Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a record offer for the compilation album "The Great Tearjerkers" from Hall of Music, which features a motif involving a sad clown in a circus and other personnel (with balloons and paraphernalia from Six Flags' Great Adventure amusement park).
Snippets heard in this advert include "The Great Pretender" by The Platters, "It's All in the Game" by Tommy Edwards, "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" by (the recently-deceased) Connie Francis, "Walk On By" by Dionne Warwick, "One Less Bell to Answer" by The 5th Dimension, "Only Love Can Break a Heart" by Gene Pitney, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" by Freddy Fender, and "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" by B. J. Thomas.
Only $6.98 ($9.98 for the 8-track tape or cassette)!
Main voiceover by Bill "Rosko" Mercer. Ending voiceover by Jack Reynolds.
Bonus: Station ID slide for WSMW Channel 27 (now UniMás affiliate WUTF) in Worcester, MA (voiceover by ??)
This aired on local Boston-area TV on Saturday, July 7th 1979 at a little before 2:30pm (EDT).
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 offer for the compilation album "The Great Tearjerkers" from Hall of Music, which features a motif involving a sad clown in a circus and other personnel (with balloons and paraphernalia from Six Flags' Great Adventure amusement park).
Snippets heard in this advert include "The Great Pretender" by The Platters, "It's All in the Game" by Tommy Edwards, "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" by (the recently-deceased) Connie Francis, "Walk On By" by Dionne Warwick, "One Less Bell to Answer" by The 5th Dimension, "Only Love Can Break a Heart" by Gene Pitney, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" by Freddy Fender, and "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" by B. J. Thomas.
Only $6.98 ($9.98 for the 8-track tape or cassette)!
Main voiceover by Bill "Rosko" Mercer. Ending voiceover by Jack Reynolds.
Bonus: Station ID slide for WSMW Channel 27 (now UniMás affiliate WUTF) in Worcester, MA (voiceover by ??)
This aired on local Boston-area TV on Saturday, July 7th 1979 at a little before 2:30pm (EDT).
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!
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