Our good friend Sal Nunziato, propriertor of the invaluable Burning Wood blog put a link to the audio of that up of as one of his Songs of the Week yesterday, and I must confess I still haven't quite recovered. I hadn't thought about that clip in what feels like half a lifetime (hey wait -- it actually is!) but watching it again after all those years I was just as blown away as I was when the thing was damn near ubiquitous on MTV. I mean, the song is terrific, but the video is in a whole other dimension; I don't know who choreographed it, but it's like the greatest Temptations or Four Tops performance they never gave -- I can't watch the damn thing without simultaneously a) getting goose bumps and b) nearly jumping out of my seat and attempting to dance (pretty dangerous at my age, obviously).
In any case, one of the most unjustly overlooked/underrated artifacts of its era and, in case you were wondering, the tall skinny backup singer to the right of the other two is the fabulous actor and comedian Robert Townsend (and where has he been lately?).
Thanks, Sal!!!
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