1970s Hamms Beer Commercial

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[BBQToadRibs]

https://youtu.be/sc2xsxlNlRc

[V K Lee]

Their ad from the 50’s. Can’t forget those being shown on the little black screen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap20r_Nmtps

[MarkL]

Coors was illegal East of the Mississippi. We scored big points if we found an empty Coors can.

I remember that. It was also the basis for the movie "Smokey and the Bandit."

I also remember when it was allowed to the east coast. I was a senior in high school, and everyone wanted to try it. I kept telling them that it was just OK, but they insisted.

Mark

[nascarnation]

I remember taking a case of Coors on a plane from Phoenix to Cleveland back then.
And you could only find Coors on Tuesday afternoon when the beer truck delivered. It was sold out by that evening.

[Old Yeller]

Good times in the 70’s. Best music ever too.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

We used to pull off the tab and use it to make chains bragging on how much we drank. Of course many of those were soda pop can tabs.

They were banned because too many people were throwing them in lakes and the sparkle of them floating downward caused the fish to hit it as bait, swallowing the tab and die.

I met someone not long back, who did know what a “Church Key” was for!

[CJ Wolf]

I would have been doing the talking

[DugwayDuke]

Loved the movie. Guess me and my Z28 were a lot like the bandit.

[Libloather]

Les Paul recorded a very popular radio commercial for Rheingold in 1951.[17] Humorist and radio personality Jean Shepherd was the radio spokesman for Rheingold’s radio ads on New York Mets broadcasts in the 1970s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheingold_Brewery

[DAC21]

“First time I heard of Hamms Beer. My memory of 1970s beer was Schaefer beer. They were the official beer of the NY Mets”

For a few years in the late 70’s, early 80’s we could find Shaefer in Southern California. Cheapest 12 pack going and guaranteed the worst headache ever in the morning.

[redfreedom]

Yes, lots of people did back then. I did not, I could see swallowing the thing.

The pull tabs made good fishing lures. Attach to line, put a treble hook on it and cast away. Always caught a respectable Northern Pike that way.

[Sequoyah101]

Thats the one!

Remember that snowy night like yesterday.

[jimfree]

That might be Rolling Rock. I believe Hamm's shows up in Falling Down.

[SES1066]

From the land of sky-blue waters!

I did a Wikipedia search on this jingle and found this 'over-the-top' PC piece of sensitivity (nb: underline is mine);

"The Hamm's Brewery used a version of the lyrics- "From the land of sky blue waters/ comes the beer refreshing" - as an advertising jingle through the mid-twentieth century, accompanied by pseudo-Native American drumming."

Query: How does this 'editor/contributor' know it is "pseudo-Native American"? Was it there for the recording?

[jimfree]

Very catchy jingle indeed. We kids would sing along. The tom-tom accompaniment was very well down and added to the sense of place with the lyrics and the bear in the canoe or whatever visual there was.

[Safetgiver]

Iron City......Better known as Vitamin I around Picksburgh.

[Viking2002]

You a yinzer? Got a sis and her brood living in Cranberry Twp. We were born less than two hours away. As for Iron City, we used to say their slogan was, "Iron City - Let Pittsburgh Pollute Your Town, Too!"

(I know, they 'cleaned' it up. Did I just carbon date myself there?)