Artists' Music Videos (Alive from Off Center season 1, episode 8) - The Talking Heads (performers) (1985) (no video link)
Subject
Performance art
Satire
Talking Heads (musical group)
URL
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Description
Content description from The Arts on Television, 1976-1990: Fifteen Years of Cultural Programming:
Dancing Man by Mitchell Kriegman features Bill Irwin and the disco song Shake your Groove Thing. The Women's Group, by David Cunningham of the Flying Lizards, is an ironic interpretation of the song And Then He Kissed Me. Lake Placid 80, by Nam June Paik, is a look at the 1980 Winter Olympics set to Mitch Ryder's Devil With a Blue Dress-Good Golly Miss Molly. In Record Players by Christian Marclay, 20 “human record players” scratch, hit, shake, slap, wobble, rattle and break phonograph records. Act III, by John Sanborn, is an abstract tale told through computer graphics and video imagery, with music by Philip Glass. The program concludes with an early version of Once in a Lifetime by David Byrne and the Talking Heads.
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The Super Bowl Shuffle (music video) - Chicago Bears (performers) (1985) (no video link)
Subject
Popular music
Description
Content description from IMDB (https://www.worldcat.org/title/super-bowl-shuffle/oclc/56722261):
In 1985, the Chicago Bears were headed for the Super Bowl for the first time in more than 20 years. Riding high on the success of the season, members of the Bears recorded 'The Super Bowl Shuffle' which soon became a celebrated anthem for Bears fans.
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TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Dave Thompson (director)
Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew (performers)
Richard E. Meyer, William D. Neal, James J. Hurley III, and Barbara Supeter (executive producers)
Paul Simon performs Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (from the album Graceland) (1987)
Subject
Music videos
URL
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Description
Content description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_on_the_Soles_of_Her_Shoes) :
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the fourth single from his seventh studio album, Graceland (1986), released on Warner Bros. Records. The song features guest vocals from the South African male choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" was written when Simon went to South Africa. While he was there, he gathered various music from locals. Upon returning to New York, Simon finished the album with the artists he brought back from South Africa. According to Simon's account in the Classic Albums documentary on the making of Graceland, with all the album's musicians with him in New York, he performed the song live on Saturday Night Live on May 10, 1986. During the performance, Simon sang live to the backing instrumental track featured on the album while Ladysmith Black Mombazo mimed their parts. Ladysmith Black Mambazo sing in Zulu on this track. Their refrain roughly translates to: "It's not usual but in our days we see those things happen. They are women, they can take care of themselves." Simon recalled that Diamonds wasn't originally planned for inclusion on Graceland. After the Saturday Night Live show, his label, Warner Bros., decided to release the album in the fall instead of the original planned release that July. Simon and engineer Roy Halee then decided to include it on the album.
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Vanz Kant Danz (music video) - John Fogerty (performer) (1985)
Subject
Clay animation films
Music videos
URL
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Description
Content description from ElectricBayou (https://sites.google.com/site/theelectricbayou/songs/zanz-vanz-kant-danz):
"Zanz (Vanz) Kant Danz" is the closing track of the original Centerfield album, the third solo LP of John Fogerty who was incognito for eight and a half years before the comeback in mid 80's. Like all the songs on the LP, "Zanz (Vanz) Kant Danz" was recorded at The Plant Studios in Sausalito, California, and engineered by Jeffrey Norman and Mark Slagle. The album went #1 in the USA.
Fogerty wrote the phrase in the chorus of the song in the aftermath of the Hoodoo album (1976). Elektra/Asylum head Joe Smith had called Fogerty after rejecting the album. The artist was telling him about his troubles with his former label, and Smith mentioned how the Kinks had written a song about some guy who screwed them, and they got it out of their system that way. As Fogerty went to hang up the phone, the words "Zanz Kant Danz" popped into his head. He ran to his studio and wrote it down (John Fogerty, Fortunate Son, 2015).
Musically, "Kant Danz" stands out of the rest of the material on Centerfield. It has quasi-reggae beat and almost one-minute-long instrumental break dominated by electronic drums.
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Let's Dance (music video) - David Bowie (performer) (1983)
Subject
Popular music
Popular culture
URL
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Description
Official music video for "Let's Dance" by David Bowie.
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