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Blue Alert From Anjani & Leonard Cohen Now On Prime Time TV - Commercials

Old Navy Blue Alert

Anchored to my walker, I have regrettably increased the time I spend watching TV or, more accurately, being in the same room with a TV playing. Today, in the midst of a rerun of “My Name Is Earl,” I found myself humming along to Blue Alert, did a double take, and realized that the source of the song was an Old Navy commercial .

Knowing that Leonard Cohen songs (Blue Alert is, of course, a song produced by the collaboration between Anjani Thomas and Leonard Cohen) have rarely appeared in advertisements, I began searching for details but have found little information, at least in my initial forays, beyond what I directly observed, i.e., a 30 second version of Blue Alert is part of the advertising program for Old Navy’s “New Denim” Jeans.

Singer Tentatively Identified As Madeleine Peyroux

At this point, I am, in fact, unable to obtain official confirmation of the identity of the singer performing Blue Alert on the commercial although my belief and the clear consensus of Heck of a Guy readers is that Madeleine Peyroux, who covers Blue Alert on her album, Half The Perfect World, provides the vocals on this ad.¹

Watch The Commercial

To view the commercial, got to http://www.oldnavy.com/ and, at this screen, click “Check Out Our TV Ad” (see area circled in yellow):

The Flirt

Note that the line from the song, “You’re such a flirt,” is sung simultaneously with the video sequence focused on Old Navy’s “Flirt” style of jeans.

Anjani and Anjani Thomas: An Aside On Names
Anjani and Anjani Thomas are, for the purposes of the Heck of a Guy blog, synonymous names, both of which refer to the exotically lovely, dulcet-voiced singer best known for her Blue Alert CD and her long-term relationship with Leonard Cohen. I include this clarification on posts about Anjani-Anjani Thomas in part for the purpose of what the folks at Wikipedia call disambiguation (i.e., to positively identify for the reader and remove any doubts the reader might have about which Anjani of all the possible Anjanis is being discussed) and in part to aid and abet the search engines. While a rose is, famously, a rose is a rose, a “tea rose,” for example, is not exactly the same as a “rose” - especially to a search engine. Searches that include “Anjani” as part of the search terms may not produce the same results as the same search terms other with “Anjani Thomas” substituted for “Anjani.” Should any other Anjani, say one who has not produced a CD called “Blue Alert” or one who has not been associated with Leonard Cohen for the decade, I promise to do my best to make that identification clear as well.

Footnotes

1. This sentence has been revised from the original post to clarify the distinction between who the singer is believed to be and any official confirmation of this identification. The sentence originally read “At this point, I am, in fact, unable to obtain confirmation of the identity of the singer performing Blue Alert on the commercial.” As of this date, 12 August 2007, I still have no official identification of the singer although, indeed, almost all readers who have emailed me or left comments name Ms. Peyroux, whom I also selected, as the most likely candidate.↩

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