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Please someone help me :shock:
I heard that old song Is this the way to Amarillo last night and I can not get it out of my head that there was a telly advert in the early 70s for something to do with Armadillo that used the song confused
I vaguely think it had something to do with booze but thats about all I can remember. Ive looked on the net and asked people but no one else remembers it :?
Now obviously I could just be going bonkers but I hope someone here can enlighten me
(yes I know I havent got enough to do etc lol )
I think you need a hobby Warwick, ever considered swinging? Great fun! :twisted:
Thanks MQ most enlightening lol
Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside?!
~Reese! surprised
Surely you mean that classic by that gorgeous singing voice Tony Christie
Is this the way to Amarillo?
Everynight I have been hugging my pillow
Show me the way to Amarillo,
and Marie who waits for me.
But his best had to be the theme to The Persuaders
In the avenues and alleyways
where the soul of a man is easy to buy
everybodys wheeling, everbodys stealing
all the low are living high
can we ever stop em
some of us are gonna try!
He is from my neck of the wood here in sunny South Yorkshire and apparently making something of a comeback, I used to follow him around the clubs in my teens.
Anyway he chooses
chances are he loses
no one gets to live too long
Strangely the first single I bought , now that dates me
Not getting any further with my quest however
looks like I am mad after all :cry:
Think you may be on a loser, I searched the "Sounds familiar" site and a few others that deal with TV ads and cannot find it, and I think I would have remembered my favourit singer in an ad. Also in the early 80's I was actually presented with a stuffed Armadillo and I cannot recall any associated adverts for a product with that name.
The beast was bought by my then boyfriend while staggering around Rio drunk as only a sailor can be, he bought his mother a beautiful piece of Amythest mined from the suger loaf mountain. C'est le vie!
Whats all this about amoured dilldos :shock:
I think a few of the lasses on here could use one or two of those.
They seem to keep destroying thiers. lol
All I can think of is Channel 4's "Without Walls", which was early 90s, not 70s. The segment links were an apparently drunk armadillo waddling around a bare studio supposedly doing the continuity announcements. dunno
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Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside?!
~Reese! surprised

Not quite. I think it was:
I like armadillos! Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside. Armadillos!
all i can keep thinging about is Max n paddy in the bus singing to the asian elders (phoniex nitghs) sotrry
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Please someone help me :shock:
I heard that old song Is this the way to Amarillo last night and I can not get it out of my head that there was a telly advert in the early 70s for something to do with Armadillo that used the song confused
I vaguely think it had something to do with booze but thats about all I can remember. Ive looked on the net and asked people but no one else remembers it :?
Now obviously I could just be going bonkers but I hope someone here can enlighten me
(yes I know I havent got enough to do etc lol )

Gonna show my age now and admit to seeing the adverts.
Wasn't it a wine called Amarillo???????
Obviously a play on the word armadillo.
Hope this helps
Marcuso
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Wasn't it a wine called Amarillo???????

Don't tell me... was an amontillado, right?! :P
~Reese! surprised
Well Dime bars used armadillos
"Dime bars: the tagline was soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside. They had some vox pop guy interviewing a country bumpkin who, given his moment of fame, says in a thick country accent, "Oi loikes... ARMADILLOS!" "Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside! ARMADILLOS!". - Cat
Jas
XXX
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Well Dime bars used armadillos
"Dime bars: the tagline was soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside. They had some vox pop guy interviewing a country bumpkin who, given his moment of fame, says in a thick country accent, "Oi loikes... ARMADILLOS!" "Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside! ARMADILLOS!". - Cat
Jas
XXX

Both parts were played by Harry Enfield, I believe.
Thanks Marcuso
I m pretty sure youre right just got confused with Armadillo. Its all coming back now, I think you kept the container and got it refilled at the local offee
Oh the days of party sevens , tank tops and hot summers cool
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Thanks Marcuso
I m pretty sure youre right just got confused with Armadillo. Its all coming back now, I think you kept the container and got it refilled at the local offee
Oh the days of party sevens , tank tops and hot summers cool

See what happens when you retire.....confusion on a grand scale, how the fuck you can mix up Amarillo and Armadillo is beyond me. Amarillo is a town in Texas, that featured in a a nice little ditty that as someone said earlier, was sung by Tony Christie. An Armadillo is a rather ugly creature that has a hard outer skin made up of overlapping scales that protect the creature and make it wholly suitable for Armadillo skimming, a little known sport where the animal is grabbed by the back legs and flung across a body of water such as a pond or lake rather like children do with stones, the idea being to fling the creature the maximum distance whilst obtaining the maximum number of bounces. This sport has yet to get full exposure in the U.K. on account of there being no sustainable Armadillo population. I believe that it was tried with the common Hedgehog, however the difference between a smooth scaled back and a rough prickly back, meant that the fun factor with the Hedgehog, i.e. the bounce, wasn't there as they just hit the water, turned over swam for a bit, then drowned.
Thanks for that Warwick .. .since reading this thread I have that damn song going round in MY head now evil mad :evil:
Wonders if she can reply the favour ...????
We are the cheeky girls, we are the cheeky girls .. !!!