{"id":24902,"date":"2014-08-30T06:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T10:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24902"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:25:18","slug":"who-knew-the-untold-story-of-the-john-and-marsha-commercialsome-of-us-remem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24902","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew? The Untold Story Of The &#8216;John And Marsha&#8217; Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Who-Knew-The-Untold-Story-Of-The-John-And-Marsha-Commercial-Some-of-us-remem.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWho Knew? The Untold Story Of The &#8216;John And Marsha&#8217; Commercial<\/p>\n<p>Some of us remember this Snowdrift Shortening commercial from our childhood, others may remember it from seeing it used in &#8216;Mad Men&#8217;, but I&#8217;ll bet NONE of us knew THIS!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qITSBcLZvrs&#038;ab_channel=jukejointjohnny48<\/p>\n<p>Surprised? Me too! I had no idea the the award winning commercial from 1956 was based on Stan Freberg&#8217;s 1951 novelty hit, but it turns out, this is the very first recording Freberg did for Capitol Records. The February 10, 1951 release, &#8220;John and Marsha&#8221; was a soap opera parody that consisted of the title characters (both played by Freberg) doing nothing but repeating each other&#8217;s names with intonations to match the moods. It never was a big hit, but did get a lot radio airplay and obviously left a lasting impression.<\/p>\n<p>Producer\/Director John Hubley and Animator\/Artist Art Babbitt were given the New York Art Directors Award for Best Animated Short for the spot in June of 1956. I still remember all of the words&#8230;you too? Enjoy and share! &#8211; Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A-cy6276XY0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A-cy6276XY0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Snowdrift John &amp; Marsha Commercial\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-cy6276XY0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another gem from the Babbitt\/Hubley showreel from the late 1950s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/722167744487444\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Knew? The Untold Story Of The &#8216;John And Marsha&#8217; Commercial Some of us remember this Snowdrift Shortening commercial from our childhood, others may remember it from seeing it used in &#8216;Mad Men&#8217;, but I&#8217;ll bet NONE of us knew THIS! https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qITSBcLZvrs&#038;ab_channel=jukejointjohnny48 Surprised? Me too! I had no idea the the award winning commercial from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[731,703,704,806],"class_list":["post-24902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-art-director","tag-director","tag-producer","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59818,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24902\/revisions\/59818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}