Comments on: THE ADVERT CALENDAR OF ADVENT: 5: Woolworths https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:36:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Marcello Carlin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/comment-page-1#comment-110403 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:36:47 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-110403 except it was Joe Brown and the BRUVVERS

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/comment-page-1#comment-110268 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:09:02 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-110268 I love the internet. EVERYTHING IS HERE!!!

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By: Chriddof https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/comment-page-1#comment-109242 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:04:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-109242 Mike Reid-alike: Joe Brown, of skiffle band Joe Brown and The Brothers. And you can download that very ad from the link below, albeit as an shitty RealVideo encode:

http://tv.cream.org/christmas/chrisday2.htm

(the link is “Woolies 1983 Music”)

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By: Kat https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/comment-page-1#comment-108598 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:06:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108598 Was he? That makes more sense then. I meant to check that but forgot. Oh well.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/comment-page-1#comment-108599 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:06:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108599 also: political cartoonist thomas nast invented modern santa (during the US civil war) and drew his to resemble sir henry cole, who invented the xmas card

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/comment-page-1#comment-108534 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:31:48 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108534 Er, Frank Woolworth was American.

My nan reminiscese about Pick’n’Mix false teeth in Woolies during the Blitz.

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By: Tim https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/comment-page-1#comment-108502 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:11:47 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108502 Two things which stick in my mind from one early 80s Woolies wobs ad which was majoring on the music department (NB if I was one of the young people I’d find this on YouToob or somesuch but I’m not so NER):

1) the voiceover (which I remember being delivered by some Mike Reidalike (as in Frank Butcher not the Cliffish DJ)) being an awful kind of demi-rap so popular back then, two lines of which went
“Seven and the Ragged Tiger /
Duran Duran”

I don’t think I’ve once seen a copy of that LP without the phrasing used in the ad going through my mind. This means I have walked around approximately 27 grillion boot sales and Oxfams with that ad in my head.

2) The smiling, wholesome looking pre-adolescent girl who picks up a vinyl copy of “Raw Power” from the Woolies racks and passes it to her Mum.

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By: CarsmileSteve https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/comment-page-1#comment-108477 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:02:48 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/12/the-advert-calendar-of-advent-5-woolworths/#comment-108477 dude, the germans invented LOADS o’ xmo, trees in partic. came here via Prince Albert (stop sniggering at the back)

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