Something for Thursday (Thanksgiving edition)

Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this morning is one of our very rare forays into commercial television each year. We have become such infrequent viewers of commercial television that it’s always something of a shock to us to have to endure all the advertising. We’re always like, “We just watched four minutes of teevee! Now we have to sit through another six minutes of commercials?!”

I have to admit that I have mixed feelings about the common practice of using old songs on commercials. On the one hand, it does at times feel a bit…dirty. But on the other hand, there are a lot of songs I actually end up hearing because they get used in a commercial here or there. (Well, maybe not a lot, since we rarely watch commercials, but the number isn’t non-zero either.) This is one such song: a duet of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, called “Girl From the North Country”. If I’ve heard this before, I don’t remember it…but I heard it a bunch this morning on an ad that was repeated quite a bit during the Macy’s Parade. (What was it advertising? I’ve no idea!)