Product placement in a song by Fanny Brice

[tomturbomatic]

It's near the end, but getting there is fun, too.

 

[westingman123]

I love her. Thanks for posting that.

 

[rp2813]

That little ditty always conjures up visions of early refrigerators for me, of course one manfacturer's in particular.  I wonder if Frigidaire gained market share as a result.

 

Here's one that's more along the lines of product replacement:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4112/saturday-night-live-nerds-broken-fridge

 

[supersuds]

Aw, that's a sweet song.

Of course, "it" was practically a synonym for refrigerator for many years.

Here's another period song that mentions "it."

 

[112561]

And then there's this one

Marilyn Monroe
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[tomturbomatic]

The Yiddish word for refrigerator is Frigidaire, although to get the soft "G", it uses a combination of "D" and "Z" sounds.

 

[tomturbomatic]

A brand of refrigerator is mentioned in this Chuck Berry son

I just linked the lyrics so that you wouldn't get too happy listening to the song. The name is not capitalized, but you will recongnize it.

http://www.asklyrics.com/display/chuck-berry/cest-la-vie-lyrics.htm

 

[tolivac]

Sort of makes me think---"SkilSaw" is the name called to ANY portable hand held circular saw.And "Sawzall" to ANY recip saw.both Skil and Milwaukee don't like these practices.and another--"Dremel" tool for any hand held small die grinder tool.

 

[tomturbomatic]

For a time, many called any camera a Kodak and any automatic washer a Bendix.

 

[philr]

French canadian songs... Not exactly product placement. Here Frigidaire is still used as SkilSaw or Sawzall... Not rare to see ads for appliances saying: "Un frigidaire Amana à vendre" (An Amana refrigerator for sale) or "Un frigidaire de marque Frigidaire" (A Frigidaire brand refrigerator)...
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Or, this one at 1:25.
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and 1:11
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Breen Leboeuf Quebec 2005 by astre