"We Did Dance Though..."

At the moment I’m having these strange coincidences bouncing around with bad 80’s bands. I’m apparently also having a stroke as it took me no less than five times to type that first sentence correctly.

Okay, we were at Chez Gaudy the other night and somebody brought up the band Shalamar. Yup, Shalamar. They were doing a nice Dennis Miller, obscure reference thing, and I knew exactly who they were talking about. Wait for it, I’ll come back…

Skip ahead to me researching the band Re-Flex (not just a flex people, a RE-flex), that one hit wonder that wrote “The Politics of Dancing”. Their song was going to go into Footloose, but do you know what the producers went with instead?

That’s right, Shalamar’s Dancing in the Sheets. See it’s clever cause it’s like “Dancing in the Streets”, but it’s sheets instead. It’s a double entendre for sex. It’s so fucking clever…

For those of you not familiar with Footloose, for fuck’s sake do not pollute your mind with it now, Kevin Bacon or no, fun and boppy Kenny Loggins theme or no. It’s too late for the rest of us.

And for the rest of us: The scene where bad girl and preacher’s daughter Lori Singer sneaks an elicit “rock” tape into the drive thru and all the kids start dancing to the groovy tune, especially the guy that looks like he’s having some sort of relations with the Pac-Man machine, the song playing on the soundtrack is Shalamar’s Dancing in the Sheets.

I’m not sure what the point of this is, only that I can only assume that KajaGooGoo will turn up in a conversation soon…