Those 70's Commercials #1

[TnACaddo]

@Cassiefw. . . That was perfect and exactly how I remember it !

[MrBigglessworth]

524-1541, god I loved that jingle!

[kittygrrlhk]

Those Paul Mead commercials aired forever, like this one Del Ranch commercial that still airs after like 30 years.

[El135o]

Interesting that 30 years ago, an energy-efficient home was a selling point. And yet today's environmentalists act tlike it's a recent idea.

[sunoftheutube]

ha ha these people are dumb inbred hicks

[firemedicbm]

Thats pretty funny comming from someone who tag teams his mom/sister with his brother/uncle!!!

[donjabroni]

The gas crisis was going on at that time, and since quite a few people were using oil for their homes instead of natural gas, energy-efficiency was important then.

[ajy01]

I can still sing the Paul Meade insurace jingle after all these years. Stuck with me more than any other commecial jingle after just seeing it a few times. Good job.

[oklahomajewel]

This is one of those jingles that you still can sing decades later. When skanky guys would ask for a phone number at a bar, my girl friends would give out this phone number ... 524-fifteen forty one... nobody got it when you said it that way.

[hardtruthsin08]

Nice! That's the same number we would give girls in OKC before we booted them out the door for the "walk of shame". Only one girl actually got it, but it she was already in the hallway and got to "tell it to the doorknob".

Ah...Oklahoma girls.

[CreativeCritisizm]

,,pretty trashy are they ?

[ColumbiaCowboy]

Now, did you guys have anything to do with this bizarre, perverse, hilarious holiday special that was done about '84 or '85 with the same style of animation that we were told was done by the same guys as the Tall Paul commercials? It was on Uncle...something or other, I forget his name, Uncle something's Playhouse on channel 25, back in the days before most of us had cable the UHF channels had some pretty wild programming.

[herecy13]

i want to live in harvest hills!

[cindyshealed]

My bandmate tells me there was a Tall Paul Show....and I somehow completely missed it. Boy, would I love to see it.

[vidmaker8294]

When you're lookin high and low,

and other folks just come and go

there's a number you should know,

dial it on your telephone

524-1541

Great Music. Even though I was born in the 1990s and just heard this.

[cassiefw]

post the other one-- that says "protecting all the things you own like cars and trucks and mobile homes..." my brother and i can still sing it!

[vidmaker8294]

What's the whole verse of that Commercial?

[cassiefw]

"protecting all the things you own, like cars and trucks and mobile homes, accidents and credit too, call and we'll take care of you, 524-1541..." but don't quote me!

[MadMonk67]

I think it's "accidents and tickets too..." :)

[MadMonk67]

Close, but I think it's "accidents and tickets too..."

:)

[DarkBubb1e]

I just drove by Paul Meade the other day. They've replaced their boring brown and white wood sign with a full-color sign that features Tall Paul.

[cindyshealed]

Where is this? OKC or Tulsa? I had an Uncle I barely remember who sold insurance for Paul Meade in Lawton.

[DarkBubb1e]

OKC, somewhere in the 3000 block of N. Classen.

[sticksrossi]

We'll even leave the light on!

[cljagreen1]

I remember watching these at midnight as a kid on the old channel 25 before Fox came along. It was like early versions of Mystery Science Theater and the commercials were by Paule Meade. I live in South Carolina and still catch myself singing this tune.

[quantumdave]

How about that!! FYI, I just happen to be in an episode of MST3K.

[artguyken]

My friend, Bill Billen and his buddy Kenny Johnson, wrote and performed the music for this commercial back in the late '70s. This is the earliest, crudest example of a long series of Tall Paul commercials. Anybody have any others?

[quantumdave]

Great! I couldn't remember their names from so long ago, even though we did do it many times! I co-produced and engineered a bunch of them at Producers Workshop. Tell them I said "Hi"!

[artguyken]

Will do.

[burlives]

Harvest Hills, wow. By the time I started going to Harvest Hills Elementary the neighborhood was already pretty well established.

[quantumdave]

Thanks for helping me to feel so old!! ; )

[ahalenia]

Tall Paul rules! - the first phone number any kid learned in Oklahoma in the 70s, but the second commercial sux.

[quantumdave]

I agree with you 100%!!

[saxcmbl48]

I remember the Paul Meade singing cowboy, but didn't know you wrote that one. Cute!!