Showing posts with label tv commercials. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The World According to Coke


It was the hippie heaven of the early 70s. It was life as I saw it through rose-tinted glasses. Hey, I was just a kid, remember? Besides my own little existence was a rose garden in some ways anyway. It was a beautiful wonderful world as captured in the best ever tv commercial of my childhood.



I'd like to buy the world a home
And furnish it with love

Grow apple trees and honey bees
and snow-white turtle doves

I'd like to teach the world to sing
in perfect harmony

I'd like to buy the world a Coke
and keep it company

It's the real thing
Coke is what the world wants today.

Yeah, it was the real thing. Though a little unreal to me at the time. The oldies at home had this thing against carbonated drinks.
And Cokes were major no-nos.