Five Star performing "Shine" on UCP telethon '92

Five Star performs "Shine" on the televised broadcast of the United Cerebral Palsy Assoc. (UCP) telethon in 1992. I captured this video from my own VHS-recorded copy of the broadcast from back in the day. :)

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[TronandFlynn82]

@enjoythevision true that! couldn't agree more. >;)

[2008topshelf]

@2008topshelf Sharice ("When you Smile") was a Janet Jackson show stopper and the industry didn't give her much talent to work with so she didn't glow with the mega wattage she could have. While Five Star were no Jackson's musical proxy - Michael being a musical X factor that had/has no pop equal - I'd bet the sycophants of the Jacksons - they being anyone who wanted anything to do with the Jacksons - would steer clear of Five Star lest risk any opportunity to cozy up to the Jacksons themselves

[2008topshelf]

@Calvin375 just saying they were at the forefront of BET's programming gluing impressionable teens and students to their tubes back in the day. Every other video was Alexander and Cherelle's "Innocent" video, Five Star and sampling from Solar Records artists of the time. But Five Star held it down visually. I still think though - to you point about songwriters etc. - that there was a conspiracy to isolate a lot of talent back then that had potential to take shine away from the Jackson family

[Calvin375]

@2008topshelf Ok, please forgive me, but I'm an American so what does "bulwark" mean? From what I understand, the Americam music industry didn't quite know how to market them. Which to me is very odd, because when they were all in their twenties they were trying to break in the R & B genre of music, which would've been easy for them at the time because the U.S. had several groups they were marketing. They just didn't take the time to help them find the right songwriters/arrangers/producer­s.

[2008topshelf]

You know. I feel exactly the same way. I watched them in my dorm room's lounge on BET. They were a bulwark on BET back then with the Alexander and Cherelle videos. I wonder if when they moved to L.A. in the late eighties/nineties if the industry there gave them the love and technical artistry/wizardry to help them along? Or whether there was some cultural jingoism - american inspired - going on that didn't allow for the best talents to have met up because I'm really liking them now +25 later.

[Calvin375]

@Picture111 Thanks for the clarification and you're right,... that was a highly energized dance! I guess that's how they kept their figures for so long. Anyone would be knackered after that workout!!! (LOL)!!!

[Picture111]

@Calvin375 LOL! It means that look worn out, tired, out of breath etc. Those dance moves were high energy!

[Calvin375]

@Picture111 OK I'm from America ...what does knackered mean... in plain english?!!!(LOL)!!!

[dadevi]

Holy whiteface Batman! XD

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

[Picture111]

The looked knackered at the end of that performance...lol