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Mascot characters were popular in the mid 1980s, remember the Scotch videotape Skeleton "Re-record not fade away"?

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Not forgetting " who is a clever Sony then ?" :)

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Yes, I remember that one alright, at least it was based on a decent track with a bit of blues harp, unlike that Toshiba one.

Lawrence.

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Yes we all went Arrrrr when we first heard it but it caught on incredibly. When I walked down Colliers Wood high St, customers would walk up to me and say those immortal words. It was a good laugh. I think it was Roger Daltrey that sang it.

'I make the thingybor for Nicam TV'!

It was the young ladies pronunciation of THINGYBOR that caught everyone's imagination.

Clever these advertising agents. John.

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Wasn't it basd on Alexi Sayle's 'Ello John, Got a New Motor?

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Yes. Definitely Sayle. I remember the 'stylised robot character' used in the ads.

https://youtu.be/BjJBFGGjdpw

As to the Scotch/3M "re-record not fade away" VHS tape ads, they were voiced by the late Robin Bailey [who was 'Uncle Mort' in the 1970s Yorkshire-centric "I Didn't Know You Cared" series]

https://youtu.be/g4rv81zxBGQ


I loved the twirling-on-his-perch skeletonical budgie/parrot.


I wonder if 30 years later, 3M/Scotch would still honour their 'lifetime guarantee' and give me a new VHS tape to replace my tired one??

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Spotted this while stuck in traffic, Liverpool City Centre. Took the image from Google Streetview, no idea if the shop is still trading.

Kev

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Spurred on by this thread, I have put together a little collection of KB adverts and shop signs.
http://www.kbmuseum.org.uk/kb_posters.htm

Mike

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Found this while looking for something else this morning. Worked there from 1955 - 1963.

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I bet you saw a few KB sets in that shop, being a stones throw away from Foots Cray.

Mike

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We did eventually, I had to persuade the boss to stock them so we sold them new, we were mainly Bush agents but yes lots to repair. I used to do the occasional trip to Foots cray with under guarantee sets, Brimar valves were made there as well of course.

Peter

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The only advertising that I remember is for the Cross Gates Radio & Auto shop in Leeds 15 (near where I used to live in the 1950's). They specialized in K.B radios (Mike "Crackle" would have been interested to see this). Part of the wording is still just noticeable on the walls of a building that now has a take-away. It is shown on the Leodis history website of Leeds.

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Another Rumbelows advertising slogan was "We save you money and serve you right!"

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Most of my stuff is in storage but I do have my Cossor Eagle here in the flat.

It's cast metal sitting on a base made of something similar to papier mache.

Although it's lost a bit of its guilding it still looks magnificent :thumbsup:

Cheers

Mike T

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Back in the 70`s I was a engineer for Granada TV Rental, and they had of course that famous advert with, the the Actor, (can't remember his name, but he played the publican of the Nags Head in Fools and Horses) in the advert he acts the roll of a engineer breaking into song as a customer opens their front door, "it`s great service great sets when you rent Granada" went the song.

The result nearly every house you went to the customer would crack the joke " are you going to sing then?" My sarcastic reply was "oh never heard that one before".

Incidentally he was a customer of Granada at the branch were I worked, and was always on the debt list, he would tell the Branch Manager, I will pay them when they pay me for their advert.

Sounds very plausible.

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I thing it was Ian Drury did the Toshiba advert.

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You are thinking of Kenneth MacDonald, I read that he used to work for Kelloggs in Trafford Park between acting jobs.

It's lucky the Royle Family wasn't around when the Granada engineer I remember coming round to service my parents TV, as he looked a lot like Jim.

Otherwise he would have been the subject of a lot of "(failed component) my arse" jokes.

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That's a real work of art Mike!

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I thing it was Ian Drury did the Toshiba advert.[/QUOTE]

Yes I think your right! John.