The answer, my friend, is blowin in the co-op ....

There is a Stones Rice Krispies commercial.

I'll see if I can find it, edgar.

This has been fun. Thank you for finding all those clips!

Everybody does pepsi commercials.

Stevie Wonder is in a new Volkswagen commercial, but he does not sing.

Here it is

Really?

I'm wondering in what sort of capacity, then?

Also wondering if (apart from the $$$$, of course!) there's some sort of status of having your very own classy advertisement? It's possible. Who knows?

The Republicans are always ripping off rock songs without asking permission. The Wilson Sisters wrote a song called Barracuda about women in the music business and the Repugs tried to use it as palin theme. The Wilsons were angry, not just because their song was about something totally unrelated and because they disagree politically with the Repugs but because they weren't even asked/

Hoyt Axton wrote Pusherman? Thanks for the info.

I thought you had to have permission, POM, to have the "rights" to using the music?

But perhaps I have my wires crossed? (It's possible!)

Actually, David is incorrect. The Kennedy campaign used a parody of the popular song High Hopes, from the 1959 film A Hole in the Head. It won the Academy Award for Best Song and was popularized by Frank Sinatra and Doris Day.

You're right, Olga, you do have to ask permission but I think the Repubs know that they won't get permission, so they don't ask. They've caused trouble for some time now by simply using people's songs.

Goodness, edgar, looks like a huge chunk of the US advertising industry is Bob Dylan driven! I had no idea. Not even one BD ad in Oz!

This one had a nice homey touch to it, didn't it?

check out glenn becks dramatic reading of the lyrics to springsteens "born in the usa", priceless

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/glenn-beck-finally-gets-a_n_497360.html

That was early Donovan, when they accused him of imitating Dylan.

I never realized these words were so subversive before, djjd!
And I've never heard them sound quite like that!
This is a truly terrible song! Someone should ban it! :

Born In The U.S.A.
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.

Of course! (Duh. It's late, edgar! )

And the accusation was absolutely correct, too!