Coca-Cola over your blouse?) The best selling artist of all time Elvis Presley, promoted Coca-Cola during his last tour of 1977. The Coca-Cola Company used Elvis' image to promote the product. For example, the company used a song performed by Presley, A Little Less Conversation, in a Japanese Coca-Cola commercial. Other artists that promoted Coca-Cola include David Bowie, George Michael, Elton John, and Whitney Houston, who appeared in the Diet Coke commercial, among many others. Not all musical references to Coca-Cola went well. A line in "Lola" by the Kinks was originally recorded as "You drink champagne and it tastes just
The Coca-Cola Company of its two main ingredients (coca leaves and kola nuts) and because it sounded like an alliteration. John Pemberton had taken a break and left Robinson to make, promote, as well as sell Coca-Cola on his own. He promoted the drink the best he could with the limited budget that he had and succeeded. In 1894, American businessman Asa Candler purchased the company from Pemberton's heirs with the intent to advertise and sell it as a beverage to regular consumers. Candler was one of the first businessmen to use merchandising in his advertising strategy. By 1895, Coca-Cola was being sold