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  • Friday Throwback – The Power Of Love

    There haven’t been many better soundtrack songs than this one. And actually, you can probably say that this song helped sell Back To The Future. Who doesn’t remember this song and relate it to THAT movie? Great marketing, the perfect pairing between artist and film, and Huey Lewis & The News at their peak. Can you feel it? That’s the power of love.

    • Huey has some bushy eyebrows.
    • Nope that wasn’t a stereo. It’s what it is.
    • Love can make one man weep and another man sing.
    • Remember that you don’t need no credit card to ride on this train.
    • Was Michael J. Fox too big time to be in this video?

    I’m almost certain that when I saw the group in concert a couple years ago, Huey was doing the same double fist pumps. Just remember the words because they are to live by. It’s strong and it’s sudden, and it’s cruel sometimes, but it might just save your life.

  • Friday Throwback – Just A Friend

    I think I was in either the 7th or 8th grade and everyone was singing out of tune. And it sounded like they were doing it purposefully. It went a little something like this.

    Oh baby you, you got what I need

    And then they’d stop and laugh. This my friends, was the day Biz Markie became a household name. Well, at least for a year or so. Markie has never been as much in the public eye since, but as someone whose real skill is DJ’ing and beat boxing, having a hit single that people remember until this day, is a pretty good side job.

    • I didn’t even remember the “Yo mama!” jokes at the beginning of the video.
    • The painkillers one was pretty funny.
    • The girl wanted to make poor Biz wait a year?
    • I’ve always loved how he not only loses his breath, but nearly screws up one line, and yet, it’s still in the finished copy of this song.
    • Let’s not even pretend we aren’t playing the piano Biz.
    • Agatha was kind of fugly.
    • Why is blah blah blah in a bathing suit at the park?
    • Who is that? Oh, he’s just a friend. Those might be the most cutting words in history.
    • The He-Man club?
    • On snap! Biz ended the video by pop lockin’.

    Where is the Biz these days? Eh, he’s still around. Just remember, nobody beats him.

  • Friday Throwback – Iesha

    Since I’ve posted throwbacks of New Edition, Boyz II Men, and Bell Biv Devoe, I figured I should just finish out the East Coast Family, by posting a throwback from Another Bad Creation. Another Bad Creation was a kid rap group put together by Michael Bivins and they were only on the music scene for a short time. They did try to do more than one album, but if you mention Another Bad Creation (ABC for those in the know), fans remember two songs. Here’s one of them.

    • Check out the one dude with the Kid high top fade.
    • Not sure about a bunch of kids doing BBD dance choreography with the pelvic thrusts.
    • I wonder who could dance better between ABC and Boyz II Men? If I had to bet, it’d be on ABC.
    • Iesha is the girl that I never had, but I want to get to know her better.
    • You just knew Biv was going to be up in this one.
    • Were ABC really mental?
    • Why is Iesha like a head taller than all of those little dudes?
    • Chris, Mark, Red, Dave, Ro doesn’t flow off the tongue like Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike.
    • Nice little Dallas Austin cameo there. Where was Chili?

    I wonder what those cats look like nowadays. If you think about it, the littlest dude is probably in his mid twenties, and there rest of those cats are climbing up on thirty. And I wonder if they still holler at Iesha.