Re: Pop Songs In Commercials

["Mike G" <mike_ed@msn.com>]

What about the song " Start the Commotion " by The Wiseguys.  Even though 
more than likely they are a one hit wonder ( like who isn't nowadays ) and 
was featured in the Zoolander movie soundtrack, it was playing on Mitsubishi 
commercials long before it ever became a hit.  I know that adcritic.com has 
a whole cross reference of ads and the corresponding songs that went with 
those ads.


>From: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
>To: <rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net>, <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>,   
>"Sid Schweiger" <sid@wrko.com>
>Subject: Re: Pop Songs In Commercials
>Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 19:11:01 -0400
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "rogerkirk" <rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net>
>To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; "Sid Schweiger" <sid@wrko.com>
>Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 6:39 PM
>Subject: Re: Pop Songs In Commercials
>
>
> > For decades? Just like the world's oldest profession.  Come to think of
>it, there may be a parallel somewhere here.
>
>Did you ever think that pop music is mainly about money to begin with?
>Songs are written to sell and to be commercial.  Art is secondary.  If that
>was not the case, why are most pop songs 3 to 5 minutes long?
>
>It's not like Meatloaf is doing all that well these days.  He might need 
>the
>money!  ;-)
>
>Then there are the cases when songs beome hits because they were in
>commercials.  There was one case of an artist who died in the 1970's with
>little success, whose song was recently featured in an ad and all of a
>sudden his albu,s started to sell.  I forget the name.
>
>-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
>
>

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