I loved Faygo red pop. I'd buy a bottle of it with my allowance every Friday night when I was ten years old. This makes me remember Bill Kennedy at the movies, Rita Bell and the Prize movie, and The Ghoul.
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Back in February Garrison Keillor did an episode of his "Prairie Home Companion" show from the Fox Theatre in Detroit. At one point in the show he led the audience in a round of this song. You've never heard it sung by so many people with tears in their eyes.
A&W Root beer in a frosted mug at the local drive in, Vernor's Ginger Ale when ailing, and Faygo Red Pop on a hot summer's day. Nostalgia I embrace thee.
Most cute commercials are cute the first two or three times, then they get old. This one never got old, and that silly laugh always drew our attention.
I wish I could go back to the 70's it was such a happy time for me being 10 or 11 years old.. The world was so much better then! This world now is such a mess!!!
I feel really strange here, I'm still in high-school, and here everyone is talking about showing this to their kids, and I admit there wasn't a Faygo song when i was a kid, but I drank It and explored my yard and what not. Just gonna sit here with my red pop and feel a little older than I am.
Loved that song when it first came out and I still do. It was one to have you feeling good whenever you heard it. It truly was a great song and Guidersleeve was a very special man as he made you want to join in and sing the "Faygo Song". Truly miss that wonderful man. Faygo, thank you for both, the song and the man.
Not from Detroit, from good old Flint, but this song just jumped into my head as I was washing dishes here in Delaware where I've lived for many many years. Made me cry remembering the fun kids had back then, before electronics and social media stole their sense of imagination. Thanks for posting...and I remembered every word!!
This brings back childhood memories when all soda pops were sweetened with natural sugar and not high fructose corn syrup like they are now. Plus, it does make you remember all the good times that were had in childhood. I haven't seen this commercial in years, until now. Thanks for uploading it.
I saw the Columbia docked, rusting downriver by a steel mill. Thought it was a goner for sure. I had tears seeing it like that. Glad to hear there is a new life for both. I just bought my kids real faygo in bottles just like back when. Had to play this for them. Poor kids nowadays. P.S. My kids love Gilligans Island, Lost in Space, and the Monkeys.
I remember this commercial from back in the day, but I didn't live in Detroit. I was in Buffalo, NY where it was shown. Brings back fun memories of being a kid, though.
Thanks for the confirmation, I thought that looked like the boblo boat. Loaded down like it always was in the 70's. Nice to see that old comercial again.
Thank you soo much for posting this. It's amazing for me to see it again after all these years! It even brought tears to my eyes because of all the memories I shared with my (now deceased)grandparents. Grandpa was a HUGE Faygo lover and I'll never forget sharing his Faygo floats! lol (I also remember this song word-for-word. Amazing what you can remember 30-some years later! =p)
I absolutely LOVED this commercial as a child... and love it even more now as an adult. *sigh* Between this and the Detroit Zoo commercial... I don't know which one I love more! They're both amazing!
Hal "The Great Gildersleeve" Perry was Faygo's pitchman for years before this commercial. In those ads, he was a soda jerk selling Faygo Redpops to young children. That's why he's dressed up in those loud red vertical stripes. FYI: The Faygo people were the ones who created the term "pop" to describe their drinks because of the popping sounds they say their drinks made when they opened the bottles.
Your absolutely Right~ Saint Clair Shores Michigan now..Roseville Michigan when I was younger..thank you for reiterating for me! This is truly a Michigan song! Everyone sang it too! "Everyone that I know that is" L&R
thank you @limeliter for posting this video, I remember this when i was a kid and I recall it from time to time, my kids were asking me what i was singing and I was so happy to be able to show them this video, I remember the boblo boat and yes I love my Faygo!!! grape and redpop. Also my kogels and vernors, my michiganders know what I am talking about!!
yes it does! i was a little kid in the 70's and as rumor has it, this commercial would come on and i would run from any part of the house to listen to it. red pop, rock & rye, all good stuff!
Thank you so much for posting this! Wonderful memories of growing up in Detroit! We actually had the 45 of this song...they sold it at Harmony House...does that bring back memories for anyone from Detroit?
I toured the Faygo plant with school in 1976. At the end of the tour, we each got one can of pop (our choice) and a 45-RPM record with this jingle on one side and the a full-length folk guitar version of the song as it was before "that's why we remember" was replaced with "....make Faygo". I chose a new can of red pop, so I could compare the color of red #40 with the red #2 in a can I had bought earlier.
Such a cool post! Every time I go to the store, buy a bottle, I put this on and have a great cold glass of Faygo red pop. Nothing better at 50 than red pop! Anyone see my good '' plenty
How funny! My husband was trying to sing it for our son tonight and here it is, posted on UA-cam (I should have known!) Thanks so much, it really takes me back!
Sometimes the old ad campaigns are the best.. This is a great Summetime commercial. Even though Bob-Lo Island is not open anymore. Its still a good song. Catchy tune.
You rekindled a memory here! And the red pop was always the last one he spoke of and the kid would always take it! Then another kid came along and the same thing would happen! I hope someone posts that commerical!
Thanks for posting this took me immediately back to my parents living room in our apartment in Riverview, Michigan in the 70's with the BIG 19 inch black and white TV; we didn't have a color set in our home yet. How I loved this when it came on. Thanks for regressing my age 35 years or so!
Reminds me of sitting on the porch with the neighbors listening to a Tiger's game on the radio. Others were watering their grass or washing their car. Some of the kids were riding bikes or playing catch in the street. It's all gone now. The idiots are running Detroit and the State of Michigan. They ruined a good thing. Thanks for bringing the good memories back. At least they can't take those away.
That was beautiful to watch! THANK YOU, original poster -- it is SO surreal watching something you haven't seen since it was originally broad casted. Lovely stuff!
My favorite as a kid was Faygo Grape. I'm not sure what kogels are but I do LOVE Vernors Ginger Ale and Better Made Potato chips(It's the only potato chip I'll buy.) I remember being out of state on vacation for the first time and looking for Better Made Chips and Faygo and remembered it was a Detroit thing. Boy was I disappointed. Great seing the Boblo Boat again. The last time I rode on it was late 80's or early 90's---just befor it was discontinued for good. Loved this commerial!!
Last night a friend visiting from detroit gave me a half frozen Faygo cola from his trunk, i let it thaw in my fridge overnight. I just drank my first Faygo and I want MORE!!!
I think Everyone Sang this song who was born in Detroit..and the Bob lo Boat..why did they ever tear that one apart for us! What a waste..just like our Drive Ins..Miss them! Thanks for the memories!
@curleyco -- Thank you so much for posting this commercial! I grew up near Detroit in the seventies and had a great childhood! I live in Calif now so I miss my home a lot. Seeing the commercial again for the first time made me cry. I have watched it over and over again.
I remember this one from TV and they actually sold a 45 rpm record with several versions-a radio commercial,tv(this one) and an extended version. I had one sadly it was destroyed years ago, but somewhere I have them recorded on cassette.
One of the things remembered the most in the past was the Faygo boat song and I drank enough of it ...it was "healthy then" ? anyway, I knew many people shared in the memorys of that song. I can't think of his name but the fella singing it on the Boblo boat was a hit in himself. Something like Mr. Whipple remember ?
The fellow leading everything as I recall played a "bartender" in earlier commercials dispensing Faygo. I'd like to see those if they ever become available.
They have a new rock version of the Faygo boat song on their redesigned website, along with a few of their commercials. The Boat Song was also used as a radio ad. There's also a TV ad with a mock-up of Laurel and Hardy going to the store to buy Redpop, only to trash the store with their usual clumsiness.
Hey gang, FAYGO now comes in the old glass bottles with a bottle cap and has real cane sugar. The old taste really brings back those great days in Nortwest Detroit.
I loved Faygo red pop. I'd buy a bottle of it with my allowance every Friday night when I was ten years old. This makes me remember Bill Kennedy at the movies, Rita Bell and the Prize movie, and The Ghoul.
the fun we had in the 70's,,,boblo island, singing to commercials like this, i to
miss my childhood
I remember my Dad could get me working on our house in the heat of the day for a bologna sandwich, better made potatoe chips,and Faygo red pop!
I wish to God they would bring this commercial back. Its such a classic.
I got teary eyed watching this! I'm so Detroit!
Me too. Every time... (sigh)
ME TO
Me too Sister. Hugs! Still love Detroit! Let's bring our City back to life. ~ Much Love Sage ~
The video trolls never surprise me. Always having something completely asinine to say. Thanks, Nickcb13b, for staying true to form.
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Oh boy do I remember this commercial. That's DETROIT!!!! 😉
Back in February Garrison Keillor did an episode of his "Prairie Home Companion" show from the Fox Theatre in Detroit. At one point in the show he led the audience in a round of this song. You've never heard it sung by so many people with tears in their eyes.
A&W Root beer in a frosted mug at the local drive in, Vernor's Ginger Ale when ailing, and Faygo Red Pop on a hot summer's day. Nostalgia I embrace thee.
+drkjk - You named my favorites. I rather have those than a Pepsi or Coke.
Most cute commercials are cute the first two or three times, then they get old. This one never got old, and that silly laugh always drew our attention.
I agree wholeheartedly!!
I wish I could go back to the 70's it was such a happy time for me being 10 or 11 years old.. The world was so much better then! This world now is such a mess!!!
+Julie Fahrenbacher Amen! 1976 and 12 yrs old...What a time it was.
A lifelong metro Detroiter, reminds me of being a kid in the 70s, Cool stuff!!
Pure Michigan Baby!!
I feel really strange here, I'm still in high-school, and here everyone is talking about showing this to their kids, and I admit there wasn't a Faygo song when i was a kid, but I drank It and explored my yard and what not.
Just gonna sit here with my red pop and feel a little older than I am.
Loved that song when it first came out and I still do. It was one to have you feeling good whenever you heard it. It truly was a great song and Guidersleeve was a very special man as he made you want to join in and sing the "Faygo Song". Truly miss that wonderful man. Faygo, thank you for both, the song and the man.
Not from Detroit, from good old Flint, but this song just jumped into my head as I was washing dishes here in Delaware where I've lived for many many years. Made me cry remembering the fun kids had back then, before electronics and social media stole their sense of imagination. Thanks for posting...and I remembered every word!!
This brings back childhood memories when all soda pops were sweetened with natural sugar and not high fructose corn syrup like they are now. Plus, it does make you remember all the good times that were had in childhood. I haven't seen this commercial in years, until now. Thanks for uploading it.
+frschoonover1 You any relation to the Schoonovers in Macomb County?
+CameronDiazTwin I don't know. Where's Macomb County anyway?
+frschoonover1 Just North of Detroit, Michigan
One of the great pop commercials...and I
I drank faygo also...I'll never forget the song and the Boblo boat.
Rock n Rye baby!
It so fun learning more about you daily. ♡
Watching this commercial and hearing the song just flooded my head of my childhood back in Michigan. Thank you for posting and making me smile.
Great times..Boblo boat and just plain fun...drank a lot of Faygo pop.
Ahhhhh! Brought back memories of my Detroit childhood.
Wow, this takes me back. I'm 45 now and never forgot one word of this song. How come they don't advertise like this anymore?
I got some Faygo Red Pop in my fridge, just waiting. How I loved this commercial when I was a kid, and I still do. Thank you so much for posting.
I saw the Columbia docked, rusting downriver by a steel mill.
Thought it was a goner for sure.
I had tears seeing it like that.
Glad to hear there is a new life for both.
I just bought my kids real faygo in bottles just like back when.
Had to play this for them.
Poor kids nowadays.
P.S. My kids love Gilligans Island, Lost in Space, and the Monkeys.
I remember this commercial from back in the day, but I didn't live in Detroit. I was in Buffalo, NY where it was shown. Brings back fun memories of being a kid, though.
EVERONE HERE IN THE COMMENTS IS A HOMESTUCK FAN! lol, i am too.. HoNk :o)
I posted the version of this song that was commercially released as a 45 in 1973 on my page, called "That's Why You Remember" by Kenny Karen
Thanks for the confirmation, I thought that looked like the boblo boat. Loaded down like it always was in the 70's.
Nice to see that old comercial again.
Thank you soo much for posting this. It's amazing for me to see it again after all these years! It even brought tears to my eyes because of all the memories I shared with my (now deceased)grandparents. Grandpa was a HUGE Faygo lover and I'll never forget sharing his Faygo floats! lol (I also remember this song word-for-word. Amazing what you can remember 30-some years later! =p)
Is this the great Harold Peary? He was The Great Gildersleeve and so many other unforgettable characters.
I absolutely LOVED this commercial as a child... and love it even more now as an adult. *sigh* Between this and the Detroit Zoo commercial... I don't know which one I love more! They're both amazing!
So much homestucks here
Hal "The Great Gildersleeve" Perry was Faygo's pitchman for years before this commercial. In those ads, he was a soda jerk selling Faygo Redpops to young children. That's why he's dressed up in those loud red vertical stripes.
FYI: The Faygo people were the ones who created the term "pop" to describe their drinks because of the popping sounds they say their drinks made when they opened the bottles.
i have this song on 45. played it on my fisher price record player. That was the Boblo boat they were on. awesome.
Your absolutely Right~ Saint Clair Shores Michigan now..Roseville Michigan when I was younger..thank you for reiterating for me! This is truly a Michigan song! Everyone sang it too! "Everyone that I know that is" L&R
Talk about taking me back!! LOVE THIS!
Classic W.B. Doner commercial from their heyday in the 70's. Remember all the Highland Appliance spots and Detroit Zoo commercial too?
You mean this one? ua-cam.com/video/oQr548olzOo/v-deo.html
+Daya Curley Haha that's one of the best. Loved that zoo commercial!
thank you @limeliter for posting this video, I remember this when i was a kid and I recall it from time to time, my kids were asking me what i was singing and I was so happy to be able to show them this video, I remember the boblo boat and yes I love my Faygo!!! grape and redpop. Also my kogels and vernors, my michiganders know what I am talking about!!
I always preferred the Faygo Moonshine, great memory and good times! Thanks a lot for posting this!
still waiting for the day i get to have my first faygo
My fridge is full of faygo greatness. Best pop in the world.
Thanks for finding this old commercial. I totally forgot about this. It shows the Boblo Boat.
AHHHH! MEMORIES!! I remember going as a girl scout to Boblo!! Good times!!
yes it does! i was a little kid in the 70's and as rumor has it, this commercial would come on and i would run from any part of the house to listen to it. red pop, rock & rye, all good stuff!
Thanks so much for posting! I'm tearing up over here :_( because I miss my home! Thanks for giving me a piece of it.
my mom and dad met kn this boat the Boblo boat and were married 6 weeks later and until he died, my dad in 1981, they got married in 1957...
Thank you so much for posting this! Wonderful memories of growing up in Detroit! We actually had the 45 of this song...they sold it at Harmony House...does that bring back memories for anyone from Detroit?
I love Faygo pop... I grew up in Detroit it is a part of our rich history.... Rockin Rye & Moon Mist :)
best pop ever made!!! I love my faygo!!!! whoop whoop!!!!
I toured the Faygo plant with school in 1976. At the end of the tour, we each got one can of pop (our choice) and a 45-RPM record with this jingle on one side and the a full-length folk guitar version of the song as it was before "that's why we remember" was replaced with "....make Faygo". I chose a new can of red pop, so I could compare the color of red #40 with the red #2 in a can I had bought earlier.
This was a great commercial!!!
Thanks so much for posting this video. Love Faygo! BTW I have the 45 record of the song "Remember when you were a kid" :-)
HoNk!:0) My favorite line in this song is "Climbing through the window"
Awesome. This commercial almost choked me up!
I live in Akron OH now. But if I see a Faygo pop machine. I still get one and usually a red pop. 👍
God bless you. This takes me back to when I still did all those things. Now I sing the song to my son, and on a lark I checked for it.
how many homestuck fans are right now here?
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+Yudron Micros 69
I posted on Facebook about this commercial and a friend posted the link for this. THANKS SO MUCH for posting this video!
Excellent. I still have a 45 of this song they were giving away as a promotion way back when.
Such a cool post! Every time I go to the store, buy a bottle, I put this on and have a great cold glass of Faygo red pop. Nothing better at 50 than red pop! Anyone see my good '' plenty
Awesome old school video. It reminds me of my childhood which I miss very much...and Faygo is the bomb, I am drinking some right now!
How funny! My husband was trying to sing it for our son tonight and here it is, posted on UA-cam (I should have known!)
Thanks so much, it really takes me back!
WOW! detroit native, living in new york. what a tremendous memory. thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Makes me want some rock and rye
FANTASTIC trip down MEMORY LANE!! Thank you :-)
Oh i do remember this and i miss it so much. Just to be in Michigan again.
My dad started Singing this. We couldnt het enough of the guy laughing in the first 3 seconds!
Sometimes the old ad campaigns are the best.. This is a great Summetime commercial. Even though Bob-Lo Island is not open anymore. Its still a good song. Catchy tune.
Just want to say cant get anymore Detroit than that Very Cool Thanks hehehehe Red Pop Yup!
You rekindled a memory here! And the red pop was always the last one he spoke of and the kid would always take it! Then another kid came along and the same thing would happen! I hope someone posts that commerical!
Yesss. It feels amazing to be from where the Miracle was born : D
and omg your icon is beautiful.
Whoop whoop
Thanks for the memories of better times in detroit
Wow !! Blast from the past..Great post !! Thanks
Thanks for posting this took me immediately back to my parents living room in our apartment in Riverview, Michigan in the 70's with the BIG 19 inch black and white TV; we didn't have a color set in our home yet. How I loved this when it came on. Thanks for regressing my age 35 years or so!
Reminds me of sitting on the porch with the neighbors listening to a Tiger's game on the radio. Others were watering their grass or washing their car. Some of the kids were riding bikes or playing catch in the street. It's all gone now. The idiots are running Detroit and the State of Michigan. They ruined a good thing. Thanks for bringing the good memories back. At least they can't take those away.
That was beautiful to watch! THANK YOU, original poster -- it is SO surreal watching something you haven't seen since it was originally broad casted. Lovely stuff!
Thanks for the memories! Fun seeing the Boblo boat in the background.
One of the best parts of my life was this song really got attached listening to it. Thank for posting it.
I want more old Faygo commercials. D:
My favorite as a kid was Faygo Grape. I'm not sure what kogels are but I do LOVE Vernors Ginger Ale and Better Made Potato chips(It's the only potato chip I'll buy.) I remember being out of state on vacation for the first time and looking for Better Made Chips and Faygo and remembered it was a Detroit thing. Boy was I disappointed. Great seing the Boblo Boat again. The last time I rode on it was late 80's or early 90's---just befor it was discontinued for good. Loved this commerial!!
tfw I'm not here because of Homestuck or ICP and I just like Faygo ;-;
I remember this Faygo commercial very well. I have not seen it in years. Brings back the good old days!
Last night a friend visiting from detroit gave me a half frozen Faygo cola from his trunk, i let it thaw in my fridge overnight. I just drank my first Faygo and I want MORE!!!
I think Everyone Sang this song who was born in Detroit..and the Bob lo Boat..why did they ever tear that one apart for us! What a waste..just like our Drive Ins..Miss them! Thanks for the memories!
Yeah, that is the BOBLO boat. Boy does this commercial bring back memories..
Thanks for posting. This brings back such memories and I haven't forgotten a single line to this jingle. Thanks again.
@curleyco -- Thank you so much for posting this commercial! I grew up near Detroit in the seventies and had a great childhood! I live in Calif now so I miss my home a lot. Seeing the commercial again for the first time made me cry. I have watched it over and over again.
God I love this. Talk about taking me back! I need to go drink some Faygo Rootbeer!!!
Thanks for the memory! Sharona
that song has always been in my head..today..got to talking about it..and hoped it'd be on here, thank you for posting
red pop..still my fav!!
I remember this one from TV and they actually sold a 45 rpm record with several versions-a radio commercial,tv(this one) and an extended version. I had one sadly it was destroyed years ago, but somewhere I have them recorded on cassette.
I remember this commercial as a kid. Brings back good memories! Thanks for posting it!
One of the things remembered the most in the past was the Faygo boat song and I drank enough of it ...it was "healthy then" ? anyway, I knew many people shared in the memorys of that song. I can't think of his name but the fella singing it on the Boblo boat was a hit in himself. Something like Mr. Whipple remember ?
The fellow leading everything as I recall played a "bartender" in earlier commercials dispensing Faygo. I'd like to see those if they ever become available.
I worked at Faygo Detroit for a little while
gamzee's theme song :o)
They have a new rock version of the Faygo boat song on their redesigned website, along with a few of their commercials. The Boat Song was also used as a radio ad. There's also a TV ad with a mock-up of Laurel and Hardy going to the store to buy Redpop, only to trash the store with their usual clumsiness.
Hey gang, FAYGO now comes in the old glass bottles with a bottle cap and has real cane sugar. The old taste really brings back those great days in Nortwest Detroit.
i have this on 45, used to play it all the time on fmy fisher price record player