Hands down the greatest TV commercial ever made!!!

When I was a kid, and this commercial came on... we'd all jump to the TV and watch. It was a highlight of the day. They used to play it after school during the Paul Shannon Adventure Time on channel 4 Pittsburgh. Got introduced to the Little Rascals, Deputy Dawg and Ruff & Reddy on that show. Good Times.

@roverdog713

2 жыл бұрын

me too, same show, same city!!!!! love it

@xeriemmazahn765

2 жыл бұрын

WTAE-TV's after school programming was my first exposure to the legendary commercial. Mom used to hate it when I did the "Teee-ea Yow!" part.

@durango8882

2 жыл бұрын

Me too 😂as a kid in Detroit we would jump up and dance😂😂

@redshark9701

2 жыл бұрын

Apparently my grandmother was on the Paul Shannon adventure time show as a kid.

@donaldmack7213

2 жыл бұрын

Do you remember, NOSMO KING? He was played by Paul Shannon. NOSMO would drive his car on the Parkway! NOSMO King is No Smoking but the letters are spaced differently!

Ever since the 1960s and when I see Red Rose tea, I think of this commercial. Great fun.

Fifty plus years later and this commercial still cracks me up....Think I'll go have a cup of tea...LOL

I went to college with the drummer. He lived for fruit and was a wiz in Anthropology class. He married a gorgeous brunette and became a successful lawyer in Tennessee. He gave a stirring speech at the Scopes Monkey Trial.

@shanearmstrong9618

6 ай бұрын

That's hilarious ! Thanks

It probably took a million takes to make this commercial, but it was one of the best one's ever made.

Best commercial with chimps ever!

I remember this commercial from 1963-64. I was 8 years old. we had a 25in. black and white T.V. with rabbit ears to adjust the picture, no cable. We were lucky if we could get 3 stations at that time. Man, things have really changed.

@RetroGUY77

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Carr In 1963 UK we had two channels, BBC TV and Independent Television. In 1964 we got BBC 2 as our third and in 1982 Channel 4 aired for the first time.

@TralfazConstruction

5 ай бұрын

We were blessed to have a Tenna Rotor that my father and my uncle installed up on our roof. We could pull-in the New York Stations on most days. We lived 30 miles outside of Philly and about 55 miles from NYC as the crow flies. Those were the days. It wasn't like today as we have almost everything at our fingertips but it was like magic at any rate 60 years ago.

This is my all time favorite commercial. I taught myself the trombone solo in high school.

@Lampwick-dz1zq

3 ай бұрын

That means you should have a career playing 👍🏻

Most memorable ad we saw as kids back in the day! Hey, those chimps play a mean jazz!

@Lampwick-dz1zq

3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣👍🏻

I have not seen this in going on 60 years. Thank you!

This was my favorite commercial...I never pay much attention to ads but this grabbed me. I bought the tea and I still do and I'm now 65.

@bungalowmo

Жыл бұрын

Yep! 64 here…this always cracked me up! We would laugh & dance to it as kids! 😂

This commercial aired probably more than a decade before I was born, but I was still hearing about it years later, it was so legendary. Thanks to KZread, I can now appreciate why my dad would only drink Red Rose Tea.

My two brothers and I thought this was hilarious when it first aired back in (I'm guessing) the early 1960s.

All these years later and I am still a devoted fan of Red Rose Tea.

My all time favorite commercial!!

I want some of that tea!! The joint is jumping.

Searched for this and there it was!!!! Love this!!!! Brings back memories from the early 60's.

Vocals are awesome.

My favorite all time comercial

I remember it from the Jerry Booth and Larry Sands afternoon kids show "Razzle Dazzle" from childhood in Dearborn, Michigan 1960-1963 from a Canadian station.

@RickLowrance

3 жыл бұрын

Channel 9 out of Ontario. I don't remember the call letters. From some reason this particular commercial indelibly etched itself in my memory as a child.

@bubbabuhe9745

3 жыл бұрын

@@RickLowrance CKLW

@nostalgia6578

Жыл бұрын

​@@bubbabuhe9745 Windsor Ontario, across the bridge from Detroit.

@erikaonsager5159

7 ай бұрын

Do you remember Milky the Clown? Or Bobbin' with Robin, starring Robin Seymour. A teen dance show out of Windsor?

Very popular TV commercial in the early 1960's, esp on Saturdays. Weekends were full of fun shows: Tarzan (going after the Nazis), Fireball XL5, Kung Fu theater, Sky King reruns, and Coyote versus Roadrunner. All the old explosive fun cartoons now forbidden on "modern" television.

i remember watching these in the mid 1960s, 63 64. this is around when we got our first tv. they may have started earlier.

When I was a kid this commercial used to crack me up!

Vocals are awesome. This has been stuck in my brain for a while.

How the heck does anyone NOT go out and by a box of Red Rose tea after seeing this? Regardless of how many boxes of Lipton, Salada, Twining's, etc. you have on hand.

it's available on a 45 rpm record at attic record shop Pittsburgh pa.

@DRIVEIN101

4 жыл бұрын

Precisely where I got my copy 👍

i remember this add when i was very very young , i am drinking a cup of red rose tea as i comment i will be 79 soon and enjoy my cuppa.

Love. Many many thanks to the poster. A childhood favorite, always remembered. Only now, I'm adult, and know, Red Rose IS great tea! Better ice tea than Lipton.

I haven't seen this commercial since I was in the 6th grade; it was a show stopper, in black & white, back when TV was FREE. Probably sold more tea than Lipton

As a child... THIS COMMERCIAL WAS OFF THE CHAIN! 😂🤣😂🤣😭

So glad you put this on, i remember this commercial when i was a kid !!🤣

The greatest Stoner tune ever written for the 1970s.

REmember this from when I was a kid . My favorite and THE BEST COMMERCIAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD . EEEOWE.

As I brew myself a cup of Red Rose Tea, I recall this commercial from 60 odd years ago. The old woman who looked after me used to serve me tea and toast after school.

This is probably my favorite commecial of all times!

I remember this commercial when I was a kid!

I loved this commercial back in the 60s.

Absolutely right I remember this commercial and Paul shanon he used to have the Munsters the three stooges also

One of the best ever....

Brings back memories. I recall in addition to the TV commercials, they also had Red Rose Chimp poster ads attached to the light poles in the parking lot of our local A&P food store. I wonder who the ad agency was. Sterling Cooper? Did Don Draper make the pitch to the Red Rose folks?

I went to the store looking for some Oolong tea but they didn't have any so I bought Red rose because I remembered this commercial from when I was a kid.

WYDD, an album rock station in Pittsburgh, used to play the as filler between sides of the night's featured album.

@talbenmeyers2889

5 жыл бұрын

104.7 !! Herschel - Sean McDowell. Heroes

@396Jym

5 жыл бұрын

@@talbenmeyers2889 Sean McDowell IS Mr.FM. Retiring soon from 102.5 WDVE Pittsburgh. Will sorely miss him.

@bluesuedeshoes206

4 жыл бұрын

Mad Mike used to play this at West View Danceland when I was a teen. Great tune!

@MsCandy1967

3 жыл бұрын

I completely forgot about that! WYDD was probably where I first heard it in the 70’s

@dholliday7700

7 ай бұрын

Miss YDD. Soundtrack of my youth.

I love this commercial.

Oh! The Memories!! I remember seeing this daily! Sometimes they would run it almost every hour!!

The trombone player was my grand father bill dadson

About 1964, WMTW-TV (channel 8) Poland Spring, ME, Portland's ABC affiliate, ran this ad during "Talent Spotlight," a local amateur talent series that aired each week.

love that commercial

This was also used in England to advertise PG Tips tea and spun of into a series of it's own there.

Hahahahaha! I remember this like it was yesterday!!

love this commerical

I'll Always Love you Hayden Panettiere

Besides this one...they made one with the chimps on the golf course...and as astronauts...1960...

sooo freaking adorable!

I was about 4 years old when this commercial for Red Rose Tea first came out. I'd drop whatever I was doing and watched it. It's still pretty funny! That time period was so innocent (ca. 1963), before JFK was assassinated. There were so many different companies that made our coffee, tea, and foods in general. There were few huge conglomerates that bought out these smaller companies. Now, there are maybe 3 huge corporations that own what used to be many competitors; now, they're all in bed with one another.

red rose tea!

@jacktheripper15486

7 жыл бұрын

all time fav commericial!

Red Rose Tea was (and still is) sold in Canada where we routinely saw this and other variations of the Marquis Chimp's tea commercials. Didn't know they sold Red Rose Tea in the U.S. (unless it was an import) since other non-chimp Red Rose TV ads announced, "...only in Canada, you say?". This particular brand was originally part of Brooke Bond, its British parent company.

@patrickward163

2 жыл бұрын

That was why this advert was also shown in the UK but for PG tips advertising

@urbanlegend3972

Жыл бұрын

So does this mean that both Red Rose and PG Tips are exactly the same tea? I have yet to perform a taste test side-by-side to determine this. I suspect that many teas have the same blend but are renamed and marketed differently in various parts of the world.

@quoilluminentur2981

3 ай бұрын

Red Rose Tea has been sold in the US for at least seventy years. As to the determination of whether it's an import or licensed for domestic production, I don't think I could come to a conclusion based upon the content of a television advertisement.

(2/1/18) I bought a box of Red Rose English Breakfast Tea yesterday... Not having thought of the brand in over 40 years, I was immediately reminded of this commercial, which I remembered from the early '60's, and wondered, "KZread? Is it possible?" Of course it is, and here it is, exactly as I remembered it. I showed it to my son, age 20, just to share a slice of my youth, and he liked it... But he also said, "Dad, you know that this commercial could not be produced today, right? Not only would PETA object about what the chimps are being made to do, but, also, a lot of people would see chimpanzees playing Jazz, with its African-American roots, as a racist parody." I thought about that, and agreed that, indeed, it could not be made today... ...and that's kinda sad, isn't it?

@joes5192

2 жыл бұрын

In'it

@bungalowmo

Жыл бұрын

Yep…sad, but so happy we got to enjoy it as kids!! 😂

LOVE that jazz!

Kevin Smith brought me here...

Trivia Question: What was the name of the chimp bandleader? Answer: Banana Bread Brown

I remember this commercial. It was hilarious.

The exact same footage was used by the UK company PG Tips for their tea ads. There was a whole series of them.

@ernestcruz6316

Ай бұрын

They were both owned by the same company. There was a Red Rose version of every one of those PG Tips commercials with the chimps.

I'll Always Love me Neal Patrick Fry

The best commercial ever. There hasn't been a better one since. KILL YOUR TV.

When I was a kid growing up in Detroit they only show this commercial occasionally on Channel 9 which was from Windsor Ontario in Canada I believe there was some kind of trouble with the n-double-acp or this commercial so they weren't showing it on the other stations only occasionally have kids shows on the Canadian stations I'm glad I found it again it happened what we put together great from the music is cool

@kennethcrane9848

5 жыл бұрын

on bill kennedy, never rita bell~~~lol~

love that commercual

Happy Valentines Day Hayden Panettiere

Anyone watching this classic Red Rose Tea commercial New Years Day 2020?

" I'll Always Love 💘you Hayden Panettiere "

So this is what cut up Bruce Willis on the set of Cop Out? Okay...

" Happy Anniversary Hayden Panettiere "

Bruce Willis fav commercial..

I thought about this commercial this morning and just wondered if I could find it here. I did. I remember when I use to see it as a kid in the 60's, I'd laugh my head off. Today, now I'm older, the commercial makes me sad. As a Black man, now I see what Madison Avenue thought of our race, when they'd, blatantly, discribe us as monkeys in our natural habitat (a jazz club). It was funny as a kid, but now I'm a man, not so much. To quote, the Apostle Paul, "when I became a man, I put away childish things".

I just bought red rose yesterday and was thinking if the little statues that you would keep

IN EVERY ADVERT NOW

"I'll Always Love me Neal Patrick Fry"

@nealfry2230

6 ай бұрын

" Brass Knuckles "

@nealfry2230

5 ай бұрын

Hayden's Favorite Flowers are planted in the area of Beautiful Hines Park 30 steps to Apt 323. Hayden should and Call TRINITY Forth floor and ask

@nealfry2230

5 ай бұрын

Try 248 for a Good time.

@nealfry2230

5 ай бұрын

In about six (6) months away from Today February 15th, 2024, Happy Birthday Surgar Bush. With our next Brand New Cellphone and Cellphone Number. I'll Always Love you Surgar Bush. As Honest as any Chimpanzee, Neal Fry from Detroit, Michigan.

Nice job!!! Loved it, 63 here, dog's a little freaky LOL (mine)

What fun!

Sublime... :-)

1960...

HAVE a cup today!!!!

They stopped these commercials because black people thought they were making fun of them

Approximately, what year was this commercial popular? I remember it from childhood but am not certain if I saw it when it was originally. I remember my brother and I driving our mother crazy singing, "red rose, red rose....", for hours after we'd see the chimps, lol

It is funny some of the things I remember from my childhood.

So cute I can't stand it.

Orginal full flavored tea red rose sent me here

This commercial scared the shit out of my little brother when we were kids!

The 'human' singing "Red Rose Tea" sounds remarkably like Gary Moore, of The Gary Moore Show, and To Tell the Truth fame.

My favorite commercial when I was a kid. 🥰 I never thought of it as racist & I hope the creators didn't intend to be. 🐵

@Bamcis100

2 жыл бұрын

OF COURSE someone would start in with the "it's racist" bullshit.

@hunkydorian

6 ай бұрын

"I never thought of it as racist ..." You just did.

nice

I dedicate this song to the Irish Blue shirts

OMG!!

OMG ! I would like to Dedicate this song to All of My CB Radio friends that have passed away . We all talked on channel 10 (the Zoo channel) There are only 2 of Us left out of about 15 Guy's.

Song ?

Who played the theme for the Red Rose Tea chimp commercial

" Happy New Year Hayden Panettiere!!."

Love this.

" Hayden Panettiere is my Cup of Tea. "

" I'll Always Love 'me' Neal Patrick Fry "