I’ve gotten about a hundred hits from people searching for the song in the Mercedes C-Coupe commercial. The song is Whoever You Are by Geggy Tah. I found it with Limewire, searching on either “Mercedes Commercial” or “Whoever you are”. That was then. Better places to find commercial music are Music from TV Commercials and AdCritic, although AdCritic isn’t as good as it used to be and doesn’t have a copy of this commercial on their site.

Here is my original posting. (it contains many of the same links in this one)

My usual M.O. for finding unknown music is to search Google and AltaVista for any lyrical phrase I can remember. Adding the word “lyric” to the search often improves results based on common words.

It’s been a long time since I haven’t been able to figure out (and hear) whatever song is stuck in my head. The web has drastically reduced time spent wondering about or trying to recall factual information. This is probably a good thing, written language is a means of extending our memories, computerized searches help perfect our ability to find the things we’ve written down.