Here's a thirteen minute package of old kid-oriented TV commercials…
First up are two spots from the old Space Patrol series. That's game show legend Jack Narz doing the pitch. He's followed by a Howdy Doody spot for Tootsie Pops that I must have seen more often in my childhood than I saw my Uncle Nathan…and I saw Uncle Nathan a lot. "Buffalo" Bob Smith is in this, and he provides the voice of Howdy.
That's followed by a Lone Ranger Cheerios commercial with Clayton Moore behind the mask, and announcer Fred Foy doing the traditional Lone Ranger commercial. Then we have a Mattel spot for their Chatty Cathy dolls and yes, that's June Foray providing the dolls' voices. Then there's another spot for talking dolls of Matty Mattel, Sister Belle and Casper, with June (again) heard as all three dolls. The announcer on this one is Charlie Ruggles Edward Everett Horton, the great character actor who also narrated the Aesop & Son Fractured Fairy Tales cartoons for Jay Ward.
Next up is a commercial for the Beany Copter hats (another tie-in for the Beany & Cecil cartoons) and then an ad for Mattel's Dick Tracy toys. Is that a very young Billy Mumy? The announcer in this and a lot of the Mattel ads is Marvin Miller.
Then we have a G.I. Joe commercial and I believe the lead male vocalist is that New York based singer I've never been able to identify who was heard on all those Sandpipers recordings for Golden Records. Whoever he was, he was on the Mighty Mouse record that Andy Kaufman made so famous. This is followed by pretty boring commercials for Lionel Trains, the Remco Fat Cat toy truck and Blippo Choo-Choo. So don't worry if you don't make it to the end. But the first four or five are worthy of your attention…
