WERNER: We want sunglasses on them, I want to put them in Converse sneakers, but untie the laces, and they gotta look hip, basically. 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. WERNER: 'Our thanks again on behalf of Paul McCartney. Get instant explanation for any acronym or abbreviation that hits you anywhere on the web! 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. Demand was down. This commercial has witimaginationand it was good enough that I went and bought a box of Californian grown raisins.'. In 2015, it was announced that a live-action/CGI reboot of the California Raisins would be produced, with president of The Actors Hall of Fame Foundation, Rusty Citron, as one of the people behind the project. 84 on the Billboard Hot 100. I says, 'in Canada? Matthew has observed his fair share of contentious industry meetings. Sunmaid. We apologize for the interruption. 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. The lead singer is wailing, wearing shadesnaturally, since they were raised in the California sunshine. Was Marvin Gaye spinning in his grave? Almost all the packers resented Sunmaid, but not all for the same reasons. SW: Michael Brunsfeld was the commercial animation director at a company called Colossal Pictures, which had been contracted to do a mockup of the ad. 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 . Almost across the board, everyone I spoke to had good things to say about the ad itself. Seth and his colleagues were getting fan mail forwarded to themfrom viewers, TV stations, and other advertising execs. Werner's big idea was going to be a risk, especially without the celebrity spokesperson the client had requested. And it paid for all that buzz with an assessmentor a taxon the raisin industry. And now they are all I can think about!! [19], In 2014, the California Raisins made a cameo appearance in the RadioShack Super Bowl XLVIII commercial "The '80s Called". Washington, D.C. Email powered by MailChimp (Privacy Policy & Terms of Use), International Media Interoperability Framework. There were California Raisins lunchboxes, then Hardee's started handing out plastic Raisins figurines with Cinnamon 'n' Raisin biscuits. And ultimately, when everyone failed to agree, the raisins took the fall. as well as other partner offers and accept our, NOW WATCH: An investment chief at HSBC sees huge trading opportunities outside the US. SW: I mean, how did you react when you found out about that?? Visit the IIIF page to learn more. It even led to an unauthorized collectibles guide published in 1998, cataloging the many items based on the clay characters. - The California Raisins II. Merchandise sales included toys and Raisins images on nearly every conceivable medium: lunch boxes, notebooks, clothing, posters, bedsheets, and even a Halloween costume, just to name a few. [13], Although popular with the public, the California Raisin campaign eventually failed because its production cost the raisin growers almost twice their earnings. Stay up to date with what you want to know. If you would like to know how you can use content on this page, see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use. Select PayPal Credit to have the option to pay over time. WERNER: Our whole objective was to make them cool. RV: I think within 4-5 months it was platinum! But were they a success for the raisin industry? Your email address will not be published. The California Raisin Advisory Board. And apparently, making a clay "King of Pop" was a whole 'nother can of worms. Washington, D.C. Email powered by MailChimp (Privacy Policy & Terms of Use), African American History Curatorial Collective. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. SW: Almost as soon as it disbanded CALRAB, the raisin industry got to work developing another agency to take its place. Very serious-like. But there was enough leadership to sway the ones that weren't smart enough to realize what a good program it was. What's the whole campaign? The California Raisins merchandising snowballed into 300 different products, including clothing, bed sheets, Halloween costumes, car accessories, lunch boxes, and even toilet paper. SW: Seth remembers going to a friend's apartment the night he got the account. Raised in the California sunshine WERNER: He volunteered and said 'I won't be paid, I just want to be a raisin, I have one thing I need to ask though, I will not talk to anybody from the advertising agency, and I will not talk to any clients. Our editor is Micaela Blei. ROSS VANNELLI: Well how about doing an album? The California Raisins are often accompanied by a soundtrack of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," originally popularized by singer Marvin Gaye. Casey Holford and John DeLore composed our theme. Check mate. Which meant packers couldn't slap a Dancing Raisin on their packaging or use the characters in ads unless they got their idea approved by the board. In 1985, he was a copywriter at the ad agency Foote, Cone, and Belding. The face took up most of the raisin's body MB: And then there was little wrinkles here and there, but the more you emphasize that, the more it looked, you know, kind of like a weird prune. SW: Let me explain. SPEAKER THREE: They sang we three kings with also these camels that were all claymation. Sarah Wyman is our showrunner. It's hurting from some bad weather trends. And they had good reasons to be! They help out with keeping prices stable and have an eye on supply and demand. [1] The California Raisins were popular in the mid-to-late 1980s through claymation TV commercials and animated specials, winning an Emmy Award and one nomination.[2][3]. I mean, really, most of us don't give raisins a whole lot of attention..they are just kind of everywhere: in our cereals, bagels, and, of course, kid's lunch boxes. Like the Archies before them, the imaginary band was a hit. The band broke up. KALEM BARSERIAN: I've been born, raised here. 2023. You know how families can be about money. Will Vinton. We may update this record based on further research and review. CH: We're back. Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account, Do you know any background info about this track? Characters Steve and Roger go into a mall representing 1980s culture where they meet the Raisins who proclaim that they are "cursed to live forever. SUNMAID AD: My girl talkin' bout my girl. California Raisins T-shirt ~ I Heard It Through The Grapevine ~ Claymation 80s. The dancing raisins got caught in the crossfire of a heated debate within the industry. Like that. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. It wasn't at The Fillmore in San Francisco or the Troubadour in LA. And that takes unity. It also gave the band members individual names and roles: A.C. (vocals), Beebop (drums), Stretch (bass), and Red (guitar/piano).[7]. Eligibility determined at checkout. SPEAKER ONE: It was like a Mr. He has faith in the industry's ability to work this out. Kalem Barserian, along with around 40 raisin growers, packers, and industry members, was in that room. If you have any issues please contact me before leaving negative response I will always do my best make it right! America's favorite raisin. 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. Required fields are marked *. SW: Matthew says, whether or not the dancing raisins are part of the industry's future, he remains optimistic. More than 2 million people bought their albums and listened to the Raisins covering songs including "Lean on Me" and "You Cant Hurry Love." HO: Oh, there's definitely hope. [8] While cel animated by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, it maintained Will Vinton's creative direction. SW: Seth has a whole scrapbook of these letters. 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. RV: I said, 'I think that's a great idea.' From a pop culture standpoint, absolutelypeople all over the world have heard of the Dancing Raisins. 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. Oh! SW: Remember, these were Fresno guys, not big city ad men. Lead vocals in the group were sung by musician Bu, The California Raisins were a fictional R&B group created in the mid-1980s for a commercial produced by the California Raisin Advisory. Hey Sarah. Unlike the smaller brands in the industry, it could afford to pay for that space. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. I will only talk to you, Will.'. The commercials were produced by Vinton Studios using their claymation technique, with character designs by Michael Brunsfeld. KB: Raisin processor for many years in different facilities. That's what happened. Just one piece! Music is from Audio Network. 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). AD SEVEN: I heard it through the grapevine! CHARLIE HERMAN: On September 14, 1986, California's hottest new band made its debut. SW: Kalem Barserian has worked in the raisin industry for more than 50 years. 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. The musical mockumentary was again created by Vinton Studios, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. RAISINS SHOW: You might have heard about us through the old grapevine. CEO of the wine bargaining association for five years. A sequel to the original CBS special aired in 1990 under the title The Raisins: Sold Out! CALRAB, the organization who made the campaign, was also closed on July 31, 1994, due to disagreements with raisin producers over the fairness of required payments to the organization. He says if it had just been up to him, he would not have ended CALRAB and therefore the Dancing 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. The concept was originally created by advertising firm Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB) for a 1986 Sun-Maid commercial on behalf of the California Raisin Advisory Board when one of the writers, Seth Werner (at the time with FCB in San Francisco) came up with an idea for the new raisin commercial, saying, "We have tried everything but dancing raisins singing 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'" (the 1968 song popularized by Marvin Gaye). THE THROWBACK MACHINE: Going for the gold, but coming up blonde. KB: We're not getting our fair share of it. The 1980's TV commercials for California raisins have been called some of the best ads ever made. CH: I remember those really well. They weren't in the shelf. Just to make the ad would cost $300,000. Refresh your browser window to try again. You're making us put up $32.50 for generic advertising, and Sunmaid's getting the benefit of it. RAISINS: Oooh I heard it through the grapevine, raised in the California sunshine. California raisins from the California vineyards. The answer? And that might be part of why some raisin packers felt like this all boiled down to: "it's us versus Sunmaid.". But the Raisinss influence went beyond just TV and music and began to invade all levels of pop culture. Like, growing up, we had this little figurine in our doll house, and my parents dressed up as them one year for Halloween. In 1985, both halves of the industry were funding CALRAB. WERNER: Uh yeah, it was probably a little bit of a shock, I guess. It began to cost CALRAB too much to market the Raisins, and the public moved on. SW: Within a month of its release, the album went gold. [Ebm E Ab Eb Cm] Chords for California Raisins Heard it Through the Grapevine (Better Quality) with Key, BPM, and easy-to-follow letter notes in sheet. It was the sequel to the Emmy-nominated special Meet the Raisins! Year . (laughs) These little guys took over everybody's hearts and minds, so it didn't surprise us at the time. Bill Moss is our sound engineer. High-top sneakers, sunglasses, and endless swagger. Earlier this year, the CRMBwhich did not respond to my request for commenthired a brand new Vice President of Marketing. 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. It lost message. Sales of raisins themselves increased 20 percent after the first commercial. Then in 1989, a 13-episode Saturday Morning Cartoon show calledThe California Raisin Show aired. Sarah tells us what happened next SW: In 1994, a group of raisin packers voted to shut down CALRAB. SW: Kalem Barserian, raisin industry veteran, again. SW: All of those different factors combined add up to the final, and most important challenge for the raisin industry. The California Raisins are a fictional rhythm and blues musical group comprised of anthropomorphized raisins. It's a pop song reimagined as a nervous breakdown. And since they were already touring the country, at least on TV screens, there was only one logical next step. And though the process is time-consuming and expensive, Werner's performance managed to win them over. ', SW: Barry Kriebel was president of Sunmaid at the time. 30 of those and you have a second of the commercial. 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?' 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. If you saw a commercial you liked, you couldn't look it up on YouTube and send a link to a friend. 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. And this is what I told him. Brought to you by is a production of Insider Audio. It seems like everyone in Motown heard about this song "through the grapevine" before it was finally recorded. Musicians such as Ray Charles and Michael Jackson even got in on the raisin action, singing their own versions of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" for later commercials. The briefthe goal of the campaignwas to come up with a commercial that would make customers see raisins differently. He writes: "The thirty seconds of this commercial seemed like an eternity. And they should pretty much be still once they do their heard it! An article published by AnimateClay.com in the late 2000s details the whereabouts of the original claymation sculptures used by Vinton Studios. SW: That is exactly what I wanted to find out. SW: So are the California Raisins coming back, do you thinkthe Dancing California Raisins? And the answer is usually 'we don't know.. but probably not.' Here's Sarah again: SW: One morning in 1986, Seth and the team at Foote, Cone, and Belding piled into a car and headed to Fresno. SW: This is Seth Werner. Their cover of Marvin Gaye's &, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. I heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be mine baby I know a man ain't supposed to cry But these tears I can't hold inside Losin' you would end my life you see 'Cause you mean that much to me You could have told me yourself That you loved some one else Instead I heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be mine How is that better than Ray Charles?'. But I also take the approach of, that was 30 years ago so I think it's time that we look forward because the industry is in a very dramatic, very drastically different place than it was back then. Note: This transcript may contain errors. Get instant explanation for any lyrics that hits you anywhere on the web! 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. What about Michael Jackson and what he was contributing? But thanks to the California Raisins, its now commonplace to see ads that include anthropomorphized food or candy. And then on top of that, this article also made mention of a raisin mafia, along with allegations of death threats!? SPEAKER FIVE: Every time that commercial would come on, my mom would sing and dance to that song. And Seth Seth was dancing all by himself in front of the group, without socks on! Most of the time when we buy raisins, we have no idea where they came from. KB: Heard it through the grapevine! Go directly to shout page. And then, job number two: they work on public relations and marketing for the entire raisin industry. And if the California raisin family wanted to avert economic disaster, it needed to band together and find a way to sell more raisins. And the US, by the way, is the second largest raisin producer in the entire world. There were some other big names, like Dole and Del Monte, but they didn't just sell raisins. Produced by Sarah Wyman, with Charlie Herman and Julia Press. SW: This process, as you can imagine, took a while. He wrote to Foot Cone and Belding specifically requesting a VHS copy of the ad so he could watch it whenever he wanted to. California Raisins Heard it Through the Grapevine (Better Quality) Herozilla Video Editing and Livestream Gaming 82.3K subscribers Subscribe 10K Share 983K views 3 years ago I don't own the. And this broke the mold. MM: Obviously raisin growers and packers, they compete with each other. Please take time to look at pictures I try and show condition clear as possible. It was merely entertaining." She would always show them to me and talk to me about them and how cute and clever they were, and I just thought, why in the world is a grown woman so excited about something so ridiculous? And he says, even though the Dancing Raisins are long gone, he and the rest of the industry are still dealing with the fallout. Because that's a whole market supply and demand on both the national and international basis. It's a tax. In 2010, claymation versions of the California Raisins were featured in the special Christmas episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "A Very Sunny Christmas". Lead vocals in the group were sung by musician Buddy Miles. California Raisins poster vintage 1987 Heard it Through The Grapevine. But, that's not where this story ends. I said, 'Ok, that's one piece of the marketing puzzle. The figures were kept in a box for several years and headed for the trash before being obtained by Webster Colcord, a former employee of Vinton. HARRY OVERLY: I know for a fact that there is animosity that still exists within the industry of what happened back then. SW: The ad was a hit. Oh I heard it through the grapevine. And if you don't have a consensus, it doesn't matter. SW: This is Matthew Malcolm again. And the California raisin industry is, after all, a big family. If there's anything we can do for you, please give me a call'. Some people were saying they weren't getting a big enough slice of the Dancing Raisins pie. Audiences quickly connected with the Raisins authentic R&B sound, and The California Raisins version of "Grapevine" even reached No. 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. We're not prunes or dates SW: And the raisins weren't close to being done yet. ', 'Today during Ryan's Hope I saw the cutest commercial. And I told him, all of this sounds absolutely exhausting: KB: I'm still here! 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? 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. The California Raisins were a fictional rhythm and blues animated musical group as well as advertising and merchandising characters composed of anthropomorphized raisins. Concept illustrations of the Raisins were also featured as interviewees discussed the characters' creation.[17]. And then we threw the baby out with the bathwater. And their arms were like small, and they had like little legs. It's that simple. And since there wasn't a "Dancing Raisin" brand in the store, small packers worried Sunmaid was getting all the business. "[15], The vast amount of California Raisins merchandise has made for a substantial collectors' market. The California Dancing Raisins ad has been called one of the best of all time. I believe it might have been a public service announcement', 'Dear Judy: Generally when you hear from me, a problem is involved. He's now on his second round of leading the Raisin Bargaining Association. Socit en Commandite par Actions Registered Office: 22-24 Boulevard Royal L-2449, Luxembourg). KB: Vine doesn't know who it belongs to. SW: Michael Jackson sent Will Vinton a video with instructions for how he wanted the claymation to lookdown to the motions and facial expressions the backup raisins were making in the background of the ad. 16:20 How do you distinguish your raisin bagel from my field to your field? Raisins are not like cell phone brands, with unique features and better WiFi connectivity and a sleeker feel than their competitors. So many of you remembered that Christmas special. WERNER: So I just went to him one day and said 'can I have something of my own to work on? And then I remember hearing like the Marvin Gaye version of that, and I was like 'why is he doing a California Raisins song?' Oh! But there's one letter that really stands out: WERNER: Okay, this is from the Fitzgerald-Hartley Company. If you would like to know how we handle complaints, please click, . 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! These albums were included in the Smithsonian collection and were illustrated and art-directed by Helane Freeman, who later became famous for her work on Hannah Montana and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, among other Disney programs. Oh, that's sweet. 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. Not much longer would you be mine baby. 2016 ScienceAGoGo. CH: So where did this journey for you begin? Our collection database is a work in progress. Can you just give me an assignment? It's being threatened by growing raisin production in other countries. BK: It actually got to the point where the Dancing Raisins had their own television show. On the table below them. 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