This has nothing to do with the prominent actors in this particular commercial, but I was the keyboardist in the band performing on stage in the background. We were an actual band playing clubs around Los Angeles in the late 80's and searching for a record deal. The lead singer / songwriter / guitarist was a child actor who starred in TV commercials, shows ("Silver Spoons" / "Parker Lewis Can't Lose"), and films ("Just One of the Guys" / "Cujo") during the 80's. He's still acting today under another name. The drummer is a TV and film composer and we've been friends since grade school. The bass player is still a musician and songwriter as well as an actor and magician. We screen-tested for this commercial in L.A. twice in mid-December 1986, performing one of our original songs to get the part. This is actually the second Cherry 7UP commercial. The first (can't find online anywhere) showed the four members of the band performing on stage and ended with us walking away from the camera into a pink back-lit hall (a quick part of that shown in this commercial). It was supposed to air introducing the new product for the first time on New Year's eve, but Pepsi bought out the spot with a commercial featuring Michael J. Fox. Shorter versions subsequently aired on MTV for several months in 1987. We filmed that first commercial at a sound stage in New York in December 1986. It took 6 hours of rehearsing for the computer controlled light timing and then 6 hours of filming with full shot, hand, foot, and face close-ups of each band member during every part of the song. On another stage, a crew was filming all the slow-mo ice and soda splash shots. The second commercial (shown here) was filmed at Six Flags Magic Mountain north of Los Angeles in January 1987. This seems to be the long cut meant for theaters as noted in a previous post. We had to recreate every move, wardrobe element, instrumentation, etc. from the first commercial because they used parts to intercut into this one. We learned the song (take off of "Every Breath You Take" from the Police) note-for-note, word-for-word to look as if we were actually performing live. Pretty cool to see it again after all these years, so thanks to Jonathan for posting it! Wish he had the first one to post.
Hey you guys did amazing jobs and I like your performance! Thanks for sharing the precious informations too! I really would like to know about the main actor. There are many info about the girl but I can't find anything about the guy. He looks so familiar though! Do you happen to know who he is and what he is doing lately? Thanks!!!
man, if only the full version of this song came out, it would be awesome to listen to in the car or something, even if it's made to advertise a product such as cherry 7up.
The only sad part of this is that it's 16x9, when it was originally 4:3 (1.33) and so, similar to an old pan & scan movie, you're missing picture on the top and bottom from being stretched out. I wish people would just let nostalgia be and stop trying to improve what didn't need to be improved.
Shot on film transfered to video for sfx then outputed back to film for theatrical play...the short version...pretty damn stupid process and it looks Terrible
This gave me goosebumps then and now. It's so 80's in the best way. All of these original Cherry 7UP commercials were just the best. Smooth, cool, and innocent. It helped that the product was great too. Most commercials these days are crap. This is the kind of commercial that you go back looking for almost 40 years later. They can make or break a product and even a company, by turning your viewers on or off to the product. Case in point, most people like or love a Kit Kat bar. Sweet and simple. Sugar wafers with chocolate. I didn't eat one for like a decade or however long it was because, while their "give me a break" jingle was mildly annoying, what they did to it after, making that jingle with nothing but snaps and crunches annoyed me to no end. I bought one when I quit hearing it. Now imagine something like that, that irritates most people, and your stock is dropping. Then again, most people won't even stand for their principles and still support companies that crap all over their standards, principles, and beliefs. Meanwhile i I boycott just because their ad sucks. 🤷🏻♂️ 😂
This was also shown before these movies: Some Kind Of Wonderful Blind Date Making Mr. Right Beverly Hills Cop II The Untouchables The Witches Of Eastwick Roxanne Dragnet Harry And The Hendersons Predator Spaceballs Innerspace Full Metal Jacket RoboCop The Lost Boys Summer School Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds In Paradise Who’s That Girl Dirty Dancing Fatal Attraction
