I loved Karen O’s song for Spike Jonze’s Adidas commercial. I was disappointed when I learned it wasn’t a real song. I wasn’t alone and they eventually released it on iTunes in response to the demand.
Very much of its time — the 70s — but I’ve always been fond of United’s “Friendly Skies” commercial (opening narration by Burgess Meredith).
(Has it ever been determined why some can embed YouTube and some can’t? The video worked in preview, but Discourse threw an error when I tried to post.)
Yes, it’s a known Discourse glitch. The work-around which works for me is to collapse the “preview” pane on the right side of the post composition window: click the button with “<<” at the lower right corner of the composition window.
Yes that’s what I do too. However, if you forget to do it and attempt to post with the preview pane open, you can’t just close the preview pane and repost. You need to change the URL, for example by adding a meaningless parameter such as &xxx=1 to the end.
Faygo Boat Song TV commercial from the 1970s.
Loved that song!
I always thought this Toys R Us jingle was fantastic.
Jingle from Baltimore dairy featuring early Jim Henson work. Note the phone number is NOrth9-2222.
Baltimore had a bunch of decent advertising songs/jingles. Don White’s Car Center took up residence in my noggin at an early age and never left.
“Look Sharp” March (Gillette) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaSTSdksGlU
J G Wentworth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPM6j1Q4sg
This Alka-Seltzer ad became the instrumental “No Matter What Shape Your Stomach’s In” by the T-Bones, and a giant hit. One of the catchiest sounds ever.
David Dundas wrote a jingle for a jeans commercial, which as “Jeans On” became a top 20 hit for him in the U.K. and the U.S.
I always liked Ford’s “Taurus for Us” from 1986, although it is very '80s.
A fuel company in NZ (Europa, now defunct) commissioned a local blues musician called Midge Marsden to write and perform a song to be used in an ad. Travelling On became a bit of a local hit.
Midge then invited Stevie Ray Vaughan to record a second song/video, which is absolutely fantastic:
Not a song but an instrumental: Hagood Hardy’s The Homecoming:
The title track, “The Homecoming”, started out as music to a 1972 TV commercial for Salada tea.[4] After being included in this album, it was released as a single in 1975 on the Isis label through the Toronto company, Hagood Hardy Productions.[5] It rose to #14 on the Canadian charts, and to #41 on the pop and #6 on the easy listening US charts. It was certified Gold in Canada.[6][4]
The correct answer, of course:
Award goes to @Stephe96 . It would take a lot of viewings for me to get sick of that.
“Hot dogs, Springfield hot dogs
The dogs Haitians love to bite”
I’m surprised the original Chili’s Baby Back Ribs song didn’t become a single.
That was the first one I thought of when I saw this thread title.
So cool that you know the person who wrote it!