Archive for the ‘Best of 1979’ Category

Hamms Beer 1979 animated Commercial

March 14th, 2010

Although the bear never drank on camera in these ads, he did strike me as a clumsy non-functioning alcoholic. Banned!!!

“Street Life” – Randy Crawford (Live)

March 8th, 2010

“Street Life” is a studio album by the American jazz band The Crusaders. It represents the peak of the band’s commercial popularity, as it was a Top 20 album on three Billboard charts. The title track was also a Top 40 pop single. It was also used on the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. 1979 Jazz Albums #1 1979 Black Albums #3 Randy Crawford (born Veronica Crawford, February 18, 1952, in Macon, Georgia), is an American jazz and R&B singer. Crawford first performed at club gigs from Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez, but made her name in mid 1970s in New York, where she sang with jazzmen George Benson and Cannonball Adderley. Along the way she has sung with Bootsy Collins, Johnny Bristol, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau and others. She then led R&B veterans The Crusaders on the transatlantic big hit “Street Life” (1979). This song stayed atop the US jazz chart for twenty weeks and has since become both a rare groove and disco classic. It was featured in the soundtrack for the film Sharky’s Machine and appeared in commercials in the early 2000s. Her follow up solo efforts included “One Day I’ll Fly Away” (1980, Grand Prize for Tokyo International Music Festival and UK #2); “You Might Need Somebody” (1981); and “Rainy Night in Georgia” (1981); which all became soul standards. The album, Secret Combination (1981) stayed on the Billboard album chart for sixty weeks, after which her profile dipped, despite a return to the Top Ten with “Almaz” in 1986. – Wikipedia

WFLD Channel 32 – Creature Feature (Excerpt of Open, 1979?)

March 5th, 2010

Blink, and you’ll miss it! Here is an extreme rarity – a painfully small excerpt from the opening of WFLD Channel 32’s Creature Feature program. This was the program that was replaced by Son of Svengoolie in Summer of 1979. That would date this clip to at least before that time. If you pause the video at the right spot you can see a fairly clear shot of the opening title. You can make out a smokey graveyard type atmosphere with a black crow or raven perched on a tree branch to the right and a coffin in the foreground. On top of this is the Creature Feature logo and WFLD TV, along with the older, Kaiser Broadcasting style “32″ logo. No idea what the music was for wfld’s Creature Feature. You can hear an extremely small snippet of it in this clip and the other one. If anyone remembers what the music was, feel free to comment. Too bad the person that recorded this Universal movie, “The Black Cat” was so dilligent in removing the commercial breaks – because this is the only footage currently known to exist of wfld’s Creature Feature opening. :-( If you ever find any more, let me know. ;-) Visit – www.fuzzymemories.TV The Museum of Classic Chicago Television – for more fun!

My Choice 241 – Goombay Dance Band: Sun of Jamaica

March 2nd, 2010