UK tv ads using Motown Tunes

[dickiemint]

At the moment TV advertising in the UK are being taken over by Motown music
Frank Wilson Do I love you Happy Egg company
Get Ready not the Temptations Thomas Cook Holidays
Velvelettes Really saying something fabulous on line bingo
This could be the beginning of a Motown resurgence !!!

[TomatoTom123]

Yes! I sure hope so. I just love seeing all this Motown music on TV... I even love it when something Motown-related gets a brief mention in a film or TV programme!

Also I believe the "Get Ready" cover is by London-based singer-songwriter Stella Talpo :)

[jsmith]

"Get Ready" has been used on 2 / 3 different UK TV ads in the last 12 months.
Marvelettes "Hunter Gets Captured" is being used on a perfume ad.

[theboyfromxtown]

At the moment TV advertising in the UK are being taken over by Motown music
Frank Wilson Do I love you Happy Egg company
Get Ready not the Temptations Thomas Cook Holidays
Velvelettes Really saying something fabulous on line bingo
This could be the beginning of a Motown resurgence !!!

I haven't heard the Velveletes yet

[rovereab]

There was a perfume ad a couple of years ago that used A Funky Space Reincarnation.

Also, Upside Down was used in a Mercedes car advert

[TomatoTom123]

Also, Upside Down was used in a Mercedes car advert

Haha, yes, the one with the chickens!!!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69os9jzKF14

[TomatoTom123]

Get Ready not the Temptations Thomas Cook Holidays


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlaCyE9oheI&app=desktop

[TomatoTom123]

Marvelettes "Hunter Gets Captured" is being used on a perfume ad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNVxgvxMjnA&app=desktop

[TomatoTom123]

"Get Ready" has been used on 2 / 3 different UK TV ads in the last 12 months.

I remember this one...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U7MFeR_Rz8&app=desktop

[grapevine]

...I expect the most famous was the Nick Kamen Levi's 501 ad...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56M5OZS1A8

:)

[grapevine]

...love these 2 Coca-Cola radio ads...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7FiZMsFQzY

...and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcAr6gBRG9E

:)

[rovereab]

Found it:


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

[theboyfromxtown]

The Sunday Mirror used Needle In A Haystack some 10 years ago

[144man]

"Needle In A Haystack" is currently being used in a Channel 5 gambling advert.

[TomatoTom123]

Velvelettes Really saying something fabulous on line bingo

I haven't heard the Velveletes yet

boyfromxtown...... I FOUND IT!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh-sd3VCaos&app=desktop

[TomatoTom123]

Ok, so this isn't Motown [[kill me!) but is still an excellent advert and great choice of music!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkmp8SmtXSg

[TomatoTom123]

And now for what is quite possibly the worst use of a Motown song in a TV advert....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enn5cqeuiQE&app=desktop

....EVER

[Jaap]

This is the WORST use of a Motown song and Motown legend EVER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwRV3Vzjkf8

[lakedistrictlad1]

...I expect the most famous was the Nick Kamen Levi's 5 ad

I think this ad was the one the kick started the 're interest in Motown in the U.K in the '80's.

And didn't Jackie Wilson's 'Reet Petite' get to number 1 in the singles chart around the time of this ad?

[TomatoTom123]

This is the WORST use of a Motown song and Motown legend EVER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwRV3Vzjkf8

Oh my! LOL

[TomatoTom123]

Just heard The Supremes' version of "Get Ready" being used in an advert for Stella on Sky 1... it threw me 'cause I recognised the song but not the version... until Diana came in of course ;)

[Levi Stubbs Tears]

I think this ad was the one the kick started the 're interest in Motown in the U.K in the '80's.

And didn't Jackie Wilson's 'Reet Petite' get to number 1 in the singles chart around the time of this ad?

Reet Petite hit #1 in late 1986.

And Nina Simone's 'My Baby Just Cares' hit #5 a few months later after being used for a Chanel perfume ad.

[alexstassi]

Do I love you was also used in KFC's Soul Food tv ad back in 2003/2004.

[theboyfromxtown]

boyfromxtown...... I FOUND IT!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh-sd3VCaos&app=desktop

Fabulous

Well found!

The Sunday Mirror once used Needle In A Haystack

[marv2]

This one with the Four Tops was the worst:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI-RbchCRhc

[TomatoTom123]

Do I love you was also used in KFC's Soul Food tv ad back in 2003/2004.

I couldn't find that one, alex, but I did find this one...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBnI8Nmfdkg&app=desktop

Not quite Motown... but written by Ashford & Simpson and recorded by several Motown acts... so it'll have to do!!! :D

[jsmith]

NOT MOTOWN but a track included in a French film from 3 years ago ...
a UK NS biggie ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlhUwX4Tv44

[snakepit]

Don't think that was filmed at the Torch lol

[TomatoTom123]

Santander are using the instrumental break in "Want Ads" [[a Motown tune in all but name ;)) in their latest advert...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqnqJqdN6qw

Man I love that instrumental break :D