Most bizarre music/commerical pairings? - Beyond Tiki

T TikiGardener Member 1st website dedicated to Tiki Gardens Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1368	T TikiGardener Posted posted on Sat, Feb 26, 2005 12:10 PM I talked to a friend who is a major garage music fiend. He is pretty sure The Sonics won't see a dime of the publishing royalties. The label they were on at the time was run by a guy who negotiated some pretty heartless deals. Ian Whitcomb wrote a book about it. Said the guy was great as far as providing what you needed at the time, but when it came to royalties, you were screwed. He also advenced his opinion that the reason we're hearing these songs in commercials is that advertising companies often call their parent companies and see if they own a music catalog. That way they get the music cheaper, and often don't have to pay publishing royalties. He also said they save money because they no longer needed to hire jingle writers, and pay musicians to record the jingles. I remember the song that really caught my attention and its use my scorn for iys obvious manipulation to sell product. When Phillips used "Getting Better All The Time". And of course they had to cut the line that follwed that exhuberant statement "IT CAN'T GET NO WORSE" because that would imply that their product was crap. See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!-- Bill Hicks, on being censored from "The Late Show with David Letterman"

I talked to a friend who is a major garage music fiend. He is pretty sure The Sonics won't see a dime of the publishing royalties. The label they were on at the time was run by a guy who negotiated some pretty heartless deals. Ian Whitcomb wrote a book about it. Said the guy was great as far as providing what you needed at the time, but when it came to royalties, you were screwed.

He also advenced his opinion that the reason we're hearing these songs in commercials is that advertising companies often call their parent companies and see if they own a music catalog. That way they get the music cheaper, and often don't have to pay publishing royalties.

He also said they save money because they no longer needed to hire jingle writers, and pay musicians to record the jingles.

I remember the song that really caught my attention and its use my scorn for iys obvious manipulation to sell product. When Phillips used "Getting Better All The Time".
And of course they had to cut the line that follwed that exhuberant statement "IT CAN'T GET NO WORSE" because that would imply that their product was crap.

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!-- Bill Hicks, on being censored from "The Late Show with David Letterman"

Post #143474 by TikiGardener on Sat, Feb 26, 2005 12:10 PM