

Ditto with this commercial for Coat Master paints, a brand of paint in the Philippines which has long since lost to the sands of time.Louis CBS affiliate KMOV 4 (then KMOX) used the song for their news division as " Newsbusters ". Bizarrely, the instrumental was used in a 1985 ad for the "World's Toughest Rodeo" that was preserved on a widely circulated copy of Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration.A commercial for 3-liter bottles of Coca-Cola products sang this as "Thirstbusters!".They even use it in the ones that say "(car dealer here) is now Auto Nation!" Now that Maroone has become Autonation, Autonation has adopted this song for their ads.Also, if you're from South Florida, Maroone Used Car Dealers. The song was also used with rewritten lyrics by Courtesy Dealers, changing the lyrics to "If you need a car/or a truck or van/Who ya gonna call?/Go Courtesy!" Ditto for Appleway Motors, cutting more lyrics and changing the rhythm.
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Also in the full length version of the original advert, a verse, the chorus and the bridge were all edited, fitting in with that it was advertising a directory. The line Who ya gonna call? commonly known to end "Ghostbusters", was edited to finish 118.

In such cases the commercial use hits the airwaves at the same time as the original song, or sometimes before, and effectively turns it into a Celebrity Endorsement. This has much the same effect, but with fewer lawyers and a lot less money involved.Ī song can also be instantly repurposed if an advertiser buys the rights before it's even released. These commercials can also have an instrumental or acoustic version of the song while a disembodied voice talks about the product/service/help line/donation.Īn agency with an especially low budget (or high concept) might also do any of the above with a song from the public domain, up to and including nursery rhymes.You will sometimes even encounter altered versions of popular songs being used in really low-budget commercials or when they just couldn't afford the song they really wanted.This can have the biggest backlash if potential customers feel the original song is somehow "cheapened" or "ruined", so this treatment is often reserved for older or more obscure music. The song's lyrics are rewritten to extol the virtues of the product. Moody Trailer Cover Song applies this logic to trailers. Sometimes it's made as close to the original as possible sometimes it's wildly different. The agency didn't buy (or couldn't afford) the rights to the actual recording, so instead they acquired the right to use the song itself and did their own version. It's used almost untouched except possibly for a bit of editing to make it fit the length of the commercial, or to get right away to the "good bits" (i.e., the part that has relevance to the commercial's pitch). The agency bought the rights to the specific recording that everyone knows.
