...some on this site already know that I do a history series on the local NPR affiliate titled "Echoes of a Century." The most recent program in that series is now up on the 'Net in mp3 form, and it's made up of radio commercials for the "Blaxploitation" movies of 1971-76, the ones that made stars out of Pam Grier and Billy Dee Williams and the like. You can check it out at http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18586 -- and brace yourself for some of the clips they used in the radio spots, not to mention at least two of the Fred Williamson movie titles included ;-) ...
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"Blaxploitation" movie commercials on my latest show
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Johnny Morgan
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THANK YOU! for keeping this bit of history alive.
It's beyond rare to even hear a movie ad in radio nowadays, let alone some of these more risque titles.
And remember when jocks or the V/O guy would actually warn a movie was "Rated X!!!"
It's beyond rare to even hear a movie ad in radio nowadays, let alone some of these more risque titles.
And remember when jocks or the V/O guy would actually warn a movie was "Rated X!!!"
That was well done! I enjoyed that! Growing up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and going to public schools there. I remember my friends talking about these movies and hearing the commercials on the urban and some CHR stations. Man those were some strange days. The culture classes often broke out to fist fights over who's movie hero was "the badest". Of course in those days (the 1970s), it didn't take much for a fight to break out! 
The music from that era is so cool!
The music from that era is so cool!- Status