Post by Adrastia on May 27, 2017 0:31:35 GMT
This has been driving me crazy for years. I remember trying to search it to no avail.
When I was a kid in the 80s one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons was Kidd Video. It had a live action opening about a band that was sucked into a mirror by an evil guy named Master Blaster. The world they ended up in was called The Flip Side. And was a very bizarre place. Kind of like the digital world in the first season of Digimon. One of the actors was Robbie Rist, who played Cousin Oliver on The Brady Bunch. After the episode was over there would be a music video featuring the live action band. When I was a kid I was unaware that Kidd Video had released a full album of songs . This was because it was only released in Israel. I guess the show was very popular there.
Well, some years back I found out about this album. It's actually pretty cool. But when I heard the song "You Better Run" I suddenly felt that it was a little too familiar. Now they did have an end of episode video for this song. But that's not what I was thinking of. What I remember was a little more recent. Some time in 2000's. Maybe between 2003-2006. But I won't hold myself to that. It's just a good estimate. There was a car commercial on TV. It might have been for Toyota. Maybe Honda. I don't think it was for a US manufacturer. But again I'm not sure. Not a fan of cars and I can't tell one from the other. I only know the Subaru logo because it's the constellation Pleiades. XD
So this song comes on during the commercial and I knew that I knew it from somewhere. I just couldn't place it. But it was along the lines of "You Better Run" along with something like "You better run to your *car's name* dealer" or "If you want these great deals you better run". And no, I don't think it's the Pat Benatar song of the same title. They don't really sound alike. The Kidd Video song is upbeat synth pop and the Pat Benatar song is plain rock with a slower tempo. Lyrically it's a lot different too. The song in the commercial could have been a cover of the Kidd Video song. But I remember it sounding way too familiar vocally.
This commercial could have been local. So it would be in the Philadelphia area. So basically the surrounding counties and parts of Jersey. However, it may have specified "your local dealer" instead. Meaning it was a national commercial.
Here is the Kidd Video music video for "You Better Run".
And for comparison here is the Pat Benatar video, which isn't the same song and I'm pretty sure this was definitely not what I remember.
My memory might be really off. Maybe I just heard the song in the commercial wrong. But I'm curious to know whether or not I am right.
When I was a kid in the 80s one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons was Kidd Video. It had a live action opening about a band that was sucked into a mirror by an evil guy named Master Blaster. The world they ended up in was called The Flip Side. And was a very bizarre place. Kind of like the digital world in the first season of Digimon. One of the actors was Robbie Rist, who played Cousin Oliver on The Brady Bunch. After the episode was over there would be a music video featuring the live action band. When I was a kid I was unaware that Kidd Video had released a full album of songs . This was because it was only released in Israel. I guess the show was very popular there.
Well, some years back I found out about this album. It's actually pretty cool. But when I heard the song "You Better Run" I suddenly felt that it was a little too familiar. Now they did have an end of episode video for this song. But that's not what I was thinking of. What I remember was a little more recent. Some time in 2000's. Maybe between 2003-2006. But I won't hold myself to that. It's just a good estimate. There was a car commercial on TV. It might have been for Toyota. Maybe Honda. I don't think it was for a US manufacturer. But again I'm not sure. Not a fan of cars and I can't tell one from the other. I only know the Subaru logo because it's the constellation Pleiades. XD
So this song comes on during the commercial and I knew that I knew it from somewhere. I just couldn't place it. But it was along the lines of "You Better Run" along with something like "You better run to your *car's name* dealer" or "If you want these great deals you better run". And no, I don't think it's the Pat Benatar song of the same title. They don't really sound alike. The Kidd Video song is upbeat synth pop and the Pat Benatar song is plain rock with a slower tempo. Lyrically it's a lot different too. The song in the commercial could have been a cover of the Kidd Video song. But I remember it sounding way too familiar vocally.
This commercial could have been local. So it would be in the Philadelphia area. So basically the surrounding counties and parts of Jersey. However, it may have specified "your local dealer" instead. Meaning it was a national commercial.
Here is the Kidd Video music video for "You Better Run".
And for comparison here is the Pat Benatar video, which isn't the same song and I'm pretty sure this was definitely not what I remember.
My memory might be really off. Maybe I just heard the song in the commercial wrong. But I'm curious to know whether or not I am right.
