1970s
Cheap Perfume and Candlelight
"It's so easy now to swing/When the swing set feels just right.."
So you think you're quite a man
You're taking care of all her needs
Sometimes it's even twice a weekend
At least it's every time you need
Yeah, it's so easy now to swing
When the swing set feels just right
Like a fifty dollar room
Cheap perfume and candlelight
'Cause once you thought the thrill as gone
Your passion seemed to fade and die
You left a woman back at home
Alone and so unsatisfied
You hit the street to feel the thrill
Of the hunter in the night
Your prey was out there dressed to kill
In cheap perfume and candlelight
Cheap perfume and candlelight
The situation makes the man
If you can't make it back at home
You make it any way you can
And you can, it's so nice
That now you can
Maybe you'll never stop to think
Just for the true test did it be
Love your ever loving manhood of your masculinity
If you could satisfy the woman
Right back at home there every night
Instead of now and then
The girl in cheap perfume and candlelight
Instead of now and then
The girl in cheap perfume and candlelight
Instead of now and then
The girl in cheap perfume and candlelight
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 27, 2018 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Music, Sexuality, 1970s
Tea Whiz
Tea Whiz by Nestea appeared on supermarket shelves in 1973, and then was discontinued almost right away. Hard to imagine what thought process led Nestea to think Tea Whiz would be a good name.
Los Angeles Times - Apr 14, 1973
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 20, 2018 -
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Category: Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, 1970s
The Statue
The Wikipedia page for the film.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 11, 2018 -
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Category: Movies, Statues and Monuments, 1970s, Genitals
Death by Snails
November 1979: World-champion snail eater Marc Quinquandon died soon after eating 72 snails in three minutes and four seconds.More info: Death of a snails man (Washington Post - Nov 29, 1979)
San Bernardino County Sun - Nov 27, 1979
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 10, 2018 -
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Category: Death, Food, World Records, 1970s
Push-Button Toothpaste
Toothpaste in a shaving-cream can.
Colorado Springs Gazette - Nov 24, 1972
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jun 30, 2018 -
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Category: Products, 1970s, Teeth
Vend-a-Joke
In 1971, Ussery Industries debuted a vending machine that for 10 cents would play a joke by Henny Youngman as well as dispense a candy bar.Sample jokes: "My mother-in-law got a mud pack. For two days she looked nice. Then the mud fell off."
"Let me tell you about my brother-in-law. I wish he would go to trade school so I would know what kind of work he is out of. He tells people he's a diamond cutter; mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium."
The vend-a-joke machine apparently didn't do very well. But two years later Youngman was featured on one of the first dial-a-joke lines in New York City, and that did much better.
The Odessa American - Jan 28, 1971
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 28, 2018 -
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Category: 1970s, Jokes
Truck Turner
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 28, 2018 -
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Category: Crime, Death, Destruction, Detectives, Private Eyes and Other Investigators, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, Exploitation and Grindhouse, 1970s
Bob McGilpin, “Sexy Thing”
Despite having some Number One hits, poor Bob has not seemed to merit a Wikipedia page. But you can go here to the agency that currently reps him.
Maybe you hit PAUSE when host Stefania Rotolo showed up onscreen in that costume. If so, here's a clip of her below.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 23, 2018 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Sex Symbols, Foreign Customs, 1970s
A Thief in the Night
Before there was the LEFT BEHIND series, there was this.Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 19, 2018 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Religion, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #369
Not the kind of iconography that would be favored in today's ads.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 16, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Stereotypes and Cliches, Tobacco and Smoking, 1970s
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