1970's Commercial Music

[lcvd1]

I like the native american indian commercial.

[njriv]

2:04 -cool cars

Also, this video needs a longer intro

[ClassicTVful]

TAB was nasty. I can't believe people used to drink that stuff. 

[SkylerTN]

The 2 commericals were cool. Been long long time since I seen the famous Indian pollution commercial from begining to end, in its entirety. Thanks for posting. The begnining of the video is a time thing. Showing the evolution of the music box from begining to what we have now. i thought it cool.

Skyler

[younghoss]

I got so sick of the intro that I didn't watch the video.

[parkman35]

The crying Indian commercial was scary especially when he's paddling through that industrial area...spooky!

[ptd1965]

I was watching the Native American guy at the end just when the guy on the highway tosses something and looked up to the top right video list. Betty White "Just get over it" then looked down and he cried. sorry I post whored.. I just thought it was funny in a effed up kind of way.

[ptd1965]

does Tab even exist anymore? Hell I can't even find Shasta cola and I know it still exist because people tell me it does.. but where? and the Injin guy is a joo hahaha sorry. The Native American guy is a Jewish actor. >:.(

[Whiteyplaysthebanjo]

@ptd1965 I read that he was Italian.

[pictureisup1]

I just got the chills when I saw these. I remember these very well.  I think is year is 1973 0r 1974. I was very young.

[damnittwice]

They sell at where I work.I always had a morbid curiosity when it came to how tasted.

[SpudMills]

Seriously, get rid of the pointless intro. Nobody cares that you made it. If you're going to post classic old commercials, have the decency to not spoil them with personalized intros.

[dravenousone]

This vid gets a thumbs down for the intro alone.

[Trashfished]

This canoeing warrior against litter makeum me happy for my proud native heritage, my proud people and my proud Name. Chief Harold Shitonastick.

[eddo1983]

"Give me a Tab" "i cant give you a Tab unless you order something" "Then give me a Pepsi-Free" "If you want a Pepsi pal your going to pay for it"

[pictureisup1]

@eddo1983 I know I loved that in Back to the Future

[Rachelspicygirl]

Lori Loughlin's first commercial! :) Adorable!

[bareknuckles2u]

Throwing that bag out of the car like that is just plain motherfuckin' WRONG!

[jazzyfayy1983]

pollution is worst now and trash is everywhere if he was in this time he would be really be crying

[999manman]

I used Tab to degrease engine blocks!

[tuttt99]

Tab was the most foul tasting sh*t on Earth

[mccarrpo]

Maybe that Cowboy could give that Indian a Tab to cheer him up.

[vaccumenhancer439]

Colorful dots in my mouth and uncolorful dots in my ass.This video is the shit!

[themrjoemax]

does it still exist or did it vanish like pepsi free?

[kirkleejacobs]

@themrjoemax You want a Pepsi you're going to have to pay for it.

[kirkleejacobs]

@themrjoemax - you want a Pepsi you're going to have to pay for it.

[themrjoemax]

does it still exist? or did it vanish like pepsi free?

[jfilesbooks]

@themrjoemax Tab went out with poprocks

[IwontConform]

I hated TAB too..and fresca and diet rite.All of them tasted like shit

[lrd9999]

When I hear the word "Tab" I still get that sodium-saccharine aftertaste in my mouth.

[write2ap]

Tab - That shit was terrible. I remember there was a diet, Tab and Figuerines (diet bars). Horrible!

[pannoni1]

I was like "why is there this Ipod and Smartphone" on a video about 1970s commercials?

[kewrock]

That Indian was an Italian immigrant.

[fromthesidelines]

The Indian was Iron Eyes Cody, NOT Jay Silverheels. William Conrad was the narrator.

[chickiinboone]

@fromthesidelines : I stand corrected... but I see that you aren't debating the director's semen... see everyone it ISN'T an urban legend, fromthesidelines agrees with me on this one... even fromethesidelines knows it was the director's semen that was used. ... and the director was Curley Brownfield aka "The Semen Demon"!

[revnstpaul]

all those factories are closed down !!

[chickiinboone]

Jay Silverheels, the Indian at the end wasn't really American Indian, he was Armenian or something. It's also well known the the tear wasn't real either, or at least a real tear. It was actually the director's semen.

[RavishingRedheadd]

its like showing all the generation of radios and stuff for the music how technology has changed

[rdmb57]

Cut the meaningless crap at the beginning, play the commercial in full and skip the fade out at the end. We all know the best part of the song is the last enthusiastic "Tab!" that is sorely faded.

[motherthing]

It's more "brag screens" than actual video. Thumbs down.

[MillBelater]

Tab! Now sweetened with Aspirin!

[AdamCartwrightMyLove]

Do they even sell Tab anymore? I agree it tasted like crap

[HowieP]

@AdamCartwrightMyLove Yeah, Coke still makes Tab; it's just not as marketed like it used to be.

[rayjr62]

@AdamCartwrightMyLove Yes. You can get TAB (in 16 oz. glass bottles) through the internet. There is some on-line mail order business that specializes in retro- candy and retro soft drinks.

And I agree- TAB tasted like shit.

[dahsuerk]

The original Diet Coke. 

[zq9m3xh8]

What a %^&@#$!! waste!!

[Jeepsnaked]

Nice, the intro is too long and cuts into the commercial and the end is cut off, I agree, what's the point?

[regressing2apes]

the "indians name is oscar dicorti a sicilian american born in new orleans in the teens.1913 i believe, he fooled everyone including many indian tribes he visited along the way. i hate the lies...

[jimbobago]

@regressing2apes Actually, according to wikipedia, he was born in 1904, in Kaplan, LA (located about halfway between Beaumont and New Orleans). Until I read your post, I didn't realize this man wasn't who he had claimed to be. Thanks for teaching me about a TV commercial icon from my youth.

[SCHRUBBE1966]

Tab. Icck. My liver and internal organs are stilled pickled from drinking it; and thats if i don't get cancer like allhtem rats forced to drink the crap.

[monkeybash3000]

Tab: the least popular of the soft drinks.

[SinistaN]

didn't they find a while back that tab caused cancer or something? either way, it's some nasty tasting stuff. and they kept making it after diet coke and even coke zero comes out.

[TheBlueyedblond]

I remember this commerical. The man was an ACTOR portraying an Indian. Where is it written that a real Indian had to be in this commercial? This was before political correctness had every ACLU lawyer ready to pounce. The message of the commercial was more important that if the guy in it was red, yellow. black or white.

[queerfish1]

I hated Tab. Ugh. I agree with any of you who says it tastes awful. Not a great drink. Flat. I miss a drink called Teem. Where can you find it. I loved Teem. Kind of like sprite.

[SportTrac45]

Your intro is bizzarely long, but thanks for the memories. "Tab" bottles were made with a grainy grip surface akin to nails on a chalkboard,,,and the drink was godawful. I look at all these old commercials and think, "man, that was some good sh*t we were on."

[Offthbadan]

I was born in '68 also and this had to be an impressive ad to remember from so long ago. The Tab jingle is what  comes to mind whenever someone mention Tab. It all I remember but I thought it was from the early '80?

[Bryanmn]

Tab wasn't a tasty drink, but it definitely had a huge caffeine kick to it. I had serious morning shakes until I had consumed an ice cold can before I could function at work. Probably had sacharine (sp?) too. Kind of appropriate having the Environmental Indian on after the Tab commercial crying about what I just polluted my body with. That environmental anti-pollution commercial was really effective as litter law signs started popping up on the roads even in small towns.

[cowboysfan782008]

I was born in late 1968, but have a "freakishly" good memory. Not only do I remember the indian guy, but also remember all of the exposure on indians from 1970-1975. I remember my dad had an indian/hippi type jacket, and I had an indian belt. I don't remember that much indian publicity after 1975. Does' someone know what that was about. Was the white man or govt. feeling guilty about indian mis-treatment in the early 70's?

[thegirl44]

The famous "Crying Indian" ad was an environmental ad about the pollution and littering that was rampant in the 1970's and the "Indian" was actually Italian.

[queerfish1]

@thegirl44 you are right. This was not Iron Eyes Cody. But an Italian American man, who oddly does look Native American Indian from the Plains. They should do an updated commercial and show the true realities of pollution but not using Italians or people dressed in stereotypical Native American Indian Clothing. But Real Native American Indians talking about the Earth as its mother.

[imbluz]

@cowboysfan782008

I too was born in 1968. This commercial made kids like me feel guilty, because we were often careless about throwing trash away. I also had an Indian vest with fringe and beads. Woohoo. I was groovin as a kid.

[halcaannen]

If the Diner Counter Guy from "Back To The Future" were to be a real-life person instead of a character he would have been kind of shocked when Tab Soda came and probably would have remembered when Marty asked him for a Tab.

[19psi]

A cowboy drinking TAB? Wasn't that a scene out of Brokeback Mountain?

[Nohname1]

I wonder if you can still send for information at that address? I always wonder stupid crap like that when watching this stuff.

[GhostOfACPast]

Nohname1: So do I but I don't consider it stupid and sometimes I send off to the addresses and get cool stuff back.

[Nohname1]

Stupid was a bad word to use perhaps silly would have been better. I like silly it's a fun word.

[BartelDoo]

Dear Tab Cola,

Beautiful people aren't defined by the dimensions of their body.

Thanks

[rubbercheck72]

Tab tastes like shit

[radudeATL]

@rubbercheck72

But Clear Tab WAS the shit.

[HadesObsidian]

@rubbercheck72 omg..dude...I can't tell you how much I just laughed...I click on this commercial "1970's Tab commercial" it pops up and the first thing I see is your comment:

Tab tastes like shit

lmao.

[jfhdylvr]

@rubbercheck72 my name is tab

[Psuedo3D]

@rubbercheck72, your shit must taste pretty good, then. Better than mine, anyway.

[aloofbooks]

@rubbercheck72 no it doesn't . It tastes like pis! LOL!

[mandybarr80]

@rubbercheck72 tastes nothin like pepsi? that shit is dirt old

[shrill99]

@rubbercheck72 Amen...My Mother,{God bless her...} used to buy that all the time in the 1970's...Gah...what a bitter taste,for a diet-cola....

[ArcticFoxKit]

@rubbercheck72 But the Exiles love it!

[wildenfree]

I lost interest after the intro..too long

[MsLittle1105]

OMG, I remember both of these!  Takes me back...I took that heavy-handed environmental message with the crying indian very seriously as a kid. But I love that rugged cowboy chugging a TAB, lol!!

[curvy71]

i remember those videos as well and i took the indian seriously too as a kid.i guess we were 70's kids.

[RUSH2LIMBAUGH]

I love the TAB commercial, but I always hated that stupid, crying Indian. I recently heard that he wasn't even a real American Indian. But that particular PSA makes me think of the wacko greenies, who are the ones we should all really hate!

[gpwerner]

Your intro. is WAY too long here. Nearly a minute before we get to anything. What's the point?

[mhirtes12]

"I can't give you a Tab unless you order something."

[tgreer72]

haha -TAB! when I was a kid, I tried to drink TAB because it was the cool thing to drink - hated everyone I choked down...that stuff was nasty to me - but I kept trying...lol...

[kalyptus]

Isn't there a joke about the crying indian in the Simpsons ? The episode with the indian casino...

[Laevi1337]

@kalyptus yep, at the end

[malibuyou]

What's up with the coach at 1:14 =/ lol

[buffysissy]

Do they still make this stuff?

[royalfuzziness]

Tab what a nasty ass drink.

[theOlLineRebel]

Almost a whole minute wasted on the intro.

Cool piece, but save it for itself or make the whole "'70s music" part longer.

[wsbtam]

Good old Iron Eyes Cody. His ads were just great...and stuck with us kids so we didn't litter.

I wish they'd make a caffine-free version of Tab, for those of us who can't have caffine.

[xenor69]

You're kidding right? Tab=Diet Coke.

[robertmartinez]

You're right. I drink caffeine free diet coke.. with the GOLD label. But most stores carry the silver label cafeinated stuff. Want to rid yourself of high blood pressure or at least better control it ? Stop drinking caffeine.

[espincbv]

that's just senseless! Why don't you just drink water instead of Coke? No sugar, no coffeine... what else? no bubbles? no coloring stuff? Here we got the brand new Crystal Diet decoffeinated and bubblesless Coca-cola ... please, go to hell

[robertmartinez]

lol.

Talk about "senseless." I have no idea what you're trying to say. But then again, maybe you don't either.

lol.

[espincbv]

"Senseless"= Diet Decoffeinated Coke doesn't make any sense!

[robertmartinez]

Oh, okay. Well, actually it does. I have high blood pressure problems and hot tubing or a hot bath now & then, as needed, helps to bring it down to norma without medications that create side effects. I'm in between normal & hypertensive. An ICE COLD DIET COKE is sweet and refreshing after a hot dunk for an extended period. Ice cold sweet water wouldn't work. And caffeine aggravates high blood pressure.

[robertmartinez]

And for that, you tell me to go to hell? Totally stupid. How old are you? The expression is an old one. You're in your 50's at least.... too old to be posting like a child.

[HGbunny]

Interestingly, my husb has high blood presure and his doctor told him moderate amounts of caffeine where perfectly acceptable. I guess it varies by patient.

[robertmartinez]

You should get the book, "High Blood Pressure for Dummies." It was written by a medical doc in San Francisco who specializes in high blood pressure... and he specifically notes that caffeine aggravates the problem of hypertension.

Also, I check my blood pressure four times daily (sometimes more often as needed to control it) and I graph it on a really good computer software.... and its clear that even small amounts of caffeine raise the b/p.

Don't gamble. The end result is a stroke or two !

[indyrandy]

thanks for tab commercial...i still drink it here in chicagoland...................

[winscott9601]

I actually forgot the jingle to this old commercial until I heard it again. It all came back to me as if it was only yesterday. As soon as I heard it, I remembered the song right away and vividly remembered seeing the back of the Afghan hound that made us all believe it was a beautiful long-haired girl. Thanks for the wonderful memories!

[theOlLineRebel]

I DO vaguely remember that Afghan now that I saw it! But I was just going to say that the best part of that TAB commercial - a '57 Thunderbird!

[robertmartinez]

You react like most of us from the old days. Today's commercials somehow fail to inspire memories. Too trendy? I don't know. But look up YouTube Rice a Roni & listen to THAT old tune. 40 years of memory because the commercial was done right. It stuck. Again, unlike today's commercials.

[Jason1920]

Huh? What did I just watch? Interesting intro, however...

[tubelover12]

I still drink TAB - since 1973!

[luno44]

I was about to say, there's no way this was made in the 70's. Then I saw the CD player and ipod and said, oh this vid is titled wrong.

[chuckiesjamochashake]

Half the video was that intro. Just 3 videos put together with a misleading title to get views. Total crap.

[mubd1234]

EX-FUCKING-ACTLY. What a HORRID thing.

[theOlLineRebel]

Actually, 1 intro, only 2 commercials. And only 1 actually had "music", per se. The Indian thing really doesn't count as memorable music. So that's 1 example of '70s commercial (jingle) music.

[1959AverellHarriman]

When the Tab commercial ran, I was 14 and totally in love with the guy chatting up the cheerleader (I think his very short gym shorts had something to do with it). Boy, he was hot.

[talkabouttalkaboutit]

Good commercials. Not the dumbed down crap from republicans.

Tab, even though carbonated beverages are bad for you, the commercials actually made the product seem good.

The conservation push, Where are these today?

So honest and true. In the world of criminal republican lies of today, this truth would send some into shock.

[jeremysgonenorth]

Good commercials, Not the over sexed digusting shit filled with black people violence and more sex dumbed out by the democrats these days.

[Poltergeist55]

Almost half the litter in our nation is produced BY native americans -no lie. As for TAB, nonstop drinking of the beverage during the 70's has now caused my skin to become very thin and bleeds easily with severe headaches that make blood come out of my nose and ears.

[KARAOKEANDSTUFF4U]

There are many people who are in America that still don't have love for this country and it truly shows. There are so many selfish people who grow up here, that think only of themselves. Neither Obama, McCain, Hillary, Biden or Palin will change the hearts of people that hate this country. They will do all they can to destroy out of jealousy. It's up to us people who appreciate America for the beautiful place that it is, to keep the dreams of this land alive!

[retrojoet]

You are SO RIGHT! What I don't understand is, if they come to this country then bitch about how much they hate it here, why do they STAY HERE? For now, let's assume they were thrown out of their country and no other wanted them. Meanwhile, doesn't it seem like people are really littering A LOT since the November election?

[evoclin]

they need to show the cryin indian now so much garbage on the roadways.

[hounddoglily]

YYEEAAA RIGHT!!!! i was a garbage man on the reservation and it was 10 times as bad as that. lol but i do remember the commercial from when i was a kid and me and the guy i worked with would say, Geee i wounder if all the people who live here cry like that guy on TV. its sad to see how some people claim they respect the earth.

[pegbars]

Woo-hoo! The Indian in the ecology PSA, of course, was Iron Eyes Cody... who was actually Italian. :D

Voiceover by William Conrad.

[tun875]

I remember the bald guy at the beach in the Tab commercial and oh man do I remember that cryin Indian. What memories.

[darmenmelk]

somebody know who made the music in the polution commercial?

im from late 80's france|holland so its hard for me to say

thanks

[PlanetZany]

I remember this. And how telling is the passage of time...

[canariancat]

I remember the Tab jingle (I still love Tab cola)...but the second commercial used to scare me every time it came on for some reason. I used to run out of the room screaming! I was probably about 4 or 5 when it came out.

I haven't seen the pollution ad since then and just now I was bracing myself for the teardrop! Hehehehe.

[maryquant1967]

If the commercial scared you at that young age, it might have been a past life memory.

[tun875]

I was just thinking the same thing before I read your comment. I would say he/she might have been a settler who was at war with the natives or maybe even scalped by an Indian. Wow.