BEVERLY HILLBILLIES STORIES YOU MAY NEVER HEAR ON TV
Nowadays, that’s rare, if not non-existent, but even as recently as a decade ago, network sitcoms often had a theme song explaining the show’s general premise at the beginning. every episode. quite common thing. An example of what TV Tropes calls an “explanatory theme tune” would be the theme song to “The Brady Bunch,” which explains to the audience the relationships between the characters and how they live their lives. What is it like to live in the same house? Similarly, the theme song to “Gilligan’s Island” clearly shows viewers who the seven trapped people are and why they were on the island in the first place.
One such explanatory theme song is “The Beverly Hillbillies” (pictured above). According to Britannica, the fishing television show about country folk who suddenly find themselves rich beyond belief ran from 1962 to 1971. The show’s theme song, a catchy bluegrass tune by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs – two of the biggest names in the genre today . And, although TV fans may be familiar with the opening verse, “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” is actually a full song, with other verses, and is, in fact, a rare feat. yes for a television theme song, the tune even charted. in the United States, peaking at number 44 on the pop charts in February 1963, according to The Boot.
The second sentence is TOBACCO ADVERTISING
According to History, advertising cigarettes or any tobacco products on TV has been banned in the United States since 1970. Furthermore, smoking is considered such a disgusting and dangerous habit that networks want to avoid it. It. According to USA Today, show it off at all costs, unless the habit is described as dangerous. Similarly, as IndieWire reports, Netflix wants to ensure that smoking is not depicted on any of the shows it streams – at least not on shows with TV ratings. 14 or less or movies rated PG -13 or less.
In the 1960s things were different, not only were cigarettes and cigarettes advertised on TV but the theme song “The Beverly Hillbillies” even advertised cigarettes for sale. The second verse, as MeTV notes, invites you to visit Jed and his relatives at their mansion, and while there, you’ll meet their friend: “Good friend with filtered mix, Winston cigarettes !”
The second verse can be heard on YouTube.
The third question is about grains
In perhaps one of the strangest coincidences in the history of television advertising, “The Beverly Hillbillies” was sponsored by a tobacco company and to top it off, the cereal was originally advertised as real food. healthy products. Specifically, the program has been sponsored by Kellogg’s Corn Flakes for a period of time. In fact, the inventor of Corn Flakes — Dr. John Harvey Kellogg — was adamantly opposed to smoking, according to Michigan State History. And, as Forbes reports, Kellogg invented its cereal to give Americans a healthier lifestyle because it was believed that a bland diet would aid digestion. Whether Dr. Kellogg is rolling over in his grave over his product being used in a song selling cigarettes is unclear.
In the second verse, via MeTV, listeners are once again invited to spend time with the Clamp family, this time with the promise that they will enjoy simple pleasures: “Kellogg’s cereal, Battle’s Kellogg’s Creek, K–E-double- L-O-twice good … Kellogg’s best wishes to you “
The third verse can be heard on YouTube.
