Don’t expect to get Saucecraft-level traction on this, but it may amuse someone else as much as it has me.
While poking around Spotify looking for 1960-64 tracks to add to Martin’s Spotify post I came across 3 whole albums of 50s/60s/70s advertising music – not jingles, but whole numbers that sound like outtakes from Oklahoma – made for the likes of Coca-Cola, Westinghouse, Oldsmobile etc. This was obviously a huge thing, with massive resources thrown at it – not hard to imagine all those Mad Men brainstorming sessions. One bloke with a laptop could probably do it now.
Just search on The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals for over 3 hours of this stuff.
This looks great, Mike.
(The secret to having long threads, as tigger and k and I well know, is to write most of the comments yourself.)
Thanks, looks interesting & will listen later. It will fill a Mad Men hole till I get I get round to the last series.
Turns out there’s more – actual film.
https://archive.org/details/Chevrole1954
Them Coca-Cola people get everywhere. The Moody Blues and The Troggs take their shilling.
https://youtu.be/HqNTp0rTDug
https://youtu.be/zlUQfXZGvgc
You want to try Instro-Hipsters a-go-go – a 5CD boxset full of groovy instrumentals played by people in matching ties and blazers no doubt.
“Saucecraft-level traction” – the next Afterword T-shirt…….