Search for Tradition / Brand Names
Airdate:
Monday - December 30, 1974
WOR Show Original Airing
Last Update: 04-26-2020
First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
There, I told you I would find ya you crumb. And that concludes tonight's salute to the Sominex family. . .
Show Description
[ Courtesy: Pete Delaney - 04-26-2020 ]
The Sominex Family
The Sominex somg ( Note 1)
Ads on the phone
A Family's Whoopemobile legacy
The Pepsi Generation
Canned Ravioli
ALPO
Search for tradition
Salvation through brand names
A BRAND NAME FAMILY IS A GOOD BET
BRAND NAMES are our heritage ( Note 2)
The Need for a reassuring word
IF you cant believe in Prestone anti freeze what can you believe in?
UTOPiA ( Note 3)
A Disabled Electra proves Buick's ad wrong
Mary Jane, Tootsie rolls, Butterfingers
>From Nash to AMC
Famous company's great FOUNDERS
The DeSoto is gone
Her classmate was one of the TWO GUYS from Harrison
Pepsi jingle better known than the Star Spangled Banner
M-O-T-E
The Wonder Bread of it all
Roll's Royce saved
The clock radio in the Company K barracks that every day would turn
on at 5:15 AM to the St.George Hotel jingle.
NOTE 1 - Shep doesn't sing the entire Sominex song which goes:
Take Sominex tonight. and sleep. Safe and restful sleep, sleep sleep.
NOTE 2 There is a video that shows all of the trademarks and logos
mentioned in this great bit at the Facebook IM A FAN OF JEAN SHEPHERD
video page
NOTE 3 - The definition of UTOPIA - an imagined place or state of
things in which everything is perfect.
[ Courtesy: David Goldin - 04-26-2020 ]
The "Sominex Family" and other commercials. "If you can't believe in Prestone, what can you believe in?" Industrial icons of Ameria. Listening to the commercial for the Hotel St. George, while in the barracks on alert.
