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Free commercials: Songs of loving tribute to businesses

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Tom Wells

The song "Manny Moe and Jack" by the Dickies got me to thinking that it could have been worth a lot of money
to them and good promotion for the company if both Pep Boys Auto and the Dickies agreed.
Okay, maybe not back in the day, as the Dickies were punk...but I can't believe Pep Boys has resisted use
of such great song for their promotion. OR did they ever? Pep Boys is a latecomer to these parts, so I
never would have heard any advertising until recently, and it may have been used somewhere. Does anyone
know if Pep Boys Auto ever used the song?

I wonder how many songs like this exist? (not commissioned by a company for promotional use, just spontaneously happened)
 
How about Kodachrome by Paul Simon, Palisades Park by Freddie Cannon, Beep Beep (Google the lyrics), and lots of other CAR songs.
 
A more recent example, although country, Alan Jackson's "Crazy About a Mercury." And it was used eventually by Mercury in commercials.
 
Manny, Moe and Jack opened an auto parts store in Philadelphia in the 'way, 'way back days, and picked up the name off a can of
valve grinding compound. Cars at the time were required to have a some kind of lamp, an oil wick lamp at a minimum.
The local police used to send unlit automobiles over to the "boys at Pep Auto", which morphed soon into Pep Poys.

"They know what I'm after", just as the song says.
 
This has gone way back to almost the beginnings of commercially available recorded sound (1889-1890).
"The Little Ford Rambled Right Along" was a hit in 1915.
 
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