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BigDaddy

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Hello!

Just heard the song

and I remembered that the original CD of Win 95 had the video of this song.

Does anyone know where can I obtain that particular video? Since the CD has been long gone.

On a side note, I believe there was another video on the CD from the series called the Happy Days, featuring Fonzy. Anyone knows about this video?

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...and I remembered that the original CD of Win 95 had the video of this song. Does anyone know where can I obtain that particular video? Since the CD has been long gone.

On a side note, I believe there was another video on the CD from the series called the Happy Days, featuring Fonzy. Anyone knows about this video?

Gotta admit that is the first I heard of that.

I have all the Windows CD's a few feet away, so I can look for it.

Do you have any filename/filetype clues?

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Come to think about it I believe if was NOT the Win95 CD. But I know it was from a M$ CD. And when started it said

"Where do you want to go today?"

And after you clicked it showed you around the CD as in some sort of Encyclopedia.

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It must have been the ONLY occasion where MS was actually ahead of their time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_do_you_want_to_go_today

The campaign was one of the least successful one in the history of advertising (when compared with the awful amount of money wasted on it), it's fun that after 15 years a single "estimator" comes out.... :unsure:

Though it did produce some nice ideas:

apr01-xp-ie.png

193381097_edcf8b9c33.jpg

"Microsoft: Where do you want to go today ?

Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow ?

BSD/OS-X: Are you guys coming or what ?!?"

:lol:

jaclaz

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Searched for *.avi *.mpg *.mov ...

283MB found on the original Win95 v4.00.950 CDROM (1995-07-11):

Ancient.avi       12,513,280  1995-07-11    09:50     a   .\Products\Demos\Ancient\
Enfury.avi 4,795,210 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Products\Demos\Fury\Movies\
Extfury.avi 479,034 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Products\Demos\Fury\Movies\
Goodtime.avi 24,299,360 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\
Goodtime.avi 39,311,306 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Highperf\
Ifaf01qa.avi 12,630,956 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Products\Demos\Nations\
Inflmvc.avi 2,284,124 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Products\Demos\Oceans\Sounds\
Intro.avi 3,337,894 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Products\Demos\Wine\Sounds\
Lvfury.avi 3,203,998 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Products\Demos\Fury\Movies\
Overview.avi 5,094,312 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Products\Demos\Creature\
Robroy.avi 18,765,400 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\
Robroy.avi 30,883,426 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Highperf\
Salmon.avi 2,793,530 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Products\Demos\Cookbook\Avi\
T100493a.avi 1,428,718 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Products\Demos\Explorap\Sounds\
Weezer.avi 31,470,750 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\
Weezer.avi 59,999,400 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Highperf\
Welcome1.avi 4,375,174 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\
Welcome1.avi 6,844,784 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Highperf\
Welcome2.avi 3,599,664 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\
Welcome2.avi 5,946,346 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Highperf\
Welcome3.avi 3,713,276 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\
Welcome3.avi 5,976,134 1995-07-11 09:50 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Highperf\

227MB found on the Win95 OSR v4.00.1111 CDROM (1996-08-24):

200bttrf.avi      12,354,270  1996-08-24    11:11     a   .\Sampler\Video\
Cp.avi 9,229,428 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Demos\Carpoint\
Ddlytdmv.avi 13,147,762 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Demos\Tide\
Flash.avi 326,984 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Demos\Picture\
Goodtime.avi 39,311,306 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Highperf\
Goodtime.mpg 36,735,152 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Mpeg\
Human300.avi 7,287,356 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Demos\Msb\Bod\Video\
Insid200.avi 7,149,304 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Demos\Msb\Geo\Video\
Mslogo.avi 628,650 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Sampler\Video\
Ocean2.avi 8,736,090 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Demos\Msb\Sea\Video\
Opening.avi 11,312,630 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Demos\Picture\
Solar.avi 5,204,322 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Demos\Msb\Solar\Video\
T039739a.avi 653,168 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Demos\Encarta\Audio\
Truck.avi 11,468,466 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Demos\Truck\
Weezer.mpg 44,990,580 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Mpeg\
Welcome1.avi 6,844,784 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Highperf\
Welcome2.avi 5,946,346 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Highperf\
Welcome3.avi 5,976,134 1996-08-24 11:11 a .\Funstuff\Videos\Highperf\

The files on both CDROMs called Weezer.avi and Weezer.mpg is the same clip from Happy Days. It is the one where a band called Weezer is playing at Arnold's. I didn't see the Fonz in that video. EDIT: See later post for better info.

No sign of Blue Oyster Cult anywhere. What I was really hoping to find was the Stones 'Start Me Up', but alas, nada.

Note that the Win98 series CDROMs have some videos also but quite a few less than the Win95 series.

EDIT: corrected Weezer mention and the file totals.

Edited by CharlotteTheHarlot
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Could the Don't Fear The Reaper be then on the Win 98 CD?

Really wish we'll be able to find that video. It was awesome.

btw. Just did a search for Microsoft and Don't Fear The Reaper and nothing comes up.

Don't think this helps much but in the said video there was a girl who screamed at the end because someone had died..

Edited by BigDaddy
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its just their music video, not a clip from the show, they didnt debut until 10 years after happy days ended.

And i dont know how you miss fonz in that video, did you miss Al too?

Jeez, now you forced me to watch the whole darn thing! Thanks so much! :wacko:

OK, this Weezer, I get it, its an edit, LOL! For anyone else wondering, its a 90's grunge band that made a video by dubbing their song to a collage of Happy Days clips, {see here, the band used the actual TV stage set and Al showed up for this video, essentially it was a Forrest Gump which had just came out in 1994} interspersed with some clips of the main characters, including Ritchie, Potsy and the Fonz in a few frames (don't blink).

Come to think of it, I think I recognize the intro sequence where Al announces the band. It looks like they actually grabbed this segment from the episode where the Fonz was doing a motorcycle jump outside Arnold's (I think he crashed?).

It is very well done from a producer's point of view, the syncing is exceptional. The music, ah well, I'm sure somebody likes it ( :whistle: ) In that era my favorite band was probably Dream Theater. Anyway, I never saw it before, probably because MTV lost me long before 1994 came around.

I'll look through the Win98 and Plus CD's later.

EDIT: Further info in this color

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Don't Fear The Reaper was one of those songs that just sticks in your head and never leaves. The best part of Happy Days was Fonz on that Triumph. But then so are early Harley's, BSA's, and Norton's. I guess there were episodes that had Fonzi riding other bikes but, the only ones I remember were the Triumph's

jd

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