Sunday, July 03, 2005
I’d Like To Teach The World
Show of hands, or discuss if you will, how many people dislike, or find it impossible to listen to, the original I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing song by the Seekers, due to the association with the famous Coke commercial?
Do you have any other songs you react to negatively because they, or a variant, were used commercially?
I created a new playlist earlier this evening, with a selection of 289 songs that I thought would be good to listen to while I worked. I included that one, as well as I’ll Never Find Another You and A World of Our Own by the same artist (which is neither here nor there).
The list was playing randomly and I had gone out to the kitchen. After that song came on, Deb remarked how she hates it, because of the commercial. I was amused, but can also understand it. I think I was exposed to the song in the original form, before it was adapted, but I could be misremembering. At any rate, they at least were concurrent, so I have both associations. Yep, there I go dating myself again.