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Beer In Ads #2593: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Shep Fields

March 28, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1956. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” This ad features American band leader Shep Fields. He “was the band leader for the ‘Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm’ orchestra during the Big Band era of the 1930s.” In this ad, Fields is lumped together with all New Yorkers, who inexplicably “are sound judges of food and drink,” and therefore choose to drink the “quicker quencher,” Rheingold Extra Dry.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Celebrities, History, Music, Rheingold

Beer In Ads #2592: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Victor Borge

March 27, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1956. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” This ad features Danish and American comedian, conductor, and pianist Victor Borge. In this ad, Borge shows off his prize chicken, saying he has a lot in common with it, and then sayings he also has a lot in common with humans, too, and specifically “a liking for” Rheingold Extra Dry.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Celebrities, History, Music, Rheingold

Beer In Ads #2591: My Beer Is Rheingold Is Cab Calloway

March 26, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1960. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” This ad features American jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway. “He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States’ most popular big bands from the start of the 1930s to the late 1940s. Calloway’s band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus “Doc” Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon ‘Chu’ Berry, New Orleans guitarist Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton.” In this ad, Calloway enjoys drinking a Rheingold Extra Dry after his show.

Rheingold-1960-cab-calloway

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Celebrities, History, Music, Rheingold

Beer In Ads #2590: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Gene Sarazen

March 25, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Sunday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1940. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” This ad features American professional golfer Gene Sarazen. He was “one of the world’s top players in the 1920s and 1930s, and the winner of seven major championships. He is one of five players (along with Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods) to win each of the four majors at least once, now known as the Career Grand Slam.” In this ad, Sarazen mentions that even before Americans played golf, they were making Rheingold Extra Dry beer.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Celebrities, History, Rheingold, Sports

Beer In Ads #2589: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Paul Newman

March 24, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1958. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” This ad features was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist Paul Newman. In this ad, Newman states his perfect beer has “taste, character — everything,” and only one beer fits that description, Rheingold Extra Dry.

Rheingold-1958-paul-newman

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Celebrities, History, Rheingold

Beer In Ads #2588: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Ed Sullivan

March 23, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1940. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” This ad features was an American television personality, sports and entertainment reporter Ed Sullivan. He was also a “syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, later popularly—and, eventually, officially—renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in US broadcast history.” In this ad, Sullivan extolls the virtues of a dry beer, and claims the driest is Rheingold Extra Dry.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Celebrities, History, Rheingold

Beer In Ads #2587: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Phyllis Brooks

March 22, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1941. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” This ad features American actress and model Phyllis Brooks. In this ad, when Brooks was playing Panama Hattie on Broadway, she says it’s easy to understand the popularity of her hit show by comparing it to the popularity of Rheingold Extra Dry.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Celebrities, History, Rheingold

Beer In Ads #2586: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Earl Sande

March 21, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1941. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” This ad features American Hall of Fame jockey and thoroughbred horse trainer Earl Sande. In this ad, Sande says he’s ridden winners but now he prefers pouring one, like Rheingold Extra Dry.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Celebrities, History, Rheingold

Beer In Ads #2585: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Dorothy Dandridge

March 20, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1960. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” This ad features African American film and theatre actress, singer, and dancer Dorothy Dandridge. “She is perhaps best known for being the first African-American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1954 film Carmen Jones. Dandridge performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in uncredited roles.” In this ad, Dandridge says we should count her in among the total number of people who love Rheingold Extra Dry.

Rheingold-1960-dorothy-dandridge

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Celebrities, History, Rheingold

Beer In Ads #2584: My Beer Is Rheingold Says Larry Steele

March 19, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is for Rheingold, from 1959. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rheingold recruited a number of prominent celebrities to do ads for them, all using the tagline: “My beer is Rheingold — the Dry beer!” This ad features Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star Larry Steele. There’s not much I could find about him, but he apparently produced a well-known traveling show from 1946-1971 called “Smart Affairs.” In this ad, Steele is holding a glass of Rheingold Extra Dry and giving us tips on show business.

Rheingold-1959-larry-steele

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Celebrities, History, Rheingold

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