Expecting Rain

I saw a Dodge Ram commercial that last night used a cover version of Forever Young, and I seem to recall that being used by Apple and maybe Pepsi as well. Within recent memory I believe Subaru used "When The Ship Comes In". "Love Sick" was used by Victoria's Secret. "I Want You" was in a SuperBowl commercial a few years ago (don't remember the product).

Is there a comprehensive list somewhere of Dylan songs licensed for commercial use, and if not what songs have you heard?


M

Those are all commercials that Bob was in or that used a song that he performed. I'm seeing more commercials today that include covers of his songs. Anybody else hear any covers?

M

Seems like one of the first (maybe the first?) that prompted calls of "Sell-out!" was a mid-1990s ad with Richie Havens covering "The Times They Are A-Changin'"--for some financial firm out of Canada. If memory serves.

^that was the very first one. I remember some talk among fellow fans that using that particular song title seemed more than a little pointed.

This was pretty shameful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsFrFQ-F64Y

Maybe that was Bob's girlfriend at the time.

https://youtu.be/tslf5a9QoD8


I like that one!

I remember a nauseating one about some car manufacturer, showed some extremely sad images of animals in cages... the punch line being something like "You cannot retain wild/free creatures", to the music of Not dark yet, then showing their glorious 4 wheeled beauty *pukes*