if the super bowl coke ad freaks them out--let us remind them of THIS one:

[niyad]

[GP6971]

1. I remember it well

But can't place the year

[eShirl]

2. 1971

from the YouTube page:

"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" is a pop song which originated as an advertising jingle, produced by Billy Davis and sung by the Hillside Singers, for Coca-Cola, and was featured in 1971 as a TV commercial. The Hillside Singers' version was released as a successful single the same year.

The New Seekers also had a hit with the song around the same time.

[John1956PA]

5. Thanks for the info.

I seem to remember a version of the commercial which ended with a full-screen display of the Coke logo.

[okaawhatever]

6. Was that their Christmas one? I think I remember the same song used for a similar ad w/the people

forming a Christmas tree. Is that right? I was very young then.

[Aristus]

13. No. This is it:

Still love it after all of these years.

It was a different time...

[okaawhatever]

14. Thanks. You know if those Repubs have a problem with the current coke commercial, they'd freak

at the socialist message this one sends.

[GP6971]

11. Thank you !!! n/t

[kelliekat44]

30. But, but...they were singing in "American!" nt

[RGinNJ]

4. Goosbumps. Thanks.

[sheshe2]

7. I have always loved that one, niyad.

"What the world wants to be"

Thanks for posting.

[niyad]

10. you are welcome--I always liked that thought

[okaawhatever]

8. And the Christmas version, for those of us who are "of a certain age"

[niyad]

9. never have liked coke, but did enjoy these particular commercials.

[rhett o rick]

12. I think they'd be ok with teaching the World to sing IN ENGLISH. Just sayin. nm

[Crowman1979]

15. Of course 40 years ago, these same Teabaggers would complain about all the non-whites in the ad.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. They'd claim it's "COMMIE!!!" with all that "giving" stuff.

[bkanderson76]

16. OUCH....Great nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. There was a time in this country when we considered ourselves one nation of a wider world....

...and the GOAL was to improve the quality of life for everyone on the planet and world peace.

NOT to act superior to everyone else based on our military.

[niyad]

19. I know--seems almost like a dream, doesn't it?

[Crowman1979]

21. Then the Iran hostage crisis occured and this nationalism/facism/fundamentalism...

...trend started rising to the top.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. It was multiple wins by Republicans running as "the Party of the White Male".

[John1956PA]

26. "Morning in America" with a measure of xenophobia and jingoism.

It was a merger of marketing and fear mongering.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. Some of it was worship of the rich as American Royalty.

[Phentex]

22. That's the truth...

then fear of everything set in.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. We took our dreams to the moon and Republicans HATED IT.

[Awknid]

27. Yes, we were going to help all the downtrodden citizens of the world

By lifting them up from their struggles. It's ironic what has happened.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. Want to be really weirded out?

Other countries have news media that covers what happens at the United Nations,...you know,...like it actually matters.

[niyad]

20. . . .

[niyad]

25. . . .

[hfojvt]

31. I did not realize that started as a commercial

I have that one in my piano song book of easy pop arrangements, with lyrics (non Coke lyrics). So I have been playing it for about twenty years (or more).