Highland Appliance Piano ad

Great tv commercial from Highland Appliance (Detroit) where a kid fools his mom into thinking he is practicing the piano by recording himself on a reel to reel tape deck.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• advertising
• Detroit
• 80s

[rdolishny]

Thank you so much for posting this. You are my hero!!!! I grew up in Windsor in the 80's and between this and the Detroit Zoo one they are both embedded in my brain.

[alogusz]

Yes, those two commercials, plus the Highland "50 watts per channel" ads are also my favorites.

[Brda13]

Thanks for posting this! This commercial comes to mind every time I hear that tune - which is one of the alarm sounds on a machine at work. Now I can share it with my co-workers who are (ahem) too young to remember it.

[alogusz]

What kind of a machine?

[QuarrellaDeVil]

So many years later, I can't hear "Für Elise" and NOT bust out with "Jonathan can't come out and play right now...he's practicing the piano." It's Pavlovian, and even my wife didn't understand it until she finally got to see this ad. Still have quite a few of my stereo components from Highland, too!

[VandalStork]

Well, he ruled Saturday afternoons! Cartoons first ("Super Friends", "Scooby Doo" and "Plastic Man" were pretty high on that list) then a short wait till Sir Graves appeared. "Happy Haunting! Nya-ha-ha-ha-ha-hah!" Gods, I remember the thrill when my mother explained to me how they did "The Blob" segments, and though he never read my letter on screen, he DID read the letter of a kid I knew. Also, I should have included "Bozo the Clown" among my Childhood TV Memories!

[sanjeeva7]

@alogusz 50 watts per channel babycakes!! lol

[jett64]

that dude is prolly a serial killer with a over-demanding mother that wont let her boy go out and play.

[i8myyoung42]

Love to see all that high tech stereo equipment. Thanks for the memories dude!

[Slatch35]

Was Highland Appliance the store that ran a commerical about a new employee having to open the store doors on the day after thanksgiving? There was a mob of people outside, and the employee who opened the doors the previous year was in a body cast. 

[nicka727]

I remember this commercial. He stopped practicing piano and exit the house through the window.

[saleen715]

when I was little I used to think the kid in the commercial was an ugly geek. now I feel bad lol

[MelanieLouM]

@chemistryguy I remember it! We are so old! ^_^

[danswang]

Like all you peeps from Michigan, growing up in the 70s and 80s, I loved this!!

[AndresGuevara1]

Oh my god. I remember this commerical from when I was a kid in Saginaw.

[fflewddurflam]

Detroit? I remember this commercial from my childhood in Indianapolis. ;P

Epic win though, thanks for posting!