WPIX COMMERCIAL BLOCK PLUS 9-78

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[60sThru80s]

Does anyone know what music is playing for the Notre Dame Football ad at 1:42? Seems very familiar to me, like I've heard it elsewhere but can't place it.

[tapthatt2012]

now i have to find out. its on the tip of my tongue.man!

[TalkingOrangutan]

It's from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

[tapthatt2012]

manhattan syline--david shire---amazon has a sample--thanks--T/O

[tapthatt2012]

manhattan skyline--

[NEPatriot]

Joe Torre in that men's wardrobe commercial along with Islander legend Bobby Nystrom! That's what I call old school.

[tapthatt2012]

who knew back then joe would lead the yankees to the world series 30 years later!

[Mavericker7]

Hello tapthat, do you have a copy of the WPIX ad for the Honeymooners that featured the song, "You Always Hurt The Ones You Love" by SPike JONes? I am still looking for that ad- please help.

[gtc1961]

Man, if channel 11 would play abbott and costello now, people might actually watch the station!

[gtc1961]

@NEPatriot wow, Bobby Nystrom! I say suit him up along with Dennis Potvin and Eddie Westphal and the old guys will probably be better than the current Islanders!

[Mavericker7]

How did they get that car to "talk"?

[abernam]

4:07 - Joe Torre?

[fromthesidelines]

...and yes, "THE HONEYMOONERS" did initially appear on WRCA-TV [WNBC-TV today] during the 1957-'58 season; WPIX got the rights to schedule it the following fall, and they've played it ever since. Roy Stuart is the "interviewer" in the Kendall Motor Oil ad; 'PIX staff announcer Ralph Lowenstein is heard at 1:42.

[fromthesidelines]

That's right, 'wm'. When DFS Program Exchange got the rights to add "THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW" to their "inventory" of TV shows (including "I DREAM OF JEANNIE", "BEWITCHED", "THE BULLWINKLE SHOW", et. al) around 1988, it was picked up by WWOR-TV, who also carried several DFS-distributed series {free of charge, through "barter"; two commercial minutes of each episode went to DFS client General Mills, the rest the station sold to its local advertisers}.

[wmbrown6]

@fromthesidelines - By 1988, "The A&C Show" had moved over to WOR-TV. As for "The Honeymooners," WPIX was the SECOND New York station to run it in syndication. The first: WRCA-TV (now WNBC), on Tuesdays at 7 P.M. in the 1957-58 season.

[fromthesidelines]

WPIX featured "THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW" on their schedule, on and off, from the mid-'50s through the late '80s (it's mentioned, in Brooks & Marsh's "Complete Directory", that, over a 20 year period, they aired each episode at least 200 times). That was their second "classic evergreen"- the first, of course, is "THE HONEYMOONERS" {"The Classic 39"}, which they've scheduled, with occasional gaps, since 1958!

[franksmith109]

And Manhattan Skyline was also used by London Weekend TV in the UK for its variety show Live from Her Majesty's in the 1980s