WE DO THE MASHED POTATO AND THE FUNKY CHICKEN

A Great Cover Version, a Really Great Video, and a Cute Grrl.How Can You Lose?

Posted over 3 years ago

This video seems to have been shot on the set of the 1983-and-still-not-available-on-DVD movie, "*Get Crazy!*":http://electronictiger.com/reviews/getcrazy.htm, online listings say that it was directed by that film's director, Alan Arkush, also director of *Rock'n'Roll High School*.The cute chick who comes up to Jagger when Bette sings the lines about "little sister" is (i'm pretty sure -- i was surer twenty-two years ago when the video was new and i could see a clean copy on MTV) Stacy Nelkin, who played the kid sister of the main character in the film, and winds up having Lou Reed (as "Auden", a Dylan-type character) sing "Baby Sister" to her personally.(*Get Crazy!*, BTW, features Malcolm McDowell {doing his own singing without a stunt vocalist} as rock superstar Reggie Wanker, one of the girls from ABBA as his girlfriend and John Densmore, the Doors' drummer, as his drummer, Toad. It also features Lee Ving doing a deadly Iggy impersonation {under the name "Piggy"} and two guys playing yes-men to the villain who you'd have to see to believe - if you're old enough to recognise their names, let alone them, that is...)

Comments (4)

  1. ebuzzmiller says when i saw this video on mtv, i remember thinking Bette Midler was pretty hot back then for a.....well, they didn't have a name for it yet, but I thought she was pretty Milf-y.
    Permalink posted 09/04/2006
  2. fairportfan says Hey -- she was 38. Not so old. At 35 at the time myself, i thought 38 was kjust about right. Take a look "*at this earlier post*":http://mog.com/fairportfan/blog_post/7427 on my MOG for a (regettably small) pic of Joan Jett in *Rocky Horror*, head shaved, wearing a sexy corset... and she was 44 at the time! (Maybe older; there are some reports that her official bio takes a few years off her age...)
    Permalink posted 09/05/2006
  3. chucky says I would never have pictured Bette Midler as a rocker. That was pretty awesome.
    Permalink posted 09/05/2006
  4. fairportfan says ...as a matter of fact, i just checked, and Jagger is two years older than Bette - but no-one was questionoing him getting up on stage and shaking his ass at all the hot little grrls in the audience...
    Permalink posted 09/06/2006

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