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See The USA In Your Chevrolet Singer

February 29, 2012 by · Comments Off on See The USA In Your Chevrolet Singer 

See The USA In Your Chevrolet Singer, The song “See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet” (title as filed for 1950 copyright) is a commercial jingle from circa 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday (ASCAP) and Leon Carr (ASCAP), written for the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Corp. The song was the Chevrolet jingle sung on the show Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet by Chevrolet’s real-life husband-wife duo, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, years before it became associated with Dinah Shore through Chevrolet’s decade-long sponsorship of her television shows.

Dinah Shore sang the song after 1952, and it became something of a signature song for her. Later the song was also sung by male spokesman Pat Boone on his Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (ABC) from 1957 through 1960. When the games of the Los Angeles Dodgers were televised in the 1960s, commercials were aired with the song sung by Johnny Roseboro and Don Drysdale, whose singing careers, announcer Vin Scully said, were “destined to go absolutely nowhere.”
Using contemporary punctuation, the song is also titled as “See the USA in Your Chevrolet” on IMDb. The title has been catalogued for ASCAP since year 2001, as “See The U S A In Your Chevrolet (Chevrolet)” (listed without publisher in the 2001 ASCAP ACE Database).

On February 6, 2011, during a telecast of Super Bowl XLV, the cast of Glee did a cross-promotion with Chevrolet which involved Sue Sylvester enticing the glee club to do a commercial in which they would receive a Chevrolet Cruze if they participated, knowing that doing so would disqualify the New Directions from competing in any contests. Although the song was used in a dream sequence that involved a big budget production number, the group (in reality) declined Sue’s bribe upon Rachel Berry’s realization of Sue’s ulterior motive, which had previously caused trouble for the Glee club in a season 1 episode, “Mattress”. Chevrolet ran several Super Bowl ads, one of which was this 30-second ad. The ad served as a teaser for a 2 minute and 20 second ad featuring the Glee cast as singers and dancers during a Lea Michele-led rendition of “See the USA in Your Chevrolet” that aired during the Super Bowl lead-out program, which was the “The Sue Sylvester Shuffle” episode of Glee. A 60-second version of the ad was aired along with movie trailers at nationwide movie theaters. The commercial was also to promote the 2011 Glee Live! In Concert! tour. The “See the USA” ad was directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Russell Carpenter was the director of photography.

Famous Leap Day Birthdays

February 29, 2012 by · Comments Off on Famous Leap Day Birthdays 

Famous Leap Day Birthdays, For a day that comes rarely to the calendar, Google has doodled a rare two-in-one doodle that commemorates not only the leap day but also the 220th birth anniversary of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.

Since the leap years and leap days are usually associated with frogs, the leaping ambhibians, the Google doodle on February 29 has a number of frogs, all four of them.

The doodle is inspired by Gioachino Antonio Rossini’s famous 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia), one of the most performed operas. Of the four frogs in the scene, one is at the piano and the soprano is the only one leaping. The barber frog is Figaro and the frog getting a shave is Count Almaviva (Characters created by French playright Pierre Beaumarchais and The Barber of Seville is one of the three Figaro plays penned by him).

Rossini’s other famous operas include William Tell (1829), Semiramide (1823) and Cinderella (1817). Gioachino Rossini was born on February 29, 1792 (died November 13, 1868). The possibility of someone’s birthday falling on February 29 is 1 in 1461 (as four years including a leap year have 1461 days in total) that in turn calculates to a mere 0.068 per cent chance.

The Gioachino Rossini leap year Google doodle is the third leap year doodle in Google’s history. The previous two were put up on 2004 and 2008. There was no leap day doodle in the year 2000.

By our calculations this is the 1314th Google doodle since the first ever on for the Burning Man Festival back on August 30, 1998.

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