If Henry Ford is alive he might have a reason to give this a thumbs down, but the other negative votes baffle me. I did watch Dinah Shore from her TV audience several times. She was very nice and talented. I also once owned a 1953 Chevrolet convertible like the last car seen in this video. Beautiful car.
Who gave negative votes. I thought all the insurrectioness people from January 6th were in prison and lost their rights to vote..... Those type of ner' do wells own a Ford....
I love Dinah Shore. I bought my first (ever) new car last year, a 2011 Chevy Aveo. This commercial was shot over 50 years ago, and it's still effective advertising, it played a part in my decision to buy my new Chevy, which I couldn't be happier with.
"Those" were good times, I still have this song in the back of my mind and makes me smile thinking of the days when we could do just that without road rage and angry drivers.
I had this song on my answering machine for months. One of my favorite ads. After I bought an Olds, I sang "Oldsmobile" in the spots that said "Chevrolet".
I grew up hearing this song. Combining the central mythologies of the USA: Freedom, the open land, adventure, the automobile. Of course, the reality is that forced automobile dependency means people spend a lot more time stuck in suburban sprawl traffic than they do seeing the Rockies.
+Travis Clement YOU, sir, are the racialist, focused on color of skin, which is juvenile, immature, liberal, and oh so stupid...go back to your mom's basement, you creep! I LOVE THAT COMMERCIAL WITH DINAH SHORE, brought a tear to this 67-year old....wish I was a kid again!
America was the greatest country then and is even greater now, the only reason it doesn't feel that way is because the media found out that fear sells best, but don't worry in a few years some small minded fool will watch a SpaceX landing and think "When America still worked."
@ Jose Parcenary. Isn't that the whole point of the commercial? To sell that particular car? 🤔. Of course you could see the U.S.A. in any other car or, by following your "logic", even on horseback or by foot. The reason it works is because it's a catchy, happy, upbeat song which appeals to the customer's desire of adventure by seeing the whole country. It also appeals to patriotism, particularly coming out of WWII and in the midst the Cold War. It makes the customer feel good and proud of being an American and it associates the car a with it. That's why it was a hit and you're still watching it 70 years later (even if to just make a smart ass remark about it). 😌
This explains my childhood we had a Chevy and we went all over when we had a vacation so this commercial which I've always loved is my childhood family vacation.
We had a '59 Chevy, the one with the big gull wings on the back. My dad would get flying down the highway and the back end would actually lift up off the road from those wings!
2012 we bought an Chevy Aveo without knowing the ad. And now I like the ad even more ;) Nice Southkorean Car with an engine from Austria. Unfortunatly it will likely never cross the Atlantic...
American pie - drove my chevy to the levy... Mclean thinks of Chevy, mom .apple pie and an era that believed in America. Bought into the idea that America was the greatest. Then he goes on to use the metaphor for Do you believe in the Book of Love... '58 song from the Monotones. Represents faith in the 50s where America moved from faith & then believed music would save your soul. 10 years we've been on our own.... (Decade of the 60s).
Our dad always had a Chevy Impala. Usually white with turquoise interior. I just absolutely loved ❤️ the cars!!! So smooth & they were all excellently built. Dad would buy a bre Chevy, give the older model to mom. Always in perfect 🥰 condition!!!!
I was whistling 5 notes that repeat twice from the theme song of Jurassic Park, and my dad instantly remembered this song, and sang the words: See - the - U - S - A, from - your - Chev - ro - let
Well, I just purchased my first Chevy, a 2013 Cruze recently and since my last Chevy was the old Chevette back in the 1980s, I will hope to do exactly what the jingle says to do.
Actually, the Cruze is a Korean engineered car, as is the Sonic. Those cars are built in the U.S., but were engineered by GM Korea. General Motor's global plan pretty much follows this: midsized cars engineered in Europe, small cars in Korea, large cars in Australia, and trucks in America.
The Aveo was actually Daewoo-based. Earlier, the 1989-2001 Geo/Chevy Metro and Tracker, and the 1985-88 Chevy Sprint were Suzuki products, and the 1985-88 Chevy Nova/1989-2001 Geo/Chevy Prizm is a rebadged Toyota Corolla. The 1989-93 Geo Spectrum and Storm, and the 1975-81 Chevy LUV pickup were Isuzu products. Ford had the 1987-93 Festiva and the 1994-97 Aspire, which were made by Kia. Small US-built Chevys, such as the Vega, Chevette, Cavalier, Cobalt, Cruze, and Sonic, are all US-designed.
Sadly long gone are the days of catchy advertising jingles. All the whimsy has been replaced by "nutritional facts" and other types of charts in advertising campaigns. Not that there's anything wrong with nutritional facts, but some of the old-fashioned whimsical touches would do my heart good.
What is dynamic performer pounding her Fists in the air.. would you get caught driving this down the road today? It's got a frightful looking grill that would scare even Barnabas Collins
the 1960's around the time the union strikes were hitting the TV news just about every month. more money over an over more money they wanted demanded and got. Jobs fled, management found new labor pools and currency exchange rates to the customers favor. we can have jobs or bargains in this country not both. the "duty dollars" might need to be changed.
Times were a lot simpler then...now we have 50 zillion vehicles to chose from....my father had a 1953 Buick roadmaster...i am now 71 years old. Plus commercials were a lot more entertaining and there was free TV. Better shows 2...who cares about the Kardashians?
Life is good when you're behind the wheel of a Babbit Bounder CHEVROLET ! . I was lucky to have grown up in this era and still have 6 cylinder CHEVROLET shop truck . BOWTIE'S 'till I die ! . -Nate
@code3mmc Yes indeed it is. Go to Glenn Beck's the blaze where he explains the whole song today 2/9/12 theblaze com stories/do-you-know-the-full-story-behind-the-day-the-music-died-get-ready tube Won't let me give the link.
the enduring feminist song "i am woman hear me roar" by helen reddy was originally versed "i am woman dinah shore" but she thought it sounded a bit pithy..
" it played a part in my decision to buy my new Chevy" Scary that the older people get the more gullible they become. Like buying a Chevy has anything to do with the reality she was singing about. It's called NLP. It works VERY well on old people. Buy a Chevy, go back to the old America you remember as a youth. Be young again, feel safe in the familiar place you were most happy. And maybe, just maybe, get some of the stuff she was singing about. Pure BS.
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This is the America I loved and miss.
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1953, a great year!
I was in traffic today, behind a Chevy and this song popped into my head. Had to see if You Tube had this gem! Love it!!! ♥
Just a wonderful song performed by a great lady !!!!!
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If Henry Ford is alive he might have a reason to give this a thumbs down, but the other negative votes baffle me. I did watch Dinah Shore from her TV audience several times. She was very nice and talented. I also once owned a 1953 Chevrolet convertible like the last car seen in this video. Beautiful car.
This video is the USA I grew up in... not the depressing attitudes of junkies prevalent today !!!
Who gave negative votes. I thought all the insurrectioness people from January 6th were in prison and lost their rights to vote..... Those type of ner' do wells own a Ford....
Dinah was a very Lovely Person and a Lovely Lady.
Remember when "Buy American" meant you actually bought something made entirely in America and not overseas?
Imagine if they still made ads like this today
It would never be allowed, because today's young people 35 and under don't care about the past or how things used to be or should be !!!!!
No, now the only "sexy" woman we get to see are transsexual.
What a talent.....she's missed!!!
I love Dinah Shore. I bought my first (ever) new car last year, a 2011 Chevy Aveo. This commercial was shot over 50 years ago, and it's still effective advertising, it played a part in my decision to buy my new Chevy, which I couldn't be happier with.
What style! What a voice! What class!
Wish I grew up in this era when Americans were proud of their country still.
Dinah Shore was a fine amazing lady with talent,class,and beauty !!!!!
"Those" were good times, I still have this song in the back of my mind and makes me smile thinking of the days when we could do just that without road rage and angry drivers.
That commercial gives me such fond memories, and now I too drive a Chevy !
This is the best car jingle of all time nothing like it since !!!!!
I had this song on my answering machine for months. One of my favorite ads. After I bought an Olds, I sang "Oldsmobile" in the spots that said "Chevrolet".
Yes, oldsmobile. Had a couple of them, both Oldsmobile Cutlass cierra.
The song "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet is a commercial jingle from c. 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday (ASCAP) and Leon Carr (ASCAP)
I am at a Chevrolet dealer right now. I told the receptionist I am here to see the USA
'Drove my Chevy to the levee
but the levee was dry'
Whats a levee?
@@c.rodriguez4436 - A type of dam to hold a pond in... or ocean out... they failed in New Orleans a few years ago...
Burt Reynolds couldn't get enough of that! ..
I grew up hearing this song. Combining the central mythologies of the USA: Freedom, the open land, adventure, the automobile. Of course, the reality is that forced automobile dependency means people spend a lot more time stuck in suburban sprawl traffic than they do seeing the Rockies.
When commercials had class (and meaning)... :)
+Abbie Mattson Also when racism and sexism ran rampant
just saying
+Travis Clement YOU, sir, are the racialist, focused on color of skin, which is juvenile, immature, liberal, and oh so stupid...go back to your mom's basement, you creep!
I LOVE THAT COMMERCIAL WITH DINAH SHORE, brought a tear to this 67-year old....wish I was a kid again!
+Abbie Mattson When America still worked.
America was the greatest country then and is even greater now, the only reason it doesn't feel that way is because the media found out that fear sells best, but don't worry in a few years some small minded fool will watch a SpaceX landing and think "When America still worked."
@ Jose Parcenary. Isn't that the whole point of the commercial? To sell that particular car? 🤔. Of course you could see the U.S.A. in any other car or, by following your "logic", even on horseback or by foot. The reason it works is because it's a catchy, happy, upbeat song which appeals to the customer's desire of adventure by seeing the whole country. It also appeals to patriotism, particularly coming out of WWII and in the midst the Cold War. It makes the customer feel good and proud of being an American and it associates the car a with it. That's why it was a hit and you're still watching it 70 years later (even if to just make a smart ass remark about it). 😌
Besides the song, I also remember the "mmmmMMMWAH!!" :-)
This explains my childhood we had a Chevy and we went all over when we had a vacation so this commercial which I've always loved is my childhood family vacation.
A Broadway show tune in 90 seconds! 😀
Those were the days in your Chevrolet.
Thank you for posting this valuable educational video.
The movie Belle of the Yukon brought me here, to hear Dinah Shore sing the Chevy song 😆😆😆
My mom mom sings this everytime she leaves in her impala
And I love it
I don't even own a car but this song is so exhilarating it makes me want to run out there, buy an old Chevy and drive 100s of miles.
... Can I go with you ?
Dorothyellen w years later and the commercial still works😊
That’s when Detroit was really the “motor city”!!
Memory lane.
We had a '59 Chevy, the one with the big gull wings on the back. My dad would get flying down the highway and the back end would actually lift up off the road from those wings!
i had the bullivard ride
That's why they're called CLASSICSbecause they had CLASS!
2012 we bought an Chevy Aveo without knowing the ad. And now I like the ad even more ;) Nice Southkorean Car with an engine from Austria. Unfortunatly it will likely never cross the Atlantic...
American pie - drove my chevy to the levy... Mclean thinks of Chevy, mom .apple pie and an era that believed in America. Bought into the idea that America was the greatest. Then he goes on to use the metaphor for Do you believe in the Book of Love... '58 song from the Monotones. Represents faith in the 50s where America moved from faith & then believed music would save your soul. 10 years we've been on our own.... (Decade of the 60s).
don't forget 409
I miss my '53 chevy. It was deep purple with seat covers sewn from a camo parachute. It was very groovy. Ha. I bought it in 1970.
Deep Purple great band.
fabulous
That was pretty good. :D
i want to know how Toyita can legally be using this as their backdrop music in their 2022 commercials.
Our dad always had a Chevy Impala. Usually white with turquoise interior. I just absolutely loved ❤️ the cars!!! So smooth & they were all excellently built. Dad would buy a bre Chevy, give the older model to mom. Always in perfect 🥰 condition!!!!
I'll have to.
Canada won't let me in because I didn't take the TRJJ-Time Released Jonestown Jab.
"...life is completer..." There goes Madison Ave. goofing with the language again! LOL
comparative adjective: completer
Check out the words in These Boots are Made for Walking song...
Hot digity dang!!!!
And to quote Perry Como - "Hot Diggity Dog"
I was whistling 5 notes that repeat twice from the theme song of Jurassic Park, and my dad instantly remembered this song, and sang the words: See - the - U - S - A, from - your - Chev - ro - let
Same here, when I hear the Jurassic Park theme, I always sang that line on my head. Lol
This was over 60 years ago my friend about 1952-53.
Back when America was American.
Both me and my Dad were always Chevy men. Probably her fault.
She's such a good sport.
To add, the current Chevy Spark is also a Daewoo product.
Well, I just purchased my first Chevy, a 2013 Cruze recently and since my last Chevy was the old Chevette back in the 1980s, I will hope to do exactly what the jingle says to do.
I think the fist pumps really add to the drama.
Actually, the Cruze is a Korean engineered car, as is the Sonic. Those cars are built in the U.S., but were engineered by GM Korea. General Motor's global plan pretty much follows this: midsized cars engineered in Europe, small cars in Korea, large cars in Australia, and trucks in America.
Is the line from the Don McLean song "American Pie" where he talks about driving his Chevy to the levee a reference to this song by chance ?? ???
dang, dinah shore was hhhot.
The Aveo was actually Daewoo-based. Earlier, the 1989-2001 Geo/Chevy Metro and Tracker, and the 1985-88 Chevy Sprint were Suzuki products, and the 1985-88 Chevy Nova/1989-2001 Geo/Chevy Prizm is a rebadged Toyota Corolla. The 1989-93 Geo Spectrum and Storm, and the 1975-81 Chevy LUV pickup were Isuzu products. Ford had the 1987-93 Festiva and the 1994-97 Aspire, which were made by Kia. Small US-built Chevys, such as the Vega, Chevette, Cavalier, Cobalt, Cruze, and Sonic, are all US-designed.
Drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. The day the music died!
"American is the greatest land of them all"
Back in 1950 we thought so but now its not
I hope life in the USA will improve in 2021....I was born in 1949..my father had a 1953 Buick roadmaster.
i would pay money to smell the inside of a brand new 53 or 54 chevrolet best thing i ever smelled !
Thanks for the link.
Propaganda?! Back then I'm pretty sure America WAS "the greatest land of all".
See the U.S.S.R in your chevorlet lol. My Favorite song of all time.
BACK WHEN CHEVY WERE GREAT
That made me laugh :) badge-engineered Kias hahahhaa
Dean Winchester's favorite song...
Sadly long gone are the days of catchy advertising jingles. All the whimsy has been replaced by "nutritional facts" and other types of charts in advertising campaigns. Not that there's anything wrong with nutritional facts, but some of the old-fashioned whimsical touches would do my heart good.
Does anyone have the original 78 record & cover of See the USA in Your Chevrolet By Dinah Shore.
I don't believe it was ever released on record officially. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Bye bye Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
But the levee was dry.
A lot of American Pie analysts don't get that "Chevy to the levee" is a reference to this
@@lordswindon104 CORRECT
What is dynamic performer pounding her Fists in the air.. would you get caught driving this down the road today? It's got a frightful looking grill that would scare even Barnabas Collins
Burt Reynolds use to hit that. I don't know if it was in the back of Dinahs Chevy.
the 1960's around the time the union strikes were hitting the TV news just about every month. more money over an over more money they wanted demanded and got. Jobs fled, management found new labor pools and currency exchange rates to the customers favor. we can have jobs or bargains in this country not both. the "duty dollars" might need to be changed.
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Times were a lot simpler then...now we have 50 zillion vehicles to chose from....my father had a 1953 Buick roadmaster...i am now 71 years old. Plus commercials were a lot more entertaining and there was free TV. Better shows 2...who cares about the Kardashians?
Exactly - Kardasha whos?
Looks like a signal 30 type car.
Life is good when you're behind the wheel of a Babbit Bounder CHEVROLET ! .
I was lucky to have grown up in this era and still have 6 cylinder CHEVROLET shop truck .
BOWTIE'S 'till I die ! . -Nate
best capitalist mind washing - american propaganda making clip ever! and being a communist does not stop me from enjoying this clip one bit! yeah!
Many of the smaller "Chevys" are badge-engineered Kias. I'm very satisfied with my '66 Chevy Sport Sedan and have no interest in buying a newer one...
@code3mmc Yes indeed it is. Go to Glenn Beck's the blaze where he explains the whole song today 2/9/12 theblaze com stories/do-you-know-the-full-story-behind-the-day-the-music-died-get-ready tube Won't let me give the link.
If only Chevy made good cars
"Life is completer in a Chevy"? Ok...
Not enough.
I did make a date
i would tap that
One wonders how many centiKelvin of global warming will be paid for by the great-great-granchildren of the folks that made this commercial.
today's chevy is just plain dreadful....
hey dogs.......hot or not
the enduring feminist song "i am woman hear me roar" by helen reddy was originally versed "i am woman dinah shore" but she thought it sounded a bit pithy..
NO seatbelts NO safety glass, wonder that one could make it to the destination intact~
As in United States Socialist Republic? Good one.
" it played a part in my decision to buy my new Chevy"
Scary that the older people get the more gullible they become. Like buying a Chevy has anything to do with the reality she was singing about. It's called NLP. It works VERY well on old people. Buy a Chevy, go back to the old America you remember as a youth. Be young again, feel safe in the familiar place you were most happy. And maybe, just maybe, get some of the stuff she was singing about. Pure BS.
And what are your pronouns?
ironic channel name...