(because exclamation points make all the difference)
Today we are taking a step into the WayBack machine and going way, way back to that ancient period almost three decades ago!
The year is 1979!
Nickelodeon launches, Jimmy Carter is president, the Ayatollah returns to Iran, Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister, Morning Edition begins on NPR and the Soviets invade Afghanistan.
There isn’t even an MTV!
However, the nascent beginnings of the music video revolution are beginning to take root and early music videos are being broadcast. This week’s video is one of them!
This actually was a favorite of mine at the time and I still have the single (in the jacket pictured below)!
The single was bolstered by a promotional video that was well received in its day; the clip featured Scott as a DJ singing into a microphone from behind an exaggerated turntable setup, at times flanked by two women who sang and danced in a robotic manner. One of the sight gags in the video depicted a rather plain-looking woman actually recording the backup vocals, which are then mimed by the female models, something that seems to foreshadow a number of incidents that occurred much later in the music industry with groups such as Milli Vanilli, C&C Music Factory, and Black Box.
