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Quote from: CapnJack on January 29, 2021, 07:47:42 PMQuote from: dischead on January 27, 2021, 06:21:51 PMThere's a Geico commercial where Build Me Up Buttercup (originally charted by The Foundations)is sung by its characters as a kind of call-and-response. I was a little puzzled that they woulduse a song more than fifty years old for this, as I would suspect that few of their target demographichad ever heard this song. (I know that Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline is better known for thecall-and-response treatment, but it's been played at sporting events for over twenty years.) [clickety-clickety] I see that BMUB was on the soundtrack for Mallrats. I don't know how it wasused in that film, but that might explain its expected familiarity with the intended audience.How about There’s Something About Mary?It's one of those songs whose place in "Tier 2 canon" somewhat mystifies me. I'm thinking 'Late 60's pop that is not overly syrupy, yet not inaccessible'. Back when bar trivia was a thing, it was part of our host's rotation.
Quote from: dischead on January 27, 2021, 06:21:51 PMThere's a Geico commercial where Build Me Up Buttercup (originally charted by The Foundations)is sung by its characters as a kind of call-and-response. I was a little puzzled that they woulduse a song more than fifty years old for this, as I would suspect that few of their target demographichad ever heard this song. (I know that Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline is better known for thecall-and-response treatment, but it's been played at sporting events for over twenty years.) [clickety-clickety] I see that BMUB was on the soundtrack for Mallrats. I don't know how it wasused in that film, but that might explain its expected familiarity with the intended audience.How about There’s Something About Mary?
There's a Geico commercial where Build Me Up Buttercup (originally charted by The Foundations)is sung by its characters as a kind of call-and-response. I was a little puzzled that they woulduse a song more than fifty years old for this, as I would suspect that few of their target demographichad ever heard this song. (I know that Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline is better known for thecall-and-response treatment, but it's been played at sporting events for over twenty years.) [clickety-clickety] I see that BMUB was on the soundtrack for Mallrats. I don't know how it wasused in that film, but that might explain its expected familiarity with the intended audience.
"Lovely Day" in not one but TWO commercials: Allstate and Pandora (the jewelry store chain, not the music service)
