How often does a commercial remind you of a song you'd forgotten?

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Commercials occasionally get the rights to use classic songs. Sometimes it’s a song that I’ve heard constantly on oldies stations.

Downy surprised me with a song I haven’t heard in decades. I couldn’t remember the title or singer. It’s Paul Anka’s, Times of Your Life. It was used in mid 1970’s Kodak Commercials. It’s been dusted off by Downy fabric softener.

It’s such a odd feeling to be reminded of an old memory. I immediately knew this was a song I used to like. I had to immediately grab my phone to google the details. I’ve already listened to the complete song several times on YouTube.

Has this happened to you? What songs?

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A commercial for the prescription drug Ozempic retools “Whoa Oh Oh It’s Magic” by Pilot (1974). Hadn’t heard that song in decades before it came up in the ad.

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Quite often! Right now I can’t think of one, of course. Many times when I hear a song on a commercial it’s a song that I haven’t heard for a long time and I find that I really like it. There have been many times I’ve added a song to my playlist for that reason. I also hear songs that I’ve never heard and then I start digging around to find out the title and artist so I can add it to my playlist. The one of the those that comes to mind is Have Love Will Travel by The Sonics. I love that song but had never heard it until it was on a car commercial a few years ago.

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I grew up never knowing that Lemon Tree was an actual song and not a commercial for Lemon Pledge.

Damn she makes housework look sexy!

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To be honest: you guys on this message board remind me of the commercials that remind me of the songs; take a bow!

Wearing my Levis – Lee hee heeee hee hee vis, haw, haw!

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The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
A hit in 1982.

Was used heavily in a commercial last year. I don’t remember what it was for.

I recognized the song and had to look up the group and year it was a hit.

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I hadn’t exactly forgotten about the song “Da Da Da” by minimalist 80s German pop band ‘Trio’. I was into the band for a minute back in the 80s. But I hadn’t thought about the band or their biggest (only?) hit for years until it was featured in a Volkswagen commercial in the early 2000s.

Odd song choice for a car commercial when its chorus goes “Da Da Da I don’t love you you don’t love me”.

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Looked up another one. Smokey Robinson -Cruisin 1979

Allstate uses this song in a odd commercial with people driving on the moon.

I don’t remember this song. But anything Smokey Robinson recorded for Motown is good.