Nyore, Nyore, Zimbabwe Furnishers. Nyore, Nyore, Zimbabwe cha cha cha". ____ ------------------------------------------------ "Wish, the luxury you can afford" -------- "Golden green Valvoline. The oiliest oil you've ever seen." "Gerrie Rafterios is my name. Selling fine furniture is my game." "Pop into Radio Limited" "Exide. Still keeps going when the rest have stopped" "The Colony that's the place to dine. The Colony where you can entertain, wine and dine - in luxury.The Colony - that's the gourmet's haunt. That's the Colony Restaraunt." _______ Talk about TV memories! What about the sweetie ads - "pick a pack of Piccadilly" or "pocket a packet of Pascals"; "Silvikrin puts the oo in shampoo, see what Silvikrin can do for you"; "sell your house through Fox & Carney, sell your house through Fox & Carney"; and perhaps the most famous of all - "you'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!"
AnnD

Re: old TV ads..... whenever I want to call a taxi the slogan....Rixi Taxi six oh six six six...comes to mind!
Mary

Remember this RIXI TAXI add.: 1) 707 707 rixi taxi 707, thats our new number for you to remember, 707 once no twice..... 2) Nyore nyore Zimbabwe furnishers, Nyore nyore Zimbabwe cha cha cha......3) The Royco soup add with the kid flexing his arms saying "Soup makes me big like a giant like this".....4) Jazz stores where the customer is king, Jazz stores come and do your shopping.Does anyone remember : 5) Being bathed and in your pyjamas at 4:30pm sitting expectantly in front of the TV while the National Anthem played and the the black and white test patern stared back at you for what seemed like years.
Audrey

What about "don't forget the fruitgums, mum?"
Paul

What about "Zing' oranges on aerials to make the car go faster ?
Ted

Talking about TV: when it first arrived like everybody else 100 miles from Salisbury we had to have an aerial on top of a 60-foot pole. Even then every episode of Rawhide looked like it took place in a snowstorm. The opening song ro Rawhidw went something like this: 'Whip em up, get em up, move 'em up (rpt) ... Rawhide! Through wind and stormy weather ... ' (or something like that).
Terry

Those Supersonic transistors, red or blue with the enormous white knobs, were great little radios. Mine went on forever and ever... I spent many an evening picking up the overseas transmissions on shortwave. Does anyone remember Hilversum!! At times, I used to stumble across radio-telephone conversations between troopies and their loved one's back home! What an invasion of privacy!
Sandy

yes ...... David Davies and LM radio ...... how many times I went to sleep with my little supersonic on my chest listening to their programmes !
What about Don Burdett and his "Silver Linings" and the troopie shows on a Saturday and Sunday afternoons! The E-Y-E-G-E-N-E- Jackpot at 2pm Saturdays, and the "Top of the Pops" at 10 .....Definitely Radio days and in the words of the late and great Freddie Mercury " Radio whats new..radio someone still loves you!"
Marilyn

Someone earlier mentioned Leslie Sullivan. I used to hate him early in the mornings. He used to start the day with "UP, UP, UP, UP, UP - GOOD MORNING EVERBODY". He was a real sadist at that time of the day. L
LesG

' member " Do you Suffer From MaFushkwa?" Penny kools, Fal Tree 5000, Baron's Bar at the Holiday Inn BYO, Look 'n Listen, Don't Drive Rhodesia Dry..... Please, Thumbs Up for Good Road Sense, French Lace Perfume, Spa Shower Foam, Colgate Apple Shampoo, Gwyneth Ashley Robin, Jody Wayne, 4 Jacks and a Jill, the Click Song, getting your school uniform from McCullagh and Bothwell, Rho Paint, "Security Forces regret to Announce the .........." Scope Magazines, (when they were'nt banned), petrol coupons, spanish fly, frickies, (yeah Baby!!!) tickies, a Garden Boy called Nyama, BBQ Peanuts, those pink sugar peanuts, The Champions, The Professionals, Stompie Dwyer, the bi scope, Grorge and Mildred, bic pens, Omo washing powder, the Surf Show Pick A Box, A, B C, D ,E F Banana, I will Bye You a Sweet Banana, the Bulawayo Trade Fair, Z International, Margories Night Club, the Rainbow Room at the Southern Sun, ....... and finally when Muffin the Mule was'nt a sex offence!!!! Cheers!!!
Adam

Does any one remember this from Wrex Tarr ?........Do you wake up in the morning feeling tired and listness, like the bottom has fallen out of your world ?......Take zakanaka tablets and in twenty minutes, it will feel like the world has fallen out of your bottom.
Darren

Thinking of Wrex Tarr - How about "Family Size, Economy Size and Help me to the car size" Can anyone remember other good lines?
Morag

Sonya Hatton reading us the daily news and Norman McTaggart in all those glorious Pantos. Christmases have never been the same again for me without the Mayor's Christmas Cheer Fund raising money and the reading of pledges on TV. Ahhhhh.......those were the days.
Nkosikas

I remember those songs by Mike Warren. `When the sun shines on the Gomo, and the bush gets Blerry hot ------ ? chorus - We are the Shumba drinkers, we drinks dozens a day, We are the Shumba drinkers, Why work when we can play, Ek se, ek se, ek se, ek se. `I met a Pommie in the army, All thin and white and pale, I offered him a `Chibulie', He said `no thanks, I prefer Ale'! We are the Shumba drinkers, etc. etc. Do you also remember:- `It's a long way to Mukumbura, It's a long way to go, It's a long way from your Hometown, -----------?, Goodbye Bulawayo, totsiens Cecil Square, It's a long long way to Mukumbura, but we are going up there to `stir'! ? Also, sung to John Denver's country road song:- `---------------?' `Bulawayo, Salisbury City, Take me home Lomagundi Road'. The memory is beginning to fade now and I wish I could remember all the words. CAN ANYONE ELSE HELP?
John

Who remembers this old Wrex Tarr song?

The Terrorists Lament

On a very hot day
in the month of May
A terrorist came a-sliding
Down a scorching track
With a heavy pack
Looking for a hiding

As he strode along
without a song
his heart was filled with sadness
and he breathed a sigh
for the days gone by
before this time of madness

(Chorus) Oh the stinging Tsetse Flies
and the crocodile eyes
this is no place to dally
for there's no food here
and I thirst for beer
in the hot Zambezi valley

In the cool place that I come from
The women are like velvet
The bulldogs all have rubber teeth
and the hens lay instant omlette

Lappa kia go mina
enacona meilies
and mazambaan by the million
mina funa hamba
lappa kia go mina
instead of freedom fighting

(Chorus) Oh the stinging Tsetse Flies
and the crocodile eyes
this is no place to dally
for there's no food here
and I thirst for beer
in the hot Zambezi valley

Hopefully I have got all the words right, it has all come out of memory so there could be some mistakes somewhere. Sadza