{"id":28633,"date":"2024-02-01T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-band-classic-the-weight-featured-in-budweisers-super-bowl-clydesdale-ad\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T21:02:30","slug":"the-band-classic-the-weight-featured-in-budweisers-super-bowl-clydesdale-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-band-classic-the-weight-featured-in-budweisers-super-bowl-clydesdale-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Band classic \u201cThe Weight\u201d featured in Budweiser\u2019s Super Bowl Clydesdale ad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Band<\/strong>\u2019s classic tune \u201cThe Weight\u201d\u00a0is\u00a0featured in Budweiser\u2019s Clydesdale ad, set to\u00a0run during Super Bowl 58, which airs\u00a0February\u00a011 on CBS.<\/p>\n

The clip<\/a>, called “Old School Delivery,”\u00a0is set around a snowstorm that closes all the major highways, with a stuck trucker using the Clydesdales to help him deliver his kegs of Bud to their destination: a bar running low on the brew. It ends with the tagline \u201cdelivering since 1876.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The Weight” is one of the most well-known songs by The Band, which consisted of\u00a0Robbie Robertson<\/strong>, who wrote the tune,\u00a0<\/strong>Levon Helm<\/strong>,\u00a0Rick Danko<\/strong>,\u00a0Garth Hudson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Richard Manuel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Although it only hit #63 on the\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u00a0charts,\u00a0“The Weight”\u00a0went on to be ranked #41 on\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s list of the 500\u00a0Greatest Songs of All Time. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame also named it one of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.<\/p>\n