Northern soul music has been used to sell all sorts of shit over the years. Credit Cards (Come On Train), Fried Chicken (loads of tracks) and bloody eggs (Do I Love You) to point out just three products that have used classic songs to entice you to get further into debt, make an omelette or end up with heartburn, Butt the connection between product and song usually has me at a loss, But none is as incongruous as the use of Rubin's absolute belter to sell fucking cat food?
The single was released in 1968 on Kapp and as usual failed to chart and subsequently when re-discovered became huge on the northern scene for about a year and then fell out of favour until resurrected for the cat food commercial and has been very popular since then. The identity of "Rubin" is not entirely clear and has been open to speculation ever since the record was unearthed.
I seem to have misplaced the dodgy bootleg copy I have.
Rubin - You've Been Away
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A good rant there Drew
I have it on good authority that Rubin is...The Robster.
At least you won't get them using Fall songs to sell things..........
.............apart from cars
We can all empathize. I don't think there is anyone on the planet that hasn't heard a favorite song used in a way that has made us groan. It's particularly bad for our age group right now.
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