I was watching the SD Chargers and a commercial came on for an automobile (cannot recall which one) as is typical during football games. Clear that us guys make the purchase decisions in the auto department. As the commercial was winding down – the last 10 seconds – this vocal chorus came on that was instantly recognizable from the chorus in the Simon & Garfunkel song “The Only Living Boy in New York” from the last album they did: Bridge over Troubled Water.
I saw a link to the song that landed me at a youtube video of Paul Simon singing the song in his first take in 1969. In that version, he sings “half of my life is gone and I don’t know where (…and I don’t know where)” In the album version its released as “half of the time we’re gone and we don’t know where”. Strange way of looking at life when you are only 28.
After the compulsory wikipedia review, the link to the 2010 honda accord. Honda again. They have some brilliant ads from the Rubn Postare and Associates agency. What a great team – check out some of their other ads. To whomever chose to use this clip in the second half of the commercial – bravo.
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Well, finding some links, splicing the MP3 of the song and posting in my little blog here only took 1 precious hour of my life…and that was time well spent…