Uploaded by crashsite000 on Nov 6, 2006
In the early 1980s not everyone had cable TV. In Los Angeles a sort of new wave American Bandstand was the alternative to cable's MTV. It was called MV3.
This syndicated music video show featured (1) the latest music videos as a backdrop to (2) local dancers and (3) lip synched performances by artists such as X, The Plimsouls, Lords Of The New Church, Oingo Boingo, Berlin, The Bangles, Missing Persons, English Beat, Thomas Dolby, Psychedelic Furs, Adam Ant etc.; artists that were currently being played on KROQ (Los Angeles).
Three hosts included then KROQ DJ, Richard Blade, "comedian?" David Maples, and "actress?" Karen Scott.
Trivia: Blade and some of the regular dancers also appeared in an episode of "Square Pegs". Bret Easton Ellis mentions MV3 in his book "Less Than Zero".
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Does anyone know how to get a hold of Debora Iyall? I am an aspiring screenwriter and I would love to tell her story through her own words. She has a fascinating story and I want to tell it from the beginning- 1979 and what she read on her fortune cookie.
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Incredible voice. If you want to have a good laugh, listen to the shite remake by Vandalism.
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@jste77 no shit
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nowadays, most of those white kids would be hispanic, dancing to regional mexicana music
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@FrostytheSnowman2009 So when did you fuck them ?
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@FrostytheSnowman2009 - Holy crap-That's the funniest freakin' quote I've ever read! You sure did have some good times, didn't 'ya!
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"All y'all white people got that one little dance move" (starts moving hips, moving arms, snapping fingers)
---Eddie Murphy from "Raw"
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I totally forgot about this show. I use to watch it every afternoon after school. :)
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Crashsite said it right, not all kids had parents with money for cable (MTV). This was so much fun to watch especially in 82-83. Forty year something who loves playing Vice City just to listen to an eighties soundtrack.
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THis was a great time to be in high school then!
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JIMI4REAL 4 years ago 12
I remember flying on a lot of acid and alcohol back around 84 as I left a party, blacking out as I walked down the sidewalk, and coming too in front of this chick's door I had been to once a year before from high school and knocking on it. Her name did end in Cummings. She let me in but was putting on makeup in the bathroom to go meet her girlfriend (apparently she had become a dyke) and this song was playing. So I barfed all over her other bathroom and left without saying goodbye. The 80's!
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