Coca-Cola 1970s

Coca- Cola Commercial 1976 (featuring Gladys Knight & the Pips).

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company and is often referred to simply as Coke. Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft drink market throughout the 20th century

Gladys Knight & the Pips were an R&B/soul musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1967) and "Midnight Train to Georgia" (1973). The longest-lived incarnation of the act featured Gladys Knight on lead vocals, with The Pips, who included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and their cousins Edward Patten and William Guest, as backup singers.

At the age of seven in 1952, Gladys Knight won Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour television show contest. The following year, she, her brother Bubba, sister Brenda, and their cousins William and Eleanor Guest started a singing group called "The Pips" (named after another cousin, James "Pip" Woods). The Pips began to perform and tour, eventually replacing Brenda Knight and Elenor Guest with cousins Langston George and Edward Patten in 1959.

The Pips scored their first hit in 1961 with "Every Beat of My Heart", a cover of a Hank Ballard & The Midnighters song.

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[melaniestevens]

Gladys Knight has such a great voice

[apachette07]

Maan Gladys can sing the phonebook and make it sound great! I just love her and this commercial!

[4EverCanela]

@melaniestevens i can break a phonebook

[higgybaby1]

This woman sang the hell outta this song.

[bagelproductions24]

I haven't seen this in 30 years and I can still sing along with.....Just shows the power of a good lyric and melody...Take note ad writers doing some of today spots that make me stratch my head or worse.....Do nothing......

[68NYC]

...and they stayed up all night with that one swig of Coke.

This is such a sweet commercial-Much Love for Gladys Knight and the Pips-

Thanks for Posting.

;0)

[loveisok]

brings me to tears! happy of course!

[alamoe62]

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[MrStyle23]

I wonder if this is a Burrell Communications commercial.

[WETNWILD85]

Sing it Gladys. I love this woman so much,and one of my favorite songs of hers is Midnight Train 2 Georgia. Damn,I love that song.

[higgybaby1]

How many Ebony did I cut that picture out of I still have it, I fooled my friends, who by some chance never saw or forgotten this commerical. They think it's an actual photo.