Current favorite commercial:

[chet]

Originally Posted by Tele Fan

Think with your dipstick Jimmy!

I'd like to take that and whip his old butt with it.

[Guitarzan]

The Trunk Monkey commercials are my favorite, but are not that recent.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...y=trunk+monkey

[tazzboy]

Originally Posted by chet

I'd like to take that and whip his old butt with it.

You mean this one.

[timmer]

I like the "real men of genius" commercials. The latest one I heard (radio) was Mr. stadium proposal guy.

[user name]

Originally Posted by -Vampyre-

Also like these for some reason.

This also contains the only known audio recording of Walt Whitman.

[cowboytwang]

Originally Posted by user name

This also contains the only known audio recording of Walt Whitman.

The other Levi's commercial "America", is the one with the Walt Whitman recording. It was a cylinder recording made in 1889.
I don't think "O'Pioneers" is Whitman, at least it doesn't sound like the same voice or reading style as "America".




Here is an MP3 of the "America" original recording.

I just found the info on the Pioneers comercial:
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Portland

Copywriters/Art Directors: W+K Five
Agency Producer: Hayley Goggin
Agency Associate Producer Juliana Montgomery

Production Company: Directors Bureau
Director: M. Blash
Executive Producer: Cayce Chambers Cole
Line Producer: Ike Martin
DP: Kasper Tuxen
Editorial: Joint Editorial
Editor: Peter Wiedensmith
Sound Credits:
Sound: Pioneers! O Pioneers! poem by Walt Whitman courtesy Smithsonian Folkways Recordings performed by: The University Players. Voiceover Will Greer
Music + Sound Company: Peter Wiedensmith and Blue Scout Music
Music Composers: Joey Prather + Brian Hall
Sound Designers: Peter Wiedensmith, Joey Prather + Brian Hall
Song: Swift! To the Head of the Army
Publishers/Record
Company: Joey Prather

So that was "Grandpa Walton" reading the Whitman poem on the Pioneers commercial.