car commercial

[noughtme]

for the past few years i've been trying to figure out the song played in a car commercial from 2000 or earlier and aired in canada. it was a jazz song with a male vocalist possibly for a japanese car company (infinity, acura, lexus...) but i can't remember. very eery haunting vocals with lots of reverb. sounded like something from the 30s. the song sounded kind of like "pennies from heaven." i want to say it started with the lyrics, "if i only had a dream," even though i know of no song with those lyrics. the ad shows the car driving over a very long bridge, possibly the pei bridge, maybe chesapeake bay, and there is a close-up of a girl in the back seat.

that's all i can remember.

any help would be appreciated.

 

[Gir_2]

I remember a few years back a car company used "Get a Move On" by Mr. Scruff.
Your description sounds a lot like that song.

I hope this helps.

 

[noughtme]

it was around the same time as those volvo and lincoln commercials, but this was an actual jazz song.

thanks for the help though.

 

[davez]

Are you sure it wasn't Pennies From Heaven? I seem to remember a car commercial from the that period featuring Pennies From Heaven as the soundtrack.

Dave Z.

 

[noughtme]

i also remember that commercial. it was a buick commercial (i think) that showed a shower of pennies falling on the car. it's possible that it was in fact pennies from heaven, but i'm fairly certain that it wasn't. it was a slower jazz ballad of that vintage though.