Cash Family Rejects Piles Of Cash

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-19-2004 | Hugh Davies

[Captain Peter Blood]

The Rolling Stones were not paid $500 Million for "Start it Up". As I recall Microsoft paid about $10 Million for the rights to use that song in the Windows 95 campaign.

[writer33]

Now that's a scorcher of a story.

[krb]

a fee of more than $500 million a year from Microsoft

Really?

[dighton]

Cash family rejects piles of cash

Hall of Fame punning, not just for cash.

[Lijahsbubbe]

What, there are actually people left who will not whore themselves out for money? God Bless 'em.

And that was very crass. Johnny Cash hasn't even been gone six months.

[speedy]

I'll bet Jerry Lee Lewis would let them use "Great Balls Of Fire."

[Prince Charles]

Maybe they should try switching to a laxative product, that way you too can once again be "Flushed From The Bathroom Of My Heart."

[eddie willers]

"Because you're mine...please pull the twine"

[Who dat?]

What, there are actually people left who will not whore themselves out for money? God Bless 'em.

Depends how you look at it. I’ve heard Johnny Cash interviews, Merle Haggard interviews, and Willie Nelson interviews – all of them. They struck me as somewhat humorous, down to earth people that probably wouldn’t give a flip what silly commercial was made if they got paid for it.

The family – well, they’re looking out for their interests…

[freebilly]

Me and Johnny Cash--

I met him in 1983. I was working for a winery, in the hospitality department, that had an arrangement with the local performing arts center to host entertainers.

I had the good fortune to cook ribs for the man in black. After the meal, Johnny Cash came up to me and said in his best Johnny Cash voice, "Freebilly, those were mighty fine ribs."

I always liked Johnny after that.

Truth be known, the ribs were lousy....

[Charles Henrickson]

. . . the family would legally block any attempt to exploit it. . . .

A Boy Named Sue.

[Charles Henrickson]

Hall of Fame punning

Hall of Fame Bunning:

[martin_fierro]

Cash ... allowed the song ... to be used in 1999 for a commercial for Levi's jeans.

That's why I prefer loose-fit.

[SAJ]

Interesting that you should mention that. Said advertising campaign, for all its millions spent, lasted for just 86 days. Curious, no? Know why?

Just think what the first line of the chorus is...apparently, all the ad agency types couldn't get past the first 32 bars.

Don't know who pulled the plug on this lot at Microsoft, but it was entirely a no-brainer. After all, who wants a product identified by (and I quote):

You make a grown man cry-y-y.

[Kenny Bunk]

Inappropriate advertising lines of all time: No.3,414, viz

" NOW! Kiss those hemorrhoids goodbye ....with new improved etc. etc."

[Ruth A.]

Good for the Cash family. There is no need to have this song with memories of both June and Johnny to be forever linked to an ad campaign they don't like.

[Fledermaus]

The Oil of Olay people thought about using the song...they loved the line, "you make a dead man cum"! ;-)

[CommandoFrank]

I'll bet Jerry Lee Lewis would let them use "Great Balls Of Fire."

Yes, for an ointment for men used as an aide for genital herpes...

[SAJ]

How odd. I've always associated the ''Oil of Olay'' with Tom Jones' old tune, ''Daughter of Darkness'', or even possibly the Beatles' ''Norwegian Wood''.

OY-l of O-Lay
Keep all mah skin well MOIST-nd
Make me a-live
For just nine ninety-five
You mar-vy OY-l of O-Lay!