Outrageous!

Yes, I'm a little late on this Grammy's post since the Grammy's were a couple of weeks ago.  Anyway, from 1985, with Lionel Richie as host, here are three awards that Prince took home that night.  There is much to love about this clip.  The first two awards - "Favorite Black Single" and "Favorite Black Album" seem to indicate this should have been 1955 instead of 1985.  The Beach Boys completely butchered the reading of the nominations somehow, and I just love the big bodyguard Prince has.  Just classic Prince.  I wish the big  guy had strolled down the runway with Prince at the Grammy's on Sunday night when Prince presented...

For Three Years Straight We Toured the Nation

Today's video feature brings you the sun, the beach, some girls in bikinis, an aging classic rock band, and three fat dudes rapping their large asses off... oh yeah, you remember! Here we go, here we go... it's the trio from Brooklyn known as The Fat Boys with the help of the Beach Boys and their hit "Wipe Out"...



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Wipe Out

"Wipe Out"

by The Fat Boys (and Beach Boys)
from the album: Crushin'
released: 1987

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12
UK peak: #2

80s Movie Weekend

It's the movie that made bartending cool... well, it would have made it cool, if bartending wasn't already so cool... let's just say it took bartending to a whole new level... Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, and Elisabeth Shue... "Cocktail"...



The last Barman poet...




Cocktail

Directed by Roger Donaldson
Produced by Ted Field
Robert W. Cort
Written by Heywood Gould (novel)
Heywood Gould (screenplay)
Starring Tom Cruise
Bryan Brown
Elisabeth Shue
Gina Gershon
Kelly Lynch
Lisa Banes
Laurence Luckinbill
Music by Maurice Jarre
Cinematography Dean Semler
Editing by Neil Travis
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s) July 29, 1988 (USA)
Running time 103 min
Country USA
Language English
Budget Unknown
Gross revenue $78,222,753 (USA)


Recently showing up on the top of a Most Annoying Songs of the 80's list, here is the Beach Boys hit "Kokomo" with John Stamos in his pink tank top joining in on bongos... what?




Kokomo Lyrics

“Kokomo”

Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Still Cruisin'
Released 18 July 1988
7 August 1989
January 1990
Format 7" single
12" maxi
Recorded 1988
Genre Pop
Length 3:35
Label Elektra Records
Producer Terry Melcher

Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1
Austrailia Peak: #1

And who can forget everybody's favorite don't worry song... also from the Cocktail Soundtrack with Bill Irwin and Robin Williams lending a helping hand, it's Bobby McFerrin and "Don't Worry, Be Happy"...




Don't Worry, Be Happy Lyrics

“Don't Worry, Be Happy”

Single by Bobby McFerrin
from the album Simple Pleasures
Released 1988
Format 7", CD
Recorded 1988
Genre Jazz, a cappella
Writer(s) Meher Baba, Bobby McFerrin
Producer Bobby McFerrin

Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1