Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (11/27/90)
Really-From: James Marshall <james@TWG.COM> I was watching the tube last night (something else worthless, I'm sure), and a commercial came on for a runaway hotline number. It shows a young girl huddled in a wet alley at night, and slowly zooms in. And as best as I could tell, Kate was singing the plea "Don't give up", although not actually the song "Don't give up". I swear that voice, those intonations are so familiar to me... and it wouldn't exactly be out of character for Kate to do such a commercial. Has anyone else heard it? Do you think it's her? Or am I just hallucinating familiarity again? -James james@twg.com
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (11/28/90)
Really-From: pekowsky-larne@CS.YALE.EDU (larne pekowsky) In article <8347@gollum.twg.com> Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU writes: >Really-From: James Marshall <james@TWG.COM> > > >I was watching the tube last night (something else worthless, I'm sure), >and a commercial came on for a runaway hotline number. It shows a young >girl huddled in a wet alley at night, and slowly zooms in. And as best as >I could tell, Kate was singing the plea "Don't give up", although not >actually the song "Don't give up". > >I swear that voice, those intonations are so familiar to me... and it wouldn't >exactly be out of character for Kate to do such a commercial. Has anyone >else heard it? Do you think it's her? Or am I just hallucinating familiarity >again? > >-James >james@twg.com I remember seeing this sometime last year. I don't usually pay much attention to commercials, but on hearing this my head snapped up so fast it almost flew off my shoulders. Anyway, I would bet anything that it was indeed Kate, although as I recall it sounded very much like just an exerpt from "Don't give up." While I'm sure Kate would have had to give her consent to this being used (possibly Peter Gabriel would too) I don't think anything new was recorded for the commercial. - Larne Pekowsky