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- BUSINESS, Page 60Business NotesADVERTISINGCoke Updates A . . . Classic
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- Ah, those were the days, nearly 20 years ago, when Coca-Cola
- gathered a group of young students and models on a hilltop near
- Rome to sing what would become the most memorable U.S. ad ditty
- of the era: "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect
- harmony/ I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company."
- The choristers got a flat $50 fee, while the commercial earned
- Coca-Cola thousands of approval letters and the effervescence
- of a song that sold more than 1 million copies.
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- So why not relive that moment? Coke tried, with results that
- will air for the first time on Jan. 28 during the Super Bowl
- broadcast. The new ad features 16 members of the old cast on
- the same hilltop, along with their children and dozens of other
- youngsters. There's one other twist to the revived classic:
- some cast members turned down the flat fee this time and opted
- for residuals.
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