This week’s concert takes us to Los Angeles in 1983 for a performance by Midnight Star.
This show has everything you need to get your funk on. Shiny suits, bright colors, Jheri curls, sunglasses, robot voices, and nightclub floor-fillers. If you listen to the Chocolate City show on WVEW Saturdays, these songs should sound familiar.
They got started at Kentucky State University in 1976, had a few under-the-radar albums, then broke out big with No Parking On The Dance Floor. The music video featured a classic dancing in the streets scene. with both Prince and Michael Jackson impersonators and dancing police, cowgirls, and construction workers. If they are at this LA show, however, they are watching from the audience.
Midnight Star had a lot of R&B hits off the album, and continued with a string of successful tunes through the late 80’s.
This show has classics like No Parking, Slow Jam, Playmates, and Electricity and captures them at their peak.
http://youtu.be/Tm7PRXPmL4U
