OMG!! thank you so much for this information!! I have seen this song on the old navu commercial so many times and i needed to download it!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!! <3

I too love this song. I searched on google and found the link on a blog. The song is from "Behavior". you can view the commercial and sample the whole song from here: http://www.behaviormusic.com/oldnavy.htm

Um thanks James, but didn't I just say all that in my post? Maybe you missed it.

http://www.promoguy.net/archives/002858.php#002858

And the song is not by Behavior, it is a collaboration between Behavior AND Andrea Revel.

Enjoy the tune anyway.

I cringe everytime I hear this commercial. Cookie-cutter men and women dancing to "daddio, daddio" makes me want to take a gun and open my mouth. I'm an advertising art director. I've been concerned about the music/soundtracks we use as directors and this is one that has annoyed a lot of people. Other than the fact that they overplay it. Kind of like the Circuit City commericals.

I cringe everytime I hear this commercial. Cookie-cutter men and women dancing to "daddio, daddio" makes me want to take a gun and open my mouth. I'm an advertising art director. I've been concerned about the music/soundtracks we use as directors and this is one that has annoyed a lot of people. Other than the fact that they overplay it. Kind of like the Circuit City commericals.

Since I'm of your Dad's generation, I took the liberty of piggybacking on your terrific post here and adding some details that wouldn't typically be known outside of The Boomer Generation:

The Clapping Song Of Shirley Ellis And The Old Navy Clap Clap Stripes Commercial:
http://www.tommcmahon.net/2006/03/the_clapping_so.html

By the way, I've been looking for a blog that covers this kind of stuff for a while now, so I didn't hesitate to add you to my blogroll!

Does anyone know how I can load that song onto my myspace profile?? Thanks :)

AHH I LOVE THIS SONG thank you so much for posting it here. I really wanted to download it but I didn't know where to get the name for it. This site is so going on my favorites ;)

Thanks again!

I love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for the great info!

OMG I stay home with my 1 year old and she loves this song!!! She hears it and dances!!! especially the part with daddy-o!!!!!

Thanks

Oh that's hilarious! From the post that says..

"I'm an advertising art director."

Uh, yeah, sure you are. If you were in advertising, you would realize what an earworm is. A song that gets in the brain and replays it's message over and over. Making the customer think about the product, over and over. And if you were in advertising, you would understand this nugget is pure gold.

An advertising art director. Bet you do GREAT graphics but you're off the mark on the music part if you do that, too. I'm lead singer of a local band and we are so doing that song. When it makes me get up and want to dance...THAT'S a good little song.

i do like this song because it reminds me of another group and i like the vocals. however, it does NOT in any way, shape or form make me want to buy commerically over-marketed clothes like those of old navy.
and as for advertising...there's a good and bad type of ad. song, the good kind is catchy and makes you hum it or it justs sticks with you and you like that.
the bad type is catchy, but so much so that it's annoying and makes you want to jam a pencil in your ear to close the hearing canal so you never have to hear it again.
luckily, this song is the first type. and believe me, people can tell the difference.

I thought it sounded familiar... I had heard 'the clapping song' before and always wondered what the hell they were saying! then this old navy add had new lyrics and led me to find the original... thx

I love the song, too! Its catchy, it makes the product and the store stick in your head which is what advertisizing is supposed to do. To the art director who is the one negative on the site, you ad executive have been out of touch with the American public for years.

Thanks for the link.It's a great song.I don't watch a lot of TV so I can't comment on it being overplayed but I think Old Navy hit this one out of the park. Thanks again.

This song stops my 11 month old boy in his tracks. He stops playing,crying sleeping whatever to see and hear that commercial. Thanks for the info!

Anyone know the artist in the new Old Navy Fall sweater commercial for 2007?

TLS,
Read this blog post for all the answers!
~Promo

i heard this song playing in old navy and was wondering if anyone could help me find it outt,
the lyrics while the song is playing are hard to figure out but it goes something like
"oh mercy mercy, i dont agree, i dont agree"
a man is singing it and its fast and has a good beat

please help !