Back to the 80s: Flashback Videos - Ric Ocasek & Chaka Khan - Kickin' it Old School
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Back to the 80s: Flashback Videos - Ric Ocasek & Chaka Khan - Kickin' it Old School
One dude's point of view on popular culture with special attention paid to the great decade of the 80s |
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posted by: pretensions (reply) post date: 03.24.09 (5:23 pm) Hey, remember Chaka Khan very well. The radios over here played it ad nauseum but I quite liked it. OS, I've finally got to the point that I just enter the song names in Youtube to get a video that I can watch - at least that works! posted by: PastorDave (reply) post date: 03.24.09 (8:58 pm) Strange looking - more often than not, seems to be a necessity with being a celebrity. Mick Jagger? Julia Roberts? Certainly unusual to behold, but apparently the public as a whole thinks these people are attractive. Conversely, really good looking guys like you and me hardly even get noticed. Hard to believe. posted by: Marissa (reply) post date: 03.24.09 (10:39 pm) Heheheh. I thought the same about Ric Ocasek - death warmed over. Paulina was probably the original SuperModel. I heard she spoke several languages and has a high IQ. Ric certainly scored! I can't believe he's 60. and that the Cars came out 30 yrs ago. posted by: bawdy (reply) post date: 03.24.09 (11:42 pm) I never was a fan of Chaka Khan but love the music of The Cars, and Ocasek's wife! posted by: coldtones (reply) post date: 03.27.09 (5:52 pm) So cool, I have a friend from college.. we called him 80's Erik... He would love this. posted by: Dirty Sanchez (reply) post date: 03.28.09 (1:14 am) Ric Ocasek has a large unit...that has to be it. When you see a mis-matched pair (one hot, one not) is has to be money or the puff'n stuff in the pants. |
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who turned 60 today (March 23, 2009). He is best known as the former lead singer of The Cars who were very popular in the late 70s into the early 80s. The band is probably best known for the 1984 album Heartbeat City which included five singles which reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. This album includes "Drive" which is included on 
always struck me as a strange looking dude, but he ended up marrying super-model Paulina Porizkova back in 1989 and the couple is still together. Ocasek released a solo album in 1986 which included a song "Emotion in Motion" which ended up getting all the way to #15 on the Billboard Hot 100. So in celebration of his birthday one of this week's Flashback Videos is "Emotion in Motion" by Ric Ocasek...
who turned 56 today (March 23, 2009). She began her career back in the 70s first with the band Rufus releasing such great songs as "Tell Me Something Good" in 1974 (when she was just 21 years old) and then later with one of my personal favorites "Ain't Nobody" in 1983. She also has had a very successful solo career including the very popular "I'm Every Woman" from 1978 which was featured on Oprah and covered by Whitney Houston. The song from the 80s where I was really introduced to Chaka Khan was "I Feel For You."
was actually written and originally recorded by Prince. It is one of the many songs he has given to other artists which turned out to be hit singles. Chaka Khan released her version in 1984 on an album titled the same. The song had a little bit of a hip hop feel to it with the repetition of Khan's name by rapper Melle Mel at the beginning of the song (which incidentally was a mistake that the producer wisely decided to leave in) and some rap lyrics by Melle Mel during the song itself. That is what caught my attention back then and drew me to the song. Her version of the song became a million-selling smash in the U.S. (peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100) and it helped to relaunch Khan's career. And in celebration of her birthday another one of this week's Flashback Videos is "I Feel For You" by Chaka Khan...
