Dinah Shore - 1959 Chevy spot

I believe I'm restoring this clip to YouTube after an absence.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Dinah
• Shore
• 1959
• Chevrolet

[WINGGULLSEAGULL]

'59 Chevy Impala's were exhilarating & it just didn't get any more eciting than the convertible.

[canso67]

Cat's eye tail lights made the '59 Impala unique. Damn great car commercial!

[walterbrob]

@swampwiz It will be all electric and natural gas long before that

[ohbutyes]

@altfactor Dinah's show was in color from 1956...on color tape delay starting in 1958. They stopped erasing them and using them again in 1959 when more stock was available. Dinah saved ALL her color tapes...God Bless Her! Perry threw his out!

[Texasslim57]

Wow, who chose those locations! The family picnic next to a parking lot- yum! LOL! Back then LA was mostly still scrubland. And is that smog in the background? Love the postwar Cal style houses! Great to see, thanks

[FURY1958]

@canso67 I've got the music of this commercial as a mobile phone ring tone.

[altfactor]

This was an extended spot from Dinah's TV show. The show itself probably was broadcast with limited commercials, in order so that two extended commercials could be shown at the beginning and end.

The only interruption of the show's entertainment content was probably the station break.

I believe Dinah Shore's NBC show switched to color in 1959; that would be why this spot was filmed in color.

This must be from a color tape from one of her 1959 shows since there is audience applause at the end.

[crysjumar1]

voice like honey.

[THEUTUBEVIDZ]

chevy cars of today suck

[swampwiz]

The funny thing is that 100 years from now after we exhaust the oil supplies, folks will be thinking "WTF"?

[3windowcoupe]

My big brother had a black '59 convertible with the 348, triple Rochesters and a standard trans with a "floor conversion" .  Fast and fun car. I miss those days.