YOU CAN'T DEEP FREEZE A RED HOT MAMA - Sophie Tucker

[a440]

Great song for the appliance lover in all of us!

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[tolivac]

clever little song-and an interesting TT.

 

[tolivac]

and oh yes-the little pop up picture show in the background as the record plays!

 

[vacbear58]

Pop up picture

Interesting graphics LOLOLOL

If it is not obvious, its actually the album cover - I have the same album myself, bought in a used record store in SF in the mid-late 1990s

Al

 

[miele_ge]

Thanks for posting that Brent.

I had been thinking about that song a lot lately and it was a nice treat to listen to it with it being 0 degrees out this morning.

She was an amazing woman.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks for the song!

For a time, and at the time of this song, the brand name "DEEP FREEZE" became one of those generic nouns like Frigidaire, Kodak and Hoover. Of course, Hoover was not only a noun, but also a verb, as in to Hoover the carpet (in the infinitive form) but it was very conjugatable in all tenses, voices and moods. When cameras were commonly called Kodaks and refrigerators were called Frigidaires, home freezers were commonly called the Deep Freeze as in, "I'll put it in the deep freeze," because Deep Freeze was the first widely marketed brand of home freezer. This generic use of the name prevailed into the 50s. The first ones were round and top-opening like a wringer washer with the compressor in a rectangular box at the side. The large model consisted of two round freezing chambers with the box between them. They had beautiful Streamline louvers or fins at the base. The whole cabinet was finished in a gleaming Arctic white. Many brands introduced freezers into their appliance lines, but they were stuck with their brand name. One independent firm marketed a freezer under the name HARDER FREEZE, but they failed to coin a term like the makers of the DEEP FREEZE.

 

[whirlcool]

That's why companies are so careful with the way their names are used. If the name falls into common use, they can loose their claim to exclusivity. Their name falls into common use.
This has happened with Kleenex tissues.

Volkswagen is particularly sensitive where their name is used.
There was a private auto repair center that specialized in VW bug repair. The place was called "Herr Wagner's VW Repair" VW went after him for using their name in his companies name.

He changed it to "Herr Wagner's Air Cooled Auto Repair" VW came after him again saying that since most people associate "air cooled engines with VW" he still couldn't use the name.

I think he finally changed it to "Herr Wagner's Auto Haus" and VW finally left him alone.

 

[112561]

Love those big companies and their high and mighty crap. Marriot got after a restaurant on the highway near here, it was named "Allie's". Seems like THE Mrs. Marriott was named Allison (Allie of course) and Marriott was calling their new main road eaterie Allie's. So, the other restaurant who was using the name first, called it something else, and for some reason, wasn't in business long. Soon after, good ole Marriott dropped their Allie's diner line.

 

[tolivac]

Same thing with Skil Tools "Skilsaw" portable hand held circular saw-Many tool users then called anyones brand of hand circular saws "Skilsaws"Skil insists they first developed the tool-not for cutting wood boards--but BRUSH and suger plantation cane harvesting.the birth of the worn drive Skilsaw-the saw and worm drive were at the end of a long shaft-the motor at the top(electric)sort of like a modern weed eater or brush cutter.The Skil machine had a saw blade instead.

 

[laundromat]

sounds like 'Rap' music a bit.