Old TV Commercials

My local newspaper had a big article today about a TV show that will be broadcast tonight showing the most unusual and memorable local TV commercials of the past 50 years. Wait! This isn't as dull as it may first sound.
I remember some of the oldie commercials and they were hilarious. We New Orleanians are known for our rather...uh....different view of the world, and that view is reflected in those old commercial spots. For example, I remember Al Scramuza, the "Crawfish guy":. Al used to sing as he loaded huge vats of crawfish during his commercials even though Al could hardy carry a tune. His commercial refrain ws sung 'Seafood City..Where the crawfish are pretty". Al sold a lot of seafood and became wealth for awhile until falling on hard times. He promptly gambled away his profits and at the end of his business life his store was robbed. Apparently, some crook who liked his commercials decided to blow a hole in the back of Al's store. He got away with more than crawfish and Al was uninsured.
Then there were the 'Frankie and Johnny' furniture commercials. F&J was a furniture store that sold because of funny commercials. When the customers eventually saw the furniture wasn't so good, and that they were paying high credit costs, Frankie and Johnnie's became an almost forgotten furniture venue. In those commercials one actor played a salesman who scooted across the floor in a Michael Jackson style moon walk to tell a prospective customer, "I say, I say I say. You have no money..Need credit...See the special man." The camera then showed a huge cigar smoking man, allegedly the guy who granted credit purchases at Frankie and Johnny's", who proceeded to mug into the camera "Needs the furniture! No Money! Let her have it!" As you might imagine, when the poor and less than reputable crowd saw that Frankie and Johnny was handing over furniture with no money charges and giving easy credit, they flooded that store and created a mountain of uncollectable debt for Frankie and Johnnie's.
But it was all amusing, as were many more classic New Orleans TV commercials. I could write about many more I remember, but I guess it makes little sense to you this way. You had to see those commercials to appreciate them. I'll never forget them and think they were the highlight of TV watching in New Orleans.