“I did the Shake’n’Vac and broke my fucking back”
– I Love You Because (You Look Like Jim Reeves)
So… what do we know about Shake’n’Vac?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“I did the Shake’n’Vac and broke my fucking back”
– I Love You Because (You Look Like Jim Reeves)
So… what do we know about Shake’n’Vac?
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
“Puts the freshness back” apparently. Playground variations included various things instead of “freshness” which were put back, such as “dog dirt”.
30 October 2016
hendrix-tattoo
You will be humming this for the rest of the day.
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30 October 2016
Paul f
Bizarrely this ditty wormed its way to the front of my mind only yesterday, before I clocked that it was due up on the A-Z.
30 October 2016
dr desperate
Shaken and Vac’d by West End actress Jenny Logan, who also led the leather-clad policewomen in The Two Ronnies’ serial ‘The Worm That Turned’.
See here at [1:50], etc. (@Hendrix-Tat, don’t watch [40:40].)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ak3axhUpM
30 October 2016
Peter mcornotholgist
Was it the first advert that introduced a dance into the realm of pointless crap ?
30 October 2016
EXXO
Dunno but let’s all post any dance-related 1970s ads we can think of. I’ll kick off with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B9xzeEh1Jg
Good game, good game.
30 October 2016
BOBBY SVARC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z54dT7RTUs
I’ll be your dog.
30 October 2016
hendrix-tattoo
That’s what my hose did when I saw your Sally James pic Dr.D.
Here’s my 70’s favourite ad(Let’s hope my link works this time)
https://youtu.be/VDv750OoYdg
30 October 2016
theqwill10
I’m fond of this fella’s version of the Shake ‘n’ Vac jingle…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-VZ_G4cMyE
31 October 2016
MISTER TUBBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFckIrDFGvw
Not sure that it’s strictly dance related, but it’s better than that bobbing up and down thing they do at the proms
31 October 2016
hendrix-tattoo
Another 70’s ditty folks.
https://youtu.be/GVAyyBlWhTI
31 October 2016
hendrix-tattoo
Not sure if this is from the 70’s, Anyway this is my last.
Cresta! What the fuck were we drinking?
Cresta!
https://youtu.be/I2eEWlyVoxQ
31 October 2016
Bobby svarc
Any need for the language?
1 November 2016
hendrix-tattoo
Sorry for using the F-word.
I apologize folks.
1 November 2016
EXXO
@ H-Tat – I’m guessing that Svarco was just taking the piss out of the snooty comments some of us made about your early posts, the sarcastic fucker.
1 November 2016
liquid len
If anyone can find the Whitbread Tankard advert with Graham Stark being asked by a stetsoned-up American if he was “Lord Tankard” I will give that man a crisp fiver.
Or a placcy one with a window in it, whatever.
2 November 2016
hendrix-tattoo
@Exxo, My early posts on here were rather crass and cringeworthy and looking back now I feel embarrassed.
So any comments made about them are fully justified.
After reading the Big Issue article a couple of months back, I decided only to post comments that made any sense.
In respecting the regular pedants that have used this site for years.
It was a pleasure meeting you in Lincoln, Putting faces to names who post on here and let’s hope I meet more faces at future gigs like yourself and Svarco.
P.S. I was the the sod who kept asking Nigel to play Sealclubbing and spin me round like a record near the end.
2 November 2016
eXXO
Cringeing at your own previous posts and wishing there were ‘edit’ and ‘delete’ buttons? Can’t imagine how that must feel mate, nope, not at all, not me.
Great to meet you too and keep on keeping on! There’s a great tradition of popular posties shouting for their favourite tunes…
2 November 2016
BOBBY SVARC
Coventry and Bilston are my only 2017 gigs, So book early if your want to meet me 😉
Coventry Music Museum and the Bilko Museum are close to the Empire, well worth a visit. The support at Cov, are the wonderful The Broken Rebels. If we’re all still alive I’ll see you there.
….Come on you City slickers!!!!!!
2 November 2016
eXXO
I’ll be there if I’m in the country Mick & Looking forward to finally meeting you! Like the sound of the music museum.
That reminds me of more I meant to say in the gig review thread…
2 November 2016
BOBBY SVARC
It’s very good so I’ve been told. I haven’t visited myself yet, which is ridiculous. I had to read your post three times, I thought it said ‘the sound of music’ museum!
2 November 2016
hendrix-tattoo
According to a telegraph article in 2007.
The catchline from the television advert for Shake n’Vac carpet cleaner has been voted Britain’s favourite advertising jingle, according to a new survey.
Shake n’Vac advert
“Do the Shake and Vac, and put the freshness back”, sung by a dancing housewife as she vacuums her living room, came out ahead of raft of other memorable jingles.
The “Secret lemonade drinker” campaign for R Whites lemonade was second most popular, while the wailing gondolier’s rendition of “Just one Cornetto” came in third.
What’s the betting we will be humming these jingles in the coming days folks!
2 November 2016
Pirx the purist
Jenny Logan once recounted that she was as hungover as hell the day she filmed the ad, and that it was all she could not to hurl at the smell of the SnV.
23 March 2019
PETER MCORNITHOLOGIST
F C Vac. Hungarian champions 2002 .Now Ipswichesque .
3 April 2019