"its first narrator, and scenarios and music (""Hoe-Down"") from the ""Rodeo"" suite by Aaron Copland, followed by a large magazine campaign that was rolled out in late July and early August. The initial campaign ran for 17 months at a cost of $42 million. The new campaign replaced the slogan ""Beef. Real food for real people"" from the San Francisco firm of Ketchum Advertising. Leo Burnett beat out Ketchum, GSD&M Advertising, and DDB Needham. Mitchum replaced such spokespeople as James Garner who was released after quintuple bypass surgery, Cybill Shepherd, and Larry Bird, who had appeared in recent beef campaigns"
"Fiedler. Copland's ""Hoe-Down"" became even more famous through television advertisements by America's Beef Producers with the slogan ""Beef. It's What's For Dinner"". ""Hoe-Down"" has been covered by Emerson, Lake & Palmer on their album ""Trilogy"" and by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones on their albums ""Outbound"" and ""Live at the Quick"". Additionally, the jazz musician Oliver Nelson performed a jazz-infused variation written by himself entitled ""Hoe-Down"" on his album ""The Blues and the Abstract Truth"". Hoedown A hoedown is a type of American folk dance or square dance in duple meter, and also the musical form associated with it. The"
"reading a short biography with ""Hoe-Down"" playing in the background. The music was also famously used as the background theme for the ""Beef. It's What's For Dinner"" advertising campaign in the 1990s, and also in ""The Simpsons"" episode ""The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"". A close parody of it, titled ""In Training"" and adapted with the film's leitmotifs, was composed by James Horner for ""."" A further adaptation appears in Titanic during the below-decks Irish dancing scene. ""Hoe-Down"" accompanied one of the choreographed opening ceremony performances of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Rodeo (ballet) Rodeo is a ballet"
"songs told of that event. In 1937, American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, while travelling through Kentucky, recorded violinist William Hamilton Stepp playing ""Bonaparte's Retreat"". This recording was inducted in 2016 into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry. Stepp's version of the song was used as a major component of Aaron Copland's song ""Hoe-Down"" from the ballet ""Rodeo"". ""Hoe-Down"" has in turn been covered by various artists, including Emerson, Lake and Palmer on their 1972 album ""Trilogy"". It has also received use in television and film, including the American TV ad campaign ""Beef. It's What's For Dinner"". In 1950, Pee Wee"
"an advertising jingle used in Chili's Restaurant commercials to advertise the restaurant's line of baby back ribs. The ad features a doo-wop quartet singing a cappella. The song was written by Guy Bommarito and produced by Tom Faulkner Productions for GSD&M Advertising of Austin, Texas. Faulkner sings both ""I want my baby back, baby back, baby back..."", as well as the melodic theme. The deep ""Bar-B-Q Sauce"" was sung by famed New York bass vocalist Willie McCoy. ""Advertising Age"" magazine named the song first on its list of ""10 songs most likely to get stuck in your head"" in 2004."
"Beef. It's What's for Dinner ""Beef. It's What's for Dinner"" is an American advertising slogan and campaign aimed to promote the benefits of incorporating beef into a healthy diet. The campaign is funded by the Beef Checkoff Program with the creative guidance of Leo Burnett Worldwide. The campaign was launched the week of May 18, 1992 by the Chicago-based National Livestock and Meat Board through a promotional arm, ""The Beef Industry Council"", by the advertising firm of Leo Burnett Company. The ""Beef. It's What's For Dinner"" campaign was established through television and radio advertisements that featured actor Robert Mitchum as"
"producer and arranger. During this time, he began work as a commercial jingle writer and singer, which continued through the remainder of the 1960s. Many of the TV jingles he composed he would also perform, including State Farm Insurance (""Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there"") or Band-Aid (""I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me!""), for which he adopted a childlike voice and wrote the music (Donald B Wood wrote the lyrics). His singing-only credits include commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pepsi (""all across the nation, it's the Pepsi generation""), McDonald's (""you deserve a break today""),"
"for HEA Productions, which provided music for advertising agencies. His first jingle for HEA was for an anti-drug campaign, ""What Do You Do When the Music Stops"". Besides the US Army slogan and Dr. Pepper jingle, he is also the composer of the ""Aren't You Hungry for Burger King Now?"" campaign (1981), ""Come see the softer side of Sears"", and many other commercials, earning him the nickname ""Jingle Jake"". His voice can also be heard on commercials for Philip Morris, General Motors, Union Carbide, Gillette, DeBeers, Winn-Dixie, and British Petroleum. In the 1990s, Holmes set up a production company for"
"brainchild of advertising art director Vernon Howe and was mentioned in several of his obituaries. Advertising campaigns of the 1980s included one for Potato waffles that had a jingle including the words ""Waffley versatile"". A popular advertisement for Birds Eye Steakhouse Grills featured a scene of hungry building workers heading home in a minibus and singing about what they were hoping their partners would serve with their steak burgers. The song to the tune of ""Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"" included the tag line ""we hope it's chips"". Since 2007, Suggs, the lead singer of English ska"
"many awards for best musical theme and scoring, including CLIO Awards and four gold medal winners at the International Film and Television Festivals. As arranger, composer, or both, Al’s many commercials include State Farm Insurance (""Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.""), Breck Shampoo, McDonald's (i.e. ""You Deserve a Break Today""), Gillette, Kinney Shoes, Woolco, Kodak, and Scope. Al also composed, arranged, and conducted news and station image music packages that have been broadcast by scores of TV stations across the country. They include ""Move Closer to Your World"", ""Part of Your Life"", ""Home Country"", ""Bringing it Home to"
"Edd Kalehoff Edward Woodley Kalehoff Jr. (born September 1, 1945) is an American television music composer who specializes in compositions for television. Composer of about 1,000 pieces, mainly for television, his credits include many of the music cues used on ""The Price Is Right"" (although the 1972 theme is officially attributed to Sheila Cole ) and the Nickelodeon game show ""Double Dare""; a music package for ABC Sports that updated and expanded the ""Monday Night Football"" theme; the 1991 theme song for ""Labatt Blue Jays/Expos Baseball on TSN"" in Canada; music for WNBC-TV's famous 1992 promotional campaign ""We're 4 New"
"Whassup? Whassup? (also known as Wazzup) was a commercial campaign for Anheuser-Busch Budweiser beer from 1999 to 2002. The first spot aired during ""Monday Night Football"", December 20, 1999. The ad campaign was run worldwide and became a pop culture catchphrase. The phrase itself is a slurred version of the phrase ""What's up?"". The commercials were based on a short film, entitled ""True"", written and directed by Charles Stone III, that featured Stone and several of his childhood friends – Fred Thomas, Paul Williams, Terry Williams, Jimmy ""Puerto Rock"" Perez and Kevin Lofton. The characters sat around talking on the"
"the 2003, 2004, and 2007 Effie Awards. Beef. It's What's for Dinner ""Beef. It's What's for Dinner"" is an American advertising slogan and campaign aimed to promote the benefits of incorporating beef into a healthy diet. The campaign is funded by the Beef Checkoff Program with the creative guidance of Leo Burnett Worldwide. The campaign was launched the week of May 18, 1992 by the Chicago-based National Livestock and Meat Board through a promotional arm, ""The Beef Industry Council"", by the advertising firm of Leo Burnett Company. The ""Beef. It's What's For Dinner"" campaign was established through television and radio"
"of ""Hey There Little Red Riding Hood"" for Volvo, as well as original music for Microsoft and the Humane Society. In 2014 Gibson composed the song ""Live Long in Oregon"" for the Cover Oregon Campaign, the Oregon branch of the Affordable Health Care Act. The commercial was discussed on several national news outlets. After Oregon dropped its state run coverage, the commercial was parodied on the premiere episode of ""Last Week Tonight with John Oliver"", featuring Lisa Loeb in Gibson’s role. In 2015, Gibson was principal composer and lyricist for Up the Fall, a musical production created for performers with"
"and 49 seconds. Originally it was titled ""Get Down"", but this was changed before release, possibly to avoid confusion with the Gilbert O'Sullivan song of the same name. Towards the end of his life, DJ John Peel was known for playing ""Down Down"" as part of his eclectic DJ sets. In 1986 co-writer Bob Young recorded a country style version of ""Down Down"" to open his solo album ""In Quo Country"". In July 2012, Status Quo reworked the lyrics to create a three-minute promotional song for the Australian supermarket chain Coles. The chorus chants, ""down, down, prices are down"". This"
"also provided a track for Mondo Sex Head, a 2012 remix album by Rob Zombie. Tobias Enhus Tobias Enhus is a Swedish music composer living in the US. His work has appeared in films, such as ""Black Hawk Down"". He has also created music for television commercials, including the haunting score (featuring female operatic singing) heard in a 2006 commercial for Mercedes-Benz S-Class vehicles (shown during PBS sponsor-appreciation segments). More recently, Enhus composed the majority of the track to """", collaborating with other artists, such as Juno Reactor, Mark Killian, Todd Haberman and Rob Bennett, as well as composing the"
"National Cattlemen's Beef Association National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) is a trade association and lobbying group for beef producers in the United States. National Cattlemen's Beef Association operates the Cattle Industry Annual Convention & Trade Show and Cattle Industry Summer Conference. National Cattlemen's Beef Association is the group responsible for the ad campaign run in the U.S. using the slogan ""Beef. It's What's For Dinner"". Music from the ballet ""Rodeo"" by Aaron Copland is used in the radio and television commercials. On January 21, 2008, Matthew McConaughey became the spokesman of the organization, having taken over from Sam Elliott and"
"the ""American Dad!"" episode Bush Comes to Dinner. The song is featured in the 1987 animated TV movie """". In season 7 of the reality show ""American Idol"", the top nine contestants performed the song. In 2016, Winn-Dixie reworked ""9 to 5"" as ""Down, Down, Down"", in a television campaign advertising the new lower prices store-wide. In Jock's ""Life of Mo"", the opening song ""Man of Mine"" is a parody of ""9 to 5."" In the 2016 animated film "" Sing"", an unnamed beaver auditions with this song. Emery Worldwide used a variant of ""9 to 5"" (as ""Emery's On"
"to the fit the tune of Petula Clark's 1964 hit ""Downtown"". but reverted to ""Down Down"" later in the year. In 2012, it used Status Quo, which originally recorded the song in 1975, singing and speaking in the newest ad in the series. In February 2016, Coles updated the ""Down Down"" campaign again, to the tune of That's Amore (""it's a Down Down""). In May 2017 the ""Down Down"" campaign was again refreshed with ""Australian Idol"" and reality TV contestant Casey Donovan with a new disco version of the advertisement. Coles has been accused by suppliers of using heavy-handed tactics"
"Jo Blankenburg Jo Blankenburg (born March 18, 1972) is a German composer based in Los Angeles. He writes music for film and motion picture advertising. Some of his most popular tracks have been used in the advertising campaigns of ""The Hunger Games"", ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"", """", and ""How To Train Your Dragon"" among many others. A solo album ""Vendetta"" for Position Music was released in 2011, the songs of which have been used for the advertising campaigns of many major movies and television shows. He also made another solo album for Position Music called Elysium, it was"
"has the Gremlins watching the ""Heigh-Ho"" scene in a theater in Kingston Falls, and singing along. Tom Waits recorded a version of ""Heigh-Ho"" for the 1988 A&M record """". The song was included on the ""Bastards"" Disc from his 2006 album """". Bruce and Bongo also created a remix based on this song in 1986 ""Hi Ho (Heigh Ho – Whistle While You Work)"", reaching No1 in the Austrian charts. The song was also used in a 2010 Hershey's Kisses commercials, Biobest vitality commercials in Canada, and the Levi Strauss & Co. ""Go Forth"" ad campaign centered on Braddock, Pennsylvania."
"Leon Carr Leon Carr (June 10, 1910 – March 27, 1976) was an American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist and conductor, best known for his marketing jingles used in advertisements for Mounds candy (""Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut..."") and Chevrolet (""See the U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet""), and the ""Bert the Turtle"" theme song for the nuclear public education awareness film, ""Duck and Cover"". Carr was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and moved to New York City in 1935. Carr was educated at Pennsylvania State University. He also studied the Schillinger System at New York University in New York City. Carr's marketing"
"billboard in the battleground state of Pennsylvania ahead of the 2016 election, depicting Pepe the Frog as Trump guarding the wall on the Mexican border and Moon Man in the background. Mac Tonight Mac Tonight was a fictional character used in the marketing for McDonald's restaurants during the 1980s. Known for his crescent moon head, sunglasses and piano-playing, the character used the song ""Mack the Knife"" which was made famous in the United States by Bobby Darin. Throughout the campaign, Mac was portrayed by actor Doug Jones in his first Hollywood job. Originally conceived as a promotion to increase dinner"
"also claimed to be influenced by James Lavelle and be a man of old school rock such as Led Zeppelin and Dire Straits and new school such as Lenny Kravitz. Maas' ""To Get Down"" track has been widely used in movie soundtracks such as the 2003 remake of ""The Italian Job"", ""Riders"" in 2002, as well as other mediums such as the video game ""FIFA Football 2003"", and a Budweiser beer commercial. Another of his tracks, ""Unite"", appears in the ""FIFA 2004"" soundtrack. A remix of the ""Neighbourhood"" screen music is credited to him on the video game """", whilst"
"match. His wife contributed background vocals on his earlier albums and a feature vocal on his Christmas CD, ""A Soulful Christmas"". Brian and Michelle have worked together on many projects, the first of which were commercials for McDonald's, Nintendo, State Farm, and others during Brian's years as a commercial writer working under Cliff Colnot. They went on to work on the album ""Be Still my Soul"", which was originally for Pianodisc, but then later released as a solo project under their joint record label. In 2008 RCA classical and pop division took notice of a demo that Brian and Michelle"
"Rick Wentworth Rick Wentworth is a BAFTA-nominated film and TV composer, conductor, orchestrator and arranger. His work in film began with composing the score for ""Withnail and I"", directed by Bruce Robinson in 1987, followed by Robinson's second film ""How To Get Ahead in Advertising"". Both were produced by Handmade Films. Wentworth's TV credits include the ""Jonathan Creek"" (series and specials), four seasons of the ITV drama ""Ultimate Force"" for Bentley Productions, ""Between the Lines"" and ""Cracker"" for which Wentworth received a BAFTA nomination. He has also written music for many advertising campaigns, including Nissan, Kellogs, American Express, Burger King,"
"Alfred Hochstrasser Alfred Hochsrasser is a Romanian-born, German-raised composer and music producer based in New York City. He is the Executive Producer and Owner of Music Beast, a music production company in Manhattan specializing in original music for advertising, and has worked with artists including Britney Spears, Smokey Robinson, Cyndi Lauper, Celia Cruz and The Black Eyed Peas. Hochstrasser's work has also been used in television and film. His music has been featured in advertisements for Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Ford, Hugo Boss, Godiva and Hasbro, among others. Hochstrasser received an award for Excellence in Musical Composition from the Association of Independent"
"Hoop-Dee-Doo ""Hoop-Dee-Doo"" is a popular song published in 1950 with music by Milton De Lugg and lyrics by Frank Loesser and released as a single by Australian children's band The Wiggles from their 2001 album ""Hoop-Dee-Doo! It's a Wiggly Party!"". The lyrics of this song are sometimes cited for their use of the phrase ""soup and fish"", meaning a man's formal dinner suit. This phrase is commonly thought to have originated with P.G. Wodehouse's ""Bertie Wooster"" stories, but according to the website World Wide Words, there was an even earlier American usage. The most popular recording of the song was"
"Luis pulls up next to Scott and says it multiple times. June 2018, Burger King and Budweiser partnered to create a new Whassup? commercial. Whassup? Whassup? (also known as Wazzup) was a commercial campaign for Anheuser-Busch Budweiser beer from 1999 to 2002. The first spot aired during ""Monday Night Football"", December 20, 1999. The ad campaign was run worldwide and became a pop culture catchphrase. The phrase itself is a slurred version of the phrase ""What's up?"". The commercials were based on a short film, entitled ""True"", written and directed by Charles Stone III, that featured Stone and several of"
"October 24, 2010. In 2010 Enrique Iglesias used a segment of ""On the Good Ship Lollipop"" written by Whiting and Sidney Clare for ""Bright Eyes"" in his YouTube video for the song ""Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)"" In 2011 Diet Coke used Whiting's music to the song ""Hooray for Hollywood"" in their Oscar commercial which played nationwide in movie theaters. Richard A. Whiting Richard Armstrong Whiting (November 12, 1891 – February 19, 1938) was an American composer of popular songs, including the standards ""Hooray for Hollywood"", ""Ain't We Got Fun?"" and ""On the Good Ship Lollipop"". He also wrote lyrics occasionally,"
"references to the 1980s. Certain references were removed from the original and replaced with new ones, while some were added in places where the original song repeated lines. A separate edit of the song was recorded for Radio Disney. The lyric changes are as follows: The Bowling For Soup version has been covered by Richard Thompson on the live album ""1000 Years of Popular Music"". Another version was created for the popular restaurant chain Chuck E. Cheese's for one of its animatronic shows (Reddick is the current voice of Chuck E. Cheese) from September 2013, using the same lyric changes"
"Campbell Soup Company, United Airlines, Kellogg Company, Coca-Cola, Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, Anheuser Busch, Busch Entertainment, Disney-ABC Domestic Television, Mars Incorporated, Alberto-Culver and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions (Oprah Winfrey). In 1980, People magazine, they featured an article on Paul. The title was ""Lookout. A Guide To The Up And Coming."" Paul says, ""To be successful, you have to be a chameleon. You're paid to do a job, not to be a conscience."" Paul wrote and composed many memorable TV and Radio music spots during the commercial phase of his career. Some of the many highlights include; ""I Wanna Pop, I"
"the best of it."" Advertising legend David Ogilvy went even further, calling Hartzell's Chevrolet spot ""his favorite commercial of all time, not merely his top car spot."" In the 1960s, he also originated the ""Ask the kid who owns one"" campaign for the Camaro. James Hartzell James W. Hartzell (December 25, 1931 – September 11, 2010) was an American advertising copywriter. He created many successful advertising campaigns. He is principally recalled for originating the 1974 ""Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet"" campaign that Car and Driver and other publications have ranked as the best automobile commercial of all time."