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.
They Might Be Giants are an American Alt Rock Band whose song “Boss of Me”, was the theme to the ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ tv series. Their song “Birdhouse In Your Soul”, used in this advert, comes from the album ‘Flood’ which was released in 1990 and also released as a single that had top 40 chart success in the UK.
Puffin’ Billy by Edward White played by Melodi Light Orchestra, was the signature tune of BBC radio ‘Children’s Favourites’ programme. This programme ran for several decades from 1954 onwards.
