MV3 - Musical Youth - Pass The Duchie

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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• MV3
• 80s
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• Youth
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• 1980s
• television
• los
• angeles

[SouthOCmixdown]

Nothing better than coming home from school in 83-84 &my older sis having on MV3. My parents wud never spring for cable so, MV3 and Friday NIght Videos on NBC? were the closest we ever got. &we always had the Betamax VCR fired up&ready 2go. Somehow we knew we were saving something really worth archiving. And even watching those old tapes now in their grainy, untracked, warbly state, somehow brings back warmer memories that watching 100% crystal clear versions of them on retro dvds. Weird eh? :)

[crashsite000]

@SouthOCmixdown that would be great if your MV3 vids could be up on YouTube. Let us know if/when they do.

[RazzUK]

This is funking hilarious! 80's middle class white boys dancing to reggae FTW! XD

[Mockingbird5150]

white people really cannot dance.

[arvp7]

I remember Don Imus hosted VH1 and made what would now be considered a racist comment. He said he had to play this video to keep them from robbing grandmothers of their Social Security checks.

[almostfame86]

This was so special for me and you are right I didn't have cable and I would come home and turn on Channel 9 and watch MV3 and get introduced to groups like Wham UK, Adam Ant, Duran Duran and many others. And Yes! Friday Night Video on Channel 4 from 11:30 until 1:30 was my best friend until I got cable years later. Thanks for my memories!

[lasquid]

Get home from school, pour myself some milk and cereal, turn on the tv and watch this show. That was my routine growing up in L.A.

[lasquid]

Karen Scott was hot!

[SouthOCmixdown]

@crashsite000 Oh lord, I can sure try in the near future. Really wish wat is left of them was even of the grainiest quality of vids ive seen sofar. =[ I can definitely see theres a pretty thin selection of MV3 stuff out there. Unfortunate. &even more unfortunate that when me&sis used 2record all that stuff back then, bcuz of a inexplicable shortage of Beta tapes, we used 2just recycle the same tapes over&over, w/sloshy edit points in between. Now theyre the vid equivalent of a ransom note *sigh*

[chefpetey]

@RazzUK this is an absolute HOOT...Yeah Richard Blade came on channel 13, i think, right around the time kids got home from school. He was eventually a Hollywood Square! Talk about "having arrived!" Note how many of those white-folk were wearing one glove...LOL. In reality, a "Dutchie" was a full sized wooden shoe with a quarter-inch hole drilled in the toe. Shoe packed with weed and lit with a propane Bernz-o-matic and passed on to the left. Great Vid!

[frogslife1]

did she say jamican cooking pot?