[78-L] Songs in ads vs. ad songs

[Taylor Bowie]

That is true...but the idea was that Olds took the old 1903 song and turned 
it into part of an ad campaign in 1927.

Once in a while a song used in a broadcast ad of some sort will be turned 
into a pop song.  Off hand,  the only one I can think of is that Coke ad 
from the early 70s ("I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing") but I'm sure 
there are others.

On a similar topic, I recall finding my first copy of the T Dorsey Victor of 
"Good Mornin' " and discovering that it was the same song as a Kellogg's 
Corn Flakes ad which was then saturating the air waves.

Of course now every baby-boomer rock record under the sun has been used in 
an ad by some company or another.


Taylor B



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Baldwin" <jazztrash at wanadoo.fr>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] waring workshop


Sure, but to my knowledge the two surviving 1927 Goldkette 'special'
Victor recordings of the 1903 song were designed specifically to
promote auto sales rather than for commercial release to the public.

Tony B


On Dec 6, 2008, at 5:05 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Baldwin" <jazztrash at wanadoo.fr>
>> ...Waring's Pennsylvanians feature the line "...You can bet your
>> Ingersoll" (i.e. wristwatch) in "Hello Montreal".
>>  In "Ich bin die fesche Lola", Marlene Dietrich tells us, "...Ich
>> hab' ein Pianola." (trademark of the Aeolian-Vocalion Co.)
>>  And If we're accepting cars as appliances, the list goes way beyond
>> Henry's Lizzie:
>>  "...A boy kissed Bessie in a Buick one night." ("Bessie Couldn't
>> Help It" — Louis Armstrong). Don Redman gives his girlfriend a "big
>> Packard coupe" in "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?" — McKinney's
>> Cotton Pickers. Dizzy Gillespie recorded "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac",
>> and Jean Goldkette "In my Merry Oldsmobile" — though that's really an
>> ad jingle.
>>
> No! "In My Merry Oldsmobile" was NOT  originally an "ad
> jingle"...it was
> a "Tin Pan Alley" tune of 1903, written in hopes the "auto-mobile"
> craze
> might promote its sale...!
>
> ...stevenc
>
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