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You are here: Home / Music / And a man comes on to tell me just how white my shirts can be

And a man comes on to tell me just how white my shirts can be

by DougJ|  March 23, 201510:07 pm| 107 Comments

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One of my favorite past times pastimes is to think of songs that would be good in specific ads. I always thought “Put Me in Coach” would be good in an ad for an airline where the reg’lar seats had more legroom or where there was no first-class at all (Southwest). And I always thought “Urge For Going” would be great in a Flomax ad.

I know there’s others but I can’t remember them now. Ideas?

(I thought of this cos of the Geico “One Headlight” ad.)

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  1. 1.

    James Gary

    March 23, 2015 at 10:12 pm

    Hmmmm…how about “Don’t Bring Me Down” for an ad touting the benefits of synthetic insulation in clothing and bedding?

  2. 2.

    mai naem mobile

    March 23, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    Whiter Shade of Pale for Tide or some other laundry detergent. Also, I think a funny ad could be made for a wireless.company using Sylvias Mother (“and the operator says one more minute”)

  3. 3.

    east is east

    March 23, 2015 at 10:16 pm

    Jakob Dylan probably pulled in three figures for selling that song. I would do the same. Fuck em if they can’t take a joke.

  4. 4.

    DougJ

    March 23, 2015 at 10:16 pm

    @mai naem mobile:

    Brill.

  5. 5.

    RSA

    March 23, 2015 at 10:16 pm

    “Urge For Going” would be great in a Flomax ad

    Or “There She Goes” (the La’s version) for a diuretic aimed at women (sic).

  6. 6.

    DougJ

    March 23, 2015 at 10:18 pm

    @east is east:

    Easily three figures.

  7. 7.

    Suzanne

    March 23, 2015 at 10:20 pm

    @RSA: The horrible version of that song by Sixpence None the Richer was used in a birth control ad. Made me laugh, as that band is ostensibly Christian.

    That song by Train that has the line about getting run over by a crappy purple Scion would be funny in an ad.

  8. 8.

    Jamey

    March 23, 2015 at 10:22 pm

    The “…coach” song is “Centerfield.”

  9. 9.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    March 23, 2015 at 10:22 pm

    Jesus, DougJ, pastimes, not past times. If you’re going to give autocorrect free reign rain rein, at least get the kung fu grip on it.

    “Tax Man” for H&R Block.

  10. 10.

    KG

    March 23, 2015 at 10:23 pm

    i always chuckle at songs that don’t make sense in the modern world anymore. like, I wonder how many people under the age of 25 understand Return to Sender or Operator.

  11. 11.

    Jamey

    March 23, 2015 at 10:24 pm

    “Computer Love” by Kraftwerk for PornHub.

  12. 12.

    RepubAnon

    March 23, 2015 at 10:25 pm

    Preparation H actually tried to get the rights to Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” – but the heirs turned it down…

  13. 13.

    West of the Cascades

    March 23, 2015 at 10:26 pm

    Ads for the California Travel and Tourism Commission featuring “California Uber Alles.”

  14. 14.

    angelfoot

    March 23, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    This past Christmas GM was using “Brand New Cadillac” to pitch buying your significant other a new Caddy. Just a little tone deaf.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    March 23, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    One of my favorite past times

    Pastimes.

    Past times are history.

    /going on your permanent record :)

    Can’t link to it as the only copy I have access to is on reel-to-reel tape, but an acquaintance in college wrote and performed a felicitous, tuneful song called “Oldsmobile” for one of his short films that would have been beyond perfect for an ad.

  16. 16.

    Peter

    March 23, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Yes, but the Junior Parker version.

    Cypress Hill sampled it for “I Wanna Get High.” Which, come to think of it, would be another good airline ad song. Maybe for Colorado Air, if there is such a thing.

  17. 17.

    NotMax

    March 23, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    @KG

    I wonder how many people under the age of 25 understand Return to Sender or Operator.

    Or, for that matter, Western Union

  18. 18.

    Peale

    March 23, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    Everybody Hurts for Band Aids.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    March 23, 2015 at 10:39 pm

    @efgoldman

    Have three of them, although the heavy-duty rack model is on long-term loan to a friend who does radio shows and also audio file work for people’s computers.

  20. 20.

    Mike J

    March 23, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    The Nerves, Hangin’ on the Telephone for High speed mobile internet.

    Chorus only, obviously.

  21. 21.

    east is east

    March 23, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    My grandparents had a party line in Gettysburg. Three rings were for us. Good times.

  22. 22.

    JR

    March 23, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    Ted Cruz 2016 should use “Son of a Preacher Man.”

  23. 23.

    mellowjohn

    March 23, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    Thin Lizzie’s “The Boys Are Back in Town” for LawnBoy.

    p.s. i read somewhere that the Navy recruiting wanted to use the Village People’s “In the Navy” until cooler heads prevailed. or at least until someone explained the Village People’s rep.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    March 23, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    @efgoldman

    The reason still have a copy is that I did the engineering for the multi-tracking of the film’s soundtrack. Took the better part of an afternoon to lay down all the tracks for just the “Oldsmobile” song. IIRC, guitar, electric organ and four-part vocal harmony, all performed by only him.

  25. 25.

    Peale

    March 23, 2015 at 10:48 pm

    Beer for My Horses would go with Milwaukee’s Best

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    March 23, 2015 at 10:50 pm

    “It’s Not Easy Being Green” for recycled paper.

  27. 27.

    srv

    March 23, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    We Are The Champions for Koch Industries.

  28. 28.

    east is east

    March 23, 2015 at 10:52 pm

    Chris Christie should use Born to Run. Good song about wanting to get out of that shithole of New Jersey. I was born there. My dad used to fish the streams when he was growing up in the fifties. Now it’s pavement..

  29. 29.

    p.a.

    March 23, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    Didn’t Hummer use Happy Jack without realizing it was about self gratification? Or if they did know, A+ for snarkiness.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack

    March 23, 2015 at 10:59 pm

    I’ve found some good music tracing back from ads. My big get this last holiday season was Gio Galanti’s “Together Forever,” which appeared endlessly in Korbel ads on the second-tier TV channels that I frequent.

    Several years ago I found Nicola Conte’s “Bossa per Due” in a jaunty car commercial (Volkswagen?). And of course Volkswagen also used Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon” in a notable spot.

    And this Land Rover ad has great music, although there appears to be some disagreement as to whether the song is really by Jun Miyake or just a snippet done for the commercial.

  31. 31.

    Peale

    March 23, 2015 at 11:01 pm

    Deliah, Oh Deliah. Deliah all my life. If I hadn’t shot poor Deliah, I would have had her for my wife…I think goes with Grouper Social Club.

  32. 32.

    p.a.

    March 23, 2015 at 11:02 pm

    @east is east: Born to Run would be a natural for x-lax, if it was still around.

  33. 33.

    east is east

    March 23, 2015 at 11:02 pm

    @p.a.: Hummer? I think you mean Hillary Clinton. Yes, I think that happened at an event.

  34. 34.

    Suzanne

    March 23, 2015 at 11:05 pm

    @p.a.: I thought someone used “Love Will Tear Us Apart” in an ad, also not knowing what it was about. Oopsie.

  35. 35.

    catbirdman

    March 23, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    Coincidentally, while showering at 0530 this morning I happened to be musing about “Put me in coach” as a possible reference to airline seating. I was hoping to formulate it into a humorous Facebook comment in response to Zack Parsons’ latest at somethingawful.com (in which he reports that GW Bush’s “Other Situation Room” in the White House featured “a collection of Bush’s favorite Chris Farley and David Spade movies, and a cassingle of John Fogerty’s ‘Centerfield.’ He also had an arcade cabinet installed of Spy Hunter, but he was too afraid to play it and just liked to listen to the music and watch the demo mode”). But I failed — I’m glad you were able to bring it home. One more unmistakeable sign that we are approaching THE SINGULARITY.

  36. 36.

    Joel

    March 23, 2015 at 11:07 pm

    It’s too bad Peter Tosh didn’t live long enough to fulfill his destiny in Washington or Colorado:

    “And I will advertise it…”

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    March 23, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    And the (Twelve) Caesars’ “(Gonna) Kick You Out” was used in this memorable Smirnoff Ice ad about 10 years ago. Probably spiked sales and then got the account director fired when the suits actually watched it.

    Full song here.

  38. 38.

    Tree With Water

    March 23, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    Dylan’s Idiot Wind for… take your pick. It could be used in attack ads, anyway.

  39. 39.

    sharl

    March 23, 2015 at 11:09 pm

    As X’s I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts plays in background, announcer’s voice comes on:

    Feeling tense and troubled? Ask your doctor about ZombiBliss™. When taken as directed, you’ll feel better. That’s ZombiBliss™.

    {In background a stormy ocean changes to calm water, song fades out, and shore birds begin to sing.}

  40. 40.

    gbear

    March 23, 2015 at 11:09 pm

    @p.a.: ‘Pictures Of Lily’ should be the Balloon Juice theme song.

  41. 41.

    east is east

    March 23, 2015 at 11:11 pm

    @Tree With Water: “Someones got in for me, they’re planting stories in the press.”

  42. 42.

    p.a.

    March 23, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    @Tree With Water: That would be an excellent theme song for the Sunday bobbleheads. How’s this: Psycho Killer for Bill Kristol’s intro.

  43. 43.

    Joel

    March 23, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    @angelfoot: Mercedes did this about 20 years ago with Janis Joplin.

  44. 44.

    wasabi gasp

    March 23, 2015 at 11:16 pm

    carpet cleaner

  45. 45.

    Violet

    March 23, 2015 at 11:19 pm

    “Pressure Drop” for a laxative product.

  46. 46.

    p.a.

    March 23, 2015 at 11:20 pm

    I think I heard a car commercial using Professor Longhair whistling. Big Chief I think.

  47. 47.

    Violet

    March 23, 2015 at 11:20 pm

    @p.a.: How about “Wrecking Ball” for W’s intro.

  48. 48.

    east is east

    March 23, 2015 at 11:21 pm

    And now Dylan is available on youtube. I don’t know if this was a decision by Columbia records or by Dylan but either way it is great. Now I can listen to You got a hold of my heart, my favorite song of all time.

  49. 49.

    Bobby B.

    March 23, 2015 at 11:25 pm

    Beefheart’s “Neon Meatedream Of a Octafish” for Red Lobster. “rancid buds bursting/tra la tra la”

  50. 50.

    p.a.

    March 23, 2015 at 11:26 pm

    @Violet: For W I always thought of T Heads, I think it’s Once in a Lifetime:”…and you may ask yourself- ‘how did I get here?'”

  51. 51.

    east is east

    March 23, 2015 at 11:32 pm

    It’s Someone’s Got a Hold of my Heart—It’s getting harder and harder to recognize the traps, too much information about nothing, too much educated rap. It’s just like to told me, it’s just like you said it would be.

  52. 52.

    max

    March 23, 2015 at 11:33 pm

    @efgoldman: Wwwooowwww maannnn!
    ETA: On Pawn Stars, I’ve noticed a reel to reel machine sitting on a shelf behind the counter. It’s been there a long time! Maybe it’s just a prop.

    Up to a coupla years ago I had a reel-to-reel that worked (Sony! The Sound of the 70’s!), but it was always in storage. No place to set it up. Sad that it is gone. ;/

    max
    [‘Thorogood – Highway 49‘]

  53. 53.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    March 23, 2015 at 11:35 pm

    @gbear:

    “Pictures of Lily” is also about masturbation. I think there’s at least one more Who song on the same topic, but I can’t remember the title.

  54. 54.

    p.a.

    March 23, 2015 at 11:38 pm

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): MaryAnn with the Shaky Hand

  55. 55.

    Jean

    March 23, 2015 at 11:39 pm

    “Dirty laundry” for Detergent.

  56. 56.

    p.a.

    March 23, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    Bill Clinton intro: Squeeze’s Tempted.

  57. 57.

    p.a.

    March 23, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    @Violet: No! I like that song.

  58. 58.

    east is east

    March 23, 2015 at 11:49 pm

    @DougJ: @p.a.: yea, well you referred to Hillary as hummer, so you speak for yourself.

  59. 59.

    Violet

    March 23, 2015 at 11:51 pm

    Koch Industries–“Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits.

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    March 23, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    Speaking of the Stones, the Maysles brothers’ documentary Gimme Shelter just started on TCM a few minutes ago.

  61. 61.

    Culture of Truth

    March 23, 2015 at 11:57 pm

    I’ve always wanted to play Heart’s “How Can I Get You A Loan” for a bank

  62. 62.

    AnotherBruce

    March 23, 2015 at 11:57 pm

    I get a kick out of the “Homely farmers.com” ads.

  63. 63.

    p.a.

    March 23, 2015 at 11:59 pm

    @east is east: ???
    this

  64. 64.

    wasabi gasp

    March 24, 2015 at 12:03 am

    GPS Navigators

  65. 65.

    Yatsuno

    March 24, 2015 at 12:04 am

    OH FOR THE LOVE OF BUDDHA!!!

  66. 66.

    east is east

    March 24, 2015 at 12:09 am

    @p.a.: that’s what she said

  67. 67.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    March 24, 2015 at 12:10 am

    @Steeplejack (tablet):

    Among other things, it shows definitively that it’s an urban legend that the murder by the Hell’s Angels happened during “Sympathy for the Devil.” They were actually playing “Under My Thumb” at the time.

    And, really, the entire goddamned show is an astonishing clusterfuck.

  68. 68.

    janeform

    March 24, 2015 at 12:31 am

    @Peale: Nice. And a beautiful song.

  69. 69.

    BubbaDave

    March 24, 2015 at 12:37 am

    Hot Rod Lincoln has some potential….

  70. 70.

    PhilbertDesanex

    March 24, 2015 at 12:37 am

    “Fuck You I’m Rich” Yuppie Pricks, for the GOP convention.

  71. 71.

    wasabi gasp

    March 24, 2015 at 12:42 am

    ADT

  72. 72.

    cckids

    March 24, 2015 at 12:46 am

    @Violet: Nice.

    In that spirit, Green Day’s “Last of the American Girls” always makes me think of Sarah Palin.

    “She puts her makeup on like graffiti on the walls of the heartland.
    She’s got her little book of conspiracies right in her hand.
    She will come in first for the end of Western civilization
    She’s a natural disaster, she’s the last of the American girls.”

  73. 73.

    Alison

    March 24, 2015 at 12:47 am

    If they had commercials for vibrators (do they? I’ve seen condom ads, but I can;t recall if I’ve seen any for anything more explicit), they could use Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own”.

  74. 74.

    Suzanne

    March 24, 2015 at 1:06 am

    I remembered this evening that I had had this same thought about “Uptown Funk”. The part “If you don’t believe me, just watch!” would be great for a TV network. Then I heard it used in a TV network ad, and I felt awesome.

  75. 75.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    March 24, 2015 at 1:09 am

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    Yep. Oddly dispiriting to watch now, as opposed to the still potent energy of Woodstock.

  76. 76.

    wasabi gasp

    March 24, 2015 at 1:15 am

    high speed internet service

  77. 77.

    NotMax

    March 24, 2015 at 1:29 am

    “Revolution Number 9” for the Herman Cain campaign?

  78. 78.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 24, 2015 at 1:32 am

    @NotMax: or Love Potion Number 9!

    he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother for Jeb!-mentum

  79. 79.

    Violet

    March 24, 2015 at 1:36 am

    For any political talk show, Sunday show, pundit roundtable–“Life is Just a Tire Swing”–Jimmy Buffet

  80. 80.

    piratedan

    March 24, 2015 at 1:49 am

    how about these….

    TMBG – The Statue got me High for any museum or arts foundation….

    TMBG – Man, It’s So Loud In Here” for Bose sound reduction Headphones

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtaLKvini4k

    Nick Lowe – Has she got a Friend?” – dating service sites

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8puI5KX4yRg

  81. 81.

    fuckwit

    March 24, 2015 at 2:02 am

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): Fidle About. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFhO7EU08Tg

  82. 82.

    Rich (In Name Only) in Reno

    March 24, 2015 at 2:17 am

    I imagine there must be foot deep knee prints in the dirt at Van Morrison’s front drive from all the ad-execs kowtowing in vain for the rights to “Domino” for that pizza chain of the same name.

  83. 83.

    Mike G

    March 24, 2015 at 2:48 am

    @West of the Cascades:

    Ads for the California Travel and Tourism Commission featuring “California Uber Alles.”

    Some travel agency approached the Dead Kennedys to use “Holiday in Cambodia”, but were turned down.
    Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf” would be cool for a steakhouse.
    Foreigner’s “Urgent” for FedEx, or the Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are Sealed” for lip balm…

  84. 84.

    Anne Laurie

    March 24, 2015 at 4:14 am

    TV ads for new drugs & medical equipment seem to use a lot of Boomer Classics, presumably because we’re the demographic being targeted. Right now, in heavy rotation on the local news, Dire Straits’ Walk of Life shills a Type II diabetes drug, and CeCe Penniston’s Finally sells bladder-leakage pads under the tag line Let yourself go!

  85. 85.

    de stijl

    March 24, 2015 at 5:10 am

    2 – 3 years ago the NFL used Morrissey’s Every Day Is Like Sunday for promos. Nothing says “I’m so amped for the Vikings – Packers game!” like nuclear Armageddon.

  86. 86.

    Zinsky

    March 24, 2015 at 5:11 am

    “Love Hurts” by Nazareth in an ad for KY Jelly, perhaps?

  87. 87.

    SectionH

    March 24, 2015 at 5:12 am

    @Anne Laurie: Shoot me, I like Dire Straits. Also too, we were hanging in at craft beer/dive bar in the East Village this evening, and they started with Soul Kitchen and went from there to some Stones. Y’know, if this is hipster music, I can deal with it.

  88. 88.

    Zinsky

    March 24, 2015 at 5:21 am

    @Violet: well done!

  89. 89.

    Just One More Canuck

    March 24, 2015 at 5:24 am

    “White Punks On Dope” for Rand Paul

  90. 90.

    Amir Khalid

    March 24, 2015 at 5:46 am

    Off-topic, but this puts a whole new meaning on the saying “It ain’t worth shit.”

  91. 91.

    Central Planning

    March 24, 2015 at 5:59 am

    I’m not sure if you’re looking for serious ones or not, but:

    Motherless Child for an adoption agency
    Only The Good Die Young for the Corrections Corporation of America
    Brown Sugar for Domino. That’s something republicans would choose.

    Kristin Andreassen has a tune called “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes” which, obviously, could be used by Crayola. Now that I think about it, maybe a Crayola competitor should use it. Rose Art maybe. I think it’s a catchy tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EELEjeYzfjM

  92. 92.

    SectionH

    March 24, 2015 at 6:24 am

    Terry Pratchett and Peggy Rae in one month. Oh, and Leonard Nimoy.

    http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/03/23/rip-peggy-rae-sapienza/

  93. 93.

    Penus

    March 24, 2015 at 6:48 am

    I always wanted to start a moving company and use “I Like to Move It” in the ads. How a moving company would produce the revenues to secure the rights to such a song is not my concern.

  94. 94.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    March 24, 2015 at 6:50 am

    I’m surprised no one has mentioned Coca-Cola’s new ad featuring 99 Red Balloons. “Contains memories. And other secret ingredients.”

  95. 95.

    delk

    March 24, 2015 at 7:01 am

    My favorite music for ads are the ones that make me Google “Target Holiday Ad Music” or “Nisson Altima Ad Music”.

    I’d rather ads turn me on to new music and give up and coming bands money and exposure. Radio and traditional music outlets sure don’t do that.

    Honestly I rather be born to be deaf than have to endue Born to Be Bad hawking something.

  96. 96.

    The Golux

    March 24, 2015 at 7:36 am

    Nothing to do with advertizing, but I’ve always wanted someone to make a western (film or TV series) that would use Jack Bruce’s “Theme For An Imaginary Western” as its theme.

  97. 97.

    RSA

    March 24, 2015 at 8:39 am

    @KG:

    i always chuckle at songs that don’t make sense in the modern world anymore. like, I wonder how many people under the age of 25 understand Return to Sender or Operator.

    I was born in the mid-1960s, and I didn’t understand “I’ve Got A Brand New Pair Of Roller Skates,” because my skates didn’t need a key. And “Pennsylvania 6-5000” was just a catchy jingle.

  98. 98.

    stevetheweavee

    March 24, 2015 at 8:41 am

    “Someday My Prince Will Come” for a mail order photo printing company

  99. 99.

    jake the antishoshul soshulist

    March 24, 2015 at 9:25 am

    @RepubAnon:

    Ring of Fire was co-written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore. (it was about her relationship with Johnny Cash). Kilgore was the one who wanted to sell the song, but the Carters and Cashes would have none of it.

  100. 100.

    jake the antishoshul soshulist

    March 24, 2015 at 9:30 am

    @Alison:

    Yes they do. I have seen ads for KY’s vibrators. The most unusual was one where a couple received his and her vibrators at a bridal shower.

  101. 101.

    ...now I try to be amused

    March 24, 2015 at 10:05 am

    @PhilbertDesanex:

    “Fuck You I’m Rich” Yuppie Pricks, for the GOP convention.

    Also “Rich White Republican” by Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band.

  102. 102.

    J R in WV

    March 24, 2015 at 10:06 am

    @east is east:

    We were the first subscribers in our exchange to have a private line. Ms J was prone to get business calls 24/7 and we didn’t want to piss off the neighbors by waking them up a 2 or 3 am.

    The phone company said they weren’t sure, but that they would try to set such a strange beast up for us. – this in about 1978 or 79…

  103. 103.

    boatboy_srq

    March 24, 2015 at 10:06 am

    @angelfoot: About as good as “Eminence Front” to back the Yukon (?)

  104. 104.

    boatboy_srq

    March 24, 2015 at 10:46 am

    @Just One More Canuck: Bonus: “TV Glotzer” for Fauxnews.

  105. 105.

    smintheus

    March 24, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    “Electricity comes from other planets” (Velvet Underground, Temptation inside your heart), ad for SolarCity.

  106. 106.

    Bill Murray

    March 24, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    The Dillinger 4’s “A Floater Left With Pleasure in the Executive Washroom” as the theme song for the CFPB

    The Replacements “Shiftless When Idle” for Sarah Palin

  107. 107.

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