Vintage TV Commercial - 50s - Texaco Gasoline (Jack Benny ~

[McmullenEJ]

and in 2015 you can trust your car to the system with the star as said by a robo voice. thumbs up for back to the future!

[doglover52]

havent all the texaco's gone out of bussiness???

[1700iDiGuy]

@doglover52 nope here in uk they are in pretty much full swing, its the only place i fill up

[doglover52]

@1700iDiGuy wow cuz where i live thier pretty much all out of bussiness

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

I love these old commercials.

Thanks for posting this.

George Vreeland Hill

[DrSurprise]

lol, responsibility? the days of leaded gas! wheres the responsibility?

[1700iDiGuy]

@DrSurprise and generations into the future will look back and say, UNLEADED GAS?!? that carcinogenic dirty oil based fuel?! wheres the sense in that?

[DrSurprise]

@1700iDiGuy

unleaded isn't all that dirty but I'm not an oil refiner so I can't say anything. All I know is, i'd rather have unleaded gas burning then leaded gas burning which will lead to mental problems and nerve system damage and other disorders. 

[1700iDiGuy]

@DrSurprise they took the lead out and replaced it with Benzine which is carcinogenic in smallest amounts.. unleaded petrol actually releases more pollutants on a car without catalytic converter than the same car running on leaded. I work at a garage and i have compared my old volvo's emmissions with leaded / unleaded and found a rather great difference in Hydrocarbons and monoxide.. It appears leaded burns slightly cooler and more completetely

[1700iDiGuy]

@DrSurprise i know lead isnt good at all, it causes mental development problems in young toddlers but doesnt affect adults alike

[49jubilee]

ah yes, back in the day when you DIDN'T HAVE TO PUMP YOUR OWN GAS!!

[toychaser2005]

this is funny as hell reminds me of my cheap ass old man 1 gallon lol

[1234dalton1]

Ok , Mr Benny 1 gallon that will be 10cents.

[rocksmeller99]

notice the station manager has a tie on and completely clean shirt, as does Dennis,. don't you think this would be impossible around a service station? Dennis probably had to moonlight there bc Benny wouldn't pay him enough.

[KBilt92]

At 0:04 the attendant should've been Frank Nelson and say, "Yeeeeesssssss?!!!"

[elc1960]

Great post! I have this in color on a DVD of classic TV commercials. As others have stated, this is not from the '50s but from the late '60s; I used to see this mostly on NBC programs that were sponsored by Texaco at that time.

[TheBelldiver]

Lol I had one of those hats.

[DaBoogie049]

0:35 awsome rims in the window display!

[anarchy3E]

thats sarah palin in the end

[hebneh]

That gal at the end is wearing a particularly interesting vinyl outfit - I just bet somewhere, somehow, some guy was looking at that and lusting for a session with her, dressed as she was.

[Danogil]

I think it is from around 1965 to 66, the car in the background looked like a mid 60's sedan Chevy I think. the mag wheels look like they are from the mid 60's also.

[Michael99959]

whats up with that ho at the end

[MatthewLeeFranklin]

Texaco and Chevron have been keeping intake valves clean a long time.

[telebob59]

I ain't so certain this is 1950s vintage, and here's why. Note first, the style of lettering with the legend "TEXACO" above the stone masonry. And those logos! I distinctly recall seeing those for the first time on a trip with my folks (I was 6 or 7) in 1966 to Lake Placid, NY. Expensive repairs to a Maxwell's valves -- heaven forfend!

[TheIBERIA77]

texaco and 2 world war

[savantiflag]

hahaha

My name is Rodney!

[MrRobHere]

Texaco...now Chevron.

[ironbuttermilk]

. . .and that fire girl is wearing nice red latex panties under that coat too.

. . ..mayyyyybe. lol.

[NellsStuff]

HA! Cute commercial!

[Deepsky1A1B]

I remember this. (so im old !)

[ACcountryFan]

it's nice to see it...i'm an appreciator of Jack Benny's radio and TV program's. i wasn't expecting to see a commercial with Jack and Dennis advertising Texaco...I would've thought Milton Berle would handle that sort of thing. I personally like a lot of these kind of commercials...they were put together like part of the TV program...it didn't look like a commercial.

[BTLemming]

Good ol' Dennis "Hossenfeffer" Day. On radio, I think he and Phil Harris were the best characters.

[gigi90]

GREAT SCOTT!

[roybo1930]

I Wish I Had His 1922? Maxwell!!!

[blessedalcuin]

"You can trust your car

To the man who wears the star--

The big, bright, Texaco star!"

[Sandman1278]

How far can you go on one gallon of gas, especially in the sixties, 10 15 miles?

[ACcountryFan]

that wasn't the point...the "1 gallon" fill-up was a joke about Jack Benny's famed cheapness...as to why there was a cheapskate reference at the end of the commercial.

Jack: "If you're not Dennis Day how did you know I was Jack Benny?"

Dennis: "Who else would buy 1 gallon?".

Then Jack gives off one of his famous stares into the camera at 0:48

[CLLIB]

I wish I could pay THOSE prices!

[John80220]

Yep, 1968. Texaco was a major sponsor of the 1968 Summer Olympics on ABC and most of these ads debuted about that time (the others had the Men from Texaco singing "Jack Benny Won't You Please Fill Up" to the tune of "Bill Bailey", when Jack would only buy one gallon on each trip into the station).

[handinside]

Iremember one commercial that Jack DID say, "fill'er up" the hitch? The gas tank only held one gallon!

[JTPolo101]

Oh God thats right.

I rememeber the "Jack benny won't you please fill up" jingle.

Funny later on Bob hope was more associated with Texaco. "The Star of The Open Road"

[fromthesidelines]

Texaco began sponsoring Jack's NBC-TV specials in 1968- and he naturally appeared in some of their ads that not only appeared during those specials, but any show that Texaco bought time on that year....this ad is from a black & white kinescope film of the original color version seen on tape.

[travis7310]

This was originally in color. What happened?

[hep2jive]

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?

[QuincyAnn2]

The Jack Benny International Fan Club dates this commercial as 1968.

Dennis Day was billed as "Jack Benny's singing star" from 1939 onwards, but he was also an excellent voice/character actor. He performed the major character voices in Disney's animated "Johnny Appleseed," and he also had his own radio show (late 1940's) and TV show (early to mid 1950's).

[Drivermatic]

That Texaco logo was not introduced until 1968. Plus the pumps are mid 1960 models

[RCAradio]

This video I see could be in 1966-67 look at her coat around in late 1960's

[1947Desoto]

Those tires in the window did not exist in the 50's!

[600SELV12]

1950s? I dont think so, look at those AM Racing torque-thrusts in the window behind Jack Benny.

[Bateman8876]

WTF?