# Fuck you Dulux....you stole my favourite song!!

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 19, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-dulux-you-stole-my-favourite-song/208339 "2003-10-19T10:57:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-dulux-you-stole-my-favourite-song/208339/1 "2003-10-19T10:57:45Z")

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One of my precious, all time fave bits of contemporary music is the piece by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole singing a medley of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World. I think it comes from the movie ‘Finding Forrester’ but I haven’t seen it yet.

Anyway, tonight I was sitting here at my 'puter, and heard the song come onto the telly…I ran in expecting it to be a documentary or a music clip, but I was disappointed.

**It was a fucking Dulux paint commercial.**

And now it has ‘coloured’ my whole appreciation of the song. They’ve gone and tinted it now.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr Dulux. You bastards. That was MY song, not yours.  
:mad:

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**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-dulux-you-stole-my-favourite-song/208339/2 "2003-10-19T11:21:44Z")

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you can find that song on the “Meet Joe Black” soundtrack.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-dulux-you-stole-my-favourite-song/208339/3 "2003-10-19T11:35:35Z")

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I love that version of the song!

I felt the same way initially when I found out that Nick Drake’s _Pink Moon_ was used on a VW commercial. Then I thought what the hell - if it introduces more people to an artist that I love, it’s a good thing really.

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**Author:** ![Kaitlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kaitlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlin)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-dulux-you-stole-my-favourite-song/208339/4 "2003-10-19T13:15:55Z")

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I _discovered_ that wonderful song from a commercial–the eToys commercial that played around Christmas several years back. They used just the humming from the beginning, and the commercials were rather enchanting, really. I spent a few weeks trying to find out who the singer was, and then _TV Guide_ ran a short piece on Iz.  
Great song. Don’t think anything could muddy it for me. 🙂