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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 – Part Time Lover

    My Stevie Wonder fanaticism started as a very young child. I can remember my dad playing songs off Hotter Than July and Original Musiquarium Vol. 1 on his record player. I remember that when it was my birthday, he played Happy Birthday. Years later I would learn that the song was created for Martin Luther King Jr. and it was Stevie’s way of saying that his birthday needed to be a National holiday. But it wasn’t until Part Time Lover did I start to seek out and find Stevie. I would listen on the radio and wait for this song to play and record it on my baby boom box. LL would’ve been so proud. I didn’t even know what the song was about. All I knew was that Stevie was cool, with the beads hanging from strands of his hair.

    • We are undercover passion on the run.
    • Chasing love, up against the sun.
    • Why would dude check out that skinny girl’s butt?
    • Is that Grace Jones with a wig?
    • Look at Steve in that hat.
    • I guess two can play the game.
    • I think Luther Vandross helps Stevie by singing back up here.
    • This version of the music video cuts off the beginning where the couple is watching an old movie and the phone rings, but neither answers. Foreshadowing~!
    • But the best part of the beginning is that dude is wearing moccasins with no socks.
    • This video was directed by Bill Parker. I bet he wrapped it up by saying, “Wham!”

    I think that song is something like 22 years old. And Stevie’s still making music today. If you asked me which album I would take on an island with me, it’d probably be one of Stevie’s (Songs In The Key Of Life?), and alongside MJ, he’s one of my two favorite artists of all time.