Surfer music in Lincoln ad

goodaka | 13:32 Thu 01st Mar 2007 | Adverts

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Anyone know what the song or the artists are in the new Lincoln Navigator TV ad? 'Kinda sounds like session musicians improvisiing on "Sleepwalk" to me.
http://www.lincoln.com/extras/tvads.asp?ad=6

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kaarina

Hi, Love that song and hunted for it and the most information I could find was on a Hawaiin Steel Guitar Website thread -
http://www.hsga.org/forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.p l?num=1171330263/4
Basically just confirms what you thought - Lincoln wanted Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny but didn't want to pay royalties so they did a copycat version.

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Thanks Kaarina! I've played guitar for years, and started out with guys covering Ventures hits and other 60s "Surf" music. I used Apple's iTunes archives and listened to all the surf tunes I could find, especially "Sleepwalk". Nothing sounded like the Lincoln add., but listening carefully, I could tell that it was a melodic improvisation on the "Sleepwalk" chord progression. It was a very clever job of dancing around the tune - melodic and very catchy - something that session musicians aren't usually very good at. 'Great artistry, and a great add!
Congrats to the musicians - whoever they are.

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