Robin Williams as an unknown actor improvising car stereo commercials in 1975

[usernamenumber]

In the mid-1970s, the father of an ex of mine worked at a car stereo place called Eric The Red's. Around that time, they hired an unknown actor to record some ads for them. I assume they gave him a script, and that he talked them out of using it, because one way or another it sounds like they ended up just pressing Record and letting him go. The result is the earliest recording of Robin Williams that I know of, a full two years before his first role listed on IMDB.

http://www.riom-sd.com/temp/Robin_Williams_Eric_The_Red_1975.mp3

Comments

[spatch]

This is terrific. He'd coined "Reality-- what a concept" that early, too. Nice.

[sovay]

I assume they gave him a script, and that he talked them out of using it, because one way or another it sounds like they ended up just pressing Record and letting him go.

That's fantastic.

Did they ever use any of the recording? Not the alien invasion, obviously, although that would have been memorable. ("Well, I got that one line . . .")

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. That's awesome!