Yeah, that one’s probably not going to go away for a few years. It’s catchy, and everyone saw it. My version of this is that I can’t hear *Good King Wenceslaus *without hearing “Sprite makes better holidays, limon is the reason!”
And I was marveling the other day that Stuck in the Middle with You got a second life as a lasting hit due to the ear-cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs. I’d honestly never heard the song before that movie came out, now I can’t go a week without hearing it.
Schultz and Dooley and friend singing “We still let nature make the beer! Utica Club! Utica Club! A little bit of rice makes it right. Natural bubbles, too!”
Though many vintage Schultz and Dooley ads are on Youtube, this one isn’t.
Johnny Mathis - “Wonderful, Wonderful” - was played on the finale of Desperate Housewives. A record on a turntable, the needle drops. As Karen McCluskey was passing away, and Julie was giving birth, and there was a montage of the ladies…OMG I started crying buckets and just. couldn’t. stop. (The actress who played Mrs. McC died in real life about 3 weeks later, which doesn’t help). I still can’t hear it without tearing up.
It’s a little melancholy, anyway, I’ve always pictured a young couple of the 50’s strolling on a beach holding hands, their whole lives ahead of them…
Except for those of us living in Buffalo, where it is associated with the Buffalo Sabres hockey team. It’s been their theme music (on and off) since the 1970s, I think.