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

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Nagging me for quite a while now is which product was used with the song "It's Been a Long, Long Time." Seems to me it was some brand of coffee. Anyone know?

Cary Ginell


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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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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.
 
 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
he Lets Her Hair Down (Clairol?)..on a Bert Kaempfert LP
he Homecoming..Hagood Hardy (originally a Tea commercial in Canada)
 
 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 
railers) someone had sent me..Martha Raye sings it in Mountain Music. Don't 
now 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 or20another.
Yup..currently being inundated with Donovan's "Happiness Runs" on Canadian TV. 
on't ask me what the product is..I became immune to advertising long ago.
dl
 
 
 
 
 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: "Anthony Baldwin" <jazztrash at wanadoo.fr>
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 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=2
0NOT  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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