If you’ve got a second, you may have fun watching some of these CBC Television promos from 1987 including:
- the frighteningly fast-talker Stu Jeffries plugging Good Rockin’ Tonight (you can tell he’s an expert in music because he holds a guitar)
- the single least inspiring news promo of all time
- a Knowlton Nash opening from Sunday Report.
Note to readers under 30: Yes, we really did wear our hair that way in the 80s. No, not ironically.
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Also, there was a time when Europe’s “Final Countdown” was a song and not a musical punchline.
That Knowlton Nash bit is NOT Sunday Report. It’s the headline package that ran in prime time to promote the National and the Journal coming up later.
Are you kidding, Tod? The under-30 (well maybe under 20) crowd has brought that haircut back. Really. I’m serious. I’ve seen it. It’s sad, really. The ugly pastel coloured shirts will follow. Head for the hills while you can.
That was great fun. The hair, I remember all too well. Knowlton too. But I can’t recall a time when “The Final Countdown” was EVER a real song…
I seem to remember Knowlton Nash having a nighttime TV show. I was a young kid in 1987, and I remember that my bedtime was after Knowlton Nash said “Good night” on TV. My parents called him “Knowltie” and made me say good night back to him.
The retro cycle is getting shorter and more incoherent these days. Went to a club the other week coz there was a band from Montreal playing that I wanted to see, and the early 20s crowd were dressed like it was the 80s and the DJ was playing what could best be described as late 90s office party music. Couldn’t take it for too long so I missed the band.
I thought that at some stage I’d be all “your music is just noise, now , that was the real rock!”, but instead I’m the neophile and the kids are all into Everything But The Girl. It’s sad.
Awww, Stu. What a cutie. I’m pleased to see he’s just as cute 20+ years later! And his kids (2, 4, 6) love to watch footage of their dad from these old shows.
I LOVE the National’s opener, with the glassy font and the “IMPORTANT NEWS YAHYAHYAH!” theme music…..ah, those were the good old days. Haven’t worked in TV in the early 90’s, I almost feel nostalgia for yellow fonts and simple, straightforward newsreading.