On the ride home from the casino on Tuesday, The Pony mentioned that he and his co-workers have instructions to put the CHEAPEST gas into the post office vehicles now.
"I'm pretty sure the new vans are supposed to have mid-grade, but we're supposed to use the cheapest gas now. I think it might ruin the engines."
"Well. It will affect performance. I don't know if it will ruin them." Said Farmer H, an accomplished mechanic.
"Pony. You wouldn't have to cut corners like that if the post office would stop spending so much money on their commercials, and the song rights!"
"Huh. I don't know. I don't watch TV that has commercials."
"There was that old one, with the Johnny Cash song. Where it says, 'I've been everywhere, man, I've been everywhere.' And it shows carriers delivering the mail. Now there's a new one, with a guy directing a whole fleet of vehicles, and the song 'I Like to Move It.' They're really good commecials. I even watch them!"
Seriously. That's gotta cost a pretty penny for the rights...
Johnny Cash sang that song? I did not know that. I know there is an Australian version and I think ours came first, but I could be wrong about that.
ReplyDelete"I've Been Everywhere" is a song which was written by Australian country singer Geoff Mack in 1959, and made popular by Lucky Starr in 1962. The song as originally written listed Australian towns. It was later adapted by Australian singer Rolf Harris with English and Scottish toponyms (1963), and by John Hore (later known as John Grenell) with New Zealand toponyms (1966). In 1962, the song was a number-one US country hit for Hank Snow. The song was also recorded by Lynn Anderson (US 1970), Asleep at the Wheel (US 1973), Johnny Cash (US 1996), Ted Egan, the "Farrelly Brothers" from the television series The Aunty Jack Show (Australia 1974, a parody version, on the album Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong), John Grenell (NZ 1966), Mike Ford (Canada, 2005), The Sunny Cowgirls and the Statler Brothers. Harvey Reid also included the song in his Dreamer or Believer album. Also recorded by Kacey Musgraves on her album Movin' On(2003). Original singer Lucky Starr released an EP called "Lucky's Been Everywhere", which contained four different versions: United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand, and Australia. Lucky's recording entered the Aussie charts March 31st 1962 at position #32 it spent 17 weeks on the charts and peaked at #1
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteYes. I'd heard it before, but didn't realize Johnny Cash was the singer, not listening to it that closely. I saw Johnny Cash mentioned when I was looking at the post office commercials.
River 2,
I did not know any of that. Hope the writer raked in a lot of royalties from all the singers!
I hate watching commercials, I will get the melody stuck in my head and feel compelled to compose new words .... I think you are right, though. Why do they need to advertise if they are so underfunded? I think maybe the RX companies could charge less if they didn't advertise so much ... just ask your doctor!
ReplyDeleteKathy,
ReplyDeleteI really don't get the post office advertising. It's not like they're a new company that people don't know about. It's more like a PR thing for their image. I hate the medical commercials. They are over half of the commercials on TV now! And they're so long! I wish they'd get banned like tobacco commercials. Think of all the hypochondriacs who see them and suddenly NEED that medicine.