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When a commercial reprises an old hit song, people who knew the original may be pleased to recognize the reference. Or, alternatively, they may say to themselves, “Heaven help me, am I really so elderly that I remember that ancient thing?” This spot for the Bridgestone company’s Firestone tires (via The Richards Group) will likely evoke a mixture of those emotions as its “Ballad of a Baseball Coach” brings to mind Jimmy Dean’s 1961 hit, “Big Bad John.”
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