i put my blue jeans on

[fatgaz]

hi peeps, i got this song going round in my head and am sure it was in an advert years ago, the song goes something like " i put my blue jeans on, i put my old blue jeans on" any help on this would be greatly welcome :)

[hc4361]

Barry Blue - Blue Jeans

[hc4361]

Sorry - wrong singer

[wolf63]

or .......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKeIgA0yfjA

[hc4361]

It was David Dundas

[craft1948]

oh I remember David Dundas.........

[MarkRae]

Definitely David Dundas, a member of the House of Lords, if memory serves...

[Just-Jude]

Did it go "and they sure don't fit any more"?

[sometimesit]

It should have but it didn't :)
I remember those jeans mine shrank while a friends stretched but they were cheap.

http://www.oldielyric..._dundas/jeans_on.html

[hc4361]

Brutus may have been cheaper than Levi, but they weren't market stall cheap.
They were fairly expensive, if I remember rightly

[sometimesit]

You are right about that. This was in the days before silly price 'cheap'.
I'm talking about high street shop prices. These jeans were on offer to muscle in on the market when they first came out and seemed like a bargain but were not.

[tonyav]

Yep, Brutus and Lee trying to muscle in on the Levi / Wrangler market at that time.

[tonymclark]

I may be wrong, but I think the song was written for the ad, and the original lyrcs (as heard in the ad) were something along the lines of "I but my Brutus Jeans on". When the song was extended and released as a single, the non-commercial BBC wouldn't play it unless the lyrics were changed - so as not to advertise - so "blue jeans" it became.

[tonymclark]

Sorry for the spelling mistakes above; lyrics and "I put my..."