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From: wookie@alice.UUCP (Keith Bauer   White Tiger Racing)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.tv
Subject: Re: Challenge - looking for commercials based on popular songs
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 10:23:05 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  3 10:23:05 1984
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NO NO NO!!!!!! I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing was out BEFORE
the Coke comercial!

Now how about "We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters??? That was
originally a bank comercial in California!!

Then there was the song "Percolator" in the early sixties which
came about from the Maxwell Housee coffee ads.  I'll have to look
around for the artist (I have the record somewhere)

How about "No matter What Shape" by the T-Bones.  This was the famous
song used in the Alka Seltzer comercials but I don't know which came
first.  I think the ad version was first but I don't remember.

"The Disadvantages of You" by the Brass Ring was used for the
Benson & Hedges 100's comercials.  This song was out before the
ad and became known as a result of the ad.

I hope someone is keeping a list of all these things.  It would be
nice to see them all in one shot!!

        				Keith Bauer
					White Tiger Racing