Select PayPal Credit to have the option to pay over time. Like, who was allowed to borrow the actual dancing raisins costume CALRAB had? And, I didn't know this, but nearly 100 percent of the raisins the U.S. produces come from within a 60 mile radius of the city. SW: I mean, how did you react when you found out about that?? The claymation raisins singing and dancing to Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became a kids TV show, recorded an album that went platinum, launched a range of toys and costumes, and starred in an Emmy-winning Christmas special. Lead vocals in the group were sung by musician Buddy Miles. Constitution Avenue, NW HARDEES AD: Announcing the big plush bendable California Raisins at Hardees SW: There were California Raisins Halloween costumesthey were bestsellers in 1988. And now they are all I can think about!! And that takes unity. SW: Kalem was voting on behalf of the packer he worked for. [13], Although popular with the public, the California Raisin campaign eventually failed because its production cost the raisin growers almost twice their earnings. [16], In 2002, the Food Network program Unwrapped featured a segment on The California Raisins featuring interviews with Will Vinton, David Altschul, and Mark Gustafson of Vinton Studios. And they should pretty much be still once they do their heard it! Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. When Seth Werner, a 31-year-old copywriter at the ad agency Foote, Cone & Belding, walked into the pitch meeting, he knew he had to put on a show. The classic about a man who finds out his woman is cheating on him was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. A sequel to the original CBS special aired in 1990 under the title The Raisins: Sold Out! Note: This transcript may contain errors. In order to be successful, this big "family" has to work together. But the Raisinss influence went beyond just TV and music and began to invade all levels of pop culture. The raisin packers didn't reach this decision because anyone had anything against the ad, or because licensing fees had stopped rolling in, or even because raisin sales were down. A Saturday morning cartoon series, The California Raisin Show, debuted the following year, but lasted only 13 episodes. The plot of the game involved Tiny Goodbite having to rescue his friends who have been kidnapped and held in a cereal factory. Vocals were sung by musician Buddy Miles. It keeps you in shape. His crime: growing raisins and then deciding to sell . The 1980's TV commercials for California raisins have been called some of the best ads ever made. Commissioned by the California Raisin Advisory Board (CALRAB), a trade group of raisin producers in Californias Central Valley, the commercial was part of a multi-million dollar campaign to combat slowing raisin sales. SW: Seth has a whole scrapbook of these letters. But thanks to the California Raisins, its now commonplace to see ads that include anthropomorphized food or candy. He writes: "The thirty seconds of this commercial seemed like an eternity. They go on for pages and pages, carefully typed out on letterhead and hand-written in beautiful cursive. But that wasn't the story around town. Our collection database is a work in progress. Casey Holford and John DeLore composed our theme. This figure is also included on CalRaisins.org. Would everyone contribute to the cost of an ad campaign? A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. SPEAKER TEN: We had the Christmas special on videotape, we probably watched it like three or four times a December, between when I was like 4 and 8. But in 1994, the. It began to cost CALRAB too much to market the Raisins, and the public moved on. SW: Back in Fresno, the raisin growers and packers watched with amazement as the Dancing Raisins turned into superstars. By the time "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" hit #1, the song had been sitting there for more than two years. Almost all the growers in the room were against it. I Heard It Through the Grapevine Lyrics by California Raisins from the Meet the Raisins! And since they were already touring the country, at least on TV screens, there was only one logical next step. McCartney. African American History Curatorial Collective. California Raisins poster vintage 1987 Heard it Through The Grapevine. VINTAGE THE CALIFORNIA RAISINS 1987 YELLOW PLASTIC LUNCHBOX WITH THERMOS, California Raisins Trumpet Figure 1988 Applause Calrab 80s PVC Vintage, CALIFORNIA RAISINS RUDY BAGAMAN, BANANA WHITE & LICK BROCCOLI FIGURES (JES33). This is Brought to you by Brands you know, stories you don't. The California Dancing Raisins ad has been called one of the best of all time. Because the smaller packers still thought Sunmaid had an unfair advantage. And by the end of the night, all anyone could agree on was that one of the siblings was getting a bigger cut than everyone else. Seth Werner, the young copywriter newly in charge of the California Raisins account, had a concept. On the table below them. Although Vinton made one last Claymation TV movie about the Raisins in 1990, the end of the '80s brought a decline in the Raisinss popularity. I heard it through the grapevine. I Heard It Through the Grapevine features a clip the movie The Big Chill where a group of teenagers in a library who are listening to the song through headphones which leads them to dance . But in 1986, that's just what happened when the California Raisin Advisory Board launched a series of ads by the California Raisins, a group that existed only in . Post's Raisin Bran cereal took advantage of the increasingly popular dried fruit and teamed up with the Raisins to help promote their boxed cereal, and fast food chain Hardees bought a license to produce the incredibly popular collectible Raisins figurines. These wildly popular clay animation raisins grew into far more than their creators had ever dreamed of. And if you don't have a consensus, it doesn't matter. SW: So a couple of months ago, I read this New York Times article that sort of started it all for me. 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The California Raisins were a fictional R&B group created in the mid-1980s for a commercial produced by the California Raisin Advisory. SW: Almost as soon as it disbanded CALRAB, the raisin industry got to work developing another agency to take its place. Definitely [both laugh]. Phrases Similar to Heard it Through the Grapevine Lead vocals in the group were sung by musician Buddy Miles. BARRY KRIEBEL: Well that's the problem with the advertising! This special saw the Raisins hiring a new manager with the goal of making a comeback. Still one thing nearly everyone does agree on is the mass appeal of the dancing raisins. KB: Vine doesn't know who it belongs to. The show would have animated raisins acting as rockstars, and the song, "I heard it through the grapevine," was the California Raisins number-one single. They starred in two claymation TV shorts, and a Christmas special that won an Emmy! Heard it! If you need to request an image for publication or other use, please visit Rights and Reproductions. With the musicians all in a room, live, everything. Brought to you by is a production of Insider Audio. Heard it, heard it! But that little piece of fruit is anything but dry and boring. Not so much. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal (Europe) S. r.l. SPEAKER THREE: The one song I remember them doing all the time was "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" To the point where I was a kid and I hadn't, I don't think it really clicked to me that that was like a real song. They have two big jobs. Sheet Music And, when it went down, so did the Dancing California Raisins. Got 100,000 tons, more sales than you would have if you didn't do this. You don't, right? They were tired of paying into a shared piggybank for the greater good. ', SW: Barry Kriebel was president of Sunmaid at the time. I didn't eat raisins. Unless you just happened to have a VCR set up and recording at the exact moment the ad aired WERNER: You had to wait and hopefully see it on TV again on some show you were watching and not know when that was coming, and because we didn't have a very big media budget, it wasn't on that often. Harry Overly became the new president of Sunmaid in 2017. California raisins from the California vineyards. And some of them played instruments, maybe?SPEAKER TWO: All dancing in the real world, but in their little clay situation.SPEAKER THREE: They were disproportionately raisinly huge. eBay (UK) Limited acts as a credit broker not a lender. SPEAKER TWELVE: And it was all claymation, and they'd sing Christmas carols and stuff there were I think other characters and things in it as well. Required fields are marked *. Nature's candy. SW: His boss had him working mostly on trade adsstuff for industry publications not the kind of campaigns you or I would ever see in a commercial or on a billboard. Werner and Fedor also thought that the commercial should use clay animation, a type of stop-motion animation using characters or settings made out of clay or other similarly pliable materials, rather than regular cartoon animation. album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more: I bet you're wonderin' how I knew 'Bout your plans to make me blue With some other guy you knew before Between the SPEAKER ONE: It was like a Mr. While the vines may feel special to their growerslike children!to you and me? ROSS VANNELLI: Well how about doing an album? And even in the 1990s, Sunmaid was like the "Kleenex" of the raisin industry. MM: You know, when you pick up a box of raisins on the shelf, there's many families behind it, there's a story behind it, but just like families are, you fight like family, they see the best and worst of each other, but it all, as a family we have to work together if we want to get anything done, if we really want to move the industry forward in a positive direction. But first, he had to get approval from the raisin growers and packers who were paying for it. Lived here my whole life. SW: CALRAB came up with and promoted new recipes that used raisins, it went to bakery conventions, it pitched raisin stories to food magazines and newspapers. A California Raisins Fan Club began in 1987, which included a Grapevine Gazette newsletter and various memorabilia. It was merely entertaining." Sarah tells us what happened next SW: In 1994, a group of raisin packers voted to shut down CALRAB. So you really had to be in the right place at the right time just to see it, and then when you saw it, you weren't quite sure what that was, but it was different than everything else you saw, and people started just saying 'what was that?'. He's now on his second round of leading the Raisin Bargaining Association. SW: When the Dancing Raisins ad stopped airing, Sunmaid's share of direct raisin saleslike in boxes on grocery store shelvesactually increased. [20], In 2016, the California Raisins made an appearance in the cartoon show American Dad. And if the California raisin family wanted to avert economic disaster, it needed to band together and find a way to sell more raisins. It's being threatened by growing raisin production in other countries. Check mate. Was the Dancing Raisins ad a success? https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/34693/The+California+Raisins/I+Heard+It+Through+the+Grapevine. We'll do that.'. He was so into it that he personally got in touch with Will Vinton, the claymation animator, and asked to be included in his own commercial. Kalem Barserian will tell you the ad made the raisin industry money, and he will pull out a calculator to prove it. He watched the original commercial spin off into more and more distant territory. Even if you weren't alive to see the advertisements, TV. SW: And that tax is paying for a campaign that's not even advertising your product! Lyrics.com. Entdecke The California Raisi - I Heard It Through The Grapevine - gebrauchtes Vinyl - E8100A in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Lead vocals were sung by musician Buddy Miles. America's favorite raisin. Learn more about our approach to sharing our collection online. SPEAKER NINE: Definitely didn't make me any more of a fan of raisins. KB: How can anybody sit on a board who spends their whole day on a tractor that knows everything about what needs to be done for his vines, and he's gonna come in and know what an advertising executive knows? These days, some growers are abandoning ship entirely, ripping out their vineyards and planting almonds instead. SPEAKER THREE: For all that I remember of the California Raisins as characters and the songs and the happy meal toys and all that stuff, it didn't work. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for CALIFORNIA RAISINS: i heard it through the grapevine PRIORITY 7" Single 45 RPM at the best online prices at eBay! Right? [5] The following year, the Raisins appeared in the Emmy Award-winning A Claymation Christmas Celebration, singing the Christmas carol "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". WERNER: 'Dear NBC, After weeks of trying to find out who to congratulate on a recent national ad, I came up with nothing. BK: Well, the simplest way to answer that is, 'how do you define success?' CEO of.. SW: His dad started farming and processing raisins in Fresno back in the 1920s, and since then, Kalem has bounced around pretty much every corner of the industry. The California Dancing Raisins ad has been called one of the best of all time. The answer? The California Raisin Advisory Board. But back in 1994, almost ten years after the first dancing raisins ad aired, that good feeling was nowhere to be found. SW: They pulled up to a business park, hopped out of the car, and marched into a conference room. Playlist, Written by: Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong, Lyrics Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Tratore. Find top songs and albums by California Raisins including I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town and more. SW: Let me explain. Sales of raisins themselves increased 20 percent after the first commercial. 80s classic toys. Matthew has observed his fair share of contentious industry meetings. Listen on:Apple Podcasts |Stitcher | Spotify |and more. SW: Kalem Barserian has worked in the raisin industry for more than 50 years. Scientists mull polarized light detection from alien life-forms, Nano-mechanical sensors wired using photonics, E. coli outbreak leads to massive flour recall, First human CRISPR trial passes safety and ethics review, Cephalopods: Natures camouflaging masters, Scientists detect gravitational waves for the second time, Colorful secrets of chemical elements with slow motion flames. Browse 55 i heard it through the grapevine stock photos and images available, or search for california raisins to find more great stock photos and pictures. Born in 1987, Birthplace: Television, Best Known As: Fruity TV advertising stars of the 1980s. CHARLIE HERMAN: On September 14, 1986, California's hottest new band made its debut. AD FIVE: Honey, are you playing with your food again? They used themselves to make them human. It turns out the raisin industry is actually a very contentious industry there's this long history of lawsuits going back and forth between different members. It's a tax. Sign up for notifications from Insider! That's what happened. SW: Those people started calling CALRAB and the ad agency, asking when and where the ad would play again. SW: Unity has been a longstanding challenge for the raisin industry. Logistics aside, there is a hint of the dancing raisins magic in the air again. Seth and his colleagues were getting fan mail forwarded to themfrom viewers, TV stations, and other advertising execs. They're just a staple. Washington, D.C. Email powered by MailChimp (Privacy Policy & Terms of Use), International Media Interoperability Framework. I says, 'in Canada? [4] To their surprise, the commercial became wildly popular, paving the way for several future commercials and opportunities through other media. If I tell everybody some fictitious story about you know, Chicken Little, right now to you, they might know it in Madera by 2 o'clock. onefunplace. Start the wiki. They weren't in the shelf. And they were hearing from those ingredient customers that they had an issue with the ads: BK: Some large customers felt they were paying for it. Not this time, however! SPEAKER SIX: They were an incredible Motown band.SPEAKER ONE: I thought they were a real band, and really did not connect them to like raisins, or like the idea of dried grapes until well into my adulthood. Thanks to everyone who left us voicemails and shared their memories of the California Raisins in our Facebook group. KB: Grape and raisin grower. KB: We're not getting our fair share of it. It would go on to produce the Dancing Raisins ad. And that is something producer that producer Sarah Wyman has made very clear to me since she began digging into the orgins of the California dancing raisins ad. We may update this record based on further research and review. Refresh your browser window to try again. That could mean that while the ad was running, more customers were buying store-brand raisins instead of Sunmaid raisins and store brand raisins were supplied by those other California raisin packers. It wasn't true. SW: This is Seth Werner. You do the math on how many tons of raisins you're buying from them, and bam, you can see exactly how much of the total cost is going towards California raisin ads. in 1988. SW: The raisin industry quickly followed up with more ads. Director. Some years later, Noel Gallagher stands on a stage strumming his guitar while . 1 Mar. HARRY OVERLY: I know for a fact that there is animosity that still exists within the industry of what happened back then. And so Will said 'well finally I took Janet's nose and put that on the raisin and he bought it [snaps fingers] like that.'. And then we threw the baby out with the bathwater. People loved the singing, dancing Claymation raisins so much that more commercials followed, andin a marketing scheme that was virtually unheard of at the timeThe California Raisins went on to release four albums, score a Billboard Hot 100 hit, and earn an Emmy nomination (and appear in an Emmy-winning show). My girl!BK: Yeeeeah the marketing guys at Del Monte filed a complaint with the Department of Food and Agriculture over it. He wasn't worried about making the most of this one shot and impressing his boss. Okay? The band broke up. Their cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" peaked at #84 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1988. The California Raisins were the product of an exacerbated ad team, a few broken rules, and the execution of a fascinating visual art form. Vintage California Raisins Posable, Puppets, Bank, Wind up toy. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - California Raisins. But anyway, there's this one line in the story that implies that even though the ad went on to be super successful, even though you and I still remember it all these years later, it may have precipitated some really huge divisions within the raisin industry. The California Raisins released four studio albums on Priority Records, BMG, and ZTT Records between 1987 to 1994, and their signature song, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", landed on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number 84 or 85. Possibly, but in their own sweet, silly way, these spots conveyed a sense of mindless fun and gave the humble raisin its moment in the sun. So, growers and packers paid a tax on every ton of raisins they produced. The California Raisins II is a 1990 claymation television special directed by Will Vinton, featuring the advertising characters The California Raisins. If you have any issues please contact me before leaving negative response I will always do my best make it right! STANDS4 LLC, 2023. On November 4, 1988, CBS aired a primetime television special called Meet the Raisins! Did it, uh, did it drive up the price of raisins? But Michael Jackson, well he was not about that. We were so embarrassed. Oh! And, for better or worse, they're also in it together on that front. First, they provide tools the industry can use to regulate the raisin market. KB: I'll never forget, he was a handsome guy, had white shoes on, no socks, had an earring in this ear, he had the ghetto blaster up on his shoulders, and he turns it on and it's "Heard It Through the Grapevine.". WERNER: 'Our thanks again on behalf of Paul McCartney. SW: The winning concept was a raisin with big eyes, a defined nose, and a wide mouthperfect for lip syncing. Music is from Audio Network. But he told me something else too, something he says a lot of reporters like mewho fly into Fresno from the big city to cover the dramaoften miss: MM: We're all families here and so, everybody's really close, everybody knows each other, I mean, a lot of them are related to each other, they marry in, and so they're very tight SW: And that big family, with lots of opinions, is where some of that drama comes from. SW: The raisins dance around on the lid of his grand piano while he belts out the band's catchphrase: AD SIX: Oh I heard it through the grapevine! WERNER: We went there because we had to meet the growers, and so we would drive, what was it, an hour, 90 minutes to Fresno from San Francisco, and the account people were all nervous on the way there like 'what are we going to do?'. It taxed both growers and packers. You know, what kind of legs does he have so he could do a dance appropriately, does he have oversized shoes, you know, what do they look like? And the answer is usually 'we don't know.. but probably not.' [8] While cel animated by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, it maintained Will Vinton's creative direction. How would the assessment be collected? KB: Heard it through the grapevine! He said: WERNER: He would not approve the nose that I put on the raisin, no matter what I did, he wouldn't approve of it! SPEAKER ONE: Like obviously, they're raisins, but it just didn't occur to me that like this was a tool to get you to eat like what you see in boxes of raisins. I believe it might have been a public service announcement', 'Dear Judy: Generally when you hear from me, a problem is involved. I treat my vines as if they were my children. Lead vocals in the group were sung by musician Buddy Miles. MM: At every industry meeting I go to, it seems like someone's asking, some raisin grower's asking 'are you ever going to bring the raisin, dancing raisins back?' So, there's an alphabet soup of different boards and agencies and committees to help make that happen. Like, when Ray Charles had starred in his ad, he agreed to do a cross-country public relations tour, promoting the health and goodness of California raisins. What's the whole campaign? But of course, that was not really the end of it. What about Michael Jackson and what he was contributing? SW: I, before I started working on this story, did not even eat raisins. KB: Once we started the Dancing Raisins, people were going to the store asking for Dancing Raisin raisins, and there weren't any! Qualifying purchases could enjoy 0% interest if paid in full in 4 months on purchases of 99+. What's the message? Not much longer would you be mine. Because animators arranged each shot by hand, giving each raisin its own distinct personality (including individualized facial expressions and colorful sunglasses), the commercial took more than a month to shoot. The industry is in talks about a new campaign to promote California raisins. And most of the people spending millions of dollars don't want to know there are two guys sitting in a back room trying to make each other laugh and come up with this stuff, but that is what we did. CH: This episode was reported and produced by Sarah Wyman, with Julia Press and me, Charlie Herman. CH: I remember those really well. And then they called me and they said, 'you know what it's platinum in Canada too!' . And I told him, all of this sounds absolutely exhausting: KB: I'm still here! WERNER: Uh yeah, it was probably a little bit of a shock, I guess. The California Raisins were a fictional rhythm and blues animated musical group as well as advertising and merchandising characters composed of anthropomorphized raisins. SW: Clyde E. Nef, who was CALRAB's manager at the time, wrote about Seth's performance and the board's reaction in his book, The Fruits of Their Labors. I heard it through the grapevine. Please take time to look at pictures I try and show condition clear as possible. SW: One of the people who saw that ad was Michael Jackson. SW: The California raisin industry is complicated. With a budget in hand, the agency hired Will Vinton, the Oscar-winning animator who would later trademark the term "Claymation," to help create their vision of dancing raisins. And they had good reasons to be! I don't like raisins. SW: But in some ways, it may be in the same place as it was in the '80s. If you have any issues please contact me before leaving negative response I will always do my best make it right! But an even bigger faction of raisin packers did not have their own name-brands. An article published by AnimateClay.com in the late 2000s details the whereabouts of the original claymation sculptures used by Vinton Studios. California Raisins. Jackson, who agreed to do his commercial for free (and on the condition that he only work with Vinton, who he knew from their Captain EO project with Disney), helped create his own Claymation raisin with his signature single white glove, fedora, and pelvic-thrusting dance moves. SW: Seth's boss handed him the California raisins account. The California Raisins were a fictional R&B group created in the mid-1980s for a commercial produced by the California Raisin Advisory. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. You can have a talking head, you can have a situation' you know, there were like formulas on how to do this. California Raisins poster vintage 1987 Heard it Through The Grapevine. And on top of everything else, he says there's one subject of conversation that just won't drop. SW: And then at the end the announcer says: WERNER: I remember when I went to college, people would say 'there are three or four ways you can do an advertisement. [9] Blackthorne Publishing also released a six-issue comic book series entitled The California Raisins 3-D which included 3D glasses; these would later be re-released in the Ultimate Collection trade paperback. HO: Oh, there's definitely hope. Honey, honey yeah. Hey, I heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be mine Said I heard it through the grapevine Hey, I'm just about to lose my mind Honey, honey, yeah (Heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you Be my baby, yeah, yeah, yeah) Honey, honey, I know That you're letting me go Hey, I heard it through the grapevine SPEAKER THREE: They sang we three kings with also these camels that were all claymation. The problem, FCB's account supervisor said at the time, was that though customers understood the health benefits of raisins, they had emotional connections with various vice products, like cigarettes because of the long-running "Marlboro Man" ads, or beer based on the popular "Miller Time" ads. He wrote to Foot Cone and Belding specifically requesting a VHS copy of the ad so he could watch it whenever he wanted to. To access our initial disclosure document, please click, Get the item you ordered or your money back. But despite it all, by a very narrow margin, more than half the room voted to greenlight the ad. WERNER: Our whole objective was to make them cool. Demand was down. You asked someone to name a raisin brand, and they would say "Sunmaid.". MATTHEW MALCOLM: I mean you can't just leave any field barren here, because something's gonna grow. I Heard It Through the Grapevine. They sold most of their raisins in bulk, to ingredient customers, like cereal brands or bakeries. CH: The dancing raisins were so popular, they took on a life of their own outside of the ad. If no one liked it, the raisin industry could not get that money back. 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