Coca-Cola Jingle -- by Tim Finn -- for THE COCA-COLA KID
Scene from the 1985 film THE COCA-COLA KID, starring Eric Roberts and Greta Scacchi. This scene focuses on the recording of a Coca-Cola jingle with an “Australian sound.“ The scene is supposedly set in a Sydney, Australia sound studio and Eric Roberts plays a sharp and successful American Coca-Cola marketing executive.
Lead musician “Philip“ played by Tim Finn (of Split Enz and Crowded House), who also wrote and composed the jingle specifically for this film.
The following are also listed as performers on this song: Neil Finn, Nigel Griggs, Ricky Fataar, Paul Hester
NOTE: Full-version jingle begins at 02:18
Lyrics as follows:
Don’t want to go
Where there’s no Coca-Cola
You’ve got
Life by the throat
When you’re drinking Coke
Choke back the tears
When there’s no Coca-Cola
You’ve got
Life by the throat
When you’re drinking Coke
Under the hot sun
When the day is done
And you’re dying of thirst
There’s only one drink
It’s universal
Don’t want to go
Where there’s no Coca-Cola
You’ve got
Life by the throat
When you’re drinking Coke
Choke back the tears
When there’s no Coca-Cola
You’ve got
Life by the throat
When you’re drinking Coke
Life by the throat
When you’re drinking Coke
Life by the throat
When you’re drinking Coke
Keeps you up ’cause
There’s nothing like Coke