Paul Simon agrees. He refused to let Midas Mufflers change "the sound of silence" to "The sound of Midas" despite the fact that he was offered a lot of money.

It was for ad agency N.W. Ayer's presntation to AT&T
for the post "Friends and Family" MCI advertising and accounting war.

It was an inhouse commercial for the ad agency as capper for their presentation to AT&T execs.

Now when I say High Preasure I mean a $120 million a YEAR, 5 year contract was up for renewal...

I was stillediting till within 15 minutes of the viewing, during a 2 hour presentation.

I thought their stuff was hugely overrated when I was 13 and the 38-year interim has only underscored my orignal opinion.

This may all be off-topic since "Morning" hardly qualifies as rock. Wusspopexcrement, if that's a genre recognized by Billboard, SOundScan or ASCAP...

No more "Beautiful Morning"--it is a beautiful morning all day every day.

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I was pleased at the end of 1999 when Mercedes, hyping a year-end sale, used Steve Goodman (and John Prine's) "The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over"...even though there was techically a year to go yet.

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Joe M, the only thing more painful than being a Buffalo Bills fan is me trying to play Bud's Bounce (born, Lackawanna, OLV 1953 )

[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 17 April 2005 at 05:27 AM.]

BTW I don't consider the pedal steel guitar to be a "novelty instrument."

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Hey, if they used Bud's Bounce in a commercial I'd buy the product.

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Last night I saw for the first time a Talbot's ad that used "Wendy" from the Association.

Also, seems like I recently saw an ad that used one of the songs from the Who's "Tommy."