As the Dodgers play two exhibition games in China this weekend (and I know you'll join me for Dodger Talk on KABC at 1:30 in the morning) here is a 1986 music video that the then-Dodgers made that probably set the franchise back ten years. Gather your friends, hang your best disco ball, and dance along to the BASEBALL BOOGIE.
Oh yes but did you see...
ReplyDeletehttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Ix081prSiNc
Seems like a reaction to the 1985 Bears "Super Bowl Shuffle."
ReplyDeleteOH MY GOD! I can't believe that at no time (even in 1986) no one thought that this might be a bad idea that will forever haunt anyone who appeared on camera. Sorry Annie, while the Ram It video is close to a 10 on the embarrassment scale, the Baseball Boogie was definitely an 11. At least. It was almost painful to watch. Please, Ken, please don't tell us you directed this or something. Speaking of which, I wonder what the director is doing, now?
ReplyDeleteI can here him, now"
"Okay, I need the black guys to act more white and everyone to act a lot more gay."
The Rams one isn't half bad, actually - it's even funny. The Dodgers one is immeasurably barf-inducing in so many ways. Cheers, Mr. Ken. Makes me feel better about my own chartbusting efforts.
ReplyDeleteJesus! Was EVERYONE stoned in the 80s?!?
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ReplyDeleteneed i say more? they even got Howard Stern...
started it all:
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youtube.com/watch?v=fJNC3dgreaU
even my dolphins:
http://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=pJvTWmUYTII&NR=1
we all have our crosses to bear(s).
Jesus! Was EVERYONE stoned in the 80s?!?
ReplyDeleteI don't remember
louocny - re: howard stern: and dr. joyce brothers.
ReplyDeletebut no pastel silk shirts. and they call this an 80s video? stern is the only one with big hair!
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteJesus! Was EVERYONE stoned in the 80s?!?
Can't remember either.
Wait, this is what I set my prostate to wake me up for at 9:30am Dallas time, only after finally having fallen asleep at 7:30, because I was up most of the night listening to some guy talking about a bb exhibition game in China? And then only to get tips for my Sezuan fantasy bb league?
There really is only one remaining question: Puleeeeeze tell me they were lipsynching. Frankly, with both the Dodgers and Rams, it was those women in the Ginger Lynn coifs who finally got to me -- zoning out to mentally recreate Ginger giving Charlie “Wild Thing” Sheen one of her patented Orel Hershisers back in 1994’s Major League II and Would You Like to Go One More Time for Three (completion bond by Dennis Haysbert/in good hands with Allstate).
And is it ethnocentric, or was one of the lines in the Rams video, “Nobody dresses slicka’. But under this cool is a quarterback meshugga?” I can never catch the lyrics on these things.
With the above, surely we don’t need to link anybody to our own more recent Jerry Jones poppin’ and lockin’ in that Papa Johns Pizza spot, where he makes the dancin’ old fart in the Six Flags commercial look like Utah’s “Footloose” Julianne Hough. (Incidentally, those are the same moves he made after learning Kate Hudson would be playing a lesbian Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader in Altman’s Dr. T and the Women.. Only then it was apoplexy.
But, if you’re interested Ken, please do check this other PJP promotional site out. You’ll be pleased to learn that Papa still has available franchise locations in Beijing, Shanghai, and, yes, Sezuan. Your advertising hook could be, “Pasta, back where it all began.” Have a look at the slide show, including the impressive world HQ and virtually identical pretty much vacant worldwide locations, including Pakistan, Pakistan, Nicaragua, S. Korea, and someplace called Saratov, who I’m pretty certain may have been married at one time to Ernest Borgnine.
http://www.papajohns.com/franchise_opps/gallary.html
Don’t think we’ve forgotten about you Crutnacker. Check on the beauty shot of the apparently available location down the road apiece in St. Matthews, KY. You’d hardly even have to change the business cards.
Sincerely,
Ashley Alexandra Duprė
(only a Visigoth stuck in the 80's would think "Kristen" is a sexier nom de boudoir)
Red Entertainment? Red Label Prodcutions? Obviously these videos are the work of communists. Imagine the society we'd be living in if those videos had the intended effect on the masses? The Red Menace could have waltzed right in taken over while everyone was shuffling and ramming.
ReplyDeleteGood thing we had Reagan as an anchor to keep us on track. Reagan can't be swayed by boogie, baseball or otherwise.
I just need to lie down, close my eyes and hope that it all goes away.
ReplyDeleteDid this remind anyone else of the Juul Hallmeyer Dancers from SCTV?
ReplyDeleteAs if I needed another reason to dislike the Dodgers.
ReplyDeleteholy crap. I mean, yes I remember all these stupid "rap" videos (I think I even have an lp of the Laker-Chick Hearn one, ugh!) but, even by '80s standards this is awful. Satin jackets stopped being cool in the '70s. Every team felt obligated to do one. WHY? Orel, NO!
ReplyDeletethe '80s: Worst. Decade. Ever.
Jeez, you'd think after something that bad, they would have tried to avoid ever showing their faces again in Los Angeles by slinking back to Brooklyn.
ReplyDeleteI now have to go fumigate my retinas.
ReplyDeletemy eyes, my eyes!
ReplyDeleteWow, a new opener for Dodger Talk!
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