Songs you first heard (altered) in a TV commercial
Grover
commercial, and didn't realize was a "real" song until later, perhaps much
later? I'm referring here to songs that had their lyrics modified to reflect
the product being advertised, as opposed to, say, that "Everyday People" song
that Toyota has been using unmodified.
Here are some 70's commercials where that happened with me:
-- "Pack up your troubles in your old knit bag and smile, smile, smile." I
first heard this as "...in your Glad Trash Bag...". I think Tom Bosley, aka
Howard Cunningham from Happy Days, was in this one.
-- "Put a little love in your heart", first heard as "Put a little Squirt in
your life", Squirt being a brand of citrus-flavored soda pop.
-- "Hello Dolly!" from the musical, was first heard as "Hello Hardees". The
last line was "Hardee's the taste that brings you back again."
-- "Give me the simple life" was first heard as "Give me the Campbell life", in
a series of commercials for Campbell's soup.
-- "Oh dem golden slippers" was first heard as "Oh those Golden Grahams" when
the breakfast cereal first came out. (Betcha didn't know that was a real
song!) The commercial version was so catchy that it even appeared once on The
Simpsons.
-- "You gotta have heart" from the musical "Damn Yankees" became "You gotta
have art" in a local commercial for the Detroit Art Institute.
-- "High Hopes" was a commercial for Hi-C fruit drinks in the mid-70s. This
song was played at the end of the movie "Antz", and when I saw the movie
recently on DVD it was the first time I ever heard the non-commercial version
of it! The ad went:
"Hi-C, we got Hi-C,
we got great tasting, strawberry Hi-C
You'll like the real fruit juice of it
And the taste of it
And the Vitamin C
Whoops, there goes another orange Hi-C"
(that last line sung as we see a can of the stuff drop to the floor. Remember
the huge cans the stuff used to come in, cans which required a church key to
open and vent? But that's another subject.)
Any others?
Dixon Hayes
>-- "Oh dem golden slippers" was first heard as "Oh those Golden Grahams" when
>the breakfast cereal first came out. (Betcha didn't know that was a real
>song!)
I actually heard it as yet another jingle *before* Golden Grahams. It was Good
'N' Plenty:
"Oh, the Good 'N' Plenty,
Oh, the Good 'N' Plenty,
Shake the box and pass it on,
There's a whole lot there to share..."
>-- "High Hopes" was a commercial for Hi-C fruit drinks in the mid-70s.
I remember that one, too.
A few others I first heard as commercials:
"Little Brown Jug"--a swing hit (I want to say Glen Miller?) became "That
little blue jug" for Dynamo liquid detergent in the 1970s.
"Personality"--the Lloyd Price classic was introduced to me as a spot for Kmart
Photos.
"Lemon Tree"--was it the Sandpipers who did this fok classic first, or the
Kingston Trio? Whoever did it, I first heard it as a jingle for Lemon Pledge
back in the 1960s.
Dixon
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LizzieZ
>Kmart
>Photos.
Is that the same song that became "Wessonality?"
Another sad thing is the kids today who hear a symphony strike up the "United
Airlines theme." Makes me want to cry...
Liz
Beatlfilms
>"Lemon Tree"--was it the Sandpipers who did this fok classic first, or the
>Kingston Trio? Whoever did it, I first heard it as a jingle for Lemon Pledge
>back in the 1960s.
I don't recall if the Sandpipers or the Kingston Trio ever did "Lemon Tree,"
but I do know that Peter, Paul & Mary recorded it. Add also, I believe, Trini
Lopez.
Shawn
Dixon Hayes
>I don't recall if the Sandpipers or the Kingston Trio ever did "Lemon Tree,"
>but I do know that Peter, Paul & Mary recorded it. Add also, I believe, Trini
>Lopez.
Trini Lopez is probably who I was actually thinking of, the version I heard at
my house definitely wasn't Peter Paul and Mary.
Dixon Hayes
>Is that the same song that became "Wessonality?"
No, different song...this was a 1959 Lloyd Price tune, they played it on "Happy
Days" once or twice.
Here's the chorus:
"...`cause you got personality,
Walk, personality
Talk, Personality
Smile, Personality
Charm, personality
Love, personality
And of Cause you´ve got
A great big heart
So over and over
Oh, I´ll be a fool to you
Now over and over
What more can I do?"
Marlene Blanshay
dixon...@aol.comspamless (Dixon Hayes) wrote:
> Grover wrote:
>
> A few others I first heard as commercials:
>
> "Little Brown Jug"--a swing hit (I want to say Glen Miller?) became "That
> little blue jug" for Dynamo liquid detergent in the 1970s.
>
> "Personality"--the Lloyd Price classic was introduced to me as a spot
for Kmart
> Photos.
>
> "Lemon Tree"--was it the Sandpipers who did this fok classic first, or the
> Kingston Trio? Whoever did it, I first heard it as a jingle for Lemon Pledge
> back in the 1960s.
>
> Dixon
> ===========
HOly cow, I remember that one! Where a woman is being pulled up a rope
into a lemon tree!
"Wear your love like Heaven" was used for some kind of perfume ad, I
think, but I can't remember which.
Is Dynamo detergent still around? We never got it in canada.
Antipositivist
CD, featuring a recording of the great Woody Guthrie singing "This
Land is Your Land." I can recall this tune as having been used, with
changed lyrics, for a cornflake commercial years ago. I think that
there is something wrong with a tune like that being used for crass
commercialism.
rach
the Clash song being used for Jaguar) not the company.
--
rach
"ain't it funny how we pretend we're still a child
softly stolen under our blanket skies"
Galapogos - Smashing Pumpkins
"Antipositivist" <anti...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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LizzieZ
>
>No, different song...this was a 1959 Lloyd Price tune, they played it on
>"Happy
>Days" once or twice.
>
>Here's the chorus:
>
>"...`cause you got personality,
>Walk, personality
>Talk, Personality
>Smile, Personality
>Charm, personality
>Love, personality
>And of Cause you´ve got
>A great big heart
>So over and over
>Oh, I´ll be a fool to you
>Now over and over
>What more can I do?"
I thought that WAS the Wessonality song.... Now I'm totally confused.
Liz
Dixon Hayes
>I thought that WAS the Wessonality song.... Now I'm totally confused.
Unless Florence did a commercial I missed, the "Wessonality" song was based on
a *different* song called "Personality." Bing Crosby, Johnny Mercer and Dinah
Shore had hits with it; Dorothy Lamour sang it in "The Road to Utopia."
"When Madam Pompadour was on a ballroom floor
Said all the gentlemen "Obviously,"
"The madam has the cutest personality"
And think of all the books about Du Barry's looks
What was it made her the toast of Paree?
She had a well-developed personality."
Dixon Hayes
>Is Dynamo detergent still around? We never got it in canada.
I haven't seen it in years and years.
Dixon Hayes
>I'd be inclined to blame the people that sold the rights to the song ( like
>the Clash song being used for Jaguar) not the company.
I am very fuzzy on exactly how that works. For instance, back in the 1980s,
when Chrysler introduced its mini-van, they wanted to use Bruce Springsteen's
"Born in the USA" to promote it. The Boss said no way (exact quote: "No
thanks, mister."). My understanding is that somehow, Chrysler could've
overruled him and used it anyway as long as they paid the royalties (and/or got
permission from the record label), but chose not to in order to avoid bad will
and negative PR. They used a specially-written "The Pride is Back: Born in
America" jingle instead.
rach
--
rach
"ain't it funny how we pretend we're still a child
softly stolen under our blanket skies"
Galapogos - Smashing Pumpkins
"Dixon Hayes" <dixon...@aol.comspamless> wrote in message
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Grover
commercial. Not sure of the brand (Clairol Balsam Color?), but it was
definitely for some kind of women's shampoo, conditioner, or hair coloring. As
best as I can remember, it went:
...she's got
Shine, personality
Bounce, personality
Frost, personality
And for each "personality" they showed a different woman flaunting her hairdo
in one way or another.
Meanwhile, "Wessonality" was based on a different song. Florence Henderson
used a variety of lyrics throughout the series. One went:
"The chicken fried just right
It's crispy every bite
It tastes as crispy, as chicken should be
The chicken's got a certain <ding> Wessonality."
Dixon Hayes
>And if he refused his royalty cheques?
Since he wouldn't let them use his song, then yes, I guess he pretty much did.
Not that he needed them at that point.
Dixon Hayes
>Where the song originated, I do not know, but I do have a Frank Sinatra
>rendition. The
>liner notes say "From the film 'A Hole in the Head' with Nelson Riddle
>Orchestra and
>Chorus" dated May 8, 1959.
>
This is, indeed, the original. "A Hole in the Head" was Frank Capra's next to
last film. BTW, does anyone remember Shirley singing this song on "Laverne &
Shirley"?
Jamie
> How many songs can you think of that you first heard on a TV or radio
> commercial, and didn't realize was a "real" song until later, perhaps much
> later? I'm referring here to songs that had their lyrics modified to reflect
> the product being advertised, as opposed to, say, that "Everyday People" song
> that Toyota has been using unmodified.
>
commerical in which it was used (remember that one?). The real lyrics
are:
"Anticipation, anticipation,
Is making me late, "
but in the ad it was "...making me wait", IIRC. Anyone know this for
sure?
And remember "Woman (W-O-M-A-N)" in the Enjoli perfume ad? Was that
one altered too? I had flashbacks to this commerical after seeing "My
Big Fat Greek Wedding" and seeing/hearing the lead character singing
this song.
Aj
> bbwma...@aol.comnospam (Grover) wrote in message news:<20020919191145...@mb-mv.aol.com>...
> > How many songs can you think of that you first heard on a TV or radio
> > commercial, and didn't realize was a "real" song until later, perhaps much
> > later? I'm referring here to songs that had their lyrics modified to reflect
> > the product being advertised, as opposed to, say, that "Everyday People" song
> > that Toyota has been using unmodified.
> >
> I believe the lyrics to "Anticipation" were altered for the ketchup
> commerical in which it was used (remember that one?). The real lyrics
> are:
> "Anticipation, anticipation,
> Is making me late, "
> but in the ad it was "...making me wait", IIRC. Anyone know this for
> sure?
I believe your correct, I'm too lazy to drag the beta machine out,
hook it up and watch the ad again, but I do know a very young and then
unknown Corey Feldman appeared in those ads.
Aj
Jason LeBouef
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> How many songs can you think of that you first heard on a TV or radio
> commercial, and didn't realize was a "real" song until later, perhaps much
"I'd like to teach the world to sing" - The Seekers/Coke. Lyric goes "I'd
like to buy the world a home/Coke"
Jason LeBouef
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Carly Simon/Heinz Ketchup - "Anticipation" The song is the same except for
a voice over in the part that goes...
"It's making me wait" (it's sooooo good)
The Temptations "Get Ready" and Sugar Pops(?) The part right before the
chorus has the words "So big and crunchy" so it goes like this:
So fee.. fi... fo... fummm
(so big and crunchy, so big and crunchy, so big and crunchy....)
Whenever "Get Ready" or "Anticipation" comes on the radio I add in or sing
the part from the commercial.
Jason LeBouef
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> On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:00:00 GMT, Jason LeBouef babbled on about Re: Songs
you first heard
> (altered) in a TV commercial proclaiming:
>
> >> Any others?
> >
> >Carly Simon/Heinz Ketchup - "Anticipation" The song is the same except
for
> >a voice over in the part that goes...
> >"It's making me wait" (it's sooooo good)
>
back to a
> Saturday Night Live parody (I have a video on SNL commercial parodies),
and they did one
> on "Swill", a mineral water scooped right out of Lake Erie and bottled on
the spot <g>.
> Bill Murry starred in segment, and as he pours it into a glass, the sludge
oozes out of
> the bottle at which time they play "Anticipation." Haha. Funny.
Oh yeah. I remember that one. I've already seen the Heinz commercial so I
got the humor.
Robert Goodman
> Marlene Blanshay wrote:
>
> >Is Dynamo detergent still around? We never got it in canada.
>
> I haven't seen it in years and years.
I used it for laundry just yesterday. The brand was introduced in the
1960s AFAIK, but didn't do well and was withdrawn, then reintroducd in
the 1970s.
Killer Rabbit
"Robert Goodman" <rob...@bestweb.net> wrote in message
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Yeah, I use it, too! But it's in a green bottle now. Still smells good.
:-)
Lori =^.^=
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