(Just one) Cornetto - Venice Gondola

Classic Ads From Simpler Times

In this week’s episode we’ll find out what an advertising agency specifically created to flog deodorant, washing powder and margarine comes up with when they’re presented with a brief to sell ice cream made in a factory just off the A38 in Gloucester.

We’ll hear how a young Gene Wilder got his big break in a gondola and how one half of a one-hit wonder got the gig massacring a classic piece of 19th century Italian music so that Walls could put a chest freezer in every Spar in the UK.

More importantly however, this is the week where Steve cons Tones into singing you the top ten advertising jingles of all time as voted by the British public in 2006.

Have a look at the Cornetto ad on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/M1y-juB0RuU and get a load of a bonus look at the Apple ad for the launch of its 'Lisa' IBM business computer competitor.

Climb on board pod-people.

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