Frank Zappa's old cough-drops commercial

You'd think advertising would be the last thing to come to mind after putting on a Frank Zappa album, but this old Luden's Cough Drop ad from the 1960s proves otherwise. Zappa supplied the soundtrack, which sounds like someone hyperventilating into a kazoo, and he apparently then got the animator to film 14 hours of footage for his direct-to-video movie Uncle Meat. I'm not sure who got the better end of that deal, because one might not exist.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

November 3, 2008 in Kiefaber, Vintage | Permalink