Baby Food Commercials

[ResetTwo]

From mymusic.com's Notes section on Treasure:

"Standouts include the two opening tracks, "Ivo" and "Lorelei," both of which sound like very sexy baby food commercials, while the epic "Donimo" opens with choral-style vocals over sustained musical tones augmented by glittering chimes, exploding halfway through with a pounding drumbeat and Guthrie's crystalline, effects-laden guitar. "

[multymfoiled]

Well, "Ivo" in particular does make me go ga-ga, but the concept of it being used to market Gerber veggie cups seems a bit off.

[Lucibelle]

I once heard where they had a big problem marketing Gerber baby food in a particular third world country. (don't remember which one) Apparently, the problem was the picture of the Gerber baby on the label, since they used pictures to show what the product was, since most of the population could not read. :baby:

[multymfoiled]

Wasn't Jodi Foster the "gerber baby"? I know it was someone remotely well-known.

[Lucibelle]

No. It wasn't Jodi Foster. I don't remember the name of who it is, but I can tell you that it's not Jodi Foster. The woman is much older than Ms. Foster. I think you might be thinking of something else. This woman was never well known outside of being the Gerber baby.

[kookaburra]

The model for Gerber baby food was Ann Turner, the four-month-old daughter of a Connecticut cartoonist. The 78-year-old Ann Cook is now a retired teacher and author living in the Tampa area.

As a child, Jodie Foster appeared in several commercials including one for Coppertone suntan lotion. It may be that she was the model for the famous billboard of a young girl losing her bathing suit to a frisky puppy.

As an aside, Humphry Bogart was the infant model for Mellin's baby food in the early 1900's.

[mmmender]

:baby:

http://www.gerber.com/gerberbaby

http://www.gerber.com/content/usa/assets/pages/gerberbaby/images/img1.gif

"The name behind the face, however, has long been something of a mystery. People polled throughout the United States have guessed that the Gerber Baby grew up to be Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor and even Bob Dole. But Ann Turner Cook, mystery novelist and retired English teacher, knows the real answer. She was the subject of a simple charcoal sketch by Dorothy Hope Smith, an artist who specialized in drawing children.

In 1928, Gerber was seeking a baby face for the ad campaign introducing its newly developed baby food. Smith submitted her drawing amid elaborate oil paintings and said that she could finish the sketch if it was accepted. The Gerber execs were so taken with it that they claimed it as it was, and the Gerber Baby made her debut. The illustration soon became so popular that Gerber adopted it as its official trademark in 1931. Since then, the Gerber Baby has appeared on all Gerber packaging and in every Gerber advertisement, making her the world's best-known baby."

http://www.gerber.com/content/usa/assets/pages/gerberbaby/images/img2.gif

[mmmender]

gmta kook!

[kookaburra]

Originally posted by mmmender
gmta kook!

Is this a cryptogram?

[mmmender]

gmta = great minds think alike.

[kookaburra]

Why didn't you just say that?

[mmmender]

sorry, i thought it was a short form that most people were familiar with.

[kookaburra]

I'm slow.

[Lucibelle]

well, you are the black sheep ;)

[dynamine]

baa!

hey,kook...how ya been?
:)

[postlibyan]

Originally posted by Lucibelle
I once heard where they had a big problem marketing Gerber baby food in a particular third world country. (don't remember which one) Apparently, the problem was the picture of the Gerber baby on the label, since they used pictures to show what the product was, since most of the population could not read. :baby:

Luci --

i have actually heard this too -- although it was from amy college advisor, who did "something in Army Intelligence" in Vietnam. he told me the Viet Cong used the picture of the baby on the jar to try and convince villagers that American's ate babies. you open up a can with a picture of corn on it, you get corn. open up a can with a picture of carrots on it, you get carrots. open up a can with a picture of a baby on it you get a disgusting goo.... this was supposed to turn otherwise undecided villagers against the Americans.....

he very well might have been yanking my chain though. or maybe it was shellshock.

PJK