Music Heard in Hilton Commercials: Dancing Couple

The new set of commercials for Hilton are quite innovative in their simplicity. The campaign, titled "Travel should take you places," features animated line drawings of the memories you have when traveling. The spots have names like Dancing Couple, Hammock, Sandcastle and Sunrise, the spots feature some great music. And that's what you are here for, right?

If you are looking for the music in the new Doubletree Hotel "Leaf" commercial, you can get answers in this post.

Hilton, unlike almost ALL other advertisers, realized the importance of telling us who the artists are!

"Dancing Couple" features the lyrics "la-la-la-la life is wonderful" this songs is:
"Life is Wonderful" by Jason Mraz from his "Mr A-Z album."

"Hammock"
Has the lyrics "On a nice day, on a nice day, I don't care what they say" and this song is:

"Nice Day" by Persephone's Bees. Not on iTunes yet, but "City of Love" from Bewitched is . On their site P.Bs now has remixes of "Nice Day" on iTunes - in 3 volumes (vol 1) . . . (vol 2) . . . (vol 3). Whew! That's a lot of remixes!!!

You can also hear their music via their "My Space" site!

"Sandcastle"
Has lyrics like "I wanna fly so high into the sky" is
"Wanna Fly" by Vassy.

"Sunrise"
Features the lyrics "Beautiful dawn, lights up the shore for me. There is nothing else in the world,I'd rather wake up and see with you" is:
"High" by James Blunt from his "Back to Bedlam" album.

There is to be a 5th commercial at some point with featuring:
"Landed" by Ben Folds from "Songs for Silverman." (accoustic) or (album)

You can also watch the commercials at HiltonJourneys.com. Hope this helps someone!

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Posted by on January 19, 2006 @ January 19, 2006 09:59 AM    
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