Tom Dawes - Elusive: The Tom Dawes Jingle Workshop

Elusive: The Tom Dawes Jingle Workshop

Limited Edition Coke bottle clear vinyl 2LP

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

Complete with two sets of liner notes, sprawling from the reverse board jacket into the full-color insert

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 to 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's also the 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-sych 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 full color insert.

To the eyes, it's a compilation of jingles, to the ears it's a lost pop concept album from The Cyrkle. We invite you to discover that the lush pop songs of Tom Dawes didn't end when with the breakup of The Cyrkle, they just became more elusive.

 

 

 

 

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)

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