The Girl on the Billboard

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There is a song that is getting a lot of airtime on our local country music radio station. "The Girl on the Billboard" was originally done by Del Reeves in in 1965 and redone this year by the Roadhammers. It isn't that great a song but what gets me is these lyrics:
Oh, I love the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway
And I guess I'm gettin' bolder 'cause I'd rather kiss and hold her
Than just keep lookin' at her every day
A bit more:
You'll find tiny pieces of my heart scattered every which a-way
Shattered by the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway
The Girl on the Billboard was the advertisement for Coppertone Tanning Lotion and from the Wikipedia entry we learn that:
Coppertone is the brand name for a suntan lotion, owned by Schering-Plough HealthCare Products Inc.

It dates to 1944, when pharmacist Benjamin Green invented a lotion to darken tans. The company became famous the following year when it introduced the Coppertone girl, an advertising symbol showing a young girl in pig-tails, with a small, black, Cocker Spaniel puppy yanking on the back of her swimsuit bottoms, exposing her buttocks, showing the difference between her tanned body and her bare white backside. Accompanying the ads was the impish slogan, "Don't be a paleface!" (during that time, people thought exposure to the sun was healthy.)

Modern Coppertone girl icon The original artist, Joyce Ballantyne Brand, created this iconic image using her daughter Cheri as model. Later, Jodie Foster made her acting debut as the Coppertone girl in a television commercial, when she was 3 years old.
The fact that the Girl on the Billboard is three years old makes this song a little bit creepy to me... How about you?
Coppertone_girl.jpg
Didn't know the Roadhammers were into paedophilia...

2 Comments

it's not about the coppertone girl-child fer crissakes....first of all, she isn't smiling, secondly she doesn't have a towel.... just a funny, innocent song, with interesting meter and phrasing, about a girl on a billboard in a towel, smiling....

very interesting, but I don't agree with you
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