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

[David Lennick]

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.

Chiquita Banana..numerous versions, discussed here the other week
She Lets Her Hair Down (Clairol?)..on a Bert Kaempfert LP
The Homecoming..Hagood Hardy (originally a Tea commercial in Canada)
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> 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.

I first discovered it while listening to a cassette of movie promos (air 
trailers) someone had sent me..Martha Raye sings it in Mountain Music. Don't 
know if Bob Burns plays it on his bazooka.
> 
> Of course now every baby-boomer rock record under the sun has been used in 
> an ad by some company or another.

Yup..currently being inundated with Donovan's "Happiness Runs" on Canadian TV. 
Don't ask me what the product is..I became immune to advertising long ago.

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