Pop songs and TV ads

[TheOtherHalf]

There are more and more ads being advertised with pop songs as background. Does anyone know which was the first one to be done this way ?

And can you name some ( I could think of some yesterday but now my minds gone blank )

[TheOtherHalf]

The only one I can think of at the moment is the Barclays Bank one where a bloke is sliding down a water shute. Dont know the title or singer. Told you my brain has gone toiday.

[tiggerblue10]

Levi Jeans ads back in the 80s' maybe. I'm sure there were others before then but I can't recall any.

[Davethedog]

Barclaycard one is More than a feeling by Boston

[Davethedog]

Sorry wrong ad

[Stephen_G]

The waterslide advert was Let Your Love Flow by The Bellamy Brothers.

[Jemisa]

http://www.youtube.co...7GXwQ&feature=related


M&S Food about a year ago.


jem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAefTj7GXwQ&feature=related

[lankeela]

I'd like to buy the world a coke ok not the actual song I'd like to teach the world to sing but same principle.

[andy-hughes]

lankeela - not quite - the pop hit came from the ad., not the other way around.

I'm not sure of the very first pop song / ad. link, but certainly Levi's were first to make a sustained campaign out of the notion.

[lankeela]

Ibuleve by The Batchelors

[MarkRae]

http://en.wikipedia.o...#Use_of_popular_music

[Davethedog]

No The first but

The use of previously-recorded popular songs in television advertisements began in earnest in 1985 when Burger King used the original recording of Aretha Franklin's song "Freeway of Love"

Full article

http://en.wikipedia.o...evision_advertisement

[MarkRae]

Also, "I Can't Let Maggie Go" by Honeybus was used by Nimble bread in 1970 - that has to be one of the first...

[Davethedog]

Mark wasn't that a jingle that became a song?

[jackthehat]

I could never quite see what 'letting Maggie go' had to do with a loaf...........:o/

[MarkRae]

> Mark wasn't that a jingle that became a song?

No.

[Davethedog]

Jack its the "Flies like a bird in the sky" thing and the balloon. Andy song was first but not until the ad,

[Davethedog]

Missed your reply I wasn't contradicting you :-)

[jackthehat]

I know, Dave.
And it all made sense right up until that line................;o)

[The Builder]

Ahhhh ............ "I can't let Maggie go" ......... I had a girlfriend called Maggie at the time........ trouble is .......... she went :o(

[tiggerblue10]

Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera - Lucozade ad with Daley Thompson.