You Know, Some Days I Kinda Miss MTV. (I Keed, I Keed!!!)

Yipes -- it's the late Dan Hartman's ragingly beautiful "I Can Dream About You," as lip-synched and danced by The Sorels, a/k/a the greatest fake Motown group ever, in the 1984 film Streets of Fire.

My god, that's fantastic.

Seriously, I was not a big fan of the whole 80s video music explosion thing, but after I encountered the above clip for the first time on the network, I started watching MTV obsessively in hopes of seeing it again; it's just absolutely thrilling on a zillion levels.

I hadn't thought about it in ages, but I stumbled on it on YouTube by accident the other day and was pleased to find I still freaking loved it. So I thought I'd share.

Incidentally, the song itself has a rather complicated provenance; as you may know, that's NOT Hartman singing in the clip, although it is his voice on the version on the soundtrack album. It's actually a pretty sordid music biz story, and you can read about it over HERE.

I should add that if you look closely, you'll notice that one of the backup guys in the Sorels is the wonderful actor and standup comic Robert Townsend, of Hollywood Shuffle fame.

I should also add that, considered objectively, Streets of Fire itself is pretty cheesy -- rock-and-roll fable my aunt Fanny. But I don't care; it was worth making for that clip alone.