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Classic Hit Songs transformed into a commercial (We Quilt This City)

RockTheRadio

RockTheRadio

Well not sure where to post this or if this topic is somewhere else. Anyway, delete this if necessary. Northern Tissue has turned Starship’s “We Built This City” into “We Quilt This City” -The music sounds the same but definitely different singers and of course lyrics.

I remember Carly Simon’s “Anticipation” , original song and no changed lyrics for Heinz ketchup back in the 70’s. I liked that one.

This is more about the song - not the product. I usually can’t stand it when they use pop songs in commercials but this one doesn’t bother me (quilt this city) but I do despise the one for Pilot’s “Magic” for Ozempic! Any others to add? Does anyone wish they’d come up with original jingles for commercials?
I do like the song Magic by Pilot - just can’t stand the commercial!
 
RockTheRadio said:
Well not sure where to post this or if this topic is somewhere else. Anyway, delete this if necessary. Northern Tissue has turned Starship’s “We Built This City” into “We Quilt This City” -The music sounds the same but definitely different singers and of course lyrics.
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"We Built This City" has been used for commercials in the past. The most nauseating one I can remember was by a financial company (Merrill Lynch?) in the '90s as "We Built This Business." No wonder Starship has been known as Sellout for decades.

Another bad one from decades past was United Airlines turning George Gershwyn's classic "Rhapsody In Blue" into a cheap corporate anthem, complete with bad animation.
 
KeithE4 said:
No wonder Starship has been known as Sellout for decades.
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If the advertiser re-records the song and doesn't use the original singers, the band doesn't get paid, nor do they have to approve.

The writers have sole control of the rights. This is even the case in a cover song. The writers also have to approve the use of the song in a video or any televised performances of the song.

KeithE4 said:
Another bad one from decades past was United Airlines turning George Gershwyn's classic "Rhapsody In Blue"
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The copyright on this has run out. It's now public domain.

 
Then, of course, there are the ones that started out as an ad and then, usually with some lyrics changes, became pop hits. The Carpenters' 1970 hit, "We've Only Just Begun," began life as an ad for a small California bank called Crocker Savings and loan, if memory serves. Sonny and Cher's "When You Say Love," (which made Billboard's top 40 list in August of 1972) began life as an ad for Budweiser Beer ("When You Say Bud") in 1971. Probably the monster in this category was the song that began as an ad for Coca-cola. "I'd Like to Teach the World to sing (in Perfect Harmony)," hit the Billboard top 40 twice in late 1971 and early 1972 by two different artists, The Hillside Singers (who never had another hit) and The New Seekers (who had hits before and after this one).

And, going back to the original topic, sort of, the 45 mix of The Kinks' "lola," had to have a single line changed (from Coca-cola to cherry cola) so the BBC could play the song. (Apparently, in the UK, you couldn't/can't list the names of actual products in songs.) Funnily enough, the 45 mix of "Lola," was about 15 years ahead of its time as Coca-cola renamed its "New Coke," (which went over like a lead balloon in most places) cherry cola in 1985.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Bonnie Tyler doesn't seem to mind.

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This news regarding Bonnie Tyler is really upsetting to learn about...The latest news has her on a ventilator, in an induced coma, and in "very guarded" condition. I hope she recovers. 😢

deadline.com

Singer Bonnie Tyler Placed In Medically Induced Coma

Total Eclipse Of The Heart singer Bonnie Tyler has been placed in a medically induced coma at a Portugal hospital, with her condition "very guarded."
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ted chittenden said:
Funnily enough, the 45 mix of "Lola," was about 15 years ahead of its time as Coca-cola renamed its "New Coke," (which went over like a lead balloon in most places) cherry cola in 1985.
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Drugstore soda fountains and movie theaters had been mixing cherry-flavored syrup with Coca-Cola for decades before the company introduced it as a commercial product. And New Coke was not renamed or replaced by Cherry Coke. It continued to be sold until 1990, when it was renamed Coke II, which lasted until 2002.
 
Until recently, The Farmer's Dog dog food used the Troggs' recording of "With a Girl Like You", before switching to Jackie DeShannon's recording of "What the World Needs Now is Love".
 
RockTheRadio said:
Well not sure where to post this or if this topic is somewhere else. Anyway, delete this if necessary. Northern Tissue has turned Starship’s “We Built This City” into “We Quilt This City” -The music sounds the same but definitely different singers and of course lyrics.

I remember Carly Simon’s “Anticipation” , original song and no changed lyrics for Heinz ketchup back in the 70’s. I liked that one.

This is more about the song - not the product. I usually can’t stand it when they use pop songs in commercials but this one doesn’t bother me (quilt this city) but I do despise the one for Pilot’s “Magic” for Ozempic! Any others to add? Does anyone wish they’d come up with original jingles for commercials?
I do like the song Magic by Pilot - just can’t stand the commercial!
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To the bolded, I guess that's why there's chocolate, vanilla, and moose tracks. Iykwim. IOW I like the Ozempic-ized "Magic". I'll take that (and the J5's "ABC" rewritten for Trelegy) over those silly production numbers for Jardiance.

IIRC Heinz used a different singer for "Anticipation", one of my faves from Carly.
 


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