Tom Dawes

LIMITED EDITION COKE BOTTLE CLEAR VINYL

First album to compile the glorious jingles of Tom Dawes, both his released jingles and concept commercials!

Elusive, it's both a great adjective to describe the uber rare 1968 promo-only EP that contained "7-Up The Uncola" by Tom Dawes and his band The Cykle, it's also the name of the perfume that this master tunesmiths penned a jingle for Avon cosmetics. Those tracks, rare as they are, are two of the few Tom Dawes jingles that made the jump from the television to our turntables... until now!

Elusive: The Tom Dawes Jingle Workshop collects more than 50 jingles penned by the Cyrkle frontman both on his own and in partnership with his wife Ginny Redington as their TwinStar Music. Not all of the cuts made their way to our television sets, some were more concept jingles like his G.I. Joe number — "Kids, get the new G.I. Joe by Mattel, ask your mother, Kids, get the new G.I. Joe, it's sure swell. Kills the others. And with your G.I. Joe, you will always blow all the other soldiers to smithereens! And another little trick, you can see the sticky napalm victims that really scream, Isn't it keen! Kid's get a nuclear bomb by Mattel, ...be the only family in your neighborhood."

There are also products that you'd be shocked to know really existed, such as Life Savers Soda, "the soda with the hole in the middle." Largely sequenced by Tom himself as a demo reel, this album plays like some lost pop-psychJINGLES masterpiece concept album as one tune largely flows into the next and one less of a compilation but more of a unified experience.

The album features new art by Samy Khanchouche, and liner notes by both Tom's friend Andrew Sandoval and Gary Stockdale across the jacket and the insert.

Side A
1. 7-UP: "The Uncola"
2. Windex: "Bring All The Sun In"
3. Yvonne (Experimental)
4. Warner-Lambert: "Lasting Beauty Make-Up Finish"
5. Wohl Shoe: "Fanfare"
6. Scripto Pens: "Girl Graffiti"
7. Clairol: "Born Blonde"
8. Interlude
9. Yardley: "Oh! De London"
10. Wohl Shoe: "Monsters"
11. Electronic (Experimental)
12. Thom Mcan: No Exit
13. Alka Seltzer: "Fumbles"
14. G.I. Joe (Experimental)
15. Sailplanes (Experimental)
16. Avon: "Bird of Paradise"
17. Bayer: "Good Old Summertime"
18. Snooze You Lose (Experimental)
19. Chevrolet: "I Drive My Camaro"
20. TWA
21. Enkasheer: "Pantyhose"
22. Enkasheer: "Beautiful Lady"
23. Royal Crown Cola: "Los Angeles California"
24. Calgon
25. Stridex: "You Can Change Things"
26. Murine: "Clear Eyes"
27. Hartford Insurance
28. Yardley: "You Know I Love You"
29. Life Savers Soda
30. Peter Paul: "Almond Joy"
31. Wild Irish Rose: "The Big One"
32. Clairol

Side B
1. Avon: "Elusive" (Complete)
2. Burlington (Version One)
3. Sterling Salt: "Colored Salt"
4. Gone, Gone, Gone (Experimental)
5. Purina
6. TWA: "Vignettes" + "Whole New Way To Fly"
7. Timex
8. Ford: "Make Yourself A Maverick"
9. Sears
10. Sucrets
11. City Kitty (Experimental)
12. Burlington (Version Two)
13. Shalimar
14. Western Electric: "Runaway" + "Things We Make"
15. Two Cubic Feet + Kent: Tag (Experimental)
16. Lady Sunbeam: "More Like You"
17. Zestables
18. Royal Crown Cola - "With A Twist"
19. Stridex: "You Can Change Things - Funky"
20. Stridex: "You Can Change Things - Rock"
21. Western Electric: "Hello"
22. Island Synthesizer (Experimental)
23. L'Eggs Are Here
24. Way Out West (Experimental)