Here's a pretty random video for you all to enjoy - "Hang up the Phone" by Annie Golden. A lot of you may be thinking, "Hang up the what by whootie who?" because the song was never a huge hit. Still, in my pre-MTV, Night Tracks-lovin' days, I recall seeing this vid quite a bit. At the time, I thought Annie was kind of a Cyndi Lauper knock-off, but I still thought the song was really catchy. As it turns out, Annie starred in the film version of Hair and, in the late '70s, fronted a punk band called The Shirts. So, who knows...maybe Cyndi was emulating her??
I'll be interested to know how many of you remember this one...
I'll be interested to know how many of you remember this one...
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What kept running through my head watching that, though, was "Gawd, if I had to go back to being tied to the wall while talking on the phone...!" Not to mention how impressed we would have been with cellphones back in 1981. Holy shit.
Fun vid!!
~Jef
Night Tracks was awesome. I remember an episode that was all wierd old drug movies, including Reefer Madness and an insane old movie with "Coke Ennyday: Scientific Detective," a guy who who got super powers by snorting coke out of this huge hatbox full of cocaine.
Oh my god. Of course it's on youtube. Wait until you see who's in the credits. Unbelievable.
They also had a running bit that was a really, really funny parody of the Power Rangers. They bought the rights to some obscure Japanese live action Power Rangers knock-off, and dubbed their own dialogue over it. My favorite piece of dialog went like this:
Dr. Ho: "Long, long ago..."
Orphans: "Before Madonna?"
Dr. Ho: "Before ZZ Top."
Whenever someone talks about something happening a long time ago, I have to stifle the urge to ask "Before Madonna?"