Archive through July 05, 2002
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Archive through July 05, 2002
Urgrace | Monday, July 01, 2002 - 07:13 pm     Tess, you got it! |
Seamonkey | Monday, July 01, 2002 - 08:10 pm     Oh yes, bat.. The late Hawaiian star Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, a gentle 750-pound giant who passed away in 1997 .. that is an easy one to make me tear up as well..
Yes that AFLAC duck.. I just love him!! And it turnes out there are products which help support cancer research or some such.. http://duckgear.aflac.com/ccduckgear/dept.asp?dept%5Fid=1 (you know.. it occurs to me that I didn't miss Phil Donahue OR Connie Chung.. sigh..) |
Fruitbat | Monday, July 01, 2002 - 08:31 pm     Oh........Seamonkey..........you are very witty. oxoxooxoxoxooxo |
Sunshinemiss | Monday, July 01, 2002 - 09:20 pm     "Travis, you're YEARS too late".... |
Magikearth | Monday, July 01, 2002 - 10:47 pm     "Its not nice to fool Mother Nature!" "....I get the sensation of a cool wind blowing through my hair and down to my Long_ White_ Dress_.....Ohhhhh....!!!!! |
Tess | Monday, July 01, 2002 - 11:36 pm     MsBat it was the Carpenters who sang "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing". I saw them when I was in college back in S.F.--early 70's. Barry did a TON of commercials but the Carpenters made that song famous. Is that better or worse? |
Gail | Tuesday, July 02, 2002 - 05:15 am     I think a few groups made that song famous. I think the New Seekers was the one I remember most. |
Fanny | Tuesday, July 02, 2002 - 02:39 pm     I'm embarassed to admit this, but when I was in high school in the 70's I missed out on all the rock groups because I LOOOOOOOOOVED the Carpenters. They were all I ever listened to. But the thing is, I never heard them sing I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing. Maybe they sang it only live and not on any recordings which would be why I never heard them sing the Coke song. But I really don't think they sang it. Slap me silly, but I like the Carpenters' versions of "Ticket to Ride" and "Help" better than the Beatles'. Oh and Bless the Beasts & the Children was just the best. Maybe I should start a Carpenters' thread!!! Oh no! somebody stop me!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!! |
Tess | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 03:15 am     Fanny you could be right about them only singing it live. When I saw them in concert they brought in a local children's choir from San Francisco to sing it with them. I loved them, too, when I was in highschool. My sister was more into the Eagles and other bands. |
Llkoolaid | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 05:16 am     I think the other one Wcv63 asked was Mr.Clean |
Wcv63 | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 06:06 am     You got it Llkoolaid....Mr. Clean was a bald, sexy, gypsy man. Ahead of his time with the earring. |
Jenhavins | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 07:12 am     Does anyone remember the Underroos commercial? I just remember the jingle and it has been at least 15 years since the ads have been on TV. The last line goes "Underoos are fun to wear, yeah, Something super new in Underwear". |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 07:55 pm     OK, this is also really embarrassing but I just dug out Carpenters from the top.. a four cd boxed set.. and it doesn't seem to be listed in the 67 tracks. Google finds it attributed to The New Seekers And another site says it was sung by the Hillside Singers for the Coke commercials. Can't find it connected to Carpenters, but of course I couldn't possibly look through everything on the net Karen really had a wonderful voice. |
Tess | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 09:28 pm     Hmmmmm. I had all their albums when I was in high school and college and I don't remember all what was on them except the obvious ones. Just have that vivid memory of them singing in concert (the photos we took probably help) and the kids' choir singing back up. I imagine they sang a few things in concert that they didn't record. Either that or I've completely lost my marbles. And yes, Karen had a wonderful voice and Richard could really play the piano.  |
Pamy | Thursday, July 04, 2002 - 06:02 pm     I think the song you all are thinking of was not 'teach the world to sing but was "sing a song'...sing, sing a song, sign it loud to last your whole life long... remember the kids sing w/them in the end? la la lalalala la la laaaalla The other song I think you all are thinking of is "top of the world"..I'm on the top of the world looking down on creation.....
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Wcv63 | Thursday, July 04, 2002 - 07:29 pm     It's the only explanation I can find! Cuz the love that I've found, ever since you've been around.... |
Pamy | Thursday, July 04, 2002 - 08:24 pm     ..has put me on Top of the World!!!!
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Tess | Thursday, July 04, 2002 - 09:13 pm     aaaaaaaack! You are RIGHT!!!!! Pamy, bless you. This has been making me crazy ever since the night Ms.Bat said it was Barry. Well now I'll just have another song running around that empty space between my ears. Thank you SO much for figuring that out for me. I can just picture them up on stage and all those little kids (I tell ya, photos help here) now I can hear them too! La la la la la, lala la la la la, lala laaaaaa lalala laaaaaaa. Whew. Now who the heck are the New Seekers? It's just heck getting old. |
Pamy | Thursday, July 04, 2002 - 10:08 pm     No problem Tess. Sea..don't be embarrased, you DUG it out I just BOUGHT it!!!! hahah
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Seamonkey | Thursday, July 04, 2002 - 10:33 pm     Tess, don't think it was Barry, either.. I'm hearing Sing Sing, sing a song.... or.. Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.. |
Tess | Friday, July 05, 2002 - 01:06 am     Sea, you're killing me. If you start singing We've Only Just Begun or Close to You come July 10th when they fire up those live feeds.....well, I'm just gonna start worrying. |
Wcv63 | Friday, July 05, 2002 - 01:25 am     Barry wrote the jingle for the Coke commercial. He was a big jingle man before he became a solo act. He wrote the jingles for: Kentucky Fried Chicken Get a bucket of chicken, finger lickin' good, have a barrel of fun, goodbye ho hum State Farm Insurance Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there Stridex Give your face something to smile about with Stridex Bandaid I am stuck on Bandaid cause Bandaid's stuck on me I searched all over (I know..don't think too badly of me for such a wasteful use of my time) and couldn't find a reference anywhere showing that Manilow had anything to do with that Coke commercial. Here's an interesting read http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colaadv.html A quote from one of the many pages I looked through: "The New Seekers biggest success came from an unlikely source: an ad jingle they recorded for Coca-Cola, which became part of a hugely popular campaign that summer -- so popular, in fact, that radio listeners actually called in to request the commercial. It was decided to release the song as a single called "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)," with the lyrics rewritten to remove product references." P.S. Loved the Carpenters...also loved Anne Murray and yes...I admit it...I liked Barry Manilow. Did you know he used arrange and write for Bette Midler? |
Tess | Friday, July 05, 2002 - 01:48 am     ack, MsBat was right all along! When am I EVER going to learn to stop doubting her. <hanging head in abject shame> Oh wait--he wrote A Coke commercial but not THAT Coke commercial? aaaack! Big confession here--I not only had all the Carpenter albums, but ASLO all the Barry albums AND Anne Murray AND John Denver. <sigh> Did I'm mention that my sister was the cool one? She had the Eagles and Creedence Clearwater and, well, you get the picture. Mom always liked her better, but she liked my music better. I knew Barry wrote and arranged for Bette. Thought he played piano for her for a bit also. Anyway, he also wrote "You deserve a break today, so get out and get away to ______________________" |
Wcv63 | Friday, July 05, 2002 - 01:57 am     Tess the shame is mine...I started the message quite positive that Barry was involved in that commercial....discovered through a massive amount of searching that I could find no reference to his involvement and forgot to revise my first line. Bad me. I attribute it to my not being able to sleep. Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it. I have one further confession that will probably shock even the most ardent Carpenter/Murray/Denver/Manilow fans. >>>cough<<<< I used to listen to Marie Osmond sing "Paper Roses" about 50 times a day. But to even the score I also listened Alice Cooper, CCR, Queen, Bad Company etc. Then, as well as now, I had very eclectic musical tastes. |
Tess | Friday, July 05, 2002 - 03:35 am     Cant' sleep here either but I'm going to try after umpteen games of Snood. I balanced my musical selections with Bach, Mozart, Chopin (my absolute favorite during those years), Tchaikchovsky and Debussy. I was hopelessly "uncool". Still am and proud of it. BUT I have at least heard of every band you mentioned except "Bad Company". That's something anyway. Ummmm, that is IF Alice Cooper is the scary guy from Kiss... Btw--did anyone ever figure out the commercial with the Hawaiian guy singing "Over the Rainbow"? I haven't seen it yet but I heard that rendition on the episode of ER (you know the one where I sobbed my heart out) and I want that recording. |
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