Music used in New Zealand Television Commercials: W

A selective list of music used in television adverts. If you know of other songs or pieces of music that have been used in New Zealand commercials, please tell us and we will add them to the list.

This list is arranged by the name of the product being advertised:

Warehouse, The

Feeling Good by Nina Simone, sung by Tami Neilson (November 2009)

Watties

Drive thru: Place to be by Goodshirt (September 2004)

Watties Big Eats:

Montagues and Capulets (Dance of the Knights) from the ballet Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev (November 2007)

Watties tomato sauce

Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 (November 2007)

Weetbix

Happy together by the Turtles (June 2004)

Weetbix Tryathlon

See Me Go sung by Claire Holmes (cover of the Screaming Meemees hit) (March 2008)

WeightWatchers

(This is a) Song for the Lonely by Cher (original version) (January 2006)

Wellington NZ

Wellington - Spoil Your Self: the music was developed specifically for this advert, by a company called Liquid. (April 2009)

Written and performed for Positively Wellington Tourism by Wellington composer Rhian Sheehan and Module (August 2005)

Whitcoulls

The quirky tones of the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra highlight the pieces of magic that can be found every day, with their unique renditions of Israelites (Desmond Dekker), Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town (Kenny Rogers), Sophie (Good Shirt) and Feliz Navidad. See Scoop story September 2008

WestpacTrust

(2005) Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi (January 2006)

Romance (larghetto), from the Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor by Frédéric Chopin

Wipeout

Marche funbre d'une Marionette by Charles Gounod