LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE COMMERCIAL w/ HULA GIRL 1953

[fromthesidelines]

This is from "THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM", which often featured a musical and/or humorous middle commercial for Luckies. When a popular song was used, Jack- and his sponsor, American Tobacco- usually got permission from the songwriter to interpolate their song into the commercial, for a very nice fee. Listen for the Sportsmen Quartet's rendition of Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" as a middle Luckies commercial on Jack's October 3, 1954 radio show.

[hebneh]

I certainly hope that R. Alex Anderson, composer of "Lovely Hula Hands", got some sort of royalty payment for that little reworking of his song.