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Uncanny Alliance ~ I'm Beautiful Dammitt! You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Video Vibrations!!! | |
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Are you talking about the show that used to be on BET in the 1980's? You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Yes. The show ran until the late 1990's. Dance artists who were not crossing over pop like Uncanny Alliance, Lonnie Gordon, Barbara Tucker, Jamiroquai (pre-Travelling Without Moving), etc..., I never saw their videos played anywhere other than Video Vibrations. MTV and VH-1 wouldn't go anywhere those near those artists. | |
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I didn't know it ran that long, didn't have cable then. I remember there was another music video show on BET that would show slow jams and smooth jazz songs. I don't recall the name though, Midnight Love or something like that. It didn't have an on air host like Donnie Simpson, it had a guy doing a voiceover introducing the videos. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Yeah, Midnight Love. BET played a good mix of artists and genres when they were an independent station. | |
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Bette Midler did a version of this song also Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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I missed that. Or blocked it out. | |
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I heard her version once or twice, but it didn't get played much. I think Bette's was released not that long after the original came out. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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