UK ITV advertisements (LWT region)- September 30th 1984 pt.2

[uhegbu]

So 'Business Pages' is 25 years old and the advert that I seem to remember is the one with the song 'You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book'. What was the name of the artist?

[mistofoles]

WTF?? Isn't that the composer Andre Previn from the Morecambe and Wise sketch doing that Ferguson TV ad??

[drfrisby]

yes, what of it?

[mistofoles]

WTF?? Isn't that the composer Andre Previn from the Morecambe and Wise show doing that Ferguson TV ad??

[mistofoles]

Just wondered what a famous composer was doing on an ad for TVs!

[agfagaevart]

He's making money that's what. I had one of the Ferguson 14", and it still worked when I threw it out.

Falstaff. Heh heh.

[pookerville]

Blimey! These are great ads!

[hyperwhizzkid]

Interesting that Vauxhall chose to compare the Nova to an Underground rail service - what, did that always break down too?!

[neilpinkett]

loved that, old ads, i was 14, the fergy tv has a still on it from a duran duran hit. we had danfoss in are old house about that time, has my life got this bad im watching old tv ads and getting into it! thanks for putting this up.

[RobinCarmody]

The Ferguson TX ad looks older than the other ads here.

[JayFirestorm]

Or maybe it was just made really badly!

[RobinCarmody]

Those fonts, though - very 1970s.

(bear in mind that, for me, the 1970s carry on until the later part of 1982)