contest entry

[misstia]

who grew up in the 70s in the US and remembers this commercial???

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[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

Me!

I can't believe I'm going to admit to this openly

[violetscorpion.livejournal.com]

So...as my mom tells it (I was too young to remember) this commercial would make me cry. Full-out cry big crocodile tears.

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[misstia]

you are amongst friends!!!

can you watch it now okay?

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[violetscorpion.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Now it just makes me very nostalgic. =)

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[violetscorpion.livejournal.com]

And while I can agree with you, to some extent, I guess my nostalgia is more of a "if I knew then what I know now...", since I was not even 5 years old.

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[dubhain.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaand the circle goes 'round....

(Yes, they were. Very ugly.)

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[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

There were ugly things, but we did things about them, or at least we tried.

We didn't put an end to racial discrimination, but we made it illegal. Where's the outrage today over Faux News forcing an innocent woman from her job?

We forced an evil, corrupt, Attorney General, Vice President, and President from office. Where's the justice today for an administration that lied, tortured, and caused the worst economic collapse in 80 years?

We marched in the streets and stopped an illegal, pointless, war that killed 50,000
of our own people, and countless others. Why aren't people in the streets demanding the same thing today?

Lightning Rose, born in 1953 and proud of every sign she carried, and every song she sang.

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[misstia]

I salute you Lightning Rose!! I was born in 1969, but had I been born earlier, I would have been marching right along with you!

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I remember the song, but I remember it as a Christmas commercial. Everyone was standing so that they were in the shape of a Christmas tree, and they were all holding candles.

ask and ye shall receive!

[misstia]

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[splix.livejournal.com]

THIS one made me cry. Oh my gosh.

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[violetscorpion.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's not just me. =)

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[splix.livejournal.com]

And I was only wee at the time, too, so it had no underlying ugliness attached to it.

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[violetscorpion.livejournal.com]

Exactly. There's really not a lot of world ugliness when you're not even 5. =)

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[tabaqui]

Um.....what's the underlying 'ugliness'?

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[splix.livejournal.com]

A couple of people above were talking about the general state of the world at the time this ad was shot, and how it [for them] precluded any sort of gentle feelings or nostalgia. Since I was very small when I saw the ad, I didn't experience it in the same way.

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[tabaqui]

Ah!
Yes. Okay. And yes, i'm the same - i was born in '67, and though i *do*, just barely, remember footage from Vietnam on tv, my childhood was pretty carefree and untouched by social ills.

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[minniemousegirl.livejournal.com]

They should have a reunion of those people. I'd like to see what they look like now.

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[misstia]

that is an awesome idea!!!

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[splix.livejournal.com]

Probably all sleek and corporate. Ow, cynical of me.

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[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

THAT'S the one I remember best. Sniffle!

whoohoo, right here!

[twillery.livejournal.com]

I think I saw the Christmas version first,too--sang it whenever it came on, though!^^

[cpsings4him.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh! Me!! I do, I do!! I used to LOVE this one! Do you know the exact year this was made? I was born in '72 and want to think I was only about 6 or 7 but I could have been a little older.

[bib-specialist.livejournal.com]

Me! Anybody who was around and sentient in the 70s remembers this one.

[beeooll.livejournal.com]

Outdated but you get the idea:

http://beeooll.livejournal.com/697756.html

[misstia]

wow!!!

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Me!

Considering this, and the fact this was the general, if outward, view of society in the 70s, it still kind of amazes me that we're not currently as far along with the whole 'love and brotherhood' thing I'd been led to believe was happening back then.

[misstia]

i totally agree with you!! but at the beginning of the 80s we had a total explosion of mass consumerism and easy credit and whoosh! there went 'love and brotherhood' and ideals of harmony....it was all about 'i want this and i want that and hey she has those new calvin klein jeans and now i want them'....

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I'd never thought of it that way, but that's spot on.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I know all the words. As I recall, it was an adaptation of "I'd like to teach the world to sing," which originally had nothing at all to do with Coca-Cola.

Pretty progressive that they had all those ethnic people in the commercial.

[dubhain.livejournal.com]

ISTR that it was the other way 'round. The song coming out of the commercial.

I do remember that my grandmother got the song on a 45RPM single, and played it often.

[misstia]

really??? wow....i never knew they released the coke song on record! wait....coke....song....that doesn't sound right....but you know what i mean!

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I'm in Canada and I remember seeing that commercial all the time.

[minniemousegirl.livejournal.com]

MEEEEE!!!! Raises hand!!! Loved that commercial! Still do! I might have been around 10 years old when it come out, but it played throughout most of the '70's.

[gotham-syren.livejournal.com]

Me, unfortunately. Aaaaaand now that song will be stuck in my head for the next 24 hours.

how's this....

[misstia]

"it's a small world after all...." better??

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[gotham-syren.livejournal.com]

I am really hating life now. :p

Re: how's this....

[misstia]

99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around....

better? :)

[percysowner.livejournal.com]

I remember it and it still makes me feel a little teary eyed when I see it now.

YES!

[tabaqui]

OH, i *so* loved this ad when i was a kid. Just adored it. I loved seeing all the 'different' faces from all over the world.

Wheeeeee!