"There She Goes Again" - Sixpence None the Richer
for some sort of birth control product or something, the concept of which I have always found humorous.
(Sixpence is no longer together, however, Leigh Nash has recreated herself in Nashville.)

"Happiness Runs" (Donavan) is being used, and I think it's him singing, but I don't know for what commercial. I like the song though...always did.

(I can see this topic may be difficult for many of us, seeing as we rarely, if ever, watch TV anymore...)
There are always a passel of truck commercials here in Texas which feature mostly country western and country rock songs.

"Diamond Day" - Vashti Bunyan, is being used for something or other in the UK at the moment. Damned if I know what.

I heard a radio commercial for the county vote by mail commision- Johnny Nash's " I Can See Clearly Now. "

Bet you don't live in Florida, Shannon.

LOL, not Florida here. The AARP population may not appreciate that! Some of those new voting machines have such large screens- everyone can see clearly who you’re voting for…yikes!

Then that song choice makes perfect sense - someone has a great sense of humour up there!

......we can always make up some, I suppose.

(cricket-cricket.........cricket-cricket..............)

Yeees - clearly the ear is developing immunity to advertising - or possibly everyone's listening to commercial-free internet radio!

You know...when we were kids (oh, no...another tale of childhood, remembered!), Dad used to use TV commercials to teach us critical thinking skills.
We learned to hear and state what we heard, then to go back and review what we actually heard, and then analyze what was actually being said, and further - what we thought that they WANTed us to hear and understand.
But I still want chocolate milk when the spoon goes into the glass of white paint!

Now...if I could only apply those lessons to a potential love, I'd be set for life, and would probably still want that glass of the good stuff...so, what's the bother?

How cool is it to see a neighbors views over the internet. Don't really know how your name jumped out at me Ann but my mind does wierd and wonderful things at times. I was just logging off from using Folknet and there your name was jumping off of the screen.

I usually just listen and usually don't even scan the printed words.

BUT love the music,
Keep it coming,

BOB

Do jingles count? "The best part of waking up is Folger's in your cup..." Lucy Kaplansky, I believe...

Did Lucy K also write the jingle - or does she just sing these things?
The Folgers writer has to be the same as the Sate Farm jingle writer.

(and hi poppy - hope you join in more often!)

If memory serves, Lucy wrote the original jingle--she tells a funny story about doing so ('tho it's been a while since I heard it--the story, that is). Something about being able to pay the bills between gigs, back in the day...

Not sure these commercials are still running, but Woody Guthrie's "Car Song" is being used for, you guessed it, a car; and John McCutcheon's verion of Woody's "I'm Gonna Mail Myself to You" was used for FedEx or the Post Office (does it matter anymore?).

I really enjoyed hearing that Woody Guthrie "I'm Gonna Mail Myself to You" Fed Ex commercial!
Usually had turned the volume down during commercials, but that one I left on!

We used to have Janis Joplin's Mercedes Benz for something or other. Like JoLynn I learned some of my more cynical analytical techniques from the symbolism of advertising ("It's like wiping your bum with a puppy!" The Young Ones), so I never memorise the advertiser.

JoLynn where men are concerned; we are all selfish, sex obsessed, insecure, drunken, cheating narcissists (always enumerate your strong points Huw...).
My advice - you keep dogs - find a man who makes you laugh and if he bites you in the rear, shoot him.

Then have a chocolate milk.

..and I do like a long, tall glass of the frosty goodness.. Thanks, Huw -

Ah-ha!
Lastnight, I heard Jose' Gonzalez (SOLD OUT!) at The Limelight here in San Antonio, Texas. Openers were Sparrowhouse (Jared van Fleet - Austin, TX), and Death Vessel - (Brooklyn, NY).
It was a night of acoustic bliss!

As things usually happen for me...since the venue was standing room only, and I am relatively short, I got to talking with the tall guy next to me, Jamie, between songs, who became my eyes - as he had a straight visual above and beyond the crowd. Jamie was also able to help me out by identifying a couple of song titles along the way.

Later, after everything was over, and I'd had a chance to chat with Jose' - Jamie mentioned yet another helpful piece of information, namely - a cover song which Jose' had recorded for a COMMERCIAL (ah-ha!), aired only in the UK:

"Heart Beats" (The Knife), covered by Jose' Gonzalez for SONY Bravia.

I think youTube may have a video posting of this commercial, of bouncing balls down a city street or something?

Good tune - pretty advert - played to death over here. It's an advert for Sony Bravia (I thought it was for Hewlett Packard until I checked the website). Typically of UK advertising, if they've spent a lot of money on it, we have to look at it for months, years even! Good tune though.

Shannon - this has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand, but your mention of Johnny Nash brought back a far distant memory.
I grew up in the Houston, Texas area and saw a notice in the paper of a Johnny Nash appearance at a club somewhere near the Astrodome.
Now, I was kinda young-ish, and closer to my childhood than to adulthood, and remembered that name as the singer of the theme song for on of my favorite children's animated TV cartoons, "Hercules".

So...I got the big idea that this may be the SAME Johnny Nash as my Hercules crooner, so I called the club. The guy who answered called Johnny himself (!) over to the phone (guess he was doing an early sound check for the gig).

I asked if he were the Hercules" guy and he paused for a moment, chuckled, got a little excited at the novelty of the question and said, "You know, I DO remember that series and seeing his name, but no - I'm not the guy, but that guy did have a great voice, and why don't you come on out to my show - I'll be in town for the next few evenings..." .
Of course, I was still too young to go to places like that without a gardian and I think he could hear me blush, but it was interesting to get the two Johnny Nashs straight in my mind.

I don't think he'd ever heard anyone mistake him for a cartoon theme song guy, which must have been amusing, to say the least.
And even though I knew of that "I Can See Clearly Now (the Rain is Gone)" song, I had NO idea at the time that it was he who sang it.
I think the innocence of youth is comic relief sometimes!