Robert Hall Clothes Commercial Store Best Video RARE

[QuaintTaint]

Just heard a reference to Robert Hall on the classic TV show, That's My Mama.

[papajoesvideoscom1]

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[paskuniag]

"Day-cron" suits- LOL! But the music is supplied by Les Paul and Mary Ford. So there is a balance between ridiculous and sublime (sort of).

[eddie054]

And they did alterations. Robert Hall and Thom McAnn....back to school decor and signs in August made my stomach turn.

[Kinseydsp]

They were awesome stores back in the day

[ffricke1]

I remember Robert Hall Stores in Commack

[RDRothbard]

i remember the jingle. five bucks was money back then.

we had a robert hall at 69th street. simpler times. found memories.

[PASCHDigiMedia]

@RDRothbard It is all about the Nixon shock. The last day that work paid was August 14, 1971.

[BaadPennie]

when the prices went up, up, up, and the VALUE went down, down, down....LOLOL 63rd & Halstead in Chicago was the place to quit shopping.

[FreeThinkerUS]

Robert throws it out, you haul it in.

[gazingintothesea]

I was never happy to hear the "back to school again" Robert Hall song on the radio or TV. We went to the store at Irvington Center in NJ in the 1960s.

[Katsu1471]

@gazingintothesea IM LOOKING FOR IT! my dad has song it to me every day i start back to school my first day of class i start college today and he sang it !

[Carfreak50025]

lol thats my name

[68lincoln]

We had two Robert Hall stores near to were I grew up in the 1960s. In it's prime, 1950s and 1960s, Robert Hall mens suits were actually very fine quality - the fabrics were good quality wool imported from Italy and England. The labor was done in the USA by union tailor shops. In the 1970s, the nephew of the original owner took control and changed everything. It then became a much cheaper brand, made from junky polyester fabric. Then they went out of business.

[CentinelThe]

My folks lived next to the one on Ridge Rd. North Arlington N.J.

I was a kid then in the 70's but I would like to get one of them suits for $43.00 alterations included now.

[Relda999]

my Mom use to work at the one in Dallas when i was little, all my clothes were from that store!

[klhornr]

We had one in Gardena, CA. Still know the jingle!

[rolex452]

Yes, many of us kids hated going to Robert Hall in September for cheap back to school clothes, and the stores weren't very attractive either. But 20 years later, we same kids would gladly shell out $75.00 or more for "designer" jeans, sport shirts and sneakers, all made in a few Asian factories for 1/50th of the retail price, and where they simply put a different designer label on the same crap as the last run of clothing. Bravo!

[robphilll22]

Love those hats..

[sparkle11231]

Oh my gosh as soon as I heard the first note I remembered their jingle.....oh if I only had a time machine....:-(

[Cainkane1]

I worked there on candler Road in Cecatur a long time ago.

[raindear60]

Great. Thank you.

[jln55]

Can smell the plastic clothes!

[73LASALLE]

I RECALL THIS STORE FROM MY CHILDHOOD.PLACE REEKED OF CHEAP CLOTHING!

[superdavid002]

Top rejected slogans for clothes stores 1. We cheat the people who make the clothes and pass the savings onto you! 2.Our clothes won't make your butt look smaller - but a diet sure would! 3.Yes! We have no bandannas! We have no bandannas today! 4. Give someone the gift of used clothes to show them how much you care!

[tennforever]

As a kid going to gradeschool, I hated Robert Hall. When Mom took me here it meant summer vacation was gonna be over soon and school starting. Bah!

[FritziRitz]

@tennforever ....Man you said it....getting those Crummy new clothes and shoes for the big back to school event.....couldnt wait to roll in the dirt to make them look used...any kid caught wearing new clothes usually got thrown in the dirt anyway...0hhh those were happy times!!!

[rentatrip1]

MARY FORD SINGS as the master LES PAUL chops his axe (guitar) GREAT RARE WONDERFUL STUFF

- thanks a heap-

[jamesb7801]

The first one sound like Les Paul and Mary ford performing the jingle!

[elc1960]

On a DVD I have of old TV commercials, they have a much older ad for Robert Hall with a mommy and daddy crow and their baby singing about high value and low prices. The voice of the baby crow sounds like somebody playing the harmonica and trying to sound like a human voice.

[heine71]

Is the midget who says "And alterations are included at Robert Hall" voiced by Paul Frees?

[skinsman3]

I never understood why Kenny's shoes were always right next to a Robert Hall...

[1jtv]

Les Paul & Mary Ford recorded the jingles

[oldsalt97]

There were Robert Hall's all over Long Island & across country....New Hyde Park, Franklin Square, Hicksville, Oakdale, Hauppauge, Seaford, Hewlett, & Huntington, just to name a few....I worked in the Franklin Square store & the Hicksville store...

Talk about the good old days! They closed the doors on June 30th, 1977...reopened in August ( only for 2 months under a "liquidator) for "closeout" sales.......Good memories....makes me smile.........

[evelynmch]

I have no memory of Mary Ford singing this jingle - but I remember "Back to Robert Hall Again" from my childhood!

[webmail111]

some comic described robert hall as like "korvette" but 100 times blander.

and yeah, my mother took me there a few times.

[puck30]

I hated Robert Hall, they would run their Back to School commercials on the radio in mid July so you know Summer didn't have much more to go.

[SuperCulloden]

Robert Hall was the place where I bought my clothes when I came to the United States from Scotland. My wages were about a hundred dollars a week, so for a weeks wages I could be well dressed indeed.

Look at the way men and women dressed in the 1950s and 60s then compare that to what is seen today.

On top of that, the clothes were made in the good old U.S.A. providing jobs for American workers.

Today there is hardly a thing made in America, yet the bozos in Washington wonder at unemployment.

[jkeyes59]

@SuperCulloden , you are so right!!!

[hebneh]

I wonder what happened to Robert Hall? They had stores all over the USA in the '60s, even out here in Hawaii. And their jingle was extremely memorable.

[puck30]

@hebneh Robert Hall went bankrupt in 1977.

[gymnastix]

@hebneh Yes, that Robert Hall jingle sure was catchy. It is sad so many posting here equate Robetrt Hall with unhappy memories of going back to school.

Personally, until junior high school, the year after my mother died, I had mostly happy memories of going back to school each autumn; the new clothes and shoes, school supplies (which meant a new lunchbox and pencil box for me, as a young boy), meeting new teachers and some new friends in a new classroom, and the new school books.

[gymnastix]

@hebneh I also have fond memories of the fun things about autumn (though not so much in Hawaii, I guess, ha-ha) with the leaves turning colors on the trees, getting to wear that new jacket the first cool-enough day, a new Cub Scout troop and uniform, then Halloween and trick-or-treat candy, and Election Day P.T.A. bake sales, etc.

[gymnastix]

@hebneh There were fun things about the very first week of school each year, as well as about the very last week of school--a decrease of homework, having classes outdoors, signing up for the summer subscriptions of "Jack & Jill" magazine and "My Weekly Reader," as well being sent home early if the buildiing got too hot, usually from the first student who fainted from heat stroke (as most schools in my hometown had no a/c in those days of the 1960s).

[gymnastix]

@hebneh The best thing about the last week of school was the very last day, being let out early to go home and begin summer vacation!

I also always enjoyed getting that final report card, regardless of my grades (I was always promoted anyway), for it showed who would be my new teacher in the fall. Just one of those moments that, for a kid, is like finding out which film won the Oscar for Best Picture.

[gymnastix]

@hebneh And if we had no or very few snow days the previous winter (which happened rarely, if ever, although pretty close a few times), we would begin our summer vacation a few days to a week earlier.

[gymnastix]

@hebneh Elementary school days and those years during that era were some of the happiest of my life. My mom and dad, and most of my relatives were still alive, few responsibilities, great TV shows (including "Batman," "Shindig!," Lucy, "Leave It To Beaver," and more cartoons and TV specials than at which one could shake a stick), the exciting, new rock & roll music and records, great movies at cheap prices, in a local theater with one, huge screen. What was not to like about life then?

[jekuhn323]

@gymnastix Feel the same way. The 60s in N.Y on Long Island were fantastic

[gymnastix]

@jekuhn323 I am happy someone else out there shares my fondness of the good suburban life of the 1960s. I imagine Ray Romano and Jerry Seinfeld must have enjoyed similar good times to yourself---didn't they both live on Long Island in their youths?

[gymnastix]

@jekuhn323 At what age were you permitted to travel to Manhattan, unaccompanied by an adult? Did you go to concerts and/or theaters in Manhattan as a kid and teenager? Did you ever see The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls, and/or The Ramones, when those bands were starting out?

[gymnastix]

@jekuhn323 I think I was about 14 when I was allowed to travel into Boston and Cambridge, away from my home in suburban Waltham, Massachusetts. I still had a nighttime curfew. But I could go to movies, stores, etc. in the afternoons, early evenings.

[gymnastix]

@jekuhn323 Actually, at about eight or nine years of age I was taking the local bus by myself or with a friend, to go to the public library, swimming lessons at the Boys Club, local movie theater, etc. Parents didn't have to watch their kids 24/7 in those days, and no cell phones either.

[gymnastix]

@hebneh I realized there were unhappy times (mostly my mom's illness) even in those best of times , and also not all kids had it as good as I did. But we were raised to help the poor with donations of canned food, and the still-good clothes we'd outgrown. I feel no guilt for having lived a good life for which my dad worked hard and was happy to provide his family. In appreciation, I did my chores, and helped clean the house.

[gymnastix]

@hebneh Except for having a personal computer, a DVD recorder, a color TV with a slightly bigger screen, and my own a/c to make the heat of summer less miserable, I would still take life in those times over life today, with no argument.

On the whole, after all, what was not to like about living in a single-family home, with a yard that had a nice green lawn, a garden and some trees, in an American suburb of the 1950s and '60s? Those were fantastic times!

[gymnastix]

@hebneh And I'm sick & tired of social critics denegrating the middle class lifestyle of America in the 1950s and '60s. What's so bad about two parents (one at home full-time) sharing a home with their children, a little peace of mind, and modest prosperity? I would wish that life for every person (if he/she would want it). I truly would. If everybody had it, there would be fewer problems today.

[nutballgazette]

We had them in Long Island, Coram and I think there was one in Riverhead

[barrierband]

I bought my suits from Robert Hall in East St. Louis, Il. during the 60s'

[broduke2000]

Where on earth did you find the Les Paul radio jingles?

[68lincoln]

My dad and my uncle bought their business suits from Robert Hall in the late 1950s and early 1960s and when I was about 6 years old my parents bought me a wool black and white houndstooth winter coat. I have to say that I don't why Robert Hall takes a bad rap by some people. The prices were low beacuse the stores were not fancy inside but the suits were made in the USA and of good quality. Better than any crappy suits of today that are mostly slapped together in China or worse.

[Chrissycat07]

My mother & father used to take us to Robert Hall for school clothes every fall. This was back in 1955-56 when we lived in Brooklyn, NY. What a memory the jingle brings back!

[musictriv2003]

my father was a store manager in the late 70's. how cool to watch.

[lazurm]

Any chance for obtaining the Xmas Robert Hall jingle?

[hebneh]

@lazurm "We're doing our Christmas shopping At Robert Hall this year We're saving on clothes for Christmas At Robert Hall this year More quality at low prices With gifts for one and all There's a wider selection - Bigger collection - Where America goes For family clothes It's Robert Hall this year!" You can hear this on YouTube. Search for KLIF Kennedy Assassination #5. It's a radio broadcast from Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. The commercial is just after the first bulletin about the shooting

[CarlDuke]

@hebneh Thanks so much for that. This is the Robert Hall commercial I remember hearing when I was a kid, on radio station WNEW in New York, or as their jingle went 11-3-Oh in New York. The one I heard was sung by Les Paul and Mary Ford, and the DJ would always say and now here's Les Paul for Robert Hall. I think that was how singer Vic Damone got his coppertone commercial because his name rhymed with the product. I listened to part 5 without hearing it. It appears however on part #6.

[6motion6]

@hebneh What a public relations disaster for Robert Hall! Not that I really care about Robert Hall.

[redfin00]

Was that Les Paul and Mary Ford?

And the Les and Mary experts told us that they never made a Robert Hall commercial.

Thanks for this proof of my memory.

[TheDingalingSisters]

Yes, I can confirm that that's Les Paul and Mary Ford performing the Robert Hall jingle. Three different versions of it were included on the 1996 CD Boxed set "Les Paul: The Legend And The Legacy".  Unfortunately, that release has been out of print for years now, but I have it, and the Robert Hall themes are definitely on it.