Clap Your Hands Everybody

Our "Soul Train Saturdays" continue with Mr. Kurtis Blow from his self-titled debut album in 1980. These are "The Breaks"...




Lyrics | Kurtis Blow lyrics - The Breaks lyrics


"The Breaks"

Single by Kurtis Blow
from the album Kurtis Blow
B-side "The Breaks (Instrumental)/Do It Yourself"
Released 1980
Format 12" single
Recorded 1979
Genre Old School Hip-Hop
Length 7:43
Label Mercury Records
Writer(s) Kurtis Blow, Robert Ford Jr., J.B. Moore, Russell Simmons, Larry Smith
Producer Larry Green, J.B. Moore
Certification Gold

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #87

#60

OK, this is going to seem like a weird video to have in my top 80 countdown, but consider for a moment that I grew up in a gym playing basketball for many many hours. When I would go off to basketball camp, they would blare this song at least 5 or 6 times a day, and I loved every minute of it, every time. This song also helped propel into the world of rap in the 80's. Plus, this video is so hopelessly bad with its' 7 foot goals and West Side Story like choreography, it only makes it that much more appealing. If that makes any sense at all.

#60 "Basketball"
by Mr. Kurtis Blow




Lyrics | Kurtis Blow lyrics - Basketball lyrics

80's Movie Weekend - Feel the Krush

Thought this would be a fitting movie flashback since we are in a "LL Cool January" featuring the best of LL Cool J... from 1985, this is the movie based upon the early days of Def Jam recordings and the up and coming producer extraordinnaire, Russell Simmons... it is "Krush Groove"...


from "Krush Groove" here is LL and he can't live without his radio...

LL Cool J dans Krush Groove
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All You Can Eat by the Fat Boys... gonna stuff my face to a funky beat!



here are the Beastie Boys making an appearance with "She's On It"...



this song wasn't on the soundtrack, but was a big hit for Sheila E.... here is Run-DMC "discovering" Sheila E. as she performs "A Love Bizarre" with Prince on backing vocals...



probably the biggest hit from the Krush Groove Soundtrack included this pop hit from the doo wop group from New York known as The Force M.D.'s and "Tender Love"...

Song lyrics | Tender Love lyrics

Krush Groovin' with Fat Boys, Run DMC, Kurtis Blow and Sheila E. doing some rap...




"Krush Groove"

released in 1985
Warner Brothers

"Krush Groove Soundtrack"
released in 1985

Track listing
Chaka Khan - "(Krush Groove) Can't Stop The Street" (5:10)
LL Cool J - "I Can't Live Without My Radio" (4:25)
Kurtis Blow - "If I Ruled The World" (6:19)
Fat Boys - "All You Can Eat" (3:27)
Debbie Harry - "Feel The Spin" (4:01)
Sheila E. - "Holly Rock" (4:57)
Beastie Boys - "She's on It" (3:32)
Gap Band - "Love Triangle" (4:47)
Force MD's - "Tender Love" (3:55)
Krush Groove All-Stars - "Krush Groovin'" (5:05)

Other songs appeared in the film but were not on the album soundtrack included:

Autumn - "Kold Krush"
Run DMC - "King of Rock," "It's Like That", "Can You Rock it Like This," "You're Blind"
Fat Boys - "Don't You Dog Me," "Fat Boys," "Pump it Up (Let's Get Funky)"
Sheila E. & Prince- "A Love Bizarre"
UTFO - "Pick up the Pace" (released as a b-side of "All You Can Eat" on Warner Bros. Records)
Nayobe - "Please Don't Go"
New Edition - "My Secret"
Chad - "I Want You to be My Girl"

To The Hoop, Ya'll

Basketball season is upon us, and I always have to pump this jam from the early 80'ss. One of my earliest favorite rap songs - Kurtis Blow rapping "Basketball." I like Magic, Bird, and Bernard King...



The Kurtis Blow hit, ‘Basketball’ is arguably, the most famous song about the sport in existence and it still timeless and popular today. He still works a crowd 20+ years later with that same hit according to various postings on youtube.com. 'Basketball' is heard at dozens of NBA games during half time each season and it was the theme music for ‘Like Mike’ a major studio film starring Lil Bow Wow released in 2002.