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There’s also that time that Gil Scott-Heron did the Tango adverts
The need to pay the bills affects all of us.
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Give him a break - he had to prove himself, for the first two weeks work overtime.
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I just found this choice web artifact:
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Ministry/Work_for_Love/110461
Was it just the voice-over at the end? Really a missed opportunity to repurpose “The Bottle”.
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I actually said “holy shit!” out loud when I heard Al singing.
As soon as I saw “Shasta” I knew what the jingle had to be. I will confess to liking it a fair amount when I was 8.
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i was 15. Same reaction. In 1983 my family moved from Guantanamo to a Navy base in Spain. During our interim month Stateside, this jingle infected me and I knew all the words. I seem to remember a version that enunciated and drew out “Ssssssshhhhhhhasta” at the end.
Never knew thought about who wrote it. Ha, cool.
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Right? Being an artist doesn’t mean you can live on air and fan adoration… 
I assume that most artists would prefer to make a living making art that is meaningful, but that’s not the world we live in right now.
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That’s actually… a really good jingle.
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