[78-L] ^Broken formatting of replies (was Re: Songs in ads vs. ad songs)

[Jeff Lichtman]

Lately I've been replies on 78-L where the quoted 
lines have been merged into a single line, 
messing up the formatting so badly as to make the 
message almost illegible. What I see in my mail 
client is a single paragraph with ">" symbols 
indicating quoted lines interspersed throughout. 
This seems to happen when certain people reply, 
especially Cary Ginell (soundthink at aol.com).

Is anyone else seeing the same thing? It's 
possible that the problem is at my end, but I 
suspect the problem is with the sender. I am 
including an example of the problem below.

At 04:13 PM 12/6/2008, you 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 
>reecorded "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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