Does it ring in your head from the olden times?
It sure does in mine:
‘‘If I could be like Mike.’’
There it is. Happy, yearning, cheerful, dreaming.
It’s the chorus to the Gatorade commercial from 1992, the one featuring a sprightly Michael Jordan that was so huge a phenomenon that the sound track itself became a musical hit.
And it was all done in Chicago.
It was filmed in Lincoln Park, Cabrini-Green, Highland Park, North Avenue Beach, the Ida Wells gym on Chicago Avenue, and edited here. All the music was created, played, sung, and edited by the Shafer-Antellis music agency in town, with lyrics and oversight by Bernie Pitzel, the creative director at now-defunct Bayer Bess Vanderwarker ad agency.