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

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Dec 6 16:18:53 PST 2008


And again reversing the trend, Eastern Airlines' music became "Eastern 
Concerto" (Andre Kostelanetz? There was a Columbia Special Products LP 
featuring it..music only, no Orson Welles).

dl (who will now add the first letter of each line of my previous message 
below, somehow clipped by Cary's server)

Michael Biel wrote:
> soundthink at aol.com wrote:
>> Before it was ruined with "Married with Children," Cahn & Van Heusen's  "Love and Marriage" was used by Campbell's Soup, with new lyrics as "Soup and Sandwich."
>>
>> Cary Ginell
>>
>>   
> "I've Got Five Dollars" became the theme of Freddie Rich & His Orch 
> "Friendly Fred and the Friendly Five Footnotes" for Jarman Shoes selling 
> shoes for five dollars in 1931 when nobody had five dollars.
> 
> "Up Up and Away"  TWA
> Rhapsody In Blue  United Air Lines
> "Come Fly With Me" Sinatra for some other airline
> Mickey Katz's "Geshray of the Wild Kotchke" ended with the doomed goose 
> saying  "Next time I think I'll fly United."
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 2:33 pm
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Songs in ads vs. ad songs
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> She Lets Her Hair Down (Clairol?)..on a Bert Kaempfert LP
>> The 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 
>> trailers) someone had sent me..Martha Raye sings it in Mountain Music. Don't 
>> lnow 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
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  ----- 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 N
>>>     
>> OT  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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