Hey man, is that Freedom Rock?

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Who is the unsung designer who first decided these order screens should be blue?

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This is a fantastic album, man - let me borrow it!

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Looking at the history, most of them seem to be the originals.

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There is a very funny Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode with that as a recurring theme.

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My favorite bit is how hard he concentrates on nailing the groove for Three Dog Night.

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Reply #1

Rockin’ In The Free World
by Neil Young

There’s colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin’ their feet
People sleepin’ in their shoes
But there’s a warnin’ sign on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people sayin’ we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it, any way I can.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away, and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

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Reply #2

Thrasher
by Neil Young

They were hiding behind hay bales,
They were planting
in the full moon
They had given all they had
for something new
But the light of day was on them,
They could see the thrashers coming
And the water
shone like diamonds in the dew.

And I was just getting up,
hit the road before it’s light
Trying to catch an hour on the sun
When I saw
those thrashers rolling by,
Looking more than two lanes wide
I was feelin’
like my day had just begun.

Where the eagle glides ascending
There’s an ancient river bending
Down the timeless gorge of changes
Where sleeplessness awaits
I searched out my companions,
Who were lost in crystal canyons
When the aimless blade of science
Slashed the pearly gates.

It was then I knew I’d had enough,
Burned my credit card for fuel
Headed out to where the pavement
turns to sand
With a one-way ticket
to the land of truth
And my suitcase in my hand
How I lost my friends
I still don’t understand.

They had the best selection,
They were poisoned with protection
There was nothing that they needed,
Nothing left to find
They were lost in rock formations
Or became park bench mutations
On the sidewalks
and in the stations
They were waiting, waiting.

So I got bored and left them there,
They were just deadweight to me
Better down the road
without that load
Brings back the time
when I was eight or nine
I was watchin’ my mama’s T.V.,
It was that great
Grand Canyon rescue episode.

Where the vulture glides descending
On an asphalt highway bending
Thru libraries and museums,
galaxies and stars
Down the windy halls of friendship
To the rose clipped by the bullwhip
The motel of lost companions
Waits with heated pool and bar.

But me I’m not stopping there,
Got my own row left to hoe
Just another line
in the field of time
When the thrasher comes,
I’ll be stuck in the sun
Like the dinosaurs in shrines
But I’ll know the time has come
To give what’s mine.

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Perhaps it was a rival that K-tel knocked out of business???

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Lucky!!!

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They are still going…
Wikipedia says they took a hit when going online timed right for the dotbust and went privately owned in 2007.

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sample and hold – it’s now legal in Deutschland (for allus):

But here’s one to sink your teeth into and get yer Irish up:

#Kann nicht in Läden gekauft werden

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Seriously, no one had posted that yet?

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man, I remember we used to goof on this ad a lot in middle school. the way the songs are edited together you can sing it like a medley. catchy and funny enough to capture kids that weren’t born when the tunes were first released.

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Same here, along with the one I posted above.

And then there was this one:

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poor Mrs. Fletcher

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Aye, but we still laughed anyway; the production value was horrid.

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It’s Robo Tommy Chong!

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I actually had to go to the Amazon listening to be sure this wasn’t a Cheech & Chong record I had forgotten

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It’s one Michael Beard, last seen “enjoying a fruitful career performing in Japanese movies as well as in Tokyo theater. He has been living in Japan on and off for 14 of the last 22 years.”

StackExchange has some pretty good guesses, albeit wrt the default “no signal” color. Some of the reasoning probably holds for old chyrons. I remember when they overlaid a baseball score or sponsor’s logo over live video in the 70s, it often bled over into the audio: BZZZZankeesZZfiveZZZedsoxZZZfourBZZZZZBuckyZZFZckingZZZDent!

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