iPod ad music

[bostonoski]

I'm looking for the music from what I think is the first iPod ad, or at least a very old one.

It starts with a guy sitting at a computer listening to music, and he's bopping along with it, then downloads the tune to his iPod and - with no break in our hearing the tune - he pops on the headphones and dances across the room and out the door.

Anyone remember this? A friend told me it was by "The Strokes" but I listened to the clip (after much grief getting the clip to work) and it wasn't even close.

Thanks!

 

[michelle]

Wasn't their an ad on tv showing some guy downloading a song on the computer awhile back... Except I don't think it was for the iPod. Anyway, the song in that ad (whatever it was) was "Alpha Betta Gaga" by Air. You can hear an audio sample here.

 

[bostonoski]

Thanks Michelle.
That was a cool tune, but not the right one...

The ad was a guy [Indian? I heard he was an MTV or VH1 v.j. actually...] sitting at his Mac and listening to tunes and they show him download the tune he is listening to onto his iPod (this is old, it was a first generation) and then he unplugs the iPod and puts the headphones on and dances to the door, grabs a coat (I think) and dances out the door. The tune plays over the whole ad, no voice that I remember.

It was a cool, funky, dance-able tune. But it didn't have that foreign string instrument sound that this track you suggested has...

I have a good friend who remembers exactly which ad, but she can't remember the music either
Hopefully someone will remember!

I know it was probably several years ago... Apple doesn't have any info about it on their website either.

 

[ledzepgrl]

Hmmm, was it "Take California" by the Propellerheads??

 

[bostonoski]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks so very much and for anyone reading,
here's the link to get the sample on amazon:
amazon album link

[hope that works, i'm a total newbie, never posted alink before...]

 

[ledzepgrl]

you're welcome!

 

[michelle]

Wow, that ad sounds really bizarre! And, I really don't remember it at all. Are you located in the US or somewhere else? Anyway, glad you figured it out.

 

[lucabazooka]

Hey u guys i figured out
what the song is the from the very first ipod commercial,
its "Take California" by the Propellerheads
its a real good song

 

[ad-rock]

Looks like somebody else figured it out too
http://adtunes.com/forums/index.php?showto...take+california