Songs Which Were Re-recorded By The Original Artist For The Purposes Of Advertising

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Inspired by, er, my own question on the Covering German bands thread about Trio and the Arison ad. I'm pretty sure Trio did neither the Ariston or Sakata ads, but...

Who's done this? Who's been sufficiently tempted by large amounts of green to re-record one of their own tunes with lyrics promoting a product or service?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope I don't kill this thread imediately by saying the three that came into my head:

Madness - "Colgate Blue Minty Gel" (Baggy Trousers)
Shed Seven - "At The Link It's Easy" (Speakeasy)
Adam Ant - "Save The Gorillas" (Stand And Deliver)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Devo! 'Whip It' (swiffer)

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

SpeakEasy - Shed Seven (at the link)
Blue Monday - New Order (Sunkist)

xpost, can't be bothered to retype...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The madness one was sung by kids...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently Barney Sumner couldn't stop laughing while New Order were recording it, so Peter Hook had to hold up a sign bearing the message - "$100,000". My recollection of this is not totally accurate.

― Damian (Damian), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

true. and then on the back of that there was the legendary coversation between rob gretton and bernard as recounted by wilson in
'rock family trees' -

rob (incandesecent with fury) : DO YOU WANT A YACHT ?!!
bernard : yes !
rob : are you prepared to do what it TAKES to GET yacht ?
bernard : ...NO !

the original SUNKIST ad is featured in the fantastic morley-directed
'neworderstory'.

then of course they did AM.EX with blue monday.

― piscesboy, Friday, 7 November 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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