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

[Anthony Baldwin]

Some of the Friendly Fred shows appeared on the Aircheck label in  
1970s. Anybody know where they were done and in what original format?

Tony B


On Dec 7, 2008, at 1:13 AM, 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
>> 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 or
>> another.
>> 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>
>>  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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