# Want to know what that great song was in that TV ad?  Here you go!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 4, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-what-that-great-song-was-in-that-tv-ad-here-you-go/173022 "2003-05-04T14:55:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-what-that-great-song-was-in-that-tv-ad-here-you-go/173022/1 "2003-05-04T14:55:13Z")

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[- “Here they all are, the Songtitle Archives. Some of the spots go back as far as 1996.”](http://www.songtitle.info/archives.htm)

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-what-that-great-song-was-in-that-tv-ad-here-you-go/173022/2 "2003-05-04T15:49:54Z")

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Cool! Thanks, **astro**!

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-what-that-great-song-was-in-that-tv-ad-here-you-go/173022/3 "2003-05-04T19:38:25Z")

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Hey, it didn’t list the Kellog’s Special K with red berries add :(.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-what-that-great-song-was-in-that-tv-ad-here-you-go/173022/4 "2003-05-04T20:54:15Z")

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Too bad it hasn’t been updated since last July. I _still_ don’t know which Moby song was used to advertise that JFK Jr movie a few months back…

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**Author:** ![Second\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Second\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Echo)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-what-that-great-song-was-in-that-tv-ad-here-you-go/173022/5 "2003-05-04T22:25:56Z")

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Or that cool acoustic guitar piece that accompanied a VW Jetta commercial sometime within the last year, which all I remember of now is the song and the fact that during the commercial a map of the US southwest was shown on screen with the car dricving away through a long barren stretch of road.