1970s Smothers Brothers Nabisco Shredded Wheat TV commercial

Transcript

00:00♪ When John Henry was a little baby, baby, he ate his shredded wheat.

00:07Whoa, he ate his shredded wheat.

00:09Shredded wheat?

00:10Yeah, he was a big baby and he needed a big cereal.

00:12Right, but that's not the way the song goes.

00:14I know that.

00:15He doesn't think I know that.

00:16Then why are you singing it that way?

00:18That's how the commercial goes.

00:19Good point.

00:20Well, he grabbed that big biscuit in his little baby spoon and said,

00:24The goodness of 100% whole wheat for every Tom, Dick and John Henry.