As a kid, did anyone have the experience of becoming familiar with a well-known song through its use in shamelessly bastardised form for a TV advert? This seemed to be really common with 60s songs during the 1980s, but not so much these days(?)
(See mine below for what I mean.)
List yours here... but only if that was the first time you remember hearing that song. Bonus points if you still remember the mangled form better, or at least think of it when you hear the song!
Here are mine, complete with video links. (*)
Manfred Mann's "5-4-3-2-1" as, er... "5-4-3-2-1", used to advertise the chocolate biscuit of the same name. Title remains the same, but I'm blooming sure the original didn't go "Chew chew chew the caramel toffee in 5-4-3-2-1" (and yeah, I *did* remember that line like it was yesterday). Pretty sure most people growing up in the early 80s heard it there first, it seemed to be a permanent fixture.
"Cool Jerk" as "Do the Dip" to advertise KP Choc Dips. I thought these looked pretty cool as a kid, and had them a few times, but they're not really something I'd buy as an adult. Which begs the question- who they were marketing to with that 60s pastiche? Baby boomer adults, or kids not even old enough to remember disco (i.e. me!)
Little Eva's "Locomotion" as "Do the Shell Promotion". (Yeah, I know this is also well-known as a Kylie song now, but that ad came out a year or two before she covered it.)
"Big Bad John" became "Big Bad Dom[estos]"
I'm sure there are more if I think about them...
(*) I'm still not entirely convinced if it's a good thing that I can easily access and provide links to what should be a hazy, half-remembered memory from 25+ years ago in service of some stupid thread about advert and music nostalgia.
(See mine below for what I mean.)
List yours here... but only if that was the first time you remember hearing that song. Bonus points if you still remember the mangled form better, or at least think of it when you hear the song!
Here are mine, complete with video links. (*)
Manfred Mann's "5-4-3-2-1" as, er... "5-4-3-2-1", used to advertise the chocolate biscuit of the same name. Title remains the same, but I'm blooming sure the original didn't go "Chew chew chew the caramel toffee in 5-4-3-2-1" (and yeah, I *did* remember that line like it was yesterday). Pretty sure most people growing up in the early 80s heard it there first, it seemed to be a permanent fixture.
"Cool Jerk" as "Do the Dip" to advertise KP Choc Dips. I thought these looked pretty cool as a kid, and had them a few times, but they're not really something I'd buy as an adult. Which begs the question- who they were marketing to with that 60s pastiche? Baby boomer adults, or kids not even old enough to remember disco (i.e. me!)
Little Eva's "Locomotion" as "Do the Shell Promotion". (Yeah, I know this is also well-known as a Kylie song now, but that ad came out a year or two before she covered it.)
"Big Bad John" became "Big Bad Dom[estos]"
I'm sure there are more if I think about them...
(*) I'm still not entirely convinced if it's a good thing that I can easily access and provide links to what should be a hazy, half-remembered memory from 25+ years ago in service of some stupid thread about advert and music nostalgia.
