sermwanderer said:

sermwanderer said:

Nvncible1 said:

he wrote "you got the right one baby" as sung by ray charles whilst driving a car in a pepsi max advert, there is a coca cola tune listed as written by him, the verizon ad, the chevy print and billboard ad's mentioning little red corvette, he wrote the theme tune for shake and vac and the song secret lemonade drinker for r whytes. he also appeared in a couple of ad's for DFS

Verizon Wireless commercial from 2007. The product was you could download "Guitar", a then-new song if you had a Verizon phone. Prince doing that commercial didn't shock me. Eminem doing the Brisk commericial was shocking to me.

unique said:

mikeyaddict said:

Didn't he do that spaghetti ad?!

I thought so too, but as it turned out, the Prince Spagehtti was around 50 years before Prince became famous. Prince's lawyers sued the company.

sermwanderer said:

unique said:

he wrote "you got the right one baby" as sung by ray charles whilst driving a car in a pepsi max advert, there is a coca cola tune listed as written by him, the verizon ad, the chevy print and billboard ad's mentioning little red corvette, he wrote the theme tune for shake and vac and the song secret lemonade drinker for r whytes. he also appeared in a couple of ad's for DFS

yeah, they're adverts but I was talking aboot commercials man Anyway, turns out he's a right sell out Booooooo!

a commercial is an ad. it's just the american word for it. it's a bit like how we say "massive fat cunt" and they say "regular size" or we say tomato and they say potato

unique said:

he wrote "you got the right one baby" as sung by ray charles whilst driving a car in a pepsi max advert, there is a coca cola tune listed as written by him, the verizon ad, the chevy print and billboard ad's mentioning little red corvette, he wrote the theme tune for shake and vac and the song secret lemonade drinker for r whytes. he also appeared in a couple of ad's for DFS

Uh-Huh! is an unreleased song recorded at some point in early-to-mid 1991 at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (it was copyrighted on 15 October, 1991). The track is an upbeat blues/funk track, with lyrics promoting a positive, spiritual, mindset. It contains samples of Ray Charles playing piano from a popular Diet Pepsi commercial from the time, and uses the drink's slogan (also used in the commercial), "You got the right one, baby! Uh-huh!", as part of the chorus.

It is not known if the track was intended for his next album, Diamonds And Pearls, or any other project. It is possible that, if released, the track would have been credited to Prince and the New Power Generation, but as other members of the band are not believed to have participated in the recording, it is included here as a 'solo' Prince track.

Prince's recording of this track has often led to the mistaken belief that Prince wrote the jingle used in the commercials; in fact it was written by diet Pepsi creative director Alfred Merrin and jingle writer Peter Cofield, who tried to tailor the catchphrase "the right one" to Ray Charles' delivery and consequently added "baby." Charles' backing singers The Raelettes then added "Uh-huh!" after playing around with other two-syllably alternatives, such as "doo-woo".

He did a commercial for the superbowl show in 2007 as well.

mikeyaddict said:

Didn't he do that spaghetti ad?!

he did tuna and salmon too

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A brother has got bills 2 pay!

unique said:

Nightcrawler said:

unique said:

He also did the commercial for his Superbowl spot:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0d3b69083e

He's got to have been paid money by Versace at some point, right?

As for tours, aren't a lot of big tours sponsored by major corporations? I thought Ford sponsored the Lovesexy tour.

And then there's the Little Red Corvette ad, but maybe that doesn't count.

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kewlschool said:

A brother has got bills 2 pay!

I don't know about commercials, but didn't they use LRC in a commercial? and Didn't they use the lyrics on a billboard or something? I rememeber watching VH1Classics and seeing Prince in a commercial for it i think..... it was a clip from PR where he's preforming LGC.

unique said:

he wrote "you got the right one baby" as sung by ray charles whilst driving a car in a pepsi max advert, there is a coca cola tune listed as written by him, the verizon ad, the chevy print and billboard ad's mentioning little red corvette, he wrote the theme tune for shake and vac and the song secret lemonade drinker for r whytes. he also appeared in a couple of ad's for DFS

Now I know why I love that song so much! Thanks!

unique said:

he wrote the theme tune for shake and vac and the song secret lemonade drinker for r whytes. he also appeared in a couple of ad's for DFS

Fun fact. The woman in the shake n vac adverts was an original member of the Hookers