Have A Go (Australian ad) 1970s
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Have A Go commercial from 1976-78 (rebroadcasted 1983) transferred from beta tape. A community announcement commercial encouraging all us Aussies to "have a go" and put effort into keeping Australia great. The artist for the jingle is MOJO who did the Meadow Lea ads and had the hit "C'Mon Aussie C'Mon".
I still sing this out loud several times a week. Really loudI!! It stirs such passion in my heart and pride for what I know we were then and what we could be again. It’s called unity. It’s called looking out for each other. It’s called loyalty.
The division that we are now being encouraged to perpetuate between generations, races, genders, political alliances, etc. is not the Aussie way. United we fly. Divided we fall.
Do good. Stand next to your brothers and your sisters. No matter their religion, colour or “ position in society”. Be proud. Fight the narrative we are being fed. Go with your gut feeling. We (the “ little people “) have huge numbers and therefore great power. If we unite. ❤
some religions want to kill us!
Race MATTERS. Pretending otherwise is what got us here.
Australia is like Little America now
@@Ay_Tone Robot. You are a brainwashed robot, what matters is HUMANITY mate. Ignorant bigots like you are what's created wars.
70s - "Have a Go"
2022: "We should be ashamed of ourselves"
These ads bring me to tears of nostalgia. I remember this ad just as if it were yesterday.
Yeah. And memories of lost loved ones who were with us at this time in our life
I remember these ads they even had them in the 80s, how things have changed so drastically , we have lost our sun shine .
Against 76% of the wishes of Aussies polled in 1973 the Government forced putrid multiculturalism down our throats.
Man, I had this ad going round in my head for some reason recently. Had to come on youtube so I could find it - big nostalgia blast.
Myself and a bunch of old bondi boys are seen here as nippers in the marchpast .Potter brothers,Cooks,Kitzlers and Gibsons
What a lovely time to be alive. Freedom. Great memory for you.
I was just thinking...where are these boys now???
loved this as a kid. glad its on youtube. the spirit of "having a go" should never die.
What does ‘having a go’ actually mean?
@@thespamdance311
It means getting in there, rolling your sleeves up and getting on with the job. I remember this ad from the 70s when I was a kid and it did give me a bit of a warm, fuzzy feeling back in the day. Although looking at the ad now, it looks like an advertisement for the White Australia Policy, it’s grown pretty cringy for me in retrospect. I think we’re a better country now for our diversification. And call me part of the woke brigade or whatnot for that viewpoint, whatevs.
Wow ! The memory of this song has been bugging me for years! I think I was about 8 or 9 when this came out so late 70s sounds about right. I can tick this off my bucket list now :-)
Well - it must be 30 odd years since I saw this - but every face that popped up in the ad was hidden there somewhere deep in my memory - and I was back in the seventies again. Thanks for uploading this great ad.
I got here from C'mon Aussie C'mon. But I remember this on the telly... what memories lol
The Australia I remember, sadly Australia has changed
..thank fuck
A country’s culture changes over half a century, who’d have thought?!
The PC brigade did most of the damage, so did the woke looneys.
Multi culturalism, but no one wants to hear that.
Not for the better
This Ad is earlier than 1983 I remember singing it on a trip to South Australia and I was only 13, 15 tops so that's 1976-78.
BUT Gee I'm glad I found this! I thought I was going nuts being the only person I know who remembers it! Thank you! Now to convince the powers that be to repeat this message!
Chookas! =}
Magnificent 1970's Have A Go Australian Ad!!
Ohh Christina... what wonderful times they were.. Thank you everyone.. beautiful comments about two brilliant Australians...
The beautiful country I remember.
Ode to Australia, forever and forever. 🙂👍
I can remember singing this non-stop for an hour on a long car trip.
I love this - thanks for the upload. It reminds me of how brilliant Australia use to be. When everyone spoke English, knew the words to kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, had a jar of Vegemite sitting around in the pantry, knew the national anthem and were proud to be Australian. I miss the good old days.
Chalron Bjork if knowing the Australian anthem is so important, I guess a true patriot like you must know all of the verses
@@poida66 I particularly like verse 5:
Should foreign foe e'er sight our coast,
Or dare a foot to land,
We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore
To guard our native strand;
Brittannia then shall surely know,
Beyond wide ocean's roll,
Her sons in fair Australia's land
Still keep a British soul.
In joyful strains then let us sing
"Advance Australia fair!"
Where it explains that we're still servants of old England and it's her "sons" - the whitey men of Australia - who guard this land.
Of course I'm sure "sons" is meant to imply daughters too and "Britain's sons" no doubt includes all the people not from Britain who make up modern Australia.
I mean, just because the anthem is a two-bit jingoistic piece of racist fucking garbage doesn't mean WE are. Maaaate.
@@labibbidabibbadum googled it huh
@@Tara-lt8wu Not sure what your point it. I wasn't trying to pretend I know verse 5 of the anthem, I was pointing out that the anthem - particularly v3 and v5 is a - bigoted celebration of our servility to the British. When you embrace jingoistic crap and blather on about national pride and the importance of knowing our anthem (as the OP did) you have to take on what the anthem says. And what it says is "we are second to England and we will serve it as our overlord".
That's not what I'd expect any self-respecting patriotic nationalist would be celebrating, but to each his or her hypocritical own.
@Gareth B I remember that one. Scared weird little shit for brains morons used to say it then, too. On ya cobs. Keeping the great Aussie traditions alive. :)
Alan Johnston (Jo) of MOJO is the singer. He and Alan Morris (Mo) would sit in their office, Jo with his guitar and they would write the songs. Great Australian Talents! Sadly, Mo lost his battle with brain cancer six years ago. Loved the guys. Tru Blu Aussies
Where are those guys now? A lot of these ads fell victim to wokeism and political correctness. Even those old Vegemite ads and sanitarium weetbix ads kinda fell victim to it.
Proud to be an Aussie 💪😂💞💞💞
Why? While you stand on stolen land you have nothing to be proud about.
@@jackdubz4247 there are alot of depressing comments here. I noticed not a single person of any other race, other than white, in the ad and it even suggests us 'Aussies' "started the country". Have a go...at what? This has to be the dumbest ad ever.
Because of this brainless 50 year old ad?
@@jackdubz4247 When Captain cook landed on the shores of Australia just under 200 years ago, native Aboriginals were still living in the stone age as primitive hunter gathers and would still be today without any contact from the outside world. Let that sink in.
@@trudi211 you may not realise that this is an old ad. This ad was motivational at the time. Trying to get Aussies who were unemployed into the workforce. There’s nothing bad being said, what are you whining about???
back when we aussie kids enjoyed life
Rampant sexual abuse throughout schools, churches, and sporting clubs not withstanding.
What a powerful message
Thank you for the upload. I remember this ad as a kid. Looking back now through an older, more mature set of eyes, it was an era where it was about 'we', not 'me', about 'us', not 'I'. It was where we said we can and we did. No-one was owed anything, very few played the victim card and there was little sense of entitlement. This ad appealed to the higher ideals and said something about the character of the nation and its people at the time. We would do well to learn from it today.
I agree, it was earlier tan '83. So glad to have found it, thank you!!! True Aussie spirit, to cherish and live by!
We've lost our old ways & become Americanized, that's my opinion, Cheers👍
When you use a zed in Americanised you've fuck up a little bit
@@stephendraffin5775 - A letter "Z" in the spelling?
So what, I'm a writer and I like writing how words sound sometimes buster, Cheers 🌞
Simon Eden Corny way to cover up you hypocrisy
@@stephendraffin5775 actually, it confirms his statement!
Americanized to some degree but not fully as of yet.....No we are part of the UN or an EU-like brigade now where one countries problem is now all world wide communities problem etc. In this ad, Australia was nationalized and even to some degree isolationist?! That's what we need to bring back, an Australia similar to what's show on here and free from the rest of the world and it's b.s.!! An Australia that looked itself and it's populace first not world wide business interests and money!! But there is still some kind of hope as of now England has gone down the National core value road and isolationist to some degree?! That's what we and all other countries need now.
Back when we were free. This is no longer the country I was born in.
Sad that these times will never happen again
So leave..
You're still free. What are you smoking, mate? We're not under martial law or anything.
Yeah we're still pretty free mate. Look around the world, we've got it pretty good.
Speak for your self cobber. Australia still has its best years ahead of it.
I'll bet this got the finger every time it aired - and quite rightly so! That MOJO shit was everywhere in the 70s and 80s...and it still makes me cringe to this very day. (Thanx for this priceless post, though!)
Thanks for the info, have updated the title and description, this ad did come from a 1983 TNT-9 beta recording so this was obviously a re-broadcast.
Back when Australia 🇦🇺 was patriotic
ffs both of you. Get a life.
They should rebroadcast it again in 2020
I cannot begin to imagine how many people would be triggered by this today and want to cancel it ☹️
The remarkable power of a good song!
The 70’s and 80’s were the best time to be an Australian.
Our values built this country. It won't survive without us.
What values would that be? That stealing is OK?
Gosh, Australia used to be a great place to live. This ad would still be uplifting in today's Covid climate.
Best decade by a mile
Back when advertisements might not be advertising anything at all
Been looking for this for years. thanks!
All the sacrifice !
All the hard work over the last 200 plus years ! Simply for the Mainland Chinese to buy it all up !! Good work Aussie politicians !!
Bravo!
It IS the politicians to blame and not smart people who have identified a weak point and are exploiting it.
Those same politicians who begged for foreign investment in Australia to build property and help make the economy boom! So they could avoid spending tax payers dollars building public housing for people who couldn't afford to buy/build themselves. So they let in those foreign investors - myself included. Well, what happened?
The same politicians then realised that foreign investors bought/built properties not to lease or rent, but to sit on and wait for their investments to grow in value. And the public housing issue didn't go away, it got worse! Did they then do the right thing and start building more public housing? No, of course not!
Instead, they decided to start taxing those foreign investors for each property left empty longer than 6 months of any year. Investors, like me, were forced to rent out their properties after paying the government massive tax fees, charges and fines. Fat government coffers got fatter. And was it low income people who need public housing who could afford to rent my apartment for longer than 6-12 months? Of course not!
It was wealthy individuals & couples. More wealthy people moved into these properties & the not-so-wealthy, what happened to them?
10-15 years later, they are still waiting for that same government to build them public housing.
Shame on you Australia!
shove yr racism up yr fat arse
Yeah. Well. We can't be Aussie any more, because THAT WOULD BE WRONG
When we had pride in this nation.
A great ad because it promotes Nationalism. It fires up the spirit which we need. Of course, it is the simple beginning. What are the problems it alludes to? What do we do to "have a go"? Firstly, ads like this remind us that our lives were better before, that things are not going right. The rot had set in well before this ad was aired, hence it was made. Let's identify the rot, think about how to stop it and get our lives back on track.
Lefty ideology is killing this country and world
every country suffers from Nationalism, so how are we different or unique if we're all nationalists?
@@roachiebkk My dear little Lefty, do you think you can trick me with your very uncunning question? First of all, no country suffers from its nationalism. Each country benefits immeasureably. It is what Nature ordained, that each country and nation enjoy its uniqueness of its own history, traditions, culture and people. Yes, I said 'people'. Racial separateness, not bigotry or prejudice, but brothers White, Black, Brown and Yellow living great sovereign lives in their own lands that their ancestors grew up in. Nationalism celebrates our differences and how we each are unique. Nationalism has the same themes in each country but its flowers bloom in a beautiful variation.
They say that were lazy,
they say were slobs,
but there's a lot more of us
than there are jobs,
Is there someone out there who'll give us the nod
come on give us a go.
The Government is responsible for full employment. They need to cut red tape and spend on big capital projects. Lots of people want work but can not get it, this is not acceptable.
Pretty sure that I saw this in primary school back in 1984/85, it inspires what was last of the old style Australia and I truly believe that it was the 1980's would be the last time we'd ever see this kinda of Australia again. I remember the "True Blue" lingo as well that was so evident around that time as well but the time it hit the late 1980's to the early 1990's, it was a lost cause by then anyhow. There's almost no point trying to feed this lingo the younger generation nowadays as they'll see it as racist, isolationist and contrary to their globalised mentality , they'll brought up in a different era so they'll never understand this ads connotations and it holds no reference/relevance to them anyhow. In the end it's the older generations that sold our country out and made this happen when we had it SO good and we were self sufficient but their greed took and yet they still have the nerve to blame younger gens?! They don't know any better....It's very sad to have seen this kind of australia done and dusted. Epic Fail etc.
So true what you are saying.
We sold our natural gas to India 100 year lease electricity to China.
Medicare bulk billing is gone.
Inflation
Homelessness
Australian identity
Multiculturalism
Material shortages
No wood
No steel
Foreigners flipping houses
Internet has killed Government departments.
Overpopulated cities
Greedy Developers
Tearing down Australian heritage buildings
What the hell have we voted for ...labour liberals have sold Australia to the yanks.
4adgray2 you are right it is from the 1970's. The Mojo Singers created the song (the same guy who wrote the Come on Aussie Jingles for the cricket for Kerry Packer in the 1970's). The song on this commercial was released as the B side for the single "Come on Aussie" released for the 1979/80 cricket season. I have been looking for this commercial for ages on here, Thank you for uploading!
our kids should watch this at school
It would probably be called a raciest advertisement today.
Nah, I’d prefer they were educated instead.
This add needs to be rebroadcast ASAP in our time of need during Covid-19, if possible with updated visuals (but not the singing as that’s perfect as it is). The only hard part would be to weave in the gunshots somehow. But if they could manage it without screwing it up. I think it would be a great way to lift our spirits.
Covid 19 🤣🤣 the TV pandemic
Alan Johnston is the singer (Jo) who together with Alan Morris (Mo) created the Aussie Advertising Agency, Mojo .. Two of the greatest creative talents this country has seen ..
Unfortunately having "A-GO" doesn't pay off anymore sadly...Because everything is all gone!!! Just gone!!! So all you can do now is "Have A GO" at your own mirror image!!! Way to our lousy politicians!!!! Good going you dufuses!!! All I ever wanted was to experience and live this kind of Aussie life!! And myself an future gens will never ever know of it again.....
If you came from another country today, you would be so incredibly grateful to be in Australia. The 1970s are long gone, they were incredible, I remember them as a kid - halcyon days. We need to appreciate what we have now. We are still in the lucky country.
@@brainybroccoli4499 I won't argue with you because I really don't want to here. I will agree with you that we are luckier than alot more other countries here?! But we are not as lucky as generations back though and every decade, that lucky notion seems to be fading fast further from our hands soon to be only a notion for the rich and the elites here....
Most European immigrants to Australia in the 1950s and 60s.will tell you they came to Australia because the opportunities available, you could buy get a housing loan and pay a house off in a decade, compared to several decades where they came from, now it appears to be the other way around if anything.
Blonde hair everywhere
The Australia holden coupe 60 there's nothing coming old :(
Center link could do something with this
The only way is up😊
It's green, you're soaking in it...
They should redo this ad for 2024. Everything is NOT OK.
the singer was famous doing come on aussie come on under the mojo singers
This was when Australia was Australia .... Have a go ya mug .... bloody ripper mate ... stone the flammin crows what has happened to this great country we once knew as Australia ....
Really? What is Australia now then?
Colin this is what happened. m.imgur.com/fSbodat
Bloody Cotton Wool society - don't this you might get hurt, it's not my fault today every bastard wants to blame someone else, take no responsibility. This is all thanks to the minority groups and bloody useless politicians. A time when a mate gives a hand to another mate, a stranger broke down on side of the road half dozen odd people would pull over and give them a hand ... now everyone just races past I don't want to know not my problem. Now all these people from overseas lob on the doorstep and want to change everything to suit them instead of them adapting to Aussie life, laws, and traditions. The days when had an argument with another bloke in the pub, ya both went out the back sorted it out .. when the bloke hit the deck that was it fight was finished, go back in the pub shout each other a beer and be best mates by end of the night. Now fuck someone hits the deck they get the shit kicked out of them, hit with metal bars. The country is great, bloody fantastic it is the society that is completely fucked up.
An entirely different place. That's what!
C Man ok then 🤣🤣🤣🙆♂️
I loved this ad as a kid and young teen. It's so sad and it truly breaks my heart that ads like this can no longer be played and Australians can't be patriotic anymore without fear of being vilified and bullied by sanctimonious, politically correct socialist wankers. I'm an amateur musician and I'm going to make it a point to learn this song and i'll play and sing it with pride.
Good on ya Australia. T
Yep, all thanks to multiculturalism and racism. You no longer can do what your parents did as kid in those days. Do you still remember Sunbury Woodstock and the good old fun we've had. Can't do that today because it is offensive to Muslims and other nationalities.
Maybe we don't need ads like this anymore. Australia was a long way down the toilet back in the '70s; now it's beating just about every other country in the western world.
@@charles300566 Australia was a far more harmonious and united nation under the White Australia Policy. Today it's just a police state, requiring massive amounts of daily propaganda to keep people pacified.
@@dwillbecancelledsoon4086 Sounds like total wank. If you wanted a nation under a "White Australia Policy" you shouldn't be living on stolen land.
can anyone out there please help me find a tv Comercial around 1970, it was the Marchants lemonade add, and the wonderful taste of marchants lemonade, it was a absolutely beautiful add.
what a great video representing what Australia truly was and what it should continue to be!!!
@@vigijay2070 Facts
This is an ad, it is not reality.
JGM Mackmen - good point
JGM Mackmen well mate once upon a time it was. It was when true Aussie spirit was around all us
@@nikogreen1 And what was the 'true Aussie spirit', and how does this video capture it?
My school has to watch this and...
And what?
Anyone know where i can get the sheet music for this? please reply with a link
They ain't saying " ya mug"
Didn't MOJO do the Toohey's ads from the same time? I think the baseball one was very memorable, if a bit exotic.
BadWebDiver l believe they did. You may remember them doing the old Meadow Lea margarine ads... "You ought to be congratulated" just to name another one that comes to mind, but they did quite a few.
Have a go!! That's a understatement it's worse.
Imagine showing this ad in 2023 and the leftist backlash it would create, come on Australia let's stand up for ourselves and make our beautiful country even more so like it was way back when I fist idolised this song as a child!!
Do you like an eight-hour day, public holidays and high wages? It was leftists that made Australia great, not jingoistic crap from the Liberals, who aim to destroy the working class.
I see the government blaming the people for a weak economy is not a new thing
Not anymore Au is no longer a cohesive & high trust community
I’m charmed by other people’s nostalgia. Can someone explain what this commercial was about?
This was an ad from a different era (1970's). The aim of the ad was to motivate and get the unemployed into jobs as the unemployment rate at the time was high. It ended up as an inspiration to everyone at the time. We could probably do with a re-run.
You oughta be congratualted ....
Who paid for this advert?
And here we are today, Australia, the country i was born in, no longer Australia, no identity, no industry, just another 2 bit banana republic now.
It's so sad to see what corrosive, divisive floods of multicultural diversity does to a once harmonious monoculture.
@@Ay_Tone Its not the cultural diversity, but the pushing of woke rubbish, cancel culture, rainbow flags, destruction of the family, globalism and the fact we allowed it to happen. Nothing to do with multi-cultural diversity. We had diversity in this nation for a long time with no real issues.
so I wonder why channel ten had to do community service, probably all those 'dirty uncle' camera angles or something
Remember what they took from us.
Schmaltzy jingoism?
This commercial would be considered racist by todays low degenerate standards.
they should replay that ad today,aussies believe they work hard....they dont!
It’s a fact we work much longer hours than we did in the 70s, not that it’s a good thing.
We as Australians have gotta bring back this kind off promotional motivation to get this country back on top. Now let's have a go at getting rid of this Labor Government.
Now let's have a go at getting rid of this LNP Government.
(Just updating for the current bunch of dicks in the big house).
Further to my last request, I realise that the artist was "Mojo" but what was the singer's name?
Alan MOrris wrote the tunes, Allan JOhnston sang them, ie MoJo ☺️
Who was the singer in this, and many other, ads?
Alan MOrris wrote the tunes, Allan JOhnston sang them, ie the MoJo Agency ☺️
Lovely MOJO jingle but what exactly was it advertising?
I think it was vaguely referring to a change of government… Lib to Labor maybe..
The unemployment rate was high at the time and it was made to motivate people to get back to work.
What did we do!!!
Back when wokeism and political correctness didn't exist.
todays winner of the most stupid comment
Remember the guy singing this tune also sang the tune for the iconic 'Toohey's' commercials in the 80's
In what state?
Yes, Alan MOrris wrote the tunes, Allan JOhnston sang them, ie the MoJo Agency ☺️
@@mjames4709 Australia-wide.
@@brainybroccoli4499 don’t think so. A Sydney ad.
This is what we need in our messaging now ... and the state premiers in their race to the bottom of hysteria should take a leaf out of its lyrics. We can obey these SD rules and still be ambitious, be positive and hopeful
Nothing in this add now would represent Australia.
We have totally fucked over this once proud nation
We now have more spice shops than a corner milk bar.
Our children wouldn’t have any idea what a Sunday roast is !!
Or a hills hoist ?
You’re not worried about political corruption, growing inequality, unaffordable housing and climate change, just the proliferation of spice shops and the ignorance of Sunday roasts and Hills Hoists?
We stopped making things and have become a service industry country. Oh well.
it is like keep America clean psa .
So sad 😢 our Australia has gone forever.
Against 76% of the wishes of Aussies polled in 1973 the Government forced putrid multiculturalism down our throats.
Good old white Australia.
Ya mug.
They wouldn't even allow this many Caucasians on camera at once these days.
Against 76% of the wishes of Aussies polled in 1973 the Government forced putrid multiculturalism down our throats.
Lots of diversity back then
Hahahaha!! 😅😂
Makes me want to vote of Australian indipendance.
Meaningless jingoism which appeals to tribal emotions but ends up saying nothing at all. This drivel is what inspires the "everyone who has a go, gets a go" class of politicians.
Yes, it is drivel. Everyone is already "having a go", doing the best they can with their resources and circumstances.
bunch of mugs (and convicts)
Yeah it is politics, but unlike today's politics it kinda crosses the boundaries into humanism.
0:33 skill issue
Always Was... Always Will Be... Aboriginal Land
I have to admit I'd be pissed too if I was an Aboriginal.
I think I'm going to throw up a big wad of green and gold chunder.
totally cringe worthy ! it doesn't identify the " problem " & offers no solution either , it's just a pile of meaningless jingoistic clichés ,
& don't get me started on the singers' ( ahem ) " voice " or the odd juxtaposition of the image of the british union jack whilst encouraging aussie patriotism ?? !! WTF !
the economy's off track? imply people are lazy and need to work harder. same tory formula for 300 years
anyone who uses the term "today's youth" unironically to label a whole generation is clearly suffering from a near lethal dose of fogeyism
i did indeed grow up in Australia in the 70's . this " message " was viewed sceptically then , by MANY ppl who didn't gulliblely believe such a simplistic solution existed .
numbat 007, you think it is totally cringe worthy, but I didn't and I went through the 70's too looking for jobs. I liked the way they said how it was back then and not how it isn't today. This country is in strife with ridiculous prices for housing and electricity. This is a crisis and nobody is saying it. Back then, they said it which alerted people to the problems. We went through it together, but now, it's who's got the most money ends up the winner. It's changed. Politicians just keep quiet about the problems, so nothing gets solved.
@ijk240695 Your generation buggered the planet, buggered the country, and left us to pick up the bill. Enjoy your laurels, I'm not sure I could.
No diversity here and was'nt it great!
who the hell allowed it to happen ?
@@janeway1111 Gough Whitlam ditched the final vestiges of the White Australia Policy in 1966. But both sides worked to covertly dismantle it from the 50's on.Whitlam was a Fabian and so were some of his Ministers.