Duct tape ballad pays off
FOND DU LAC, Wisconsin (AP) -- A love song about duct tape may never crack the pop charts, but it did make a Waukesha band $2,500 richer.
The ska band Something to Do's jingle "When I'm Stuck I Turn to Duck Tape" beat out 154 other entries in Duck brand duct tape's Rock About the Roll contest.
"When we first heard it, everyone in the office was humming it and singing it afterward," said Michelle Heffner, contest administrator for Henkel Consumer Adhesives, Duck brand duct tape's parent company.
Band member Nate Tredinnick said the band wanted to spend the $2,500 on beer and ice cream, but will invest it instead in making CDs and promotional shirts.
Ska is a Jamaican form of music started in the 1950s. Something to Do plays a combination of horn-driven rock and ska.
Duck tape has the right to use the band's song in advertising and other promotions.
The winning lyrics include: "I never had much luck with nails. So, I turn to Duck tape. Staples always seem to fail. So, I turn to Duck tape. Wood glue can't help but go stale. So, I turn to Duck tape."
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