Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a record album commercial for a Chipmunks ripoff - "Shirley, Squirrely & Melvin – Live" on Excelsior Records & Tapes. (or "Liv,e" as it's formatted for some strange reason - was it a legal thing?)
Overheard in a pitch meeting - "You see, they're *not* Chipmunks - they're squirrels!! And the one with glasses is a nerd, so of course his name is Melvin..."
Includes songs such as "Boulevard", "It's So Easy", "Blue Suede Shoes", and "Soul Man".
(notably referenced in an episode of The Simpsons)
"This Year's Hottest Group!" 🙄
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, April 18th 1981 during the 12:00pm to 1:30pm timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
Here's a record album commercial for a Chipmunks ripoff - "Shirley, Squirrely & Melvin – Live" on Excelsior Records & Tapes. (or "Liv,e" as it's formatted for some strange reason - was it a legal thing?)
Overheard in a pitch meeting - "You see, they're *not* Chipmunks - they're squirrels!! And the one with glasses is a nerd, so of course his name is Melvin..."
Includes songs such as "Boulevard", "It's So Easy", "Blue Suede Shoes", and "Soul Man".
(notably referenced in an episode of The Simpsons)
"This Year's Hottest Group!" 🙄
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, April 18th 1981 during the 12:00pm to 1:30pm timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
![N.A.A.C.P. [NAACP] Special Contribution Fund - Over 68 Years (PSA, 1978) ✊](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iPGgwaiab-I/mqdefault.jpg "N.A.A.C.P. [NAACP] Special Contribution Fund - Over 68 Years (PSA, 1978) ✊
Heres a powerful one-minute PSA from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Special Contribution Fund, of which 34 seconds are devoted to a rapid-fire delivery of photos (1-2 frames per photo) of numerous events from 1909 (the year of the civil rights organizations founding) to the point this PSA was made, from old sharecropper homes to colored facilities, to voter registration drives, to the fight for jobs and medical access, to integration of the military, to education, to housing, to the present day (1978) - ending with a shot of a black man and his young son, and where to contact.
Voiceover by ??
Fighting for freedom for over 68 years.
This aired on local New York TV on Monday, September 25th 1978 within the 10:00am to 11:30am (Eastern) timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv We preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!")
