Les Jones

1970s Kern’s bread commercials playing now at a YouTube near you

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | Best Of, East Tennessee |

Four Kern’s bread TV commercials. Number 4 name-drops Etowah and features CB radios. Number 2 includes gratuitous use of “beaver.”

History of the commercials here. “Turns out the TV commercial was performed by A.J. Trucker and was a take-off on Old Home Filler-Up An’ Keep On A-Truckin’ Cafe by C.W. McCall of Convoy fame. I did not know that. Also it turns out that C.W. McCall existed because of an ad campaign for a different bread company.”

Kern’s was a local bread maker in east Tennessee. Food City recently revived the brand. I’m still trying to get my hands on one of those Kern’s Bread t-shirts with Mavis.

Thanks to a commenter.

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2 Comments to 1970s Kern’s bread commercials playing now at a YouTube near you

Jerry Gibbs
June 24, 2009

‘Ol A.J. shure seems a might “creepier” than he did when I was a kid. Am I getting too old?

Les Jones
June 24, 2009

It was the Seventies. This is the Aughties. Things from back then look different now.

I gotta say there was a lot if innuendo I didn’t catch as a kid. Slick as a beaver. I’d a stayed all night. The “towjob.”

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