Once upon a time, when I was a young lad, despite my parents warning as they left
the house for a dinner party, I stayed up late. Just as I heard the car pull into the
driveway a most bizarre television commercial came on and it had been riveted into
my psych ever since. The movie camera view was charging through a house in a classic
haunted house fashion, into the house, up the stairs, down a hallway, to a door, and
all the while there was a girl or group of girls chanting this phrase over and over again:
"Every night before bed, She plays Ted." "Every night before bed, She plays Ted." "Every
night before bed, She plays Ted." Over and over. And the door swings open and there
is a girl playing with a Ted Nugent doll. Not one of those plastic type dolls we see now
a days, but a big, sewn together doll of Ted. I've searched and searched for many years
for one of those dolls and even a scant piece of that old commercial to no avail.
I've asked friends I've met all over the country since the '70s when I saw it the one
time that one night, but nobody I ever spoke with had seen it and thought perhaps
I was making it up. I was transfixed to the T.V. when my parents walked in, still laughing
and smiling from their good time, saw me sitting there with the T.V. on and smartly
said, "Get to bed!" And I scurried off without a word, still wondering about what I had
just witnessed.
Holy snot! I just found it! Or the photo of it at least! OMG! I'm not crazy! It really happened!
Apparently they had run ads in Teen Beat and Tiger Beat magazines. Brilliant! I am vindicated!
Double Live Gonzo! Released January 1978 and I was 10 and a half. Now I wonder if it
was before or after the Mighty Blizzard of '78. Man, those were good times. Little Judy McCann.
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