Retro Commercials

Free as a bird – Beatles Anthology disc 1 (1995) (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey) Free As A Bird, It’s the next best thing to be Free as a bird. Home Home and dry Like a homing bird I fly, As a bird on wing Whatever happened to the life that we once knew Can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch That seemed to mean so much? It always made me feel so…. Free — as a bird, It’s the next best thing to be Free as a bird. Home Home and dry Like a homing bird I fly–as bird on wing Whatever happened to the life that we once knew It Always made me feel soooo Free Free as a bird It’s the next best thing to be Free as a bird Free as a bird Free as a bird

The 1stOfficial TV Spot for “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope”, titled “Only Hope”. Release Date: 25 May 1977 (USA) Part IV in a George Lucas epic, Star Wars: A New Hope opens with a rebel ship being boarded by the tyrannical Darth Vader. The plot then follows the life of a simple farmboy, Luke Skywalker, as he and his newly met allies (Han Solo, Chewbacca, Ben Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2) attempt to rescue a rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is culminated as the Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles make an attack on the Empires most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star. Written by P. Wong {pwong@nt.net} Distributor: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1977) (USA) (theatrical), Lucasfilm, Director: George Lucas Writer: George Lucas Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi [IMDB.COM]

Title track from 1974. Sweet keyboards and lots of funky grooves — one of the best of George Duke’s seminal albums for MPS — and a record that captures him at a key middle point in his growth! The sound here is tighter than the trippier records of before, but also never too smooth or commercial — still with plenty of cosmic influences in the funk, and a wealth of great keyboard work that rivals some of Herbie Hancock’s best from the same stretch. George sings a bit himself — in a warmly compressed mode that’s simply wonderful, and which further expands the grooves — and although much of the album’s instrumentation comes from the keyboards, the record also features guest appearances from Airto on percussion and Ndugu on drums — as well as a bit of guest vocals from Flora Purim.