You know you're getting old when...
...you discover that "Cockney Sparrow" Lorraine Chase is 75 years old today!
She may have been a quiz show regular, she may have been in the soap Emmerdale - but it is for this she will forever be remembered by us Brits:
[NB She shares her birthday with a raft of fellow celebrants, including Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Angharad Rees, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Chilton, Desmond Dekker, Roald Amundsen, Big Breakfast alumnus Johnny Vaughan (who is 60), Corin Redgrave, Michael Flatley, Denise LaSalle, Stewart Copeland of The Police, Frank Field, Will Ferrell, Corey Feldman, and "Lady Edith" in Downton Abbey Laura Carmichael (who is 40). Many happy returns, all!]
Oh! Thanks for this...that Campari ad was one of the best things ad.men ever did.
ReplyDeleteIn an era when we had only three TV channels, and computers were the stuff of Tomorrow's World, adverts were an unavoidable cultural phenomenon. "Beanz Meanz Heinz, "Everyone's a Fruit & Nutcase", "I’m a Gnu, With a cup of Typhoo", and so on - every one of them brings a wave of nostalgia! Jx
Delete"Ah...Dad!!. D'you know the piano's on my foot?" You 'um it, son an' I'll play it."
DeleteNow my mental playlist for the day will have folk wondering why I'm giggling...
Oh, Dinah - we could spend hours wallowing in such memories. The "Hamlet Man" accompanied by Bach's Air on a G-String, "Who knows the secret of the Black Magic box?", the hetero soft-porn "Flake" and "Manikin Cigar" adverts, Terry Scott playing a schoolboy craving a "Curly-Wurly", the boy-on-a-bike delivering Hovis to "Ma Peggerty" on that hill, the "Birds Eye Fish Fingers Captain", the crazy "Shake'n'Vac" lady... The list is endless! Jx
DeleteI have never heard of her or ever saw an advert for Campari. How fun is that ad. I played the ad on you tube. When I went to watch your insert a message came up video playback on other websites has been disabled by video owner. Bitches.Pitches. but I recollect seeing that home in something else too but can't recall what or where it was used .
ReplyDeleteI swapped the video for a new link that doesn't seem to have the same problem.
DeleteOf course, I would never think for a moment that this - nor most TV adverts from British telly - to be familiar to the Yanks, but it's a classic, no matter where the viewer's from.
As for the location, it's very difficult to find any verifiable location, but it is possibly a Hollywood set ("borrowed" for the occasion, I presume). Jx
I remember that commercial from my visits to my sister. It was the first I had heard of Luton Airport.
ReplyDeleteFortuitously, it raised the profile of that airport for millions of people across the UK who had never heard of it, either.
DeleteNowadays, it is (rather arrogantly, and inaccurately) called London Luton Airport - despite being about an hour away from the city... Jx