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25 January 2008
Quality Never Goes Out of Style That's some trippy brand history, Levi's.
"Dacron polyester" (echoed in a whisper) - that alone got my neurons all "whuh?"
But also, that Laughing Levi's commercial--I hadn't thought of that song since I was a wee li'l scrap. Now I'll be humming that all night. I don't know whether to thank or throttle you.
Factoid: the baritone announcer in most of those was a guy named Ken Nordine, who did the "Word Jazz" spoken word records for almost 20 years before Levi's ad agency decided his trippy audio adventures were what they wanted to do with their TV commercials. He wrote many of them himself, most notably the "Stranger" one which was based on a Word Jazz piece (but without the pants). Hard to explain.
Factoid: the baritone announcer in most of those was a guy named Ken Nordine, who did the "Word Jazz" spoken word records for almost 20 years before Levi's ad agency decided his trippy audio adventures were what they wanted to do with their TV commercials. He wrote many of them himself, most notably the "Stranger" one which was based on a Word Jazz piece (but without the pants). Hard to explain.
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