Back in college I lived next door to Suzy Bogguss for one summer. I remember her playing at the local Subway, and all of us were just astonished when she became a big star.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who played a tamborine at her party.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who's embarrassed by Toby Keith.
Not that long ago I posted an MV Babe entry for Nancy Wilson. This time Sister Ann gets the treatment. If I had to pick between them (not a likely event), even though in the 70's Ann was one of the hottest "babes" of rock, I favor(ed) Nancy's looks. However, Ann has one of the best voices in rock and sang lead for Heart: one of my favorite groups.
I could pick any number of Heart videos, since Ann will grace them all, but I like their earliest work best. I used "Dreamboat Annie" for Sister Nancy. I could use "Magic Man," "Barracuda," "Little Queen" or others for Ann, and Nancy will decorate those videos too. However, for the best balance of video quality, performance and song, I like this cut of "Crazy On You."
Since Ann singing lead got a good portion of Nancy's video, turnabout is fair play. Nancy gives a great guitar solo intro to Ann's superlative voice on this classic -
Happy Birthday Ann Wilson.
Find out more about Ann and Nancy Wilson, Heart and their other projects at Heart Music.
Posted by Tom Ender, who has always enjoyed the sort of craziness mentioned in this song.
Re-posted by Tom Novak, because we lost the You Tube embed on this one just when he needed to listen to the Wilson sisters ... real bad, right now!
Re-reposted by Tom Novak, because he can ...
Posted my Bob Wallace, who believes instruments are for bashing.
Posted by Wally Conger, who doesn't own a single Avril Lavigne CD...but she shur iz purty!
Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, this is one of my favorite movies.
When I was 13 I had a $50 minibike that I once fell off of and got three stiches in my knee. I no longer have my BMS, but still have the scar.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who is a Bad Motor Skooter hisself.
Marlene smoked on film often, so I imagine Wally would rate her as a smokin' babe. However, I focus on music and video here.
She starred in one of my favorite old films. I'm not thinking of The Blue Angel but Golden Earrings (I guess my fascination with gypsies shows up again). I don't remember any singing in that movie, so we'll go with perhaps her most famous song.
Happy Birthday Marlene, where ever you are !
Posted by Tom Ender, who offers a different example of Marlene singing at Memory, Making, Meaning.
For energy and perseverance, I can't think of Tina Turner's equal. YouTube has many videos of Tina, but I like this one for this tribute --
I waited a bit too long to get this in on Tina's birthday, which was Nov. 26th, but Happy Belated Birthday Tina!!!
Posted by Tom Ender, who has another tribute to Tina at Memory, Making, Meaning
Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, it's not what you think it is.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, who does this guy think he is -- Tom Cruise?
Posted by Bob Wallace, who could never listen to this as a kid.
I know some women, who as little girls, made up a skit in which they sang along with this song.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, no wonder I never hear this song on the radio.
This is me watching the Who at the Mississippi River Festival when I was 14 years old. I'm right under that black arrow on the right side. Posted by Bob Wallace, who remembers it like it was yesterday, even though it was 1972.
About a year ago, while gathering information for my "Great Individuals" feature of Ender's Review, I noticed that Olivia Newton-John had her birthday. For the last few years I have not used living people for "Great Individuals", instead honoring those who have passed to the next realm of existence, whatever that might be.
After coming upon Olivia's birthday, I scanned YouTube and watched a bunch of her old videos. It got me wondering and a few weeks later I posted my first Music Video Babe entry here which focused on Olivia. The particular YouTube video I picked "is no longer available," but one can usually find her classic "mirrors and rug video" in one or more postings there with a YouTube search.
I didn't make that first MV Babe entry on Olivia's birthday as I have tried to do for subsequent music video babes, so I'm revisiting Olivia today on her birthday with a special video I found, made from multiple performances of one of her earlier hits. I really like the video as it shows her passage through thirty years.
and may you have many more.
Posted by Tom Ender, who got Olivia's music Video Gold volume one on DVD for Christmas last year. Maybe this year volume two.
Chrissie fronts for The Pretenders. Besides singing, she also writes music and plays the guitar.
In the "golden era" of MTV, during the 1980s, her group had some hugely popular video hits. I like "Back on the Chain Gang" but my favorite by her and that band has to be "Brass in Pocket."
In the music video Chrissie plays a waitress, who, at least wearing that uniform, bears an uncanny resemblance to my first wife: Jean. Jean was a few years younger than Chrissie and I doubt they had much other than "a look" in common.
However, that look and the flirtatious nature of Chrissie's character in this video seem to me remarkably similar to Jean in her younger days when we met, married and tried raising a family. Back then, before I went back to college, Jean waited tables and I worked as a short-order cook, more than 5 years before "Brass In Pocket" became popular.
Jean and I had very little interaction over the last 25 years, since we divorced. She succumbed to cancer last month. As far as I know Chrissie prospers.
Anyway, here's that video --
Happy Birthday Chrissie Hynde.
Posted by Tom Ender, who may have conquered his weakness for waitresses. At least, I tell Julie that.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who has lots of girls treat him like a lollipop.
Long before Destiny's Child or The Spice Girls, even before The Bangles, came The Go-Gos . . . .
Belinda Carlisle sang lead for The Go-Gos before pursuing a solo career.
Embedded below find my favorite GoGos tune.
Happy Birthday Belinda Carlisle.
Posted by Tom Ender, who remembers riding in enormous "boats" like the car in that video.
Like a few other well known artists Kim Carnes was once a New Christy Minstrel. However, I wasn't really aware of her singing until 1980 when she sang "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer" (Lois and Clark fans might especially like the preceding video) in a duet with Kenny Rogers (another onetime New Christy Minstrel).
1981 proved the true breakthrough year for her singing career. Her album Mistaken Identity provided hits which also became music videos. The video for "Draw of the Cards," the second single released from the album, qualifies as truly surreal in its style. It even has a creepy clown or two for Wally. However, the first track became the biggest hit of 1981 --
Only Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" ranked as a bigger hit during the entire decade of the 1980s.
Posted by Tom Ender, who enjoys Kim's very distinctive voice, but it looks like I was a few minutes late for her birthday.
Wow, gorgeous Joi Lansing is a TRIPLE threat TSC babe!
You know, I used to watch the amazing Joi Lansing on Love That Bob! which was the rerun version of The Bob Cummings Show... although that was when it was on Nik at Nite in the 1980's.
But I do remember her as a regular on The Beverly Hillbillies as Lester Scruggs' wife... or was she Earl Flatt's wife? Oh well, I guess it doesn't really matter. All she ever did was look slinky and go shopping - once I seem to remember that Granny tried to teach her to cook, but I don't think it worked.
Joi, a former Miss Hollywood and a Goldwyn Girl and a rival of Marlyn Monroe really was a pretty good actress and all around entertainer who was a very popular and successful blonde bombshell right at the time blonde bombshells dropped out of favor in movies. Suddenly she had to make a living modeling polka-dot bikinis ~ something she did exceptionally well, woof! She was part of the swanky world of Frank Sinatra in the 50's and worked steadily throughout the 60's as a television and stage performer and she became one of the most popular pin-ups of American soldiers in Viet Nam.
Here she is vamping it up and singing the Elmer Bernstein title song from The Silencers - which, coincidentally, happens to be one of our favorite movies starring the great Dean Martin (who costarred with Joi in at least two movies) as super spy Matt Helm. Although in the movie the song is sung by Cyd Charisse.
posted by Tom Novak, who says Joi is a space babe in Queen of Outer Space, a movie so bad it's good.
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