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Kellogg's and Kool-Aid commercials starring The Monkees

11/23/2021

During the 1960s, The Monkees filmed several commercials as a quartet and also as a trio. At one point, Kellogg's sponsored The Monkees television show and Micky, Davy, Michael, and Peter starred in a series of Rice Krispies commercials. The ads were shot while The Monkees were filming on location as well as on the set of their TV show. Davy and Michael were also featured in an ad for Yardley's Black Label cologne.

When The Monkees debuted in reruns on CBS in the fall of 1969, Kool-Aid acted as a sponsor. With Peter no longer a member of the group, Micky, Davy, and Michael filmed a variety of clips for Kool-Aid in the desert outside of Palm Springs, California and, in early 1970, at an amusement park in San Diego, California.

The video below compiles all of these classic Monkees commercial spots:

Davy, Micky, and Mike during filming of a Kool-Aid commercial in 1969

12/21/2018

Kool-Aid acted as a commercial sponsor when The Monkees television series debuted in reruns on CBS in the fall of 1969.

Monkees Kool Aid 1969

Riding bumper cars for "Kool-Aid"

12/10/2017

Micky, Mike, and Davy filmed a Kool-Aid commercial in February 1970 at a San Diego amusement park. Photos of Micky and Davy driving bumper cars will later appear on the back cover of Changes.

(Photo by Henry Diltz)

Monkees Kool-Aid retail display

4/7/2017

Kool-Aid acted as sponsors when The Monkees television series started in reruns on CBS in the fall of 1969. This piece of memorabilia recently elicited 20 bids on eBay with a final auction price of $356.00! The seller provided the following description:

Up for sale is an extremely rare Kool-Aid retail display with an offer featuring the Monkees (minus Peter Tork) offering practical jokes. This display would have been affixed to a grocery store shelf, and people would take the coupons for free hand buzzers or snake in a can when they mailed in Kool-Aid labels. The reverse of the coupon says that the offer expires in February 1970, so this is probably circa fall of 1969.

Monkees Kool Aid

(Photo courtesy of eBay)

A similar advertisement appeared in newspapers in the fall of 1969.

Was a reader of the Live Almanac the winning bidder???

Commercial Monkees

6/10/2015

Monkees commercials

(1996 Trading Cards)

Yardley Black Label (1966)

Kellogg's (1966 - 1967)

Kellogg's (1967 - 1968)

Kool-Aid (1969)

Kool-Aid (1970)

Pizza Hut with Ringo Starr (1995)

Filming a Kool-Aid commercial in early 1970

3/26/2015

Monkees Kool Aid amusement park

February 9, 1970 - San Diego, California (Photo courtesy of Rusti Huber)

Rare Kool-Aid advertisement

11/9/2014

Monkees Kool Aid advertisement

(September 21, 1969 Detroit Free Press Sunday Comics advertisement)

The Monkees film a Kool-Aid commercial

8/23/2014

Monkees Kool Aid

June 1969 (Photo courtesy Andrew Sandoval and The Monkees Present deluxe edition booklet)

Micky during filming of a Kool-Aid commercial

5/11/2014

Micky Dolenz Kool Aid

(From Monkees Monthly #31 - August 1969 issue)

Davy Jones and Michael Nesmith on horseback while filming Kool-Aid spots

3/9/2014

Kool-Aid acted as a commercial sponsor when The Monkees television series debuted in reruns on CBS in the fall of 1969.

Davy Jones horses

(From Monkees Monthly #31 - August 1969 issue)

Davy and Micky filming a Kool-Aid spot

2/14/2014

Davy Micky Kool Aid commercial Monkees

Palm Springs desert in April 1970

"Star Collector" memorabilia column from the December 1990 MBF

1/2/2014

"Star Collector" was a longtime feature in Monkee Business Fanzine. Monkees collector and author Ed Reilly would break down a wide range of memorabilia, including everything from toys, records, and much more. In this column, Ed examines memorabilia from 1969/1970, which included a sponsorship change from Kelloggs to Post, the rare Golden Hits album, Corgi Monkeemobiles, Kool-Aid/Nerf cross-promotions and more.

Corgi Monkeemobile

Monkees Nerf

Nez in February 1970

8/30/2013

This Henry Diltz photo was taken during filming of a Kool-Aid sponsorship commercial:

1970 Monkees

Davy Jones on the set of a Kool-Aid commercial in April 1970

8/21/2013

Davy Jones 1970

(Photo by Henry Diltz)

"For fun that never ends!"

8/16/2013

Davy, Mike, and Micky in-between takes for a Kool-Aid sponsorship commercial in 1969:

Monkees 1969 Kool Aid

Micky on the set of a Kool-Aid commercial shoot in 1970

8/6/2013

Micky Dolenz

(Photo by Henry Diltz)

The Monkees in Palm Springs desert in April 1970

7/29/2013

Filming a Kool-Aid commercial was tough work in those days! This was one of the last photos taken of the Monkees trio and most likely Michael Nesmith's final Monkees project during the group's original incarnation.

Monkees Kool Aid commercial

April 14, 1970 (Photo by Henry Diltz)

The Monkees on the set of a Kool-Aid commercial in 1969

6/12/2013

Kool-Aid acted as a commercial sponsor when The Monkees television series debuted in reruns on CBS in the fall of 1969.

Monkees Kool Aid 1969

Nez on the set of a Kool-Aid commercial in 1969

5/28/2013

Kool Aid Monkees

Make friends with Kool-Aid!

5/22/2013

Kool-Aid sponsored The Monkees television series when it began reruns in 1969.

Monkees Kool Aid

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