The Speedies - HP Commercial

The Speedies
Let Me Take Your Photo

One of the companies that have really stepped up to the plate with cool music in their commercials is Hewlett Packard. Even without the addition of interesting music, their commercials would still be really cool… featuring Michel Gondry-like shots of photos or video being moved around and becoming one with parts of the actual commercial shot. It is pretty hypnotizing to watch.

I still am trying to figure out this one commercial of theirs that has music that sort of sounds like the Apples In Stereo (no it’s not the Kinks track). But I finally DID figure out a newer commercial that features a woman repeatedly being dressed up in various clothes and handed a photo which becomes the backdrop for the next shot. The song in question is a pretty fast sounding punk song with these snare drum rolls that really move it along.

The music is by The Speedies who recorded the song “Let Me Take Your Photo” (from what I’ve read, the title sometimes has ‘photo’ spelled as ‘foto’) in 1979 and put out an EP by the same name on Golden Disc. The group was made up of Eric Pop, Greg Zap (surely these aren’t their real names?!) Allen Zane, John Carlucci, and John Marino.

I don’t know much else about the band, except that they had another album called You Need Pop which also contains a remix of Let me Take Your Photo that is labeled 2005 so this must be a re-release…

by Tyranosaur