ZAPPA'S LUDEN'S COUGH DROPS

IN 1967 I HIRED FRANK ZAPPA FOR $2,000 TO DO THE SOUND TRACK FOR THIS ANIMATED TV COMMERCIAL THAT I WAS ANIMATING AND PRODUCING. IT WON A CLIO AWARD FOR "BEST USE OF SOUND." IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF A TWO YEAR RELATIONSHIP THAT HAD ME FILMING 14 HOURS OF FOOTAGE TO BE USED FOR A FILM HE CALLED "UNCLE MEAT".

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Zappa
• Film
• TV
• 1967
• Animation

[soapbxprod]

FABULOUS!

[thekwaze]

@themanfromrussia

Remington Electric Razors is a good one....there's also a more recent one for an Electric company

[matju2]

@flautist02 : instead i was struck by how the speech is as much as _twice_ slower than we'd expect it.

[flautist02]

wow the speech at the end was SOO redundant haha but that was um... interesting

[elc1960]

Now get Captain Beefheart to do "Upon The My Oh My"!

[elc1960]

Sorry, my bad - MIKE Kenneally.

[elc1960]

Amazing to see this ad, especially having heard his songs like "I'm The Slime" that rail against TV advertising and crass commercialism in general. I probably saw this ad when I was young and never gave it a second thought. I didn't hear Zappa until I was about 11 or 12 and didn't get him at first, then at 14 I heard "Montana" and "Dinah Moe Humm" and became a fan instantly. Had a nice chat with Steve Kenneally once and he said he really treasured the period when he was Frank's guitarist.

[supersecretggaccount]

lol is that the Captain speaking at the end?

[saleasylum]

Great!



[themanfromrussia]

Frank did the music for a couple other commercials. Does anyone have those?