Teaberry Gum Commercial 1960's Herb Alpert Teaberry Shuffle

[TVDude78]

I wanted to add that I like the little music hook at the end with the animated berries dingling in tune. Advertisers were creative and clever back then. Todays commercials are just annoying.

[TVDude78]

This is a good gum. I use to chew it all the time. I might have to pick some up. When TVLand first started, they showed this as a retromercial. My Mom instantly remembered it from her childhood. It's a timeless classic.

[amuslima99]

You'll notice the first "shuffler" was the man who played Mr. Whipple, "Please don't squeeze the Charmin", Dick Wilson. We lost him a year or so ago.

[TrappedIn1968]

I just love this commercial

[ANDROLOMA]

Jesus. i remember this commercial!

[fromthesidelines]

This particular ad first appeared in 1966.

[tonybklyn]

0:13 his shuffle was tight! This will always be my favorite commercial from childhood.

[brittnbrett]

have a little fun with clarks teaberry gum

[fenuxtuff]

How are you gonna get juked by the t berry shuffle rofl

[Harrisonianne]

aah yO KieRo eSe CHicLe psicODéLicO!! hahaaa xDD

[JubalCalif]

Heavens to Murgatroid! I have so many fond memories of seeing this fun commerical on TV as a kid in the 60's! THANKS a lot for posting it! You've MADE my day & my weekend! :)

[elc1960]

You can get this in the Boston area and in Rhode Island and Southeastern MA if you go to the Newbury Comics CD store chain. They sell all those Clark gum products right up near the register - Blackjack, Teaberry, Beeman's (the wintergreen gum).

[amuslima99]

My father loved to watch them do the Teaberry Shuffle !

[asuzetta]

what are you talking about mr kansas?

[MrElectrician59]

lol  I was a kid when this came out

[Simon5005]

I remember this commercial like it was yesterday...........far from it. Cute ad.

[timdub70]

Would the NFL penalize him 15 yards for doing the Teaberry Shuffle?

[jmsseal]

@timdub70 not if he did it before he got the endzone like this guy did.

[HamptonRoadsTVFan]

@timdub70 Back then, the league penalizing and fining that guy would have been the LEAST of his worries after getting his ears yelled off by the coach.

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

I miss Teaberry gum.

[daddybug101]

@ThatsMrMoronToYou you can still get teaberry gum. Go to candy you loved as a kid.

[Sheri451]

Somewhere in my deepest memory, I can remember that commercial. I couldn't have been more that three or four when it was out. It might have just been the music.

[amuslima99]

@Sheri451 That was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass who were soooo popular at that time. Herb is still going strong.

[F00L0nTheH1LL]

@amuslima99 Actually the chronolgy is important here... it was this advert in '63 that in fact rejuvenated and gave Alpert sustainability by allowing the South of the Border album to become a hit - otherwise he would have been a "one hit wonder" with "The Lonely Bull" in '62. It was then that the momentum really began to flow and the follow up albums "whipped cream" , "going places" and "what now my love" and "SRO"in '64 - '65 - '66 is when he hit peak popularity.

[Market42Fan]

0:19...I'm pretty sure you would NOT have seen a football player do that move on a field (not if they were risking getting chewed out by the coach).

[jsilence418]

I bought some of this in Atlantic City N.J. it tasted good, but the flavor didn't last long .

[musiclvr79]

Thanks for posting this! I remember watching it as a kid and every once in a while I get the song stuck in my head. The British guard is a hoot! :)

[shashan7777]

I tasted it once...wasn't as good as blackjack, though.

[whiddlywaddly]

What a nifty dance!! I love the gum. Haven't been able to find it in the Louisville area for some time now.

[Hyst44]

cracker barrel carries it!

[LeslieGMN]

@whiddlywaddly Try the vermont country store (dot) com. They sell all kinds of stuff you thought you'd never see again!

[deecee1409]

Thanks for posting this - such a fun commercial!

[quigleybrown]

What did it taste like?

[NilezII]

Cinnamon

[swami1]

Crap.

[iamzbacku]

Holy Cow! All this talk about a 1960's commercial about a gum??!! I can believe what our country has become. Everybody is racist???

Holy Cow! It's a freakin gum commercial!!

[zacefronandbball]

Im eating the gum right now. You can buy it in PA it's the best

[t66wood]

likewise!

[thegirl44]

What does it tase like?

[Hyst44]

it tastes like the teaberry plant from which it is made. like a weaker "wintergreen" flavor which is in the same family of plants.

[thegirl44]

Thanks.  Growing up in the north country we had actual wintergreen berries and stems and they taste very different from the flavour that they get from the oil. I had always imagined that this gum would taste more like the genuine article.

[brelibrababy]

I just bought a pack from the Ag Museum in MS. and btw, I havent seen anything racist in this whole commercial. just sayin.

[ProudKansan08]

I like how this is supposed to be a fun gum commercial and people have to bring race into it. Geez, people, get a life!

[snarkdetriomphe]

awesome commercial

[LastTree]

Hey, isn't that a bit like the Monty Python's Funny Walks?

[bigleroygym]

sometimes i hate white people, as a group, when i think of the horrible racism us black people endured during that time in the 1960's...while whites were having fun

[dguimo]

racist!!!! you're as bad as the white people that haie volored people.

[elsquibbs]

Hypocrite. You're no better than them.

[poopflinga98]

@bigleroygym the fuck are you talking about this is just a gum comercial why do you feel the need to change the subject to racism. im white and i admit i some times hate white people but seiriously man.also what is all this evil stuff about

[major600]

@bigleroygym That's too funny. If an old gum commercial stirs that much hate in you, you must be a real laugh at parties. Is your name Cornel West? Saying, "I hate X people as a group" makes you a de facto bigot, not necessarily a racist. What I really hate is that I often think the same thing when I see "ultra-white" stuff like this.

[illuminatioification]

@major600 Blame the Illuminati for your problems

[wannagoback052]

And I still can't do this shuffle! Haha

I always liked this commercial.

[CamdenBloke]

I bought this today at a Meijer liking the Kitchy design of the package but not knowing how it tastes. I like it. I had to look it up when I got home. Thanks for posting.

[CamdenBloke]

Now I'll have to practice doing the Teaberry Shuffle. :-D

[trinakv07]

They still sell this at some gas stations here in MS. It has to be an old gas station though haha. I bought some for my dad at Cracker Barrell not to long ago!

[cricketkeely]

I loved these ads as a kid and still love the gum! You can buy Teaberry Gum at Cracker Barrel.

[GuinevereJuliet]

I remember this like it was yesterday. This is one of those t.v. ads that just stays with you forever. I wish I could find some Clark's Teaberry Gum!

[tmh1717]

ima try it lol

[JacksonPerdue]

haven't seen that in 40 years!!!

[PRR5406]

Alpert lucked into the big money with this! He found an original sound and sold all manner of albums and commercials , not to mention T.V. spots and endorsements. He went on to found A&R Records.

[tripjet999]

That's "A&M" (as in "Alpert & Moss") records, dear.

[flairboys]

my sister and i would do that dance all the time.you can still get teaberry gum at dollar general.

[Germany124]

I love teaberry gum. Chewing some Atm. To bad stores never have it anymore. :(

[Waldocounty]

Germany124: Glad you have some. But it's "too," not "to." Spelling & grammar do count when you post to the world.

[kurt11110]

cut a foreigner some slack, how would you like it if someone put down your pronunciation of "ich bin ein berliner"

[kurt11110]

yeah, it's true he did say "im a jelly doughnut". you were there at the wall, waldo? amazing. that's quite a piece of history to have witnessed.

[RoyKnable]

That's a myth. Germans know Kennedy made no such mistake.

[fromthesidelines]

In early 1965, Clark Gum {then owned by Philip Morris} was looking for a different way to "pitch" its 'Teaberry' flavored gum. Someone at their ad agency heard the Tijuana Brass' "Mexican Shuffle", and decided that music was perfect. The campaign followed, and the song (and "Teaberry Gum") became a hit...

[fcampbell696]

You guys will not believe this but Right Now! I'm chewing some clarks teaberry gum. I'm not kidding either.

[NCBlonde]

I used to love Teaberry gum and Beeman's pepsin gum. Can you even buy that stuff any more? (And I remember this ad like it was yesterday. Scary!)

[maryleep]

@NCBlonde

I am pretty sure I will regret this but don't forget they made Black Jack licorice flavored gum. Oh Nooooooooo!!

[NCBlonde]

@maryleep - oh my goodness, I do remember that one! And Fruit Stripe gum. Sheesh,... I'm dating myself.

[boffo1962]

I too just found the Teaberry song popping into my head from 40 years ago! :>

[mongorich]

You know how sometimes things pop into your head from years ago? The Teaberry Shuffle just poped into mine, I thought, "maybe someone's posted it on Youtube!" Thanks for not letting me down.

[afiler]

They still sell this gum, though I haven't seen it very often. I think the last place I got it was at a record store (the Electric Fetus).

[ultrakool]

Man, oh, man, how I remember this. Standing in line, in third grade, waiting to go where ever, doing this! (Catholic school) ☺

[12al34]

Wow, it's a shame they dont make alot of it any more. I'm an x-generation, but I love this gum.

[TimelordR]

Man, how i loved that gum! I once had my mother buy me a huge pack of Clark's Teaberry Gum at a K-Mart.

I wish they still had this & Beeman's Pepsin gum!

[dotsymae]

they do...and licorice gum. You can get it from the Vermont Trading Company catalogue or on line!

[TimelordR]

Thank you for the info! And as Shin Chan said: Gum's a good food to eat".

[AlfieBing]

I still chew the stuff...I won a gross of it in 1967 at a CYO dance.

[ultrakool]

Send me a pack. 352 Roanoke Dr. Belleville, IL, 62221 USA  I'll send you a surprise in return! ☺

[IDLERACER]

Could this possibly have partially been the inspiration for John Cleese's "Ministry Of Silly Walks" routine?

[american2339]

A classic lives on....

[kmeluso]

Wow. Th memories from this commercial.

Thanks for posting.