http://www.youtube.com/wa...SfnopkT37I

Toni appeared on Soul Train with her dance crew The Lockers. She was also in The Monkees movie Head.

The 2nd video is from Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.

MickyDolenz said:

The 2nd video is from Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.

Nice finds!

They were also on SNL: season 1, episode 3. I remember watching this live in 1975!

http://www.thelockersdanc...review.swf

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I also liked "Over My Head" and really hoped she'd go further. Oh well, it is nice to see her on once in awhile on "So You Think You Can Dance" as a judge.

Oh Mickey, you're so fine

You're so fine, you blow my mind!

purplethunder3121 said:

Oh Mickey, you're so fine

You're so fine, you blow my mind!

MickyDolenz said:

Toni appeared on Soul Train with her dance crew The Lockers. She was also in The Monkees movie Head.

Nice videos! I love The Lockers. Cat Glover said she used to go dancing in the club where Toni Basil, Shabba Doo and Bugaloo Shrimp danced. It was in her Dyes interview posted in Assoc. Artists Forum. Wish I could've seen that!

always hated this damn song This sh!t is no better than a lot of the popular garbage today. Basil is a great choreographer but this track is annoying.

MickyDolenz said:

One of the great parodies. Stellar job Weird Al!

Toni's song, is actually based on another song called "Kitty", which was done by a group called, Racey.

docinwestchester said:

MickyDolenz said:

One of the great parodies. Stellar job Weird Al!

Toni's appears around 47:39, but she choreographed the whole dance Davy does and also the bellydance scene at 23:05.

When we asked if she chose the name "Mickey" because of her fondness for the Monkees' Micky Dolenz, she snapped: "Some guy decided that it would be funny to put that in my Wikipedia entry. He was adamant that ‘Mickey’ was about Micky Dolenz. I choreographed the Head movie but I didn't really know Micky at all. I knew Davy Jones much better. We finally got it off [Wikipedia]." (We hate to tell you, Toni, but it's back in there.)

Vulture

Triva: Mike volunteered to do the dance scene (although he wasn't a dancer) and recorded Daddy's Song before Davy and even took some dance lessons. But the producers figured Davy was already a dancer and it fit with him better. Also, Mike is a bit taller than Toni, so it wouldn't have looked the same.

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This was either the first or second video I saw when MTV got hooked up in my house, summer 1982.

I still like it. It has a 60s bubblegum kinda thing going on. And who doesn't like cheerleaders?

More Toni trivia, she choreographed the dancers on stage at the TAMI Show in 1964 (not James Brown but probably everybody else), and is one of the women in Easy Rider, tripping in the cemetary with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. I have a book about the Sunset Strip 60s scene with some great pics of her and Teri Garr shaking tail feathers.

So gosh, she must be in her late 30s in this. I think she was pretty young when she got involved in choreography but even if she was 18 in 1964, she would have been 36 in 1982.

bobzilla77 said:

So gosh, she must be in her late 30s in this. I think she was pretty young when she got involved in choreography but even if she was 18 in 1964, she would have been 36 in 1982.

She was born in 1943.