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1975. I was living out of state then and never got to see the thing, although my brothers were laughing their butts off about it over the phone. Beautification officials were responsible for getting the ad pulled, since they claimed it actually increased the amount of littering... it seemed that Tennessee Trash had become a folk hero.
That is indeed Ed Bruce's voice
Irving Kane went back to bed, however, when he did not get his American Ace coffee.
Irving Kane starred in this PSA and passed in 1993. Tennessee Trash made him a household name in Tennessee, but he was also a composer of classical music, who conducted the Nashville Symphony playing his compositions in Tennessee and at Carnegie Hall.