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My post on Dusty Springfield singing The Six Million Dollar Man Theme got me thinking about Petula Clark doing adverts for Chrysler in the seventies. I couldn’t find any video or even audio evidence of those adverts online, but I did find out that Pet recorded a “Things go better with Coke” radio jingle in the sixties – and apparently so did almost everyone else.  Click here for a link to a page that includes playble jingles by Tom Jones, The Bee Gees, Nancy Sinatra, and one by the Supremes that sounds like it was recorded at Hitsville with the Funk Brothers.

60sgaragebands.com have made quite a study of bands who did endorsements from just within their particular sub-genre.

Below a number of other pop stars take the corporate dollar.  

That’s the real Four Seasons, though they do seem kind of camera shy.

 

Is this why Peter Tork quit? 

Lulu went on to advertise the Freemans catalogue

In Britain, Madness were the inspiration for a number of adverts – the British Meat ones in particular (Wot! No Meat? How about a bit of British Beef?) In Japan they just took the money and advertised the Honda City themselves.