vainandy said:

Timmy84 said:

I had no idea he actually did music myself.

God yes! Every afternoon after school when the TV stations used to show reruns of old TV shows like "What's Happening", etc., every commercial break was an adverstisement to one of his albums through an 800 phone number. During a lot of the after midnight reruns too. This was years before the infomercial age.

He wasn't the only one with those commercials. They had them for 1950's and '60's oldies, Don Ho, Slim Whitman, Charlie Pride, Elvis Presley gospel, K-Tel compilations, etc. They usually had some message saying "No C.O.D.'s. Wait 6-8 weeks for delivery". I think those commerials are what Eddie Murphy was spoofing in that Buh'wheat Sings skit.

TD3 said:

vainandy said:

I remember in the late 1970s, he also had another sitcom where he was in some part of the military, maybe the navy this time. That's been a lot of years but I think I remember seeing sailor suits in the show. He was way ahead of his time with the "don't ask, don't tell" military shows.

And in the 1980s, every time your turned around, he and Miss Dom Deloise was starring in some movie with fine ass Burt Reynolds. Them two whores need to be locked in a rubber room somewhere if they didn't try to get some of that sexy dick right there.

Lawd!! Boy, you need to get quit it.

Its always nice to get your unique perspective on thangs, never thought about like that.

My side hurts.

That's because I am a one of a kind, 100% original. Loved by many and hated by plenty. Never been one like me before and there won't be another one like me when I'm gone.

MickyDolenz said:

vainandy said:

God yes! Every afternoon after school when the TV stations used to show reruns of old TV shows like "What's Happening", etc., every commercial break was an adverstisement to one of his albums through an 800 phone number. During a lot of the after midnight reruns too. This was years before the infomercial age.

He wasn't the only one with those commercials. They had them for 1950's and '60's oldies, Don Ho, Slim Whitman, Charlie Pride, Elvis Presley gospel, K-Tel compilations, etc. They usually had some message saying "No C.O.D.'s. Wait 6-8 weeks for delivery". I think those commerials are what Eddie Murphy was spoofing in that Buh'wheat Sings skit.

Lord yes. And there was also Mahalia Jackson, black gospel compilations, Marvin Gaye, Lawrence Welk, country/western compilations, Johnny Horton, and my personal favorite....

^^I remember that. I'd see it during Video Vibrations.

What was the music comp informercial with the guy saying I got mine brother, you gotta get yours? I also remember the monkees LP greatest hits informercial too, which I owed.

JoeBala said:

What was the music comp informercial with the guy saying I got mine brother, you gotta get yours? I also remember the monkees LP greatest hits informercial too, which I owed.

Is it different than the Hey Love ad posted above by Vainandy?

Yeah that was it Hey Love.

JoeBala said:

Yeah that was it Hey Love.

Here's one for a K-Tel record selector