[78-L] Col Bogey. was OOmpah

[Michael Biel]

On 1/24/2012 1:20 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Speaking of which, there's a story from last week about an ad agency that chose
> a cheery march from an album of 15 for a car commercial, and it turned out to
> be the Horst Wessel Lied. BIG oops. I'll try and find it.
>
> dl
I found this.  It's not new nor a car commercial, but it was Canadian.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1119016

*worst background music*

The Royal Canadian Legion was extremely pleased with the radio 
commercial for its 2005 lottery. It was pulled from the airwaves on the 
first day, however, when it emerged that the background music they had 
selected was the Nazi Party anthem.

Entitled the "Horst Wessel Lied," it features the booming drums and 
energetic brass typical of marching songs. It expresses the hope that 
"the street will be free for stormtroopers" and contains the line, 
"Millions, full of hope, look up at the swastika." A regulation in the 
1934 sheet music makes it clear that the right arm has to be raised in 
the Hitler salute whenever the first and fourth verses are sung.

"It sounds good," said Harvey Shevalier, a veteran of peacekeeping 
missions and first vice-president of the Alberta and Northwest 
Territories command for the Legion. "But it was not the appropriate kind 
of music. That's why it was taken off. It should never have happened."

The music had been judged suitable by the Legion's lottery committee. 
Laurel Harris, a media director for their marketing company, said the 
song was selected from a random tape of marching music that did not have 
title on it.
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Mike Biel  mbiel#mbiel.com