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Post by michaelcasselman on Dec 12, 2022 9:37:19 GMT -5
I'm not seeing the correlation.
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Post by dth1971 on Dec 17, 2022 9:02:27 GMT -5
Do you grieve when Christmas songs are turned into commercial jingles? Who remembers the mid-late 1980's Jamaica Tourism Bureau TV commercials that has the "Come Back To Jamaica" jingle sung to the tune of John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"? Or in the early 1980's when Post released Smurf Berry Crunch cereal that had the jingle in TV commercials sung to the tune of the Nutcracker Suite? These commercials even aired on TV when it isn't Christmas season. Here's one of the commercials for Jamaica Tourism Bureau featuring the "Come Back to Jamaica" jingle sung to "Happy Xmas" I was talking about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5QZTL7jP3cAnd here's one of the commercials for Smurf Berry Crunch cereal that had the jingle sung to "The Nutcracker Suite" I was talking about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E166wfxy21Y |
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Post by rgmike on Dec 20, 2022 21:52:17 GMT -5
Jack Jones may not have met a violent demise due that song, but in the first published "For Better Or For Worse" comic strip Elly Patterson's radio did. She's vacuuming the house when that comes on the radio, cringes, and smashes the radio with her vacuum. Jack actually sang it well, and for its time it was probably considered well written and true to life. It's obviously at the very least dated now. Was pretty much unfamiliar with the song ("Wives and Lovers") before hearing it today on this week's ''60s Satellite Survey' from this week in '63. Now THAT'S some good advice right there, ladies!  And a Grammy-winning performance by Mr. Jones, as I learned from Dave Hoeffel on today's show. As I'm listening, I'm thinking "this subject matter sounds familiar". Took me awhile, but I got it: Six years and change later (spring 1970), Bobbi Martin was dispensing much the same advice to her fellow females in "For the Love Of Him". And she reached one 'notch' higher than Jack in doing so, #13 vs. #14. "For the Love of Him" actually hit #1 in NYC! |
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Post by chrislc on Jan 19, 2023 18:58:07 GMT -5
I'm totally with you on Baby It's Cold Outside. Talk about songs with an endless number of versions, it's insane. There are so many great holiday songs that never get played anymore, but we get to hear a dozen different versions of this one. And don't get me started on the raging debate over the song's meaning. I get that it was intended to be innocent back in the 1950s but the lyrics are very easily misconstrued in today's world. I'm glad we have options like digital streaming nowadays because that's the only way I get to hear some of my all-time favorites anymore. "Baby It's Cold Outside" wasn't originally conceived as a Christmas song. Interestingly, two versions of it hit the top 5 in Billboard--by Margaret Whiting with Johnny Mercer and Dinah Shore with Buddy Clark--in the summer of 1949. Maybe people wanted a musical break from the heat? And the annual debate over it has become tiresome and repetitive. Okay there is now this from Nancy Sinatra, defending Dean Martin on Twitter yesterday against statements that he was an alcoholic - "In another Tweet, Sinatra reiterated her fondness of the "Baby It's Cold Outside" singer. Now 82 years old, she wrote of their relationship, "I knew him well for practically my whole life and I loved him dearly. His birthday was the day before mine so we often celebrated together. He was family and I miss him more than I can say. He was - Uncle Dean." So Dean Martin is now known as "the Baby It's Cold Outside" singer. This is what happens. Dean Martin. Singing Baby It's Cold Outside is now his claim to fame per Caroline Thayer of Fox News. Dean Martin. |
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Post by mga707 on Jan 19, 2023 19:11:53 GMT -5
So Dean Martin is now known as "the Baby It's Cold Outside" singer. This is what happens. Dean Martin. Singing Baby It's Cold Outside is now his claim to fame per Caroline Thayer of Fox News. Dean Martin. All I have to say to that is 'HEY L-A-A-D-Y! Check your entertainment history, wouldja?' These kids these days....  |
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jan 20, 2023 9:34:48 GMT -5
Other aspects of his career are mentioned. The article wasn't meant as an all-encompassing retrospective of his career. All they mention of Frank Sinatra's career was 'My Way' and 'Fly Me To the Moon'.
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Post by mkarns on Jan 20, 2023 14:08:04 GMT -5
So Dean Martin is now known as "the Baby It's Cold Outside" singer. This is what happens. Dean Martin. Singing Baby It's Cold Outside is now his claim to fame per Caroline Thayer of Fox News. Dean Martin. All I have to say to that is 'HEY L-A-A-D-Y! Check your entertainment history, wouldja?' These kids these days.... "Nat "King" Cole? Isn't he the "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" guy? I think he also had a daughter who sang...." |
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 21, 2023 9:39:42 GMT -5
And did you know Benedryl uses in its TV commercial all year round a Christmas song called "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (it's not the famous Andy Williams version)?
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Post by LC on Jan 21, 2023 10:49:51 GMT -5
And did you know Benedryl uses in its TV commercial all year round a Christmas song called "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (it's not the famous Andy Williams version)? I absolutely hate that. |
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Post by chrislc on Nov 19, 2024 14:58:04 GMT -5
And did you know Benedryl uses in its TV commercial all year round a Christmas song called "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (it's not the famous Andy Williams version)? I absolutely hate that. And now some broken cellphone ad with the song. Enough already. I used to love it. On my folks' big record player. In 1964. But yikes. Enough already. I guess it must test well. |
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 19, 2024 20:47:13 GMT -5
Don't we count Vince Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy" as a Christmas song nowadays even when its played on Peanuts TV specials over the years?
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Post by 1finemrg on Nov 19, 2024 21:06:39 GMT -5
Not going to air my grievances here...
My favorite use of music in a holiday commercial this year comes from Walmart. It's not a holiday song, and it's obscure.
It was the first "A" side written by Smokey Robinson for the Temptations. "I Want A Love I Can See" was released in 1963, the year before they finally reached the Hot 100 with "The Way You Do The Things You Do".
It's also on my hot list of 45s. I have 3 of the Temptations non-charting singles, but not this one.
The Target ad with Santa dashing through the snow in his Jeep to "Born To Be Wild" is a good one as well.
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Post by chrislc on Nov 19, 2024 22:25:30 GMT -5
Not going to air my grievances here... My favorite use of music in a holiday commercial this year comes from Walmart. It's not a holiday song, and it's obscure. It was the first "A" side written by Smokey Robinson for the Temptations. "I Want A Love I Can See" was released in 1963, the year before they finally reached the Hot 100 with "The Way You Do The Things You Do". It's also on my hot list of 45s. I have 3 of the Temptations non-charting singles, but not this one. The Target ad with Santa dashing through the snow in his Jeep to "Born To Be Wild" is a good one as well. Last year Walmart used Etta James' version of I Got You Babe. And this year Amazon (I think) is using Too Hot Ta Trot. Very cool deep tracks, considering how old these recordings are. EDIT Internet says Walmart Etta James was 2021. Wow time speeds by at our age. I think that's right though I was on medical leave and watching a lot of TV and that ad was on ALL the time that season. |
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Post by dth1971 on Nov 20, 2024 7:45:11 GMT -5
Not going to air my grievances here... My favorite use of music in a holiday commercial this year comes from Walmart. It's not a holiday song, and it's obscure. It was the first "A" side written by Smokey Robinson for the Temptations. "I Want A Love I Can See" was released in 1963, the year before they finally reached the Hot 100 with "The Way You Do The Things You Do". It's also on my hot list of 45s. I have 3 of the Temptations non-charting singles, but not this one. The Target ad with Santa dashing through the snow in his Jeep to "Born To Be Wild" is a good one as well. Last year Walmart used Etta James' version of I Got You Babe. And this year Amazon (I think) is using Too Hot Ta Trot. Very cool deep tracks, considering how old these recordings are. EDIT Internet says Walmart Etta James was 2021. Wow time speeds by at our age. I think that's right though I was on medical leave and watching a lot of TV and that ad was on ALL the time that season. I remember Christmas 2018 when Amazon did a cover of the Jacksons' not making the Top 40 reaches song "Can You Feel It" for its Christmas TV commercials. |
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And a Grammy-winning performance by Mr. Jones, as I learned from Dave Hoeffel on today's show.
