Please Help Me!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]

Subject: PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
From: GUEST,HELEN
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 07:10 AM

could anyone help, i am desperately trying to find a copy of the tv commercial for Newcastle Brown Ale with Owen Brannigan from the 1960's

info:


-          Product: Newcastle Brown Ale

-          Date: probably late 1950's / 1960's

-          Info: The late opera singer Owen Brannigan sung the theme tune……(to the lyrics of 'Cushie Butterfield')

-          It was set in a bar with two men drinking?

-          Lyrics :

"If you want a drink that's perfection indeed,
I'll give you a guide to fulfilling your need,
At home by your fireside, in club or in bar,
The sign of good taste is the famous Blue Star!
It's a fine beer it's a bonny beer, with the north's biggest sale...
For complete satisfaction, Newcastle Brown Ale...

NEWCASTLE BROWN ALE!!!!!



-          possibly only transmitted in the Tyne Tees region?



this is for a documentary celebrating the life of Owen Brannigan.
I have tried every possible place i can think of (ie brewery, advertising archives, tyne tees, bfa etc...)and noone has it!!

if any one can help please email me.....
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: GUEST,BanjoRay
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 07:48 AM

I always thought the 5th line was "It's a strong beer it's a bottled beer" etc
Good luck with finding it - a lovely advert well worth preserving.
Ray

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 07:58 AM

You might try some of the links on this page:

http://www.headington.org.uk/adverts/links/index.htm

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: alex s
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 07:59 AM

I think BanjoRay is right - i used to sing that version in wm clubs.
Good luck.

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 08:06 AM

The soundtrack of this advert seems to be on the CD listed here (track named as "Brown ale commercial") - halfway down the page, about the 20th album title:

http://www.jgwindows.com/cdlocal.htm

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: GUEST,Sapper on TRU between Gloucester and Bristol
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 08:10 AM

There was also the advert that went:
If you want the best beer,
the best by any test beer,
you must have the ale that is fermentation fresh

It then went on to extol the virtues of Newcastle Brown and Amber Ales, to the tune of The Keel Raa.

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: romany man
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 09:27 AM

Cant help with the newky brown add what about the music in the mfi add, i know it from somewhere but cant put a name to it, any ideas folks

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: Midchuck
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 09:38 AM

I'd just like to find Newcastle Brown Ale itself, in the US, at a price that won't bankrupt me to drink it. Gawd, that's good stuff!

Got to make another trip to Old Blighty. On the other hand, _everything_ will bankrupt me over there, with what's happened to the dollar.

Oh well. We have better whiskey.

Peter.

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 12:11 PM

In Newcastle we call it Dog; served with a half-pint glass. I don't live in Newcastle any more, but there are times when only a bottle of Dog will do...

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 12:59 PM

Try Johnny Handle, who still sings it. He doesn't have a reliable email, but if you PM me, I'll give you his phone no.

Paws

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 01:03 PM

mfi ad Music for a found harmonium, I think, played by Sharon Shannon

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: Bernard
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 02:25 PM

No - Patrick Street play the version on the MFI ad...

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: peregrina
Date: 09 Sep 08 - 04:13 PM

This isn't the music you're looking for, but there's a picture of the ale here, and another song...


here

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: romany man
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 05:48 AM

thanks all will try and track it down, Peregrina, thats a good link ta.

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: pavane
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 06:17 AM

1950's and 60's was a bit early for much off-air recording of TV, but TV and Radio amateurs might have done it. (Like the oldest Dr Who eposides)

Have you tried any of the amateur radio organisations?

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: GUEST,sull
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 07:43 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7DSWu8-qEc&feature=PlayList&p=D7B428512850BD45&playnext=1&index=4

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 16 Dec 08 - 10:32 AM

That one's to the tune of Blaydon Races (also used for The Viewer ad), not Cushy Butterfield. And that ain't Owen Brannigan singing it.
I well remember the Newcastle Brown ad. We were taken from school to listen to an Owen Brannigan recital and (of course) requested it.

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP ME!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: GUEST,hulshoff newcastle lover
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 08:45 PM

does anyone know how to tell just how fresh a batch of newcastle is? I cant decipher the bottleing codes it reads on the bottom of the label 31.08 S L227 94 O2:13 can anyone help me?

Subject: RE: Please Help Me!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 11:09 AM

anyone know where I can find the 1st Geordie into space ad~?

where they give him a pill of NBA but he has a bottle in his pocket and has to fly about in the spaceship to catch the broon flying all over the place? had the classic lines; "Hey Herbie how's it feelin to be the 1st Geordie in space?" "me names Herbert and am parched"

classic!

Subject: RE: Please Help Me!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 11:55 AM

All a bit irrelevant as the stuff has been brewed in Tadcaster since last year. Gateshead was bad enough but...John Smith's? I hope the label on the bottle no longer has the Newcastle landmarks within the Blue Star.

To add insult to injury, St James's Park is to be rebranded the Smelly Trainer Stadium or something. What is the world coming to?

Subject: RE: Please Help Me!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: GUEST,LK
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 05:24 PM

Yes I am actually friends with the Lady that designed and directed the advert - please contact me on [e-mail] and I will be happy to point you in the right direction! Thnanks

Subject: RE: Please Help Me!!!! [Newcastle Brown AleTV Ad]
From: GUEST,Bob the Horse.
Date: 05 Mar 16 - 02:31 AM

Hi.
Did you ever find a copy of the advert? It was filmed in 'The Jubilee' pub on Jubilee Road, Gosforth. I only ask because I am now also looking for a copy of the ad'.