Forgotten Classic Video of the Week

This week's vid is the 1986 hit "Let's Go All the Way," by Sly Fox. You would think its status as a "hit" would disqualify it from being a "forgotten" classic," but I recently got into an argument with someone at a bar who thought I was making this song up when I tried to prove its existence. So, maybe a lot of people just tried really hard to forget it. Sorry to jar you all back into reality. While the world might be a better place if the song didn't exist, it does. Proof:



I apologize for not having more smart-ass tidbits about this vid. I'm a bit stressed. I'm moving on Saturday and have a total of zero items packed. I need a drink...or 20.

Comments

Tootsie said…
OMG I have always loved that song...the white dude in the orange jump suit reminds me of Damone from Fast Times At Ridgemont High.
7/16/2008 6:16 PM
Scott said…
whoa... this is one of my favorite 80s songs. But I just saw the video for the first time a couple of months ago, and I was shocked.

I always had the idea in my head that they were a dark, gothy band, kinda like Love & Rockets. Seeing this video almost made my head explode. The video is so awful I'm ashamed I ever liked the song.
7/16/2008 6:33 PM
Jon said…
Wow. Those effects aren't very special.
7/16/2008 6:47 PM
Malcolm said…
I can't believe that someone was arguing with you about this song's existence. It's not like the song barely scraped the bottom of the charts... it was a top 10 hit! I will say that I liked the earlier song from which "Let's Go All the Way" borrowed its groove... 1985's "A Fly Girl" by The Boogie Boys.
7/16/2008 11:36 PM
gennifer6 said…
I LOVED this song, still do, and the "Fly Girl" track Malcolm mentioned. Learned to dance to all that and been dancing to that beat ever since...
thanks for the memnories
7/17/2008 12:12 AM
Anonymous said…
Holy freshman year of high school...this song used to get played every morning for about two years when I was a kid. Unfortunately I still remember most of it.
7/17/2008 6:14 AM
Barbara Bruederlin said…
I would love to have seen you trying to prove this song's existence in a bar. Did you do the dance moves too?

Good luck with the move, yo! Save the drinks for after.
7/17/2008 10:26 AM
Falwless said…
I'll forgive you. For now. Keep slackin' and I'm likely to take you off my blogroll.
7/17/2008 11:06 AM
SkylersDad said…
By the way, good luck with the move. Have you hired a couple of good looking, big strapping mouth breathers to help?
7/17/2008 1:12 PM
Dr Zibbs said…
Imagine the pride these dopes had when this was done.
7/17/2008 3:12 PM
Gifted Typist said…
You have to have these things in your head in order to find them and post them. That head of yours is a fascinating place.

Good luck with the move
7/17/2008 4:39 PM
Anonymous said…
Hey good luck with the move. You're not really packing up and going on the American Idol tour are you?
7/17/2008 8:26 PM
paperback reader said…
I don't remember this song at all, which probably means it was wildly popular.

Good luck moving. Hopefully, you're as poor as I am, so it will take ten minutes, tops.
7/17/2008 9:43 PM
Moxie said…
I had the 45 of this song and it's probably still in storage in my parents' basement. I think it was #2 on my Beach Music Mix Tape as well...for some reason it always seemed like a summer song to me, that it needed to be blasted on the car stereo while driving through Ocean City, MD on a Saturday night. Good times!
7/17/2008 10:34 PM
mellowlee said…
Oh I totally remember this song! The video, I dont remember at all, which is strange...

I hope your move went ok Beckeye. If I lived there, I would've totally helped you out! I'm one of those freaky people who actually enjoy packing stuff up into boxes...speshly when it's not my own stuff!
7/19/2008 2:24 PM
LoraLoo said…
Meh, this song isn't bad at all. The video? Major cheese. LOL
7/21/2008 6:05 PM
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