Entertainment For Lively Minds
Virginia Plain and other song titles inspired by branded smoking materials
Posted by David Hepworth on 18 March 2010 - 5:26pm.
Any others?
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Any others?
Marlboro Faire?
( /Canticle, if you want to be accurate).
Hmmm...
Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Capstan Full Strength Bogen by the Sea?
Sorry. Blame I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Blue Moon of Kent...
...ucky?
everything on
Five leaves left.
Ali Baba's Camel...
... by The Bonzos
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake?
.
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Is that real or just pretend?
just pretend..
..but wouldn't it be nice?
It was a spoof of...
... Ogden's Nut Brown Flake.
Storm The Embassy...
... by The Rich Morton Sound.
"The Smoker You Drink The Player You Get"
by Mr. Joseph Walsh.
Half Man Half Biscuit
must mention branded gaspers in their output somewhere I'll have a think
Test Match John Player Special
The Duckworth Lewis Method
Not a song title...
but Donald Fagen sang the immortal line "I've got plenty of java and Chesterfield Kings" on The Nightly.
maybe Tom Waits is the master here
'Eggs roll 'em over and a packet of Kents'
'I've got half a pack o' Lucky Strikes, so come along with me'
are just two that spring to mind.
Revolution No. 6
by the HJH of course.
Sweet Afton
by Rabbie, covered memorably by Nickel Creek is the best real one I can think of.
I used to smoke them, thinking it was sophisticated and cool. Which of course, it was.
The song's about the river anyway, but hey ho.
Fags
Senior Service by Elvis Costello
Chesterfield King by Jawbreaker
Was it not Billy Ocean who sang...
...'Get out of my dreams, Gitanes to my car'?
Or Elvis Presley's lovelorn ballard, 'You Are Gauloises On My Mind'.
Blazer donned, exit located.
Boz Fags -
Silk Cut Degrees
Echo and The B - The Cutter's Choice
Do The 'Strand' ?
Strand cigarettes is the classic case study of a brand campaign that hit the wrong note.
I can't find a clip of it, but the shot was of a man standing on a dark and deserted street, lighting up. The slogan was "You're never alone with a Strand".
smokin'
well, anything by Camel
"Panama Red" by New Riders of the Purple Sage - not sure it's a brand, but well known nevertheless
Non-specific, smoking-related:
"Let him roll" & "Virginia's real" by Guy Clark
& his album "Old No 1", a predecessor to No 6
"Sweet virginia" & "Rip this joint" from Exile on Main St
"Tamp 'em up solid" - Ry Cooder
"Roll 'em, smoke 'em" - Patto
"Pipe dream" - Alan Hull
"Ashtray Heart" - Cap'n B & the Magic Band
oh & millions of others
Any Beverley Craven 'A' side....
George Benson, produced by Mike Hedges
Regal Zone - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Anything by Parliament
The Shag OST
Soundtrack to 'More', by Pink Floyd
Cant think of song titles
(even bad puns)
But we must be able to add Ten Benson in here somewhere?
Woodbines
(Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
Samson
Let there be Drum(s) - Sandy Nelson
and there was DRUM(s)! (Accadacca)
I apolgise in advance for this
Mary had a little lamb(ert) and butler. I'll get me coat
He ain't heavy
he's Marlboro