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  • I must sings this at music on school and i like this

  • @ronycool1999 You must study English grammar too.

  • I remember this from being a kid. Coca-Cola was on to something way ahead of it's time.

  • my social studies teacher showed us this and its stuck in my head now

  • Classic, eh?

  • At the time it seemed like a simple answer to a world in chaos and I would venture this song to be seeking the common denominator in the basics of mankind. Down with corn syrup, Viva Mexico.

  • wow! I remember this, what a great commercial.

  • it is kinda sad how a pretty hippy sounding song is being used by a big corporation to advertise their products.

    Sad indeed, fuck capitalism

  • @ipimees, Coca Cola got some of the most interesting ads using these classic songs. The one featuring the Polar Bears & the Penguins to the beat of The Beach Boys is a classic. The drinks suck, at least they got good commercials I agree.

  • I have to sing this song in music class :P I dont like it though. Weird song...

  • thumbs up if you want to download this song but you don't know where .... :'(

  • Rewrite 2012:

    I'd like to teach the world to the world to obey

    according to the corporate office, that would be okay.

    I'd like pay some lots of jack

    to squash non-conforming "gay".

  • @harponercam wow, that sucked. Atleast be clever bro

  • @ipimees Are you some kind of skinhead pig? Not following your orders DUDE!

  • one word...capitalism

  • How were they able to get so many tone proficient Vietnam protesters to sing praises for Corporate coke?

  • I love this commercial. When it first played, it sounded like it was promoting world peace, and that was a big deal during the Vietnam conflict. A VERY catchy tune--and everyone was soon singing it. For those of you who WEREN'T around in the early 70s--The idea of world wide peace and harmony was no longer a "hippie ideal." Many people, even many who'd supported our involvement in Vietnam, were tired of/sick of/angry about the years/money/lives spent there and wanted us out.

  • @LakeLady73 Wars sometimes disarm others. Look at the Iraq War of 2003 disarming Gadhafi of Libya of most of his wmd (books like "Did these stories really happen" shows it did). Obama had an easy time getting him out of power due to the Iraqi occupation of Bush and Berlusconi.I supported (very strongly) the Iraqi occupation every minute it was current. Most of the people of 1971 America (the protesters I mean) were purely, shamelss, sick fucked up assholes!

  • best commercial; shaky, shaky... mayhem

  • @jacklazzell I'd like to watch that blond shake her real thing...

  • It's a CULT!!!!!

  • One of the very few commercials that I don't mind watching.

  • O my god coke zombies

  • bunch of tin foiled nigaz , chill the fuck out. it might mean something, it might not . . who the fuck cares now.

  • Best commercial ever

  • So we may blame Coca-Cola as the genesis of this "We Are The World" mentality, all the "shiny, happy" (and racially-integrated) people singing as if one. How very 'communistic' of them!

    Well, the Atlanta, GA-based Coca-Cola is a Democrat-owned company, while New York-based Pepsi is Republican-owned.

  • @gymnastix Of course, in between this Coke commercial and "We Are The World" was another, Christmas version of this commercial, and that Brit-produced Christmas video, "Do They Know It's Christmas?," recorded by "Band Aid," an assemblage of Euro-socialists, if that later term, especially these days, isn't redundant.

  • @gymnastix On the surface, this TV commercial seems like a perfectly benign, innocent concept--everybody (representing varying racial backgrounds, of mixed genders) happpily singing in a chorus. But the symbolism of this is one-worldism, people not thinking for themselves, but as part of group-think, which is communist.

    And don't think for a moment that wasn't the intent of this ad's creators all along!

  • @gymnastix Of course, the media at-large, the public school systems, and colleges and universities have joined in this "chorus" of communist conformity, which is why the world is going down the crapper plenty fast, and is possible for persons such as Barrack Hussein Obama, an Indonesian national and Islamo-fascist appeaser, to be elected the leader of the so-called (but no longer true) "free world."

  • @gymnastix What in the hell are you even fucking talking about? It's a damn soda commercial. Go take your debate somewhere where people actually give a shit.

  • we need more like these!!

  • we have to sing this song for are school winter thingy im nervous i suck at singing.. seriosly

  • I agree with Mizukage6, This is the greatest commercial in history.

  • Think of all the cases of diabetes from drinking this shit.

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  • I was 7 when I first saw this ad. You have to remember, or keep in mind for the younger generation, that this ad was aired during the height of the Vietnam War. Man was going to the moon (Andy Kaufman was goofing on Elvis) and Archie Bunker was about to change the TV landscape forever. It was 40 years ago this year. This was life in the 20th Century.

  • @visaman - Well said, great points made...+ I was a lot younger than you were back then & I've always remembered it as well! :o)

  • Thank you Jesus, for Coca Cola!

  • @visaman - lol! & I usually don't crave soda - but over the last month or so I've been wanting to drink C-C a lot. I think I purchased - over that amount of time - about 5 family sized bottles..a puzzlement..Thankfully, I'm back to taking in mostly water & fresh juice! 

  • The New Seekers were originally scheduled to sing this commercial but were unable to due to their American tour, so the producers hired session musicians and called them "The Hillside Singers". Shortly after the Hillside Singers started climbing the charts (wigth references to Coke removed), the New Seekers released their single and both rode the charts in 1971. The New Seekers version peaked at #7 on the Hot 100, The Hillside Singers version peaked at #14.

  • I think if you do your research, you'll find that the tv ad version was recorded by the New Seekers. And it was by public demand that the New Seekers had to release their version. They were touring America at the time.

  • theres alotta Asians here to xD

  • fuk dis ... SHAKERMAKER-OASIS IS PRETTY BADASS

  • @jpcoli7415 hell yeh mate <3 apparently oasis got sued 500k for nicking it from coca cola haha

  • @ClickChase yeah... but i dont fucking care bout coke... As Noel said ''Now we all drink Pepsi'' XD

  • @jpcoli7415 hahaha so funny :)

  • This commercial has been stuck in my head for weeks now, and it really makes me want to hang out with friends and open up a nice, cold Coke.

  • @normangoesdown I'd rather have a Corona...

  • @mrstevehartman In a few years, I might agree. :)

  • @normangoesdown Youll get your chance......

  • I really wish this commercial was back.. GRR...

  • 40 years later we still haven't learned to sing.

  • OMG! You are Totally Missing the Whole Concept here. It might be a Coke commercial(i drink Pepsi), it is people coming together and living in PEACE! duh!

  • It's interesting how they talk about bringing the world together when the company is killing off people

  • WHAT THE HELL OKITTY

  • Warren3427 Ur a hippy? The reason hippies think about peace & love is because they r on drugs u druggged up cunt!

  • im a hippie

  • Shining example of the corporate world co-opting something nice and turning it into an insipid bid for your dollars. Too bad I like to drink Coke so much.

  • coke haha

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  • I dedicate this to M. Salvi :)-

  • They say this is the greatest commercial ever made. It may not sound like much but considering the impact television has had on our culture its definetely something.

  • @Mizukage6 - The Wikipedia article about this agrees with you, per the mention of the "Campaign" magazine posting about it [from a 2007 issue]..advertising was different in those days, more inclusive of the everyday householder re: the style/approach...& as in the case of Coca-Cola, in many ways a lot of ads, in general, were more

    globally oriented. I still remember this commercial today - a delight to find it here @ Youtube! :oD

  • Awww, it's like watching the future being destroyed by sugar water.

  • @frosted1030 Not only that its the pesticides they put in the syrup to make the Coke. Farmers in India use Coke as pesticides because its cheaper than regular pesticides and already has a high pesticide content. Coke factories flush out their syrup tubes with pesticides.

  • @blackdiamondrider Did you test a can of coke or are you just spouting nonsense?

  • @frosted1030 sometimes good music simply outweighs weight.

  • ol' dirty bastard at 0:37

  • Oh, if only a Coke would solve the world's problems!

  • Still being the real thing 

  • this is literally the smartest commercial ever. the advertisers are geniuses.

    the only way to obtain world peace is by drinking coke.

    brilliant.

  • @benwashere7790 cocaine?

  • @benwashere7790 Are you being ironic or idiotic??????

  • shakermaker

    

  • This is supposed to be the SEEKERS .its not ,this is the NEW SEEKERS.No comparison to the SEEKERS

  • I remember this vaguely as a 2 year old.I thought it was cool as a 2 year old would.

  • 0:14

    Is this guy from modern talking?

  • What does harmony have to do with a Colombian drug that leaves thousands dead each year and many more that wind up in rehab

  • And they did, with Eric Whitacre.

  • Ahhhhhh Shake along with Me! Shakermaker is better than this

  • 0:37

    IT'S CHANG FROM COMMUNITY.

  • i like to be somebody else...!! XD..

  • Full of aspartame, I don't drink anything that comes out of this company.

  • they all drank 1 gratis coke for this spot...

  • Shakermaker is better!! OASIS LIVE FOREVER

  • The year I was born.  Wow, 40 years ago.

  • 0:17 is dutch i recognized the color

  • 22 people had pepsi

  • @yorkie4011 LMAO!!!

  • This would go good with shows like HR Pufnstuf, Banana Splits, Hanna Barbera cartoon time, American Bandstand . . .

  • This is what Obama wants to make into our national anthem...

  • Shake along with me!

  • Now if only coke really could make the world unite and sing in perfect harmony.

  • WHY CAN'T LIFE BE LIKE THIS??????

  • shakermaker

  • those people all look like gullible cult recruits

  • @spaceorbison the cola's laced with cyanide, but don't tell anyone

  • actually this song was recorded by the new seekers in 1970, before the commercial was released.

  • this reminds me of my boyhood and the smash advert, Oh the good times of youth

  • @smellysmug i was born in 75 and had heard this a few times in VERY early childhood

  • Shakermaker

  • These people are now in their mid 60's if still alive.

  • We used to have to sing this song in Kindergarten way back in 1983, and I hated it. Of course the references ot Coke were removed, so it went "I'd like to hold it in my arms and keep it company."

    I never saw the commercial until youtube went up. I suppose the teacher was an ex-hippy or something.

  • This advert stinks. A total rip off of the Seekers song. Couldn't they think of one themselves? Cheats. A thumbs down!!

  • @Planetoxo You do realise THIS is the original. New Seekers made it their single after it was put on the coke advert and got hugely popular

  • This song is featured in 1971 you dumbass

    

  • @Planetoxo

    This actually pre-dated the New Seekers' version.

  • wat makes coke BETTER then pepsi

    is

    there ads arent over the top with celebritys like pepsi...cokes ads are all so good and different to each other

    for example this and those christmas ones

  • @seanmelia123 But does it make it taste better?

  • @izakflashman i wrote it wrong what make coke better then pepsi is...

    coke taste wayyy better then pepsi

  • this is the best version of the song by the new seekers....

  • An extended, non-commercial version of this, scrubbed of all references to Coca-Cola, was released after radio stations complained that people were requesting a commercial to be played (without payment).

  • i hate this propagand song.

  • Shakermaker... nananaaaaaa

  • 70s fashion.. Sweet.

    I hate soda, but this is an awesome promo.

  • I'd like to be somebody else and not know where I've been haha

  • i'm feelin' supersonic..

  • Id like to teach the world to be, a dope fiend just like me, id like to buy the world some coke, so they can snort with me!

  • @nakedman74 BRILLIANT

  • She says - "Buy the world a home", while the original is - "Build the world a home". Why is that?

  • @hr1100 capitalism!

  • @hr1100 Woman can't build homes silly! XD

  • jajjaja esta cansion la cantamos hoy en el salon de clases (ingles ovbiamnt ) nunca la abia scuchado y me ncnto la letra y la musica :)

  • Apartheid South Africa asked Coca-Cola to make a version of the commercial without any black people in it. Coca-Cola refused.

  • Coca-Cola is the best! This commercial is awesome, it tastes fantastic and Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway owns 8,6 % of the company. It's common knowledge that Buffet can't be wrong, right?

  • I start it over and over for the woman at the begining

  • Coke Count For Me = OVER 9000(literally)!

  • Woahhhh they copied oasis shakermaker!!!! Shakermaker is way better! Noel's talent has been proven once again!

  • Id like to drink a can of coke and still have my teeth years later.

  • So what???

    After so long, it's giving me shill sweet shiffers.

    Doi care nope.

    We live now,

    Can you make it beter???

    Yes, you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • this brings back so many memories.........good ones. this commercial reminds me of my grandmother who has since passed on, but when i listen to this it brings back my memories of her. love the 70s

  • I didn't know they did an older commercial with this song, cool!

  • cocola i love you for ever in bad in god day

  • one of the first adverts i can remember

  • i sang this song in grade 1 in the choir!

  • epic nice awsome

    

  • Coca Cola <3 <3 <3

  • Beautiful!

  • Wondeful

    

  • No Native American Indians. . . . . . . . EPIC FAIL

  • The lady from the beginning of the movie with short hair is wearing a Romanian Traditional Costume.

  • BLACK & YELLOW

  • This song is cool, coca cola is not.

  • shakermaker is better :P

  • Why does everyone in this video look like malnourished vegetarians?

  • Impossible to forget this commercial ;)

    It's the real thing!

  • This song is beautiful i love it :)

  • Chinks and coloreds!!!!

  • @fredericktheman .. How is everything Norway... I was in Stavanger for a week in 1967 and just loved everyone there and the fjords were just awesome....

  • I would never believe that a 40 year old commercial could spark so much interest... It was a great commercial...... thanks for all the emails....

  • What's best about this clip is that everybody is allowed to drink, black, yellowish and normal ppl too. Really nice!

  • I'd like to build to world a home, and furnish it with love

    Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves

    I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony

    I'd like to buy to world a coke, and keep it company

    I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony

    I'd like to buy to world a coke, and keep it company

    It's the real thing[coke], what the world wants today[coca-cola]

    It's the real thing[coke], what the world wants today[coca-cola]

    It's the real thing...!

  • @razvasergiu23 I'd like to buy the world a home***

  • @razvasergiu23 Could it get more manipulating at the end...

  • @razvasergiu23 Totally agree mate you can`t beat a line of charlie not sure abou the fizzy drink

  • @razvasergiu23 It's 'I'd like to BUY the world a home' not BUILD

  • @razvasergiu23 fuck off nigger, you werent born then.

  • @bansheewhiskey first I'm not a nigga, , and i wrote the lyrics for the people that like this song and want to sing it! MTF , go die in hell

  • United by Coke.

  • köszönöm a feltöltőnek,nagyon tetszik

  • I think this advert and and the christmas coca cola advert is the best out of all the adverts they've made. At christmas, if a coca cola lorry goes past me, I always look at the back to see if Santa will wink at me! XD

  • How to kill a people who are not a people? its the serpent, you kill the bottom and the head rises, kill the bottom and they have no direction. Hello. King of paradise. Look at your disgrace. Dont you want to see gods mercy? id like to crusify the world, and you see the mercy you aforded your fellow man, but mercy is weakness, comes from weakness. They will never understand.

  • This is a good advert, coke should once in while play it as old school so that those of us in nursery school then will listen to it with nostalgia. How can i get the producer to get me a copy of this song, it is marvelous

  • this advert + coke christmas advert = best adverts ever. <3

  • 40 year anniversery :p

  • Coca cola is shit, Oasis Has a better song soha now we all drink pepsi

    Shakermaker is twice the song this was coke company so ha

  • Do you know how I rate a good coke? by how many burps I get to the glass ... LOL

    I called Coca Cola in Atlanta a few years back and told them this and the girl almost fell off the chair...

  • I'd like to buy the world a home and funny shit with love.

  • MrEurocat, I'm NOW diabetic, but I did love original coke before the effed up the recipe. Now it's not worth missing, to be honest.

  • Seems as they brought it back..

  • The back since 1 month in The Netherlands

  • It was amazing the feeling I felt on seeing the opening shots of this in the new coke anniversary ad..that wave of nostalgia-thats kind of upliftingly warm & familiar. They should just re-run the whole original ad along the lines of classic ad, classic coke...

  • @missmarypickford that is so cool 'classic ad. classic coke'- like a twist on its self. you are right-cuz i also felt that wierd 'wave' come over me when i saw the first part of that new ad. you should write to coke & tell them!

  • @missmarypickford Its the girl at the beginning with her blonde hair. her wholesomeness. the purity of her singing that song, it makes you have that feeling you had as a kid, everything being safe and protected . and now that we are all grown up we just we wish we could get back...

  • freddy got fingered deere scene!

  • 0:23 is that Micheal jackson 

  • ....Wish is could get soooo happy from buying a Coke