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iPhone Fitness Ad Features 1960s 'Chicken Fat' Song
A new Apple TV ad promoting the physical fitness uses of the iPhone uses the "Chicken Fat" song that was the anthem of gym classes everywhere in the early 1960s.
Here & Now's Robin Young explains the history of the song, which was President John F. Kennedy's theme for his youth fitness program.
This segment aired on June 24, 2014.