Cadbury’s – Spots v Stripes

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Advert: Cadbury Spots v Stripes
Music: Spike Jones – Hotcha Cornya

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Another Glass and a Half Full Production from ad production company Fallon, this one promoting Cadbury’s plan to get the whole country playing games against each other in the run up to London 2012 (where Cadbury’s will be “Official Treat Provider”). This version of the ad features the early 1940s song Hotcha Cornya by comedy musician and bandleader Spike Jones, with his band the City Slickers. It’s a pastiche of a popular Russian song called Dark Eyes (Ochi Chyornye), which is set to a piece of music by Florian Hermann. Future versions of the ad are planned to feature different songs.

  • liz h

    what the hell is this advert all about im totally confused

  • C Miller

    Spots v Stripes…..check out the website, it’s all about everyone getting involved in the Olympics through fun games
    http://www.spotsvstripes.com

  • Matt

    What IS that first piece of music in this advert from?

  • Jamie

    Awesome soundtrack, sounds like Orkestra Del Sol….

  • Geoff

    Isn’t the music Spike Jones & His City Slickers – Song of The Volga Boatmen?

  • George

    @Matt

    I think it is from an Akira Kurosawa movie. Either Yojimbo, or Shichinin no samurai or possibly Ran.

  • Paul

    @Geoff Almost – it is Spike Jones, but the title is Hotcha Cornya

  • Paul

    @Matt You might be thinking of Florian Hermann’s Valse Hommage, on which Dark Eyes was based, of which Hotcha Cornya is a pastiche…

    @George There was an Italian/Russian movie named after the Dark Eyes song, not sure if it featured the music though…