Entertainment For Lively Minds
Adverts, mind pollution.
Is it just me, or are there other people who find certain songs have an alternate set of lyrics transposed on them which are from a bastardised version used in an advert? these come to mind without fail whenever I hear the following:
California Girls - The Beach Boys; "I wish they all could be Caledonian girls" (From a British Caledonian airline commercial, that dates me doesn't it?)
The Israelites - Desmond Dekker; "Oooh-oh Vitalite" (Margarine commercial)
Hit the road, Jack - Ray Charles; something about "Let those juices pour" (Britvic spot from the deep 80s)
It's a weird combination of feelings that these inspire, annoyance that the songs are forever tainted by some red-braced copywriter's notion, but also a Proustian rush of nostalgia.
Anyone else get this?
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'Allo Tosh, got a Toshiba?
Manages to sully both the memory of Alexei Sayle's one note routine, if such a thing were possible, and Ian Dury's delivery.
The Isrealites other finest hour
...was the Maxell tape advert, riffing on the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" cards and culminating in "Darling Cheese-head I was yards too greasy, oh-oh me ears are alight", the tag line being "I think that's what he says but I need to hear it on a Maxell".
Much cleverer than Vitalite.