When he wasn’t dancing or studying, young Hammer would write original poems and his own commercial jingles for Coca-Cola, Honda and other products. But dancing and writing were merely hobbies. His consuming passion was baseball. Whenever he got the chance, he’d head to the Oakland Coliseum...
In reality, the piano player on the song was a professional musician who was in the same studio as BTO, recording commercial jingles. The band’s engineer asked him to play piano on the song, and the musician, Norman Durkee, did so – banging out one take of a boogie-woogie that ...
Initially released as a bonus toy in McDonald's kids meals, these miniature, stand-alone digital audio players proved so popular that they soon transitioned to the commercial market. Each HitClip contained around 60 seconds of music, predominantly taken from teenage chart hits of the day. ...
which was at the time the standard format employed by the radio broadcasting industry for commercials and jingles. Used-car salesman Earl Muntz had the brilliant idea of developing cartridges that could be played in cars, via the Autostereo system. ...
Squarely aimed at the school-age generation, HitClips, for a brief period, were the in-thing on the playground. Initially released as a bonus toy in McDonald's kids meals, these miniature, stand-alone digital audio players proved so popular that they soon transitioned to the commercial market...