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This one I know. I had to research it--it's "Picture Book" by The Kinks from The Village Green Preservation Project (1968).
When I got the title, I went right to Amoeba and bought it.
Oh and it's actually a commercial for HP (Hewlett Packard).
from AMG:
For over 35 years, "Picture Book" was one of the Kinks' most obscure songs, an album track from ^The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation ociety known only to cultist fans like the Young Fresh Fellows' Scott McCaughey, who once recorded an endearingly sloppy cover. Then, in 2004, a series of commercials for digital cameras and accessories cannily used Ray Davies' charming little nostalgic ditty in contrast to some impressive computer imaging tricks; the commercials were so popular that (much as had happened to Nick Drake five years before when "Pink Moon" was used in a brilliantly evocative car ad), "Picture Book" suddenly became one of the Kinks' best-known songs. It deserves the attention, since "Picture Book" takes the skewed nostalgia of its parent album and sets it to one of Davies' best tunes of the era. The sweet choirboy harmonies of the chorus perfectly balance lyrics about "Your mama and your papa and fat old Uncle Charlie out boozing with their friends," and the arrangement, featuring an uncharacteristically bottom-heavy mix that emphasizes Mick Avory's cleverly sloppy drums and a Pete Quaife bass run that doubles Davies' rhythm guitar part for the song's primary hook, is one of the rocking ones on the relatively sedate album.
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