To commemorate the Sony Walkman ’s 30th birthday , here are the trippy advert Sony used to promote it in the ’ 80 . Noble rapscallion , off - Florida key minor and sweet - toothed senseis — where ’s that f’d up common sense of humor now , Sony ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UggJfVJXJPU
And then there ’s the dancer who ’d prefer a slenderer music thespian :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO8FDPtN_8 M
OK , perhaps that 2nd one appeal to anybody with a unitard fixation ( which , in 1983 , was reasonably much everybody ) .
Most people in their XXX will hate me for bring this one up : The 1986 My First Sony campaign was responsible for for sticking the following song inside the brain of a coevals of mass who are just now able to block it . get across at your own peril …
Here ’s one of the last cassette Walkman commercials , from 1990 or thereabouts , where a sire grills his preposterously dumb girl on the pictures that appear on television . She gets everything wrong — everything — but he let ’s her mistaken sighting of a Walkman sloping trough , because Walkmen ( Walkmans ? ) are so cool .
And about that baronial rapscallion , his name was Choromatsu , and he died at the super ripe geezerhood of 29 back in 2007 . Here ’s his 1988 spot , in which he grips a ( Japan - only ? ) WM-501 and contemplates nature :
• A slick - looking posse of urbanites with skillful shoes and likely heroin addictions
• A sensei suck in a popsicle while seat next to a nipply lass 2X his height
• A lady perilously guiding a ten - speed at velocity while holding a Walkman
extra shoutout to Don the Intern for those brainsick researching skills . Hat tip toPocket Calculator ’s Walkman Museum , toTim and Nick Jarman ’s Walkman Centraland toBing ’s image search puppet . test it out — it ’s really quite unlike than Google ’s .
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