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Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary

The title track "Adiemus" was used prior to the album's release in a 1994 Delta Air Lines television commercial (as well as related Delta Air Lines media around this time, including pre-departure videos aboard Delta flights).

Allan Smethurst

The song had a small comeback in 1994, when it was featured on a television commercial for Ovaltine.

Brendan Croskerry

An instrumental version of "Radio Love Song" from the album Passing Trains (2011) was featured in the Land Rover Freelander 2 television commercial.

Craig Heyward

In the mid-1990s, Heyward showcased his sense of humor in a series of television commercials for Zest body wash, introducing a generation of American men to the modern version of the Luffa that is now a fixture in many showers and bathtubs.

F. R. Crawley

Together they owned the Crawley Films company which produced numerous short films, feature films, television commercials, animated cartoons and other productions from its formation in 1939 until its sale to Atkinson Film Arts in 1982.

Freddy Fresh

Fresh's music has also enjoyed commercial success in films such as Austin Powers in Goldmember, Jackie Chan's The Tuxedo and television commercials by Adidas, Budweiser and Coors.

Godzilla vs. Charles Barkley

Godzilla vs. Charles Barkley is a 1992 Nike television commercial in which a giant-sized version of NBA star Charles Barkley challenges Godzilla to a game of basketball in the streets of downtown Tokyo.

Italian-American Civil Rights League

The group then turned its attention to what it perceived as cultural slights against Italian-Americans, using boycott threats to force Alka-Seltzer and The Ford Motor Company to withdraw television commercials the league objected to, and also got United States Attorney General John Mitchell to order the United States Justice Department to stop using the word "Mafia" in official documents and press releases.

Izumi Sakai

For the next two years following her scouting, she was a Toei "karaoke queen" and a promotional model appearing in television commercials for Japan Air System.

Johnny Zell

Zell was asked to do a television commercial for U.S. Army recruiting and part of the job was to do an interview for the Welk show and to play trumpet for the band.

Lou Piniella

In late 2007, Piniella appeared in a television commercial for Aquafina bottled water in which he parodies his famous June 2, 2007 meltdown at Wrigley Field.

Macintosh Office

Apple announced Macintosh Office in January 1985 with an ill-fated, poorly received sixty-second television commercial, dubbed Lemmings during the Super Bowl.

Madani Channel

Madani Channel (Urdu: مدنى چينل) is a television channel free of advertising and television commercials started by Dawat-e-Islami, which broadcasts Islamic television programs around the clock.

Marc Herring

Other pioneering achievements in the arts and advertising include producing the first television commercial created on board the International Space Station, organizing worldwide broadcast coverage of the reentry of the MIR space station and temporarily illuminating vast landscapes with live, digital multimedia projections.

No. 5 the Film

Though visually captivating, the film is essentially an extended television commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume.

Start the Commotion

After being used in a Mitsubishi Motors television commercial in the U.S. in 2001, the song gained a second life and significant radio airplay, reaching the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and making it one of The Wiseguys most well known songs.

Tobias Enhus

He has also created music for television commercials, including the haunting score (featuring female operatic singing) heard in a 2006 commercial for Mercedes-Benz S-Class vehicles (shown during PBS sponsor-appreciation segments).

Utah State Route 128

The gorge widens where the highway passes by Castle Valley and Professor Valley, which have been the shooting locations for many western films (including Wagon Master and Rio Grande) and television commercials.


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'Not happy, John!' campaign

The title of the campaign is based on the popular television commercial, Not happy, Jan! and the book Not Happy, John by Margo Kingston.

Alice Springs Reptile Centre

Reptiles from the centre have featured in National Geographic Magazine, Wild Relations - Natural Born Cheats on ABC, an American Visa television commercial, New Zealand's The Bounty Hunters television show on TV2, Steve Irwin's Great Escapes on Discovery's Travel Channel and Animal Emergency on Channel 9 Australia.

Car Stereo Wars

The band released their debut album in 2008 "For Your Comfort and Safety" and has enjoyed recent commercial success with the track "Come to Nothing" being used in a Tic Tac television commercial in the United States and available as a free download from the Tic Tac USA website.

Casino Versus Japan

By the summer of 2002, the track "It's Very Sunny" was used in a Hummer television commercial.

Charlie Naughton

In 1955, he starred in the first Guinness television commercial, playing the zoo-keeper with a German seal.

Dawn Maxey

Later, in 2002, she appeared in a television commercial for Disney Cruise Line and after that in 2003 her only movie appearance was as Linette Purdy in Raising Flagg; other than that she only starred as Taylor in Yes, Dear and in 2004 as Beth in Saint Louie.

Don Fish

One award winning television commercial for British Airways featured John Le Mesurier was produced with John Flanagan and won a Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

G. Emerson Cole

After the war, Cole became a television commercial writer, director, and producer at Benton & Bowles Advertising Agency working directly under Shepherd Mead, author of the best-selling book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Gizem Memiç

As "Miss Turkey" she was in a 2011 American television commercial for Carl's Jr. restaurant and its sibling Hardee's restaurants, promoting their new broiled turkey burger.

Good Morning Good Morning

Inspiration for the song came to Lennon from a television commercial for Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

Haggar Clothing

In 1971, a young John Travolta appeared in a national television commercial for Haggar Slacks.

Infidel Inc.

The band is best known for the song "Fix," which was featured in a television commercial for Izod during Super Bowl XLI.

Jayesh Sachdev

He directed Sachin Tendulkar in a television commercial, and Sachdev's work has been exhibited at international film festivals.

Jenny Cho

The following year, she was cast for a Honda Accord television commercial, filmed in Barstow, California in addition to Honda's Print Ad, filmed on set in Los Angeles.

Jenny Logan

Though she played WPC Sally Reed in the TV series Dixon of Dock Green between 1968 and 1969, she is most familiar from her appearances as the woman in the television commercial for the carpet freshener Shake n' Vac, which was shot in 1979, and ran from 1980 to 1989.

Jhoon Goo Rhee

Rhee is well known in the Washington, D.C. area for a television commercial that has a jingle by Nils Lofgren and features the catch phrase, "Nobody bothers me," followed by "Nobody bothers me, either."

Jo Ann Campbell

In April 1963, she followed up with "Mother, Please! (I'd Rather Do It Myself)", a take-off on an Anacin television commercial of the day, but this reached No. 88.

John Matheson

Matheson was portrayed by Peter MacNeill in a Heritage Minute television commercial about his involvement in the Flag committee.

John Zandig

In the early 2000s (decade), Zandig appeared in a Japanese television commercial alongside the Japanese actress Ai Kato for a soft drink product named C1000 (by Takeda Food.Co), where he was knocked out by Ai's lariat.

Jon Astley

His most commercially successful song was "Jane's Getting Serious", later popularized by a Heinz ketchup television commercial starring a pre-Friends cast member Matt LeBlanc.

JP Aerospace

Since then, JP Aerospace has worked with a number of clients interested in launching cameras into the upper atmosphere via balloons, including The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and Toshiba (for their 2009 television commercial Space Chair).

Katy Carmichael

After leaving university, Carmichael's first venture into professional entertainment was Judy's Punch, a puppet show "with a twist." Carmichael appeared in a television commercial for Bounce fabric softener in spring 1996 with Mark Moraghan.

Kerri Strug

In 2008, she appeared in a television commercial for the Zaxby's restaurant chain.

Kosinski

Joseph Kosinski, a professor of architecture turned television, commercial and feature film director

Maria Montazami

In January 2011, Monatazami appeared in a television commercial for the travel agency Ving in Sweden.

Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class

As part of CLA-Class US product launch, a television commercial featuring Kate Upton was produced for, and premiered during the 4th quarter of Super Bowl XLVII.

Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel

In 2006, a Land Rover television commercial and print campaign was produced using G-Cans as a location.

Molly's Chambers

Volkswagen used "Molly's Chambers" as the entire audio track in a television commercial advertising the Volkswagen Jetta.

Mr. Clean

In 1998, Honda Motor Co. created an advertising campaign, including a television commercial, featuring Mr. Clean to represent Honda's clean running Accord along with other Honda products including lawnmowers, string trimmers, motorcycles, and marine engines.

Ruddles Brewery

A television commercial for Ruddles in 1993 featured the last appearance of Vivian Stanshall narrating as Hubert, brother of Sir Henry Rawlinson of Rawlinson End played by Mel Smith and a cross-dressing Dawn French.

Samantha Thavasa

In 2013, Momsen appeared in a television commercial for Samantha Vega handbags along with one of the Japanese idol Tomomi Itano of AKB48.

Shay Roundtree

That movie, which was released in 2003, along with a television commercial appearance, qualified him to be a member of the Screen Actors Guild.

She's Got Me Dancing

The song has been used occasionally in the media, including the advertising of PlayStation 3 game EyePet, a television commercial for the iPod Touch, features on the EA Sports video game FIFA 10 and is also one of the songs available to dance to on Just Dance 3.

Shoot Low Sheriff

In 2009, their song "Old Alton Rag" was featured in a television commercial for Jack Daniels and in 2012, the band was named "Western Swing Group of the Year" by the Academy of Western Artists.

Someone New

The song was featured in a television commercial for the 3G mobile operator 3, and later in a commercial for Peugeot 208.

The Fixx

"Saved by Zero" appears in a national American television commercial for Toyota.

The Panderers

LittleBigPlanet Sony PS3 game television commercial ad campaign - (Song: Come On - Snack Bar 2008)

The Sunlandic Twins

"Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)" was featured as a re-recorded jingle in a television commercial for Outback Steakhouse, with altered lyrics.

Tommy Sparks

A clip of "She's Got Me Dancing" was used by Apple in the iPod touch "Next Level Fun" television commercial as well as being featured in the soundtrack for the video game FIFA 10.

Trevor Einhorn

Einhorn has also most recently appeared in a television commercial for Acer laptops alongside Kiefer Sutherland, named "Dynamite Cupcakes", and in the sixth season of Mad Men, as copywriter John Mathis.

Up to Our Hips

"Can't Get Out of Bed" was used as the soundbed of Benylin's 2009 television commercial campaign.

Wayne Harmes

In 2006 Harmes appeared in a television commercial for Toyota's Memorable Moments series, where he was filmed in a recreation of the final moments of the 1979 Grand Final (with Stephen Curry and Dave Lawson).

Who's Gonna Save Us?

The song appeared on the soundtrack and in a television commercial for Michael Moore's 2004 film, Fahrenheit 9/11.

William Whitney House

The house was featured in a national television commercial for Hallmark Cards, earning the residence its nickname.

Wu Bai

In June 1998, after representing Taiwan Beer in its new television commercial, Wu also appeared in a Chinese movie A Beautiful New World, playing the part of a street singer.

Yahoo!Xtra

Yahoo!Xtra's 'X meets Y' promotion at launch featured a television commercial with Regina Spektor's song "Fidelity" playing whilst a young couple undertake in a lingering kiss.