It didn't last long before they yanked it off the air...
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=lyO2k96MOf0&usg=AOvVaw1dgwWCErTLz4I3eFdo2KS7
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=lyO2k96MOf0&usg=AOvVaw1dgwWCErTLz4I3eFdo2KS7
So short I don't think I ever even saw it!It didn't last long before they yanked it off the air...
So short I don't think I ever even saw it!
My favorite?
At the moment, probably the old Alka Seltzer "No Matter What Shape" campaign from the '60's with its sweet little jingle, performed by the Wrecking Crew "backing" the T-bones, no less:
Link, for those getting the dreaded "Black Box":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqQvWEpFhuc
very cool Al, and more and more Wrecking Crew creating the soundtrack of 1962-1972. I wonder how many elevator music songs they also were part of...
Sitting at Metro near Washington DC shaking the car with laughter.It didn't last long before they yanked it off the air...
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=lyO2k96MOf0&usg=AOvVaw1dgwWCErTLz4I3eFdo2KS7
It didn't last long before they yanked it off the air...
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=lyO2k96MOf0&usg=AOvVaw1dgwWCErTLz4I3eFdo2KS7
A former co-worker told me about talking with Jerry Jeff Walker in a supermarket when for no apparent reason, JJW burst out laughing. Then he pointed up and said, "Listen, they're playing my retirement (or something similar)." It was a Muzak arrangement of "Mr. Bojangles."Responsible for bringing us such gems as emasculated violin-soaked versions of "Satisfaction"; "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"; and "Proud Mary".
I can recall being in a mall when I was 13 and feeling "paranoid" for no good reason.
From Wiki's MUZAK page (itself a real eye-opener):
"This was the time when Muzak began recording their own orchestra—actually a number of orchestras in studios around the country, indeed around the world—composed of top local studio musicians. This allowed them to strictly control all aspects of the music for insertion into specific slots in the Stimulus Progression programs. "
Responsible for bringing us such gems as emasculated violin-soaked versions of "Satisfaction"; "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"; and "Proud Mary".
I can recall being in a mall when I was 13 and feeling "paranoid" for no good reason.
After a while I realized it was the Muzak being piped in at a just-under clear audibility threshold.
At that level it caused anxiety which I realized was probably intentionally induced to stimulate the purchasing urge.
I kid you not.
Only years later did I discover that one of Muzak's original "products" was "Stimulus Progression", described here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak
But when I sit down and my BAXXS float....... I hate that. I really do!!
:upset:
Stimulus Progression, Al. That just sounds dangerous.
OK, this is not politically correct and I apologize if anyone is offended. This was a super bowl ad that ran only once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd5NvbYoMz8
A Mystery solved.
I recall learning a song that made no particular sense to me at the time, when I was young. It was just nonsense/doggerel. It had the exact same lyrics as the commercial except another word was substituted for "boys". I wonder if it is counted a success because I remember an entire advertising jingle decades later or a failure because I had no clue what brand/product was being advertised?