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Question: Help me find a background song from a recent tv commercial

notcomputersavvy06 — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:06:45 -0800

Re-make of popular 80s song that plays in the background of recent Mother's Day T.V. commercial

Need help finding the name and version of a song that played during the Mother's Day holiday timeframe as background music for a television commercial. It didn't get much air time so I only saw it once and didn't really pay that much attention to it.

The ad starts out with a mother holding her daugher's hand and , gradually, the camera shots change and the daughter gets older as she and her mother walk down the city street; she starts walking with her friends instead of her mom, then becoming an adult, getting pregnant and eventually walking down the street with her own little girl. The last scene in the commerical is the original little girl all grown up and taking the hand of her daughter as the little girl's grandmother takes her other hand.

I can't remember what the commerical was for -- Hallmark maybe? Investments? -- but it had to do with Moms and the cycle of life. I'm looking for the song that played in the background. It was, at one point, a semi-popular semi-alternative song in the 80s. Something that would have been on a John Hughes movie soundtrack. The version in the commerical has been re-made and softened quite a bit.

Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about and where I might find that particular version of the song?

By: tonelesscereal

tonelesscereal — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:17:05 -0800

I think it was an ad for Target. I don't know the song, but I've been wondering too.

By: atropos

atropos — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:28:07 -0800

Is it the J C Penney ad with the remake of Yaz's "Only You" ?

By: atropos

atropos — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:31:08 -0800

Here's a YouTube link to the ad. Makes me all weepy!

By: tonelesscereal

tonelesscereal — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:35:26 -0800

"Only You" by Joshua Radin and it was for JC Penny

By: notcomputersavvy06

notcomputersavvy06 — Mon, 28 May 2007 01:14:14 -0800

You're awesome guys! Thanks so very much!

By: i_am_a_Jedi

i_am_a_Jedi — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:15:43 -0800

It's a great little version of that song.

His wikipedia says that it's an iTunes exclusive if you're looking to get a good copy of it.

By: i_am_a_Jedi

i_am_a_Jedi — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:20:28 -0800

Here's it live on Youtube

By: zarah

zarah — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:07:43 -0800

"Only You" by Joshua Radin and it was for JC Penny

The song is not by Radin, it's his cover version of a song written by Vince Clarke who recorded it with Alison Moyet. They were known as Yazoo or Yaz depending on which country you live in, due to copyright issues. Alison Moyet's vocals are far better imo. Radin seems to have sucked something out of it, making it weak and namby-pamby sounding.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:05:02 -0800

I like the Flying Pickets version myself.