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#26

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 4:09pm

Well, I think Orion is kidding, but "Do You Know The Way to SAN JOSE'?" was a big hit for Dionne WARWICK. Also, isn't "Buckle Down Winsocki" from BEST FOOT FOWARD?

OK, who remembers "Try To Remember" used in a camera or film commercial in the 60's or 70's? Kodak or Polaroid, maybe? That's how I was first introduced to that song. The first time I ever saw The Fantasticks, years later, I kept thinking, "That's the camera commercial song."

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#27

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 5:15pm

There have been so many.

One from A Chorus Line (I think was used in a detergent commercial)

We Are A Family from Dreamgirls, some lame charity I can't remember

You're The Top has been used a couple of times

And CLS, I remember "Try To Remember" camera commercial. I knew the song because I had heard it on Lawrence Welk or somewhere. Everybody was singing that song in the '70's. There are so many different versions of it.

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#28

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 5:30pm

"Ragtime from "Ragtime" being played over TAMPAX be pretty funny.
"

HAHAHAH!

#29

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 5:45pm

They played various songs from WEST SIDE STORY during the Mountain Dew commericals in the mid-90's (The one where a man and a woman jump out of a plane and she pulls the guys parachute so he wouldn't drink her Mountain Dew). Man, I can't believe I remember that in detail. See what Mountain Dew does to me.

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#30

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 5:55pm

"Ragtime from "Ragtime" being played over TAMPAX be pretty funny."

I damn dear gagged on my supper when i read that. I love "I Feel Pretty" in Anger Management

I seem to remember seeing "Put on a Happy Face" in a few commercials.

#31

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 5:58pm

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't some songs from "West Side Story" featured in Gap commercials?

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#32

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 6:08pm

yes, it was Fabala. SNL even did a parody of it.

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#33

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 6:11pm

Ah yes. I remember that one too...*goes back to the good old days...five years ago...*

#34

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 6:11pm

The song was "Cool" I believe.

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#35

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 9:19pm

"Whatever Lola Wants"...wasn't that also used for a Pringles commercial a few months back? Also, a "punchy" more uptempo version of "I Only Have Eyes For You" was used in a commercial around the same time, though I forget what for.

EDIT: "Eyes" was just on...it's for Lipator (a perscription drug).

Updated On: 1/14/05 at 09:19 PM

#36

re: Show Tunes as TV Commercials

Posted: 1/14/05 at 11:53pm

Hey guys, Don't forget "Thank you very much" from the Musical Scrooge in the Visa commercials this year. I loved that in the commercial the guy was shaving his face with a Visa Card!

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