search 1980s Pilly tv on youtube. the commercial is in the middle of a string of old commercials & news promos from the area on the 5th installment. This is the one at the racetrack & bleachers.
I just put this in as a joke! Wow! Never thought this would be on youtube. My sister and I sing this jingle from time to time. Loved channel 48. Shirley Temple movies on Sunday and the Flintstones weekdays. Oh yes, Star Trek at 6 pm.
@bluesdude2 - That phone number now belongs to a west Philly pizzeria! You can find the jingle itself not here on YouTube, but on a tribute website to the old WFIL radio. You can hear it here: famous56.com/jingles/index.htm - scroll down to "1974: The Famous "Call For Action'." You will need RealPlayer for it.
Ohmygawsh, this commercial ran forever - I can still remember the women in the commercial with their flared slacks sauntering around Philly. Bless you, MsMoonlightDrive for sharing this. And I can tell you have good taste in music for The Doors reference. :)
this was undoubtedly the most famous commercial in the Philly area "Back in the Day". If youre in your 30s or 40s and dont remember watching this commercial as a kid you were either on another planet or locked in a closet. I still sing this jingle sometimes just driving. Reminds me of watching Channel 48 after school, Flintstones, etc. I wish i would have visited Ideal just once before they closed.
Anybody out there no where i can find the Dr. J Converse commercial? Hey, hey Dr. J, where'd you get those moves you move with such grace are you a member of the human race?
This is great. I'm putting together a video for my Facebook page and was looking for some old Philly sounds to put in it. This is one that I was looking for. Also found Tony Brown's midnight transition.
Talking about vintage clothing, check out the RETRO-GUY website. You can also see a video on it on youtube. Just search for Bali Rakhra or BBC The One Show - Retro Guy.
I remember hearing this on Atlantic City radio and Phila. TV in the 1960's-early 1970's. They had a more contempary version in the mid 1970's. This is the BEST version. I also remember a few years ago Ideal's radio commercial was just talk,no jinge. At the end they said "and forget that silly jingle." Well, that silly jingle is what made them FAMOUS! and what EVERYBODY remembers!!
I'm 45 and will never forget this comercial. It's just the greatest!!! This was out in, I'm guessing the mid to late 60's. I'm glad to have seen this on You Tube. I also just passed by the Ideal clothing store hut last night. Very well done.
@mzpenny123 that's funny I ALWAYS sing this as well...one of my favorite childhood memories........I played this clip 10 times until my 17 year old daughter had enough....then I just went around the house singing it for the rest of the day :D
@stevephil10 True. I was born in '65. I've been humming this for 45 years. I'm not saying that's good, but I have, and now someone actually loaded it onto Youtube. Robbins Diamonds, Krass Brothers --- I remember all this. What ever happened to Wee Willie Weber? I'll look for him next.
Wow. I remember this. Growing up in Western Schyulkill county, we got a couple of Philly stations (29 and 17, if I remember) and they used to play a tv commercial over this jingle. Just one of those things that live in the back of your head for 30 some odd years and suddenly springs back to life when you hear it. Well done!
Just had to listen to this on a rainy day to brighten it up a klittle. If you remember this, then you are telling your age! LOL It was such a Philly staple, and I love hearing it.
@fromthesidelines - Yea. This was played alot. I remember the television commercials - i think it was women at the race track was one of them. It might be on youtube, who knows. But I have this memorized.
@fromthesidelines - I'm signed into my Philly screen name at the moment - OldsVistaCruiser is for just about everything else. I've seen you a lot on the old WB cartoons - you have a vast fount of knowledge about them! I've lived in the northern Philly burbs all my 46-1/2 years.
Ideal may not have advertised on the shore stations - but they advertised heavily on the UHF stations in Philly back in the 1970s.
That is hilarious!!! I remember it too 30+ yrs ago and I was from Hershey, PA. Why they advertise all of the way there for something in Hammonton, NJ is beyond me. LOL
That's funny. I think i used to jump around to this in the crib(as in actually baby crib and not the slang usage)....at any rate,this stuck with me as well.
Wish someone produced a video of the actual TV commercial. Haven't seen that since I was watching "Black Belt Theatre" late, late Friday nights on Channel 29 out of Philly!
@yerkeskid Roy, Fran and Danny. Do you remember the morning line up for cartoons in the morning and in the afternoon. If you can answer this you are the Master...lol
I remember Abbott and Costello theatre played the Star Wars Creature Cantina theme in the opening. Oh, i forgot, They play Blondie movies as well on 48 on Sunday afternoons
LOL, They started playing that as the theme I believe in 1978. You weren't on crack LOL. Also, I remember that Black Belt Thetre (also on 48) would play "Kung Fu Fighting" as it's theme with two silohuettes of martial artist sparring.
Remember a show that came on 48 about a dude on the beach exercising. Called Ed Allen. The first words out of his mouth were " Hi, Im Ed Allen." Then you herd some cool funky music.
@yerkeskid I absolutely have the same memories - Dr. Shock, Creature Double Feature on top of the others. I just saw the "Susquehanna Hat Factory" Abbott and Costello skit here -- and it still made me laugh. Back when *Saturday afternoon tv* was fun. After cartoons...
I've been talking about this commercial forever to folks here in Pittsburgh who have NO idea what I'm talking about. I love it. A very memorable jingle that reminds me of simpler time in my life. Thanks for the add.
Lots and lots of memories call Vic Snyder's any time call Plummer Three one nine one nine!! Also check out the west philly high class of 1979 vid for more old jingles
@megachews I remember in the late 1970s, there was a Vic Snyder commercial with a man and a woman swimming at night (it actually looked like they were skinny dipping). Their heads arise from under the water and the woman complains to the man about her plumbing. The man suggests Vic Snyder. He smiles at her, she smiles at him slyly, and they dip back into the water with the jingle in the background..call Plumber 31919! Do you happen to know where that TV ad is or at least the audio?
"Quonset" is the correct spelling. It's a type of building that was invented in World War II that was very quick to construct. The US military built thousands of them throughout the world, and in the USA too, from the 1940s onwards. By the '60s, when this song was recorded, old Quonset huts were considered rundown and semi-trashy, which is why the lyrics apologize for this store being located in one.
Yo, I remember this commerical...my cousin and I used to sing it wrong! we used to say "if you got a craving for baking"...LMAO- what the hell does baking have to do with clothes?!
Im glad someone saved this... its part of our lives & Growing up in the Philly area Probably one of the best Jingles ever made on a tiny budget for a single store that everyone knew of but probably never even drove by ... heh
In Philly this was a staple. It played long after the fashions in the commercial were out. If you were around during this era, you have to know this. It is required music! LOL
OMG You really are still open. Please bring back the old commercial, it will be great P.R. for the store, millions of people remember the jingle... use the same exact ad, don't change anything!!!
Super memorys! Nice REAL music. Not the fake crap thats made by a computer. I remember this commercial well when we went to visit family in south Jersey. It seems to me that the commercials in Southern Jersey was much more mellow compaired to the crazy ones in the New York market.
My favorite jingle!!! This sounds weird, but It always made me feel kind of sad when I heard it. I remember as a kid begging my mom to take me here. Not because I wanted to be a transvestite, but because the TV commercial showed women at the zoo in front of the tiger cage and I thought that IDEAL had caged Tigers there. After 30+ years I finally went there. Imagine my disappointment. The only Tiger related item in the whole store was a Tiger printed pantsuit. Damn! I still love you IDEAL!
I'm from Philly and hearing this Commercail brings back so many good childhod memories for me. I'm glad YOUTUBE exist if not I might not be able to take this journey down memory lane. Thanks for posting this.
How about filming new footage to the existing music and airing it like that?
This would primarily bring the old images into the 21st century, such as replacing the 1973 Continental Mark III with a new Lincoln.
The tribute site is at mcnally*cc/ideal*htm. Replace the asterisks with dots. They even have the June 2008 grand re-opening radio spot from SoJO 104.9 on that site!
Awesome! The next time I'm in SJ, I'm coming by. I remember this commercial like it was yesterday. Someone PLEASE post the commercial, like neepl8 says, with the racetrack and the Lincoln (whitewalls and corinthian leather...ooohhh!)
This jingle has been scarred into my brain from hearing it as a child. Its probably one of my earliest memories. I may hardly remember anything I learned in school all during the 70's, but thirty years later I can still remember that jingle. Thanks for posting. If only someone could find one of the commercials of the women in tacky polyester outfits.
Hey Family,In the immortal words of Archie&Edith Bunker..."Those were the DAAAAAAAAYS!" LOL Hey Wise,remember the 69th st. Eric theater@the terminal. 3for1. Not bad for sticky floors,torn seats,Bumbs sleeping next to you,people making out behind you,the noisey train,and clouds of cigarette/weed smoke. LOL
I really think philadelphians have the best sense and appreciation of their recent past in the entire US. Im from Delco (drexel hill) but live in Rome now. NO ONE I meet here from the US has nostalgia like people from the Delaware Valley. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and can appreciate ALL these comments.
As a kid I hated this commercial. I was too small to even know what it was. I just hated it. I had to play it for my kids to show them what our commercials were like. They loved it. UGH!
Remember when the Italian Market was the real Italian Market? Wananmaker had the ice stand in the basement. There was Sam Eric theatres all over Market and Chestnut Sts. City Hall was the tallest bldg. Dutch Wonderland commericals.
THANK YOU!!! I'm glad you said that. I remember those days well. The Fox theater on 15th & Market was the fucking best. Believe it or not,the only original theater left in the neighborhood is the Forum,or as i called it, sticky floors,not from soda. I also remember all the cool kids shows you mentioned. Remember Wee Willie Webber? The Batman/Three Stooges hour? Send your letters to dear old Captain Noah? We had it good.
Hey anyone remember downtown philly back in the 70's -80's when there was Strawbriges, Gimbels and John Wanamaker's? Remember the
8th floor was the toy floor and there was the train in the ceiling and the carousel. I loved the santa village and how you had to wait in the long lines going through the village to take your pic with santa at the end. Remember Al Alberts and when he took his show to Wildwood. Chief Halftown early Sat's morning. Cap't Noah and Kangaroon. The New Zoo Revue.
I remember Gimbels. I remember the one@69th st. on the top of the hill. the whole area used to look beautiful around Christmas time. I remember Capt. Noah, Capt.Kangaroo,and on Sunday mornings. Larry Farrari played his organ, and my favorite Sun. morn show, "Star Stuff". AAhhh. memories
LOL, My bro and I used to flip the channels between 6 and 10 in the mornings between Capt.s Noah and Kangaroo. Damn near broke the manual tuner. Click Click Click!
Was the term "quonset hut" that familiar back in the sixties? I never knew what it meant until I just looked it up a few seconds ago. (And I heard this jingle at least 125,000 times growing up in SW Philadelphia)
For some strange idea this jingle popped in my mind. Grew up in Coatesville but currently live in Washington state. Thanks, YouTube for the memories.
Markie99352 1 month ago
search 1980s Pilly tv on youtube. the commercial is in the middle of a string of old commercials & news promos from the area on the 5th installment. This is the one at the racetrack & bleachers.
sdwalke6 1 month ago
AWESOME! I never thought I'd hear that jingle again. I feel 8 years old again!
maddy2189 2 months ago 2
this runs through my head every so often... i'm glad to be able to hear it again!
heddalee 4 months ago
I just put this in as a joke! Wow! Never thought this would be on youtube. My sister and I sing this jingle from time to time. Loved channel 48. Shirley Temple movies on Sunday and the Flintstones weekdays. Oh yes, Star Trek at 6 pm.
comingout05 4 months ago
I used this as an audition piece one time and the director almost fell out of her chair laughing! She knew I was from Philly and so she cast me!
dknamaste9 4 months ago
This bring back memories growing up in the 70s. Roller Derby and Dr. Shock comes to mind....those were the days.
4Ferne 5 months ago
I am pretty sure it was an Oldsmobile Toronado. I used to love that commercial.
bustermadison 6 months ago
I still remember the commercial with the ladies in bell bottoms next to a cadillac.
philaman1972 6 months ago
Great. Now I have to find Greenwood 7, 5312
bluesdude2 7 months ago
@bluesdude2 - That phone number now belongs to a west Philly pizzeria! You can find the jingle itself not here on YouTube, but on a tribute website to the old WFIL radio. You can hear it here: famous56.com/jingles/index.htm - scroll down to "1974: The Famous "Call For Action'." You will need RealPlayer for it.
AshburnStadium 7 months ago
Ohmygawsh, this commercial ran forever - I can still remember the women in the commercial with their flared slacks sauntering around Philly. Bless you, MsMoonlightDrive for sharing this. And I can tell you have good taste in music for The Doors reference. :)
HuntersMoon73 8 months ago 2
"it's nothing but a quonset hut!" love this!!
kirby10128 8 months ago
yes i remember this commercial on channel 48 or 17 every Saturday and we always wound in that store shopping hard
mzpenny123 9 months ago
Yes i remember this commercial it come on every Saturday i grew up in west phily kellys pool
mzpenny123 9 months ago
Loved it always.
prettyunlimited 9 months ago
Very clever jingle.
railcar123 10 months ago
this was undoubtedly the most famous commercial in the Philly area "Back in the Day". If youre in your 30s or 40s and dont remember watching this commercial as a kid you were either on another planet or locked in a closet. I still sing this jingle sometimes just driving. Reminds me of watching Channel 48 after school, Flintstones, etc. I wish i would have visited Ideal just once before they closed.
dyanovitz 10 months ago 3
@dyanovitz They didn't close. They are still in Hammonton, NJ. idealclothingdotnet
DragonsGait 3 months ago
One of the best commercial jingles ever.
leroydubya 11 months ago
Oh, snap! This brings back memories of watching Roller Derby and Soul Train on Channel 48..."WKBS-TV Burlington-Philadelphia!" :-)
CJfromPhilly 11 months ago 13
@CJfromPhilly Yep, as a kid in Coatesville, I watched Creature Double Feature every Saturday on 48!
Anubisxian 3 months ago
Thanks for posting this - it's always been my favorite jingle! I would love to see the commercial again!
LushiePeach 1 year ago 3
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OMG! I used love this jungle!!! I'm so glad you have this posted YouTube. When I did the search, I didn't think I would find it. Thank you!! (^_^)
KawaiiNai 1 year ago
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DelmarvaPowerTV 1 year ago
yet ANOTHER reason to go to S Jersey! :)
Vidinotes 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this! I remember this commercial so well from growing up in Philly in the 70s!
Lyubov91 1 year ago 2
Wow this song is kind of good. Hmmm I just looked it up for a laugh. I remember it an old tv comercial in the early 80s. lol
alexlancer11 1 year ago
OMG..... I just searched for this as this was sooo memorable....
ipspots1 1 year ago
If you've got a passion for fashion, and you've got a craving for saving, take the wheel of your automobile, and swing on down to Ideal.
buzzlewie 1 year ago 2
Anybody out there no where i can find the Dr. J Converse commercial? Hey, hey Dr. J, where'd you get those moves you move with such grace are you a member of the human race?
quickdownload 1 year ago
This is great. I'm putting together a video for my Facebook page and was looking for some old Philly sounds to put in it. This is one that I was looking for. Also found Tony Brown's midnight transition.
quickdownload 1 year ago
@quickdownload hey how did you find Tony Brown's midnight transition?? I would love to have that...
JerseyDiva55 1 year ago
@JerseyDiva55
On Youtube. If you liked Georgie Woods there's a 3 part series on Youtube with a good sound clip of him on the end of pt.3
megachews 1 year ago
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Talking about vintage clothing, check out the RETRO-GUY website. You can also see a video on it on youtube. Just search for Bali Rakhra or BBC The One Show - Retro Guy.
bali501 1 year ago
What memories!!!! I remember this for sure. Awesome!!!! What is funy as this jingle would pop into my head every once in a while.
aregusters 1 year ago
I remember hearing this on Atlantic City radio and Phila. TV in the 1960's-early 1970's. They had a more contempary version in the mid 1970's. This is the BEST version. I also remember a few years ago Ideal's radio commercial was just talk,no jinge. At the end they said "and forget that silly jingle." Well, that silly jingle is what made them FAMOUS! and what EVERYBODY remembers!!
hiresrootbeer1876 1 year ago
I'm 45 and will never forget this comercial. It's just the greatest!!! This was out in, I'm guessing the mid to late 60's. I'm glad to have seen this on You Tube. I also just passed by the Ideal clothing store hut last night. Very well done.
deeppocketsmiller 1 year ago
I love this commercial and still sing it every day.
mzpenny123 1 year ago
@mzpenny123 that's funny I ALWAYS sing this as well...one of my favorite childhood memories........I played this clip 10 times until my 17 year old daughter had enough....then I just went around the house singing it for the rest of the day :D
JerseyDiva55 1 year ago
IDEAL has everything. So why pay regular retail prices at regular retail stores? Take this tip, make the trip.. to IDEAL!
23yrvet 1 year ago
If you grew up n Philly in the 70's and 80's and dont know this....you're not really from Philly
stevephil10 1 year ago 40
@stevephil10 - u know ur right, lol!!! N the Krass Brothers skinny man commercials. Talk about some good stuff!!
1919Denise 1 year ago
@stevephil10 hahaha....word!
twst1 1 year ago
@stevephil10 True. I was born in '65. I've been humming this for 45 years. I'm not saying that's good, but I have, and now someone actually loaded it onto Youtube. Robbins Diamonds, Krass Brothers --- I remember all this. What ever happened to Wee Willie Weber? I'll look for him next.
soverysneaky 1 year ago 3
@stevephil10 Ha, ha, ha this part of the official "did you live Philly in the 70's and 80's" this brings back memories
OneWifeThreeKids 11 months ago 2
@stevephil10 AGREED!
jgrab1 7 months ago
Wow, what a blast from the past! They shure got their dollars worth with that jingle.
Thankyou for the nostalgia 8)
Tzunamii777 1 year ago
I just passed the ideal store last week, and didn't realize it was still there!! This song has been in my head ever since. I'm so glad this was here!
Altto2 1 year ago 2
Wow. I remember this. Growing up in Western Schyulkill county, we got a couple of Philly stations (29 and 17, if I remember) and they used to play a tv commercial over this jingle. Just one of those things that live in the back of your head for 30 some odd years and suddenly springs back to life when you hear it. Well done!
freakshowmonkey 1 year ago
Just had to listen to this on a rainy day to brighten it up a klittle. If you remember this, then you are telling your age! LOL It was such a Philly staple, and I love hearing it.
kpitt1204 1 year ago
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jmwdesign 1 year ago
To be honest, I'm in the "Tri-State" area, 'Olds'. I hail from Long Branch, N.J., and have never heard this jingle before!
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
@fromthesidelines - Yea. This was played alot. I remember the television commercials - i think it was women at the race track was one of them. It might be on youtube, who knows. But I have this memorized.
TheKillerWithinNJ 1 year ago
@fromthesidelines - I'm signed into my Philly screen name at the moment - OldsVistaCruiser is for just about everything else. I've seen you a lot on the old WB cartoons - you have a vast fount of knowledge about them! I've lived in the northern Philly burbs all my 46-1/2 years.
Ideal may not have advertised on the shore stations - but they advertised heavily on the UHF stations in Philly back in the 1970s.
Bill in northern Bucks County
a/k/a OldsVistaCruiser
AshburnStadium 1 year ago
The date on the label is June 24, 1960, so this disc is from that period. A live announcer or DJ delivered his "copy" for Ideal between :20 and :40.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
@fromthesidelines - I didn't know you were from the Philly area! Anyway, this jingle is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary!
OldsVistaCruiser 1 year ago
Hey Bridget,...this one's for you and Liz Quigley...LMAO
justhairme 1 year ago
Anyone know where (or how) to download this as an MP3. I want to sneak it on my girlfriend's phone as a ringtone.
insaturnsringzz 1 year ago
@insaturnsringzz You can get it off of Tom McNally's website. Just google "ideal" and "Tom McNally"
LaserdiscFan 1 year ago
I've been trying to find the commercial. I used to love that thing when I was little. I just knew when I got older I'd go to Ideal to shop, lol.
mybutterpecanbutt 1 year ago
That is hilarious!!! I remember it too 30+ yrs ago and I was from Hershey, PA. Why they advertise all of the way there for something in Hammonton, NJ is beyond me. LOL
insaturnsringzz 1 year ago
@insaturnsringzz Yes and I'm still looking for the Anthony Plumbing vid... PI4-2200
earsmcgee 1 year ago
@earsmcgee I thought that was "Dustin McClusky, the one plumber to call"
mrmoofle 1 year ago
@mrmoofle Hey, it was Dunstan McCloskey.
D-U-N-S-T-A-N... Dunstan
jmwdesign 1 year ago
@jmwdesign Thank. To be fair, that was so long ago, it was in my pre-literate years. Back in those days of Gomer Pyle and F-Troop reruns.
mrmoofle 1 year ago
I can remember EVERY NOTE of that song from what-- thirty years ago??
peterbobbe 1 year ago 2
This damn song has been embeded in my cognetive processing foe decades, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
gglaw42 1 year ago 2
this jingle is the classic of all classics
alsticks1 1 year ago 2
This damn jingle STILL gets stuck in my head and won't leave. And I haven't heard it for 30 years!
sma1968 1 year ago
That's funny. I think i used to jump around to this in the crib(as in actually baby crib and not the slang usage)....at any rate,this stuck with me as well.
the215renaissanceman 1 year ago
@sma1968 I hear it over 40 years, ago. And its still stuck in my head, too!
stagflation2010 1 year ago
Wow, what a classic. I remember seeing the commercial when i was a kid back in the 70's :-D great post!
SagaArts1 1 year ago
Someone has posted the Melrose Diner jingle here on YT!
It's posted simply as "Melrose Diner".
AshburnStadium 1 year ago 3
GOD I FEEL SO OLD!~
PrincessBaby82 1 year ago
Hah, someone got this off of Tom McNally's site!
Wish someone produced a video of the actual TV commercial. Haven't seen that since I was watching "Black Belt Theatre" late, late Friday nights on Channel 29 out of Philly!
LaserdiscFan 1 year ago
DAMN! Black Belt Theatre!!!
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@LaserdiscFan then they showed it on Saturday afternoon. And WKBS 48 showed Tarzan in the on Saturday afternoons.
2199 1 year ago
My bro and I used to watch Tarzan theatre on 48at noon if I remember correctly.
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@yerkeskid my bad. dont 4get the monster theatre as well.
2199 1 year ago
Yep and Creature Double Feature :D
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@yerkeskid having your snacks and watching those then waiting for what TV show came on 3, 6, 10, 17, 29, or 48. those were the good ol days.
2199 1 year ago
Gotta give Channel 12 props. Used to watch 321 Contact, Sesame Street, Electric Company and Mr. Roger Neighborhood on WHYY.
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@yerkeskid Yes to all of them. what about Reading Rainbows? I nkow this didnt come on WHYY...but remember The Great Space Coaster?
2199 1 year ago
Great Space Coaster is on Yotube now as well. Used to air on Channel 48.
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@yerkeskid Roy, Fran and Danny. Do you remember the morning line up for cartoons in the morning and in the afternoon. If you can answer this you are the Master...lol
2199 1 year ago
Just tell me which station and what year.If I don't remember, I can find out.
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@yerkeskid You are the MAN.......and I thought I knew everything about those stations. I will but you dont have to do it right now.
2199 1 year ago
LOL, I just have a ridiculous memory when it comes to the 1970s boob tube.
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@yerkeskid me too...for somethings...like on Sundays on 48 they would show Aboutt n Costello.
2199 1 year ago
Three Stooges on 29, Little Rascals on 48,Flash Gordon on Sundays before Abbott and Costello on 48.
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@yerkeskid was it the Flash Gordon cartoon or the series?
2199 1 year ago
The Buster Crabbe shorts. Live action. I remember watching those when I was really young.
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@yerkeskid that I didnt watch until they put it on channell 23....years later.
2199 1 year ago
I remember Abbott and Costello theatre played the Star Wars Creature Cantina theme in the opening. Oh, i forgot, They play Blondie movies as well on 48 on Sunday afternoons
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@yerkeskid I knew I wasnt hearing things. My bro's thought I was on crack when I said that.
2199 1 year ago
LOL, They started playing that as the theme I believe in 1978. You weren't on crack LOL. Also, I remember that Black Belt Thetre (also on 48) would play "Kung Fu Fighting" as it's theme with two silohuettes of martial artist sparring.
yerkeskid 1 year ago
@yerkeskid then that silohuettes would to 29 when 48 left the air waves. because the first movie they played was the Chinatown Kid. If I remember.
2199 1 year ago
Remember a show that came on 48 about a dude on the beach exercising. Called Ed Allen. The first words out of his mouth were " Hi, Im Ed Allen." Then you herd some cool funky music.
2199 1 year ago
@yerkeskid I absolutely have the same memories - Dr. Shock, Creature Double Feature on top of the others. I just saw the "Susquehanna Hat Factory" Abbott and Costello skit here -- and it still made me laugh. Back when *Saturday afternoon tv* was fun. After cartoons...
AstralPixie 8 months ago
Oh hell yeah, Creature Double Feature! Can't tell you how many Godzilla I watched on that!
LaserdiscFan 1 year ago
I haven't heard this jingle in over 30 years and as soon as it started, I knew every word. WOW! Thanks for posting!
yerkeskid 2 years ago
Love it!!!!!
MrMack302 2 years ago
Oh my God! I haven't heard this jingle in ages! Brings back sooo many memories! Thanks for posting!
srn1962 2 years ago
I've been talking about this commercial forever to folks here in Pittsburgh who have NO idea what I'm talking about. I love it. A very memorable jingle that reminds me of simpler time in my life. Thanks for the add.
funlovelyt 2 years ago
Sounds like Dinah Shore.
ar4216 2 years ago
the store is still in Hammonton NJ
lafin1 2 years ago
"Call for Action....Greenwood 7-5312"
11polar11 2 years ago 10
call for action! greenwood 75312!
marisalaplanche 2 years ago
@11polar11
Lots and lots of memories call Vic Snyder's any time call Plummer Three one nine one nine!! Also check out the west philly high class of 1979 vid for more old jingles
megachews 1 year ago
@megachews I remember in the late 1970s, there was a Vic Snyder commercial with a man and a woman swimming at night (it actually looked like they were skinny dipping). Their heads arise from under the water and the woman complains to the man about her plumbing. The man suggests Vic Snyder. He smiles at her, she smiles at him slyly, and they dip back into the water with the jingle in the background..call Plumber 31919! Do you happen to know where that TV ad is or at least the audio?
Genius7277 1 year ago
@Genius7277
Never saw that commercial I find most of my stuff on you tube or google search but there must be a better way.
megachews 1 year ago
O lord, me & my sister used to sing this when we were kids in the 70's!
amaxamon 2 years ago
This jingle will live with me forever! I wish there was video for it somewhere.
meanydb 2 years ago
Rt. 30 on the way down to the shore. Place is still there. Gotta love the good old days.
mi6QBranch 2 years ago
does she say "a closet hut"?
foppa123 2 years ago
Kwantset hut
bufumofo223 2 years ago
"Quonset" is the correct spelling. It's a type of building that was invented in World War II that was very quick to construct. The US military built thousands of them throughout the world, and in the USA too, from the 1940s onwards. By the '60s, when this song was recorded, old Quonset huts were considered rundown and semi-trashy, which is why the lyrics apologize for this store being located in one.
hebneh 2 years ago
Yo, I remember this commerical...my cousin and I used to sing it wrong! we used to say "if you got a craving for baking"...LMAO- what the hell does baking have to do with clothes?!
143snappa 2 years ago
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I can't believe I finally found this.
foppa123 2 years ago
I love it but I wish I could find the actual commercial. It was the best!!
Snopanther2001 2 years ago
Im glad someone saved this... its part of our lives & Growing up in the Philly area Probably one of the best Jingles ever made on a tiny budget for a single store that everyone knew of but probably never even drove by ... heh
HeroOrAZero 2 years ago 7
In Philly this was a staple. It played long after the fashions in the commercial were out. If you were around during this era, you have to know this. It is required music! LOL
kpitt1204 2 years ago
OMG You really are still open. Please bring back the old commercial, it will be great P.R. for the store, millions of people remember the jingle... use the same exact ad, don't change anything!!!
IIIl1IIIlllIII1 2 years ago
Wow! I must have heard this a thousand times when I was a kid. Thanks for the memories!
ford2n2003 2 years ago
I said...Needs more COWBELL!!!!!!
70goldtop 2 years ago 2
I adore this song!! I still remember making fun of the commercial with my friends!
livwil02 2 years ago
Super memorys! Nice REAL music. Not the fake crap thats made by a computer. I remember this commercial well when we went to visit family in south Jersey. It seems to me that the commercials in Southern Jersey was much more mellow compaired to the crazy ones in the New York market.
TheSlovak223 2 years ago
Like Nobody Beats The Wiz lol???
Dablkwid0w2008 2 years ago
Man, this brings back old-school memories! Thanks for posting.
Anubisxian 2 years ago
BTW-- I finally realized it can be "ideal" or "I deal!"
csmccourt 2 years ago
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csmccourt 2 years ago
This song somehow got stuck in my head recently. Reminds me of summers at Ocean City. Thanks for letting me hear it!
csmccourt 2 years ago
Awesome.
prometheusjackson 2 years ago
Best jingle ever!!!
When I was growing up in New Jersey in the 60's and 70's, this was on the radio ALL THE TIME! GREAT!
scdevon 2 years ago 2
Same here except I grew up in PA. I'll bet that commercial goes through my head at least once a week.
kellerooni 2 years ago 2
Me too and I grew up in South Jersey.
2199 2 years ago
Me too. Didnt the commercial show a woman walking down the street to the store and in her car??? I'm not sure but that's what I remember.
pewter2k 2 years ago
where was this store located?
foppa123 2 years ago
You have to actually listen to the commercial.
It states very clearly that they are "on Route 30, the White Horse Pike, in Hammonton, New Jersey".
foppa123 wrote:
where was this store located?
AshburnStadium 1 year ago
@AshburnStadium And they're still located RIGHT THERE. Same building... sorry... quonset hut... hahahah.
bstoudt0412 1 year ago 2
Yep...I even remember the car. '69 Impala
bufumofo223 2 years ago
I remember an early 1970s Lincoln Continental Mark III.
AshburnStadium 1 year ago
Philly memories.
stokepogue 2 years ago
it;s a quansit hut
ccm800 2 years ago
They'er still in business.
buzzlewie 2 years ago
Zoo? No they pulled up to the racetrace in that big-ass fine shiny automobile!
wrestlehunk12 2 years ago
My favorite jingle!!! This sounds weird, but It always made me feel kind of sad when I heard it. I remember as a kid begging my mom to take me here. Not because I wanted to be a transvestite, but because the TV commercial showed women at the zoo in front of the tiger cage and I thought that IDEAL had caged Tigers there. After 30+ years I finally went there. Imagine my disappointment. The only Tiger related item in the whole store was a Tiger printed pantsuit. Damn! I still love you IDEAL!
westinghouse 2 years ago 3
I'm from Philly and hearing this Commercail brings back so many good childhod memories for me. I'm glad YOUTUBE exist if not I might not be able to take this journey down memory lane. Thanks for posting this.
cheesesteak1969 2 years ago
Yeah, this was a gr8 commercial, too bad they don't have the video to play on Youtube :(
wrestlehunk12 2 years ago
Wow I remember that commercial. Thanks for sharing.
stayshoobie 2 years ago
Were trying to find the commercial!! If anyone has any ideas where to look, please call and let us know here at Ideal!
Caitlin
Ideal Fashions
609-561-2712
626caitlin 2 years ago
Caitlin:
How about filming new footage to the existing music and airing it like that?
This would primarily bring the old images into the 21st century, such as replacing the 1973 Continental Mark III with a new Lincoln.
The tribute site is at mcnally*cc/ideal*htm. Replace the asterisks with dots. They even have the June 2008 grand re-opening radio spot from SoJO 104.9 on that site!
Bill in Bucks County
AshburnStadium 2 years ago
Yes! Ideal is back in business! This weekend I'm gonna take the wheel of my automobile and swing on down to...Ideal!
rrunner81sg 2 years ago
Someone needs to post the tv commercial. What I'd give to see the ladies at the racetrack and driving the Lincoln again.
neepl8 2 years ago
and this fabulous place JUST closed down this year! : (
I remember finding it on the way home from the beach one year, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was shaped like an airplane hangar or half moon.
girasole9 2 years ago
We are not closed! New management took over! We hope to see you soon!
Caitlin
Ideal Fashions
609-561-2712
626caitlin 2 years ago
Awesome! The next time I'm in SJ, I'm coming by. I remember this commercial like it was yesterday. Someone PLEASE post the commercial, like neepl8 says, with the racetrack and the Lincoln (whitewalls and corinthian leather...ooohhh!)
hardtruthsin08 2 years ago
This is great! I love hearing the old jingles from way back when! Now all I need to hear is the jingle for Jimmie's Used Auto Parts...
chazcov08 2 years ago
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Someone has posted the 2010 version of Jimmie's commercial here on YT, and it airs around 3 AM on the rebroadcast of the 11:00 Action News on WPVI.
chazcov08 wrote:
This is great! I love hearing the old jingles from way back when! Now all I need to hear is the jingle for Jimmie's Used Auto Parts...
AshburnStadium 1 year ago
This jingle has been scarred into my brain from hearing it as a child. Its probably one of my earliest memories. I may hardly remember anything I learned in school all during the 70's, but thirty years later I can still remember that jingle. Thanks for posting. If only someone could find one of the commercials of the women in tacky polyester outfits.
KaiserSkippy 2 years ago 2
I so love you for posting this.
It's 1972 again and I'm 3 years old.
LOL
ShangoJamal 3 years ago 2
Hey Family,In the immortal words of Archie&Edith Bunker..."Those were the DAAAAAAAAYS!" LOL Hey Wise,remember the 69th st. Eric theater@the terminal. 3for1. Not bad for sticky floors,torn seats,Bumbs sleeping next to you,people making out behind you,the noisey train,and clouds of cigarette/weed smoke. LOL
OlaDaylax 3 years ago
I really think philadelphians have the best sense and appreciation of their recent past in the entire US. Im from Delco (drexel hill) but live in Rome now. NO ONE I meet here from the US has nostalgia like people from the Delaware Valley. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and can appreciate ALL these comments.
imanacer 3 years ago 3
As a kid I hated this commercial. I was too small to even know what it was. I just hated it. I had to play it for my kids to show them what our commercials were like. They loved it. UGH!
koolkris321 3 years ago
Remember when the Italian Market was the real Italian Market? Wananmaker had the ice stand in the basement. There was Sam Eric theatres all over Market and Chestnut Sts. City Hall was the tallest bldg. Dutch Wonderland commericals.
koffeebrwn 3 years ago 2
THANK YOU!!! I'm glad you said that. I remember those days well. The Fox theater on 15th & Market was the fucking best. Believe it or not,the only original theater left in the neighborhood is the Forum,or as i called it, sticky floors,not from soda. I also remember all the cool kids shows you mentioned. Remember Wee Willie Webber? The Batman/Three Stooges hour? Send your letters to dear old Captain Noah? We had it good.
wisenheimer215 3 years ago 2
Hey anyone remember downtown philly back in the 70's -80's when there was Strawbriges, Gimbels and John Wanamaker's? Remember the
8th floor was the toy floor and there was the train in the ceiling and the carousel. I loved the santa village and how you had to wait in the long lines going through the village to take your pic with santa at the end. Remember Al Alberts and when he took his show to Wildwood. Chief Halftown early Sat's morning. Cap't Noah and Kangaroon. The New Zoo Revue.
koffeebrwn 3 years ago 5
I remember Gimbels. I remember the one@69th st. on the top of the hill. the whole area used to look beautiful around Christmas time. I remember Capt. Noah, Capt.Kangaroo,and on Sunday mornings. Larry Farrari played his organ, and my favorite Sun. morn show, "Star Stuff". AAhhh. memories
OlaDaylax 3 years ago
What about Candy Apple News and Kids World?
2199 2 years ago 2
I agree, I like Borris Bat, and Kids World had great features.
buzzlewie 2 years ago
I liked Yukon Thing. Kids World was cool they were the first to really show skate boarding. Miss Saturday mornings.
2199 2 years ago
LOL, My bro and I used to flip the channels between 6 and 10 in the mornings between Capt.s Noah and Kangaroo. Damn near broke the manual tuner. Click Click Click!
yerkeskid 1 year ago
Yerkeskid - don't forget Gene London, either! My best friend used to parody Captain Noah's picture segment:
Send your sisters to dear old Captain Noah
Send today, send right away
Send your sisters to dear old Captain Noah
We'll hang them high
In the TV sky
London as well as Carter & Pat Merbreier (Capt. & Mrs. Noah) are both alive & well, as is Sally Starr.
London, 79, is a dress designer in NYC, Starr, 87, runs a restaurant in Atco, NJ and the Merbreiers are quietly retired.
AshburnStadium 1 year ago 2
I'm glad to hear that Dear Ol' Captain Noah(and Mrs. Noah) are alive and kicking. Do they have a website?
yerkeskid 1 year ago
Was the term "quonset hut" that familiar back in the sixties? I never knew what it meant until I just looked it up a few seconds ago. (And I heard this jingle at least 125,000 times growing up in SW Philadelphia)
redheadedgolem 3 years ago
philly and haddonfield!!
johnneedslove 3 years ago
Ah man, memories!!!
themikefordeffect 3 years ago 2