Commercialize Zevon

[Lexi1997]

I just saw the Microsoft commercial that uses Madonna's "Ray of Light" and even
Sting promotes cars now with his song.

So what Zevon songs would be good for commercials and what would they promote?

This all neatly ties back to when Zevon used to write commercial jingles (bonus
points for anyone who can name one of the commercials he did!!)

peace...

[Mhw61]

peace...
>>

Lawyers Guns and Money for Smith & Wesson
Strength and Muscle and Jungle Work for the US Army
Nighttime in the Switching Yard for Amtrack
Mr. Bad Example for Foster's Lager

Okay, that's all I can think of before I get back to work.

My all-time favorite use of rock music in a commercial goes to Nissan for the
Maxima pitch that featured The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" as the background
music.

Was there ever a more appropriate choice for an advertising campaign? And was
the irony truly lost on the good folks at Chiat/Day and Nissan?

Max

"It could have been worse. My parents could have named me Pabst."
--Carling Basset-Seguso

[Paul Herzberg]

Mhw61 wrote:
> > So what Zevon songs would be good for commercials and what would they promote?

Gridlock for Rail Travel
Run Straight Down for Greenpeace
Quite Ugly One Morning for zit cream
Finishing Touches for a divorce lawyer
Bill Lee for a retirement home

> My all-time favorite use of rock music in a commercial goes to Nissan for the
> Maxima pitch that featured The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" as the background
> music.
> Was there ever a more appropriate choice for an advertising campaign? And was
> the irony truly lost on the good folks at Chiat/Day and Nissan?

Windows 95 launch used the Stones' Start Me Up, which contains the line
"You make a grown man cry". Prescient or what?

I think, though, that Ad agencies willfully ignore any irony and hope
everyone else does too. Songs like Perfect Day wouldn't get used to
promote TV if they didn't ("so, you're saying watching BBC1 is like
doing heroin").

Cheers

Paul Herzberg

[Lucy Pfeffa]

>> (bonus
points for anyone who can name one of the commercials he did!!) <<

Nobody's biting on this? Ketchup. Boone's Farm.

This is appalling that I know this. I'm sorry. I really *do* have better
things to store in my brain cells than the minutiae of WZ's life decades ago.
I just seem to have room for it all.

That Frontier pick-up truck is *already* using "Mannish Boy," just not our
mannish boy's version.

"Gridlock" can be for more than just rail travel. Car pooling & mass transit
(the bus) could also use it.

"They Moved the Moon" for NASA, only to be used during press conferences
explaining the latest screw up.

"Worrier King" for those goofy clocks with birdsong on the hour.

"Poor Poor Pitiful Me" for Hyatt House ;-)

"Down in the Mall" for just about any new shopping venue.

"Hit Somebody" for Band-Aids.

-- Lucy, thinking Betty Ford Clinic probably doesn't advertise, so forget
Detox Mansion.

[J]

GM should have used the music, at least, of "The Envoy" for The Envoy.

[Patrick Davidson]

Excitable Boy for Viagra
Don't Let Us Get Sick for Blue Cross/Blue Shield

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Sweet Home Alabama - Alabama Dept of Tourism

[JungleWork45]

>Sweet Home Alabama - Alabama Dept of Tourism

That's not a Zevon song, that's Skynyrd. And I doubt that the Ala Dept of
Tourism would want to use "Play It All Night Long" very much.

And to answer the earlier question, Z did an early Camaro jingle. Wish I knew
which one.

[Mhw61]

<< And to answer the earlier question, Z did an early Camaro jingle. Wish I
knew
which one. >>

Not to mention wishing I had one of those early Camaros.

[Denise]

Come on, let's do it!
If we could commercialize Zevon, we would not have to worry about his
retirement years eating cat food.
D.
already very easily able to see him kneeling down in the dust at the side of
the interstate.

[Lucy Pfeffa]

>> D.
already very easily able to see him kneeling down in the dust at the side of
the interstate. <<

Let's hope that come retirement age, his knees are in good enough shape to be
able to kneel down in the dust by the side of the interstate.

Hell, I hope *everyone's* knees are that good.

-- Lucy, discussing her literal sore spot.

[Paul]

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead for Bombay Gin.

Paul

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[Paul Herzberg]

"Paul" <paulmuelleratmindspringdawtcom> wrote:
> I'll Sleep When I'm Dead for Bombay Gin.
>

Or, you know, to launch Heartbreak Motor Oil.

Cheers

Paul Herzberg

PS. There is/was a site somewhere with the lyrics to ISWID that does ask
where can you get Heartbreak Motor Oil

[Iain Macmillan]

Pioneer Chicken?

Iain
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[Roninscribe80]

Did you guys catch the Hanes Her Way commercial that's out there now,
with a female group in the background singing, "Iko Iko"? It looks
like WZ is being commercialized with young women frisking around in
underwear; I guess that's better than an "MSFU" Ex-Lax commercial
(sorry, that was my idea).

[Patrick Davidson]

Although WZ's Iko-Iko was my intro to the song, it's not really his. I did
see the commercial and thought, WZ did that song, COOL!

And it worked. I'm going out to buy some Hanes Her Way underwear as soon as
I log off.

Patrick, still searching for the perfect anniversary present for the perfect
wife -- do you think I got it?

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[Lucy Pfeffa]

>> Patrick, still searching for the perfect anniversary present for the perfect
wife -- do you think I got it? <<

Well, that certainly depends on what size you buy. Be careful you don't buy a
size larger than she really is; some ugly business might ensue. But at least
it's not something that has to be plugged in. You get points for that.

BTW - Happy Thanksgiving to all.

-- Lucy, who'd prefer some of that Soapmeister.com soap.

[Denise]

In article <3IYK7.515276$ME2.66...@typhoon.kc.rr.com>, "Conrad Simpson"
<csim...@wi.rr.com> writes:

>Zevon didn't write Iko-Iko.

and he didn't buy that underwear either.

[Paul Herzberg]

Unless he did and he put on that charge account he's never gonna pay.

Cheers

Paul Herzberg

[Lucy Pfeffa]

Did we know that GMC makes an SUV named "Envoy" ??

Looks like another threat to road rage,
Send the Envoy.

-- Lucy, watching too much TV again.

[SteveB3155]

Iko Iko was a top 40 Single by a 1960's era girl group from New Orleans called
the Dixie Cups. The song is a New Orleans standard, first recorded in the
1940's, allegedly an indian chant. More Info about the Dixie Cups can be found
at http://www.history-of-rock.com/dixie_cups.htm

[Ernie_IRS]

Some more background information on Iko Iko from the liner notes of Dr.
John's "Gumbo" album as well as lyrics can be found at
http://www.cyndilauper.com/song_det.asp?shname=ii

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Thank God for you, 17-year-old poster of this comment. I went crazy thinking I imagined this commercial. Scoured the internet for months... possibly years looking for that commercial. I remembered it vividly because one of the girls in the commercial reminded me of my girlfriend at the time, and I used to tell her that.

Thought I fabricated that entire memory. Then after a long search, I find this comment, which looked like you were writing about something recent at the time. I looked at the date, narrowed my search and found it in an old commercials from Nov 2001 video on Youtube. I wasn't crazy.

I know you have like 0% chance of ever reading this (especially if you've died in the last 17 years) but thank you, thank you, thank you.