"See The USA In Your Chevrolet" is a commercial jingle from c. 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday[1] and Leon Carr[2] of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). The jingle was written for the Chevrolet Division of General Motors.[3]
The song was the Chevrolet jingle sung on the show Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet by Chevrolet's real-life husband-wife duo, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy.[3] It became associated with Dinah Shore through Chevrolet's decade-long sponsorship of her television shows. Shore sang the song after 1952,[3] and it became a signature song of hers. Later the song was also sung by Pat Boone on his Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom (ABC) from 1957 through 1960.
In the mid-1960s, Chevrolet was one of the sponsors for the Los Angeles Dodgers' radio coverage. When the Dodgers broadcast games on television, Chevrolet commercials were aired in which the song was sung by John Roseboro and Don Drysdale of the Dodgers.[4] Upon seeing the commercials, Dodgers' announcer Jerry Doggett joked that Roseboro's and Drysdale's singing career "was destined to go absolutely nowhere."[This quote needs a citation]
- ^ Leo Corday. IMDb.
- ^ Leon Carr. IMDb.
- ^ a b c "Inside U. S. A. (with Chevrolet)". The Media Management Group. 2003. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
- ^ "On this day... The Dinah Shore Chevy Show premieres". April 20, 2011.
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...)