on sale, and stores like Wal-Mart and K-Mart didnt always carry Maxell or TDK until into the mid 80's.

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

I have few of the Memorex tapes from the early 80s with those foam pressure too. Also those Scotch Highlander cassettes from the 70s were that way too. I also have 3 pre-recorded cassette from 1974/75 with those foam pressure pads. Polygram used them too, but one that last.

[ooziemeizer]

It's amazing that anyone bought Memorex cassettes! They sounded horrible- lots of high-frequency drop out and distorted very easily. MAXELL was the only way to go for any type of audio recording!!

[fromthesidelines]

The other drawback to Memorex audio cassettes was, if the tape snapped in the casing, you couldn't "unscrew" it to repair it. You'd have to break the cassette apart to retrieve the tape, and THEN put it into another casing which HAD screws...from personal experience in the early '70s, I know this for a fact!

[madwilliamflint]

I spent FAR too much time doing cassette surgery of this sort.

Good times, good times.

[aarowsmith]

Is it Live or is it Craporex ?!?

Ahhh yes Memorex, chunks of red oxide gunkiness coming off on all your tape guides and heads, wonderful blurry dull recorded in a trash can sound quality, those were the days!!!

Memorex sentimental nightmare memories........

[mookeychase0907]

@aarowsmith Word Memorex was trash, Maxell TDK and BASF were the best Memorex sucked...

[FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0]

classic advert but nobody buys these

cassette audio tapes anymore it is now digitaly enhanced for a smooth listening feel and

transfered onto a cd or straight onto an mp3

players like an ipod or psp but retro advert

these ads certainatly improve with age though

20/10

from

frankie smales

(frankie smales movie and tv review uk)

[proferic]

I bet she made bank on that commercial.

[longfade]

Memorex were well known as being pretty low-quality, but this was a very effective ad campaign. I'm sure they realized that such exaggerated claims would never be challenged by the predominantly unsophisticated listeners buying their tapes. The rest of us bought Maxell TDK and Sony, or ignored cassette altogether and went for 1/4" RTR.

[jw43rm]

how the kfc commercial is not avaible on

you tube?

[BigBlueBeast]

I have been looking for that commercial for years! Kentucky Fried Chicken. We dobedobedobedo chicken right!

[FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0]

good question i have not seen any kfc

ads on this site yet and have you tried

to asked around on this site for an request

for you fave adverts like the kfc one to get

uploaded on this site and theres no harm of trying though.

frankie smales

(retro advert guru)

[Oreo9702]

thanks for this...do you have the one with her and the kids??

[oscartripe]

Wish I did...would love to see it!

[WorldRecords]

Memorex cassettes are reasonable, my favourites were Memorex DBS with the yellow reels, Mid-Quality at a fair price.

[franklinterrier]

this is great

[willdav713]

all my memorex mrx3 oxide tapes worn out have several audio dropouts comparable to 8tracks!!! That is why 80s Maxell and TDK tapes with the exception of ur xlii and sa-x are the best my all time favorite maxell tape is UDS-I and my all time favorite TDK is AD.

[joncrane37]

I remember when me and my friend would try to break our mother's crystal glasses with Memorexes. Needless to say it did not work, so we broke them anyway. We were out of our minds when we did this.

[blktenor]

@joncrane37 lmao!

[davidhazard71]

Do you have more...or even her KFC commercial???

[oscartripe]

I'll have a look and see what I can dig up!

[davidhazard71]

perfect thanks :) Alot of this stuff i have not seen in years.

[dannystrat]

Memorex was the worst tape you could buy. Packaging was very cool, though!!

[davidhazard71]

I've been looking for these for years........Thanks!