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A brand new Walkabouts song ‘Devil in the details’ is featured in a Jack Wolfskin (tents, sleeping bags and all kinds of other outdoor gear) commercial, that runs quite often on German television.
You can download the song for free from the Glitterhouse website
Adidas 1, they’re new "smart" shoe ad, has the lead singer from the YEAH YEAH YEAHS doing vocals.
"In the morning when I wake, gotta take the shade up…"
i feel so bad for the wonderful girls in the 5 6 7 ‘s having their song overplayed on that stupid vonage alread …
and whats with coors light ?? jane’s addiciton mountain song, and Blues traveller mountains again. they must be putting out big bucks to get those guy to sell out.
Singer Tom Waits upset over car commercial
Last Updated Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:39:10 EDT
CBC ArtsNEW YORK – Rough-voiced singer Tom Waits says a European car maker has stolen his unique vocal style for one of its commercials.
With albums like Bone Machine and Swordfishtrombones on his discography, Waits is instantly recognizable by his gruff, husky vocals.
Tom Waits, seen here in 2002. (AP file photo)
He says Opel, the European subsidiary of General Motors, is currently airing a television ad throughout Scandinavia that features a voice much like his own.Waits, who has gone to court to stop similar infractions in the past, released a statement to emphasize his displeasure.
"Commercials are an unnatural use of my work," he said. "It’s like having a cow’s udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating." …
Waits has never sold his recordings to advertisers and says he has "lawyers over there investigating my options."
For its part, Opel denies that it intended to copy the singer’s sound.
It says the commercial contains a German vocalist performing the English equivalent of the Wiegenlied lullaby by Brahms.
The company did say that one famous singer was approached to do the campaign – Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.
"We actually are surprised about the fact that Tom Waits considers the music … a potential misuse of his voice and style of singing," Opel responded in a statement of its own.
"We have been assured by our agency partners that Tom Waits has not been approached at any time within this project."
Waits successfully sued snack-food maker Frito-Lay in 1992 for using a sound-alike singer in a Doritos advertisement, winning $2.5 million US in damages.
At about the same time, he also sued his former label, Third Story Music, for allowing the use of two of his songs in foreign commercials, thus breaching his contract.
take me driving in the car car take me driving in the car car click clack open up the front door click clack open up the back shack can’t seem to get that song out my head.
thanks nissan
Ween was supposed to do a Pizza Hut Commercial, but apparently Pizza Hut thought the song "where’d the cheese go" was to weird.
I read that Jeff Tweedy’s 9 year old son played drums is in some Quaker Oatmeal commercial
Anybody seen it?
…i remember getting so mad when amc (american movie classics) switched from a commerical free format to a commercial ladden one; well that all changes as long as they have Cat Power songs in the background of every commerical, well this was an amc promo but it did have her song "Could We" in it from her fine new album, go Chan go…
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