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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #360 on: July 15, 2012, 06:19:15 PM »
"Summer Nights" from Grease is now "Summer Savin' Days" for Nissan.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #361 on: August 08, 2012, 08:57:20 PM »
eSurance is using Yaz's "Situation".
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #362 on: August 13, 2012, 09:47:11 PM »
Pete Townshend's "Let My Love Open the Door" on a Honda commercial?

http://youtu.be/CNzO_OSyNBw
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #363 on: August 18, 2012, 10:43:22 PM »
I see Vagisil is advertising again -- I didn't think they made that stuff any more -- I always thought they should've licensed "Love Is Like An Itching in My Heart"
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #364 on: August 19, 2012, 05:38:32 PM »
Delaney & Bonnie's "Never-Ending Song of Love" is flogging Olive Garden's never-ending pasta bowls.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #365 on: August 27, 2012, 06:16:55 PM »
Is that Macca singing that "it's gonna be a great day" song on the Chase Sapphire Preferred commercial?
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #366 on: September 12, 2012, 08:26:39 PM »
OMFG: that Geico commercial with Eddie Money is the saddest thing I've seen in ages.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #367 on: September 12, 2012, 09:28:50 PM »
OMFG: that Geico commercial with Eddie Money is the saddest thing I've seen in ages.

I suppose I could Google it and watch, but it seems I should be surprised by it.

What is the most pathetic ad a musical has-been has been involved with? Damn what an awful sentence.

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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #368 on: September 13, 2012, 01:54:25 PM »
Walgreens' new slogan is "At the corner of Happy and Healthy" and so OF COURSE the radio spots use CCR's "Down on the Corner".
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #369 on: September 24, 2012, 08:35:13 PM »
the immortal Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin classic "Je T'Aime" is selling Dior parfum, in a commercial starring Natalie Portman.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #370 on: October 04, 2012, 08:04:03 PM »
Bryan Ferry's cover if "The 'In' Crowd" is flogging Discount Shoe Warehouse.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #371 on: October 14, 2012, 07:23:12 PM »
Todo da bien Chevrolet? No, Stevie's "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" is flogging Liberty Mutual.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #372 on: October 22, 2012, 07:09:03 PM »
Bananarama/Fun Boy 3 "It Ain't What Ya Do (It's the Way That Ya Do it)" is flogging printers.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #373 on: December 09, 2012, 06:28:11 PM »
The Champs' immortal "Tequila!" is now "Tostitos!" -- honestly I can't believe it took them this long to think of it.
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Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« Reply #374 on: December 16, 2012, 08:25:06 PM »
The Kinks' "Father Christmas" is selling Chromebooks.
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