RE: Pop Songs In Commercials

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

Same thing for the Dirty Vegas song (save for those in the "club" scene...I
won't say "Disco")

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Mike G
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 7:23 PM
> To: billings@suscom-maine.net; rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net;
> boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org; sid@wrko.com
> Subject: Re: Pop Songs In Commercials
>
>
> 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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