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   "Greg Heilers"  wrote in message   
   news:T%gfd.7288$KJ6.1360@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...   
   > wim wrote:   
   >   
   > > Hello international Beach Boys fans,   
   > > The release of Smile has re-brought to the surface the issue   
   > > of bastardizisation of Beach Boys songs in commercials.   
   > >   
   >   
   > What is each of *you* recollections, of the first time you had   
   > heard a BB song in a commercial setting?   
      
   I can't recall very far back.  The 'good guys' Good Vibrations one   
   has been going on what seems a long time, I've been avoiding them   
   for just as long, before Smile being released was mentioned.   
      
   The Cadbury, Wouldn't It Be Nice one hasn't been going for that long   
   and it is on and off too.  Some people probably don't mind this and might   
   see it as a way to have Beach Boys songs kept in the public ear, but not I.   
      
      
   >   
   > Mine was from the early-mid 1970's.  It was a commercial   
   > for some Kodak "crank fed" instant camera.  The commercial   
   > featured Dick Van Dyke (!!) at the beach, and the music was   
   > "Fun, Fun, Fun" (actually, a re-written "Fun, Fun, Fun" I think...)   
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   > Greg Heilers   
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   > "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all   
   > over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to   
   > be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death   
   > and stuff."   
   >      --Mariah Carey   
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