Advertising tag-lines and slogans from the past - what can you remember?

[TheTecknician]

Here are just three:

'Course you can Malcolm.' Vicks Sinex
'A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play'. Mars bars
'The chocolate and a half.' Cadbury's Dairy Milk

Nuts and hazelnuts! Cadbury's take them and cover them in chocolate!
Come home to Bird's Eye countryyyyyyy, Bird's Eye countryyyyyyyy!
(I really liked the tunes.)

Turkish Delight was "full of Eastern Promise", whatever that meant. The music might have been another Jeff Wayne composition.

"So light. So subtle. So buy some." This was for either a sherry or sherry-based liqueur during the 1980s. I can't remember which.

"Bread wi' nowt taken out." Allinson Bakeries.

Does she or doesn't she
Harmony hair spray..iirc early 70s.
Theyre great..frosties early 70s
Snap,crackle ,pop..rice crispies.

It's much less bover than a Hover

There are two men in my life.
To one I am a mother, to the other I'm a wife
And I give them both the best,
With natural Shredded Wheat

Were you truly wafted here from paradise?
Nah, Luton airport!
(Campari)

Also the Australian perfume which I so wanted - those tiny glass corks were brilliant - but @Redheadedstepchildbeat me to it.

There! Thankyou! Sometimes I feel like I imagined the Australian perfume but it was real!

Edited: Only it wasn't.

It definitely existed - I’ve tried to find a photograph but it seems that none exist. You’re right about the advertisements not being confined to London too.

"Only the best for the Captain's table." I was an extra in a Birds Eye Fish Fingers ad in the 70s.

Come and talk, talk to the Midland, come and talk - to the listening bank.

May the walls of Birmingham wipe clean of pea and ham.

My feet are killing me - I could do with a D

Accrington Stanley?

I want to be a princess!

This is a man with good taste!

All wrapped up in a perfect square - it's really unexpected to find it there!

They're tasty, tasty, very very tasty. They're very tasty.

Hope it's chips it's chips, we hope it's chips it's chips.

Do the shake and vac and get the freshness back

Ariston, and on, and on, and on

You'd better hear it on a Maxell

Re-record, not fade away, re-record not fade away

It's smart to start with Kellogg's Cornflakes

Someone at my school class auditioned to be in those adverts in the early 80s, but didn't get a place at the Captain's Table. We were really disappointed not to be seeing someone we knew in an advert.

“William is going to be a footballer, Suzanna is going to be a ballet dancer, and according to Mummy I’m going to be a proper little madam.” Shoe shop, may Clarks.

”Whitbread, big head, Trophy bitter, the pint that thinks it’s a quart.” Beer. I didn’t understand at the time, but perhaps it means the beer seems big???

Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen.
Robin Hood, Robin Hood with his band of men.
Feared by the bad, loved my the good!
Robin Hood, Robin Hood Robin Hood.
Robin Hood, Robin Hood could be in a fix.
Robin Hood, Robin Hood Spies the Weetabix.
Should he return back, back to Sherwood?
'Corse he should ,'corse he should, 'corse he should.

I am a secret lemonade drinker. R Whites lemonade. Song written and performed by Elvis Costello's father. Elvis Costello backing singer, I think.

Once you pop, you just can't stop (Pringles and it's still true!)

Umbongo, umbongo, they drink it in the Congo (pretty sure no one is necking Umbongo cartons in Africa though)

Suck it and see!

Ad: A hubba hubba yum yum.

See the face you love light up
With Terry’s All Gold.

Oh you can’t put a better bit o’ butter on your knife,
So the toast is Country Life (Country Life)!

One from Irish TV, with babies dancing the Conga:
New cozy fits from Paddies
The elasticated nappies
They’re so discreet
They’re fantastique!

"Happiness is a cigar called hamlet ....." Some ads with Russ Abbot. Loved his Mastermind spoof.

They did an updated version of this ad for the Yell app - it was a man who had made a trance record, his name was Day-V-Lately. (I’m a marketing lecturer and use both as examples in an advertising module I teach!)

I still say,
course you can, Malcolm.
And a whole load of others from the 70’s and 80’s.

Ooh I LOVED that Turkish delight advert!
The guy with the scimitar.
the exotic woman

Fashion!Value! MK1 for Mark one....

The range when it first opened 15ish years ago..." you wont believe the range" my son and I used to laugh and say is it the range itself or the range of items in the range??? Haha 😄

Everybody uno!!! Everybody play!!! Unos extreme cards, you might get 8!!!

You can do it if you b&q it!!!

You can do it too, with Kandoo!!!!!

Bodyform, just for You!!!

I was never quick enough to read this! Loved it

My mum used to use marvel!
and Hermesetas.
One Cal.

looking back, she was a size 14! Hardly obese 🤦‍♀️

Thinking about it, the last two lines were:
“They sure don’t leak
They’re fantastique!”