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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. . .
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[ 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.
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