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*** 1987 CALIFORNIA RAISINS MOTOWN MUSIC BAND ~ CARTOON TOY - $5 (Toronto)
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*** CALIFORNIA RAISINS ANIMATED MOTOWN MUSIC BAND - CARTOON TOYS by Applause ***
All "4" Band Members & Singers from KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken & Hardees:
* Lead Singer (Mic on Chest).
* Saxophone.
* Orange Shoes Singer.
* Guitar.
$5 Each.
Other Editions @ $10 Each -
* Lead Singer (Mic Loose) x 1 (Not Shown in Photos).
* Blue Sunglasses.
* Male Valentine.
* Red Shoes Backup Winking.
* Blue Shoes Backup Singer.
Rare Editions -
* Surfboard - $20.
* Drummer - $25.
THE CALIFORNIA RAISIN STORY:
The California Raisins were a fictional rhythm and blues animated musical group as well as advertising and merchandising characters composed of anthropomorphized raisins. The California Raisins became popular in the mid-to-late 1980s through claymation TV commercials and animated specials, winning an Emmy Award.
Created for a 1986 Sun-Maid commercial on behalf of the California Raisin Advisory Board the dancing raisins sang “I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1968 by Marvin Gaye). In 1987 the Raisins appeared in the Emmy Award-winning “A Claymation Christmas Celebration”, singing the Christmas carol "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". The Raisins released four studio albums between 1987 and 1988, featuring classic Motown and Rock hits and their signature song, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", landed on the Billboard Hot 100. The characters proved popular enough that they were used to endorse Post Raisin Bran cereal.
Many of the items created for the campaign have become part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Toys with Raisins images on nearly every conceivable medium: lunch boxes, notebooks, clothing, posters, bedsheets, and even a Halloween costume, just to name a few. A California Raisins Fan Club began in 1987, which included a Grapevine Gazette newsletter.
Perhaps the most memorable piece of California Raisins merchandise, however, came in the form of these non-poseable California Raisins figures. Colonel Sanders (KFC) in Canada and Hardee's restaurant chains offered these in 1987 and 1988.
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