Ba Ding Bing MATEY
October 18th, 2003 @ 08:03Posted by: Deirdre
You forgot the “Matey”, Whipple! You can’t forget the “Matey”! It’s “Ba Ding Bing, MATEY!”.
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Posted by: Deirdre
Here’s a “Ba DING Bing” hint.
October 18th, 2003 @ 07:19Posted by: John
All you transplants get a ride on this one but I know the natives will remember. At least the baby bada boomers.
Rockettone
October 18th, 2003 @ 07:13Posted by: John
What a gorgeous, rich looking place that Electrosonic Amp site is. Anyone interested in graphics for the web needs to take a look. Whoever did that knows how to manage color and depth of field.
Boom Boom and the Ba Da Bings would have to play the Boom Boom Room. And offer protection to make sure that the coffee table legs don’t get broken off wise guy’s Rockettone amps.
If Elroy Jetson played the guitar…
October 18th, 2003 @ 00:17Posted by: Kim
…his amp would surely look like this:
Electrosonic Amplifiers — Custom Built Tube Guitar Amplifiers
Thanks, Glenn, for sending me the link. I especially love the feet!!!
Stop this brain, I’m leaving…
October 18th, 2003 @ 00:05Posted by: Kim
Well, this is a totally unrelated post, and I guess meme’s can be that way. For a second, I misread the quote in John’s last post as “ba da bing.” I realized my mistake pretty quick (when I read the part about it being a San Antonio-specific expression), but too late, my brain was on a tangent about badda bing, badda boom.
Anyway, here’s more than you ever wanted to know about the origin that expression:
from word-detective.com: Recently popularized by the HBO “Sopranos” series (the mob-owned strip club in the show is called The Badda Bing), “badda boom, badda bing” seems to have entered the popular vocabulary in the early 1970s, possibly via one of the “Godfather” movies. Often heard in the order “badda bing, badda boom” (who’s to say what’s correct in such matters?), the phrase is a way of saying, “That’s it, it’s all taken care of” (as in “We set the Judge up with a hooker, Louie busts in with a camera, and badda bing, badda boom, case dismissed”). The exact origin of “badda boom, badda bing” is a mystery, but the best guess I’ve heard is that it started as a verbal imitation of a “rim shot,” the drummer’s punctuation to a comic’s punchline in the old vaudeville routines.
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Here’s a quote from the Godfater part 1:
SONNY: What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot’em a mile away? You’ve gotta get up close like this and bada-bing! you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.
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I’m going to add this to my list of potential future band names: Boom Boom and the Badda Bings – we’ll do nothing but Sinatra covers.
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Not to self: no more blogging after midnight. No good can come of it.
I’ll tell you what a classic local meme is……
October 17th, 2003 @ 22:52Posted by: John
…..it’s “Ba Ding Bing”
It means something to those who know it. It was injected into San Antonio culture and has been kept alive stricky by word of mouth ever since.
Who remembers where that’s from?
That bad man, that ole Brad Green
October 17th, 2003 @ 22:18Posted by: John
Sorry, I’ve been on a Stagger Lee binge this week. If anyone wants to know about that song, ask me because I’ve been studyin’ up. One of the most important rock and roll songs ever.
I wonder how many ad agency people were fired after that study? They can go right into the music business.
I knew we’d get onto something down this memetics trail. Kim, Deirdre – come up with an interrogative slogan that becomes a meme that sells the new Glenn featuring Kim CD. Of course, I will be in jail and can’t help because I’m going to kill Brad by, I think, Tuesday if he hasn’t made the corrections to the mix. It was at the top of my list to call Glenn today to help shift into high gear. It’s just that, like so many days, I got a whole new other list handed to me on a platter.
So that Jimmie could go count butterflies, I bailed out of escorting Elida to El Paso where she’s doing Wal-Mart instores and singing at a pro boxing match as a part of this Gallo endorsement. As luck would have it, there’s problems with her plane and it had to divert from Houston to Austin. She’s terrified of flying to begin with. What a nightmare. I bailed out of the trip to Phoenix the week before so we could go to the coast. Managing it from a distance is much more nerve wracking than doing it in person.
RE: jail, we just spent a bundle flying in arrangers doing a Ram Herrera CD based around a Jay Perez duet. Jay is, as my luck would have it, the Tejano artist we’ve all been reading about in the newspapers this week. He’s also loosely related to us because he’s the on again/off again singer for another of our bands, The Latin Breed. But he’s not signed to the label. For just the reason that’s come to light here. I knew to stay back, I just hope it was far enough.
Jay won’t be doing any Quinceaneras anytime soon. Did I write that out loud?
Oh, and…
October 17th, 2003 @ 19:41Posted by: Kim
…it’s two, two, two mints in one was Certs. But I couldn’t remember either, had to look it up.
When memes go bad…
October 17th, 2003 @ 19:39Posted by: Kim
Here’s an excerpt from a recent study about slogan recognizability (or rather lack thereof). Click the link for the full article. If I were the marketing genius who came up with these slogans…I’d probably shoot myself.
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Can’t even get the slogans right . . .
Associated Press – Fri, Oct. 03, 2003
New York – Quick: which company has the slogan ‘The power of dreams?’
If you don’t know, you’re not alone. A survey released this week found that most Americans can’t match even the most prominent advertising slogans with their corporate owners.
On a list of tag lines for 22 of the nation’s most heavily marketed brands, only six were recognized by more than 10 percent of those surveyed, while another six were identified by 1 percent or less, according to the survey by Emergence Inc., a brand consultancy based in Richmond, Va.
The relatively new slogans for Circuit City Stores Inc. – ‘We’re with you’ – and Staples Inc. – ‘That was easy’ – failed to register with a single one of the 1,021 people asked in the July survey.
The only slogan recognized by at least half of the survey’s respondents was Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s ‘Always low prices. Always,’ which was identified properly by 64 percent.
The slogan works because “they really are the lowest price,” O’Keefe said. “This is how the company lives and everyone at the company believes it. It’s really authentic to who they are.”
In contrast, Honda Motor Co.’s “The power of dreams,” which was recognized by less than 1 percent of those surveyed, says little about its brand, he said.
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This story reminds me of a great bit I saw on (I think) Leno a few Super Bowls back, where he asked people on the street which half time commercials were their favorites. Everyone had a favorite ad, but none of them (well, at leat the ones they showed on the air) could remember the products they were advertising. The best was the Mountain Dew cheetah ad, where a kid on a mountain bike chases a cheetah through the desert, wrestles him to the ground, pulls a can out Mountain Dew out of his gullet, and says “Bad kitty.” When asked what the ad was for, the host got a variety of wrong answers, the best of which was “diapers.”
Seems like “Got Milk?” is probably the most popular slogan since “Where’s the Beef?” Hmm. They’re both interrogatives. Am I on to something here?
Two, two, two mints in one!
October 17th, 2003 @ 17:57Posted by: Deirdre
That’s meme as well – and it’s what I thought in response to “Tell me how “Got Milk?” is meme.” It is meme AND it is a catchy ad slogan. I can’t even remember what “Two, two, two mints in one!” advertised but I use that phrase all the time. “Got Milk?” is still pretty current so most people probably know the source and yet they probably do not think of the ad when they co-opt the “Got ____ ?” for another purpose.
I already got a couple of emails….
October 16th, 2003 @ 22:23Posted by: John
I didn’t post the Shriky thing because I agreed with it. I posted it because I thought it was controversial. I guess I was right. 
I’ve been paying pretty close attention for thirty years so I know it’s still just as hard to record good music today as it ever was. And digital distribution might be easy… but distribution where anybody makes any money is still somewhere between showing up on stores shelves and selling out of your trunk. And I think it’s very easy to find good music. It’s everywhere. It’s just incredibly hard to find the music every A&R guy is looking for that sells itself and spreads like Ice 9.
Shirky: The Music Business and the Big Flip
October 16th, 2003 @ 21:40Posted by: John
Shirky: The Music Business and the Big Flip
“Digital changes in music have given us amateur production and distribution, but left intact professional control of fame. It used to be hard to record music, but no longer. It used to be hard to reproduce and distribute music, but no longer. It is still hard to find and publicize good new music.”
