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Tag: The Cover Girls

  • Friday Throwback – Show Me

    During the late 80s, the freestyle movement was in full effect. Have we ever written about Stevie B on this site? Hmm, if not, we need to do so immediately. Anyway, part of that movement was a group of three young women who called themselves “The Cover Girls”. Angel Clivilles (yep, she married the C&C Music Factory dude), Caroline Jackson, and Sunshine Wright were the originals, but since then, it’s been like a revolving door of females who have joined the group. They might still be around in some form or another as today, freestyle concerts are the new oldies concerts. Though my favorite song was We Can’t Go Wrong, (that video is kind of boring) I’ll show Show Me, which was the title of their first album, and actually charted in the top 5 on the dance charts.

    – Look at that hair.

    – I wonder if J. Lo stole some early fashion trends from The Cover Girls. In fact, if someone told me that J.Lo was one of The Cover Girls, I would believe it.

    – Two of the girls are wearing stretch pants. Nice.

    – The woman in the middle is Angel who isn’t a part of the group anymore, but calls herself “The Original CoverGirl”. (That’s the way she spells Cover Girl.)

    – I’m still unsure as to what the point of this video is.

    – Not biker shorts, but biker skirts?

    There’s your trip back to 21 years ago for the day.

  • Friday Throwback – Gentle

    Who remembers Dino? If the YouTube community is any measuring stick, not too many. But I do. Dino’s Summergirls was a jam in the late 80s and I even bought his second album Swingin’ in 1990, which featured lead single Romeo. Unfortunately, I can’t find videos for either Summergirls or Romeo, so Gentle will do. I also found 24/7, but that video is terrible.

    I went to a New Kids On The Block concert (I think it was the Hangin’ Tough tour) with my sister, her best friend, and her mom many years ago and while I wasn’t much of a New Kids fan back then, I was interested in seeing the two opening acts. Dino and The Cover Girls opened that night and I seem to remember more about their performances than I do the New Kids’, though I do remember some of the silly dance routines. Interestingly enough, according to Wikipedia, Dino married one of The Cover Girls.

    – What is up with that hair?

    – This is a total early 90s video – shot in black and white, silly romantic scenes, and the band playing on stairs.

    – Was that Randy Jackson on bass? I’m kidding on that one. I think.

    – And Kid from Kid ‘n Play on the horn? Ok, I’m really kidding on that one.

    – Why is the dude on the drums singing background?

    – I don’t ever want to stop loving you girl, so don’t you ever stop, being my world.

    Ah, the greatness of cheesy late 80s, early 90s music. It takes me back.