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if they participated, knowing that doing so would disqualify the New Directions from competing in any contests. Although the song was used in a dream sequence that involved a big budget production number, the group (in reality) declined Sue's bribe upon
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Later, the theme song would be "reinterpreted" by baseball greats Johnny Roseboro and Don Drysdale who recorded commercials aired during televised LA Dodgers games. (FYI, reviews -- not so good...)
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Over the years, this song has also been customized by local Chevrolet dealerships, incorporating the dealer name, brands and/or area they service. One example can be found in
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adapted the song into "See Ellis Brooks Today for Your Chevrolet". The radio and television advertisement became iconic throughout the
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through Chevrolet's decade-long sponsorship of her television shows. Shore sang the song after 1952, and it became a
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Dinah Shore singing "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet" in a television advertisement for the 1959
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joked that Roseboro's and Drysdale's singing career "was destined to go absolutely nowhere."
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enticing the glee club to do a commercial in which they would receive a
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of the Dodgers. Upon seeing the commercials, Dodgers' announcer
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did a cross-promotion with Chevrolet which involved
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Chevrolet Impala
Leon Carr
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Chevrolet Division
General Motors
Chevrolet
jingle
Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet
Peter Lind Hayes
Mary Healy
Dinah Shore
signature song
Pat Boone
ABC
Chevrolet
Los Angeles Dodgers
John Roseboro
Don Drysdale
Jerry Doggett
Honolulu, Hawaii
Ellis Brooks Auto Center
San Francisco, California
San Francisco Bay Area
Fox
Super Bowl XLV
Glee
Sue Sylvester
Chevrolet Cruze
Rachel Berry

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