Classic Adverts

Here is a 1980s Volkswagen advert which I regard as brilliant because it tells a simple story and finally makes its point in 55 seconds. It makes me smile.

https://youtu.be/IyYV6HkmYPs?

But in the song by Alan Price only the words are new, the tune is far from new.

Can you recognise the tune?

Wasn’t it a hymn? What a Friend we have in Jesus or summat. Then reworked during the wars?

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Originally Posted by _Stefan_Kuntz

Here is a 1980s Volkswagen advert which I regard as brilliant because it tells a simple story and finally makes its point in 55 seconds. It makes me smile.

https://youtu.be/IyYV6HkmYPs?

But in the song by Alan Price only the words are new, the tune is far from new.

Can you recognise the tune?

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Great advert.

Tune was also used as intro to Ooh Aah Cantona song:

What a friend we have in Jesus,
He’s a saviour from afar,
What a friend we have in Jesus
And his name is Cantona….
Ooh Aah Cantona,
Ooh Aah Cantona…

Yes indeed Griff and Howoldboy. I accidentally stumbled onto the full song and the advert recently. The music seemed somehow familiar from another context. Over a few minutes it gradually dawned upon me.

It seems that at the time Alan Price got a few murmurs of criticism from religious folk for using the tune in the cause of mammon.

Here is Alan Price singing The Jarrow Song and then at 4:00 minutes he is joined by Paul Jones to do 'Changes' in which he sings a verse of the hymn 'What A Friend We Have In Jesus'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIPK72Lr7Ac